Buku ini adalah kumpulan kisah yang menjadi dokumen sosial tentang Jakarta tahun 1970-an yang memikat, seperti kebiasaan makan minum, perjudian, musik, komik, dunia hiburan, kebersihan, pemukiman, olahraga dan lainnya. Adalah menarik Zeffry tidak hanya siap dengan pelbagai sumber tertulis, tetapi juga banyak sekali memanfaatkan memori kolektif yang hidup di tengah masyarakat Jakarta. Gaya penul…
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Benjamin Franklin is a famous colonial inventor and multitasker who may be best remembered as one of America’s Founding Fathers. But he was also a “natural philosopher” (the term for scientists back in the 1700s), whose experiments led to important discoveries about the nature of electricity—including his famous demonstration that electricity and lightning were one and the same. In a fa…
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