from the back cover: 'High above them, Lora and Clyde heard a sound their world had not heard for centuries - the thin scream of a starship coming in from outer space, leaving a long white tail like smoke across the clear blue sky. They looked at each other in wonder. After three hundred years of silence, Earth had reached out once more to touch Thalassa ...' And with the starship comes knowle…
from the back cover: In our world today a hummingbird is a small, brilliantly coloured bird that lives in the tall trees of tropical forests. In the far distant future, Hummingbird (Hummy for short) is a girl of sixteen who lives somewhere in the Galaxy, on a planet called Just Like Home. She has the name 'Hummingbird' in big letters on all her clothes, but she has never seen a real humming…
from the back cover: It is hard to imagine the modern world without information technology. At home, at work, and at play, mobile phones, e-mails and computers have become part of daily life. The story of information technology is a story of machines - from the ancient abacus to the small powerful computer chips of today. But it is also a story of people. Meet a woman who wrote computer pro…
Sejak awal mula dunia, manusia terus melakukan berbagai pengembangan. Di dalam pengembangan tersebut terdapat berbagai penemuan dan penciptaan yang mengubah dunia. Sejak manusia menemukan api, kehidupan manusia menjadi lebih terang. Manusia menciptakan alat untuk menghasilkan api dan membangun peradaban serta terus berupaya untuk meningkatkan kualitas hidup. Sekarang ini, kita bisa ke negara…
Sejak awal mula dunia, manusia terus melakukan berbagai pengembangan. Di dalam pengembangan tersebut terdapat berbagai penemuan dan penciptaan yang mengubah dunia. Sejak manusia menemukan api, kehidupan manusia menjadi lebih terang. Manusia menciptakan alat untuk menghasilkan api dan membangun peradaban serta terus berupaya untuk meningkatkan kualitas hidup. Sekarang ini, kita bisa ke negara…
Her dissection of Hizbullah's worldview is instructive. She treads carefully.
This edited volume, including contributions from some of the leading scholars in the field, addresses the challenges, obstacles and opportunities for increased women's political representation in Thailand. Will Thai politics be different with an increase in the number of women politicians? What are the possibilities for Thai women to take proactive initiatives that aim to transform Thai politic…
from the back cover: It is the year 2522, and the planet Earth is dying. The Artificial Ozone Layer is only 300 years old, but it is breaking up fast. Now the sun is burning down on Earth with a white fire. There is no water. Without water, nothing can live. Trees die, plants die, animals die, people die . . . In a colony under the moon, people wait for news - news from home, news from the …