Rempah-rempah menggerakkan awal perekonomian dunia modern. Bagi Eropa, rempah-rempah mewakili kekayaan dalam skala yang belum pernah ada sebelumnya. Cengkih dan pala dapat mencapai Eropa hanya melalui jalur perdagangan yang rumit, dan selama beberapa dekade para penjelajah Spanyol dan Portugis berlomba-lomba untuk menemukan sumbernya yang sulit didapat. Namun ketika Portugis akhirnya mencapai k…
In 1066 a foreign invader won the throne of England in a single battle and changed not only the history of the British Isles but of Christendom, for ever. Harold Godwinson's army, exhausted from their victory against an invading Norwegian Viking army at the Battle of Stamford Bridge in the north, and his navy, scattered by storms, could not hold back William of Normandy.
Buku Memahami Jepang ini menceritakan secara singkat perjalanan negeri para samurai, dari sebuah negeri tak bernama di sudut Timur Jauh, menjadi negara paling maju dan modern di Asia Timur, sampai pada keruntuhannya seusai dua bom atom dijatuhkan di atas negeri mereka, dan kebangkitan mereka kembali untuk menebus kesalahan masa lalu dan mencapai kejayaan kembali. Sebagai sebuah sejarah singkat,…
1828. Robin Swift, orphaned by cholera in Canton, is brought to London by the mysterious Professor Lovell. There, he trains for years in Latin, Ancient Greek, and Chinese, all in preparation for the day he’ll enroll in Oxford University’s prestigious Royal Institute of Translation—also known as Babel. Babel is the world's center for translation and, more importantly, magic. Silver work…
The extraordinary #1 New York Times bestseller that is now a major motion picture, Markus Zusak's unforgettable story is about the ability of books to feed the soul. It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still. Liesel Meminger is a foster girl living outside of Munich, who scratches out a meager existence for herse…
Winner of the Newbery Medal, this remarkably moving novel has impressed the hearts and minds of millions of readers. Set in Mississippi at the height of the Depression, this is the story of one family's struggle to maintain their integrity, pride, and independence in the face of racism and social injustice. And it is also Cassie's story—Cassie Logan, an independent girl who discovers over …
Hailed by critics and writers as powerful, important fiction, Monkey Bridge charts the unmapped territory of the Vietnamese American experience in the aftermath of war. Like navigating a monkey bridge—a bridge, built of spindly bamboo, used by peasants for centuries—the narrative traverses perilously between worlds past and present, East and West, in telling two interlocking stories: one…