Pada seri Wonder ini, pembaca diperkenalkan dengan guru bahasa Inggris yang mengesankan, Mr. Browne dan kecintaannya pada sila. Buku pendamping ini menampilkan percakapan antara Mr. Browne dan Auggie, Julian, Summer, Jack Will, dan lainnya, memberi pembaca pandangan khusus tentang kehidupan mereka setelah Wonder berakhir. Esai dan korespondensi Mr. Browne dibulatkan oleh aturan untuk setiap har…
Known for both his bestselling books and his work on black holes, physicist Stephen Hawking beat the odds and lived with ALS—a form of motor neuron disease—for longer than doctors ever expected. This engrossing biography shows why Hawking is such an inspiring example of someone who pursued his dreams in spite of his disability. Born into a family of thinkers who loved reading books at the d…
The history of the Sackler dynasty is rife with dramabaroque personal lives; bitter disputes over estates; fistfights in boardrooms; glittering art collections; Machiavellian courtroom maneuvers; and the calculated use of money to burnish reputations and crush the less powerful. The Sackler name has adorned the walls of many storied institutionsHarvard, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Oxfor…
Albert Einstein, ilmuwan fisika teoretis yang sangat terkenal dalam abad ke-20. Menerima Penghargaan Nobel atas pengabdiannya terhadap ilmu fisika teoritis yang mengembangkan teori umum relativity pada tahun 1921. Salah satu rumus yang paling terkenal adalah rumus Teori Relativitas yaitu E=mc². “Orang yang tidak pernah berbuat salah adalah orang yang tidak pernah melakukan sesuatu.” (Alber…
Jordan Manurung, Jakarta Selatan - 18 January 2018 2 customer reviews Wonder book is wonderful This is a very good book for all ages. The story is interesting and teaches us many lessons. Such a sweet story of August Pullman, there are sad, funny, and inspiring moments mixed in a great storyline. Definitely a book everyone should read. Elma Adisya, Jakarta Selatan - 16 Janu…
Kisah ini dimulai ketika Mary Lennox, yang ditinggal mati oleh ayah dan ibunya karena kolera, harus pindah ke Inggris dari India. Di India, Mary memiliki banyak pelayan yang memanjakannya, tetapi mereka semua pun pergi akibat kolera. Tak seorang pun mengingat Mary masih tinggal di rumahnya. Kini Mary tinggal di Inggris, di rumah pamannya, Mr. Archibald Craven. Sang paman digambarkan sebagai …
It's the eve of Rachel Chu's wedding, and she should be over the moon. She has a flawless oval-cut diamond, a wedding dress she loves, and a fiancé willing to thwart his meddling relatives and give up one of the biggest fortunes in Asia in order to marry her. Still, Rachel mourns the fact that her birth father, a man she fact that her birth father, a man she never knew, won't be there to walk …
When New Yorker Rachel Chu agrees to spend the summer in Singapore with her boyfriend, Nicholas Young, she envisions a humble family home and quality time the man she hopes to marry. But Nick has failed to give his girlfriends a few key details. One, that his childhood home looks like a palace; two, that he grew up riding in more private planes than cars; and three, that he just happens to be t…