On tyranny: twenty lessons from the twentieth century

Timothy Snyder’s New York Times bestseller On Tyranny uses the darkest moments in twentieth-century history, from Nazism to Communism, to teach twenty lessons on resisting modern-day authoritarianism. Among the twenty include a warning to be aware of how symbols used today could affect tomorrow (“4: Take responsibility for the face of the world”), an urgent reminder to research everything…

Children's Book of Politics

Why would the ancient Greeks think modern democracies are undermocratic?

Who's in charge? : How people and ideas make the world go round

Meet the people who really run the world and learn the low down about people, politics, power and expense scandals! How are governments elected, why are different countries ruled in different ways and where does all that tax money actually go? Let your child join this lively debate on politics around the world. They'll find out how different systems and beliefs have developed, the ways in…

Memahami dunia lewat sepak bola: kajian tak lazim tentang sosial-politik glob…

Sepak bola bukan sekedar olahraga. Sepak bola bisa menjadi alat untuk memahami seluk-beluk dunia kontemporer yang dilanda segala dampak arus globalisasi. Apa kaitan sepak bola dengan dengan pembantaian Muslim Bosnia? Dengan budaya korupsi di Dunia Ketiga? Dengan bangkitnya sentimen-sentimen rasial dan konflik keagamaan? Dengan Zion**** maupun anti-Semitisme? Ikutilah perjalanan jurnalis …

On disinformation: how to fight for truth and protect democracy

The effort to destroy facts and make America ungovernable didn’t come out of nowhere. It is the culmination of 70 years of strategic denialism. In On Disinformation, Lee McIntyre shows how the war on facts began, and how ordinary citizens can fight back against the scourge of disinformation that is now threatening the very fabric of our society. Drawing on his 20 years of experience as a scho…

Indonesia out of exile: how Pramoedya's buru quartet killed a dictatorship

In 1981, a new company, Hasta Mitra, founded by three men just released from over a decade in prison, published a novel written in a prison camp by Pramoedya Ananta Toer. The novel was This Earth of Mankind. It told the story of the early gestation of the Indonesian national awakening. The dictatorship eventually banned it after several months of tactical struggle by the three men, Pramoedya hi…

The tyranny of merit

Edition

Ed. 1

ISBN/ISSN

9780141991177

Collation

272 p. ; 20 cm

Series Title

-

Call Number

320 SAN t

The Jakarta method: Washington's anticommunist crusade and the mass murder pr…

In 1965, the US government helped the Indonesian military kill approximately one million innocent civilians—eliminating the largest Communist Party outside China and the Soviet Union and inspiring other copycat terror programs. In this bold and comprehensive new history, Vincent Bevins draws from recently declassified documents, archival research, and eyewitness testimony to reveal a shoc…

Authoritarian State: Study and Revision Guide

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

9781510432369

Collation

-

Series Title

-

Call Number

321.9 GRA a

Prisoners of geography: ten maps that tell you everything you need to know ab…

The iconic bestseller - now completely revised and updated