This book is all about Black Swans: the random events that underlie our lives from bestsellers to world disasters. Their impact is huge; they're nearly impossible to predict; yet after they happen we always try to rationalize them. A rallying cry to ignore the 'experts', The Blcak Swan shows us how to stop trying to predict everything and take advantege of uncertainly.
This is a personal view of philosophy from a renowned critic and thinker. In it, Roger Scruton focuses on the ideas and arguments which have attracted him to the subject and which have engaged his attention.
Panduan untuk memahami ide-ide paling penting dalam sejarah. Kita tidak pernah kekurangan gagasan cemerlang: skema cerdik dan menarik yang gagal ketika kekosongan esensialnya mulai tampak. Buku ini merangkum gagasan-gagasan, mulai dari gagasan paling indah dan mengagumkan hingga gagasan yang buruk dan jahat.
studies various aspects of change in Singapore and explores the ways in which tradition has shaped and moderated the process of modernization. Employing a multi-faceted approach that covers history, religion, science, ethnic relations and language, the book looks in depth at a country which has witnessed rapid modernization and yet at the same time desires to preserve cultural values. Becaus…
The stereotypes of globalization--characterized as American imperialism on the one hand, and as an economic panacea on the other--fall apart under close scrutiny. Surveying globalization from individual countries of the five major continents, Many Globalizations shows that an emerging global culture does indeed exist. While globalization is American in origin and content, the authors point out …
Buku ini berisi: 1. Prinsip-prinsip UNHCR 2. Manajemen keadaan darurat 3. Pelaksanaan 4. Dukungan-dukungan dalam pelaksanaan 5. lampiran
Buku ini berisi kumpulan artikel yang menanggapi Tragedi Mei 1998 khususnya mengenai etnis Tionghoa di Indonesia yang menjadi korban sebuah tragedi kerusuhan.
Buku ini berisi: 1. Etnis Tionghoa di Asia Tenggara dan Indonesia 2. Pemikirian politik minoritas Tionghoa 3. Negara dan minoritas Tionghoa di Indonesia 4. Istilah "Cina" dan "Tionghoa" di Indonesia 5. Elite ekonomi Tionghoa dan Negara Indonesia 6. Konghucuisme dan Agama Konghucu di Indonesia 7. Etika Konghucuisme dan bisnis Tionghoa perantauan 8. Cerita silat, kebijakan pemerintah dan …
Buku ini disusun berdasarkan rangkaian informasi dari berbagai buku, majalah, koran, tabloid, dan sebagainya dengan tujuan untuk berbagi pengetahuan dan memberikan keseimbangan kepada pembaca, karena masalah Tionghoa seperti juga masalah G30S.
In the Dutch East Indies, in Batavia in particular, the kapitan Cina institution lasted until the last days of Dutch rule. And whereas in other parts of Southeast Asia, such as the Straits Settlements, the kapitan Cina was an unofficial position, in the Dutch East Indies it was an integral part of the colonial administration