Exploding with culture, Kyiv has become a hot travel destination. Across Kyiv’s numerous squares, locals debate politics, play chess and gossip. Its layered history, lush parks and hidden islands along the wide Dnipro provide for endless exploration. Its tree-lined promenades entice lovers to stroll, and revelers to gawk. It’s a city of flaneurs, of poets, of politics. Our Kyiv travel guide…
Leading global strategist Parag Khanna explains how Asia is reshaping the entire planet and setting a new template for our collective future Five billion people, two-thirds of the world's mega-cities, one-third of the global economy, two-thirds of global economic growth, thirty of the Fortune 100, six of the ten largest banks, eight of the ten largest armies, five nuclear powers, massive tec…
Located at the western edge of the Eurasian steppe, Ukraine has long been the meeting place of empires - Roman to Ottoman, Habsburg to Russian - and they all left their imprint on the landscape, the language and the people living within these shifting borders. In this authoritative book, Harvard Professor and acclaimed author of Chernobyl, Serhii Plokhy traces the history of Ukraine from the ar…
An insightful analysis of how and why the U.S. became involved in the war in Southeast Asia outlines the policies and decisions that embroiled America in the conflict and examines the roles of Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, and others in deceiving the American public.
Ada dua hal yang senantiasa kita kenang ketika kita berbicara tentang Hitler, yaitu The Third Reich Kekaisaran Ketiga yang akan bertahan seribu tahun, dan kamar-kamar gas atau kamp konsentrasi tempat dia membasmi enam juta orang Yahudi. Adolf Hitler adalah kutukan bagi umat manusia, khususnya pada dekade 30-an hingga 40-an ketika ia menciptakan teror di seluruh dunia. la lahir tanggal 20 April …
Selamat Tinggal Indonesia adalah kisah hidup Ruth Havelaar, seorang perempuan Belanda yang di besarkan Baambrugge tetapi menggadaikan cintanya kepada Indonesia dan kepada seorang Indonesia asal Jawa Tengah setelah berkenalan hanya 30 jam. Maka jadilah ia istri seorang eks. tahanan politik yang pernah dibuang ke Pulau Buru. Mereka serba berbeda dalam budaya dan suasana kehidupan politik masing-m…
This is the gripping, urgent and moving diary of young Ukrainian refugee Yeva Skalietska. It follows twelve days in Ukraine that changed 12 year old Yeva's life forever. She was woken in the early hours to the terrifying sounds of shelling. Russia had invaded Ukraine, and her beloved Kharkiv home was no longer the safe haven it should have been. It was while she and her granny were forced to se…
Sengketa sejarah integrasi politik, nasional papua, kesenjangan pembangunan, tindak kekerasan dan pelanggaran hak asasi serta kisah marginalisasi orang Papua, menambah panjang litani penyebabnya. Konflik ini juga membentang panjang dalam sejarah, rentan ditunggangi, dan melibatkan banyak pihak. Tidak heran konflik Papua ini telah menjadi konflik multidimensi.
This book is unique in that it encapsulates more than fifty years of intelligent observation by a German-Peruvian, or alternatively a Peruvian-German, who has spent virtually all his productive life among Peruvians. Kurt Schultze-Rhonhof describes himself as a bridge between two worlds: the old and the new, the developed and the developing. Like its author, "Peru: beyond Machu Picchu" is an …
One of Canada's best-loved and most-read historians, Laurier LaPierre, provides an intimate portrait of Sir Wilfrid, from his school days at the College classique and McGill University law school, his marriage to his beloved Zoe and his friendship with the beguiling Emile.