Do you know in Brunei we used to have a festival called 'Berjanawari'? Or that the Brunei word for great-great-great grandparents is the same as the action describing shaking your head? Or that Brunei's largest export used to be derived from mangrove trees? Or that 'Hua Hui' a gambling game was widely played in Brunei? Or the many facts that you have never known about Brunei? This is the second…
Why has Switzerland - a tiny, land-locked country with few natural advantages - become so successful for so long at so many things? In banking, pharmaceuticals, machinery, even textiles, Swiss companies rank alongside the biggest and most powerful global competitors. How did they get there? How do they continue to refresh themselves? Does the Swiss 'Sonderfall' (special case) provide lessons ot…
Buku ini hadir sebagai sumber data dan informasi penting yang valid tentang Papua dalam segala keunggulannya maupun permasalahannya. Tujuan yang sangat penting serta mendasar dari buku ini adalah untuk memberi masukan kepada pemerintah (Pusat maupun Daerah), segenap stakeholders dan orang Papua agar semua pihak dapat ikut membantu dalam mencari solusi komprehensif yang tepat dan benar bagi peny…
When George W. Bush campaigned for the White House, he was such a novice in foreign policy that he couldn't name the president of Pakistan and momentarily suggested he thought the Taliban was a rock-and-roll band. But he relied upon a group called the Vulcans—an inner circle of advisers with a long, shared experience in government, dating back to the Nixon, Ford, Reagan and first Bush adminis…