The international who's who is widely accepted as the standard authoritative source of biographical information about the most eminent and distinguished personalities in every country in the world today
Buku ini mengedepankan Para Perintis Perubahan, yang dengan caranya sendiri-sendiri, giat melakukan berbagai eksperimen cara hidup baru, cara pembangunan baru, cara berelasi baru dengan sesama manusia dan alam semesta, yang kesemuanya itu didasarkan pada penghargaan tinggi akan nilai-nilai kebhinekaan, pluralisme budaya serta harmoni hidup bersama yang manusiawi.
In this book the daughter of the former leader of China offers an intimate account of her fathers life, with particular emphasis on recounting the dramatic story of Chinas Cultural Revolution as seen through his eyes and experiences. Transporting readers to the front lines of the Revolution and its aftermath, Madame Rong paints a very candid and compelling portrait of this turbulent era, along …
Colin Powell is the embodiment of the American dream. He was born in Harlem to immigrant parents from Jamaica. He knows the harsh street life. He overcame a barely unusual start at school. Then he joined the Army. The rest is history—Vietnam, the Pentagon, Panama, Desert Storm—but history hitherto known only on the surface. Here, for the first time, Colin Powell himself tells us how it happ…
A biography of Vietnamese military leader Vo Nguyen Giap, one of the great military commanders of the 20th century victorious in battles against, successively, the Japanese, the French & the Americans, Giap became North Vietnam's Minister for Defense & Commander in Chief. He worked with Ho Chi Minh to create the armies & the support for the under-equipped Vietnamese forces that would eventually…
Colin Powell adalah perwujudan impian Amerika. Ia dilahirkan di Harlem oleh orang tua imigran dari Jamaika. Dia tahu kehidupan jalanan yang keras. Dia mengatasi awal yang nyaris tidak biasa di sekolah. Kemudian dia bergabung dengan Angkatan Darat. Sisanya adalah sejarah Vietnam, Pentagon, Panama, Badai Gurun, tetapi sejarah yang sampai sekarang hanya diketahui di permukaan. Di sini, untuk perta…
The volume begins with London diary which Gandhi used to maintain as a student. Another significant document is the green pamphlets which highlighted the humiliating treatment to which the Indians in South Africa were subjected to. The volume includes several petitions he addressed to the government of Great Britain against anti-Indian legislation, and many personal and general letters Gandhi a…
This volume opens with Jawaharlal Nehru's public speech at the Ramlila Grounds in Delhi 10 May 1957. [Nehru] recalled how he used to listen to tales of what happened in 1857-58 in Allahabad, Delhi, Lucknow and other places. These stories made a deep impression on him and filled him with anger.
This volume, like the previous one, furnishes rich information on foreign affairs. He was guided, as always, by the principle of enlightened self-interest. At the same time, his responses to worldwide events were influenced by his upbringing and training and the influence of socialist and Marxian ideas. He fervently believed in decolonization, non-alignment, peace and nuclear disarmament, and I…
This book commemorates the 125th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi with 64 articles by distinguished writers from 43 countries. Some of the articles provide fascinating glimpses of Gandhi's personality and times, but most of them make a serious effort to understand his ideas and methods and their significance for our times.