Hillary Rodham Clinton is known to hundreds of millions of people around the world. But few outside his close friends and family have heard the story of his extraordinary journey. She writes with candor, humor, and passion about her upbringing in suburban, middle-class America in the 1950s and her transformation from Goldwater Girl to student activist to controversial First Lady. Living History…
The Cham people, particularly following the defeat of the Champa Kingdom by Vietnam in 1693, dispersed into countries like Cambodia, Malaysia and Thailand, to mention just a few. Therefore, to study their identity is most important as by this we can perhaps understand how minority people struggle to maintain their distinct culture against the mainstream. As a matter of fact, diasporic communiti…
Buku ini membahas totalisasi, otoriterisme, plurasime, organisasi pendukung dan politisasi agama dalam kolaborasi elit lokal, bentuk-bentuk kekerasan, prinsip hidup bersama yang dilanggar, HAM, dan belajar hidup bersama di dalam kebebasan.
Buku ini merupakan kumpulan pidato dalam rangka pemberian gelar Doktor Kehormatan bidang Ilmu Hukum kepada Dr. Mohammad Hatta.
Gordon Hewart's Statement is especially true for the Extraordinary Chambers in The Courts of Cambodia, the UN-backed tribunal established to try surviving leaders of the Khmer Rouge for some of the most heinous crimes of the 20th century. The court is expected not only for provide justice for victims and survivors, but also to provide a model for the rule of law in Cambodia. This report looks b…
When Hillary Clinton spoke of "a vast right-wing conspiracy" determined to bring down the president, many people dismissed the idea. Yet if the first lady's accusation was exaggerated, the facts that have since emerged point toward a covert and often concerted effort by Bill Clinton's enemies--abetted by his own reckless behavior--which led inexorably to impeachment. Clinton's foes launched a c…
After a lifetime of study of Lincoln and his times, Carl Sandburg has now distilled the essence of his monumental six-volume bi- ography for this new definitive one- volume work. Taking advantage of all the new material that has become available in recent years, he has written the long- promised one-volume Life of Lincoln which will become standard in its field.
The Last Mughal is much more than the biography of one man. It is the story of a city, Delhi, teeming with conmen and holy men, hawkers and prostitutes. It is also a lament for the lost world of the Mughals, a genuinely multicultural synthesis of Indian and Islamic traditions, from music to miniature painting. Above all, it is a terrific retelling of the event that ended Zafar's reign the India…