Now entirely update to reflect recent changes in the tax laws, this plan-speaking financial guide shows people who know little or nothing about investing how to seize control of their finance and take advantage of the many forms of investment and money management alternatives that are currently available.
The brief tenure of Alexander Dubcek, the charismatic and courageous leader of Czechoslovakia during the heady "Prague Spring" of 1986, rocked the foundations of European communism. Dubcek, who believed in "Socialism with a human face", brought what Andrei Sakharov called "the breath of freedom" to the Iron Curtain Countries. But the Soviet invasion of August 1968 and Dubcek's removal from powe…
By October 1973 special prosecutor Archibald Cox was tracing the Watergate cover-up to the Oval Office. President Nixon demanded that he stop. In the Saturday Night Massacre” two heads of the Justice Department quit before Nixon found a subordinate (Robert Bork) willing to fire Cox. Immediately public opinion swung against the president and turned Cox into a heroseemingly Washington's las…
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How often do you find yourself stuck in a tense conflict and uncertain how to resolve it? Whether the struggle is with a spouse or child, colleague or community, we all fall prey tosituations that leave us angry, frustrated, and virtually paralyzed. As hard as we may try to work things out, we feel trapped in circumstances that seem unresolvable. So how do we get beyond these impasses to reach …
The Jakarta Post was born in 1983 when Suharto's repressive New Order regime was at its height and the media was muzzled. Five rival media companies came together to start an English language daily that some saw as an experiment doomed to fail. But the newspaper's punchy editorials, clean presentation of the news, and quirky columns and features quickly made an impression with the growing expat…
Indonesia telah menyatakan berulang kali bahwa Indonesia bukan negara pengklaim dalam sengketa Laut Tiongkok Selatan. Namun demikian, Indonesia menyadari pentingnya Laut Tiongkok Selatan bagi Ekonomi dan Politik Internasional. Setiap insiden yang terjadi di wilayah tersebut akan memicu reaksi negara pengklaim dan negara di luar kawasan seperti Amerika Serikat. Buku ini disusun untuk memberikan …
Why don't flight attendants get tipped? If you were a terrorist, how would you attack? And why does KFC always run out of fried chicken? Over the past decade, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner have published more than 8,000 blog posts on Freakonomics.com. Now the very best of this writing has been carefully curated into one volume, the perfect solution for the millions of readers who lo…
Shows readers how to get their next raise tax free, use their 401K to qualify for added IRS refunds, buy a home and rent it to their children, and more. The man who broke all the records for bestselling financial self-help books is set to do it all over again. Bigger and even better, this revised edition of Wealth Without Risk has 100 new pages and 60 new low-risk strategies that reveal how to…
Struktur buku ini langsung menukik ke persoalan. Pendahuluan yang lengkap dan mendalam, termasuk kerangka teoretis analisis, disusul ikhtisar situasi ekonomis Jawa yang mendahului depresi ekonomi global 1930-an dan krisis Asia pada akhir 1990s. Dua bab selanjutnya adalah pembahasan mendetail mengenai persaingan Jepang-Cina untuk masing-masing krisis secara terpisah. Perbandingan selanjutnya …