Buku ini berisi perjalanan Waruno Mahdi, seorang Indonesia yang selama Orde Baru dipaksa "kelayaban" di luar negeri pada masa menjelang Presiden Soeharto lengser untuk mencari jawaban bagi banyak pertanyaan. Kemudian ditulis dengan memandang secara optimis ke satu masa /reformasi yang akan datang.
Dengan menulis buku ini Adnan Buyung Nasution sebenarnya telah melanggar aturan . Salah satu pasal Undang - Undang tentang Dewan Pertimbangan Presiden (Wantimpres) menyebutkan: "Dalam menjalankan tugas dan fungsinya, anggota Wantimpres tidak dibenarkan memberikan keterangan, pernyataan, dan/atau menyebarluaskan isi nasihat dan pertimbangan kepada pihak mana pun". Buyung justru membeberkan penga…
In this endessly fascinating book, New Yorker columnist James Surowiecki explores a deceptively simple idea that has profoud implications: Large group of people are smarter than an elite few, no matter how brilliant-better at solving problems, fostering innovation, coming to wise decisions, even predicting the future.
Why did Eurasians conquer, displace, or decimate Native Americans, Australians, and Africans, instead of the reverse? In this groundbreaking book, evolutionary biologist Jared Diamond stunningly dismantles racially based theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors actually responsible for history's broadest patterns. Here, at last, is a world history that really is a histor…
Peter Drucker focuses with great clarity and perception on the forces of change that are transforming the economic landscape and creating tomorrow's society. Peter Drucker brings to this work an intimate knowledge and objective view of the particular and general. The Age of Discontinuity is a fascinating and important blueprint for shapping a future already very much with us.
Brings together seventeen essays on the dynamics of social change published in a wide array of journals over the course of Amitai Etzioni's long and distinguished career. Applying sociological methods of study to seemingly disparate disciplines from ethics to economics, politics to genetics, Etzioni uncovers important interrelationships between these fields.
Dalam buku ini, Fukuyama mengembangkan konsep model sosial dengan memasukkan berbagai pemikiran dari ilmu-ilmu sosial mutakhir, seperti teori-teori tentang pilihan rasional dan aksi kooperatif. Dengan cara ini pembahasannya, walaupun berfokus pada sebuah tema klasik, yaitu perubahan sosial, tidak terasa basi dan membosankan. Malah sebaliknya, tema lama ini menjadi hidup dan menarik, justru kare…
This newly updated fourth edition re-examines the plight of Third World countries in light of the recent events and trends of the post-cold war world. As market forces become increasingly more influential, allowing for unprecedented growth and the accumulation of great wealth, many of the promises of the twentieth century continue to be transformed and abandoned. The vulnerability of developing…
Buku ini mencanangkan tantangan lebih tinggi bagi kita semua dengan memperlihatkan kekuatan global gerakan rakyat. Pemahaman penulis tentang ajang pembangunan internasional dan organisasi pembangunan sukarela mencapai tingkat persepsi baru dalam karyanya yang sangat menggelitik dan penuh pengertian ini meledakkan mitos populer tentang mesin kemajuan yang benar, yang sungguh-sungguh membantuk pe…
The Coming of Globalization provides the basic context for understanding what globalization means for human society in the contemporary world. It first describes the underlying processes which have led to economic, political and cultural globalization. Contents: 1. Introduction : The origins and significance of globalizations 2. Societies, Governments and the global economy 3. The mechanis…