The book presents ten essays focusing on the state of knowledge of some basic issues of nutrition in various periods and the ways of thinking about them, e.g., the digestion of food, the utilization of nutrients and their conversion into body substance, obesity, dietary standards or the need for specific nutrients. In the introduction, Professor Guggenheim endeavors to place each essay in its h…
Penulis mengisahkan cerita rakyat turun temurun yang berkembang di masyarakat Sulaewesi Selatan, tentang kebesaran dan kejayaan masa lalu berbagai kerajaan yang ada di wilayah Sulawesi Selatan sekarang, serta tentang penyebaran warga asal Sulawesi Selatan, khususnya Bugis Makassar ke berbagai wilayah di Nusantara yang kemudian menjadi benih bagi tumbuhnya rasa kebangsaan Indonesia. Buku yang me…
In more than a century since its appearance, José Rizal's Noli Me Tangere has become widely known as the great novel of the Philippines. A passionate love story set against the ugly political backdrop of repression, torture, and murder, "The Noli," as it is called in the Philippines, was the first major artistic manifestation of Asian resistance to European colonialism, and Rizal became a guid…
El Filibusterismo (The Subversive) is the second novel by José Rizal (1861–1896), national hero of the Philippines. Like its predecessor, the better-known Noli Me Tangere, the Fili was written in Castilian while Rizal was traveling and studying in Europe. It was published in Ghent in 1891 and later translated into English, German, French, Japanese, Tagalog, Ilonggo, and other languages. A na…
Chung Kuo is the epic story of this "War of Two Directions" - a grand conflict between the Western idea of progress and the Eastern belief in stability. In its pages we follow the fortunes of four young men from all walks of Chung Kuo society - from the son of a T'ang to a slave born in the rubble beneath the city's foundations - and it is their strengths, dreams, passions, and struggles that m…
In more than a century since its appearance, José Rizal's Noli Me Tangere has become widely known as the great novel of the Philippines. A passionate love story set against the ugly political backdrop of repression, torture, and murder, "The Noli," as it is called in the Philippines, was the first major artistic manifestation of Asian resistance to European colonialism, and Rizal became a guid…
The novel centers on the Noli-El fili duology's main character Crisóstomo Ibarra, now returning for vengeance as "Simoun". The novel's dark theme departs dramatically from the previous novel's hopeful and romantic atmosphere, signifying Ibarra's resort to solving his country's issues through violent means, after his previous attempt in reforming the country's system made no effect and seemed i…
This book contains: 1. Opening the conference 2. Towards the world of hegemony 3. The subjective limits of hegemony 4. Hegemony and the return of difference 5. Dialogue, distance and voicing 6. The emerging identitarian logics 7. Identity and representation in the age of hegemony
Daftar isi: 1. Catatan dan renungan tentang Daoed Joesoef 2. Renungan dan kajian tentang pendidikan 3. Renungan dan kajian tentang masyarakat 4. Renungan dan kajian tentang keadilan dan hukum dan lain-lain.
Kenapa buku humor Presiden Abdurrahman Wahid begitu disukai? Mungkin karena keunikannya: sebuah kumpulan lelucon oleh dan tentang seorang kepala negara. Ini pasti hanya terjadi di Indonesia. Tepatnya: pasti hanya terjadi pada seorang presiden yang bernama Abdurrahman Wahid alias Gus Dur