The Internet has created countless legends in both China and the rest of the world. It has revolutionized our way of living and thinking. Cyberworld - China Embraces the Internet truly represents the magnificent development history of Chinese Internet industry since 1995 and vividly records lots of celebrities who have been devoting themselves into pioneering Chinese Internet industry over the …
Independence did not fall from the sky - the state tradition has lived in our lands since Scythian times and in fact was not interrupted until 1991. A short and clear account of the events of the past together with illustrated stories will allow readers to easily navigate in such a complex issue as the origin of the Ukrainian state and the struggle for its establishment, and the pantheon of her…
Today Lebanon is one of the world's most divided countries - if it remains a country at all. But paradoxically the faction-ridden Lebanese, both Christians and Muslims, have never shown a keener consciousness of common identity. How can this be? The Lebanese historian Kamal S. Salibi examines, in the light of modern scholarship, the historical myths on which his country's warring communities ha…
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 …
The Question of Red tells the story of two lovers, Amba and Bhisma, who were driven apart by one of the bloodiest Communist purges in the 20th century—the massacre of up to one million accused Communists in Indonesia between 1965 and 1968. The novel was published in Indonesian in October 2012 under the title Amba and is a national bestseller. In the novel, the lives of the central characters …
Kehidupan Theseus tidaklah berarti apa pun jika tidak penuh dengan peristiwa luar biasa: ia membunuh Minotaur, bercinta dengan gadis Amazon, mengutuk mati putranya untuk memperkosa istri anaknya. Dalam Theseus, Andre Gide menghadirkan sebuah potret yang tajam dan penuh ilham tentang keyakinan dan renungan seorang lelaki tua yang tersohor itu. Dihadirkan dalam bentuk autobiografi pahlawan Yunani…
Contents: 1. UN-business partnerships--What is at stake? 2. The nature of the development challenge 3. UN-business partnerships: An all purpose development tool? etc.
This book brings an international perspective to his review of the ancient Silk Road's long history and to his exploration of the New Silk Road. Through its lively text, lavish illustrations, documentation and interviews, the book looks into the inception and development of services, the problems and the promises. It is an exciting account of this trans-Eurasia venture undertaken by China Railw…
The State of Africa: A history of Fifty years of independence Africa is forever on our TV screens, but the bad-news stories (famine, genocide, corruption) massively outweigh the good (South Africa). Ever since the process of decolonialisation began in the mid-1950s, and arguably before, the continent has appeared to be stuck in a process of irreversible decline. Constant war, improper use of n…