Buku ini memberikan uraian menyeluruh mengenai ilmu perpustakaan. Seiring dengan berkembangnya teknologi informasi, maka ilmu perpustakaan bekembang menjadi bidang kajian yang luas dan khusus dengan menggunakan terminologi tersendiri. Dengan berpijak ke hal tersebut, buku in ditulis khusus untuk pustakawan profesional, pemakai, dan peminat bidang kepustakawanan. Buki ini merupakan pengantar bag…
Yugoslavia was well positioned at the end of the cold war to make a successful transition to a market economy and westernization. Yet two years later, the country had ceased to exist, and devastating local wars were being waged to create new states. Between the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 and the start of the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina in March 1992, the country moved toward disinte…
This encyclopedia is an attempt to present for the readers various dimensions of the philosophy of the man regarded as the apostle of Satyagraha and Nonviolence. Encompassing a wide arena of Gandhian thought, the encyclopedia presents an incisive and insightful exploration of Gandhi's outlook on society religion, politics, economics, women and so on. In addition, a book has also been included …
Amazon Frontier covers the 150 years when the first European scientists expolred the natural riches of Amazonia and became fascinated by its tribal peoples. Exciting and murderous encounters with new tribes continued throughout the nineteenth century, particularly when the Amazon's rubber monopoly made Manaus a frontier boom town. However, the Indian population, once so feared by the Europeans,…
Lords of the Pacific Rim adalah kisah yang kaya, mengasyikkan, diteliti dengan luar biasa, dan diceritakan secara spektakuler tentang siapa orang Cina Rantau dan bagaimana mereka menjadi sangat kuat. Lords of the Rim menyediakan portal yang menarik ke masa lalu dan masa depan ekonomi Pasifik dunia.
"Europe: A History of its Peoples is the most ambitious attempt yet to survey comprehensively and objectively the bold. complex pattern of Europe's development from al promontory of Asia to one of the world's most influential powers. Many histories of Europe are in effect histories of Europe's nations, placed side by side. This book treats Europe as a whole. While emphasizing how differently E…
It is so rare in a democratic country that a sequence of individuals, belonging to one family, generation after generation, who combine character and intellect far above those of the com- mon run of their contemporaries should be chosen leaders of their time to play greatest roles in the task of nation building. In modern India, there is one such family that generation after generation has cons…
This book, starting with a forecast of China's population growth and an examination of the goal to achieve a dirty comfortable standard of living for the Chinese people by the year 2000, reviews comprehensively the country's economic, scisntific, technological, and social factors of development to paint a picture of what China might look like by the turn of this century. Meanwhile, It puts forw…
The late King Faisal was born in Riyadh in 1905/6, several years after his father Abdulaziz Ibn Saud had recaptured it from Ibn Rashid. The thirteen contributions that make up this book present differing aspects of the modernisation process that took place in Saudi Arabia during the era of King Faisal.
spain beyond myths reviews the recent spectacular performance of the Spanish economy (with also some undesirable results. like inequality); the paradigm of diversity (with the interlinking of State and Regions); and the impact of the tech- nological revolution. Finally, the authors discuss the changing role of Spain in the world by focus- ing on three basic areas of action: Europe. the Mediterr…