Siapakah yang paling berpengaruh dalam sejarah? Hart menyusun daftar urut (ranking) seratus tokoh dengan argumentasi yang meyakinkan, tapi juga mengundang perdebatan. Apa alasan Hart menempatkan Nabi Muhammad pada ranking pertama? Mengapa pula Nabi Isa menempati ranking ke-3, sementara Isaac Newton ranking ke-27 John F. Kennedy termasuk ke dalam seratus tokoh, tapi mengapa Mahatma Gandhi tidak?…
Mengisahkan Andika Hazrumy dalam mencapai karier politik pada usia muda. Dalam bukunya ini Andika memberikan suatu pembelajaran agar generasi muda Indonesia pantang menyerah untuk meraih kesuksesan sekaligus berbakti kepada nusa dan bangsa
Buku ini berisi tentang cerita pahlawan dan tokoh inspiratif yang berasal dari Aceh, serta berkisah mengenai sikap teladan yang patut dicontoh dari mereka, juga tentang dedikasi dan loyalitas mereka terhadap NKRI. Selanjutnya juga dideskripsikan bentuk apresiasi masyarakat Aceh terhadap jasa-jasatokoh Aceh. Buku ini merupakan hasil dari sayembara penulisan bahan bacaan Gerakan Literasi Nasion…
Frontier Tibet addresses a historical sequence that sealed the future of the Sino-Tibetan borderlands. It considers how starting in the late nineteenth century imperial formations and emerging nation-states developed competing schemes of integration and debated about where the border between China and Tibet should be. It also ponders the ways in which this border is internalised today, creating…
During the First World War, conflicts between the people’s sacrifices and their political participation led to crises of parliamentary legitimacy. This volume compares British, German, Swedish and Finnish debates on revolution, rule by the people, democracy and parliamentarism and their transnational links. The British reform, although more about winning the war than advancing democracy, rest…
This open access book is the culmination of many years of research on what happened to the bodies of executed criminals in the past. Focusing on the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, it looks at the consequences of the 1752 Murder Act. These criminal bodies had a crucial role in the history of medicine, and the history of crime, and great symbolic resonance in literature and popular culture.…
How do interventions by the UN Security Council and the International Criminal Court influence representations of mass violence? What images arise instead from the humanitarianism and diplomacy fields? How are these competing perspectives communicated to the public via mass media? Zooming in on the case of Darfur, Joachim J. Savelsberg analyzes more than three thousand news reports and opinion …
Literary London is a very readable and entertaining Companion to English Literature as well as an invaluable source of information on London
First-Time Europe is a planning guide, and is designed to help the first (or second, or third) time European traveler plan and complete a safe, rewarding, enjoyable, and affordable trip.
Now with updated texts, photos, maps and charts, Britain Explored takes a comprehensive look at the landscape, institutions and daily life of Great Britain.
AA explorer Britain reveals the rich variety, history and tradition to be discovered in Great Britain, including history and culture; wildlife and environment; where to go and what to see; practical information; where to stay; what to eat and drink; drives and walks; maps.
This is a controversial and thought-provoking work, resulting from a lifetime of detailed research, which challenges the very idea of 'England' and what it means to be English.
Scotland's Stone of Destiny begins by considering the various name by which the Stone has been known and teh prophecy from which its most widely-used name is derived.
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