The Invisible Man

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9780008190071

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196 p. : 18 cm.

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A Streetcar Named Desire

The Pulitzer Prize and Drama Critics Circle Award winning play―reissued with an introduction by Arthur Miller ( Death of a Salesman and The Crucible ), and Williams' essay "The World I Live In." It is a very short list of 20th-century American plays that continue to have the same power and impact as when they first appeared―57 years after its Broadway premiere, Tennessee Williams' A Streetc…

Dragonwings

Moon Shadow was eight when he sailed from China to join his father Windrider in America. Windrider lived in San Francisco's Chinatown and worked in a laundry. Moon Shadow had never seen him. But he soon loved and respected this father, a man of genius, a man with a fabulous dream. And with Moon Shadow's help, Windrider was willing to endure the mockery of the other Chinese, the poverty, and …

Counterattacks at Thirty

Jihye is an ordinary woman who has never been extraordinary. In her administrative job at the Academy, she silently tolerates office politics and the absurdities of Korean bureaucracy. Forever only one misplaced email away from career catastrophe, she effectively becomes a master of the silent eye-roll and the tactical coffee run. But all her efforts to endure her superiors and the semi-hostile…

The Great Alone

In this unforgettable portrait of human frailty and resilience, Kristin Hannah reveals the indomitable character of the modern American pioneer and the spirit of a vanishing Alaska―a place of incomparable beauty and danger. The Great Alone is a daring, beautiful, stay-up-all-night story about love and loss, the fight for survival, and the wildness that lives in both man and nature.

The Road

The first-ever graphic novel adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s Pulitzer Prize–winning postapocalyptic classic, The Road, approved and authorized by McCarthy and illustrated by acclaimed cartoonist Manu Larcenet "Superb. A suitably dark graphic treatment of McCarthy’s postapocalyptic masterpiece." (Kirkus) The story of a nameless father and son trying to survive with their humanity intact in…

The Glass Menagerie

No play in the modern theater has so captured the imagination and heart of the American public as Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie. As Williams's first popular success, it launched the brilliant, if somewhat controversial, career, of our pre-eminent lyric playwright. Since its premiere in Chicago in 1944, with the legendary Laurette Taylor in the role of Amanda, Menagaerie has been the …

The Crucible

rthur Miller's classic parable of mass hysteria draws a chilling parallel between the Salem witch-hunt of 1692 – 'one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history' – and the McCarthyism which gripped America in the 1950s. The story of how the small community of Salem is stirred into madness by superstition, paranoia and malice, culminating in a violent climax, is a savage attac…

Anxious People

Anxious People “captures the messy essence of being human….It’s clever and affecting, as likely to make you laugh out loud as it is to make you cry” (The Washington Post). This “endlessly entertaining mood-booster” (Real Simple) is proof that the enduring power of friendship, forgiveness, and hope can save us—even in the most anxious of times.

Day

Torn between choosing life or death, Day again and again returns to the guiding questions that inform Wiesel's trilogy: the meaning and worth of surviving the annihilation of a race, the effects of the Holocaust upon the modern character of the Jewish people, and the loss of one's religious faith in the face of mass murder and human extermination.

Madame Bovary

This exquisite novel tells the story of one of the most compelling heroines in modern literature—Emma Bovary. Unhappily married to a devoted, clumsy provincial doctor, Emma revolts against the ordinariness of her life by pursuing voluptuous dreams of ecstasy and love. But her sensuous and sentimental desires lead her only to suffering corruption and downfall. A brilliant psychological portrai…

BIG SCIENCE FOR LITTLE PEOPLE: 52 ACTIVITIES TO HELP YOU AND YOUR CHILD DISCO…

Introduce future engineers, inventors, naturalist, and artists to the physics and chemistry, biology and ecology that can be found in everyday play. Create chemical reactions, explore gravity and friction, transform states of matter, play with air pressure, and much more through 52 simpe experiments that zip and zoom, fly and fizz, bubble and burst.

THE WHOLE BRAIN CHILD: 12 STRATEGI REVOLUSIONER MENDUKUNG PERKEMBANGAN OTAK ANAK

Tahukan Ayah-Bunda bahwa tantrum, rasa cemas berlebihan, dan berbagai luapan emosi lainnya yang dialami anak ternyata bisa disebabkan oleh otak yang belum berkembang secara sempurna? Namun, Ayah-Bunda tidak perlu khawatir. The Whole-Brain Child menawarkan dua belas strategi utama untuk mendorong perkembangan otak yang sehat, sehingga anak menjadi lebih tenang dan bahagia.

FIRST POEMS

With this beautifully illustrated collection, children can start to explore the wonderful world of poetry. Rhymes about nature, nonsense, playtime and enchantment will let imaginations soar.

CLIMATE CRISIS FOR BEGINNERS

The Climate Crisis is real. It is already changing the world aroud us. This book will help you to understand how we know this to be true, and what effect it might have in the future. The GOOD NEWS is that we have a plan. But the BIG QUESTION still remains-will we choose to do it?

LAW FOR BEGINNER

Whether it's going to school, stopping at a red light or paying for something, you're obeying a LAW. But laws aren't just about telling people what they can and can't do. They keep us safe, give us freedoms and help us settle arguments. Find out how it all works in this bright and friendly introduction.

LIFEHACKS FOR HAPPINESS

Make the world a happier place! The activities in this book will help you feel confident, kind...and happy. Be your own best friend, be a cheerleader for your friends and speak up when it really counts. Everyone deserves to feel happy so, let's start with you!

A TRICK OF TIME

Are you ready for mischief? For the Malign family, Mischief is a very serious matter. But Malice Malign isn't like the rest of her family... When Malice's sister uncovers a TIME-STOPPING POCKETWATCH, she unleashes a whole world of trouble. Maniacal, the most malevolent of all the Malignsm is back and he needs to be STOPPED! The clock is ticking...

MINDSET: MENGUBAH POLA BERPIKIR UNTUK PERUBAHAN BESAR DALAM HIDUP ANDA

Paparan tentang kesuksesan dalam buku ini sangat mendasar dan langka. Lazimnya, buku-buku tentang kesuksesan lebih menawarkan sisi-sisi praktis. Namun, buku ini justru mengajak Anda menggarap inti masalah kesuksesan:pikiran. Tak hanya itu, buku ini mengontraskan dengan apik tokoh-tokoh dunia-di bidang musik, sastra, sains, olahraga, dan bisnis-yang berpola pikir tetap (fixed mindset) dan berpol…

My Curious World

Do you have a lot of curious questions? Then you've picked up the RIGHT book! Your world is a very curious place. Marvellous illustrations and mighty facts explore all that is magical and mind-blowing about space., earth, animals, science, and much more.

Martyr !

Cyrus Shams is a young man grappling with an inheritance of violence and loss: his mother’s plane was shot down over the skies of the Persian Gulf in a senseless accident; and his father’s life in America was circumscribed by his work killing chickens at a factory farm in the Midwest. Cyrus is a drunk, an addict, and a poet, whose obsession with martyrs leads him to examine the mysteries of…

TILDA TEACHES MASH-UPS

Tilda is so excited when her teacher asks her to run Mash-Up Dance classes to practise for the school concert. It's Tilda's first REAL teacher job! But there is one thing she isn't so sure about. Tilda has also been asked to give a speech at the concert. Now Tilda is feeling enthusiascared- that's right, enthusiastic and scared! What if she messes up her speech? Will the concert be a master mas…

TILDA TEACHES ANIMAL CARE

Tilda wants to get a dog, but her parents say no. They tell her that Baby Joe is too young for a pet, and that dogs are expensive to keep. But Tilda is sure a dog will be a better family member than Baby Joe, who can be so annoisy- that's right, annoying and noisy. Tilda decides to make the money she needs for a dog herself. She runs an animal care class, making pet products she can sell. But w…

TILDA TEACHES CHATTERBOXES

Tilda has just come back from an amazin holiday. She can't wait to tell Binky and Harry all about it! But her two best friends wont stop talking about their holiday together, and it sounds like they had the Best Time Ever! Tilda is feeling jealoppointed. That's right, jealous and disappointed! Maybe her friends will stop talking about their holiday if Tilda teaches them to make paper chatterbo…

TILDA TEACHES CARTWHEELS

Tilda can't wait to show Binky and Harry what a superstar swimmer she is, with her splashy splashes and fishy flips! But when she realises she can't swim properly, Tilda is embuzzled. That's right, embarrassed and puzzled! Maybe Tilda will feel better if she teaches her friends something actually cool-like cartwheeling! Tilda's cartwheel class is super fun, until it rolls out of control...

Iliad : a graphic novel

More than three thousand years ago, two armies faced each other in an epic battle that rewrote history and came to be known as the Trojan War. The Iliad, Homer's legendary account of this nine-year ordeal, is considered the greatest war story of all time and one of the most important works of Western literature. In this stunning graphic novel adaptation -- a thoroughly researched and artfully r…

Greetings from Jakarta : postcards of a capital 1900-1950

Greetings from Jakarta: Postcards of a Capital 1900-1950 is the most comprehensive visual record of Jakarta ever published covering the first half of the twentieth century which was also the last half century of colonial rule. Four hundred and sixty postcards from the author's own collection are brought together here to reveal a city that has largely vanished and is barely recognizable even to …

Faces of Indonesia : 500 postcards 1900 - 1945

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9781648263064

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357 p. : col. ill. ; 27 cm.

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REF 959.8 MER f

JAKARTA : portraits of a capital 1950-1980

Portraits of a Capital 1950-1980 shows the evolution of Jakarta during the first three decades after Indonesian independence (1945) and the recognition of national sovereignty by the Dutch (1949) had finally been achieved. It reveals the capital city of a newly independent nation throwing off its colonial inheritance to build a bold new capital that for President Sukarno would be a “beacon”…

Empire of the Winds : the global role of Asia’s great archipelago

Nusantaria – often referred to as 'Maritime Southeast Asia' – is the world's largest archipelago and has, for centuries, been a vital cultural and trading hub. Nusantara, a Sanskrit, then Malay, word referring to an island realm, is here adapted to become Nusantaria - denoting a slightly wider world but one with a single linguistic, cultural and trading base. Nusantaria encompasses the land…