Kartini adalah kontradiksi: ia cerdas sekaligus lemah hati. Ia menyerap ide masyarakat Barat tapi tak takluk pada adat. Ia feminis yang dicurigai. Ia dianggap terkooptasi oleh ide-ide kolonial. Tapi satu yang tak bisa dilupakan: ia inspirasi bagi gerakan nasionalisme di Tanah Air. Kartini menyuarakan perubahan. Ia membawa perjuangan perempuan pada fase yang baru, tidak sekadar menuntut pengakua…
Empat puluh tahun sejak Sukarno meninggal, nama serta wajahnya tidak pernah benar-benar lumat terkubur. Kampanye puluhan tahun Orde Baru untuk membenamkannya justru hanya memperkuat kenangan orang akan kebesarannya. Sukarno tak pernah berhenti menjadi ikon revolusi nasional Indonesia yang paling menonjol—mungkin seperti Che Guevara bagi Kuba. Di banyak rumah, foto-fotonya, kendati dalam ke…
Menghadirkan perjuangan dan pemikiran sosok Gus Dur sebagai guru bangsa dan apa saja yang patut kita teladani
Jobs’s remarkable life reads like a history of the personal technology industry. He started Apple Computer in his parents’ garage and eventually became the tastemaker of a generation, creating products we can’t live without. Through it all, he was an overbearing and demanding perfectionist, both impossible and inspiring. Capturing his unparalleled brilliance, as well as his many demons, J…
Provides an overview of the inventions, patents and technological advances pioneered by the "Wizard of Menlo Park" as well as his concentration on industrial research and his flair for marketing and promotion.
OverviewrnVan Gogh, who took up a variety of professions before becoming an artist, was a solitary, despairing and self-destructive man. This richly illustrated and expert study follows the artist from the early gloom-laden paintings in which he captured the misery of peasants and workers in his homeland, through his bright and colorful Parisian period, to the work of his final years, spent und…
Detailing the life and work of the influential political advocate draws on private papers and other untapped sources to cover his birth in 1869 through his upbringing in Gujarat, discussing his London education and decades as a lawyer in South Africa.