Pelajaran politik pertama didapat Soekarno di Surabaya, dari gurunya H.O.S. Tjokroaminoto. Namun, “kawah candradimuka” Sang Bapak Bangsa adalah Bandung. Kota yang telah menggemblengnya menjadi seorang revolusioner sejati. Di Bandunglah Soekarno mulai menabuh genderang perang melawan pemerintah kolonial Belanda; perjuangan yang membawanya ke sel Penjara Banceuy dan Sukamiskin, sebelum akh…
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.
Narrates the dictator's rise and fall, describing how by the force of his personality, political fanaticism, and superior abilities as an orator he became the leader of Germany and led his country into the devastation of World War II.
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.
After thirty-five years as a book editor in New York, Ann Patty stopped working and moved to the country. Bored, she decided to challenge her word-loving brain through studying Latin at local colleges. Her study opened unexpected windows into her life, and along the way, she met an impassioned group of professors, students and classicists outside of academia who keep Latin very much alive. Wr…