

The author, who lives in Shanghai, sets out to demonstrate that the British military has been at the forefront of many of the great changes that have swept China over the last two centuries.








The Book features the dramatic battle of Batavia, the sinister British expedition to Palembang, the 1812 sacking and looting of Yogyakarta, and various fights between soldiers and civilians, buffaloes and tigers, and Englishmen and Javanese

A Series of disasters in the Orient during the fourteenth century brought about the most devastating period of death and destruction in European history

Three decades of authoritarian rule in Indonesia came to a sudden and in 1998. This book asks how political reform cpuld proceed despite such unpromising circumstances

The Great Depression began in August of 1929, when the Unites States economy first went into an economic recession.

This wide-ranging work examines the conceptual transformation of Europe and Eurasia over the last two decades

Breakout at Stalingrad is a stark and terrifying portrait of the horrors of war, and a profoundly humane depiction of comradeship in adversity

This book traces the history of how men and women have perceived and experinced God, from the time of Abraham to the present





Pancasila sebagai ideologi dan pandangan hidup bangsa, merupakan mahakarya Ir. Sukarno yang telah mengalami pengendapan selama beberapa dekade. Buku ini merupakan kumpulan berbagai pokok pikiran Bung Karno mengenai substantif Pancasila, yang telah beliau pikirkan sejak mejadi tapol di era kolonial. Intinya, Pancasila adalah titik kesimbangan antara ilmu dan amal, antara nasionalisme dan interna…





With stunning, highly-detailed artwork and ever-popular topics, these books make the perfect reference guides for boys and girls aged between 6 and 9. With giant posters and stickers that reinforce the books content, these titles are highly collectable. Packed full of fascinating facts, these books are not only informative and educational, but fun too.

The fascinating story of the written word -- from how it all began to the age of the Internet. The Story of Writing is the compelling story of how writing was invented, how it developed over the centuries, how it has changed people's lives overtime -- and what it means to us now. The book features sections on: Why people write How writing began in different parts of the world …

An abridged version of the tale of the four Musketeers' final adventure during which they plot to replace King Louis XIV of France with the mysterious, masked prisoner in the Bastille believed to be Louis' falsely imprisoned twin brother and the true king.