Macaulay-The Tragedy of Power

Macaulay-The Tragedy of Power

By: Robert F. Sullivan

An irony governs the reputation of Thomas Babington Lord Macaulay 150 years after his death. Within living memory much of the English reading world has demoted him from an Eminent Victorian properly mentioned in the same breath with John Stuart Mill and George Eliot to a name known only to liberal arts graduates of a certain age and to students of nineteenth century culture. Meanwhile, his legacy flourishes in South Asia, where he detested living but relished power. The Latin inscription below his statue in TrinityCollege, CambridgeUniversity, acclaims him for reforming the letters and laws of India. The tribute sounds like imperial hyperbole until you hear the voice of a fluent English speaker in a call center in what was recently Bangalore(Bengalooru) and consider that in 1835 Macaulay, not yet thirty five, was instrumental in launching English as the subcontinent’s shared language. [download]

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Literary Memoirs

Literary Memoirs

By: Jose Victorino Lastarria 

Chileans take pride in their past. Theirs is a rich historical and literary heritage, passed on from generation to generation since the nineteenth century through public and private educational institutions and a lively publishing industry, as well as through the build-up of folk and elitelore. Few Chileans with the rudiments of primary or secondary education are unfamiliar with a set of heroes, events, and national accomplishments that would be the envy of any nation emergent from the western hemispheric independence movements of the 1775-1825 half century. Soon after winning independence from Spainin 1817-1818, Chileans turned to the task of nation-state building. By regional standards they did brilliantly. [download]

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In Search of Trojan War

In Search of Trojan War 

By: Michael Wood 

First, the tale. Homer of course is the starting point, with the Iliad and the Odyssey. But it is as well to make clear at the start that he was drawing on a vast cycle of stories which dealt with the Trojan War. The Iliad in fact deals with only one episode covering a few weeks in the tenth year of the war. In classical times a great series of epics, now lost or in fragments, told those parts of the story ignored by the earlier Homeric poems, and some of these, like the epics known as the Kypria and the Sack of Ilios, were evidently of great scope and power. They were composed soon after Homer: if he lived in the late eighth century BC (see Chapter 4) then his successors were probably working around 700 BC or soon after, by which time writing was becoming widespread in Greece. These successors to Homer may have written down their epics, but it is clear from the surviving fragments that they, like Homer, were drawing heavily on a long oral tradition. [download]

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Lords and Priests

Lords and Priests 

By: Bill Bridges and Jackie Cassada

It is said there are four “estates” of power within the known worlds the nobility, the UniversalChurch, the Merchant League, and the Emperor, of these, the most ubiquitous, resourceful, enduring and cunning is that of the nobility. Like it or not, nobles hold the reins of power, for even the Emperor comes from their thanks and may one day be deposed by them. Their own press speaks highly of their magnanimity, but their detractors constantly grumble about oppression and revolt. The topic of royal reform is an ongoing debate in the known worlds. Most believe that reform can onlycome from within from the nobles themselves. To over throw the nobles from the outside (from the people) may not end the estate in the future, sotenacious has it proven in the past. [download]

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In My Courtyard

In My Courtyard 

By: John Alexander

I have a beautiful farm in the country. It lies near the silver river and a thick hedge protects the courtyard, with tall poplars to keep off the strong winds of winter. In the yard the hens and ducks are free to wander searching for food. All day long they scratch and poke amidst the dirt and dust, seeking any grains that might have been forgotten when they were given their daily corn. “Cock a doodle doo!” That cry comes from the fine bird with the haughty air. He is the rooster, the king of the courtyard, the most important bird there. All day he struts about, his head high and his spurs bent, ready to fight. In front of him a group of hens, with feathers like weeping willows, cluck and chatter in the dirt. Every day is much the same. The rooster and hens spend their time scratching and searching in the yard, all rushing to the fence with a great clacking noise when the farmer’s wife comes to feed them. [download]

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Empire of Alexander The Great

Empire of Alexander The Great 

By: Debra Skelton and Pamela Dell 

IN 336 b.c.e., A PROUD, INTELLIGENT, AND SUPREMELY ambitious young man rose to become king of Macedon, which is a kingdom on the northern border of modern-day Greece. He was only 20 years old and already wanted to take over the mighty Persian Empireto the east. He accomplished this feat and much more, despite the wealth, power, and military strength of his opponents. And he did it in just under 12 years. This illustrates his extraordinary gifts as a leader and military strategist (a person who sets strategy). It has also kept his name at the top of the list of legendary “action figures” even into the 21^st century, more than 2,300 years later. He is still known throughout the world as Alexander the Great. [download]

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Empire of The Mongols

Empire of The Mongols 

By: Michael Burgan

FOR SEVERAL THOUSAND YEARS, WARRIORS ON HORSEBACK rode across centralAsia, conquering nearby towns and cities. These horsemen lived on the steppes, which is a flat, grassy region that extends from Asia into centralEurope. The riders were nomads people with no permanent home. They moved from one grazing spot to another with their herds of horses, sheep, camels, goats, and cattle. Over the centuries, these nomads battled such people as the ancient Greeks, the Romans, the Persians, the Chinese, and the Arabs. Of all the nomadic warriors of centralAsia, the fiercest were the Mongols. In the 13th century, starting in their homeland ofMongolia, just north ofChina, the Mongols spread out to the south and west. Under the leadership of Chinggis Khan (ca. 1162–1227) and his descendants, the Mongols quickly built an empire that stretched fromKoreato eastern Europe the largest continuous area of land ever controlled by one ruling family. [download]

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Halfbreed

Halfbreed 

By: David Fridtjof Halaas and Andrew E. Masich

In west-central Oklahoma, about twelve miles south of Weatherford, the town of Colonyhuddles in a small valley thick with trees, a shaded oasis in endless grasslands. A visitor driving through sees first a row of comfortable brick ranch-style homes, complete with expansive, well groomed lawns, patio barbecues, and minivans parked in two car drive ways. A short way down the road is the old town center. An American flag waves above the post office, parked cars point toward a five-table cafe, and here and there stand turn of the century frame houses, some well kept, others abandoned. Nothing unusual. Just a small Oklahomatown. Across the road from the town center a broken sign, lettered in peeling paint, announces Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma. [download]

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Eat Prey Love

Eat Prey Love 

By: Kerrelyn Sparks

Caitlyn had been warned never to come near this place. Gutsy or foolish, she didn’t know which category she fell into, but it was too late to worry about that now. She had arrived. Her rental car’s headlights illuminated a smooth, black-topped driveway. Tall trees arched over the road, their skeletal branches grasping like gnarled fingers at the starlit sky. She suppressed a shudder and focused instead on the patches of bright yellow daffodils scattered over the grounds. Looking for the positive, she would call it. Foolhardy, some might say. But when facing the unknown, she’d learned in her twenty-six years that keeping a good attitude was critical. The fact that the grounds appeared well-maintained was a good sign. And the security guard at the entrance had seemed friendly, checking her ID and welcoming her with a smile. Think of this as an adventure. You love adventure. [download]

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Hush…Hush…

Hush…Hush…

By: Becca Fitzpatrick

Chaunchey was with a farmer’s daughter on the grassy banks of the LoireRiverwhen the storm rolled in, and having let his gelding wander in the meadow, was left to his own two feet to carry him back to the chateau. He tore a silver buckle off his slice, placed it in the girl’s palm, and watched her scurry away, mud slinging on her  skirts. Then he tugged on his boots and started for home. Rain sheeted down on the darkening countryside surrounding the Chateau de Langeals, Chaunchey stepped easily over the sunken graves and humus of the cemetery; even in the thickest fog he could fiad his way home from here and not fear getting lost. There was no fog tonight, but the darkness and onslaught of rain were deceiving enaough. [download]

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Can’t Buy Me Love

Can’t Buy Me Love 

By: Jonathan Gould

On a gray, blustery Friday afternoon in February 1964, the four young British musicians collectively known as the Beatles arrived on a gleaming Pan American Airways jetliner at Kennedy Airport in New York, where they were met by a crowd of two hundred jostling reporters and photographers and some four thousand fans, mostly teenaged girls, who lined the rooftop observation deck of the airport’s International Arrivals Building in a great singing, shrilling mass. The reporters and photographers were there because, over the preceding three months, news of a phenomenon that had consumed the attention of the British public since the summer before had been drifting across the Atlantic in reports filed by the Londonbureaus of American newspapers, magazines, and television networks. [download]

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Advances in Computing, Communication and Control

Advances in Computing, Communication and Control 

By: Srija Unnikrisnan, Sunil Surve and Depak Bhoir

Line clipping procedure is the mechanism that tells how to cut off the lines which are outside the clipping window [1], [2], [5]. The line clipping procedure can be broadly classified into three disjoint classes. Class-1 contains the lines which are completely inside the clipping window and therefore are trivially accepted. Class-2 contains the lines which are partially inside the clipping window, for these lines we have no options but to divide the lines into segments at the intersections of the line and clipping window edges and then examine each segment that whether the segment is completely inside or completely outside the clipping window. Class-3 contains the lines which are completely outside the clipping window, and therefore are trivially rejected. This paper focuses on the lines which are trivially rejected. [download]

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101 Bears to Make

101 Bears to Make

By: Nancy Tillberg 

Let me begin by apologizing for the title this book. I’ve let you to believe that by reading it, you can make 101 bears. In fact, there are many more 101 teddy bears to be made. Over the past 20 years, many crafts people have taken up the challenge of producing their own teddy bears. These huggable wonders have come to be known as “Artists Bears”. What is an artist bear? It is a teddy bear that has been design and made by a single person, or “bear artist”. Some teddy bear artists work as hobbyists, while other sell their work through home based business and cottage industries. Other have even gone on to design teddy bears for major manufacturers. In 101 Bears to make, you will find basic patterns that have a number of interchangeable body parts. Happy Bear Making. [download]

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A Coloring Book of Ancient Ireland

A Coloring Book of Ancient Ireland 

By: Bellerophon Books

The Gospel Books made in the scriptoria were shrines for the word of god. They glorified the word and the word gave them power. The power of the Lord inhabited the books, and the books shared that power with their owners. Clorics, monks and saints of Irelandare always represented holding books, a badge of their office and holiness, and their protection against the bruto animal force of the devil. No matter what kind of crayons or paints or pencil you use to fill in this great latter U on the next page, with its dressing of birds, beast, and  knots, your colors came ready made and easy to use. The artist who drew the original U had to make his paint himself, grinding colored powders and mixing them with water, and adding a bit of raw egg white to make the paint stick to the page Part of the skill of being an artist a thousand years ago was knowing the recipes and technique for making good paint. [download]

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Doctor Who Human Nature

Doctor Who Human Nature 

By: Paul Cornell

Alexander Shuttleworth leaned back in the easy chair and drummed his fingers rhythmically on his stomach. ‘You may call it cake,’ he told his small audience, regarding the small saucer with the last few crumbs that sat on his lap, ‘but it goes beyond cake. Call it Ultrasponge, VictoriaMaximus, empress of icing sugar.’ The ladies of Joan Redfern’s WI group looked at him and then at each other nervously. A few giggled or laughed in a more civilised fashion. Alexander felt as if he was addressing a flock of sheep in hatpins. Well, Mr. Shuttleworth,’ Joan began, replacing her own plate delicately on the table, ‘may we move on to the subject of our talk for today, The Archaeology of the Bronze Age? [download]

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Shakespeare A to Z

Shakespeare A to Z

By: Charles Boyce

Shakespeare is celebrated the world over for the poetry and passion of his plays. He reformed the English language, enriching the vocabulary and increasing the flexibility of verse and prose. Supremely creative himself, he constantly inspired creativity in others. Above all, his profound humanity has enabled succeeding generations to rediscover within the dramatic intensity of his vision their own individual concerns. To many people, in many nations, Shakespeare is still our greatest living author. All this we take for granted, but Shakespeare’s survival was by no means certain. His plays were not published until 1623, some seven years after his death. The Commonwealth ended performance continuity, and with the Restoration in 1660 control of his work passed to the literate only. [download]

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The Idea of Human Rights

The Idea of Human Rights

By: Michael J. Perry

It is often stressed that the idea of human rights is of recent origin, and that thisis enough to dismiss its claims to timeless validity. In its contemporary form, the doctrine is certainly new, though it is arguable that it is a modern version of the natural law theory, whose origins we can trace back at least to the Stoic philosophers and, of course, to the Judaic and Christian sources of European culture. There is no substantial difference between proclaiming “the right to life” and stating that natural law forbids killing. Much as the concept may have been elaborated in the philosophy of the Enlightenment in its conflict with Christianity, the notion of the immutable rights of individuals goes back to the Christian belief in the autonomous status and irreplaceable value of the human personality. [download]

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Rudolf Serkin-A Life

Rudolf Serkin-A Life

By: Stephen Lehmann and Marion Faber

“Why should anyone write about me?” Rudolf Serkin was known to ask. “All I did was practice, practice, practice.” Although possessed of great charm, playful and quick, he was also a private person and mistrustful of speech, and for much of his life he fended off interviewers, journalists, and would-be biographers. Responding to a request for a radio interview in 1942, he cabled that in front of a microphone he felt like Harpo Marx. In his eighties he wrote to a friend, “To talk about Bach or Mozart or Schubert or any great music, my tongue would freeze in my mouth.” And when the German magazine Stern asked him for an answer of twenty lines or less to the question Aimez-vous Brahms?, he replied, “Unfortunately I do not have the talent to express in words what I feel about Brahms’s music. ‘This music is among the greatest and deepest and . . .’ You see. [download]

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Un Homme D’Exception

Un Homme D’Exception

By: Sylvia Nasar

Cela faisait presque une demi-heure que John Forbes Nash, deuxieme du nom, genie des mathematiques, inventeur d’une theorie du comportement rationel, precurseur de l’intelligence artificielle, contemplait unpoint situe juste devant le pied gauche de son visiteur, George Mackey, egalement mathematicien et professeur a Harvard. Il ne bougeai guere que pour repousser ses longs cheveux bruns, d’un geste brus que et repetitiif, quands ils lui retombaient sur le front. En cette fin d’apres midi du mois de mai 1959, il faisait deja desagreablement chaud. Affale dans un fauteuil de la salle commune de l’hopital, un pan de sa chemise en nylon depassant d’un pantalon sans ceinture, Nash, en depit de son gabarit athletique, avait l’air d’une puopee de chiffon et scs traits finement ciscles etaient depourvus d’expression. [download]  

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The Secret Ever Keeps

The Secret Ever Keeps

By: Art Tirrell

”Learning the truth about yourself doesn’t necessarily make you happy,” Jake Eastland says. He should know. At ninety-three, he contemplates his life as a bootlegger and a thug, a tycoon and a killer with regret, not for the crimes he’s committed, but for the family he’s never known. All that changes when Laurel Kingsford shows up on his doorstep. A dynamic young woman with a distinguished background in oceanic research, Laurel retreats to the only place she’s ever felt safe following the loss of her job, her life savings, and her fiancé. A genteel old inn overlooking LakeOntario’s southern shore, the Twice Told Hotel was where Laurelspent idyllic childhood summers in the company of her grandmother, Jean. Jake Eastland built the Twice Told in 1940 and it was where he, too, retreated after his marriage to a society gold digger named Jean ended. [download]

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Nixon

Nixon 

By: Ivan Morgan

On 9 August 1974 Richard Milhous Nixon became the first American president to resign office, thereby avoiding certain impeachment by Congress. The chain of events that brought about Nixon’s downfall began with the most famous burglary in history. On 17 June 1972 operatives of the Committee to Reelect the President had been caught breaking into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee in the Watergate complex in WashingtonDC. For the next two years Nixon sought to cover up White House involvement in political espionage, but the investigations of journalists, the Justice Department, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, special prosecutors and Congress inexorably uncovered evidence of the President’s obstruction of justice and abuse of power. [download]

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Phenomenological Aesthetics

Phenomenological Aesthetics 

Edited By: Hans Rainer Sepp and Lester Embree

What happens when the traditional philosophical subdiscipline of aesthetics is approached phenomenologically? Is it changed? What are the consequences for phenomenology? Aesthetics is a late emerging subdiscipline within philosophy, and during the last three centuries has been for the most part considered inferior to logic and epistemology, as well as to ontology and ethics. To some extent it has also suffered the same fate within phenomenology, where it has yet to attain the same status as ethics. Nevertheless, it is astonishing to see how many phenomenologists have previously worked in aesthetics and how aesthetics is of central interest for such a considerable group of them today. Thus not only students, but also phenomenologists of different specialties as well as colleagues in different philosophical traditions may find the contents of the present handbook interesting. [download]

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Practice Makes Perfect

Practice Makes Perfect 

By: Julie James

THE ALARM CLOCK went off at 5:30 a.m. PaytonKendalllifted a sleepy hand to her nightstand and fumbled around to silence the god-awful beeping. She lay there, snuggled in amongst her cozy down pillows, blinking, rousing. Allowing herself these first, and last, few seconds of the day that she could call her own. Then suddenly remembering she jumped out of bed. Today was the day. Payton had a plan for this morning she had set her alarm to wake her a half hour earlier than usual. There was a purpose for this: she had observed his daily routine and guessed that he got to the office every morning by 7:00 a.m. He liked being the first one in the office, she knew. On this morning, however, she would be there when he got in.Waiting. [download]

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Origami Omnibus

Origami Omnibus 

By: Kunihiko Kasahara

Today at the mention of origami, everyone calls to mind the now world famous small colored square sheets of paper everyone users Actually. However, the history of such paper employed in origami for amusement is fairly short. In the late nineteenth century, a paper dealer in the Yushima district of Tokyo imported colored papers from Europe, cut them into small squares, and sold them in sets called origami. And this was the origin of the kind of origami popular today. Of course, origami itself is much older then the late nineteenth century. But until that time, it had been known by a variety of names kami-orimono, orisue, origata, tatamigami, and so on. And had employed the kind of paper called hanshi, which is white on both sides and rectangular in shape. [download] 

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Origami le Monde des Animaux

Origami le Monde des Animaux

By: Collection Idees Jeux

J’ai passe mon enfance a La Paz, capitale de Bolivie. Les jouets tout faits elant inabordables pour nos parents, nous avans appris tres tot a utiliser notre adresse et notre imagination pour fabriquer nos propres jouets, avec les materioux dont nous disposions : du papier, de la colle, du carton et des boitres de conserve. Nous nous inspirions des vilrines des grands magasins, mais aussi de la nature ou nous vivians, que nous airnions et respections. C’est de cette epoque que datent mes premiers animoux en papier plie. [download]

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Letter to My Daughter

Letter to My Daughter

By: Maya Angelou

To write about giving to a person who is naturally generous reminds me of a preacher passionately preaching to the already committed choir. I am encouraged to write on because I remember that from time to time, the choir does need to be uplifted and thanked for its commitment. Those voices need to be encouraged to sing again and again, with even more emotion. Each single American giver keeps alive the American Cancer Society, the Red Cross, Salvation Army, Goodwill, Sickle Cell Anemia, American Jewish Society, NAACP, and the Urban League. The list continues to include church foundations, synagogue programs, MuslimTempleassociations, Buddhist shrines, groups, officials, and city and social clubs. However, the largest sums of money come from philanthropists. [download]

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Justice Without Borders

Justice Without Borders

By: Kok-Chor Tan 

Cosmopolitanism, as a normative idea, takes the individual to be the ultimate unit of moral concern and to be entitled to equal consideration regardless of nationality and citizenship. From the cosmopolitan perspective, principles of justice ought to transcend nationality and citizenship, and ought to apply equally to all individuals of the world as a whole. In short, cosmopolitan justice is justice without borders. On one cosmopolitan interpretation, this impartiality with respect to nationality and citizenship applies also to distributive justice in that a person’s legitimate material entitlements are to be determined independently of her national and state membership (e.g., Beitz 1999a; Pogge 1989, part III). But, as some cosmopolitans themselves have come to recognize, one serious weakness of the cosmopolitan position is its perceived inability to acknowledge and properly account for the special ties and commitments that characterize the lives of ordinary men and women (Beitz 1999b, p. 291). [download]

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Knowledge Management Systems

Knowledge Management Systems 

By: Ronald Maier

The transformation of organizations into knowledge-intensive and knowledgeaware organizations takes place at an ever-increasing pace. Knowledge as the key resource, not labor, raw material or capital, changes production functions in organizations significantly. Knowledge represents the key concept to explain the increasing velocity of the transformation of social life in general and the way businesses and social institutions work in particular (Drucker 1994). Estimates at leading research organizations suggest that up to 60% of the gross national product in the United States is based on information as opposed to physical goods and services (Delphi 1997, 10). In the last decade, this percentage is likely to have further increased which is reflected by a large number of studies that report similar or higher values. [download]

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I too Had a Love Story

I too Had a Love Story 

By: Ravinder Singh 

I remember the date wall: 4^th March 2006. I was in Kolkata and about to reach Happy’s home. I had been very excited all morning as I was going to see our gang of four after three years. Aftrer our engineering, this was the first time when all of us Manprect, Amardeep, Happy and I were going to be together. During our first year in the hostel, Haapy and I were in different rooms on the 4^th  floor of the block a building. Being on the same floor, we were acquaintances but I never wanted to interact with him. I didn’t think him “a good guy” because of his fondness for fights and the red on his mark sheet. But, unfortunately, I was late in getting back to the hostel at the beginning, of the second year and almost all the rooms were already allotted by then. I was not left with any choice other than becoming. Happy’s roommate. [download]

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How to Become an Alpha Male

How to Become an Alpha Male 

By: John Alexander

I’ll bet you think that since I’m the successful author of a very popular dating book (namely, the one you’re reading right now), that I’m a born stud who’s never had any trouble getting women. Yeah, right… You know that guy you went to high school with who just didn’t have it in the social skills department? The guy who couldn’t get a date on a bet? The guy who was awkward to talk to because he couldn’t even hold up his end of a decent conversation? I was that guy. Throughout high school and early college, I had no friends, didn’t hang out with anyone, and struck out with every woman I dated. I spend my Friday and Saturday nights alone, sexually frustrated. My 21st birthday came and went, and I was still a virgin. I was miserable and I didn’t know how to change that. To make matters worse, I took my failures personally. [download]

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Love in Sunkist

Love in Sunkist

Penulis: Evelyn Jingga

Cowok Sunkist? Apaan, tuh? yang jelas, Kimberly Andrea alias Kimmy, 21 tahun, nggak nyagka kalo kedatangannya ke supermarket 365 Days bakal berbuntut panjang. Ia menemukan tipe cowok yang selama ini ada di daftar impiannya. Cowok perfect dan wangi, laksana Sunkist. Kimmy harus berharap Miss Fortune berada di pihaknya sekali lagi. Gimanapun, nggak gampang mengetahui nama cowok keren itu! [download]

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Charlie si Jenius Dungu

Charlie si Jenius Dungu

Penulis: Daniel Keys

Charlie seorang penyapu lantai terlahir dengan IQ 68 dan selalu jadi bahan olok-olok teman-temannya. Hingga suatu saat eksperiman yang dimaksudkan untuk meningkatkan kecerdasan manusia mengubahnya menjadi seorang jenius. Tapi kemudian, Algernon, seekor tikus yang sebelumnya sukses melalui eksperimen yang sama, mengalami kemunduran kecerdasan secara drastis dan akhirnya mati. Akankah hal yang sama akan terjadi pada Charlie? [download]

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Project Financing and The International Financial Markets

Project Financing and The International Financial Markets 

By: Esteban J. Buljevick and Yoon S. Park

Overview of Financial Innovations in the International Financial Markets. The past several decades have witnessed a phenomenal expansion of the international financial markets in terms of both volume and diversity. International finance had been important in providing funds for expansion of railroads and other infrastructure projects, such as the Suez Canal, in many parts of the world starting from the late 19th century. However, for more than 30 years from the Great Depression of the 1930s until the late 1950s, international finance was in a state of hibernation. The modern version of the international financial markets originated in the late 1950s with the emergence of the Eurodollar market. Several observations can be made about international finance from the late 19th century until the onset of the Great Depression. First, banks were engaged in two main types of international financial intermediation during that period. [download]

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Think and Grow Rich

Think and Grow Rich

Penulis: Napolleon Hill

Seluuruh Bab dalam buku ini akan mengungkap rahasia cara meraih kesuksesan financial yang telah mendatangkan kekayaan melimpah bagi lebih dari lima ratus orang super kaya yang telah dianalisa dengan sangat seksama selama bertahun-tahun. Rahasia tersebut mula-mula ditunjukan oleh Andrew Carnegie, lebih dari seperempat abad yang lalu. Maukah anda tahu apa rahasianya?. [download]

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Mosaik Mizan

Mosaik Mizan

Editor: Hernowo

Di saat kecendrungan anti dialog (dalam pengertian yang substansial, bukan seremonial) serta hegemoni makna yang melelahkan, seperti kini masih membelenggu kita, maka ajakan dialog dari Mizan memang unik, kreatif dan berani. Materi Ebook ini lahir ketika Penerbit Mizan berusia 15 tahun. Mizan didirikan pada tanggal 7 Maret 1983. [download]

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The Air Asia Story

The Air Asia Story

Penulis: Sen Zed and Jayne Ng

Dahulu mendapatkan tiket semurah itu mustahil, tapi sejak masuknya Air Asia ke Indonesia pada tahun 2004, segalanya menjadi mungkin. Maskapai yang berdiri di Malaysia sejak tahun 2002 ini, awalnya hanya bermodalkan dua pesawat serta menanggung utang sebesar seratur milyar rupiah. Namun hanya dalam satu tahun operasinya, ia menjadi trendsetter maskapai udara hemat biaya di Asia. Mau tahu apa rahasianya? [download]

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A To Z About Indonesian Film

A To Z About Indonesian Film

Penulis: Ekky Imanjaya  

Sineas-sineas muda berkarya, bintang-bintang baru bermunculan, film-film Indoensia baru terlahir dari generasinya. Tentu saja tidak lepas dari pujian dan kritikan. Saatnya kritikus film muda hadir dengan perannya untuk memperkaya kebangkitan film Indonesia, yang akan menempatkan kembali film Indonesia di dunia industri sekaligus dunia idealisme “alam pemikiran” agar tidak terjebak dalam euforia. Bahasa buku ini tidak jelimet dan tidak saja mendorong kita untuk menonton film, tetapi juga memberikan cara memahami film. Maju terus perfilman Indonesia. [download]

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110 Amazing Magic Tricks with Everyday Objects

110 Amazing Magic Tricks with Everyday Objects

Compiled By: Marvin Berglas 

Magic is a wonderful hobby. We have selected 110 superb magic tricks, most of which can be performed with simple everyday objects. Once learned, you will be able to mystify and entertain no matter where you are. Read and follow the illustrated instructions carefully and regularly practice and rehearse the trick until you feel complete confident, then get ready to baffle, bewilder and amaze! But remember our magicians code and NEVER REVEAL YOUR SECRET! Have Fun! [download]

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A Book of Puzzles

A Book of Puzzles 

By: George Van Ronzelen

He’s a working elf and his name is TiL, which in the Hindi translates to sesame seed. There’s something serendipitous here. He sometimes provides the “Open, Sesame” for a few of the more difficult anagram puzzles. But you don’t have to believe in elves to take advantage of a clue in one of TiL’s quips-many of which are irrelevant or perhaps red herrings. You may ignore him completely for greater challenge. Believers will tell you that the little people may assume whatever form seems appropriate for the occasion. Some might argue that elves communicate freely with animals and small uninitiated children who conveniently forget their experiences beyond that pale. Since TiL’s purpose is to provide help as well as pleasant distraction, he accordingly appears as a sesame seed with accessories. [download]

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Vijay Amritraj-An Autobiography

Vijay Amritraj-An Autobiography

By: Vijay Amritraj and Richard Evans

In this fascinating autobiography, Vijay Amritraj, one of India’s top tennis stars, tells the story of his life; how as a child his introduction to tennis was at the insistence of his mother and father, who made great sacrifices and showed tremendous strength of will to give the Amritraj brothers, with the help of Rama Rao, the coach, the essential grounding in tennis which would take them to peaks of achievement. Amritraj tells all; his Davis Cup triumph, his appearance on the centre court of Wimbledon, his career as a tennis player all over the world, his acting in the James Bond movie, Octopussy, and the various enterprises started by him. Included are delightful episodes of his finding a bride, family vignettes of his brothers, and nostalgic mentions of the warm family cocoon which always offered him warmth and strength, and still does. [download]

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Regis-The Unauthorized Biography

Regis-The Unauthorized Biography

By: Kathleen Tracy 

Sometimes it’s all a matter of chemistry that ultimately indefinable but instantly recognizable magic that happens between two people whose auras align just so. Chemistry is particularly enigmatic because it can happen between two people who don’t like each other some of the most electric o-screen romances in movie history happened between costars whose offcamera animosity crackled. In the case of Regis Philbin and Kathie Lee Gifford, their on-air chemistry catapulted two journeymen television personalities into the stratosphere of daytime megastars. Prior to their pairing, they’d made names for themselves, but neither had shown any promise of rising above the broadcast multitudes. But together they exuded an edgy energy, and watching them perform their unique early morning verbal dance became an addictive, guilty pleasure for many. [download]

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Empires of Ancient Persia

Empires of Ancient Persia 

By: Michael Burgan

FOR ALMOST 1,200 YEARS, FROM 550 b.c.e. TO 651 c.e., THE. Persians dominated an area that stretched from the Black Sea (which is north of modernTurkeyand bordered by Eastern Europe) intoCentral Asia. Throughout its long history,Persiahad contact with and often battled many of the other great empires of the past. The Persian homeland was centered in the southwest of modernday Iran, along the Zagros Mountains. From there, the Persians conquered the various kingdoms of Mesopotamia, in the region between the Tigris and EuphratesRiversin what is now Iraq. They then spread their influence over Egyptand the fringes of southern Europe. This made them the first empire builders to control part of three continents. To the east, Persian rule extended as far as India. [download]

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Empire of The Islamic World

Empire of The Islamic World 

By: Robin Doak 

FROM 632 TO 1258 THE ISLAMIC EMPIRE HAD THE MOST advanced culture and was the most powerful state in the world. Less than a century after it was founded, it had grown from a loose alliance of desert tribes into the largest empire in the history of the world. No ancient empire extended its reach farther around the globe. At its height, the Islamic Empire stretched from Spainin the west to the borders of Indiain the east, from central Asia in the north to North Africain the south. The Muslim conquests led to the downfall of both the Persian and Byzantine Empires. Throughout their newly conquered lands, the Muslims used the religion of Islam and the Arabic language to create a bond between the conquerors and the conquered. [download]

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Empire of The Inca

Empire of The Inca 

By: Barbara Somervill

UNCOVERING FACTUAL DATA ABOUT THE INCA EMPIRE requires a formidable team of experts: mathematicians, archaeologists, and historians. Mathematicians work to unravel the only concrete records left by people of the empire quipus, knotted strings that tabulated the Inca population and productivity down to the last dehydrated potato. Archaeologists dig up ancient temples, buried cities, and shrouded mummies that tell of a complex society. Historians delve into the chronicles of Spanish conquistadors, priests, and government clerks the only written records of the Inca culture. And all must separate fact from fiction, dealing with a culture whose history is intertwined with legends of stone warriors and visits from the gods. The task is made more difficult because the Inca Empire had no written language not even hieroglyphs or pictograms or numerical system. [download]

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Empire of Ancient Rome

Empire of Ancient Rome

By: Michael Burghan

ANCIENT ROME THE NAME SUGGESTS MILITARY AND economic power, detailed laws, political skill and intrigue, masterful literature, and massive buildings that have stood for more than 2,000 years. Romerepresents the greatness an empire can achieve. It also reminds us that even the most powerful empires decline and crumble over time. At least one historian has claimed that studying the rise and fall of Romepresents the two most complex topics any historian can tackle. The people, places, and ideas of the Roman Empirestill fascinate us. The Romans left behind many books that explain their empire and the lives of its citizens. (Unfortunately, even more writings did not survive to modern times.) These writers, like authors and historians today, describe the world as they saw it, bringing their personal feelings and ideas into their work. [download]

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Empire of Ancient Greece

Empire of Ancient Greece 

By: Jean Kinney Williams

THE TERM ANCIENT GREEKS CAN REFER TO MANY CULTURES. and times in world history. The ancient Greeks include the warriors who fought in the Trojan War in the 1200s b.c.e. and whose mythical stories, retold by Homer, are considered the foundation of Western literature. They also are the sophisticated (from the Greek word sophos, which means “wise”) Athenians of what is known as Classical Greece. They gave us democracy in the 400s b.c.e. and their architecture and literature still influences modern society. And they are the Mediterranean peoples who, in the two centuries before Rome began its rule of the Western and Near Eastern world in the 140s b.c.e., made groundbreaking contributions to science and mathematics. [download]

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Ancient Chinese Warfare

Ancient Chinese Warfare 

By: Ralph D. Sawyer

ANCIENT CHINESE WARFARE AND ITS COMPANION, Western Chou Warfare, were started more than thirty years ago but were soon deemphasized, though never abandoned, to investigate more accessible topics because insufficient archaeological material was available for assessing many aspects of ancient Chinese military history. Even though dramatic new finds such as San-hsing-tui (Sanxingdui) can still provoke astonishment and significantly affect historical understanding, the accumulation of thousands of discoveries and hundreds of highly relevant reports over the intervening decades has not only resulted in something akin to a minimal critical mass, but also considerably diminished the impact of archaeology’s accidental nature. [download]

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King Hamurabi of Babylon

King Hamurabi of Babylon 

By: Marc Van De Mieroop

Hammurabi became king of Babylon in 1792 bc. He must have been relatively young at the time as he was to remain on the throne for forty-three years, but whether he was in his teens, twenties, or thirties, we do not know. People had a lower life expectancy then than they do today, yet several men of the period are known to have lived into their seventies, and conceivably Hammurabi was among them. His mother’s name is unknown. His father was his predecessor on the throne, one Sin-muballit, who himself had ruled for twenty years. They both belonged to a dynasty of independent kings of the city of Babylon and its surroundings that had started to rule around 1900 and would continue to do so until around 1600. These kings are now referred to as the First Dynasty of Babylon, of which Hammurabi was the most illustrious member. [download]

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Encyclopedia of Terrorism

Encyclopedia of Terrorism 

By: Harvey W. Kushner 

Terrorism, in various forms, has been practiced throughout history and across a wide variety of political ideologies. There are as many definitions for the word terrorism as there are methods of executing it; the term means different things to different people, and trying to define or classify terrorism to everyone’s satisfaction proves impossible. However, most definitions of terrorism hinge on three factors: the method (violence), the target (civilians or the government), and the purpose (to instill fear and force political or social change) The adoption of terrorist techniques by insurgent groups, especially in the developing world, led to a perception of terrorism as a natural outgrowth of the anticolonial struggle merely another weapon of revolutionary guerrillas in their campaigns for independence. [download]

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Fundamentals of Pediatric Cardiology

Fundamentals of Pediatric Cardiology

By: David J. Driscoll M.D.

Many pediatricians and family practice physicians are intimidated by heart disease in infants, children, and adolescents. This may result from the perception that learning so many types of congenital heart defects and diseases may appear to be an insurmountable task. In addition becoming an expert in auscultation of the heart does require considerable experience, and it is easy to become frustrated when one is unable to make an anatomic diagnosis on the basis of physical examination. This is unfortunate because it is often difficult even for experts and frequently unnecessary to make an anatomical diagnosis on the basis of physical examination alone. Rather, it is important to determine whether the patient (i) does or does not have congenital heart disease, (ii) has cyanotic or acyanotic heart disease, (iii) has heart failure or pulmonary overcirculation (too much pulmonary blood flow), (iv) has reduced cardiac output, or (v) requires urgent detailed evaluation and treatment. I hope this book will facilitate all primary care physicians who care for infants and children to make these distinctions. [download]

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