Penulisan buku ini didasarkan dengan adanya tulisan sosiologi sastra di negara maju dan karya sastra timur. Banyak cara untuk meneliti kondisi sosial sastra dan hubungan antar unsur-unsur sastra dan unsur di luar sastra. Kesemuanya tentu berpengaruh terhadap corak karya sastra, penciptanya, zamannya. Dengan hadirnya buku ini, paling tidak kita mengadakan penelitian Sosiologi Sastra Indonesia,…
An updated edition of Thoreau's most widely read works Self-described as "a mystic, a transcendentalist, and a natural philosopher to boot," Henry David Thoreau dedicated his life to preserving his freedom as a man and as an artist. Nature was the fountainhead of his inspiration and his refuge from what he considered the follies of society. Heedless of his friends' advice to live in a more o…
The Making of Mark Twain tells of his boyhood in Hannibal, Missouri, of his mastering the printer's craft and his first crude experiments in humor, of his wanderings as an eighteen-year-old journeyman printer, of his four years of piloting on the Mississippi River at the height of the steamboat era, of his absurd adventures as an amateur Confederate soldier at the outbreak of the Civil War, and…
Sixteen-year-old triplets princesses Sophronia, Daphne, and Beatriz, each with her own secret skill and wish, begin arranged marriages to princes of neighboring nations to fulfill their mother's intention to reign over the continent.
Buku ini mengajak pembaca untuk mengurai komunikasi dalam pelayanan publik secara lebih spesifik, detail, mendalam, dan sistematis. Penulis memulai kajian pembahasan dengan mendudukan paradigma baru pelayanan publik yang kemudian darinya akan berdampak juga pada adanya perubahan mindset aparatur pelyanan publik. Paradigma pelayanan publik dan perubahan mindset sejatinya akan berdampak banyak pe…
Unlock your heart and the rest will follow. Ruby is taking care of herself. But now that she's living with her sister, she's got her own room, she's going to a good school, and her future looks bright. Plus there's the adorable boy next door. Can Ruby learn to open her heart and let him in?
Soeprijadi Tomodihardjo menjadi eksil karena peristiwa besar yang pecah di Indonesia pada 1965. Namun dalam buku ini ia justru banyak bercerita tentang peristiwa-peristiwa kecil dan orang-orang biasa yang terpaksa hidup di tanah pengasingan : tentang Mr. Lacoste yang jadi uring-uringan karena gagal mencari kerjam tentang keluarga Bahar yang bernama kearab-araban digerebek aparat kepolisian gara…