Judul Asli: The 100, a Ranking of the Most Influential Person in History Siapakah yang paling berpengaruh dalam sejarah? Hart menyusun daftar urut (ranking) seratus tokoh dengan argumentasi yang meyakinkan, tapi juga mengundang perdebatan. Apa alasan Hart menempatkan Nabi Muhammad pada ranking pertama? Mengapa pula Nabi Isa menempati ranking ke-3, sementara Isaac Newton ranking ke-2? John F.…
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"In the jungles of 'Nam, Keith Johnson witnessed something he wasn't meant to see... So they framed him, disgraced him, and left him for dead. Then they stole his wife, his child, and his future. But rage kept Johnson alive in a North Vietnamese hellhole for twenty years. And now he's come home... To seek revenge on the three who destroyed his life: the head of a Los Angeles security firm, a p…
Many people know that Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) was a British statesman and prime minister, a speechmaker who led his country through World War II. What, perhaps, they don't know is that he came under enemy fire over 50 times; that he took 36 bottles of wine, 18 of scotch and 6 of brandy to the Boer War; that he painted over 600 works of art and won the Nobel Prize for Literature; and t…
Ini adalah buku ke-300 Ali Muakhir. Penulis sengaja menulis cerita humor untuk anak-anak karena banyak manfaatnya. Terutama ketika anak-anak sedang dalam masa pertumbuhan. Berikut ini manfaatnya: 1. Humor membuat rileks; 2. Humor mampu mengembangkan imajinasi; 3. Humor mampu mencerdaskan IQ dan EQ; 4. Humor mampu memacu kreativitas; 5. Humor membuat anak bahagia. Orangtua layak memilih buku ini…
The ninth edition of Burden and Faires' well-respected Numerical Analysis text gives an accessible introduction to numerical analysis and its multitude of practical applications in math, engineering, computer science, and the physical sciences. The authors intuitively explain modern approximation techniques including how, why, and when they can be expected to work and why, in some situations, t…
This text gives a basic geographic overview of the world and each major geographic region, providing insights about the geographic character of specific regions to show how they establish settings for tourism. All regions or countries have a brief overview of the cultural, physical, and tourism characteristics of the region or country. The cultural characteristics are in the form of cultural ca…
Could we colonize Mars if we wanted to? Has surveillance reached "Big Brother" proportions? What are some of the latest theories for slowing aging? You'll find the answers to these and other questions in Contemporary topics 3, which features college lectures from several academic disciplines, including architecture, media studies, and culinary arts. Contemporary topics 3 prepares students for t…