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"The nation is reeling from high inflation, unprecedented corruption and a sense of hopelessness. What do you do when your knowledge of basic things in politics and economics is poor but you still want to do something to help the nation? Paresh, a young techie, knows that he and the nation are being taken for a ride by a crew of crooked politicians. What can he do about it? Especially when Ajit, a sportsman of yesteryears, steps up to lead the country away from stinking corruption and desperate poverty towards development and prosperity? How does a professional journalist like Divya see these issues? What magic can Ajit wield? How will the incumbent scam-a-day government led by Padamji react? Will youngsters like Paresh and Divya unite under the leadership of Ajit and help India find its true destiny? Will their friendship lead to something more? "
Harry Garside, Australian Special Forces, leads a small reconnaissance team into the island of Java, occupied by the Japanese 16th Army. grip slackens local factions fight among themselves for power and also for hostages, seizing European women and children already held prisoner for three and a half years. Many foreigners are simply slaughtered. Still a closed island, none of these horrors are known to the outside world. campaign of rescue Garside faces new and murderous enemies, but also makes unexpected friends . evocation of the anarchy that was Java 45.
This is an open access book. Doctoral Program of Economics and Business Faculty, Universitas Sebelas Maret organizes the 2022 International Colloquium onBusiness and Economics. The conference will be conducted bothonline and offline (hybrid) in Economic Faculty of UNS, Solo, onSeptember 27-28, 2022. In this conference, 30 papers were selectedfor international proceedings. Faculty of Economics and Business Universitas Sebelas Maret is one ofthe respectable Business School in Indonesia. In the recent releasefrom the Times Higher Education (THE), the faculty is categorized asTop 10 Economics and Business Faculty among hundreds University inIndonesia. Currently, our faculty have 3 undergraduate degrees, 3master’s degrees, and 1 doctoral degree program and all of them areaccredited with a rank “A”.
Malaya, 1951. It is the Malayan Emergency and a British major, commanding a rifle company of Gurkhas, is woken in the small hours by a call from Special Branch with the six-figure grid reference of a large party of communist guerrillas. The line is poor, the army man is hung over and the location is written down incorrectly. But Dame Fortune, that ever fickle lady, also decrees that the Special Branch information is out-of-date, and the communists are some way away so that against millions of odds the two parties meet up and the guerrillas suffer their greatest loss of the Emergency. The story of what would become the tipping point of the Malayan Emergency in favour of the security forces is...
Quartz, zeolites, gemstones, perovskite type oxides, ferrite, carbon allotropes, complex coordinated compounds and many more -- all products now being produced using hydrothermal technology. Handbook of Hydrothermal Technology brings together the latest techniques in this rapidly advancing field in one exceptionally useful, long-needed volume.The handbook provides a single source for understanding how aqueous solvents or mineralizers work under temperature and pressure to dissolve and recrystallize normally insoluble materials, and decompose or recycle any waste material. The result, as the authors show in the book, is technologically the most efficient method in crystal growth, materials pr...
Hario Kecik’s diary is without peer in Indonesian literature as a portrait of talented and brave young revolutionaries during the first days of the Republic which followed a brutal Japanese occupation and finally led to the November 1945 Battle for Surabaya, the longest, bloodiest and most decisive warfare in the Republic’s history. More than one hundred thousand young men and women - the majority under twenty years of age - took up weapons against the modern British-Indian Army and arriving Dutch forces intending to re-establish Dutch colonial rule in the Indies. For Indonesian readers, no period of Indonesian history will better repay study than the events in Surabaya in the last month...
Every year, Jakarta's security forces demolish the homes of thousands of people and destroy the residents' personal property. These evictions are carried out with little notice, due process, or compensation. Far too often, the process involves excessive use of force against those facing eviction. Many thousands more of Jakarta's poor live in fear that one day the bulldozers will arrive at their community. Forced evictions--the removal of people against their will from the homes and land they occupy, without access to legal and other protections--deprive individuals of some of their most fundamental human rights and needs: adequate housing and protection of their homes. Based on more than one...
This collection of wild and woolly adventure stories from real life was first published by Stackpole Books in 1954. From roping bear and cougar in Arizona to hunting wild boar with a longbow on Santa Catalina Island in California and alligator wrestling in the Everglades, Howard Hill was the prototypical "extreme" guy. Includes outstanding photography from Hill's adventures of such animals as grizzly bear, elk, mountain sheep and moose. First published by Stackpole Books in 1954. Foreword by Errol Flynn. New preface by Jerry Hill, the author's nephew.