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Salju di Gyeonggi-Do ini mengurai kisah-kisah dengan nilai-nilai tersembunyi yang berserakan. Salju memang bertebaran di jalan-jalan. Tetapi seperti salju sungguhan, himpunan cerpen ini memiliki gambaran panoramik nilai-nilai yang mengguyur keseharian. Prof. Dr. FX. Armada Riyanto, Guru Besar Sekolah Tinggi Filsafat Widya Sasana Malang Tak ada gagasan, termasuk pengalaman sastrawi, berangkat dari kekosongan. Pengalaman hidup, juga perjalanan kreatif menjadi pengalaman indah bisa disublimkan dalam catatan estetik. Cerpen-cerpen di sini, dalam Salju di Gyeonggi-Do karya Fathul H. Panatapraja ini, merupakan pengalaman estetik itu, dipungut dalam perjalanan. Ia menghadirkan kekayaan batin manusi...
Pemikiran Fathul H. Panatapraja dalam buku ini tidak sekadar terkait dengan pandangan filosofis atas berbagai persoalan kehidupan duniawi dengan segala kompleksitasnya seperti filsafat, pendidikan, politik, ekonomi, sastra, kebudayaan, dengan nilai-nilai moralitasnya, melainkan membahas pula masalah eskatologi dalam kaitan dengan asal-usul kejadian yang disebut Sangkan Paraning Dumadi. Dalam kupasan Sangkan Paraning Dumadi, dengan gambaran metaforik tentang ikan teri – ikan hiu – pertapa tua, Fathul menguraikan asalusul kejadian yang tidak lain dan tidak bukan adalah Tuhan yang tidak dapat dijangkau dengan pikiran tetapi bisa dicapai dengan semadi dan hening. Sebuah telaah bersifat sufistik yang penuh simbolisasi dan gambaran metaforik.
Jika kita mencoba mencari arti dari istilah kiai khos dalam kamus besar bahasa Indonesia, niscaya akan menemukan kesia-siaan belaka. Namun jika kita tengok dalam kamus politik, istilah kiai khos bisa dijumpai. Namun arti dari kiai khos, tidak menjadikan kita gembira, apalagi bangga. Kiai khos dalam kamus politik diartikan sebagai "sekelompok broker politik", titik. Fenomena munculnya atau populernya penyebutan kiai khos di kalangan umum dimulai dari KH. Abdurrahman Wahid (Gus Dur) yang menyebutkan tentang sejumlah kiai sepuh di Nahdlatul Ulama yang memberi dukungan politik terhadapnya saat pencalonan presiden di awal reformasi. Penyebutan ini lalu terus bergulir dan berkembang dalam perjalan...
Delving into the anarchist writings of Nietzsche, Foucault, and Baudrillard, and exploring the cyberpunk fiction of William Gibson and Bruce Sterling, theorist Lewis Call examines the new philosophical current where anarchism meets postmodernism. This theoretical stream moves beyond anarchism's conventional attacks on capital and the state to criticize those forms of rationality, consciousness, and language that implicitly underwrite all economic and political power. Call argues that postmodernism's timely influence updates anarchism, making it relevant to the political culture of the new millennium.
An ideal secretary is required to fulfill all of the boss’s desires… In order to investigate Andreas, a wealthy Greek man who put her sister through hell, Carrie applies to be his private secretary. Andreas has some doubts about her identity and decides to challenge her with extreme demands and work conditions. Hitting the limit of her patience, Carrie resists his orders and reveals her identity. Now he’s threatening a lawsuit against her. But then he offers her an unexpected alternative—marry him for six months!
Her unrequited love, the man she’s always longed for, has offered to buy her for a night! Emilio Rios is a Spanish businessman known for his ruthless business practices and splashy affairs with women. He’s her brother’s good friend, and Megan had been secretly in love with him since she was young. Right up until two years ago when he accused her of being a loose woman who preys on men’s baser instincts! After that she hadn’t wanted to ever see him again, but cruel fate brought her and Emilio together again at the airport in Madrid. And now he’s bound her to him with an unfair contract!
From a USA Today–bestselling author, a woman marries her enemy in order to retain custody of her orphaned nephew and falls in love with her husband. Sarah Hartwell’s sister died in childbirth leaving a son she’s determined to protect him. So when Greek tycoon Alex Terzakis comes to claim his brother’s child Sarah stands firm in the face of his dizzying wealth and power. In a final, desperate attempt to get rid of Alex she gives him an ultimatum: if he wants the baby he’ll have to marry her! Believing Sarah is a gold-digger and expecting her to name a price for the child Alex is surprisedby the beauty’s proposal . . . but astounds her by accepting. Yet Alex refuses to have amarriage in name only . . . he will claim his bride!
Tatsumi's fantasy of leading a righteous assassin's life is brutally shattered when Sheele is lost in battle. But though Tatsumi resolves to stand tall against his sorrows, a new group of teigu-wielders appears before him: the Three Beasts!! In the battle between teigus, where there can be only one victor, who will fall prey to death?!
? Jika kau memiliki keinginan yang kuat dan tulus untuk mengubah perilaku orang-orang di sekelilingmu menjadi lebih baik, maka terlebih dahulu ubahlah perilakumu sendiri ?. Inilah semangat buku ini. [Mizan, Hikmah, Inspiration, Motivation, Indonesia]
Seventeen-year-old Tomasu lives in a remote mountain village, some of whose residents including his mother are members of the Hidden, a clandestine, peaceful religious sect. One day, while Tomasu is out collecting mushrooms, a band of Tohan warriors descends upon and massacres the village. Tomasu confronts the warriors.