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Geguritan Nurcaya Nursada: Karya Sastra Etnik Moderasi Hindu-Islam
Geguritan Nurcaya Nursada adalah salah satu contoh sinkretisme Hindu-Islam di tanah Nusantara klasik. Dari latar belakang tersebut, banyak hal yang bisa ditelusuri antara konsep agama Hindu dan Islam, serta bagaimana konsep kedua¬nya bisa disatukan dalam sastra. Tidak hanya melihat dari sudut luarnya saja, pembahasan dalam buku ini akan masuk lebih dalam pada intisari bahwa Hindu ada sebagai Sanatana Dharma atau kebenaran abadi alam semesta, sedangkan Islam ada sebagai Rahmatan Lil’Alamin atau kasih sayang bagi seluruh semesta. Dengan demikian, kedua agama ini adalah bersifat universal, tidak hanya bagi ras atau bangsa tertentu, tetapi bagi semua yang ada di alam semesta.
Illustrated Guide to the Trees of Peru
Contains both an index of vernacular names and an index of scientific names of the trees.
A Revision of Attalea (Arecaceae, Arecoideae, Cocoseae, Attaleinae)
"Abstract: A taxonomic revision of the neotropical palm genus Attalea based on morphological data was carried out. Nine hundred and two herbarium specimens were scored for 21 quantitative and 33 qualitative variables. Using the Phylogenetic Species Concept, qualitative variables were used to recognize 30 species. These are widely distributed in Central and South America from Mexico to Bolivia and Paraguay, with one species in Haiti. Nomenclature, descriptions, and distribution maps are provided for each species. Qualitative variables are illustrated, and illustrations of 22 living plants are also provided. Keywords: Maximiliana, Neotropics, Orbignya, Palmae, Scheelea, Monocots"--Page 3.
Jaipong Dancer
Set in 1950s Sumatra, this is a story of lost innocence and complex moral dilemmas. It follows the journey of Yahyu, a young Javanese dancer, who runs away from a forced marriage and becomes unwittingly involved in the violent struggle for Sumatra’s independence from Jakarta. On her long passage from fame to degradation Yahyu experiences love, hate, sexual slavery and the horror of the rebels’ last bloody battle deep in the Barisan Mountains
Pachinko
* The million-copy bestseller* * National Book Award finalist * * An instant New York Times Bestseller and one of their 10 Best Books of 2017 * * Selected for Emma Watson's Our Shared Shelf book club * 'This is a captivating book... Min Jin Lee's novel takes us through four generations and each character's search for identity and success. It's a powerful story about resilience and compassion' BARACK OBAMA. Yeongdo, Korea, 1911. Teenaged Sunja, the adored daughter of a fisherman, falls for a wealthy yakuza. He promises her the world, but when she discovers she is pregnant – and that her lover is married – she refuses to be bought. Facing ruin, she accepts an offer of marriage from a gentle minister passing through on his way to Japan. Following a man she barely knows to a hostile country where she has no friends, Sunja will be forced to make some difficult choices. Her decisions will echo through the decades. Spanning nearly 100 years of history, Pachinko is an unforgettable story of love, sacrifice, ambition and loyalty told through four generations of one family.
Only a Girl
Three generations of Chinese women struggle for identity against a political backdrop of the World Depression, World War II, and the Indonesian Revolution. The unique ways in which Nanna, Carolien, and Jenny face their own challenges reveal the complex tale of Chinese society in Indonesia between 1930 and 1952.
Living Poor; a Peace Corps Chronicle
At the age of 48, Moritz Thomsen sold his pig farm and joined the Peace Corps. As he tells the story, his awareness of the comic elements in the human situation--including his own--and his ability to convey it in fast-moving, earthy prose have madeLiving Poora classic. "Hilariously funny at times, grimly sad at others and elavened with perceptive insights into the ways of the people and with breathtaking descriptions of the Ecuadorian landscape."-St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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