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Sederhana tapi menempel sekali dalam kenangan. Dua puluh delapan tahun berlalu, ada kalimat yang masih tersusun rapi di ingatan saya. “Jajan harus jujur, kalau hanya mampu bayar satu, maka ambil jajanan satu saja.” Kalimat itu diucapkan oleh seorang guru di depan kelas saat saya masih duduk di kelas 3 Sekolah Dasar. Dulu saya menanggapinya hanya dengan anggukan saja. Selain karena saya jarang jajan, saat itu kadang justru saya bawa makanan untuk dijual di sekolah. Tapi, sekarang saya paham, guru ibarat air dan pupuk untuk tunas-tunas bangsa yang akan tumbuh besar. Pemahaman akan nilai-nilai kebaikan sangat penting dimiliki para guru. Melalui alur 38 cerita dalam buku ini, terbaca bahwa g...
The Glory of Sri Sri Ganesh shows the lives of the underdogs the Lachhimsa, the Rukmanis, the Mohors and the Haroas as a contrast to the lives of their all-powerful overlords the Medinis and Ganeshes. Lachhima, whose leashed bitterness and anger of a lifetime against Medini and Ganesh is liberated at the end of the novel when Ganesh begs her to save his life, decides to save him, but on her own terms. The title of the work itself becomes a tool for subversion in this sprawling novel which takes the reader through a multilayered narrative into the socio-economic malaise of post-independence rural India. Mahasweta Devi s corrosive humour and cryptic style are at their best as she takes on issu...
Fifteen-year-old Margharita is toiling in her family's meager field when a handsome gentleman rides in with a proposal of marriage. After only a few words with her father,Master Domenico Vasari tears Margharita away from the family she cherishes and the farm boy she loves-and hauls her off to a foreign, violent life, full of strangers and strange customs.
Paul, a religious teen living in a small conservative town, finds his world turned upside down when he meets Manuel—a young man who says he’s both Christian and gay, two things that Paul didn’t think could coexist in one person. Doesn’t the Bible forbid homosexuality? As Paul struggles with Manuel’s interpretation of the Bible, thoughts that Paul has long tried to bury begin to surface, and he finds himself re-examining his whole life. This is an unforgettable book on an extremely timely topic that strives to open minds on both ends of the spectrum.
Monti explores the development of EC competition law through an interdisciplinary approach, focusing on the political and economic considerations that affect the way the rules are interpreted. Written with competition law students in mind, it should also be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students of EU politics and economics.
This book provides a well-illustrated and readable overview of the urban development phenomenon, and is suitable for the sophomore student and the general reader.
This volume contains peer-reviewed papers from the Third World Landslide Forum organized by the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL) in June 2014. The complete collection of papers from the Forum is published in three full-color volumes and one mono-color volume.
"Du, a right-to-life activist, and Keely, a pregnant rape victim Du is confining, transcend their circumstances and the ideological issues that separate them. Keely and Du is a mind-probing issue play with a gripping human face. Who is accountable? What is the extent of individual freedom? What are a rape victim's rights? What are a Christian's realities of procreation? Their passionate stories exist on the extreme edge of everyday reality"--Page 4 of cover.