HO CHI MINH, Yevgeny Kobelev

Judul/Title: Ho Chi Minh
Penulis/Author: Yevgeny Kobelev
Penerbit/Publisher: The Gioi Publishers
Edisi/Edition: 2000
Halaman/Pages: 301
Dimensi/Dimension: 14 x 21.5 x 1.5cm
Sampul/Cover: Paperback
Bahasa/Language: English
Call No.: 959.7/Kob/h/C.1

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It so happened that I was in Vietnam as TASS correspondent when the country was fending off the U.S. agression. The deepest impressions are of my short stay in the southern provinces in June 1965.

The war was in its third month. Black smoke hovered on the horizon. It rose from burning houses, field, and jungle. Banana leaves pinned on netting camouflaged our jeep, for it was a rare minutes that no U.S. bombers roared overhead.

Bomb craters merred the frontline roads. At river crossings we waited for nightfall. At after-dark markets beside the jetties, in the light of frail oil-lamp, old women sold bananas and coconuts, litchis and huge crabs. Travellers like us examined the wares in the light of torches, bargaining in subdued, somewhat guilty, voices. From accros the river, a few miles away, came the noise of battle-bombs bursting, guns going off, and red glow coluring the dark sky. Under attack was the provincial capital of Vinh.

THE ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF BRITAIN, Sir George Clark

Judul/Title: The Illustrated History of Britain
Penulis/Author: Sir George Clark
Penerbit/Publisher: Octopus Books Limited
Edisi/Edition: 1982
Halaman/Pages: 320
Dimensi/Dimension: 13 x 20 x 2.5cm
Sampul/Cover: Hardcover
Bahasa/Language: English
Call No.: 941/Cla/i/C.1


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This is the story of the British people, as told by a distinguished Oxford historian and now published in this extended, illustrated edition. The original book first appeared in 1971 and was quickly accepted as the most authoritative account of the history of England from before Roman occupation up to the present day. Unusually, this new edition is actually bigger than the original; not only is it illustrated with more than 230 drawings and photographs in colour and black-and-white, but expert additions have been made to give a fuller account of the recent decades and of the history of Wales and Scotland. Useful tables of the more significant dates have also been added to every chapter.

This is a book that has several uses: it can be enjoyably browsed through or, thanks to its detailed index, it can be used as a very comprehensive work of reference. But its special merit is that the reader can pick out and study each of the many strands whose grand entwining constitutes the history of Britain.

EKSPLOITASI KOLONIAL ABAD XIX, A.M Djuliati Suroyo

Judul/Title: Eksploitasi Kolonial Abad XIX: Kerja Wajib di Keresidenan Kedu 1800-1890
Penulis/Author: A.M Djuliati Suroyo
Penerbit/Publisher: Yayasan Untuk Indonesia
Edisi/Edition: 2000
Halaman/Pages: 352
Dimensi/Dimension: 14.5 x 21 x 2cm
Sampul/Cover: Paperback
Bahasa/Language: Indonesia
Call No.: 959.8/Sur/e/C.1


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Buku ini lahir dari kebutuhan untuk meninjau kembali penulisan sejarah Indonesia oleh sejarawan asing yang lebih menggunakan sudut pandang Eropasentris dan gambaran yang berwajah sejarah politik. Sudut pandang ini lebih menampilkan bangsa Barat sebagai pemeran utama yang aktif dalam menentukan arah dan jalan sejarah. Sementara bangsa yang dieksploitasi, lebih melihat kolonialisme sebagai kegiatan politik bangsa-bangsa Barat dalam usahanya menguasai otoritas kerajaan-kerajaan dan upayanya mengeruk keuntungan ekonomi secara maksimal.

Penulisan kembali sejarah Indonesia perlu menempatkan secara berimbang bangsa dan masyarakat Indonesia sebagai pusat perhatian. Buku ini layak dijadikan sumbangan berharga di tengah langkannya karya sejarawan Indonesia yang meminati tema-tema kelam di masa Tanam Paksa sebagai periode paling buruk bagi rakyat yang hidup di tanah -- yang kelak disebut Indonesia -- ini sebagai korban nyata eksploitasi kolonial.

PRESENT IN THE PAST, Armin Rappaport & Richard Traina

Judul/Title: Present in the Past: Source Problems in American History
Penulis/Author: Armin Rappaport & Richard Traina
Penerbit/Publisher: The Macmillan Company
Edisi/Edition: 1972
Halaman/Pages: 497
Dimensi/Dimension: 15 x 23 x 2.5cm
Sampul/Cover: Paperback
Bahasa/Language: English
Call No.: 973/Rap/p/C.1


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This collection of primary source materials and essays by twenty authorities on different periods in American history in designed for use in the undergraduate American history survey course. The book provides a treatment in depth of specific problems in the development of American civilization from the colonial period to the immediate past. Some of its numerous advantages over other readings books for this course are described below.

1. The contributors are experts both on the historical problems they discuss and on presenting history in a manner that is challenging and relevant to the undergraduate.

2. The individual chapters deal with specific events, crises, or conflicts ("illustrative microcosms") that epitomize the character of the age, rather than with generalizations about trends and causes.

3, The topics treated reflect enduring and recurring issues in American history and are analogous to contemporary problems and controversies with wich the student is familiar. The past is allowed to speak in its own voice and in its own terms, yet the problems selected are almost uncomfortably germane to current American predicaments.

4. Each brief section (approximately 10,000 words each) joins an original essay with a collection of primary source materials. The essays provide the background needed for informed discussion of the source materials.

5. The book is unique in the variety and unconventionally of perspective and events which it presents.

YEARS OF DISCORD, John Morton Blum

Judul/Title: Years of Discord: American Politics and Society, 1961-1974
Penulis/Author: John Morton Blum
Penerbit/Publisher: W.W Norton & Company
Edisi/Edition: 1991
Halaman/Pages: 529
Dimensi/Dimension: 16 x 24 x 3.5cm
Sampul/Cover : Hardcover
Bahasa/Language: English
Call No.: 306.2/Blu/y/C.1


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For fifteen tense and troubled years, between the election of John F. Kennedy in1960 and the resignation of Richard Nixon in1974, the United States struggled to directs its domestic life and its role in a rapidly changing world.

At the end of the 1950s Americans felt a vague dissatisfaction. Only fifteen years earlier, victorious in a great and "good war", the United States bestrode the world, unchallenged, a colossus of political, military, and economic power. But by 1960 that dominance was eroding, as American leadership in science and technology faced a Soviet challenge in space and in atomic weaponery. A recovering Europe and a surging Japan posed complicated economic competition, and as the sixties rolled forward, the country was engulfed in a tide of criticism and dissent, much of it arising from a persistent racism and deepening comitment to a dubious conflict in Vietnam.

Kennedy's inauguration in 1961 fueled the country's soaring hopes for a New Frontier whose promises were reminiscent of older liberal expectation for an active federal government led by an activist president.

When Kennedy fell, Lyndon Johnson picked up the torch and spurred the country on to attack poverty and discrimination, as well as to pursue even more widely, the Vietnam War. It was an impossible agenda, doomed to frustation by domestic resistance and military stalemate. The result was an outburst of anger and violence in cities and on college campuses, and an eruption of radicalism during the late sixties.

Such tension and dissapointment could not last, but ultimately drove Lyndon Johnson from power and led to the election of Richard Nixon. His controversial presidency, with its shady undertakings and misuse of power, led in turn to further dissent and a near impeachment.

These fifteen years are as rich as any in American history, rich in incident --the Bay of Pigs, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the civil rights struggle, the anti-war crusade, the opening of China, Watergate, Kennedy's death, Johnson's retirement, the fall of Nixon: rich of personality -- Robert Kennedy, Stokely Carmichael, Martin Luther King, Jr., Earl Warren, Bob Dylan, Henry Kissinger, the Beatles, Nikita Khruschev, George Wallace, Hurbert Humphrey.

Finally, this is a story of power--its attainment and use at home and abroad. If we conclude that the Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon presidencies marked a decline in national power and a confusion of aim at home, we may also conclude that men and women during these years of discord strove to realize the best hopes and ideals that this country has to offer.

ZAMAN PERALIHAN, Soe Hok Gie

Judul/Title: Zaman Peralihan

Penulis/Author: Soe Hok Gie
Penerbit/Publisher:Bentang Budaya
Edisi/Edition: 1995
Halaman/Pages: 226
Dimensi/Dimension: 15 x 21 x 1.5cm
Sampul/Cover : Softcover
Bahasa/Language: Indonesia
Call No.: 959.8/Soe/z/C.1

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Buku Zaman Peralihan karya Soe Hok Gie ini adalah sebuah kesaksian. Kesaksian tentang zaman peralihan yang dialami oleh bangsa Indonesia, yaitu ketika Orde Lama jatuh dan Orde Baru tengah mengawali langkahnya.

Sebagai sebuah kesaksian, apa-apa yang diungkap oleh Soe Hok Gie cenderung apa adanya. Mungkin karena terdidik secara akademis, sehingga keinginan untuk menyampaikan kesaksian seobjektif mungkin menjadi kecenderungannya. Dan ternyata bukannya tanpa masalah. Sebab pernyataan dan ungkapannya, untuk masa itu dan masa sekarang berada pada posisi kontroversial. Dan sebagai sesuatu kontroversial maka ia mengandung risiko untuk disetujui, dibantah, maupun ditolak. Akan tetapi, salah atau benar, setuju atau tidak setuju atas pemikirannya, Soe Hok Gie telah memotivasi kita untuk selalu menumbuhkan kesegaran berpikir dan menyikapi gejala-gejala anti-demokrasi dan dehumanisasi secara kritis.

CITRARESMI RIWAYAT MENYAYAT PERANG BUBAT, Eddy D. Iskandar

Judul/Title: Citraresmi Riwayat Menyayat Perang Bubat
Penulis/Author: Eddy D. Iskandar
Penerbit/Publisher: Kiblat
Edisi/Edition: 2007
Halaman/Pages: 87
Dimensi/Dimension: 15x 21 x 0.5cm
Sampul/Cover: Paperback
Bahasa/Language: Indonesia
Call No.: 813/Isk/c/C.1

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Setiap kali mendengar nama Citaresmi, atau kadang-kadang disebut juga pitaloka, hati saya seperti diiris sembilu. Betapa tidak, Citraresmi adalah seorang putri raja yang begitu hebat dalam menegakkan martabat dan harga diri, yang bukan untuk kepentingan dirinya saja melainkan demi nama baik orang Sunda sepanjang masa, meskipun jalan hidup yang terpaksa ditempuhnya teramat memilukan. Ya, teramat memilukan, sehingga bisa membuat air mata menitik, manakala kita mendengar kisahnya.

Peristiwa tragis yang menimpa Citraresmi terjadi sekitar tujuh abad yang lampau. Ia puteri Sunda dari Kerajaan Galuh yang gugur di Tegal Bubat, karena tekadnya untuk mempertahankan harga diri. Kisahnya itu diungkap dalam beberapa naskah kuno, yang diantaranya justru bukan ditulis oleh orang Sunda. Naskah Kidung Sundayana misalnya, yang ditulis dalam bahasa Jawa Kuno, serta ditemukan di Bali, bertutur cukup lengkap mengenai kisah memilukan yang dialami Citraresmi.

A NATION IN WAITING, Adam Schwarz

Judul/Title: A NATION IN WAITING: INDONESIA IN THE 1990s
Penulis/Author: Adam Schwarz
Penerbit/Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Edisi/Edition: I, 1994
Halaman/Pages:370
Dimensi/Dimension: 14 x 21.5 x 2.5cm
Sampul/Cover: Hardcover
Bahasa/Language: English
Call No.: 959.8/Sch/n/C.1

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A Nation in Waiting lifts the veil on Indonesia, Southeast Asia's quiet giant. Written in an engaging and easy-to-read style, it captures the fascinating debate in Indonesia today on where the nation is heading. Spanning a wide variety of contemporary issues, it offers a detailed and thought-provoking glimpse of one of the world's largest and least understood nations. It chronicles the impressive economic development Indonesia has enjoyed under the 27-year leadership of President Soeharto as well as the difficult challenges which lie ahead.

Using a wealth of first-hand information, Adam Schwarz gives life to the heated debates on economic policy, corruption and the controversial role of ethnic-Chinese entrepreneurs. The book analyses the political demand of Indonesia's Muslim community, the mishandled incorporation of East Timor, the emerging debate on human rights, and the thorny problem of arranging a smooth transition of power. The underlying theme of the book is the widening gap between an increasingly modernised economy and a rigid political system that is struggling to keep up with the times. The task of matching political development with economic growth will be the central challenge for this enigmatic country in the 1990s. All those with an interest in Indonesia will find in this book invaluable insights into how politics and business are conducted in the world's fourth largest nation.

Adam Schwarz reported on Indonesia for the Far Eastern Economic Review from 1988 to 1992. Having enjoyed wide access to many of Indonesia's leaders and most prominent citizens, he now offers a rare behind-the-scenes view of Indonesia in which 'Indonesia voices' tell the story.

REVOLUTION IN EAST-CENTRAL EUROPE, David S. Mason

Judul/Title: REVOLUTION IN EAST-CENTRAL EUROPE: THE RISE AND FALL OF COMMUNISM AND THE COLD WAR
Penulis/Author: David S. Mason
Penerbit/Publisher: Westview Press. Inc.
Edisi/Edition: 1992
Halaman/Pages: 215
Dimensi/Dimension: 15 x 23 x 2cm
Sampul/Cover: Paperback
Bahasa/Language: English
Call No.: 947/Mas/r/C.1

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DILEMMAS IN WORLD POLITICS
Dilemmas in World Politics offers teachers and students of international relations a series of equality books on critical issues, trends, and regions in international politics. Each text will examine a "real world" dilemma and will be structured to cover the historical, theoretical, practical, and projected dimensions of its subject.

"Revolution in East-Central Europe deserves high marks for originality, contribution to the field, and quality of scholarship. The integration of East-Central European data with mainstream political science concepts is long overdue." -- Robin Alison Remington, University of Missouri - Columbia

HARVEST OF FEAR, John Murphy

Judul/Title: HARVEST OF FEAR
Penulis/Author: John Murphy
Penerbit/Publisher: Westview Press Boulder & San Fransisco
Edisi/Edition: 1994
Halaman/Pages: 335
Dimensi/Dimension: 14 x 21.5 x 2.5cm
Sampul/Cover: Paperback
Bahasa/Language: English
Call No.: 994/Mur/h/C.1

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• How did fears of the Cold War Shape Australian images of Asia?
• What was the nature of Vietnamese revolution, which some 50.000 Australian troops failed to reverse in the 1960s?
• How did a small and marginal peace movement grow into the powerful Moratorium and did it have any impact on the course of the War ?

Harvest of Fear is a beautifully crafted history of Australia's experience of the Vietnam War. It draws together a picture of social and political life in colonial and postcolonial Vietnam; an incisive look at Australian Cold War politics and the diplomacy that lead us to Vietnam; and a brilliant portrait of the origins and political impact of the powerful Australian anti-war movement. No previous book has pulled together these three critical strands of the Australian experience of the Vietnam War; it is indeed a broad and rich canvas.

Harvest of Fear presents the clearest picture yet of how the war came about, how it was seen from Australia, what the war in Phoc Tuy Province was like for the Australian soldiers sent there, and why our involvement was the cause of such division at home. Using a range of archival sources and interviews with participants, John Murphy shows how our intervention reflected the political alignments of Australia in the Cold War, as well as deeper and more troubled anxieties about Asia.

The Australian intervention in Vietnam remains Australia's longest and most contentious war. The war and its echoes are powerfully evoked in John Murphy's story.

Harvest of Fear is a book to appeal t0 everyone interested in Australian history and politics, and in Australia's Involvement with Asia, especially with the Vietnam War.

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KGB, Brian Freemantle

Judul/Title: KGB
Penerjemah/Translator: Brian Freemantle
Penerbit/Publisher: Rainbird
Edisi/Edition: 2003
Halaman/Pages: 238
Dimensi/Dimension: 23.5 x 16 x 2cm
Sampul/Cover: Hardcover
Bahasa/Language: English
Call No.: 355.4/Fre/k/C.1
Status: Ada/Available

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The KGB is the biggest spy machine for the gathering of secret information that the world has ever seen. Without its omnipresent supervision of every aspect of Russian life, the totalitarian Union of Soviet Socialist republics would cease to exist. It is the KGB militia which guards the 41, 595 miles of the country's sea and land frontiers; its the KGB which monitors the educations in Soviet schools, academies and universities and all the permitted arts. The KGB also controls all printed material through its 70,000 censors. It directs, frequently obscenly, the sciences and medicine. It controls the police and military. Through its informers and emplaced officials, it has power over the prisons and labour camps and in every city, town, village and hamlet, the KGB has established informant networks to learn of the behaviour and attitudes held by every one of the 268,000,000 inhabitants of the USSR.

In addition to the tyranny exercised by the KGB within the USSR, there are over 250,000 secret agents working overseas carrying out the aims of the KGB, 'to conduct active measures which will exacerbate the differences between individual countries, cause tension between neutral countries and developing countries on the one hand and western nations on the other hand'. To carry out this aims, the KGB spent no less than 1452,344,000 in 1980 alone.

Brian Freemantle is the creator of Charlie Muffin, the battered secret agent who features in a sequence of best selling thrillers. Like Charlie Muffin, Brian Freemantle has devoted many years, both as a journalist and as a writer, to studying the activities of deadly KGB. His research has enabled him to write a chilling authentic account of the work of Soviet secret police. He provides a detailed analysis of both the past and the present structure of the KGB, and with a wealth of horrifying stories and case histories, reveals the extraordinary lengths to which their agents will go. For the first time, the full extent of the KGB's blatant infiltration of United Nations is revealed and the terrifying thoroughness of their activities in fomenting revolution in Third-World countries. The author uses all the resources of a master storyteller to recount the horrifying story of a secret army whose everyday activities involve murder, torture and blackmail.

The book is illustrated with over sixty photographs illustrating scenes of life within the USSR under the tyranny of the KGB and also many of the people actively concerned with its workings.

KUDETA ANGKATAN DARAT, Geoffrey B. Robinson

Judul/Title: KUDETA ANGKATAN DARAT
Penulis/Author: Geoffrey B. Robinson
Penerbit/Publisher: Teplok Press
Edisi/Edition: 2000
Halaman/Pages: 172
Dimensi/Dimension: 20 x 12.5 x 1cm
Sampul/Cover: Paperback
Bahasa/Language: Indonesia
Call No.: 355.7/Rob/k/C.1

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Siapapun penguasa Republik Indonesia, mereka harus berhadapan dengan wajah Amerika yang multidimensi. Pertama, rakyat Amerika sangat phobia dengan komunis dan Islam. Kedua, wajah anggota kongres yang banyak berbicara HAM, demokrasi dan kepentingan businessman Amerika. Dan ketiga, wajah Amerika dengan diplomasi-intelejen Gaya CIA.

Dalam politik Indonesia Amerika merasa bersikap netral dan tidak terlibat, tapi sulit mengelak bila kita melihat fakta keterlibatan Amerika dalam PRRI dan Kudeta Angkatan Darat tahun 1966.

Karya Geoffrey B. Robinson ini membuka mata dan hati kita untuk melihat betapa jahatnya Amerika yang menjadi provokator Angkatan Darat untuk melakukan kudeta. Dan juga mengipasi rejim Soeharto untuk menganeksasi Timor Leste.

PEMOGOKAN BURUH: SEBUAH KAJIAN SEJARAH, Bambang Sulistyo

Judul/Title: PEMOGOKAN BURUH: SEBUAH KAJIAN SEJARAH
Penulis/Author: Bambang Sulistyo
Penerbit/Publisher: Tiara Wacana Yogya
Edisi/Edition: I, 1995
Halaman/Pages: 202
Dimensi/Dimension: 14.5 x 21 x 1cm
Sampul/Cover: Paperback
Bahasa/Language: Indonesia
Call No.: 331.8/Sul/p/C.1

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Pembangunan di bidang ekonomi hanya dapat dilakukan melalui industrialisasi. Seiring dengan proses industrialisasi yang semakin maju, persoalan-persoalan hubungan industrial menjadi semakin serius untuk ditangani. Penyelesaian persoalan hubungan industrial menjadi semakin serius untuk ditangani. Penyelesaian persoalan hubungan industrial yang tidak tuntas dapat berkembang menjadi kekacauan, gangguan keamanan maupun pemberontakan. Persoalan hubungan industrial di Indonesia sesungguhnya bukan merupakan sesuatu hal yang baru. Ia telah ada sejak abad ke-19 ketika Pemerintah Kolonial Belanda menerapkan kebijakan ekonomi Liberal. Pada awal abad ke-20 persoalan hubungan industri sudah sedemikian kompleks dan bahkan jauh lebih maju dari segi sarana maupun pemecahan-pemecahannya dibanding abad ke-20 ini. Kalau di akhir abad ke-20 ini hanya ada satu serikat pekerja yakni SPSI, di awal abad ke-20 tepatnya tahun 1920 ada 44 serikat pekerja bumiputra.

Buku berperspektif sejarah ini tidak hanya memberikan wawasan tentang persoalan hubungan industrial di awal abad ke-20, tetapi juga sarat dengan trik-trik politik para pemimpin bangsa dalam membela rakyat dari eksploitasi Pemerintah kolonial.

LIMA TOKOH WANITA YANG MENGUBAH SEJARAH, Mary L. Davis

Judul/Title: LIMA TOKOH WANITA YANG MENGUBAH SEJARAH
Penulis/Author: Mary L. Davis
Penerbit/Publisher: Pustaka Jaya
Edisi/Edition: 1984
Halaman/Pages: 114
Dimensi/Dimension: 15 x 21 x 0.5cm
Sampul/Cover: Hardcover
Bahasa/Language: Indonesia
Call No.: 920.72/Dav/l/C.1

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Lima tokoh wanita, para ratu Eropa, dikaji dalam buku yang menarik ini. Meskipun ambisi, tujuan dan cara memerintahnya berlainan sesuai dengan kepribadiannya masing-masing, lima tokoh wanita ini telah mengubah jalannya sejarah dengan cara yang menarik.

Elanor Aquitane, duchess cantik, berpengaruh dan menjadi ratu dua negara, berani menceraikan seorang seorang raja dan mengawini raja yang lain, jadi seorang poiltikus dalam arti sebenarnya

Isabella Spanyol, ratu dan panglima perang yang berani, dengan keimanannya terjun ke medan perang melawan kaum Muslimin Moor, dan dengan pandangan yang tajam jauh ke muka berani membiayai proyek pelayaran Colombus, sehingga kerajaannya yang miskin itu menjadi kerajaan yang terkaya di Eropa.

Elizabeth I, "Ratu Perawan" yang berkemauan baja, membina zaman keemasan dalam sejarah Inggris, ratu yang berani memerintahkan memenggal kepala lelaki yang dicintainya demi cintanya pada negara.

Marie Antionette, putri rupawan seperti dalam dongeng, hidupnya berakhir menyedihkan dipotong guilotine setelah menjadi Ratu Perancis yang mewah dan serakah, yang mengakibatkan berakhirnya Revolusi Perancis.

Catherine Yang Agung, putri yang tak jelas kelahirannya tapi haus kekuasaan, menjadi Maharatu Rusia setelah menggulingkan dan menghabisi riwayat suaminya, dan kemudian membuktikan bisa mengubah Rusia yang miskin menjadi salah satu kekaisaran yang terkaya dan terkuat di dunia.

Melalui pemotretan luar-dalam, Marry L. Davis berhasil menghidupkan sejarah mereka. Buku ini memperinci pengalaman-pengalaman para ratu yang jarang diketahui, demikian pula kehidupan pribadi dan penampilannya. Kebahagiaan dan penderitaan, kekuasaan dan tanggung jawab, kemenangan dan kekalahannya sepanjang hidup mereka sebaga ratu, merupakan informasi menarik dan berharga.

MEMOAR OEI TJOE TAT: PEMBANTU PRESIDEN SOEKARNO, Oei Tjoe Tat

Judul/Title: MEMOAR OEI TJOE TAT: PEMBANTU PRESIDEN SOEKARNO
Penulis/Author: Oei Tjoe Tat
Penerbit/Publisher: Hasta Mitra
Edisi/Edition: 1998
Halaman/Pages: 412
Dimensi/Dimension: 14.5 x 21 x 2cm
Sampul/Cover: Paperback
Bahasa/Language: Indonesia
Call No.: 920/Tat/m/C.1

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Pengangkatan seorang keturunan Tionghoa menjadi Menteri, disamping yang setuju tentu ada yang tidak, bahkan mungkin dari kalangan keturunan Tionghoa sendiri ada yang tidak senang, walaupun tidak dinyatakan terbuka. Sejak muda, Oei Tjoe Tat sangat aktif dalam berbagai kegiatan kemasyarakatan, akan tetapi dia tidak dikenal sebagai politikus, malah menurut hemat saya Oei Tjoe Tat boleh dikatakan a-politis. Tetapi itu pula rupanya menjadi salah satu pertimbangan Presiden Soekarno untuk mengangkatnya menjadi pembantunya setelah cukup lama mengobservasi bahwa sikap "a-politis"-nya justru positif karena dia lurus, berani dan correct dalam sepak-terjangnya.

Saya dapat membayangkan betapa suatu kontroversi dialami dalam dirinya, sebab di satu pihak dia sangat percaya pada Soekarno dan hak-hak azasi manusia, di lain pihak suasana dan praktek revolusioner di masa itu tidak selalu menghormati hak-hak azasi. Membaca memoarnya kita melihat bagaimana suatu pribadi meluncur ke dalam sejarah, bukan sosok yang berpamrih melemparkan diri ke dalam sejarah.

Setelah 50 tahun merdeka, separohnya dalam zaman Orde Baru, seyogianya selesailah segala kontroversi sosial-politik di masa lalu karena isu-isu baru yang lebih relevan perlu dihadapi.

SERATUS TOKOH YANG PALING BERPENGARUH DALAM SEJARAH DUNIA, Michael H. Hart

Judul/Title: SERATUS TOKOH YANG PALING BERPENGARUH DALAM SEJARAH DUNIA
Penulis/Author: Michael H. Hart
Penerbit/Publisher: Dunia Pustaka Jaya
Edisi/Edition: 1994
Halaman/Pages: 515
Dimensi/Dimension: 13 x 19 x 2cm
Sampul/Cover: Paperback
Bahasa/Language: Indonesia
Call No.: 920/Har/s/C.1

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Siapakah yang paling berpengaruh dalam sejarah? Hart menyusun daftar urut (ranking) seratus tokoh dengan argumentasi yang meyakinkan, tapi juga mengandung perdebatan.

Apa alasan Hart menempatkan Nabi Muhammad pada rangking pertama? Mengapa pula Nabi Isa menempati rangking ke-3, sedangkan Isaac Newton rangking ke-2? John F. Kennedy termasuk ke dalam seratus tokoh, tapi mengapa Mahatma Gandhi tidak? Siapa yang lebih berpengaruh, Karl Marx atau Kong Hu-cu? 'Umar bin Khattab Alexander yang Agung?

Seratus Tokoh penuh dengan argumentasi, penuh pula dengan humor. diterjemahkan dengan gaya kocak Mahbub Djuniaidi.

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THE VENTURE OF ISLAM: IMAN DAN SEJARAH DALAM PERADABAN DUNIA, Marshall G. S. Hodgson

Judul/Title: THE VENTURE OF ISLAM: IMAN DAN SEJARAH DALAM PERADABAN DUNIA
Penulis/Author: Marshall G. S. Hodgson
Penerbit/Publisher: Paramadina
Edisi/Edition: 2002
Halaman/Pages: 343
Dimensi/Dimension: 23cm
Sampul/Cover: Paperback
Bahasa/Language: Indonesia
Call No.: 2x9/Hod/v

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The Venture of Islam, karya Marshall G. S. Hodgson telah dihargai sebagai maha karya pemikiran sejak buku ini diterbitkan pada 1975. Sebagai bukti, The United Chapters of Phi Beta Kappa telah menganugerahkan Hodgson Ralph Waldo Emerson Award pada 1975, dan sejak itu karya ini pun secara luas disambut baik oleh banyak kalangan peminat maupun akademisi dari seluruh dunia.

Pada saat wafatnya, 1968, Mrshall G.S. Hodgson memiliki segalanya, kecuali The Venture of Islam edisi lengkap, yang nanti akan menjadi karya utamanya. Penyelesaian editingnya diteruskan oleh Reuben W. Smith. Dalam kajiannya lewat enam buku, yang diberi ilustrasi dengan tabel-tabel dan peta-peta, Hodgson melacak dan menafsirkan perkembangan sejarah peradaban Islam dari sebelum kelahiran Muhammad sampai pertengahan abad ke dua puluh. Karya ini berkembang dari matakuliah "Peradaban Islam" yang terkenal, yang diciptakan sendiri oleh Hodgson, dan diajarkan selama bertahun-tahun di University of Chicago.

Buku Pertama, "Lahirnya Sebuah Tatanan Baru" ini menganalisa dunia sebelum Islam, tantangan Muhammad, dan Negara Muslim Pertama dari tahun 625-692. Buku pertama ini juga memuat pengantar umum pada keseluruhan karya The Venture of Islam yang berjumlah enam ini, dan diberi prakata oleh Reuben W. Smith, rekan kerja dan sahabat yang menyelesaikan maha karya ini setelah Hodgson wafat.

THE METAPHYSICS OF RUMI: A CRITICAL AND HISTORICAL SKETCH, Khalifa Abdul Hakim

Judul/Title: THE METAPHYSICS OF RUMI: A CRITICAL AND HISTORICAL SKETCH
Penulis/Author: Khalifa Abdul Hakim
Penerbit/Publisher: Adam Publishers and Distributors
Edisi/Edition: 2006
Halaman/Pages: 170
Dimensi/Dimension: 22.5cm
Sampul/Cover: Paperback
Bahasa/Language: English
Call No.: 204/Hak/m

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Originally submitted as doctorate thesis at the Heidelberg University in 1925, is an excellent attempt at explaining the basic thought of Rumi in the context of the cultural achievements of Muslim philosophers, mystics and scholastics. It was first published in 1933 and up to date is the only book in English on the subject.

DAKWAH WALI SONGO: PENYEBARAN ISLAM BERBASIS KULTURAL DI TANAH JAWA, Purwadi, Enis Niken

Judul/Title: DAKWAH WALI SONGO: PENYEBARAN ISLAM BERBASIS KULTURAL DI TANAH JAWA
Penulis/Author: Purwadi, Enis Niken
Penerbit/Publisher: Panji Pustaka
Edisi/Edition: 2007
Halaman/Pages: 284
Dimensi/Dimension: 20.5cm
Sampul/Cover: Paperback
Bahasa/Language: Indonesia
Call No.: 2X7.2/Pur/d

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Sejarah Wali Songo berkaitan dengan penyebaran Dakwah Islamiyah di Tanah Jawa. Sukses gemilang perjuangan para Wali ini tercatat dengan tinta emas dengan didukung penuh oleh Kasultanan Demak Bintoro, agama Islam kemudian dianut oleh sebagian besar masyarakat Jawa, mulai dari perkotaan, pedesaan, dan pegunungan. Islam benar-benar menjadi agama yang mengakar.

Proses Islamisasi di pulau Jawa berjalan dengan aman dan damai, tanpa ada pergolakan serta kegoncangan psikologis dan sosial. Hal ini disebabkan para wali lebih menggunakan pendekatan kultural, yang sarat dengan simbol-simbol kebudayaan lokal, seperti wayang dan gamelan. Akulturasi kebudayaan yang dipelopori Wali Songo dilanjutkan oleh juru dakwah berikutnya, sehingga pengalaman dan praktek Islam di Jawa terasa amat khas.

Agama dan budaya berjalan secara selaras, serasi dan seimbang. Kehadiran buku ini memberi penjelasan yang integral, sistematis dan komprehensif tentang sejarah-sejarah perkembangan Islam di Tanah Jawa. Kecerdasan spiritual dan kultural Wali Songo diulas secara tuntas, tegas dan pantas. Sebuah buku bermutu yang berguna bagi para ulama, santri, cendekiawan, budayawan, ahli dakwah dan masyarakat umum.

SCIENCE IN EARLY ISLAMIC CULTURE, George Beshore

Judul/Title: SCIENCE IN EARLY ISLAMIC CULTURE
Penulis/Author: George Beshore
Penerbit/Publisher: A First Book
Edisi/Edition: 1988
Halaman/Pages: 69
Dimensi/Dimension: 18.5 x 22 x 1cm
Sampul/Cover: Hardcover
Bahasa/Language: English
Call No.: 2X6/Bes/s/C.1

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The future of science in the Western world looked dim as the sixth century A.D drew to a close. People seemed to have lost interest in searching for knowledge about the nature of the world around them, which is the main purpose of science.

It seemed questionable whether civilization itself could long endure. The great Greek and Egyptian cultures lay in ruins. Rome, the last bastion of learning in the West, had fallen to the barbarians from Nothern Europe in 476 A.D. Throughout the Western world the lamp of enlightment was flickering dangerously. It seemed possible that its glow might be snuffed out forever.

This situation would soon be changed by events occurring far from the ancient centers of power in Greece and Rome. About 570 A.D. (the exact date is unknown) a child named Mohammed was born in the town of Mecca in Arabia. No one could foresee that this boy, whose parents died by the time he was six years old, would become the leader of a movement that would conquer the ancient empires of Persia and Egypt and spread its domination all the way from India to the Atlantic Ocean.