Accepting the challenge of rethinking connections of food, space and identity within everyday spaces of “public” eating in Malaysia and Singapore, the authors enter street stalls, hawker centers, markets, cafes, restaurants, “food streets,” and “ethnic” neighborhoods to offer a broader picture of the meaning of eating in public places. The book creates a strong sense of the ways dif…
Para prajurit bumiputra di KNIL (het Koninklijke Nederlandsch-Indische Leger) adalah bagian penting dari konsolidasi wilayah Nusantara sesudah era kejayaan Sriwijaya dan Majapahit. Sudut pandang sejarah ini terlupakan dan para prajurit KNIL kerap hanya semata dipandang “antek penjajah”. Berbagai mitos pun membungkus KNIL, seperti dominasi perwira Eropa dan prajurit Ambon sebagai tulang pung…
Jean-Paul Sartre, novelist, playwright, biographer, was undoubtedly one of the greatest philosophers of the 20th century. Above all, however, he was an embodiment of the engagé intellectual, active in a variety of political causes, as well as an individual who attempted to live his life in accordance with the philosophy he professed. These interviews take Sartre on a wide-ranging tour of …
A trustee of the John Grier orphanage has offered to send Judy Abbott to college. The only requirements are that she must write to him every month and that she can never know who he is. Judy's life at college is a whirlwind of friends, classes, parties and a growing friendship with the handsome Jervis Pendleton. With so much happening in her life, Judy can scarcely stop writing to 'Daddy-Long-L…
”Pertahankan Jawa, berapa pun harganya!” Itu perintah Kaisar Napoléon I kepada Menteri Kelautan dan Wilayah Jajahan Perancis Admiral Decrès, Oktober 1810. Pada awal abad ke-19 itu, di Samudra Hindia, Perancis hanya punya kekuasaan di Mauritius, Bourbon, dan Jawa. Bahkan pada masa antara 1808 dan 1811, tinggal Pulau Jawa daerah koloni Perancis yang tersisa di Asia. Ketika menjadi Gubern…
The first novel of Sartre's monumental Roads to Freedom series, The Age of Reason is set in 1938 and tells of Mathieu, a French professor of philosophy who is obsessed with the idea of freedom. As the shadows of the Second World War draw closer -- even as his personal life is complicated by his mistress's pregnancy -- his search for a way to remain free becomes more and more intense.
Social World of Batavia is a book written by Jean Taylor Gilman. This is probably one of the most complete literature of Dutch-Indonesian you could find. Written in readable language, this book contained valuable informations for any Dutch-Indonesians who are curious of their history. The first Dutch people who came to Batavia were actually consisted of low-educated soldiers which ma…
Social World of Batavia is a book written by Jean Taylor Gilman. This is probably one of the most complete literature of Dutch-Indonesian you could find. Written in readable language, this book contained valuable informations for any Dutch-Indonesians who are curious of their history. The first Dutch people who came to Batavia were actually consisted of low-educated soldiers which ma…
This the 2010 second revised edition of Modern Indonesian Art enables an overall view of the country's art development since the mid-19th century. It presents one work by each of 439 Indonesian artists. The illustration of the work selected is accompanied by a short account of the artist's life and career and his or her artistic aims and achievements. With bibliography and artists' index.
The first full-length translation in English of an essential work of postmodernist thought
The first full-length translation in English of an essential work of postmodernist thought
This is the first time Sartre's classic work on colonialism has been made available in English. First published in French in 1964, Colonialism and Neo-Colonialism is a classic critique of France's policies in Algeria in the 1950s and 1960s and inspired much subsequent writing on colonialism, post-colonialism, politics, and literature. It had an important impact on the conduct of the A…
Think of developmental psychology, and the name of Jean Piaget immediately springs to mind. His theory of learning lies at the very heart of the modern understanding of the human learning process, and he is celebrated as the founding father of child psychology. A prolific writer, is the author of more than fifty books and several hundred articles. The Psychology of Intelligence is one…
Sejumlah esai panjang dalam buku ini merefleksikan visi ekstensialis penulis (Sartre) tentang seksualitas dan revolusi. Hasrat seksual, cinta maternal, masturbasi, dan homoseksualitas, bagi penulis merupakan fenomena yang sesungguhnya tak lepas dari suatu modus kesadaran tubuh untuk mengada dan menjadi. yang unik di dalam seks kesadaran itu kemunculannya melibatkan penemuan tubuh lain. dan yang…
The nine centuries described in this book, ending with the political upheavals of the 7th century AD, coincide with a golden age of Indian civilization. The Brahmanic and Buddhist religions flourished side by side; artisticcreation was at its height and India's most beautiful monasteries and shrines were founded. Throughout, Jeannine Auboyer evokes the fascinating complexities of India's ancien…
Dalam 32 bab singkat, buku yang ditulis oleh tim sejarawan profesional ini menampilkan sebuah ringkasan yang mendalam, lugas, dan sederhana tentang sejarah Prancis sejak zaman Prasejarah hingga akhir abad ke-20. Dengan jernih dan kurat, para penulis menguraikan berbagai meomen sejarah yang berbeda, dan diletakkan dalam konteks yang lebih luas daripada sejarah Eropa
Documenting the Documentary features essays by twenty-seven film scholars from a wide range of critical and theoretical perspectives. Each essay focuses on one or two important documentaries, engaging in questions surrounding ethics, ideology, politics, power, race, gender, and representation -- but always in terms of how they arise out of or are involved in the reading of specific documentarie…