Apa makna menjadi sukses? Bagaimana caramu meraih mimpi? Apa artinya kamu harus menciptakan sederet daftar pencapaian yang hebat? Apa kamu harus meraih kesejahteraan, status, posisi, dan pengaruh yang bergengsi? Atau mungkin saja kamu harus menyenangkan orangtua, keluarga dan teman-temanmu? Aku menulis buku ini untuk membahas semua pertanyaan itu dan ingin menciptakan road map untuk membantumu …
Buku ini diterbitkan pada Februari tahun 2004, dan kemudian dicetak lagi dan terbit September 2004. Sebenarnya buku ini sudah diterbitkan sejak lama. Cetakan pertamanya Desember 2000, namun kembali dicetak ulang kedua kalinya pada bulan Oktober 2003. Maklum saja, di tahun 2000, buku ini dilarang peredarannya. Buku ini adalah salah satu buku yang terkena sweeping buku “kiri” yang dilakukan A…
“Buku ini memuat sejumlah tulisan kritis mengenai politik oligarki dan perkembangan kapitalisme. Hampir setiap artikel menyajikan telaah berguna yang diadaptasi dengan kondisi spesifik Indonesia. Telaah tersebut dikembangkan lewat pergulatan dengan berbagai perdebatan teoretis yang mendasar, tetapi dibarengi pemahaman empiris dan historis yang mendalam. Setuju atau tidak dengan tesis oligarki…
A deluxe edition of Bolaño's collected poetry Perhaps surprisingly to some of his fiction fans, Roberto Bolaño touted poetry as the superior art form, able to approach an infinity in which "you become infinitely small without disappearing." When asked, "What makes you believe you're a better poet than a novelist?" Bolaño replied, "The poetry makes me blush less." The sum of his life's wor…
A sustained period of significant growth in the US, however, seemed to save the day against all the odds. So impressive was the surface appearance of this rescue mission that all manner of commentators proclaimed—once again—that a ‘new economy’ or ‘new paradigm’ of unlimited and harmonious growth had been forged. Today, as recession looms, the babble about Internet start-ups is …
Setelah sempat mati suri sebagai kajian akademik maupun isu politik, persoalan kewarganegaraan kembali merebak pasca era 1990an akibat pelbagai perkembangan kontemporer. Homogenisasi kapital oleh arus globalisasi neoliberal memunculkan persoalan mengenai hak-hak ekonomi warga. Globalisasi juga memunculkan persoalan lain terkait politik identitas dan multikulturalisme, ketika kemudahan arus i…
How money, politics and managerialism turned a golden age for culture into lead Britain began the twenty-first century convinced of its creativity. Throughout the New Labour era, the visual and performing arts, museums and galleries, were ceaselessly promoted as a stimulus to national economic revival, a post-industrial revolution where spending on culture would solve everything, from nation…
Rife with political corruption, sex, and jealousy, 'The Skating Rink' is a darkly atmospheric chronicle of one summer season in the seaside town of Z. It revolves around the figure skating champion Nuria Marti. When she is suddenly dropped from the Olympic team an admirer builds an ice rink for her in the ruins of a mansion."
The most important study of Javanese religion since Clifford Geertz's Religion of Java (1960). An ethnographically rich and historically detailed portrait of the last Hindu enclave in Muslim Java, Hefner's work is also a compelling account of the symbolic processes involved in religious conversion. . . . This is a brilliant study which is certain to appeal to readers concerned with post-structu…
One of the most powerful of the Seth Books, this essential guide to conscious living clearly and powerfully articulates the furthest reaches of human potential, and the concept that we all create our own reality according to our individual beliefs. Having withstood the test of time, it is still considered one of the most dynamic and brilliant maps of inner reality available today.
Petroleum is now so deeply entrenched in our economy, our politics, and our personal expectations that even modest efforts to phase it out are fought tooth and nail by the most powerful forces in the world: companies and governments that depend on oil revenues; the developing nations that see oil as the only means to industrial success; and a Western middle class that refuses to modify its ener…
Focusing on the twentieth century, this collection of essays by leading international experts offers an up-to-date, comprehensive history and analysis of multiple cases of genocide and genocidal acts. The book contains studies of the Armenian genocide; the victims of Stalinist terror; the Holocaust; and Imperial Japan. Contributors explore colonialism and address the fate of the indigenous peop…
What is fascism? Many authors have proposed definitions, but most fail to move beyond the abstract. The esteemed historian Robert O. Paxton answers this question for the first time by focusing on the concrete: what the fascists did, rather than what they said. From the first violent uniformed bands beating up �enemies of the state,� through Mussolini�s rise to power, to Germany�s…
Personal finance author and lecturer Robert Kiyosaki developed his unique economic perspective through exposure to a pair of disparate influences: his own highly educated, but fiscally unstable father, and the multimillionaire eighth-grade dropout father of his closest friend. The lifelong monetary problems experienced by his 'poor dad' (whose weekly paychecks, while respectable, were never qui…