This is the first collection to be inspired and informed by the new films and archival material that glasnost and perestroika have revealed, and the new methodological approaches that are developing in tandem.
The collection brings together cinema historians and film critics from Britain, France, the USA and Russia to re-examine Soviet film and reassess Cold War historiogra…
Mexico's leading poet, essayist, and cultural critic writes of a Mexican poet of another time and another world, the world of seventeenth-century New Spain. His subject is Sor Juana In�s de la Cruz, the most striking figure in all of Spanish-American colonial literature and one of the great poets of her age.
Her life reads like a novel. A spirited and precocious girl, one of six ille…
Biography of Raden Tjetje Somantri, 1892-1963, an Indonesian choreographer of Sundanese dances from West Java.
Author's account on his life as a homosexual and the future of gays in Indonesia.
Organized by the Japan Foundation for the 2006 Australia�Japan Year of Exchange
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Tomoko Konoike
Tomoko Konoike
A world of never-ending wonder, secret and mystery
Atelier Bow-Wow
'Suppose,' Clifford Geertz suggests, 'having entangled yourself every now and again over four decades or so in the goings-on in two provincial towns, one a Southeast Asian bend in the road, one a North African outpost and passage point, you wished to say something about how those goings-on had changed.' A narrative presents itself, a tour of indices and trends, perhaps a memoir? None, however, …
Biography of Raden Tjetje Somantri, 1892-1963, an Indonesian choreographer of Sundanese dances from West Java.
Ketika buku memoir Bung Hatta diterbitkan pada tahun 1979, banyak orang menyayangkan bahwa buku itu kurang mengemukakan kehidupan pribadi Bung Hatta. Bagaimanakah Bung Hatta berpesan sebagai kepala keluarga? Banyakkah pengaruh keluarga beliau terhadap pembentukan kepribadian Bung Hatta? Bagaimanakah pergaulan pribadi Bung Hatta dengan kawan-kawannya? Orang lebih menyayangkan lagi bahwa samapi B…
Autobiography of a Dutch woman who grew up in Indonesia during colonial time, experienced the Japanese occupation.
Home to Catalonia is both Orwell's memoir of his experience at the front and his tribute to those who died in what he called a fight for common decency
As recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, president of the African National Congress, and head of the antiapartheid movement, Nelson Mandela has been one of the world's great moral and political leaders
Dalam kumpulan cerita pendek kocak muram ini, Sherman Alexie, seorang Indian Spokane/Coeur d'Alene, dengan cemerlang menjalin memori, fantasi, dan realisme lugas untuk melukiskan sepotong potret ruwet, suram, dan ironis kehidupan di Reservasi Indian Spokane dan sekitarnya.
Perkenalan Orlean dengan Laroche membawanya ke dunia penggila anggrek di Florida. Tak perlu waktu lama bagi Orlean untuk menyadari bahwa Laroche ternyata hanyalah satu dari sekian kegilaan dunia anggrek. Cerita di balik keindahan anggrek ternyata begitu rumit. Ada darah, kerakusan, kecemburuan, dan sekian kisah gelap lainnya. Penyelundupan dan pencurian anggrek senilai ratusan ribu dolar tergol…
Blending the intimacy of memoir and the panoramic sweep of eyewitness history, Wild Swans has become a bestselling classic in thirty languages, with more than ten million copies sold. The story of three generations in twentieth-century China, it is an engrossing record of Mao's impact on China, an unusual window on the female experience in the modern world, and an inspiring tale of courage and …
Henry David Thoreau's masterwork, Walden, is a collection of his reflections on life and society. His simple but profound musings�as well as Civil Disobedience, his protest against the government's interference with civil liberty�have inspired many to embrace his philosophy of individualism and love of nature.
'Arranged in alphabetical order by photographer, The Photography Book brings together 500 inspiring, moving and beautiful images of famous events and people, sensational landscapes, historic moments, sport, wildlife and fashion. Each photograph is discussed in detail, bringing it to life and giving us an understanding of this art form which is so influential in our everyday lives. A simple syst…
Arthur Rimbaud was a extraordinary figure, a man who in his teenage year s wrote poetry that is arguably amongst the greatest in French Literature, but who gave it all up by his early 20s and went to Africa to run guns. It's hard to think of a more fascinating figure from the 19th century, or one more relevant to the youth-icon-fixated present. Robb's biography inhabits the superlative mode: Ri…
The art of Nirvana's Kurt Cobain was all about his private life, but written in a code as obscure as TS Eliot's. In Heavier than Heaven Charles Cross has cracked the code, and this definitive biography is an all-access pass to Cobain's heart and mind. It reveals many secrets, thanks to 400-plus interviews, and even quotes Cobain's diaries and suicide notes revealing an unreleased Nirvana…
Biographical fiction of Tan Malaka, 1894-1948, Indonesian nationalist and communist leader.
History of Chinese assimilation process into Javanese culture in Surakarta and biographies of Chinese individuals active in Javanese performing arts and culture, 1895 to 1998.
The foremost woman artist of her age, Elisabeth Vige�e Le Brun (1755-1842) exerted her considerable charm to become the friend, and then official portraitist, of Marie Antoinette. Though profitable, this role made her a public and controversial figure, and in 1789 it precipitated her exile. In a Europe torn by strife and revolution, this singularly gifted and high-spirited woman nevertheless …
Kitchen Confidential is for diners who believe that their sublime sliver of seared foie gras, topped with an ethereal buckwheat blini and a drizzle of piquant huckleberry sauce, was created by a culinary artist of the highest order, a sensitive, highly refined executive chef. The truth is more brutal. More likely, writes Anthony Bourdain, that elegant three-star concoction is the collabo…