The Island of Bali—a true paradise is explored in this classic travelogue. From the artists and writers of the 1930s to the Eat, Pray, Love tours so popular today, Bali has drawn hoards of foreign visitors and transplants to its shores. What makes Bali so special, and how has it managed to preserve its identity despite a century of intense pressure from the outside world? Bali: A Parad…
From internationally renowned, Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman comes a bold and inspiring picture of how the world has changed since the dawn of the millennium and the new era that awaits us. The beginning of the twenty-first century will be remembered, Friedman argues, not for military conflicts or political events, but for a whole new age of globalization a fla…
Calon Arang, Kisah Perempuan Korban Patriarki. Dalam karya ini, suara pengarangnya tetap seperti dahulu: mengajak bercengkerama, terkadang mengajak tersenyum, tetapi selalu mengajak berpikir. (Keith Foulcher, Australian National University, Sydney pembaca boleh penasaran untuk mengikuti, bagaimana prosa lirik ini akan ditulis oleh seorang penyair, yang mencoba memahami manusia semenjak tubu…
Readers of Globalization and Its Discontents will already be familiar with the controversy and organised resistance that globalisation has generated around the world due to massive media coverage, yet explaining what globalisation actually means in practice is a complicated task. For those wanting to learn more, this book is an excellent place to start. An experienced economist, Joseph S…
The Lexus and the Olive Tree is a 1999 book by Thomas L. Friedman that posits that the world is currently undergoing two struggles: the drive for prosperity and development, symbolized by the Lexus, and the desire to retain identity and traditions, symbolized by the olive tree. He says he came to this realization while eating a sushi box lunch on a Japanese bullet train after visiting a Lexus f…
Kuan-Hsing Chen argues that the intellectual and subjuctive work of decolonization begun across East Asia after rthe Second World War was stalled by the cold war.