Akibat perang Suriah, Salama kehilangan ibunya, Ayah dan Hamza. Dia pun harus menjaga Layla, kakak iparnya yang sedang hamil. Hamza berpesan agar Salama menjaga Layla dan calon bayinya. Satu-satunya cara menjaga Layla dari perang adalah mengungsi ke Eropa, tapi setiap kali melihat para korban perang, rasa bersalah menikam Salama. Haruskah dia pergi dari Suriah, ketika bangsanya bergelimpangan a…
Di balik pergantian musim, seekor anak kucing. yang baru saja diselamatkan dari tempat sampah, mengajarkan seorang lelaki bagaimana menjadi ayah yang baik untuk bayinya sendiri. Kita juga akan bertualang ke pulau kucing, bertemu dengan sekelompok kucing liar yang mengajarkan seorang anak laki-laki untuk tidak mengganggu alam. Lalu, ada seekor kucing tua yang merencanakan perjalanan ke dunia …
Bestselling author and economist Jeff Rubin looks ahead and warns that the inflation that took the world by surprise in 2021 is in fact the front of a perfect storm of war, supply-chain disruption, geopolitical realignment, domestic upheaval, and energy scarcity that will change everything. During the pandemic, the borrowing patterns of the Canadian government inflated a national deficit by a f…
In the 20th century, the U.S. government's effort to contain communism resulted in several disastrous conflicts: Vietnam, Cuba, Korea. Violence in Indonesia, and then interconnected slaughters across Latin America, arguably had a bigger hand in shaping today's world, but have been widely overlooked for one important reason: the secret CIA interventions were successful. In 1965, nearly one milli…
Di usia senja, Carl Kollhoff adalah seorang penjual buku luar biasa. Saat matahari terbenam, setelah toko tutup, ia membungkus buku-buku yang telah dipilihnya dengan cermat, seolah-olah akan memberikannya sebagai kado. Ia kemudian berjalan kaki melintasi lorong-lorong indah kota untuk mengantarkannya kepada para pelanggan istimewa yang diam-diam ia namai sesuai tokoh dalam buku. Hampir …
From one of the world’s leading economists, a compelling new vision of personal and economic freedom. We are a nation born from the conviction that people must be free. But since the middle of the last century, that idea has been co-opted. Forces on the political Right have justified exploitation by cloaking it in the rhetoric of freedom, leading to pharmaceutical companies freely overchar…
Marzio Montecristo, mantan guru matematika dan penggemar berat cerita kriminal, membuka toko buku kecil di Cagliari dengan spesialisasi novel misteri. Toko bukunya bernama “Les Chats Noirs” (kucing hitam), terinspirasi dari dua kucing hitam yang berkunjung ke toko dan sejak itu tidak pernah pergi. Keduanya menjadi daya tarik toko dengan banyak pengikut di Instagram, menyelamatkan toko dari …
Over the past 20 years, gender relations and the expression of power and authority between men and women in Indonesia have been shaped by the forces of reformasi, decentralisation, a reassertion of central power, and economic transitions. These changes have given rise to policy reform, an increase in women’s political representation, and new expressions of diverse gender identities. But to wh…
Discover the secrets to high performing teams from the success stories of sport, military and restaurants – and what to do if your team isn’t working. Teams are everywhere: At work we are part of many different teams: the department team, the sales team, the planning team and the project team. At play we join the football team, the netball team, the swimming team, the bridge team and the…
Brian Klaas deep-dives into the phenomenon of randomness, unpicking our neat and tidy storybook version of events to reveal a reality far wilder and more fascinating than we have dared to consider. The bewildering truth is that but for a few incidental changes, our lives - and our societies - would be radically different. Offering an entirely new perspective, Fluke explores how our world really…