Nadira mencintai Arvin dalam diam, bahkan rasa cintanya itu tersimpan rapi di hatinya hingga bertahun-tahun. Namun sayangnya. Arvin memilih menjauh dari Nadira. Di sisi lain, Hafiz, lelaki yang paling menyebalkan bagi Nadira, selalu ada dan melindungi dirinya. Siapakah lelaki yang Allah takdirkan untuk Nadira? Apakah Arvin atau Hafiz?
Apalah arti memiliki? Ketika diri kami sendiri bukanlah milik kami. Apalah arti kehilangan, Ketika kami sebenarnya menemukan banyak saat kehilangan, dan sebaliknya, kehilangan banyak pula saat menemukan? Apalah arti cinta, Ketika kami menangis terluka atas perasaan yang seharusnya indah? Bagaimana mungkin, kami terduduk patah hati atas sesuatu yang seharusnya suci dan tidak menuntut apa pun? Wa…
Kisah ini menceritkan perjalanan sosok pria bernama Bujang yang begitu suskses dalam bisnis shadow economy yang ia geluti. Kepandaian dan keteguhan prinsipnya telah mengantarkannya ke puncak kesuksesan. Sebagai seorang mafia, Bujang sangat disegani oleh pelaku bisnis shadow economy dari berbagai negara lain. Bahkan seorang presiden dibuat tak berkutik di hadapanya. Namun, untuk sampai di tit…
The Alpha Girl’s Guide juga berisi wawancara inspiratif dengan dua Alpha Female Indonesia dari dua generasi: Najwa Shihab dan Alanda Kariza Sinopsis Buku Alpha Female adalah para perempuan yang menginspirasi, memimpin, menggerakkan orang sekitarnya, dan membawa perubahan. Mereka cerdas, percaya diri, dan independen. Bagaimana remaja dan perempuan muda bisa mengembangkan diri menjadi mer…
Seorang gadis remaja polos yang berasal dari daerah, tumbuh, berkembang, dan menemukan cinta di kota besar yang sangat berbeda dengan iklim daerah asalnya. Mimpi sederhananya menyambung pendidikan dan menyelesaikannya tepat waktu, namun berubah setelah ia mengenal sosok lelaki tangguh Lelaki yang mandiri dan berpendirian keras mengenalkannya dengan dunia baru yang belum pernah ia temui. Dunia y…
Novel “Antologi Rasa” karangan Ika Natassa ini menyuguhkan kisah cinta yang rumit antara Keara, Ruly dan Harris. Sinopsis Buku K e a r a We both are just people who worry about the breaths we take, not how we breathe. How can we be so different and feel so much alike, Rul? Dan malam ini, tiga tahun setelah malam yang membuatku jatuh cinta, my dear, dan aku di sini terbaring menatap…
Hubungan Alana dan Danish, pacarnya, sengaja dirahasiakan. Danish, aktor yang sedang naik daun, merasa ini adalah cara terbaik melindungi Alana. Hanya segelintir orang saja yang tahu hubungan mereka. Gosip yang menerpa Danish seolah tidak pernah habis. Hubungan asmaranya selalu jadi bahan perbincangan di infotainment. Gosipnya dengan sesama artis sudah biasa. Namun, ketika wartawan infotainment…
Bagaimana jika gadis bar-bar yang tak bau aburan dinikahkan diam-diam oleh keluarganya? Cerita ini berlatar belakang bentang persahabatan dan percintaan. Mengisahkan tentang Ayrania yang menempuh pendidikan di sebuah pesantren karena paksaan dari sang ayah. Ayrania, memiliki karakter bar-bar dan suka bergaul, berlebih pada laki laki. Latar belakang keluarganya sangat bertolak belakang dengan si…
Terima kasih untuk kesempatan mengenalmu, itu adalah salah satu anugerah terbesar hidupku. Cinta memang tidak perlu ditemukan, cintalah yang akan menemukan kita. Terima kasih. Nasihat lama itu benar sekali, aku tidak akan menangis karena sesuatu telah berakhir, tapi aku akan tersenyum karena sesuatu itu pernah terjadi. Masa lalu. Rasa sakit. Masa depan. Mimpi-mimpi. Semua akan berlalu, sepert…
MANA MEMBUAT GEGER ORANG SEKANTOR KARENA MUNCUL MENGENAKAN HIJAB! Mana … hijrah? Yang benar saja! Athfar dan Deandra juga terkejut karena tidak pernah membayangkan seorang Mana berpenampilan menutup aurat. Mereka sangat mengenal sahabatnya yang satu ini, yang menginjak lantai musala kantor pun sepertinya nggak pernah. Kali ini, penampilannya syari sehingga membuat keduanya bertanya-tanya, kej…
Mencari atau menemukan kebahagiaan tak harus dengan cara yang sulit atau jauh. Di dalam hidup yang kita jalani saat ini, kita bisa menemukan kebahagiaan kita sendiri. Dengan kata lain, kita bisa bahagia dengan cara yang bisa diusahakan sendiri saat ini. Walau hidupmu terasa belum sempurna, kamu masih bisa bahagia. Meski rasanya masih ada banyak hal yang belum bisa dilakukan dengan baik, kamu bi…
Pak Raja sekarat. Dalam menanti ajal, ia memanggil satu nama perempuan yang bukan istrinya; Jeng Yah. Tiga anaknya, pewaris Kretek Djagad Raja, dimakan gundah. Sang ibu pun terbakar cemburu terlebih karena permintaan terakhir suaminya ingin bertemu Jeng Yah. Maka berpacu dengan malaikat maut, Lebas, Karim, dan Tegar, pergi ke pelosok Jawa untuk mencari Jeng Yah, sebelum ajal menjemput sang Ayah…
Chinese merchants have traded with Southeast Asia for centuries, sojourning and sometimes settling, during their voyages. These ventures have taken place by land and by sea, over mountains and across deserts, linking China with vast stretches of Southeast Asia in a broad, mercantile embrace. Chinese Circulations provides an unprecedented overview of this trade, its scope, diversity, and complex…
For centuries, people have talked of a powerful bodily disorder called migraine, which currently affects about a billion people around the world. Yet until now, the rich history of this condition has barely been told. In Migraine, award-winning historian Katherine Foxhall reveals the ideas and methods that ordinary people and medical professionals have used to describe, explain, and treat migra…
One Planet, One Health provides a multidisciplinary reflection on the state of our planet, human and animal health, as well as the critical effects of climate change on the environment and livelihoods of people. Climate change is already affecting many poor communities and traditional aid programs have achieved relatively small gains. Going beyond the narrow disciplinary lens and an exclusive f…
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The history of early modern medicine often makes for depressing reading. It implies that people fell ill, took ineffective remedies, and died. This book seeks to rebalance and brighten our overall picture of early modern health by focusing on the neglected subject of recovery from illness in England, c.1580–1720. Drawing on an array of archival and printed materials, Misery to Mirth shows tha…
This timely volume illuminates the different forces underlying the shifting practices in humanities research today, with especial focus on how humanists take ownership of, and are empowered by, technology in unexpected ways. Digital Technology and the Practices of Humanities Research is essential reading for scholars, students, and general readers interested in the changing culture of research …
Bring on the Books for Everybody is an engaging assessment of the robust popular literary culture that has developed in the United States during the past two decades. Jim Collins describes how a once solitary and print-based experience has become an exuberantly social activity, enjoyed as much on the screen as on the page. Fueled by Oprah’s Book Club, Miramax film adaptations, superstore book…
Coolie labour was often proclaimed as a deliberate compromise straddling the regimes of the past (slave labour) and the future (free labour). In the late 1850s, the locals were replaced by labourers imported from outside the province who were designated "coolies". Qualifying this framework of transition and introduction, this study makes a case for the "production" of coolie labour in the histo…
Asap rokok pasif adalah sebuah permasalahan kesehatan global yang menyebabkan lebih dari 41.000 kematian di seluruh dunia per tahunnya. Hal ini disebabkan oleh sejumlah penyakit mematikan yang dapat disebabkan oleh asap rokok pasif, antara lain penyakit jantung, kanker paru, serta stroke. Berbagai penelitian mengemukakan bahwa sedikit apapun paparan asap rokok, tetap dapat meningkatkan risiko p…
This open access book is designed as a continuation of the editor’s 2019 book Achieving the Paris Climate Agreement Goals. This volume provides an in-depth analysis of industry sectors globally, and its purpose is to present emission reduction targets in 5-year steps (2025 to 2050) for the main twelve finance sectors per the Global Industry Classification System. This scientific analysis aims…
This book attempts to equip the reader with a holistic and accessible account of Islam and evolution. It guides the reader through the different variables that have played a part in the ongoing dialogue between Muslim creationists and evolutionists. This work views the discussion through the lens of al-Ghazālī (1058-1111), a widely-known and well-respected Islamic intellectual from the mediev…
Football in Fiction represents the most comprehensive historical mapping and analysis of novels related to association football (soccer). It offers a theoretically informed field guide, a scholarly cartography of football fiction’s uncertain – and until now – only partially explored terrain. Combining an extensive search for texts with up-to-date academic research, journals, surveys, c…
Classroom Assessment and Educational Measurement explores the ways in which the theory and practice of both educational measurement and the assessment of student learning in classroom settings mutually inform one another. Chapters by assessment and measurement experts consider the nature of classroom assessment information, from student achievement to affective and socio-emotional attributes; h…
In these powerful and stylishly written essays, Maria Manuel Lisboa dissects the work of Paula Rego, the Portuguese-born artist considered one of the greatest artists of modern times. Focusing primarily on Rego’s work since the 1980s, Lisboa explores the complex relationships between violence and nurturing, power and impotence, politics and the family that run through Rego’s art. Taking …
This open access book focuses on the impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on individuals and society from a legal perspective, providing a comprehensive risk-based methodological framework to address it. Building on the limitations of data protection in dealing with the challenges of AI, the author proposes an integrated approach to risk assessment that focuses on human rights and encompasses…
This collection of essays explores cultural narratives of care in the contexts of ageing and illness. It includes both text-based and practice-based contributions by leading and emerging scholars in humanistic studies of ageing. The authors consider care not only in film (feature and documentary) and literature (novel, short story, children’s picturebook) but also in the fields of theatre per…
This open access book presents new approaches for researching values as they are performed or materialized. Values have been an important topic in academic literature for a long time; they are at the core of institutional theories and are often connected to ideals in organisations or ways of valuing. The various values-constructs are typically highlighted to underpin discussions of identity, et…
Vor dem Hintergrund der demographischen Entwicklung unserer Gesellschaft nimmt der Open-Access-Sammelband die Wohnsituation älterer Menschen unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der gesundheitlichen Situation in den Blick. Lebensqualität, Wohlbefinden, Teilhabe sowie Autonomie und Selbstbestimmung älterer Menschen stehen dabei im Mittelpunkt.
This Open Access book deals with the pressing question of how to achieve transformational change that reconciles development with environmental sustainability. It particularly focuses on the role of evaluation in finding sustainable solutions. Environment and development are closely interlinked, as are human health and ecosystem health. The pandemic that began in 2020 demonstrated in no uncerta…
This open access book provides an introduction to uncertainty quantification in engineering. Starting with preliminaries on Bayesian statistics and Monte Carlo methods, followed by material on imprecise probabilities, it then focuses on reliability theory and simulation methods for complex systems. The final two chapters discuss various aspects of aerospace engineering, considering stochastic…
This book is an integration of keynote speeches, lectures, and related teaching materials during the five years of the "Central Bank Policy Mix: Issues, Challenges and Policy Responses" flagship program of the BI Institute, the learning and research centre of Bank Indonesia. The book examines the interactions among central bank policies including monetary policy, exchange rate policy, macroprud…
COVID-19’s impacts revealed that teaching writing online was no longer merely an issue of convenience or economic necessity—it was critical to public health and equity concerns as well. Now higher education faces one of its greatest historical challenges, expanding online offerings to fully engage and support students around the world. Gathering together educators who teach writing at colle…
While industries such as music, newspapers, film and publishing have seen radical changes in their business models and practices as a direct result of new technologies, higher education has so far resisted the wholesale changes we have seen elsewhere. However, a gradual and fundamental shift in the practice of academics is taking place. Every aspect of scholarly practice is seeing changes effec…
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Would it be possible to provide people with a basic income as a right? The idea has a long history. This book draws on two pilot schemes conducted in the Indian State of Madhya Pradesh, in which thousands of men, women and children were provided with an unconditi…
Adult learning is recognized as a key component of lifelong learning and Member States are required to remove barriers to participation, to increase overall quality and efficiency in adult learning, to speed up the process of validation and recognition and to ensure sufficient investment in and monitoring of the field (European Commission, 2006, 2007; European Parliament, 2008; European Council…
Historically, alternative media have been viewed as fundamental, albeit at times culturally peripheral, forces in social change. In this book, however, Kenix argues that these media do not uniformly subvert the hierarchies of access that are so central to mainstream media - in fact, their journalistic norms and routines have always been based on the professional standards of the mainstream. Ken…
This open access book bridges the divide between political science and public health, whilst simultaneously embracing the complexities and differences of both. Although public health is inherently political, the tools and insights of political science are often ignored in public health scholarship. Bringing together academics and researchers working at the intersection of both, the book demonst…
Designing a contract is often more of an economic than a legal problem. A good contract protects parties against opportunistic behavior while providing motivation to cooperate. This is where economics and, especially contract theory, may prove helpful by enhancing our understanding of incentive issues. The purpose of this book is to provide specific tools which will help to write better contrac…
Every chapter in the widely distributed first edition has been updated, and four new chapters on current issues such as connectivism and social software innovations have been added. Essays by practitioners and scholars active in the complex, diverse, and rapidly evolving field of distance education blend scholarship and research; practical attention to the details of teaching and learning; and …
This open access book applies insights from the network perspective in health research to explain the reproduction of health inequalities. It discusses the extant literature in this field that strongly correlates differences in social status with health behaviours and outcomes, and add to this literature by providing a coherent theoretical explanation for the causes of these health inequalities…
“… a diverse and stimulating group of essays that together represents a significant contribution to thinking about the nascent field of contemporary Asian art studies … Contemporary Asian Art and Exhibitions: Connectivities and World-making … brings together essays by significant academics, curators and artist working in Australia, Asia and the United Kingdom that reflect on contemporar…
Conflict over information has become a central part of modern politics and culture. The sites of struggle are numerous, the actors beyond count. Currents of liberation and exploitation course through the debates about Edward Snowden and surveillance, Anonymous, search engines and social media. In Information Politics, Tim Jordan identifies all these issues in relation to a general understanding…
This open access book provides an enriched understanding of historical, collective, cultural, and identity-related trauma, emphasising the social and political location of human subjects. It therefore presents a socio-ecological perspective on trauma, rather than viewing displaced individuals as traumatised “passive victims”. The vastness of the phenomenon of trauma among displaced populati…
This book analyzes heroin users and the drug subculture on the Shetland Islands, an area known for its geographical remoteness, rural character and relative wealth. It fills the scientific gap created by the conventional research in heroin research, which is usually conducted in urban areas and relies on treatment and prison populations. Based on qualitative, in-depth interviews with twenty-fou…
The Land Between Two Seas: Art on the Move in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea 1300-1700 focuses on the strong riverine ties that connect the seas of the Mediterranean system (from the Western Mediterranean through the Sea of Marmara, the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov) and their hinterland. Addressing the mediating role of the Balkans between East and West all the way to Poland and Lithuania…
A People's History of the Second World War unearths the fascinating history of the war as fought 'from below'. Until now, the vast majority of historical accounts have focussed on the conflict between the Allied and Axis powers for imperialist mastery. Donny Gluckstein shows that in fact between 1939 and 1945 two distinct wars were fought – one ‘from above’ and one ‘from below’. Using…
The publication rethinks climate control through the lens of city climate phenomena. Based on a history of climate control on urban scales, it promotes the integration of indoors and outdoors in order to reduce environmental and thermal loads in cities.While the first part of the book focuses on the interwar period in Europe, the publication’s second part considers examples from all over the …