One hundred and sixty years ago a young Englishman founded a private raj on the coast of Borneo. The world he created eventually took in a territory the size of England, its expansion campaigns paid for in human heads. Here, polite Victorian conventions coexisted tenuously with one of the most violent cultures on earth, often with startling results: pockets of tenderness and extreme brutality a…
Sapiens showed us where we came from. Homo Deus shows us where we're going. War is obsolete. You are more likely to commit suicide than be killed in conflict. Famine is disappearing. You are at more risk of obesity than starvation. Death is just a technical problem. Equality is out - but immortality is in. What does our future hold? Yuval Noah Harari, author of the bestselling phenomenon Sap…
Onghokham, ia dapat seperangkat gelar: sejarawan, kolumnis, intelektual publik, koki, penggila pesta, anti qua-rian, eksentrik. Terlahir sebagai Tionghoa peranakan yang gila Belanda, kemudian menjadi Indonesia malih ke Jawa dan meninggal sebagai Tionghoa. Ia lahir pada 1 Mei 1933 hidup dalam berbagai pergolakan dan nasionalisme, perang kemerdekaan, modernisme, dan konflik ideologi-ideologi bes…
Bukan masalah Miangas atau Las Palmas, karena selain dua sebutan itu, pulau kecil di wilayah administratif provinsi Sulawesi Utara, perbatasan Indonesia--Filipina juga memiliki sejumlah nama lokal. Menarik, karena pulau yang ernah dipersengketakan Amerika Serikat (yang kala itu menjajah Filipina) dengan Kerjaan Belanda (yang juga menjajah Nusantara atau Hindia Belanda) dan diputuskan oleh Dr. M…
British libraries and museums hold some of the oldest and most important manuscripts in Indonesia languages in the world. Although small by comparison with manuscripts holdings in Indonesia, Malaysia and the Netherlands, British collections are especially notable for their antiquity and, in some cases, contain unique copies of important texts. This catalogue includes all manuscripts in the indi…