In life, there are two kinds of mothers. First, is a term describing a woman who gave birth to her children. Second, is a term describing a woman who gave up her own happiness for someone else`s children, and did so happily. What`s most exceptional would be if the two qualities merge in one person. I could tell you, because I had one. I had one and I called her Mother. That recognition came from Mamid. Similarly, the recognition from the other eight children who felt that they have a family ...

If there's one thing we're good at, is making our lives complicated. We fill it with expectations, anxieties and fears. We fret about the past, we worry about the future, we ignore the present. We seek fulfillment in material things and happiness in wishful thinking, often at the expense of the riches that already surround us. A Simple Life is a collection of musings, observations and thoughts that Desi Anwar gathers from her experience, childhood recollections and perspectives, as ...

‘Why did you decide to become a Muslim?’ This is a question often asked of me. Whenever I visit a mosque or musholla, whenever I avoid food and drink due to fasting, whenever I say ‘Peace be upon you’ to a fellow brother or sister. And you know what? I have never been able to offer a good enough answer. For I would need to talk of pain and heartache, of family and friendship, of laughter and longing. And ultimately, of finding love and acceptance in the heart of Indonesia. ...

Setiap anak memiliki berjuta kisah yang istimewa. Meskipun terkadang tak semuanya indah, mereka masih bisa tersenyum bahagia. Itu karena kasih sayang yang mereka rasakan, seperti halnya kisah-kisah dalam buku ini. Ada Clara yang memiliki keluarga baru, Teddy yang harus memakai kaki palsu, Jane yang kehilangan ibu, dan kisah lainnya. Saat kita memberi cinta, kebaikan pun akan datang tak disangka ! Yuk, kita sama-sama baca kisah penuh makna dalam buku ini ! ...

In the fall of 2009, fifteen-year-old Brea Salim said her farewells, packed her bags and moved halfway around the world-all to enroll at a school called phillips Exeter Academy. Little did she know, the three-year journey ahead would be the hardest learning experience of her life... ...

Communication in business is certainly part of the success in achieving the ultimate target of the companies. It is necessary that the employees improve their communication skills in the English language in particular for efficiency and profitability. For educational purposes, this book was written and published mainly to give guidance and advice, provide points to ponder in their peers, clients, competitors that they are expected to win tight competition in business nowadays. If they are ...

The Question of Red tells the story of two lovers, Amba and Bhisma, driven apart by one of the bloodiest Communist purges in the 20th century the massacres that took place in Indonesia between 1965 and 1968 in which some 1 million people were killed. From rural Java and Yogyakarta to the prison camps of Buru Island, where some 12,000 alleged Communists were incarcerated without trial during the Suharto administration, the lives of the central characters interpret the Mahabharata that timeless ...

She has been accused of heresy since she was born. She has been considered deviant and must be excommunicated. On behalf of faith and love, her marriage is sacrificed. On behalf of God, she and her family were expelled, and their home was destroyed. It has been seven years now that Maryam and hundreds of others live in a refugee camp at a small and cramped government-owned building in Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara. The story of Maryam is a sad tragedy within a country full of beauty. What they ...

Buku ini terdiri dari 7 cerita utama yang berisi 7 kebiasaan (habit) yang ada pada buku utama karya Stephen Covey. Cerita-cerita dalam buku berpusat pada 7 karakter anak yang tinggal di Kampung 7 Oaks: Goob si Beruang, Jumper si Kelinci, Lily si Sigung, Sammy dan Sophie si Tupai, Pokey si Landak, dan Alli si Pembuntut. Setiap anak mewakili suatu karakter/kebiasaan tertentu yang nanti akan mengalami suatu pengalaman tertentu yang akan mengubah karakter/kebiasaan lama mereka atau justru akan ...

Trinity is Indonesia’s leading travel blogger and writer. Four volumes of “The Naked Traveler” have been published to date, and have quickly becomes Indonesia’s berst-selling travel book. For the first time in English, this compilation focuses on Trinity’s adventures in and around Indonesia, providing travelers to the region an indispensable insight into the culture and sight of this multi-faceted archipelago. - See more at: ...

Otto Cornelis Kaligis, a man whom Anand Krishna calls "the law icon", is appreciative to Anand's effort in writing this impressive work, which is based on O.C. Kaligis' life-story, A Man with Million Surprises. It is Kaligis' success as a man of spirit and his honorable personality that deeply impressed Anand and urged him to sublimate Kaligis' views and ideals in his writing and to share them here with us. O.C. Kaligis' is a voice in the wilderness. Amidst the ...

Harry Potter's life is miserable. His parents are dead and he's stuck with his heartless relatives, who force him to live in a tiny closet under the stairs. But his fortune changes when he receives a letter that tells him the truth about himself: he's a wizard. A mysterious visitor rescues him from his relatives and takes him to his new home, Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. After a lifetime of bottling up his magical powers, Harry finally feels like a normal kid. But even within ...

"Mystical Dimensions of Islam, from its first appearance in 1975, has become the standard English-language handbook on the subject of Sufi sm. No scholar in the last half of the twentieth century had a greater impact on the study of Islamic mysticism than Annemarie Schimmel." - Carl W. Ernst, from the foreword   "A truly beautiful book. . . . Radiates an elegance of style. . . . Replete not only with the poetic insight of the author but with her unquestioned scholarly ...

Does the proliferation of jilbabs (headscarves) in Indonesia since 1998 mean the nation has gone hardline? How did democracy happen in Indonesia, which has the largest population of Muslims in the world, and will it stick? Is the term ‘Muslim feminist’ an oxymoron? Do Muslims even like sex? Julia’s Jihad provides the answer to these questions and much, much more: how the nation struggles to maintain the ‘unity in diversity’ of its 300 ethnic groups; how it practices ‘political ...

Deskripsi in English Marni is an illiterate Javanese woman who still practices ancestor worship. Through her offerings she finds her gods and puts forth her hopes. She knows nothing of the God brought in from that faraway land. Rahayu is Marni’s daughter, part of a new generation shaped by education and an easier life. She is a firm believer in God and in common sense. She stands against the ancestors, even against her own mother. To Marni, Rahayu is a soulless being. And to Rahayu, Marni is ...

Anand's analysis will no only interest the academia, particularly the historians, but also the lay people passionate about the subject. In fact, he does not stop at that. It is not only the histories and misteries of the ancient Sundaland that he shares through the pages of this book, but also its age old wisdom that is still relevant, and which, as the inheritors of that ancient heritage, we all should be proud of. — Drs. Soedarmono, SU; History Lecturer of Sebelas Maret University ...