Ada dua alasan utama mengapa kami memulai penulisan buku ini. Pertama, karena sejarah adalah subjek yang menarik yang tidak hanya menarik minat para penulis, tetapi juga orang lain dari berbagai lapisan masyarakat. Kisah-kisah seputar kehidupan tokoh-tokoh terkenal membantu menghidupkan mereka kembali di benak para pembaca. Satu hal lain yang tidak boleh dilupakan, yaitu cara sejarah menetapkan…
More than any other avant-garde movement, German Expressionism captures the aesthetic revolution of 20th-century modernity in all its contrasts and conflicts. In continuous eruptions from 1905 to 1925, Expressionism upset reigning practices in the arts, most vividly in painting and the visual arts. In the literature, a heady intellectualism combined with dramatic gesture, graphic visions, exube…
Ikhtisar: Tujuan dari buku ini adalah untuk mempertimbangkan beberapa perusahaan teknologi yang telah memberikan kontribusi penting dalam bidang komputasi. Tujuannya adalah untuk memberikan pengenalan singkat kepada setiap perusahaan yang dipilih dan memberikan penjelasan singkat tentang kontribusi utamanya. Karena keterbatasan ruang, tidak memungkinkan untuk mempertimbangkan semua perusahaan t…
The Englefield mountain barometer was designed to calculate altitude and was so easy to use that a reading could be taken out of the window of a carriage – provided the horses stood still. Using a bar of mercury, which fell in the lower air pressure of higher altitudes, the barometer gave readings accurate to one thousandth of an inch. By taking a mercury reading at two locations, the owner c…
Since this Companion to the New Testament was first published in 1970, new methods of interpretation and sustained research into the environment of Jesus, and the early church, have combined to correct former misunderstandings and to set old problems in a new light. This fully revised second edition now follows the New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) to provide a running commentary on the text …
Warna terdapat di mana-mana di alam, khususnya pada organisme hidup, mulai dari bakteri dan jamur hingga tumbuhan dan hewan. Banyak organisme yang telah mengembangkan warna khasnya sendiri yang bervariasi menurut bagian dan tahap perkembangannya. Warna-warna ini tidak hanya dekoratif dan menarik secara visual, tetapi juga penting secara biologis dalam reproduksi, koevolusi, dan kelangsungan eko…
Alfred Döblin (1878-1957) was one of the great German-Jewish writers of the 20th century, a major figure in the German avant-garde before the First World War and a leading intellectual during the Weimar Republic. Döblin greatly influenced the history of the German novel: his best-known work, the best-selling 1929 novel Berlin Alexanderplatz, has frequently been compared in its use of internal…
The Bulgarian-born scholar and author Elias Canetti was one of the most astute witnesses and analysts of the mass movements and wars of the first half of the 20th century. Born a Sephardic Jew and raised at first in the Bulgarian and Ladino languages, he chose to write in German. He was awarded the 1981 Nobel Prize in Literature for his oeuvre, which includes dramas, essays, diaries, aphorisms,…
Friedrich Schiller is not merely one of Germany's foremost poets. He is also one of the major German contributors to world literature. The undying words he gave to characters such as Marquis Posa in Don Carlos and Wilhelm Tell in the eponymous drama continue to underscore the need for human freedom. Schiller cultivated hope in the actualization of moral knowledge through aesthetic education and…
This new research in English on the work of the Mozambican writer Mia Couto provides a comprehensive introduction to the critical terrain of Couto's literary thought.