Lihatlah ladang Paman, hangus habis terbakar! Paman sangat sedih karena akhir-akhir ini sering gagal panen. Peristiwa banjir makin sering terjadi. Demikian pula dengan musim kemarau, cenderung lebih Panjang dan lebih terik. Musim seolah tertukar waktu. Yang biasanya sudah musim hujan, kini masih kemarau. Akibatnya ladang paman beberapa kali mengalami puso. Perubahan musim itu tidak hanya terjad…
This sensitive account of Spanish Benedictine women at an Aboriginal mission in Western Australia is poignant and disturbing. Notable for its ecumenical spirit, depth of research and deep engagement with the subject, A Bridge Between is a model of how religious history, in its broader bearings, can be written. — Graeme Davison, Monash University With great insight and care, A Bridge Betwe…
Traveling from Zimbabwe to New Zealand and on to Ghana and the United States, the voices of higher education are presented in a way only scholars from these regions can fully articulate and understand. The changing world of higher education challenges all of those involved in very unique ways. In Global Voices in Higher Education, scholars from 10 different countries share their work, describin…
This book presents the outcomes of four years of educational research in the EU-supported project called ROLE (Responsive Online Learning Environments). ROLE technology is centered around the concept of self-regulated learning that creates responsible learners, who are capable of critical thinking and able to plan their own learning processes. ROLE allows learners to independently search for a…
Is preparing for war the best means of preserving peace? In Sisters in Peace, Kate Laing contends that this question has never been solely the concern of politicians and strategists. She maps successive generations of twentieth-century women who were eager to engage in political debate even though legislative and cultural barriers worked to exclude their voices. In 1915, during the First Wor…
This volume is a remarkable study of a most unusual pesantren. Officially known as Pesantren Daarut Tauhid, this pesantren was located in Bandung and flourished at the beginning of a period of Islamic resurgence in Indonesia. More commonly referred to as the Bengkel Akhlaq, this ‘Workshop for Morality’ exerted a special appeal to groups of young urban Muslims, particularly students. Its fou…
Hmmm, harum, wangi, nikmat ... Kopi Luwak memang tiada duanya. Sudah ada yang tahu kopi? Apakah kalian sudah pernah minum kopi? Maniskah atau pahitkah? Atau sudahkah kalian tahu bagaimana kopi diolah? Yuk kita ikuti petualangan dan Pak Ino mengetahui lebih lengkap tentang kopi. Mulai dari sejarah kopi, budi daya kopi, hingga pengolahannya menjadi bubuk kopi. Kalian juga diajak berkenalan dengan…
Siapa yang tidak suka makan empal daging atau bakso yang lezat? Pasti sebagian besar di antara kalian sangat menyukai keduanya dan makanan olahan dari daging lainnya. Namun, harga daging sapi terkadang menjadi mahal karena belum sepenuhnya dapat disediakan oleh peternak dalam negeri. Untuk itu, swasembada daging sapi menjadi salah satu harapan yang ingin dicapai pemerintah. Dalam buku ini, Mumu…