Economists with Guns: Authoritarian Development and U.S.-Indonesian Relations, 1960-1968
By: Bradley R. Simpson
3.99
Format: 377 pages, Hardcover
Offering the first comprehensive history of U.S relations with Indonesia during the 1960s, Economis…
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1. Play It As It Lays
By: Joan Didion , David Thomson
3.92
Format: 231 pages, Paperback
A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, Play It as It Lays captures the mood of a… read more
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"The letter is still in my makeup box but I am careful not to read it unless I am drunk"-Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays
"Carter and Helene still ask questions. I used to ask questions, and I got the answer: nothing. The answer is “nothing."-Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays
"Carter and Helene still believe in cause-effect. Carter and Helene also believe that people are either sane or insane."-Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays
"She could remember it all but none of it seemed to come to anything. She had a sense the dream had ended and she had slept on."-Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays
2. The White Album
By: Joan Didion
4.05
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
First published in 1979, Joan Didion's The White Album records indelibly the upheavals and aftermat… read more
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- american
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"Somewhere between the Yolo Causeway and Vallejo it occurred to me that during the course of any given week I met too many people who spoke favorably about bombing power stations."-Joan Didion, The White Album
"I have trouble maintaining the basic notion that keeping promises matters in a world where everything I was taught seems beside the point. The point itself is increasingly obscure."-Joan Didion, The White Album
"A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his image..."-Joan Didion, The White Album
"Making judgments on films is in many ways so peculiarly vaporous an occupation that the only question is why, beyond the obvious opportunities for a few lectures fees and a little careerism at a disp…"-Joan Didion, The White Album
3. Slouching Towards Bethlehem
By: Joan Didion
4.19
Format: 238 pages, Paperback
The first nonfiction work by one of the most distinctive prose stylists of our era, Joan Didion's S… read more
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- american
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"Happiness is,' after all, a consumption ethic."-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem
"There is a common superstition that “self-respect"-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem
"The ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language."-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem
"The future always looks good in the golden land, because no one remembers the past."-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem
4. The Prince
By: Niccolò Machiavelli , Adolph Caso , Rufus Goodwin , Benjamin Martinez
3.84
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Machiavelli needs to be looked at as he really was. Hence: Can Machiavelli, who makes the following… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
"Is it better to be loved or feared?"-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
"He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command"-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
"Never attempt to win by force what can be won by deception."-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
"It is a common fault of men not to reckon on storms in fair weather."-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
5. Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
By: Malcolm Gladwell
4.08
Format: 31 pages, Paperback
Drawing on cutting-edge neuroscience and psychology and displaying all of the brilliance that made … read more
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- nonfiction
6. The House of the Seven Gables
By: Nathaniel Hawthorne , Robert S. Levine
4.33
Format: 277 pages, Paperback
In a sleepy little New England village stands a dark, weather-beaten, many-gabled house. This brood… read more
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7. Teror Orde Baru: Penyelewengan Hukum dan Propaganda 1965 - 1981
By: None , None , None , None
2.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Ini buku terlarang di masa Orde Baru Soeharto. Sebab membeberkan bagaimana cara-cara Soeharto mendi… read more
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8. Homage to Catalonia
By: George Orwell , Lionel Trilling
4.00
Format: 592 pages, Paperback
In 1936 Orwell went to Spain to report on the Civil War and instead joined the fight against the Fa… read more
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9. 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
By: Yuval Noah Harari
4.17
Format: 372 pages, Hardcover
In Sapiens, he explored our past. In Homo Deus, he looked to our future. Now, one of the most innov… read more
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"Total annihilation has a way of sharpening people's minds."-Yuval Noah Harari, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
"Questions you cannot answer are usually far better for you than answers you cannot question."-Yuval Noah Harari, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
"So if you want to know the truth about the universe, about the meaning of life, and about your own identity, the best place to start is by observing suffering and exploring what it is. The answer isn…"-Yuval Noah Harari, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
"To survive and flourish in such a world, you will need a lot of mental flexibility and great reserves of emotional balance. You will have to repeatedly let go of some of what you know best, and feel …"-Yuval Noah Harari, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
10. Laut Bercerita
By: Leila S. Chudori
4.62
Format: 380 pages, Paperback
Jakarta, Maret 1998 Di sebuah senja, di sebuah rumah susun di Jakarta, mahasiswa bernama Biru La… read more
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- indonesian literature
- politics
"Matilah engkau mati kau akan lahir berkali-kali..."-Leila S. Chudori, Laut Bercerita
"Rasa ingin tahu adalah kualitas terbaik dalam jurnalisme."-Leila S. Chudori, Laut Bercerita
"....jangan menganggap bahwa hidup adalah serangkaian kekalahan."-Leila S. Chudori, Laut Bercerita
"Peristiwa yang tak nyaman atau menyakitkan tidak perlu dihapus, tetapi harus diatasi."-Leila S. Chudori, Laut Bercerita
11. The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World
By: Vincent Bevins
4.61
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The hidden story of the wanton slaughter -- in Indonesia, Latin America, and around the world -- ba… read more
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- american
- history
- asia
- politics
- nonfiction
"locals came to him, time and time again, and asked, with genuine mystification: 'We just don't understand America. You were once a colony. You know what colonialism is. You fought and bled and died f…"-Vincent Bevins, The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World
12. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017
By: Rashid Khalidi
4.50
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more
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- history
- nonfiction
13. The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World
By: Antony Loewenstein
4.44
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Bestselling journalist Antony Loewenstein uncovers the widespread commercialisation and brutal depl… read more
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- economics
- history
- nonfiction
14. Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries
By: Safi Bahcall
4.01
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
What do James Bond and Lipitor have in common? What can we learn about human nature and world histo… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
15. Revolusi. Indonesië en het ontstaan van de moderne wereld
By: David Van Reybrouck
4.54
Format: 640 pages, Hardcover
A true masterpiece of narrative history and the definitive story of the revolution that ignited the… read more
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- asia
- politics
- history
- nonfiction
16. Indonesia: The Rise of Capital (Asian Studies Association of Australia)
By: Richard Robison
4.20
Format: 425 pages, Paperback
The Rise of Capital (Asian Studies Association of Australia) read more
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- politics
- history
17. The Killing Season: A History of the Indonesian Massacres, 1965-66 (Human Rights and Crimes against Humanity)
By: Geoffrey B. Robinson
4.42
Format: 456 pages, Hardcover
The Killing Season explores one of the largest and swiftest, yet least examined, instances of mass … read more
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- indonesian literature
- asia
- politics
- nonfiction
18. Economists with Guns: Authoritarian Development and U.S.-Indonesian Relations, 1960-1968
By: Bradley R. Simpson
3.99
Format: 377 pages, Hardcover
Offering the first comprehensive history of U.S relations with Indonesia during the 1960s, Economis… read more
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- asia
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19. We Have Tired of Violence: A True Story of Murder, Memory, and the Fight for Justice in Indonesia
By: Matt Easton
4.35
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A chilling work of true crime about the midair murder of a human rights activist, set against a riv… read more
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20. Manusia dalam Kemelut Sejarah
By: Taufik Abdullah
4.42
Format: 290 pages, Paperback
Edisi buku saku dari Majalah Prisma No. 8 tahun 1977 yang memuat tinjauan kembali riwayat tokoh-tok… read more
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21. Migration in the Time of Revolution: China, Indonesia, and the Cold War
By: Taomo Zhou
4.44
Format: 318 pages, Hardcover
Migration in the Time of Revolution examines how two of the world's most populous countries interac… read more
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