Seluk beluk sejarah panjang penuh madu sekaligus racun dari opium tergambar dalam buku ini. Opium pernah mencengkram selama lebih 50 tahun Hindia Belanda, yaitu pada 1860 sampai 1910. Saat itu mengisap opium merupakan kebiasaan masyarakat yang menyebar luar di Jawa dan perdagangan opium mempunyai dampak mendalam di aspek ekonomi serta politik. Saking luasnya pemakai opium di Hindia Belanda, opi…
Like all Professions, diplomacy has spawned its own specialized terminology, and it is this texicon which provides a dictionary of diplomacy's thematic spine. However, the dictionary also includes entries on legal terms, political events, international organizations and major figures who have occupied the diplomatic scene or have written influentially about it over the last half milennium
The purpose for this book is to present past and current agricultural public policies; economic principles used to analyze policy; the processes by which they are developed and the government structure which supports the implementation of agriculture legislation passed by congress. The textbook includes agruments for and against common tools of US agriculture policy. This debate continues today…
Hari-hari menjelang muncurnya Presiden Soeharto dari jabatannya dan beberapa hari sesudahnya adalah hari-hari yang penuh dengan ketidakpastian. Sulit menentukan sesuatu peristiwa atau keadaan itu benar-benar terjadi atau hanya sekadar desas-desus (rumor).
Sepuluh tahun yang lalu Grant Chapman mencium muridnya, Shelley. Tapi karena Shelley masih SMU dan mereka tinggal di kota yang sangat kolot, Grant tak dapat menyatakan cintanya. Perjalanan nasib membuat mereka berpisah. Grant merintis karier sebagai politikus di Washington. Sayang sekali suatu skandal membuat kariernya terputus. Akhirnya dia kembali ke Oklahoma dan menjadi dosen. Di lain pihak,…
Kelelahan sehabis membereskan barang-barang di rumah kabinnya yang sudah terjual, Lilly ketiduran. Saat terbangun, badai salju sudah melanda puncak Cleary Peak. Nekat, Lilly mengemudikan mobilnya turun ke kota dalam badai. Namun di tengah jalan ia menabrak seseorang, Ben Tierney. Lelaki itu terluka, sementara mobilnya rusak karena menabrak pohon. Mau tak mau ia membawa Ben kembali ke rumah kabi…
Untuk kedua kalinya Law Kincaid memasuki hidup Marnie, tapi kali ini Marnie tak mau lagi jadi pihak yang tak berdaya dan cuma bisa menerima. Sekarang ia harus membuat Law tahu bahwa cinta dan hidupnya bukan untuk dipermainkan pria itu. Dan untuk pertama kali dalam hidupnya, Law mendapati bahwa tidak semua wanita bisa diperlakukan seenaknya.
Lebih daripada segalanya, Andrea Malone sangat ingin meningkatkan kariernya sebagai reporter di stasiun TV nasional. Tetapi profesi itu hanya bisa diraih jika ia berhasil mewawancarai Jenderal Ratliff, tokoh yang berperan besar dalam PD II. Selama ini tak satupun media sanggup menemui dan mengungkap alasan yang membuat pria itu mengasingkan diri di ranchnya di Texas.
Blair Simpson penari andal dalam berbagai pertunjukan Broadway cedera parah. Supaya bisa beristirahat total Blair menerima tawaran sahabatnya untuk menyewa apartemen disebuah kota kecil. Pada hari pertamanya Blair berkenalan denga tetangganya Sean Garret yang pura-pura menjadi pemijat.
Pernahkah terbayang bahwa kematian akan datang secara brutal? Pernahkah terbayang bahwa seseorang dijelang maut karena si eksekutor salah membunuh? Itulah yang dialami oleh Gillian dan Melina, kembar identik dari Dallas. Malam itu, keduanya setuju bertukar tempat. Gillian menggantikan tugas Melina sebagai media escort, untuk menemani Kolonel Hart, seorang astronaut NASA terkenal.
This book is a collection of studies about the political tensions between America and Asian countries around the 1950s. The book consists of four parts about the temper of neutralism between the United States and India and the United States and Indonesia, the trials of cooperation between the United States and Japan and the United States and the Phillipines, and the neutralism of non-cooperatio…
This book is a collection of essays about legislative reforms and public administration. The book consists of 11 essays about legislative reforms and innovations in the US Congress, in the States, and in selected countries. This book is suitable for research on the legislative reforms and public administration of the United States.
This book discusses the influence of Catholicism to the idea of freedom in the United States. It contains 17 chapters which are divided into three parts explaining the historical record, Catholic belief and pratice, Blanshard's attack on American Catholics which includes the Blanshard documentation, Blanshard on the Knights of Columbus adverstisements, opinions of Blanshard's book, Blanshard's …
This book discusses the author's experience and impressions as the first United States ambassador in Israel. The book consists of 24 chapters about his early year including about terrorists becoming politiicans, elections, embassy, and the May-June crisis, Ben-Gurion, Weizmann, Sharett et. al., and the future of the relations between the United States and Israel. This book is suitable for resea…
This book discusses the downfall of communism from the point of view of the United States. It contains 18 chapters which divided into four parts; review, analysis, plan, and organization. It contains explanations of the catastrophic point of view, the inadequacy of U.S. foreign policy, the end of traditional diplomacy, the nature of modern war, the communist conduct of contemporary war, United …
This book discusses the political legal processes and governmental policies of social sciences. The book consists of seven chapters divided in three parts about the political justification of independence of tenure such as the background and classification of federal boards and commissions, the administrative tribunal, the independence of other boards, agencies and officers, legal versus custom…
This book discusses Gaetano Mosca's antidemocratic idea of the elitist. Thie book consists of 15 chapters about the early approaches to elitism, the maturity of the idea of elitism through government of law, and the old age of elitism through Machiavellians, Marxist, and feudalism. This book is suitable for research on antidemocratic idea or elitism.