Buku “Ilusi Negara Islam”
2009.05.20 03:45
Mungkin ada baiknya segera membaca buku ini… Ilusi Negara Islam:Ekspansi Gerakan Islam Transnasional di Indonesia …sebelum ada kelompok2 yang menuntut untuk melarangnya… dengan segala macem alasan, padahal mungkin karena buku ini bakal mengungkap apa yang emang sebenernya dari kelompok2 itu… Kabar2nya buku ini emang udah mulai di-larang2 juga… Untungnya penerbit buku ini kayaknya udah antisipasi, [...]
World Digital Library
2009.04.22 07:56
Baru saja diluncurkan online tanggal 21 April kemarin, situs World Digital Library oleh UNESCO, badan PBB untuk bidang pendidikan, iptek dan budaya. Silakan klik gambar cuplikan tampilan situs WDL di atas untuk mengunjungi situs-nya (akan terbuka di jendela baru). Sebagai awalan, sudah ada sekitar 1,000 manuskrip kuno kontribusi berbagai perpustakaan di dunia. Yang paling banyak, [...]
Guernica
2009.04.13 23:01
BBC recently ran a story about Pablo Picasso’s painting of the Guernica bombing, in remembrance of the tragic event, which occured on April 26, 1937. Guernica, a historical Basque town in the Biscay province, was victim to a particularly controversial type of air-raid bombing –known as “terror bombing“– during the Spanish Civil War. Immortalized in [...]
Books on (digital) freedom
2009.04.09 22:03
Those already familiar with the following books (and their topic) can probably skip reading this post and move along. I just posted them here as the books recently came up again in a mailing list I’m subscribed to. But for the uninitiated, I’d recommend a read through them. Freedom of information. Freedom of ideas. Freedom [...]
Pretext for Mass Murder
2009.03.14 12:30
I just finished reading: Pretext for Mass Murder The September 30th Movement and Suharto’s Coup d’Etat in Indonesia by John Roosa Assistant professor of history University of British Columbia Vancouver, Canada Published: The University of Wisconsin Press 2006 Table of Contents: 1. Introduction 2. The Incoherence of the Facts 3. The Supardjo Document 4. Sjam [...]
Open Veins of Latin America etc.
2009.03.06 23:13
I’m currently reading the book… Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent by Eduardo Galeano …in between the time that I’m supposed to finish up an assignment :p Just half way through, I’m already liking this book a lot, by the way the author wrenches our feelings with the [...]
