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This Earth of Mankind (Buru Quartet) by Pramoedya Ananta Toer

Minke is a young Javanese student of great intelli more...0 points

Minke is a young Javanese student of great intelligence and ambition. Living equally among the colonists and colonized of 19th-century Java, he battles against the confines of colonial strictures. It is his love for Annelies that enables him to find the strength to embrace his world.0 points

The Indonesia Reader: History, Culture, Politics (The World Readers)

Indonesia is the world's largest archipelago, encompassing more...0 points

Indonesia is the world's largest archipelago, encompassing nearly eighteen thousand islands. The fourth-most populous nation in the world, it has a larger Muslim population than any other. The Indonesia Reader is a unique introduction to this extraordinary country. Assembled for the traveler, student, and expert alike, the Reader includes more than 150 selections: journalists' articles, explorers' chronicles, photographs, poetry, stories, cartoons, drawings, letters, speeches, and...0 points

A History of Modern Indonesia by Adrian Vickers

Although Indonesia has the fourth largest populati more...0 points

Although Indonesia has the fourth largest population in the world, its history is still relatively unknown. Adrian Vickers takes the reader on a journey across the social and political landscape of modern Indonesia, starting with the country's origins under the Dutch in the early twentieth-century, and the subsequent anti-colonial revolution which led to independence in 1949. Thereafter the spotlight is on the 1950s, a crucial period in the formation of Indonesia as a new nation, followed by the...0 points

Indonesia Travel Pack (Globetrotter Travel Packs) by Debbie Martyr

The highly successful "Globetrotter Travel&qu more...0 points

The highly successful "Globetrotter Travel" series, which includes Travel Guides, Travel Maps, Road Atlases, Best Of Pocket Guides and In Your Pocket Language Guides, presently covers more than 90 destinations worldwide. The Packs are excellent value, including both a guidebook and a softcover version of the fold-out Globetrotter map of the region, in a printed plastic wallet. The handy pocket-size guide is packed with useful information, tips and recommendations, accompanied by colour photograp...0 points

Indonesia: Peoples and Histories by Jean Gelman Taylor

Indonesia, the world's largest Muslim nation, is now more...0 points

Indonesia, the world's largest Muslim nation, is now in the midst of dramatic upheaval. This history of Indonesia provides an overview from the prehistoric period to the present and explores the connections between the nation's many communities and the differences that propel contemporary breakaway movements."Taylor's approach challenges and opens the mind."-Jaime James, Los Angeles Times Book Review"Taylor's new book is groundbreaking: it takes us on a gr...0 points

Indonesia - Culture Smart! by Graham Saunders

Culture Smart! provides essential information on a more...0 points

Culture Smart! provides essential information on attitudes, beliefs and behavior in different countries, ensuring that you arrive at your destination aware of basic manners, common courtesies, and sensitive issues. These concise guides tell you what to expect, how to behave, and how to establish a rapport with your hosts. This inside knowledge will enable you to steer clear of embarrassing gaffes and mistakes, feel confident in unfamiliar situations, and develop trust, friendships, and successfu...0 points

Discover Indonesia

Music of Indonesia Selections from the 20-CD Serie more...0 points

Music of Indonesia Selections from the 20-CD Series. Indonesia is a huge country, spread over hundreds of islands, encompassing peoples of many different languages, religions, and musical cultures. Fifteen tracks from the widely acclaimed 20-CD series Music of Indonesia have been selected to provide an exciting and varied introduction to musical styles from different parts of the country. From rowdy gamelan and xylophones to quiet night music for flute, from Christian church harmonies to dissona...0 points

The Year of Living Dangerously by Christopher J. Koch

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Footsteps (Buru Quartet) by Pramoedya Ananta Toer

The third in a series of four novels, set at the t more...0 points

The third in a series of four novels, set at the turn of the century, which chronicle the birth of modern Indonesia through the story of Minke, an aspiring Javanese writer who struggles to understand his divided world. Here, he begins to find his feet as a political organizer.0 points

Child of All Nations (Buru Quartet) by Pramoedya Ananta Toer

The second book in the epic quartet of novels know more...0 points

The second book in the epic quartet of novels known to some as the Buru Tetralogy. This vivid story of awakening follows the main character from This Earth of Mankind as he struggles to overcome the omnipresent injustices in the Dutch East Indies of the 1890s.0 points

All That Is Gone by Pramoedya Ananta Toer

Pramoedya Ananta Toer's transcendent novels have become more...0 points

Pramoedya Ananta Toer's transcendent novels have become part of the world literary canon, but it is his short fiction that originally made him famous. The first full-size collection of his short stories to appear in English, All That Is Gone draws from the author's own experiences in Indonesia to depict characters trying to make sense of a war-torn culture haunted by colonialism, among them an eight-year-old girl soon to be married off by her parents for money and an idealistic young s...0 points

Tales from Djakarta by Pramoedya Ananta Toer

Tales from Djakarta is a collection of thirteen sh more...0 points

Tales from Djakarta is a collection of thirteen short stories written between 1948 and 1956 - a period of bitter transition from the revolutionary era to the beginnings of military rule in Indonesia. These stories not only give us a taste of Pramoedya's earlier writings, but also lead us on a tragic tour through mid-century Jakarta with her downtrodden residents as our guides.0 points