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KONSERVASI FLORA DAN FAUNA
by Khairuddin Kamaruddin
Kejadian demi kejadian akibat daripada perbuatan pembuangan haram sisa toksik dan pembakaran terbuka hingga mendatangkan pencemaran alam sekitar mencemaskan dan mengundang kegusaran serta kemarahan ramai pihak. Konflik serangan binatang liar kekawasan perkampungan di sempadan pinggir hutan yang menyebabkan kerosakan harta benda seterusnya mengancam nyawa merupakan kesan daripada jenayah alam sekitar yang sewenang-wenangnya memusnahkan habitat hutan belantara, iaitu rumah kepada hidupan fauna itu sendiri. Bagi menjawab permasalahan ini, buku ini mengandungi maklumat tentang sebab, faktor dan langkah yang perlu dilakukan bagi menghalang kejadian tersebut berlaku.
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TOLONG, SANG SEMUT HANYUT!
by Mahaya Mohd. Yassin, Hasni Jamali
This book portrays the spirit of love and cooperation between different types of insects. A dragonfly notices an ant falling into a river, and quickly throws a leaf to help it. The dragonfly quickly seeks help. It asks a housefly, a butterfly, a bee, a grasshopper, and a beetle for help. It also gets information from a duck, an egret, a kingfisher, and an otter. Finally, all six of them successfully pull the ant to the ground.
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DI MANA KAWAN TOK BAH
by Mohd Khairul Azman Ismail
Tok Bah memelihara pelbagai jenis haiwan ternakan. Haiwan-haiwan itu ibarat kawan kepada Tok Bah. Suatu hari, Tok Bah dapati tiada satu pun haiwan di kandang dan reban. Maka bermulalah pencarian Tok Bah terhadap kawan-kawannya itu.
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DUNIA HAIWAN DI ALAM MELAYU: MITOS, MISTIK DAN SEJARAH
by Azharudin Mohamed Dali (Dr.)
Haiwan telah sekian lama hidup berdampingan dengan manusia di Alam Maya, sama ada dalam bentuk fizikal, simbolik dan metafora. Malahan, ikatan antara haiwan dan orang Melayu juga menjadi sebahagian daripada weltanschauung orang Melayu itu secara keseluruhannya. Penelitian diberikan khususnya kepada gajah, harimau, buaya dan kuda yang sememangnya mempunyai kaitan dengan ekonomi dan sosiobudaya orang Melayu.
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1, 2, 3 HEMBUS
by Mimi Salleh
Wana has the most joy playing along with winds and rainbows. One day, a flock of birds tweeting about a fire spreading in the near jungle and they are trying to help ceasing the flames. Wana has self-doubt : ‘Am I able to help?’ She meets Dry Leaf and Old Tree. Their wisdoms have changed Wana’s views on her own potential and self-confidence. Dry Leaf and Old Tree believe that they still benefit the world even though they are physically decaying, cracking and shredding. Wana uses her power to blow heavy clouds over the area and control the fire from spreading to a village nearby. At the end, the fire ceased. Wana is happy that she could help out for the benefit of many! Good values: - Size does not matter in doing good deeds. - Lend a hand to those in need with the resources that we have. - Everyone has the ability to be the best they can be.
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Health & Personal DevelopmentOFFLINE Finding Yourself In The Age of Distractions
by Desi Anwar
This collection of reflections is to remind us of some of the things we can turn our distracted minds to, when we can direct our attention to what are in front of us, above us, and more importantly, within us, using all the senses that we were all born with. They are a rediscovery of some of the things we have forgotten how to do or have put aside in favour of our all consuming electronic toys, and an attempt to help us reconnect once more with our senses and our natural gifts.So, why not put your smart phones, tablets, games, gadgets and anything with a screen, down for a few minutes. Take a deep breath and look up. Because at the end of the day, it is not just any journey we are making, but a journey to discover and appreciate who we are and what makes us human.
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FictionBarabbas Tried on All Regards
by Arswendo Atmowiloto
“Which one do you want me to set free, Barabbas or Jesus called Christ?” asked Pilate to the crowd. We know they chose Barabbas, but who is this man? Described only as a “notable prisoner” in the gospels, there wasn’t much information about him. It turned out that he was not your typical criminal. Nicknamed the Handsome Scorpion, Barabbas was born and raised as a true Judaean. He was a brilliant student at the synagogue. He had read all of the Five Books, his people’s holy scripture, able to chantillate melodiously---half of those verses were ingrained in his mind. He was a headstrong and unyielding freedom fighter for his country from the Roman Empire's oppression, too brave and loyal to his cause for his own good. His atrocities toward Roman soldiers, his archenemy, and his insolence towards the hypocrisy of The Scribes and the religious figures of his own people made him an enemy of both sides. This history-based novel presents a compelling story of Barabbas personal history and journey as a notorious rebel, a condemned criminal, an exonerated man that unwittingly took part in a chain of events that lead to the Crucifixion that changed the rest of his life. This is the living testament of Barabbas, full name Jesus Barabbas.
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The Dancer
by Ahmad Tohari
The spirit of Hamlet Paruk back stretched since Srintil was crowned a new ronggeng, replacing the last ronggeng that died twelve years ago. For the small, poor, remote and modest population, ronggeng is a symbol. Without it, the shaman feels lost his identity. Srintil soon became a very famous and loved figure. Beautiful and seductive. Everyone wants to be with that ronggeng From ordinary subjects to village and district officials. But the political catastrophe in 1965 made the hamlet destroyed, both physically and mentally. Because of their ignorance, they are carried away and convicted as human beings who have shaken this country. The hamlet was burned. Ronggeng and his drummers were arrested. It was only because of her beauty that Srintil was not treated arbitrarily by the authorities in the prison. But his bitter experience as a political prisoner made Srintil aware of his human dignity.
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The Book of Mating
by Laksmi Pamuntjak
The Winner of Singapore Book Awards 2020 Kitab Kawin (The Book of Mating) offers a more versatile interpretation on women in relationships. It depicts a cruel and tender world not only where desire, longing, and modern perversity go side by side, but also where the realities of women’s lives often include the violence visited upon their bodies. In the twelve stories that make up this collection, we meet women as diverse in experience as they are in age and occupation: former child brides living together in a Korean restaurant-cum-presumed brothel; a pair of middle-aged artists bickering at the funeral of their famous former lover; and a ghost telling the story of her own grisly murder. The women in these stories are brave and fulnerable, malleable and intractable, raw and calculated, healthy and hurt. They yearn, trust, desire and love. They fear, waver, doubt, and hate. They fight, defy, fail and triumph. Though the stories’ contemplation is bound up in sex, power, pleasure, pain, guilt, and often debilitating sense of duty, the true events of Kitab Kawin are the unending quest for selfknowledge: what holds the solitary self together and what blows it apart, what makes a woman and what undoes her, how to make peace with one’s past and present selves.
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The Architecture of Love
by Ika Natassa
Every person has at least one secret that will break your heart. For some, it might be their past. For some others, it might be their reasons. And for Raia and River in The Architecture of Love, it was both. Raia, an Indonesian bestselling author, could no longer write a single sentence after her muse, her husband, left her. In despair, she fled to New York, hoping that the city often sees as beacon of hope could be the place where she can rebuild herself as writer and as woman. River, a talented architect, fled to New York for the noise. The chaos of the city was the only thing that would cover up the noise of the last three years that always haunted him. The voices echoing in his head calling him a murderer, the killer of his own wife. A chance encounter at a New Year's Eve party led to an unusual friendship between them, as they stroll around the city every day, bonded by loneliness, evermore confined by their secrets, until their hearts start wanting for more only to find that the past could never let them go. Through The Architecture of Love, a tale of two strangers and two broken souls in search for answers, Ika Natassa offers a genuine look into the urban society of Indonesia.
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FictionEARTH
by Tere Liye
My name is Raib, I'm 15 years old, tenth grade. I am a girl like you, your younger siblings, your neighbors. I have two cats, the names are White and Black. My mom and dad are fun. The teachers at my school are fun. My friends are kind and compact. I'm the same as most teenagers, except for one thing. Something I kept myself from childhood. Something amazing. My name is missing. And I can disappear. This is the first book of the series “EARTH’.
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Land of Warriors: The Adventure of Elio Modigliani in South Nias 1886
by Vanni Puccioni
This beautiful area in southern Sumatra was known by European adventurers in the nineteenth century as a "wild" land, the home of heroes who did not hesitate to behead, warriors that not even the Dutch colonial government could conquer. But Elio Modigliani, a young explorer from Italy, set foot there and went in and out of one village to another and came home intact. Accompanied by four hired hunters from Java, Modigliani not only succeeded in documenting various aspects of Nias life and culture, but also secretly brought home 26 human skulls which he donated to the National Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography in Florence for their research. The big question is, why wasn't Modigliani killed, even though the other adventurers had to save themselves? Now Vanni Puccioni, the grandson of the museum director who exhibited the results of Modigliani's expedition, decided to follow in his footsteps and retrace the places the explorer had visited. The goal is one: to discover how Modigliani could survive among these warriors.
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Health & Personal DevelopmentThe Art of Solitude: What I Think About When I'm on My Own
by Desi Anwar
If there is one thing that the Covid 19 Pandemic has taught us, it is how to deal with being alone. Quarantine and Social Distancing, while keeping us away from each other, has forced us to confront that person we normally have the least time for. Which is our own Self. The Self that we have neglected and ignored during our busy lives interacting with the outside world. In this book, a compilation of musings and random thoughts that the author captured during the time of the Corona, Desi Anwar tries to show that solitude is neither a torment nor an affliction to be feared and avoided. Indeed, when embraced in its fullness, solitude becomes an art that is both enlightening and therapeutic.
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IN THE TIME OF YELLOW BUTTERFLIES
by Vanni Puccioni
Nias Island, (Sumatra) 1856-1861. The Southern region of Nias island keeps on resisting the Dutch colonizers with its fearsome warriors. After being repeatedly defeated in the thick jungle, the Dutch mount a strong naval expedition, with the objective of building a fort in the bay of Lagundri. Bawo Mataluo is the strongest village in the region and its chief succeeds in rallying the other villages to form an army of a thousand warriors, able to crush the invaders. But mysteriously, they will not attack… But after five years the fort is destroyed by a tsunami, and the Dutch finally withdraw. (the above are actual historical facts). What happened in between these events? The story winds in the village of Bawo Mataluo, through the characters of Tuha, an old and wise witchdoctor, his rampant and evil competitor Galifa, village chiefs, a South African missionary, an evil archbishop, Dutch soldiers, and sea captains. At the turning point of the story are three episodes of man-hunting, each duel being fought through a sense: sight, scent, and hearing are the weapons to find the opponent in the thick jungle. We read of passionate love between Tuha and his wife Sumia, and between his niece Mohua and her brave but unlucky suitor. We read of mortal disease and revenge, of war, of cowardice, of treason and bravery. And we read of divine justice, delivered through the ocean.
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THE CHINESE PRINCESS
by Sindhunata
We arrive in this world as brothers and sisters, but why must we be bound to the flesh and blood, that in the end only separate us? - This is the human tragedy explored in The Chinese Princess. This novel describes how a particular human being wants to love the earth under her feet. But that very earth refuses to be a safe, serene, and peaceful homeland. She is certain that all human beings are born as brothers and sisters. But why do the people on earth refuse to fully accept her? Sindhunata explores this theme in all its intricate details. He depicts this tragic story employing his vast knowledge of Javanese and Chinese philosophy and mythology. He also traces this dilemma through ancient writings and history. He weaves together all these ingredients into one beautiful tragedy. The Chinese Princess is full of rich, deep reflections on life. In a unique way, this novel takes the reader into another realm of reality where myths and historical facts intertwine and become inseparable from each other. In this literary work, history only serves as a “stage” where tragic myths take place: We witness the story of a pair of lovers who refuse to be separated by flesh and blood. It is a truly heart-wrenching tragedy.
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A PIECE OF TWIGLIGHT FOR MY LOVER
by Seno Gumira Ajidarma
Sukab sends a piece of twilight in an envelope to Alina, his lover. He sends the piece of twilight to his girlfriend because he does not want to add to the countless words in the history of human culture. Sukab thinks that words are useless and always in vain. After all, who is still willing to listen? In this world everyone is busy talking, nobody wants to listen to other people's words. Words are overflowing and no longer needed. Every word can be replaced with meaning. Every meaning can be changed.Unfortunately, his girlfriend receives the piece of twilight only ten years later.
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FictionTHE LAST DIM SUM
by Clara Ng
A novel about being single and becoming part of a family... when everything is going totally different than planned. Quadruplets, four different lives. Four questionable futures. Four haunting secrets. And a ticking biological clock. Siska, Indah, Rosi, and Novera have to return home to spend the last moments with their dying father. They never thought that the reunion would change everything. The haunting questions about their lives start to rise to the surface. Other than dealing with fear and dread, they have to shed their arrogance when they find out that there is only a thin line between life and death. The story reminds us about the courage and strength that (always) exist in everyone’s heart.
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FictionJanuary 2016Nawung
Mimosa of Java
by Galuh Larasati
"When we are born, our hand fingers tiedly folded, that mean we have a lot of dreams to achieve. When we die our hand lies open, that mean we could not hold anything we have anymore. Feel the joy at any moment of our life now, and remembering our life's destiny, 'Manunggaling kawula lan Gusti', it is the moment when our body and the Great Spirit within our inner self is blended." Nawung, mimosa of Java is the life journey of Javanese young woman inspired by the old Javanese poetic song called macapat, that tells about the circle of life based on Javanese philosophy. The story starts from the song Mas kumambang. It is the story when the baby Nawung is still in her mother's womb. The true love from parents would create the true essence of life of the coming baby. Song of Mijil is when the baby has born on earth. The role of parents is very important in this stage. The influence of her father's simple teaching through the story of wayang (traditional puppet stories), has brought her as a humble and honest Javanese girl. Song of Sinom. It is telling how the teenager Nawung found easy ways to study many things. She shows how she studied English, Japanese, playing guitar, singing, drawing, writing and more, without money. This is the stage when someone is curious and ambitious in learning anything in this life. The song of Asmaradana. It is about her beautiful platonic triangle love story and a moment of her broken heart. More Javanese songs in the story are telling about how she faces her good times and bad times in her life in reaching the most important goal in life according to the Javanese philosophy. It is Manunggaling kawula lan Gusti, when the body and the Great Spirit within her inner self blended. All of her life lessons and her effort to keep being good to other, to herself and her awareness of her life lead her to her goal in life. "Through this novel, we can learn and comprehend the Javanese philosophy in a personal way. Through the eyes of a child, the writter attempts at internalizing the Javanese wisdom, which she believes, is priceless and timeless. This novel is also a bold effort to open an intercultural dialogue to build civilization which is based on the grand values in Indonesia. Anies Baswedan, Minister of Education and Culture of the Republic Indonesia."
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October 2020Prince Nila discovers a new kingdom augmented reality book
The Birth of the Lion City
by Ngo Chew Yeh/Victoria Carlton
Memerising legendary story of how Singapore was founded by Sang Nila Utama 720 years ago and how Singapore obtained its namesake. Tales revolving round the exciting adventure at sea, in the forest and encounter with a giant beast.
