TOEFL (TEST OF ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE) adalah tes yang menguji kemampuan bahasa Inggris standar Anda dalam berkomunikasi dengan bahasa Inggris, terutama dalam ranah akademis. Buku SMART TRICK GRAMMAR menyajikan cakupan teori grammar bahasa Inggris yang lengkap dan komprehensif dengan penyajian ringkas dan mudah dipahami, serta terdapat berbagai model simulasi mini tests dan practice test…
Demokrasi bisa mati karena kudeta—atau mati pelan-pelan. Kematian itu bisa tak disadari ketika terjadi selangkah demi selangkah, dengan terpilihnya pemimpin otoriter, disalahgunakannya kekuasaan pemerintah, dan penindasan total atas oposisi. Ketiga langkah itu sedang terjadi di seluruh dunia dan kita semua mesti mengerti bagaimana cara menghentikannya. Dalam buku ini, dua profesor Harvard …
Untuk pengembangan profesi terutama jabatan fungsional tertentu dituntut untuk memiliki kompetensi meneliti, menyusun dan menulis karya tulis ilmiah. Berdasarkan tuntunan tersebut, mau tidak mau setiap jabatan fungsional tertentu tersebut harus mampu menghasilkan karya tulis ilmiah. Kegiatan menulis karya tulis ilmiah ini berguna untuk meningkatkan keterampilan membaca dan menulis, berlatih men…
Secara umum fungsi undang-undang dalam suatu negara adalah sebagai pengatur masyarakat; untuk membatasi kekuasaan; sebagai a tool of social engineering; sebagai sarana pembaharuan masyarakat. Buku ini menjelaskan secara berurutan tentang teori perundang-undangan: pengertian undang-undang, kedudukan undang-undang dalam hirarki norma hukum, materi muatan undang-undang, asas-asas pembentukan undan…
Seth Godin telah mengajar dan menginspirasi jutaan pengusaha, pemasar, pemimpin, dan penggemar dari segala bidang kehidupan lewat blog, kursus online, kuliah, dan buku terlaris yang ditulisnya. Dia adalah penemu dari tak terhitung banyaknya gagasan yang telah menjadi bagian dari kosakata bisnis, mulai dari Permission Marketing, Purple Cow, Tribes, sampai The Dip. Untuk pertama kalinya, Godin…
Logika hukum memadukan logika terapan yang langsung menyentuh peraturan perundang-undangan. Buku ini terdiri 7 bab yang membahas mengenai pengeritan logika, Filsafat, Hukum, dan Filsafat hukum --Jenis-jenis logika dan penerapannya dalam ilmu hukum --Epistemilogi hukum, ontologi hukum dan aksiologi hukum --Logika kumulatif, alternatif dan kumulatif-alternatif dalam hukum -- Eksistensi definisi d…
Corruption is increasingly recognized as a preeminent problem in the developing world. Bribery, extortion, fraud, kickbacks, and collusion have resulted in retarded economies, predator elites, and political instability. In this lively and absorbing book, Robert Klitgaard provides a framework for designing anti-corruption policies, and describes through five case studies how courageous policymak…
Salah satu ciri utama sistem hukum civil law adalah pentingnya peraturan perundang-undangan tertulis. Dalam konteks Indonesia, mengingat begitu luasnya wilayah Indonesia serta keberadaan pemerintah daerah yang diberi kewenangan membuat peraturan, tentu dibutuhkan banyak sekali peraturan perundang-undangan, baik di tingkat pusat maupun daerah. Namun sayangnya, kebutuhan akan peraturan perundang-…
The term 'middle power' is conceptually fragile. Some scholars have even argued for abandoning it. This book argues that the concept needs to be analysed more profoundly and that new analytical tools need to be developed to better understand the phenomenon. The traditional approach, based on Western states, is insufficient and has become increasingly irrelevant in a transformed global environme…
This volume brings together 19 original chapters, plus four substantive introductions, which collectively provide a unique examination of the issues of science, technology, and art in international relations. The overarching theme of the book links global politics with human interventions in the world: We cannot disconnect how humans act on the world through science, technology, and artistic en…
This book examines what counts regarding the role and conceptualization of regions in world politics. It presents a fresh look at which narratives awake, persist, fall dormant or re-emerge amidst diverse interlocking processes of environmental, technological and global political changes. It puts forward a thorough and multidimensional conceptualization of regions as embedded in changing, overla…
DEFINISI KEGILAAN “Kegilaan adalah melakukan hal yang sama terus-menerus dan mengharapkan hasil yang berbeda.” —Albert Einstein Sebagian besar kita menyadari bahwa dunia sedang berada dalam krisis keuangan. Sayangnya, para pemimpin kita melakukan hal-hal yang sama berulang-ulang, menggunakan solusi Zaman Industri untuk menyelesaikan masalah Zaman Informasi. Dalam buku ini, …
Most books and articles still treat leadership and ethics as related though separate phenomena. This edited volume is an exception to that rule, and explicitly treats leadership and ethics as a single domain. This holds especially true for the military, as it is one of the few organizations that can legitimately use violence. Military leaders have to deal with personnel who have either used or …
In Global Maritime Safety & Security Issues and East Asia, Suk Kyoon Kim offers a multi-disciplinary perspective on various issues of maritime safety and security, focusing on East Asia. Defining the concepts of maritime safety and security, the book examines important issues such the legal frameworks for maritime safety and security and IMO law-making; safety of navigation; port state control;…
This book examines how Rwandan elites within the government, private sector and civil society perceive the nation’s political and economic relationship with the international community. Using testimonies and interviews of Rwandan political, military and economic leaders, and bureaucrats, this book examines the intersubjective beliefs that formulate how Rwanda engages with the international co…
Fundamentals of Public International Law, by Giovanni Distefano, provides an overview of public international law’s main principles and fundamental institutions. By introducing the foundations of the legal reasoning underlying public international law, the extensive volume offers essential tools for any international lawyer, regardless of the specific field of specialization. Dealing expansiv…
Discover the challenges, excitement and rewards of law enforcement today with Dempsey, Forst, and Carter's AN INTRODUCTION TO POLICING, 9th Edition. Written by law enforcement veterans with extensive first-hand experience in all areas of policing, this book is an essential read for you or anyone you know who is considering a career in law enforcement. You'll get insight into the Black Lives Mat…
The effective management of differences between groups within democracies means moving beyond the examination of individual rights. In the field of national minorities conflict prevention diplomacy, promoting the effective participation of national minorities in public life is a primary objective. Enhancing participation encourages a sense of belonging, contributes to societal integration, and …
The driving force of the dynamic development of world legal history in the past few centuries, with the dominance of the West, was clearly the demands of modernization - transforming existing reality into what is seen as modern. The need for modernization, determining the development of modern law, however, clashed with the need to preserve cultural identity rooted in national traditions. With …
Twenty 4-page units present key areas of grammar with practice exercises similar to the ones in the IELTS test. Practical exam strategies and tips help you improve your IELTS score. Practice exam sections at the end of each unit allow you to familiarise yourself with the test questions. Free downloadable audio contains texts for Listening practice as well as model answers showing you how …
Bahasa Inggris merupakan bahasa internasional yang kerap digunakan di berbagai situasi, baik itu di sekolah, kampus, bahkan dunia kerja. Tidak sedikit yang mengalami kesulitan dalam mempelajari bahasa Inggris, salah satunya grammar. Padahal grammar sangat dibutuhkan dalam segala aspek bahasa Inggris. Dengan trik yang tepat, Anda dapat memahami grammar dengan mudah. Buku Basic Grammar of Engl…
How does globalisation affect the ability of human rights to constrain power? This is the central question of this volume that tackles the issue from a variety of perspectives. It covers such branches of international law and human rights as diplomatic protection, powers of the UN Security Council, responsibility of international organisations, accountability of multinational corporations, thir…
Current IR theories and approaches, which are almost exclusively built in the West, are alien to the non-Western contexts which engender the most hard pressing problems of world and ultimately unhelpful in understanding or addressing the needs surrounding these issues. Our supposedly revolutionary new concepts and approaches remain largely insufficient in explaining what happens globally and in…
Terbuai dengan Bambi, main kemah bersama Donald Duck, dan berpesta piama dengan Mike serta Sulley. Semua bintang Disney dan Disney●Pixar favoritmu ada dalam buku kumpulan cerita pengantar tidur ini. Dari pesta kejutan untuk Nemo sampai bermain seharian di Pride Lands dengan Simba, petualangan-petualangan seru ini akan menutup hari dengan sempurna.
Pulau Jawa pada saat ini sedang mengalami krisis ekologi dan kebencanaan, terutama di wilayah pesisir, sering terdampak perubahan iklim ekstrim, dengan curah hujan tinggi hampir sepanjang tahun. Kota-kota di wilayah pesisir berisiko tinggi terpapar kebencanaan mulai dari bencana perubahan iklim, banjir, rob, tanah amblas, krisis air bersih, longsor, gelombang tinggi, sampah plastik, hingga urba…
Buku ini bukan hanya membahas money laundering secara umum, tetapi juga menyajikan prosedur penegakan hukum perlingungan bagi pelapor dan saksi prinsip pelaporan dalam mengenali pengguna jasa ketentuan pembawaan uang fisik lintas negara, penundaan pemblokiran pemeriksaan dan penghentian transaksi terkait tindak pidana pencucian uang serta perbuatan money laundring yang wajib dihindari.
Language is Politics discusses power relations between languages in the world, with a particular focus on English. Even though English is the most widely spoken and the most powerful language worldwide, it is not the lingua franca it is often supposed to be. The basic tenet of this book is that languages do not exist in the natural world; they are artefacts made by humans. The book debunks some…
European armed forces have frequently had to participate in counter-terrorist operations while abroad. For many, however, counter-terrorist operations in their home country are a relatively new phenomenon. Armed and uniformed soldiers can now be seen doing work which is, in some respects, comparable to that of the civilian security forces. What are the ethical implications of this phenomenon? T…