Barack Obama membuka sejarah lembaran baru dalam pemilihan presiden di AS. Untuk pertama kalinya, seorang Afro-Amerika menjadi presiden AS. Kini ia adalah presiden ke-44 AS. Obama lahir di Hawaii pada 4 Agustus 1961, dari pasangan Barack “Hussein” Obama Senior, seorang mahasiswa ekonomi dan penganut Muslim dari Kenya, dan Ann Dunham, seorang perempuan kulit putih dari Kansas.
Kedua orangtuanya bercerai ketika Obama berumur dua tahun. Ibunya menikah kembali dengan orang Indonesia bernama Lolo Soetoro dan pindah ke Indonesia ketika Obama berumur enam tahun. Ia dan ibunya tinggal di Jakarta selama empat tahun. Ia pun pernah menyebut dirinya sebagai Jakarta’s street kid.
Dalam buku yang ditulisnya sendiri ini, tampak gairahnya dalam menuliskan apa yang ada di benaknya sungguh luar biasa. Begitu luar biasanya, sehingga buku ini terasa lebih dari sekadar atribut kampanye, melainkan kisah hidup yang bisa menginspirasi banyak orang. “Buku ini ibarat media untuk mengenali Obama secara lebih konkret dan komprehensif. Baik pribadi maupun visinya.” —Media Indonesia “Bintang itu bernama Obama. Semua lampu kamera dan perhatian publik kini mengarah padanya. Pintar, muda, bersuara bariton dengan intonasi yang terjaga dan pilihan kata yang selalu jitu, serta sentuhan darah Afro-Amerika, Obama layak menjadi idola.” —Koran Tempo
Dimensi: 15 x 23.5 cm
Tebal: 582 hlm halaman
Edisi: Soft Cover
ISBN: 602-8224-34-5
Bahasa: Indonesia
Kategori: Biografi
Ringkasan Buku Barack Obama: Dari Jakarta Menuju Gedung Putih
Label: Film asing, Novel Asing, Seni dan Budaya
The Secret, adalah sebuah buku karangan Rhonda Byrne yang berisi tentang sebuah rahasia terbesar abad ini yang berisi tentang sebuah rahasia kehidupan. Saya pertama kali tau buku ini sewaktu mengunjungi situs KickAndy yang berisi bagi-bagi buku The Secret secara gratis. Saya sangat penasaran dengan buku yang satu ini, lalu sewaktu ada kesempatan main ke Gramedia tak lupa saya mencari buku yang membuat saya penasaran ini.
Tapi sayangnya saya tidak menemukan apa yang saya cari L tapi nasib baik masih menyertai saya, ketika berkunjung ke rumah nenek saya menemukan The Secret tergeletak tak berdaya di atas meja di kamar paman. Akhirnya keinginan saya untuk menjamah buku yang sudah membuat saya penasaran inipun terwujud. Lalu halaman demi halaman pun say abaca tapi sayang sekali saya tidak diperbolehkan meminjam buku ini ketika mau pulang L padahal saya belum selesai baca :(( Tapi niat saya untuk bisa membaca buku ini secara gratis tidak putus sampai disana. Dan secara tak sengaja saya menemukan link untuk download e-book The Secret secara gratis. Dan, karena saya mendapatkannya secara gratis maka saya juga akan mebagikan e-book The Secret secara gratis L
Buku (e-book) ini menceritakan sebuah rahasia besar kehidupan yang telah berusia ratusan tahun. Rahasia ini sebenarnya ada di sekitar kita tanpa pernah kita sadari keberadaannya. Sebuah rahasia yang dapat mewujudkan apa yang kita ingin capai dalam kehidupan ini seperti kesehatan, hubungan dengan orang lain, dan keberhasilan. Rahasia ini sudah diterapkan oleh orang-orang besar seperti: Plato, Shakespeare,
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Down-and-out detective Nick Curran, who is involved in a turbulent relationship with Beth Garner, a psychiatrist working for the San Francisco Police Department. Curran is investigating the case of the murder of the wealthy, former rock star, Johnny Boz who was brutally stabbed to death with an ice pick while having sex with a blonde woman. The only lead they have is Catherine Tramell, a successful and extremly wealthy crime writer last seen with Boz the night he died. Curran and fellow detective, Gus Moran (George travel to Tramell's Pacific Heights mansion, but they find only Roxy, Tramell's lesbian lover, is home. Roxy tells them Tramell is at her Stinson Beach beach house, and mentions that "she didn't do it, kill Johnny Boz".
Curran and Moran go to the beach house to question Tramell, and find her on a deckchair by the ocean. The two policemen introduce themselves, and Tramell says to Curran "I know who you are". They ask her questions about her relationship with Boz, and, after specifying that they didn't date ("I wasn't dating him, I was fucking him") she shows very little remorse at hearing he is dead, rather displaying sadness over missing their sexual encounters than his presence.
Both Morran and Gus, along with their superiors, suspect Catherine is responsible for the murder of Boz when they discover that she has written a novel about a former rock star who was killed in the exact same way - tied to the bed with a white scarf and murdered with an ice-pick. After another confrontation with the detectives, Tramell agrees to go to police headquarters to be interviewed about the murder. During this interview, in the famous scene, she uncrosses her legs, revealing she is not wearing any underwear and exposing her genitalia, bringing discomfort and shock to the interrogators in the room, especially Curran, whom she continuously addresses by his first name, Nick.
Later that night, Curran goes to a bar with several of his co-workers, and gets into a heated argument with Officer Nielsen, an Internal Affairs officer who has been a major source of problems for Nick throughout his career. Beth Garner then arrives, and she and Nick leave together. After they arrive at Beth's apartment, the two engage in extremly violent sex. Afterwards Nick decides to start smoking again, Beth tells him where some cigarettes are before curtly and angrily telling Nick to leave her apartment. In another suspicious development, Curran learns that Tramell's parents were both killed in an explosion on their boat when Tramell was an adolescent. Curran also learns that Tramell makes a habit out of befriending vicious murderers such as a woman who stabbed her husband and children to death. Curran finds out during a visit to Tramell's house that she knows things about him that are confidential.
When Curran confronts Garner about this (the only person with access to that private information), she reluctantly tells Curran that, because Nielsen perceived Garner to be biased towards Curran, she gave Nielsen his file in order for Nielsen and other IA investigators to evaluate Curran directly (IA was seriously considering discharging Curran from the police force). Because of this, Curran assaults Nielsen in his office, accusing him of having sold his psychological profile to Tramell. Nielsen screams back "You're through!".
Later, Officer Nielsen is found in his car with a single gunshot from a .38 to the head, and Curran is perceived by many to be the prime suspect, due to their recent altercation. A torrid sexual affair then begins between Curran and Tramell, with an initial air of a cat-and-mouse game. Roxy, Catherine's lover attempts to kill Nick by running him over with Catherine's car but she ends up being killed herself. Curran, though on leave, continues to investigate on his own and discovers several facts which make Tramell seem more and more like the killer. However, he also uncovers facts about Dr. Garner which slowly throw suspicion on her. For instance, it turns out that Tramell and Garner had an affair while in college and each accuses the other of being obsessed with her.
In addition, Curran learns that a psychology professor was murdered with an ice pick while both of the women were attending college and majoring in psychology. Curran's partner is lured to a building and murdered in the same way described in Tramell's new book. Curran, who was left waiting in the car, figures out there is trouble brewing but arrives too late to help his partner. However, Curran finds Beth at the scene and believing she murdered his partner and is going to shoot him, he shoots and kills her. It turns out she had only her keys in her hand and as she dies, she tells Curran she loves him. However, a subsequent examination of Beth's apartment supplies the incriminating evidence needed to brand her as the killer of both Boz and Gus (a .38 revolver, photos of the victims and of Tramell, an icepick, etc.).
In the final scene of the film, Tramell and Curran make love, and afterwards when Nick's back is turned to her, Catherine slowly reaches under the bed. However, she then changes her mind and decides to instead make passionate love to Nick again. As the camera slowly pans down to show the underside of the bed, an ice-pick can be clearly seen lying on the floor.
Synopsis
Paris. Sepinya malam. Dalam Louvre, seorang kurator berpengalaman , Jacques Saunière, di temukan mati di tangan seorang masochistic kikuk deeprick yang memakai kain chlice belt itu dosa konstan.Pada malam yang sama. Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon adalah SUMMONED dalam kepolisian Perancis ke Louvre. Ada misteri kematian , tubuh telanjang. Ada juga si cantik cryptologist Sophie Neveu. Dia dan Langdon tim hingga memecahkan misteri sebuah Teka-teki sekitar pembunuhan yang akhirnya membawa mereka ke petunjuk tersembunyi dalam karya seni the artistic joker par yang ternama , Leonardo Da Vinci. Mengambil nafas di tengah-mobil chases, tak putus-putus-memecahkan teka-teki, dan teman palsu, dan Neveu Langdon ras terhadap rahasia yang telah disembunyikan selama berabad-abad.
Phantasmagoric biara dari Sion ; seniman yang membuka tabir teka-teki dari lukisan dari monumental ; kurator yang menanggung nama yang creative di Rennes-le-Château misteri dengan Opus Dei, alias Big Mafia; rahasia dari wahyu yang akan menggoncangkan dunia Barat yang sangat fundamental ; Perawan yang Kudus ; menarik walaupun ketinggalan jaman teori berkomplot; dan, yang tak kalah pentingnya, kisah cinta yang diprediksi.
Dan Brown telah menemukan rahasia sebuah novel yang menarik pada setiap elemen yang terbaik untuk laris di psaran. Kami berharap bahwa Ron Howard dan Tom Hanks - yang telah bekerja sama selama sebelas tahun yang lalu di "Apollo 13" - akan membuat cerita yang lebih baik dari semua ini menggunakan tema sebuah petualangan seru. Dan mereka yang lulus akan menahan diri dari teori spekulatif dan fantasi off terbukti sebagai fakta sejarah ...
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Paris. The dead of night. In the Louvre, an aged curator, Jacques Saunière, lies dying at the hands of a masochistic hulking albino who wears a spiked cilice belt around his thigh in constant penance.
Later that same night. Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned by the French police to the Louvre. There is a cipher next to the dead, naked body. There is also pretty cryptologist Sophie Neveu. She and Langdon team up to solve the enigmatic riddles surrounding the murder that eventually lead them to clues hidden in the works of the artistic joker par excellence, Leonardo Da Vinci. Amid breath-taking car chases, never-ending riddle-solving, and false friends, Neveu and Langdon race towards a secret that has been hidden for centuries.
The phantasmagoric Priory of Sion; the artist who produced the most enigmatic painting of all time; a curator who bears the name of the protagonist in the Rennes-le-Château mystery; the Opus Dei, aka God´s mafia; a secret whose revelation would shake the Western world to its very foundations; the Sacred Feminine; exciting albeit outdated conspiracy theories; and, last but not least, a predictable love story.
Dan Brown has concocted a novel that draws on every possible element to make a best-seller. We hope that Ron Howard and Tom Hanks - who had already teamed up eleven years ago in "Apollo 13" - will make better use of all these ingredients that make for an exciting adventure. And that they will refrain from passing speculative theory and fantasy off as proven historical fact...
