Kasih di Tiga Ufuk


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Yasmin marah terhadap perbuatan papanya yang menghancurkan perasaan mamanya. Dia benci terhadap Nenek Mary kerana menjadi punca perpisahan mama dengan papanya. Disebabkan mereka juga, dia terpisah dengan Dahlia, kakaknya. Mamanya pula kemudian meninggalkannya untuk selama-lamanya. Bagaimanakah dia dapat menghadapi semua perkara yang langsung tidak menyebelahi nasibnya? Namun, kemarahan dan kebencian itu reda apabila Yasmin melihat keadaan Nenek Mary dan mengetahui perkara sebenar tentang papa dan kakaknya. Perasaan kasih dan sayang pula meresap ke dalam sanubarinya. Dia terpaksa membuat pilihan. Mampukah Yasmin menyatukan kasihnya dan membahagiakan orang-orang yang disayanginya?




Kahwin Tiga Kali


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KALAU dah jodoh, tak ke mana. Ikan di laut, asam di darat, di dalam periuk bertemu jua. Begitulah diibaratkan dengan Farizan Natasha yang bertemu jodoh dengan Tengku Azman setelah kecewa diceraikan Shah Iskandar, suami tercinta. Namun disangka panas hingga ke petang, rupanya hujan di tengah hari. Dia diduga untuk kali kedua. Tengku Azman pergi meninggalkan Farizan Natasha bersama Engku Nisha dan kandungan yang semakin membesar. Shah Iskandar pula mula menyesali kesilapan diri dan ingin menagih kasihnya kembali. Darwish, lelaki yang dikenali hampir 25 tahun dahulu, pernah menjadi lelaki yang dicintai Farizan Natasha. Mereka berdua terpisah oleh peredaran masa. Di Terengganu, mereka berdua kembali bertemu. Siapakah yang akan memiliki cinta dan membahagiakan Farizan Natasha dan anak-anaknya? “Buat masa ni, Sha tahulah abang sayangkan Sha. Tapi esok lusa manalah tahu kan kut-kut abang dah jumpa bidadari, terus tinggalkan Sha. Abang, Sha sayangkan abang dengan sepenuh hati. Janji dengan Sha yang abang takkan tinggalkan Sha ya.” - Farizan Natasha. “Bila abang pandang wajah dia, abang terbayangkan Sha dan bila abang pandang wajah Sha, abang terbayangkan dia. Abang amat mencintai kedua-duanya, Sha.” – Shah Iskandar. “Idea yang bagus tu. Kita ikut sunah nabi, perempuan pinang lelaki. I like!” - Tengku Azman. “Maksud abang, kalau nanti kita bertemu semula dan kalau-kalau masa tu kita berdua belum kahwin, kita berdua kahwin ajelah.” - Darwish.




Musical Nationalism in Indonesia


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This book charts the growth of the Indonesian nationalistic musical genre of lagu seriosa in relation to the archipelago's history in the 1950s and 1960s, examining how folk songs were implemented as a valuable tool for promoting government propaganda. The author reveals how the genre was shaped to fit state ideologies and agendas in the Sukarno and Soeharto eras. It also reveals the very significant role played by Radio Republik Indonesia in the genre’s development and dissemination. Little research has been done to investigate how Indonesian music contributed to nation-building during Indonesia’s immediate post-colonial period. Emulating the European art song, the genre was adapted to compose songs with the purpose of promoting a strengthened collective Indonesian identity, fostered by a group of musicians who functioned as gatekeepers, monitoring and devising various mechanisms for songs to conform to the propagandistic needs of the Indonesian government at the time. The result was the development of classical style of singing and the cultivation of a patriotic collection of music during the Guided Democracy period (1959–1965), which peaked at the height of the Konfrontasi (1963–1966). Lagu seriosa lost popularity as popular music infiltrated Indonesia in the 1970s, but it remains an iconic yet understudied aspect of the nationalistic agenda in Indonesia. The case studies of selected songs reflected continuity and change in musical style and over time. This book is of interest to scholars studying the intersection between history, politics, identity, arts and cultural studies in Indonesia. It is also of interest to researchers investigating the role of music in identity formation and nation-building more widely.




MAGIS


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Fenomena Halo telah mengheret lima manusia yang berlainan tempat dan berbeza tahun ke sebuah dunia magis. Sebuah dunia di hujung waktu ketika tamadun serta peradaban manusia mulai terhakis. Mereka yang terpilih adalah Saifudin, Tombiruo, Mikhail, Ryu-Watanabe dan Carlos. Terjebak ke lokasi yang berbeza-beza. Saifudin bertemu Syeikh Thauban – satu-satunya manusia penjaga masjid. Dipercayai masjid terakhir yang terselamat. Tombiruo yang kini berwajah manusia dan tampan, jatuh cinta pada seorang perempuan Tur-Kus yang rupawan bernama Juvia. Ryu-Watanabe diselamatkan orang-orang Memalik yang menghuni underground city di Derinkuyu. Mikhail pula bergaul hidup dalam gerombolan dubuk yang pandai berkata-kata. Manakala Carlos menjadi tawanan perang di Buyuk Bulsinatur. Dia dijagai perempuan pendamping bernama Cinnie. Masa secara perlahan-lahan telah mempertemukan mereka. Namun di kalangan mereka ada yang berpihak kepada kejahatan yang diterajui seekor makhluk gagah dipanggil Tuan Turak – pemimpin boneka di sebalik satu kuasa yang lebih kejam lagi dahsyat. Apabila dunia semakin dihampiri Dukhan (asap tebal,) maka peperangan tidak mampu dielakkan lagi. Mereka bertempur sampai mati!




Sunan Musafir


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ALLAH menciptakan cinta, justeru cinta harus dipertahankan dengan sebaik-baik cara. Maka itu sebagai manusia, Saifudin atau Laksamana Sunan tidak terlepas daripada belenggu cinta. Tahun 1511 merupakan detik keindahan, cabaran serta air mata. Pengembaraan Saifudin berserta sahabat-sahabatnya ternyata bukan satu perjalanan yang mudah. Fikiran Saifudin agak terganggu apabila mendengar khabar bahawa isterinya masih hidup. Namun, benarkah Sang Dewi itu adalah isterinya, Ratna mantan Ratu Sulaman? Atau sekadar jelmaan? Pada tahun 1531 – Saifudin yang sudah berusia memutuskan untuk bermukim di Pinggir Hulu Melaka. Dia mengisi hari tuanya dengan menghambakan diri kepada ALLAH dan meninggalkan dunia pertarungan. Bagaimanapun, kejahatan seolah-olah mengejarnya sampai ke hujung nyawa. Berjayakah Saifudin menewaskan mereka? Ramlee Awang Murshid dalam karya terkini, SUNAN MUSAFIR, lebih banyak bermain dengan ‘ruang dan waktu’. Lebih menitikberatkan ‘cinta dan air mata’. Mengutamakan ‘perjuangan dan kesabaran’. Yakinilah... pada ketika diri merasakan tidak mempunyai sesiapa, ALLAH itu mencukupi segala-galanya.




Gentle Touch


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After losing her mother to breast cancer, Jacquelyn Wilkes finds solace in a career as an oncology nurse. But her dreams of the future crumble when new doctor, Jonah Martin, brings his flamboyant style to the clinic. Hes exactly the opposite of what Jacquelyn thinks a doctor should be until she discovers that a lump in her own breast is malignant.--




A Literary Mirror


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A Literary mirror is the first English-language work to comprehensively analyse Indonesian-language literature from Bali from a literary and cultural viewpoint. It covers the period from 1920 to 2000. This is an extremely rich field for research into the ways Balinese view their culture and how they respond to external cultural forces. This work complements the large number of existing studies of Bali and its history, anthropology, traditional literature, and the performing arts. A Literary Mirror is an invaluable resource for those researching twentieth-century Balinese authors who wrote in Indonesian. Until now, such writers have received very little attention in the existing literature. An appendix gives short biographical details of many significant writers and lists their work.




An Indonesian-English Dictionary


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"This dictionary is meant primarily as a tool for English speakers who need to know Indonesian and who deal with Indonesian writings. The aim has thus been to give comprehensive coverage to forms a foreigner might run across in Indonesian readings, from this era or from the past, but excluding classical Malay literature, Much of the Indonesian written production (written and otherwise) contains slangy, colloquial, and regional forms, and we have not excluded such forms. On the other hand we have confined the listing of dialectical forms only to those likely to be widely known...The dictionary should also be useful to Indonesians who wish to learn English equivalents of Indonesian words, but it has not been developed primarily for that purpose, because many English words can only be defined by a sequence of Indonesian words." from Introduction.




Computational Genomic Signatures


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Recent advances in development of sequencing technology has resulted in a deluge of genomic data. In order to make sense of this data, there is an urgent need for algorithms for data processing and quantitative reasoning. An emerging in silico approach, called computational genomic signatures, addresses this need by representing global species-specific features of genomes using simple mathematical models. This text introduces the general concept of computational genomic signatures, and it reviews some of the DNA sequence models which can be used as computational genomic signatures. The text takes the position that a practical computational genomic signature consists of both a model and a measure for computing the distance or similarity between models. Therefore, a discussion of sequence similarity/distance measurement in the context of computational genomic signatures is presented. The remainder of the text covers various applications of computational genomic signatures in the areas of metagenomics, phylogenetics and the detection of horizontal gene transfer. Table of Contents: Genome Signatures, Definition and Background / Other Computational Characterizations as Genome Signatures / Measuring Distance of Biological Sequences Using Genome Signatures / Applications: Phylogeny Construction / Applications: Metagenomics / Applications: Horizontal DNA Transfer Detection




Malay Literature


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