Running Behavioral Experiments With Human Participants: A Practical Guide provides a concrete, practical roadmap for the implementation of experiments and controlled observation using human participants. Covering both conceptual and practical issues critical to implementing an experiment, the book is organized to follow the standard process in experiment-based research, covering such issues as potential ethical problems, risks to validity, experimental setup, running a stu...

A Kim Jong-Il Production by Paul Fischer - love, films and kidnapping in North Korea, the world's wildest regimeBefore becoming the world's most notorious dictator, Kim Jong-Il ran North Korea's film industry. He directed every film made in the country but knew they were nothing compared to Hollywood. Then he hit on the perfect solution: order the kidnapping of South Korea's most famous actress and her ex-husband, the country's most acclaimed director.In a jaw-drop...

In Kim Jong-un’s Strategy for Survival, David W. Shin contends that Kim Jong-un's consolidation of power at home and the leveraging of Beijing, Moscow, Seoul, and Washington, and others abroad show that he is not a madman and, like the two earlier Kims, has consistently been underestimated. Shin presents an alternative framework for Kim Jong-un’s behavior through his analysis of Kim's background and his development as the successor to his father, Kim Jong-il; the evolution of the totalitar...

There are many ways civilisation could end, even with wise, benevolent leaders like Kim Jong-un, Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin watching over us. Now, in this fun interactive story of global doom, YOU decide how humanity perishes.Will we be turned to grey goo by Elon Musk’s nanobots?Driven collectively insane by Russia’s most potent memes?Or smashed to atoms by someone sitting on the wrong button in North Korea?In this book, YOU will meet the leaders with the...

This ambitious book is constructed to provide the reader with unusually broad and deep insight into North Korea, illustrating how the Kim Jong-un regime calculates, balances, and addresses the various key policy challenges it faces. This will be accomplished through the extensive experience of the authors—Korean, European, and American—in North Korea and with North Koreans. There is no substitute for such direct experience in order to address the numerous myths and misconceptions that have...

This book shows how North Korea's nuclear programme is central to Kim Jong-un's strategy for survival and leverage, tracing its roots to the origins of the North Korean state and the evolution of its security policies under Kim Jong-il. It analyses how, upon assuming power, Kim rapidly accelerated nuclear weapons development, culminating in advanced missile tests and a declared nuclear deterrent. This programme plays a key role in promoting regime legitimacy and national security and is de...

Une guerre nucléaire va-t-elle éclater dans la péninsule coréenne ?Depuis l'arrivée de Donald Trump à la Maison Blanche, le péril d'un conflit apocalyptique avec la Corée du Nord, maîtresse du feu nucléaire, n'a jamais été aussi palpable. Les États-Unis oseront-ils la frapper militairement, au risque de déclencher des représailles aux conséquences incalculables pour toute la planète ?Dans cette enquête exceptionnelle menée au cours de plusieurs séjours en Cor...

A groundbreaking account of the rise of North Korea’s Kim Jong Un—from his nuclear ambitions to his summits with President Donald J. Trump—by a leading American expert“Shrewdly sheds light on the world’s most recognizable mysterious leader, his life and what’s really going on behind the curtain.”—NewsweekWhen Kim Jong Un became the leader of North Korea following his father's death in 2011, predictions about his imminent fall were ...

Antes de convertirse en el dictador más famoso del mundo, Kim Jong-Il dirigía el Ministerio de Propaganda y los estudios de cine de Corea del Norte. Era el cerebro tras cada película, el productor y el guionista. Pero él solo no era suficiente, por lo que ordenó el secuestro de la actriz más famosa de Corea del Sur, y su exmarido, director de cine. Ella vivió en una jaula dorada, de la que solo se le permitía salir para los saraos oficiales. Él tuvo que pasar por la "reeducación" en campos...

‘The young dictator comes under close scrutiny in this intelligent account’ Sunday TimesWhen Kim Jong Un became the leader of North Korea in 2011, many expected his rule to be short. Years later, he remains the unchallenged dictator of a nuclear rogue state with weaponry capable of threatening the West.In this behind-the-scenes look, former CIA analyst and North Korea expert Jung H. Pak reveals the explosive story of Kim Jong II’s third son: the sp...

'De roep van de berg' van Kim Michele Richardson is het derde deel in haar 'De laatste libelle'-serie. Kentucky, 1936. Cussy Lovett, een vrouw met een zeldzame blauwe huidskleur, belandt onterecht in de gevangenis, maar probeert het hoofd hoog te houden. Helaas moeten haar medegevangenen niets van haar weten en zadelt het personeel haar op met de zwaarste klussen. Wanneer er iemand wordt gezocht om te helpen in de gevangenisbibliotheek, ziet Cussy haar kans om te ontsnappen aan de zware ro...

Le Grand Successeur raconte pour la première fois la vie longtemps maintenue secrète de Kim Jong-un, le leader de la Corée du Nord. Pour enquêter sur ce dictateur obsédé par la survie de son clan à la tête du régime, la journaliste Anna Fifield a pu entrer plusieurs fois en Corée du Nord, et a rencontré des membres de la famille en exil.Elle raconte l'enfance dorée et ultra-sécurisée de Kim Jong-un à Pyongyang au début des années 1990, sa scolarité en Suisse sous un faux nom ; puis ...