This timely project on the Arab Spring was initiated to provide The Asan Institute's own assessment of the changes currently taking place in the region and their significant implications for South Korea.

This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of Islamic studies find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook provides bibliographic information supported by direct recommendations about which sources to consult an...

In this 2010 edition of their book on the economic development of the Middle East and North Africa, Clement Henry and Robert Springborg reflect on what has happened to the region's economy since 2001. How have the various countries in the Middle East responded to the challenges of globalization and to the rise of political Islam, and what changes, for better or for worse, have occurred? Utilizing the country categories they applied in the previous book and further elaborating the significa...

This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of Islamic studies find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook provides bibliographic information supported by direct recommendations about which sources to consult an...

The famous poem featuring new illustrations from Susan Spellman - guaranteed to delight readers of any age.

"Endymion is the largest work by John Keats and was composed between April and November 1817. When it was published in April 1818 the critical reception was almost universally hostile. Since that time, many readers have found the poem dense and inaccessible, and have preferred to focus on the occasional gems of poetic commentary for which it has become famous. Feeling that the poem was both undervalued and misunderstood, in 1919 Professor Clement Notcutt published a lengthy essay, which co...

In the realm of Romantic poetry, John Keats's "Endymion" stands as a masterpiece of ethereal beauty and enigmatic symbolism. Henry Clement Notcutt's "An Interpretation of Keats's Endymion" delves into the intricate tapestry of this epic poem, unraveling its hidden meanings and illuminating its profound themes. Notcutt's insightful analysis explores the mythological underpinnings, allegorical layers, and philosophical musings that permeate Keats's masterpiece. Through a meticulous examinati...

Frankenstein's creature survived. But he didn't disappear. Instead, he became the ultimate observer of humanity, an eternal outsider watching a world race toward a future forged in the very hubris that created him.Decades after his creator's death, the creature-now a solitary guardian of the wilderness-discovers that Dr. Victor Frankenstein's brand of scientific ambition did not die with him. In the rapidly unfolding Age of Progress, a new breed of industr...

H. G. Wells's classic The Invisible Man (1897) concluded with the violent death of its anti-hero, Griffin, who was beaten by a mob and became visible again in death. Griffin's groundbreaking formula for invisibility seemed to die with him. However, the only surviving record of his experiments, his coded scientific notebooks, fell into the hands of a tramp named Thomas Marvel. In the epilogue, Marvel secretly kept those notebooks hidden, vowing that "none other will know of them until he di...

Dracula may be gone, but his shadow remains.In The Undying, a new story begins where Bram Stoker's Dracula ended. Strange happenings stir in the quiet town of Whitby. Whispers return. Lights vanish. Something unseen moves again through the night.This gothic novelette follows the people left behind - those who survived the terror once and now must face its echo. As fear spreads, the line between past and present blurs, and old secrets rise to the surface.

Australia has no war hero more impressive than Tongerlongeter. Leader of the Oyster Bay nation of south-east Tasmania in the 1820s and '30s, Tongerlongeter and his allies led the most effective frontier resistance ever mounted on Australian soil. They killed or wounded some 354— or 4 per cent— of the invaders of their country. Tongerlongeter's brilliant campaign inspired terror throughout the colony, forcing Governor George Arthur to launch a massive military operation in 1830— the infamou...

As the Caribbean and Latin America confront the significant socio- economic and political challenges of the twenty- first century, the contributors to this book present a timely and relevant assessment of these issues, from a fresh small-states perspective. The collection of articles by academics and practitioners in international relations offer practical recommendations for greater collaboration among the states in areas related to migration, cooperation among states in the Guiana Shield...