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Michael Breen

Just a few decades ago, the South Koreans were an impoverished, agricultural people. In one generation they moved from the fields to Silicon Valley. They accomplished this through three totally unexpected miracles: economic development, democratization, and the arrival of their culture to global attention.Who are the Koreans? What are they like? The New Koreans examines how they have been perceived by outsiders, the features that color their "national character," and how th...

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Michael Breen

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Ever the Night Road

*Winner of the Independent Publisher Book Award Gold Medal for Fantasy*Winner of the IAN Book of the Year Award for Outstanding Fantasy"A deliciously dark fantasy..."In the marsh, a boy vanishes, presumed to be lost within the cursed tower of aforbidden island.Across the water, in the quiet neighborhood of Rork, seventeen-year-old Dagny Loshlongs to reclaim the life she knew before the river washed ever...

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Michael Breen

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Ever the Night Road

The sequel to the award-winning indie novel, Ever the Night Road.This is a fantasy. Of a shifting city hidden in the weeds. Of princesses turned to metal and rust. Of knights eternal and a queen of dreams. And a deep underground.The adventure continues where Ever the Night Road left off. Now eighteen, Dagny Losh must brave the mythical, labyrinthine city of Jud, where streets and buildings shift with the twilight, and each door and alleyway may give rise to the most unexpec...

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Michael Breen

An expert on North Korea sheds new light on the enigmatic tyrantFrom his goose-stepping military parades to his clownish macho swagger, North Korea's Kim Jong-il is an odd amalgam of political cartoon and global menace. In charge of a nuclear arsenal he's threatened to use against the U.S. and Japan, the man, his motives, and the mechanisms of his absolute control over a country of twenty-three million people remains shrouded in mystery.In this second editi...

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Jaime Watt

Just as they do on those television cooking contests when the bell rings and the contestants’ hands go up, at four o’clock on Friday afternoon, the column is filed—ready or not—to the columnist’s horror, discomfort, or self-satisfaction. Regardless, one exigent and unrelenting thought remains: what you wish you’d said.Such is the life of a weekly newspaper columnist.Unable to ignore the urge any longer, in What I Wish I Said: Confessions of a Columnist, author Jaim...

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Michael Breen

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Politics in Asia

Nations built on exclusion and assimilation, decades of civil war, widespread poverty, authoritarianism and the decline of democracy. Nepal, Myanmar and Sri Lanka are travelling a road to federalism. Institutions and ethnic identity have interacted to privilege some and marginalise others. But when the right conditions prevail, political equality can be restored.This book charts the origins and evolution of federalism and other approaches to the accommodation of minority ethnic gro...

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Michael Breen

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Applied Linguistics and Language Study

Since it was first established in the 1970s the Applied Linguistics and Language Study series has become a major force in the study of practical problems in human communication and language education. Drawing extensively on empirical research and theoretical work in linguistics, sociology, psychology and education, the series explores key issues in language acquisition and language use.What the learner contributes is central to the language learning process. Learner Contributio...

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K.F. Breene

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Alyssa Keegan, Gabriel Michael, Nanette Savard, Terence Aselford, Earl Fisher, Ken Jackson, Rayner Gabriel, Zeke Alton, Rob McFadyen, Kay Elúvian

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Demon Days, Vampire Nights

"I'd thought the threat from Seattle was finished. That we showed up in time and took care of business.I hate being wrong. It really ruins my day.When Roger, the alpha of the North American pack, shows up at my door with the news that a demon has made it to the Underworld with knowledge of me, some hard decisions have to be made.Do I stay above ground, with all my magical friends, and wait for the battle to come to me? Or do I seek the demon out, and pluck the threa...

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K.F. Breene

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Alyssa Keegan, Gabriel Michael, Nanette Savard, Terence Aselford, Holly Adams, Julienne Irons, Ken Jackson, James Lewis, Elliot Dash, Joe Mallon, Ian Putnam

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Demon Days, Vampire Nights

"Heart pounding and laugh out loud funny, Wall Street Journal Bestselling author K.F. Breene will take you on a magical joy ride you won’t soon forget.Supernatural Bounty Hunter isn’t the sort of thing you see on LinkedIn. But with a rare type of magic like mine, I don’t have many options.So dangerous or not, the job is mine. And it was going fine, until an old as sin vampire stole my mark, and with it, my pay day.Knowing I’m poor and desperate, he has offered me a ...

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K.F. Breene

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Alyssa Keegan, Richard Rohan, Gabriel Michael, Nanette Savard, Terence Aselford, James Lewis, Julie Hoverson, Bill Gillett, Ken Jackson, Joel David Santner, Ian Putnam

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Demon Days, Vampire Nights

"It is a common truth in my life that when it rains, it pours.The killings that once plagued New Orleans are cropping up again in Seattle. The local office is stumped. I’m called out to lend a fresh set of eyes, and my unique magical touch.It’s only when I get there that I realize the Seattle office isn’t stumped at all.They’re being silenced by the Mages’ Guild, a corrupt magical institution that doesn't want word to get out of what is plaguing the city. Worse, new...

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Political Science and International Studies (R0)

This book explores federalism as a pathway for unity, stability, and inclusivity in Myanmar, a nation marked by ethnic diversity and historical struggles for autonomy. Bringing together leading scholars, practitioners, and civil society actors, it offers practical contributions to Myanmar’s evolving federal constitutional design and draws lessons applicable to other conflict-affected and divided societies. Through comparative analysis and ground case studies, the book explores competing vi...

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Politics in Asia

Featuring cases from India, China, Nepal, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Mongolia and Malaysia, the authors demonstrate and compare the differing uses of public deliberation in Asia.Many countries in Asia have long traditions of public deliberation, in both democratic and undemocratic settings, some of which continue today. Yet in the face of pressures from complex governance, popular protests and democratization, certain deliberative practices – notably deliberative polling – have...