Far from always having been an isolated nation and a pariah state in the international community, North Korea exercised significant influence among Third World nations during the Cold War era. With one foot in the socialist Second World and the other in the anticolonial Third World, North Korea occupied a unique position as both a postcolonial nation and a Soviet client state, and sent advisors to assist African liberation movements, trained anti-imperialist guerilla fighters, and complete...

This edited volume brings together a set of essays exploring the global dimensions of Korea’s recent history and politics by a group of the most talented young scholars. Essays in the volume seek to answer two interrelated questions: How have international developments impacted Korea? And how has Korea in turn influenced world events and trends? The volume demonstrates that the most important issues in Korea’s post World War II history—division, war, economic development, and inter-Korean ...

Undertaking research with young people is an expanding approach within education, sociology, criminology, politics, youth work and psychology. This book introduces existing research methods such as interviews, focus groups, ethnography and creative methods, as well as covering newer methods including place-based methods, digital methods, co-production and co-authorship.Each thematic chapter is followed by a shorter invited case study, which puts the specific method...

You've been told to follow your dreams, and hustle hard—that's how you build a successful career. But when you're starting out as a professional after college, that advice can feel empty and confusing. No one hands you the real steps to do it. Harness Your Butterflies is your action plan to demystify your professional future and help you create a career full of passion and purpose.Walk through the decisions that sculpt your future work, starting with discovering what excit...

Reds, Revolutions, and Rebellions investigates how insurgent strategies from three revolutionary states—Mao's China, Guevara's Cuba, and Ho Chi Minh's Vietnam—shaped the tactics of armed movements across the Global South. The afterlife of twentieth-century communist guerilla warfare still echoes in contemporary warfare as armed Islamist groups, often seen as violently opposed to leftist principles, adopt the same military methods and tactics that ...

Entre un père absent et une mère alcoolique, Johanna Walker,vingt-quatre ans, a toujours agi dans l’intérêt de son petit frère Cole. Pour lui assurer un avenir confortable, elle va même jusqu’à choisir ses partenaires selon l’épaisseur de leur portefeuille… Mais avec Cameron MacCabe, ce fragile équilibre vole soudain en éclats. Si son nouveau collègue du Club 39 ne répond en rienà ses « critères de sélection », se montrant même particulièrement mesquin avec elle, son regard ténébreux laiss...

In this new account of Franklin's early life, Pulitzer finalist Nick Bunker portrays him as a complex, driven young man who elbows his way to success.From his early career as a printer and journalist to his scientific work and his role as a founder of a new republic, Benjamin Franklin has always seemed the inevitable embodiment of American ingenuity. But in his youth he had to make his way through a harsh colonial world, where he fought many battles with his rivals...

Durable social connections are priceless resources for support, companionship, and opportunity. They make life worth living. However, not everyone has equal access to these seemingly free social resources. Like many other valuable things in life, 'social capital' is both a source and a consequence of inequality throughout the population – something that reinforces the status quo and existing social hierarchies. In Friends and Fortunes, the authors painstakingly document that the distributi...

Quand Jocelyn Butler pénètre dans le magnifique appartement de Dublin Street, elle croit rêver. Ce cadre somptueux, elle va le partager avec sa colocataire, Ellie Carmichael, une jeune fille enjouée et curieuse. Si, pour le caractère secret de Jocelyn, se lier d’amitié a toujours été une épreuve, Ellie lui est aussitôt sympathique. En revanche, son frère, Braden, arrogant et beau comme un dieu, fait voler en éclats le fragile équilibre de Jocelyn. Car en plaquant tout pour venir s’installe...

The man known as Benjamin Franklin Young was a survivor of the 19th Century, a man who felt he wasn't fully dressed without his side-arms. He was a fighter, a lover, a survivor who made it into the Twentieth Century. The days of his youthful childhood were completely lost to him; the gun, the saddle, the smell of wood burning in the boiler of a train were gone. He moved to a pace at Fort Dick that was almost as primitive as the place he grew up in Indiana, but he still remembered what 1892...

The reality of the human person as a social and historical beingconstitute the attributes which influence man's daily living. Thesocial attribute is hinge on the historical dimension. This isbecause, throughout the history of humanity, there is always theaspect of the inter-relationship among men. These series Zofinter-relationship among are what keep the human societymoving, growing and developing. These relationships are basedon the...

Pour échapper à des parents toxiques, Grace, londonienne d’origine, s’est installée à Édimbourg. Elle est éditrice de romance à son compte, entourée d’amis très proches et habite un appartement qu’elle aime particulièrement. Cette vie que Grace a su créer avec force et détermination semble en tout point idéale. Il n’y manque, peut-être, qu’un petit ami aux qualités essentielles à ses yeux : compréhensif, protecteur et drôle. Tout l’opposé de son nouveau voisin, en somme. Logan, un don juan...