A controversial but highly acclaimed memoir by writer Young Kim, A Year on Earth with Mr. Hell, traces her intense relationship with pioneering punk rocker Richard Hell. An erotic account that retains sensitivity and taste, Kim's memoir has been celebrated by luminaries including Bret Easton Ellis and has received plaudits in GQ and The Times. Noted journalist Matthew D'Ancona likened the text to the work of Nin ...

Justice as Right Actions presents an original theory of justice anchored in the analytical philosophical tradition. In contrast to many contemporary approaches, the theory provides normative guidance, rather than focusing solely on political structures and institutions, as the question of justice is seen to comprise both a moral inquiry concerned with questions of good and bad, right and wrong, and a political inquiry, concerned with the nature of the polity and how individuals relate to i...

The moral inquiry into the nature of justice is often marginalized, as contemporary discussions focus primarily on political considerations. Yet, the need to examine the moral framework of justice is fundamental. What is the point of justice, after all, if not to establish a moral framework for political interactions? The question resonates especially when recognizing that no monocultures exist over time and space. In examining Plato’s thoughts on individual and social morality (dikaiosune...

In pursuit of the question of law, Young Kim explores foundational political and moral concerns and develops a new normative theory of law. This theory of law may be stated as two principles, in lexical priority, as follows:First Principle: One should obey those laws of legal-rational political authority that do not otherwise violate societal norms and customs.Second Principle: Government should only enforce rules of human behavior of legitimate legal-rational political aut...

The role that race and religion play in American presidential elections is attracting national attention like never before. The 2008 presidential candidates reached out to an unprecedented number of racial and religious voting constituencies including African Americans, Latinos, Muslims, Mainline Protestants, Catholics, Evangelicals, Jews, women, the non-religious, and more. Religion, Race, and the American Presidency focuses on the roles of these racial and religious groups in presidentia...

There is widespread agreement that the world's most successful developing countries in the 1980s were those in Southeast Asia. Following in the footsteps of postwar Japan and more recently Korea, the populations of Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Hong Kong, and the Philippines have made enormous strides in income, industrial and agricultural production, exports, education, health, nutrition, consumption, and other development indicators. This book brings together political scient...

A "mesmerizing" novel of a love triangle and a mysterious disappearance in South Korea ( Booklist).In the fast-paced, high-urban landscape of Seoul, C and K are brothers who have fallen in love with the same beguiling drifter, Se-yeon, who gives herself freely to both of them. Then, just as they are trying desperately to forge a connection in an alienated world, Se-yeon suddenly disappears. All the while, a spectral, calculating narrator haunts the edges of...

Dopo un devastante terremoto al largo della Corea del Sud, Seo Mu-yeong rimane intrappolata a Haewon, un villaggio isolato di pescatori dove il misterioso morbo del Mare dell'Est sta trasformando gli esseri umani in creature deformi e marcescenti. A poco a poco, le risorse iniziano a scarseggiare e il villaggio, pervaso dall'odore di pesce putrido e dalla disperazione, è ormai in quarantena permanente. Mu-yeong, diventata una cacciatrice di infetti, si guadagna l'odio degli altri abitanti ...

From one of Korea's literary stars, a novel about two orphans from the streets of Seoul: one becomes the head of a powerful motorcycle gang, and the other follows him at all costsIn South Korea, underground motorcycle gangs attract society's castoffs. They form groups of hundreds and speed wildly through cities at night. For Jae and Dongyu, two orphans, their motorcycles are a way of survival.Jae is born in a bathroom stall at the Seoul Express Bus Terminal. ...

I wrote this free ebook to warn people that our current way of living beyond our means is not sustainable. Our governments and citizens have gone to great lengths to create debt levels which cannot continue to rise forever. During the first part of the book I wrote about how we are in a massive financial bubble which spreads across all asset classes, and then in the next part of the book I outlined how each of us can greatly dial down our expenses, pay down our debts, and prepare for the f...

This psychological thriller of a North Korean spy living in Seoul is "perhaps the most intriguing and accomplished Korean fiction yet to appear in English " ( Kirkus).Foreign film importer Kim Ki-Yong is a family man with a wife and daughter. Living a prosperous life in Seoul, South Korea, he's an aficionado of Heineken, soccer, and sushi. But he is also a North Korean spy who has been living among his enemies for twenty-one years. Then, a...

Un principe ereditario subisce una drammatica trasformazione biologica che cambierà il suo destino; esseri umani ridotti a una condizione subalterna diventano gli animali domestici di enormi draghi; robot con sembianze antropomorfe, unici sopravvissuti in un mondo ormai ghiacciato, si chiedono se sia mai esistita una vita organica sulla Terra. Queste sono alcune delle storie raccolte in L'origine delle specie, popolate da esseri umani e non umani che cercano di sopravvivere alle minacce po...