Social investment policies have enjoyed prominence during recent welfare reforms across the OECD world, and yet there is insufficient long-term strategy for their success.Reviewing labour market, family and education policies, this edited collection analyses the emergence of social investment policies in both Europe and East Asia. Adopting a life course perspective and examining both public and private investments, this book addresses key contemporary policy issues including care, ...

**“Ghost story, family saga, parable, feminist reimagined myth: Angela Mi Young Hur’s hugely ambitious Folklorn is a spellbinding shape-shifter of a novel that tackles questions of race, culture, and history head-on, exploring the blurry boundaries between past and present, fact and fantasy, and personal and cultural—or cosmic.” —Celeste Ng, author of Little Fires EverywhereA New York Times Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Novel of 2021 | An NPR Best Book of 2021 | Indie N...

Ninth House meets Babel for fans of myth and folklore in this contemporary fantasy about a Korean-American college student at a magical university where fairy tales intersect with family heritage to unleash powers beyond imagining.“You always wanted magic to be real.”Sharon and her daughter V’s points of origin hold common threads—both Korean American teenagers, raised by single m...

The story of four damaged girls who love and avenge one another in the playground of New Yorks Korea-town. Reminiscent of Jeffrey Eugenidess 'The Virgin Suicides' and Joyce Carol Oatess 'Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang', 'The Queens of K-town' introduces us to twenty-six-year-old Cora Moon. She returns to New York bruised, broken-hearted, and on the verge of ending it all. Ten years after she watched her best friend leap off the roof of a building, shes trying to hold onto the pieces of h...

【繁體版】就算不是對方的最初，也冀望能成爲彼此最後的愛！夏宇楓的生命就是一個奇迹。他把每一天都當成最後一天來過，活得隨性卻潇灑不起來，總覺得心中有一塊空缺。因爲他沒愛過也不敢去愛，直到他邂逅了林可唯... ...林可唯爲了把瞞著家人參加地下賽車的弟弟逮回來，意外邂逅了街頭賽車手King！爲爭一口氣，她陰差陽錯上了King的車，還順帶在King的心裏留下深刻的印象。天曉得原來那個King的背景還大有來頭，竟然是自家頂頭老板的親弟弟！從此，她的人生起了重大變化~！————————————About the Author 關於作者[ 來自靈魂的信仰 / It's all about faith ]D.N.A 真正意義爲：夢想是永不孤單的（DreamsNeverAlone）內含潛在意思：文風/性格的極與極（Devil.N.Angel）（#DNA小說）業余網絡寫手 —— 只是想寫自己喜歡的故事。想要...

La revista Luvina y la Editorial de la Universidad de Guadalajara reúnen estos cien Cuentos de Asia, Europa y América para celebrar el número 100 de Luvina y sus veinticinco años ininterrumpidos de publicación. Son textos representativos de la literatura universal contemporánea que Luvina ha publicado, especialmente en los números dedicados al país invitado de honor de la Feria Internacional del Libro de Guadalajara. Es una muestra formada por distintas literaturas, en el afán de ...

**The Korean Charlotte's WebMore than 2 million copies sold**This is the story of a hen named Sprout. No longer content to lay eggs on command, only to have them carted off to the market, she glimpses her future every morning through the barn doors, where the other animals roam free, and comes up with a plan to escape into the wild—and to hatch an egg of her own.An anthem for freedom, individuality, and motherhood featuring a plucky, spirited heroine who re...

Ninth House meets Babel for fans of myth and folklore in this contemporary fantasy about a Korean-American college student at a magical university where fairy tales intersect with family heritage to unleash powers beyond imagining.“You always wanted magic to be real.”Sharon and her daughter V’s points of origin hold common threads—both Korean American teenagers, raised by single m...

A genre-defying, continents-spanning saga of Korean myth, scientific discovery, and the abiding love that binds even the most broken of families.Elsa Park is a particle physicist at the top of her game, stationed at a neutrino observatory in the Antarctic, confident she's put enough distance between her ambitions and the family ghosts she's run from all her life. But it isn't long before her childhood imaginary friend—an achingly familiar, spectral woman in thesnow—comes to ...

【繁體版】吉賽兒，她的名字。她愛上了一個獵人，盡管那個他並不是人類，甚至與她的關系對立……李維特爾，他的名字。有天，他愛上了一個女人，甚至願意爲此付出任何代價。___________________________________About the Author 關於作者[ 來自靈魂的信仰 / It's all about faith ]D.N.A 真正意義爲：夢想是永不孤單的（DreamsNeverAlone）內含潛在意思：文風/性格的極與極（Devil.N.Angel）（#DNA小說）業余網絡寫手 —— 只是想寫自己喜歡的故事。想要了解DNA的讀者們可浏覽：@linktr.ee/dreamsneveralone

【繁體版】殺手，是用自己的靈魂和鮮血作爲代價，並與死神寫下血之契約的人。他們並不無辜。遊走在社會邊緣，在灰色地帶沈浮不定。背負著罪惡，血債的枷鎖繁重......誰，會是他們的救贖...？——————一場命案牽扯出兩家世仇複雜的情感糾葛。擁有雙重身份的歐陽夜，跟親妹歐陽寒相依爲命。成年後的他在緣份的牽引下再次重逢爲了報殺父之仇而投身警界的冷情。義無反顧選擇愛情的歐陽夜極力在冷情面前掩飾自己的殺手身份。倆人的相戀究竟是死神的禁忌？還是愛神的祝福？被仇恨所蒙蔽的心靈無法得到救贖，冷晴的報複計劃在命運之神的安排下展開。跟歐陽夜兄妹情深的歐陽寒也無辜被卷進了這場被愛情包裝的仇恨風暴。醫術高明的歐陽淩個性沈著冷靜，把夜和寒兩兄妹視如己出般疼愛。十多年過去了，歐陽淩始終擔心著當年遺留下來的冷家孤女會來尋仇。他明察暗訪，一步一步地接近真相時，才發現原來事情並沒有想象中那麽簡單。歐陽夜對冷情的愛早已根深蒂固。在所有真相浮上台面時，他們終于發現自己早已離不開...