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  • Pacific

    Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World's Superpowers

    by Simon Winchester ...
    One of Library Journal’s 10 Best Books of 2015Following his acclaimed Atlantic and The Men Who United the States, New York Times bestselling author Simon Winchester offers an enthralling biography of the Pacific Ocean and its role in the modern world, exploring our relationship with this imposing force of nature.As the Mediterranean shaped the classical world, and the Atlantic connected Europe to ... Read more

    PHP668.09

  • In Order to Live

    A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom

    by Yeonmi Park, Maryanne Vollers ...
    **“I am most grateful for two things: that I was born in North Korea, and that I escaped from North Korea.” —Yeonmi Park“One of the most harrowing stories I have ever heard—and one of the most inspiring.” —The Bookseller**In In Order to Live, Yeonmi Park shines a light not just into the darkest corners of life in North Korea, describing the deprivation and deception she endured and which millions ... Read more

    PHP589.99

  • The Birth of Korean Cool

    How One Nation Is Conquering the World Through Pop Culture

    by Euny Hong ...
    A FRESH, FUNNY, UP-CLOSE LOOK AT HOW SOUTH KOREA REMADE ITSELF AS THE WORLD'S POP CULTURE POWERHOUSE OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURYBy now, everyone in the world knows the song "Gangnam Style" and Psy, an instantly recognizable star. But the song's international popularity is no passing fad. "Gangnam Style" is only one tool in South Korea's extraordinarily elaborate and effective strategy to become a ... Read more

    PHP664.09

  • Escape from Camp 14

    One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West

    by Blaine Harden ...
    **“If you have a soul, you will be changed forever by Blaine Harden’s *Escape from Camp 14." —*Mitchell Zuckoff, New York Times bestselling author of Lost in Shangri-LaThe heartwrenching New York Times bestseller about the only known person born inside a North Korean prison camp to have escaped**North Korea’s political prison camps have existed twice as long as Stalin’s Soviet gulags and twelve ... Read more

    PHP323.29

  • Samsung Rising

    The Inside Story of the South Korean Giant That Set Out to Beat Apple and Conquer Tech

    by Geoffrey Cain ...
    **An explosive exposé of Samsung that “reads like a dynastic thriller, rolling through three generations of family intrigue, embezzlement, bribery, corruption, prostitution, and other bad behavior” (The Wall Street Journal).LONGLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES AND MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD**Based on years of reporting on Samsung for The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, and Time, ... Read more

    PHP880.89

  • Ghost Flames

    Life and Death in a Hidden War, Korea 1950-1953

    by Charles J. Hanley ...
    A powerful, character-driven narrative of the Korean War from the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer who helped uncover some of its longest-held and darkest secrets.The war that broke out in Korea on a Sunday morning seventy years ago has come to be recognized as a critical turning point in modern history -- as the first great clash of arms of the Cold War, the last conflict between superpowers, the ... Read more

    PHP1,010.29

  • Togani

    by Ji-young Gong, Bruce Fulton ...
    Translated by Bruce Fulton, Ju-Chan Fulton ...
    Series series Modern Korean Fiction
    Atmospheric and fast-paced, this novel of manners set in a provincial South Korean city leads readers through the silent corridors of a school for hearing-impaired children and the city’s foggy back streets and murky centers of power to a stirring courtroom climax. Gong Ji-young’s Togani (The Crucible), published in Korean in 2009, is based on a historic case of child sexual abuse at a state-run ... Read more

    PHP1,286.89

  • A Thousand Miles to Freedom

    My Escape from North Korea

    by Eunsun Kim, Sébastien Falletti ...
    Translated by David Tian ...
    Eunsun Kim was born in North Korea, one of the most secretive and oppressive countries in the modern world. As a child Eunsun loved her country...despite her school field trips to public executions, daily self-criticism sessions, and the increasing gnaw of hunger as the country-wide famine escalated.By the time she was eleven years old, Eunsun's father and grandparents had died of starvation, and ... Read more

    PHP557.69

  • A History of Korea

    From "Land of the Morning Calm" to States in Conflict

    by Jinwung Kim ...
    A history of the divided region, from prehistoric times to present day, examining at political, social, cultural, economic, and diplomatic developments.Contemporary North and South Korea are nations of radical contrasts: one a bellicose totalitarian state with a failing economy; the other a peaceful democracy with a strong economy. Yet their people share a common history that extends back more ... Read more

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  • Palaces of Korea

    by Kim Dong uk ...
    Series series Korean Culture Series
    Korean Culture Series 3Palaces of KoreaThis book introduces the historical background and unique architectural styles of Korea’s palaces, which can be differentiated from the influences of East Asian palace architecture. The book offers descriptions of East Asian capitals and palaces, a brief history of palaces in Korea, the everyday life and ceremonies of palaces, Korean palace architecture, and ... Read more

    PHP307.38

  • The Hidden History of the Korean War, 1950–1951

    by I. F. Stone ...
    Series Book 10 - Forbidden Bookshelf
    "A great journalist" raises troubling questions about the forgotten war in this courageous, controversial book—with a new introduction by Bruce Cumings ( The Baltimore Sun)."Much about the Korean War is still hidden, and much will long remain hidden. I believe I have succeeded in throwing new light on its origins." —From the author's prefaceIn 1945 US troops arrived in Korea for what would become ... Read more

    PHP791.19 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Concise History of Korea

    From Antiquity to the Present

    by Michael J. Seth ...
    This comprehensive book surveys Korean history from Neolithic times to the present. Michael J. Seth explores the origins and development of Korean society, politics, and still little-known cultural heritage from their inception to the two Korean states of today. Throughout, he adds a rare dimension by placing Korean history into broader global perspective. All readers looking for a balanced, ... Read more

    PHP2,901.09

  • The Korean War in Asia

    A Hidden History

    Edited by Tessa Morris-Suzuki ...
    Series series Asia/Pacific/Perspectives
    This book takes a fresh look at the Korean War by considering the conflict from a Northeast Asian regional perspective. It highlights the connections of the war to earlier conflicts in the region and examines the human impact of the war on neighboring countries, focusing particularly on the ways in which the Korean War shaped regional cross-border movements of people, goods, and ideas (including ... Read more

    PHP2,320.99

  • Comfort Women and Sex in the Battle Zone

    by Ikuhiko Hata ...
    Comfort Women and Sex in the Battle Zone is an exhaustive examination of the controversial issue of comfort women, who provided sexual services to Japanese soldiers before and during World War II. This book provides extensive documents and narratives by witnesses to shed light on the reality of these women who worked in the battle zone. The book also covers Japan’s political and diplomatic ... Read more

    PHP5,749.79

  • East Asia at the Center

    Four Thousand Years of Engagement with the World

    by Warren I. Cohen ...
    A common misconception holds that Marco Polo "opened up" a closed and recalcitrant "Orient" to the West. However, this sweeping history covering 4,000 years of international relations from the perspective of China, Japan, Korea, and Southeast Asia shows that the region's extensive involvement in world affairs began thousands of years ago.In a time when the writing of history is increasingly ... Read more

    PHP1,418.79

  • Our Time

    Training, Deploying, and Combat with Company C, 2Nd Battalion, 47Th Infantry

    by LTC John E. Gross ...
    The 9th Infantry Division was formed in a new and unique way in 1966. Traditionally, soldiers attended basic training on one Army post, Advanced Individual Training (AIT) at another, then reported to their units to begin serving with soldiers they had never met. The 9th was different. Recruits reported directly to the units they would serve in combat with. They received their basic and AIT under ... Read more

    PHP245.78

  • Negotiation Dynamics to Denuclearize North Korea

    Cohesion and Disarray

    Edited by Su-Mi Lee, Terence Roehrig ...
    Comprehensive examination of the goals, strategies, and motives of the six parties involved in North Korea denuclearization talks through the lens of negotiation theory.Was there ever a window of opportunity for successful negotiations over North Korea's nuclear weapons program? Negotiation Dynamics to Denuclearize North Korea brings together country experts with negotiation specialists to apply ... Read more

    PHP2,048.49

  • The Return Journeys of Koryo Saram

    Tracing Roots and Routes

    by Jinhye Lee ...
    Series series Korean Communities across the World
    This book offers a critical examination of the migration and settlement of Koreans in the former Soviet region, situating the Koryo Saram within the broader context of the Korean diaspora.Tracing their complex history from Imperial Russia through the Soviet era and into the present, Jinhye Lee investigates how policies of assimilation, socio-political transformations, and shifting geopolitical ... Read more

    PHP5,274.99

  • Korean International Students and the Making of Racialized Transnational Elites

    by Sung-Choon Park ...
    Series series Korean Communities across the World
    Global mobility does not erase inequality-it often remakes it in new and revealing ways.This book examines highly skilled and privileged Asian migrants - Korean international students who obtain permanent residency in the United States - as a form of racialized transnational elite. Drawing on in-depth interviews conducted in both New York City and South Korea, Sung-Choon Park traces how these ... Read more

    PHP5,486.19

  • The Korean Singer of Tales

    by Marshall R. Pihl ...
    Series Book 37 - Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series
    P'ansori, the traditional oral narrative of Korea, is sung by a highly trained soloist to the accompaniment of complex drumming. The singer both narrates the story and dramatizes all the characters, male and female. Performances require as long as six hours and make extraordinary vocal demands. In the first book-length treatment in English of this remarkable art form, Pihl traces the history of p ... Read more

    PHP1,136.49

  • City of Sediments

    A History of Seoul in the Age of Colonialism

    by Se-Mi Oh ...
    Once the capital of the five-hundred-year Chosŏn dynasty (1392–1897) and the Taehan Empire (1897–1910), the city of Seoul posed unique challenges to urban reform and modernization under Japanese colonial rule in the early twentieth century, constrained by the labyrinthian built environment of the old Korean capital. Colonial authorities attempted to employ a strategy of "erasure"—monumental ... Read more

    PHP1,638.59

  • Historical Atlas of Northeast Asia, 1590-2010

    Korea, Manchuria, Mongolia, Eastern Siberia

    by Narangoa Li, Robert Cribb ...
    Four hundred years ago, indigenous peoples occupied the vast region that today encompasses Korea, Manchuria, the Mongolian Plateau, and Eastern Siberia. Over time, these populations struggled to maintain autonomy as Russia, China, and Japan sought hegemony over the region. Especially from the turn of the twentieth century onward, indigenous peoples pursued self-determination in a number of ways, ... Read more

    PHP9,701.19

  • Korean Folk Dance

    by Lee Byoung-ok ...
    Series series Korean Culture Series
    Korean Culture Series 13Korean Folk DanceThis is the first volume fully theorizing the Korean folk dance tradition. Folk dances from various regions are introduced and their characteristics are discussed. Korean dance reflects an accord between labor and art which connects work, shaman rites, amusements, and drama into one comprehensive art. This book also provides the underlying spirit of Korean ... Read more

    PHP307.38

  • MacArthur's Korean War Generals

    by Stephen R. Taaffe ...
    Series series Modern War Studies
    Winner: Captain Richard Lukaszewicz Memorial Book AwardWedged chronologically between World War II and Vietnam, the Korean War—which began with North Korea’s invasion of South Korea in June of 1950—possessed neither the virtuous triumphalism of the former nor the tragic pathos of the latter. Most Americans supported defending South Korea, but there was considerable controversy during the war as to ... Read more

    PHP1,463.19