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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

    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

    Was $11.29 USD Now $2.99 USD

  • Bojagi

    The Art of Korean Textiles

    by Youngmin Lee ...
    A creative guide to a unique and beautiful form of Korean art, steeped in ancient tradition.Bojagi are textiles that wrap, cover, carry, or store objects. Some are made from whole pieces of fabric and some are patched together from small scraps of cloth - they are a unique form of Korean textile art. The careful arrangement of shapes and colours shows an abstract composition which has made bojagi ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • 朝鮮半島六百年史:政爭、外患與地緣政治

    by 新城道彥 ...
    Translated by 黃琳雅 ...
    Series series 瞭望
    日本第45屆「三得利學藝獎」得獎作品新近研究集成 寫給新世代的韓半島簡明通史◆透過東亞國際關係一線學者的宏大視角深入黨派鬥爭與地緣政治的暗流湧動揭開近代韓國歷史背後的角力真相--------------綜觀韓國歷史,朝鮮半島不僅是外部勢力爭奪的棋盤,更是內部激烈政爭與追求獨立的血淚體現。歷經高麗、朝鮮王朝到韓國,各股力量在半島上相互拉扯裂解,最終促成南北分治的獨立。「分裂」,是理解朝鮮半島歷史的關鍵詞。這是一部全面性的朝鮮半島通史,以地緣政治視角切入,精簡且有系統地概述半島是如何、以及為何走向分裂,幫助讀者掌握關鍵。本書拉長討論時間軸,從 14 世紀高麗王朝衰落與朝鮮王朝建立,17世紀與周邊斡旋,19世紀列強進逼,直至 20 世紀中葉韓戰停戰,仔細爬梳這六百年間造成半島分裂的各種歷史驅動力,包括歷朝各朋黨的傾軋,以及來自日、清、俄的競逐角力。書中鋪陳這些內部政治鬥爭與外部權力平衡的驅動力是如何出現 ... Read more

    Was $10.71 USD Now $9.11 USD

  • The Koreas

    The Birth of Two Nations Divided

    What history, pop culture, and diaspora can teach us about North and South Korea today.Korea is one of the last divided countries in the world. Twins born of the Cold War, one is vilified as an isolated, impoverished, time-warped state with an abysmal human rights record and a reclusive leader who perennially threatens global security with his clandestine nuclear weapons program. The other is ... Read more

    $13.29 USD

  • In Order to Live

    A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom

    **“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

    $9.69 USD

  • Dawn of Labor

    Series series Hawai‘i Studies on Korea
    Dawn of Labor, at last translated into English, is the legendary South Korean poet Park Nohae’s first collection, published in 1984 when he was twenty-seven years old. Despite a government ban, the book sold a million copies and propelled Park Nohae as the generation’s leading resistance poet. Dawn of Labor is an enduring classic that shook a society, transformed lives, and demonstrated the power ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • 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

    $12.69 USD

  • The Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot

    A True Story About the Birth of Tyranny in North Korea

    by Blaine Harden ...
    From the New York Times bestselling author of Escape From Camp 14, Blaine Harden tells the riveting story of Kim Il Sung's rise to power, and the brave North Korean fighter pilot who escaped the prison state and delivered the first MiG-15 into American handsIn The Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot, New York Times bestselling author Blaine Harden tells the riveting story of how Kim Il Sung grabbed ... Read more

    $12.69 USD

  • The Films of Bong Joon Ho

    by Nam Lee ...
    Series series Global Film Directors
    Bong Joon Ho won the Oscar® for Best Director for Parasite (2019), which also won Best Picture, the first foreign film to do so, and two other Academy Awards. Parasite was the first Korean film to win the Palme d’Or at Cannes. These achievements mark a new career peak for the director, who first achieved wide international acclaim with 2006’s monster movie The Host and whose forays into English ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Patriots, Traitors and Empires

    The Story of Korea's Struggle for Freedom

    Patriots, Traitors and Empires is an account of modern Korean history, written from the point of view of those who fought to free their country from the domination of foreign empires. It traces the history of Korea's struggle for freedom from opposition to Japanese colonialism starting in 1905 to North Korea's current efforts to deter the threat of invasion by the United States or anybody else by ... Read more

    Was $18.09 USD Now $15.59 USD

  • Attack at Chosin

    The Chinese Second Offensive in Korea

    For members of the U.S. Army’s “Task Force Faith” and the First Marine Division, the Battle of Chosin Reservoir is an epic story of survival, courage, and ingenuity. Their exploits are well known—woven into the storied histories of the U.S. Army and Marine Corps. Now, for the first time, Attack at Chosin recounts this battle from the Chinese perspective, describing the advance that forced General ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Korea's Place in the Sun: A Modern History (Updated)

    A Modern History

    by Bruce Cumings ...
    "Passionate, cantankerous, and fascinating. Rather like Korea itself."--Nicholas D. Kristof, New York Times Book ReviewKorea has endured a "fractured, shattered twentieth century," and this updated edition brings Bruce Cumings's leading history of the modern era into the present. The small country, overshadowed in the imperial era, crammed against great powers during the Cold War, and divided and ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • Korean Sketches

    A Presbyterian missionary gives a rare eye-witness account of 19th century KoreaThis eBook edition of Korean Sketches by James Scarth Gale, originally published in 1898, is annotated with historical background and contains detailed Table Of Contents and NavigationWhat's In The BookFirst ImpressionsThe CoolieThe Yalu And BeyondFrom Poverty To RichesThe Korean PonyAcross KoreaThe Korean<... ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • The Impossible State

    North Korea, Past and Future

    by Victor Cha ...
    In The Impossible State, seasoned international-policy expert and lauded scholar Victor Cha pulls back the curtain on provocative, isolationist North Korea, providing our best look yet at its history and the rise of the Kim family dynasty and the obsessive personality cult that empowers them. Cha illuminates the repressive regime's complex economy and culture, its appalling record of human rights ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Surviving Imperial Intrigues

    Korea’s Struggle for Neutrality amid Empires, 1882–1907

    by Sangpil Jin ...
    Series series Hawai‘i Studies on Korea
    In Surviving Imperial Intrigues, Sangpil Jin explores how successful Korean neutralization could have radically transformed the balance of power equation in East Asia. He conducted multilocational archival work, analyzing documents from the Austro-Hungarian Empire Ministry of Foreign Affairs, British Foreign Office, French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, German Foreign Office, Japanese Ministry of ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • A Thousand Miles to Freedom

    My Escape from North Korea

    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

    $9.09 USD

  • Empire and Righteous Nation

    600 Years of China-Korea Relations

    Series Book 14 - The Edwin O. Reischauer Lectures
    From an award-winning historian, a concise overview of the deep and longstanding ties between China and the Koreas, providing an essential foundation for understanding East Asian geopolitics today.In a concise, trenchant overview, Odd Arne Westad explores the cultural and political relationship between China and the Koreas over the past 600 years.Koreans long saw China as a mentor. The first form ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • Joseon, the Land of Morning Calm

    Modern Korea of the 19th Century

    In the 19th century, Korea was still little known to the West. Korea was in a transition period changing into a modern country out of a feudatory state, Joseon. It was a time of hope and confusion. The author, Percival Lowell stayed in the Far East, mostly in Japan from 1883 to 1893. He served as secretary and counselor to the Korean special mission to the US. While staying in Korea, he wrote ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Park Chung Hee Era

    The Transformation of South Korea

    In 1961 South Korea was mired in poverty. By 1979 it had a powerful industrial economy and a vibrant civil society in the making, which would lead to a democratic breakthrough eight years later. The transformation took place during the years of Park Chung Hee's presidency. Park seized power in a coup in 1961 and ruled as a virtual dictator until his assassination in October 1979. He is credited ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Yalu River 1950–51

    The Chinese spring the trap on MacArthur

    Series Book 346 - Campaign
    This gripping study details the crisis point of the Korean War: the UN advance across into North Korea and the following Chinese offensive that drove the forces back south of the 38th Parallel.Following the Inchon landings and the breakout from the Pusan Perimeter, UN forces crossed the North Korean border on 9 October and moved on the capital Pyongyang. Many in America believed the war would be ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Communication, Digital Media, and Popular Culture in Korea

    Contemporary Research and Future Prospects

    In recent decades, Korean communication and media have substantially grown to become some of the most significant segments of Korean society. Since the early 1990s, Korea has experienced several distinctive changes in its politics, economy, and technology, which are directly related to the development of local media and culture. Korea has greatly developed several cutting-edge technologies, such ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • The Nine Cloud Dream

    Translated by Heinz Insu Fenkl ...
    **Korea’s most prized literary masterpiece: a Buddhist journey questioning the illusions of human life—presented in a vivid new translation by PEN/Hemingway finalist Heinz Insu Fenkl*Named one of the year's most anticipated books by The New York Times, The Millions, and i09***Often considered the highest achievement in Korean fiction, The Nine Cloud Dream poses the question: Will the life we dream ... Read more

    $10.59 USD

  • A Brief History of Korea

    Isolation, War, Despotism and Revival: The Fascinating Story of a Resilient But Divided People

    Series series Brief History of Asia Series
    Exploring Korean history from its ancient roots to the present day, A Brief History of Korea is the story of a people with a rich and united culture that has become two Koreas in modern times—one isolated and secretive and the other among the world's most successful economies. Korean culture developed on a 600-mile-long peninsula, bordered on the north by mountains and three sides by the sea, set ... Read more

    Was $12.39 USD Now $9.89 USD

  • Immovable Object

    North Korea's 70 Years At War with American Power

    by A. B. Abrams ...
    North Korea and the United States have been officially at war for over 70 years, one of the longest lasting and most unbalanced conflicts in world history, in which a small East Asian state has held its own against a Western superpower for over three generations. With the Western world increasingly pivoting its attention towards Northeast Asia, and the region likely to play a more central role in ... Read more

    $13.69 USD