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Essential Books These 5 items are available for $88, including
U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXKOR03)		  
Bradt North Korea  •  Robert Willoughby
GUIDEBOOK •  2007 •  PAPER  • 240 PAGES
A practical, detailed overview of North Korea with information on tours, red tape and security issues, national parks, restaurants and cultural concerns. (KOR28, $24.99)		   Bradt North Korea
North Korea, Another Country  •  Bruce Cumings
HISTORY •  2004 •  PAPER  • 256 PAGES
A provocative examination of North Korea that contradicts many commonly held assumptions. Bruce Cumings is a professor of history at Chicago University and an expert on North Korea. (KOR21, $15.95)		   North Korea, Another Country
The Aquariums of Pyongyang, Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag  •  Kang Chol-Hwan  •  Pierre Rigoulot
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •  2005 •  PAPER  • 256 PAGES
At the age of nine Kang Chol-Hwan was sent with his family to a remote concentration camp by the North Korean government, where he remained for the next ten years. Now a journalist in South Korea, Chol-Hwan describes his brutalized childhood in a stark, direct style. His co-author Rigoulot was an editor of The Black Book of Communism. (KOR22, $16.95)		   The Aquariums of Pyongyang, Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag
Under The Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader, North Korea and the Kim Dynasty  •  Bradley K. Martin
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •  2006 •  HARD COVER  • 896 PAGES
A detailed portrait of Kim Il Sung and his son and successor Kim Jong-Il, their monstrous egos, appetites and monuments, and of the relationship of North Korea to the rest of the world, by a Newsweek bureau chief. (KOR18, $22.99)		   Under The Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader, North Korea and the Kim Dynasty
Korea Map  •  Nelles
MAP
A detailed, full-color travel map covering both North and South Korea at a scale of 1:1,500,000. Two Sides. 20x31 inches. (KOR31, $13.95)		  



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Pimsleur Quick & Simple Korean  •  Pimsleur Language Method   • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS  •  Four audio CDs with eight 30-minute lessons in basic Korean, covering elementary vocabulary and phrases used in travel and everyday situations. (KOR17, $19.95)
 		  
A State Of Mind  •  Daniel Gordon   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  This British documentary focuses on two young North Korean gymnasts and their preparations for the Mass Games, a highly complex, choreographed performance that involves thousands of audience members. (KOR24, $29.95)
 		  
Hungry For Peace, International Security, Humanitarian Assistance, And Social Change In North Korea  •  Hazel Smith   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  A study of the famine that devastated North Korea during the 1990's and it's consequences. Author Hazel Smith argues that the famine caused North Korea to adjust in more ways than the West realizes. (KOR26, $19.95)
 		  
Korea's Twentieth-century Odyssey  •  Michael E. Robinson   • HISTORY  •  Robinson deftly traces the modern history of Korea with admirable brevity. (KOR50, $28.95)
 		  
Meltdown, The Inside Story of the North Korean Nuclear Crisis  •  Mike Chinoy   • HISTORY  •  Meticulously reported and riveting, Meltdown chronicles the failure of Washington's dealings with North Korea during the Bush administration. (KOR48, $17.99)
 		  
Nothing to Envy, Ordinary Lives in North Korea  •  Barbara Demick   • HISTORY  •  Demick follows the lives of six North Koreans over 15 years -- a chaotic period that saw the rise to power of Kim Jong Il and the devastation of a famine that killed one-fifth of the population. (KOR44, $16.00)
 		  
Politics and Culture in South and North Korea  •  Dennis Hart   • HISTORY  •  This introduction to the social and political development of North and South Korea places their rival regimes and ideologies side by side. (KOR53, $44.95)
 		  
Rogue Regime, Kim Jong Il and the Looming Threat of North Korea  •  Jasper Becker   • HISTORY  •  A seasoned Asia corespondent, Becker warns of the dangers posed by the North Korean regime in this unflinching overview of the horrors inflicted upon the Korean people by father and son Kim. (KOR19, $17.95)
 		  
The Cleanest Race, How North Koreans See Themselves- and Why It Matters  •  B. R. Myers   • HISTORY  •  Myers turns North Korea's slogans, myths and propaganda upside-down in this engaging overview of a very strange place. This revised paperback edition includes a consideration of Kim Jong-On. (KOR54, $20.00)
 		  
The Coldest Winter, America and the Korean War  •  David Halberstam   • HISTORY  •  In a powerful new history of the Korean War, Pulitzer-winning Halberstam combines research, detail and reportorial skill miscalculations of General Douglas MacArthur. (KOR34, $35.00)
 		  
The Imperial Cruise, A Secret History of Empire and War  •  James Bradley   • HISTORY  •  Bradley follows in the wake of the epic 1905 voyage aboard the Manchuria, headlined by first daughter, Alice Roosevelt, and William Howard Taft, Roosevelt's secretary of war, in this bold account of Teddy Roosevelt and the far-reaching legacy of his foreign policy in Korea, Hawaii, China and the Philippines. (PAC226, $16.99)
 		  
The Korean War, A History  •  Bruce Cumings   • HISTORY  •  Leading Korean War scholar Cumings covers the war from both the Korean and American perspectives, including its impact on Americans at home, in this succinct and authoritative text. An excellent resource for students, scholars and anyone wanting to understand the U.S.'s relationship with North and South Korea. (KOR51, $16.00)
 		  
The Man from Pakistan, The True Story of the World's Most Dangerous Nuclear Smuggler  •  Douglas Frantz   • HISTORY  •  The gripping tale of Abdul Qadeer Khan, Pakistani father of the Islamic bomb and mastermind behind an enterprise that sold nuclear secrets to Iran, North Korea and Libya. (WAR138, $14.99)
 		  
The Two Koreas, A Contemporary History  •  Don Oberdorfer   • HISTORY  •  A history of North and South Korea covering the last 25 years, including information on North Korea's nuclear capabilities. (KOR07, $22.95)
 		  
Comrades and Strangers, Behind the Closed Doors of North Korea  •  Michael Harrold   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  As the first Briton to live and work in North Korea under President Kim Il Sung's regime, author Michael Harrold gained unprecedented insight into the lives of elite and everyday North Koreans before he was asked to leave in 1994. (KOR27, $24.95)
 		  
Kim Il Sung, The North Korean Leader  •  Dae-Sook Suh   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  A historical study of the first North Korean president Il Sum King. Dae-Sook Suh is the Director of the Center for Korean Studies at the University of Hawaii. (KOR25, $32.50)
 		  
Pyongyang, A Journey in North Korea  •  Guy Delisle   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  DeLisle captures the absurd, nightmarish and bizarre of life in North Korea under Kim Jong Il in this graphic novel of his two-month-long stint overseeing animation for a French kid's show. (KOR30, $14.95)
 		  
The World Is Bigger Now, An American Journalist's Rescue from Captivity in North Korea  •  Euna Lee   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  One of the television journalists famously detained in North Korea for four months in 2009 tells her story of imprisonment and release in this memoir interwoven with commentary on the state of world politics. (KOR52, $25.00)
 		  
 
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