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The Abacus and the Sword, The Japanese Penetration of Korea, 1895-1910
• Peter Duus
• HISTORY
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In this scholarly analysis, Duus argues that Japanese aggression at the dawn of the 20th century was driven by both military and political gains (the sword), and economic gain (the abacus).
(JPN254, $28.95)
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The Aquariums of Pyongyang, Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag
• Kang Chol-Hwan
• Pierre Rigoulot
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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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.
(KOR22, $16.95)
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Bradt North Korea
• Robert Willoughby
• GUIDEBOOK
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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)
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Communism, A History
• Richard Pipes
• HISTORY
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A short, fiercely critical history of communism from the ideas of Karl Marx to the end of the 20th century.
(GEN367, $13.95)
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Comrades and Strangers, Behind the Closed Doors of North Korea
• Michael Harrold
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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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, $19.95)
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God Lives in St. Petersburg, and Other Stories
• Tom Bissell
• LITERATURE
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Six fast-paced tales set in Kazakhstan, Afghanistan and the Aral Sea by the author of Chasing the Sea.
(CAS117, $13.95)
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Hungry For Peace, International Security, Humanitarian Assistance, And Social Change In North Korea
• Hazel Smith
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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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)
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Insight Guide East Asia: China, Taiwan, Korea, Japan
• Insight Guides
• GUIDEBOOK
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An illustrated guide to the history, culture and traditions of China, Taiwan, Korea and Japan featuring 250 color photographs and 16 maps.
(ASA27, $24.95)
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Khubilai Khan, His Life and Times
• Morris Rossabi
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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This fascinating, scholarly portrait of the culture and politics of 13th-century Asia examines Khubilai Khan's rise to power, the submission of Korea and the attempted invasion of Japan.
(CAS10, $22.95)
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Kim Il Sung, The North Korean Leader
• Dae-Sook Suh
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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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)
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Kim Il-Song's North Korea
• Helen-Louise Hunter
• HISTORY
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In this declassified C.I.A. report, Hunter gives insight into North Korean society and Kim Il-Song, the leader that ruled it for 45 years.
(KOR29, $91.95)
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Korean, Start Speaking Today
• Language/30
• LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
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A 90-minute crash course in Korean, featured on compact disc with a phrasebook.
(KOR32, $21.95)
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Nation Building in South Korea, Koreans, Americans, and the Making of a Democracy
• Gregg Brazinsky
• HISTORY
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Brazinsky posits that modern South Korea, one of the few postcolonial nations that achieved rapid economic development and democratization by the end of the twentieth century, can be attributed to a distinctive combination of American initiatives and Korean agency.
(KOR38, $45.00)
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North Korea, Another Country
• Bruce Cumings
• HISTORY
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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)
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Pyongyang, A Journey in North Korea
• Guy Delisle
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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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, $19.95)
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Pyongyang, The Hidden History of the North Korean Capital
• Chris Springer
• GUIDEBOOK
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A historical guide with photos and site-by-site descriptions of buildings and monuments of North Korea's showcase capital.
(KOR23, $25.00)
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Soul of the Tiger, Searching for Nature's Answers in Southeast Asia
• Jeffrey A. McNeely
• Paul Spencer Sochaczewski
• NATURAL HISTORY
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A meditation on the role of animals and nature in the societies of Southeast Asia. With dark humor, the authors wax philosophical about conservation issues throughout the region.
(SEA02, $18.95)
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A State Of Mind
• Daniel Gordon
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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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)
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Under The Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader, North Korea and the Kim Dynasty
• Bradley K. Martin
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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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, $19.95)
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War Letters, Stories of Courage, Longing and Sacrifice
• Robert Kenner
• HISTORY
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A dramatic presentation of letters home, produced by PBS.
(WAR77, $19.98)
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A Woman's Asia
• Marybeth Bond
• ANTHOLOGY
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These thirty-five personal, often hilarious accounts of women's adventures from China to Sri Lanka to Turkey to Bhutan, not only illuminating the everyday, oft-overlooked cultural practices of Asia, but also giving a glimpse into the thoughts and feelings of the female traveller.
(ASA49, $17.95)
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