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    Series series Hidden Alpha Investing
    Numbers don't make you rich. Controlling your emotions does.Most people's first reaction is doubt or skepticism. But instead of spending that money on your next cup of coffee, give this book a chance to show you what's truly possible.Smart investors make dumb decisions not because they lack skill, but because they fall into emotional traps they don't even see. Fear. Overconfidence. Herd thinking. ... Read more

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  • Double Glass Ceiling

    The Class Effects of Gender Representation

    Series series Elements in Gender and Politics
    This Element sheds light on the intersectionality of class and gender in political representation. Although the working class is grossly underrepresented in most legislative bodies across the globe, the underrepresentation of the working class is particularly severe among female representatives. This Element examines the political significance of the shortage of working-class women in political ... Read more

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  • Into the Vortex of War

    A Korean Interpreter's Close Encounter with the Enemy

    by Yong Hyun Kim ...
    This is the true story of one man's inspired struggle for his freedom during the Korean War. He was a college student supporting himself with a night job in Seoul, South Korea when it was invaded by North Korea. Trapped in the occupied city, he was starving and penniless. He faced intense hardships and was forced to take drastic measures to outwit the enemy and ensure his survival. Using his ... Read more

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  • Cultural Values, Institutions, and Trust

    Series series Routledge Advances in Sociology
    Using experimental surveys as a primary source, Kim and Kim compare a wide range of developed countries to assess the determinants of generalized social trust.With data from Belgium, France, Italy, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, the Netherlands, and the United States, Kim and Kim present a detailed picture of trust at the individual level, across different ethnic groups, and across different ... Read more

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  • Virtual Hallyu

    Korean Cinema of the Global Era

    “[T]his fine book . . . . enlarges our vision of one of the great national cinematic flowerings of the last decade.”—Martin Scorsese, from the forewordIn the late 1990s, South Korean film and other cultural products, broadly known as hallyu (Korean wave), gained unprecedented international popularity. Korean films earned an all-time high of $60.3 million in Japan in 2005, and they outperformed ... Read more

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  • Hegemonic Mimicry

    Korean Popular Culture of the Twenty-First Century

    In Hegemonic Mimicry, Kyung Hyun Kim considers the recent global success of Korean popular culture—the Korean wave of pop music, cinema, and television, which is also known as hallyu—from a transnational and transcultural perspective. Using the concept of mimicry to think through hallyu's adaptation of American sensibilities and genres, he shows how the commercialization of Korean popular culture ... Read more

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  • The Remasculinization of Korean Cinema

    Series series Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
    In one of the first English-language studies of Korean cinema to date, Kyung Hyun Kim shows how the New Korean Cinema of the past quarter century has used the trope of masculinity to mirror the profound sociopolitical changes in the country. Since 1980, South Korea has transformed from an insular, authoritarian culture into a democratic and cosmopolitan society. The transition has fueled anxiety ... Read more

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  • Flexibility of Group Actions on the Circle

    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    In this partly expository work, a framework is developed for building exotic circle actions of certain classical groups.The authors give general combination theorems for indiscrete isometry groups of hyperbolic space which apply to Fuchsian and limit groups. An abundance of integer-valued subadditive defect-one quasimorphisms on these groups follow as a corollary.The main classes of groups ... Read more

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  • Cities and Economies

    Series series Routledge Critical Introductions to Urbanism and the City
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  • The Huns

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    Series series Peoples of the Ancient World
    This volume is a concise introduction to the history and culture of the Huns. This ancient people had a famous reputation in Eurasian Late Antiquity. However, their history has often been evaluated as a footnote in the histories of the later Roman Empire and early Germanic peoples. Kim addresses this imbalance and challenges the commonly held assumption that the Huns were a savage people who ... Read more

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  • Music, Theology, and Justice

    Music does not make itself. It is made by people: professionals and amateurs, singers and instrumentalists, composers and publishers, performers and audiences, entrepreneurs and consumers. In turn, making music shapes those who make it—spiritually, emotionally, physically, mentally, socially, politically, economically—for good or ill, harming and healing. This volume considers the social practice ... Read more

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  • Geopolitics in Late Antiquity

    The Fate of Superpowers from China to Rome

    by Hyun Jin Kim ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Ancient History
    Geopolitics in Late Antiquity explores the geopolitical revolution which shook the foundations of the ancient world, the dawning of the millennium of Inner Asian dominance and virtual monopoly of world power (with interludes) that began with the rise of the Huns and then continued under the hegemony of various other steppe peoples. Kim examines first the geopolitical situation created by the rise ... Read more

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