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  • A Primer of the Principles and Values of The Young Korean Academy

    by Marn J. Cha ...
    This book is about both a person and an organization.The person, Ahn Chang Ho, a Korean visionary, moralist, and patriot, was born in 1878, a tumultuous time in Asia. Japan, a rising military and industrial power, began to challenge the centuries-old Chinese dominance. It was their ambition to take control of Korea, then seize China itself, to become Asia’s supreme power.This was not going to ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Koreans in Central California (1903-1957)

    A Study of Settlement and Transnational Politics

    by Marn J. Cha ...
    The Korean Kingdom and the United States signed a Treaty of Amity and Commerce in 1882. This treaty opened Korea to American missionaries who proselytized Christianity to the Koreans. When Hawaii sugar planters recruited Koreans to come to Hawaii to work in the Hawaii sugar plantations, they picked most of the Korean Hawaii emigrants from the Korean Christian converts. Between 1902 and 1905, some ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

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    Ordinary Lives in North Korea

    An eye-opening account of life inside North Korea—a closed world of increasing global importance—hailed as a “tour de force of meticulous reporting” (The New York Review of Books), with a new afterword that revisits these stories—and North Korea more broadly—in 2022, in the wake of the pandemicNATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALISTIn this landmark addition to ... Read more

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  • Without You, There Is No Us

    Undercover Among the Sons of North Korea's Elite

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    A haunting account of teaching English to the sons of North Korea's ruling class during the last six months of Kim Jong-il's reignEvery day, three times a day, the students march in two straight lines, singing praises to Kim Jong-il and North Korea: Without you, there is no motherland. Without you, there is no us. It is a chilling scene, but gradually Suki Kim, too, learns the tune and, without ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Reveille for Radicals

    by Saul Alinsky ...
    Legendary community organizer Saul Alinsky inspired a generation of activists and politicians with Reveille for Radicals, the original handbook for social change. Alinsky writes both practically and philosophically, never wavering from his belief that the American dream can only be achieved by an active democratic citizenship. First published in 1946 and updated in 1969 with a new introduction and ... Read more

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  • The Aquariums of Pyongyang

    Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag

    "Destined to become a classic" (Iris Chang, author of The Rape of Nanking), this harrowing memoir of life inside North Korea was the first account to emerge from the notoriously secretive country -- and it remains one of the most terrifying.Amid escalating nuclear tensions, Kim Jong-un and North Korea's other leaders have kept a tight grasp on their one-party state, quashing any nascent opposition ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Bureau

    The Secret History of the FBI

    An award-winning investigative reporter reveals the "chilling . . . fascinating" secret history of the FBI ( Washington Post ).No institution is as critically important to America's security. No American institution is as controversial. And, after the White House, Congress, and the Supreme Court, no institution is as powerful. Yet until now, no book has presented the full story of the FBI.Based on ... Read more

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  • The Beautiful Tree

    A personal journey into how the world's poorest people are educating themselves

    by James Tooley ...
    Upon its release several years ago, The Beautiful Tree was instantly embraced and praised by individuals and organizations across the globe. James Tooley's extraordinary ability to braid together personal experience, community action, individual courage, and family devotion, brought readers to the very heart of education. This book follows Tooley in his travels from the largest shanty town in ... Read more

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  • TOGAF® 9 Certified Study Guide - 2nd Edition

    The TOGAF 9 certification program is a knowledge-based certification program. It has two levels, leading to certification for TOGAF 9 Foundation and TOGAF 9 Certified, respectively. The purpose of certification to TOGAF 9 Certified is to provide validation that, in addition to the knowledge and comprehension of TOGAF 9 Foundation level, the Candidate is able to analyze and apply this knowledge. ... Read more

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  • Whose Streets?

    The Toronto G20 and the Challenges of Summit Protest

    Edited by Tom Malleson, David Wachsmuth ...
    In June 2010 activists opposing the G20 meeting held in Toronto were greeted with brutal and arbitrary state violence. Whose Streets? is a combination of testimonials from the front lines and analyses of the broader context, an account that both reflects critically on what occurred in Toronto and looks ahead to further building our capacity for resistance.Featuring reflections from activists who ... Read more

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  • Under The Same Sky

    From Starvation in North Korea to Salvation in America

    In this "courageous and inspiring memoir," a young man recounts his escape from an impoverished childhood and adolescence in North Korea ( Kirkus Reviews).Inside the hidden and mysterious world of North Korea, Joseph Kim lived a young boy's normal life until he was five. Then disaster struck: the first wave of the Great Famine, a long, terrible ordeal that killed millions, including his father, ... Read more

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  • Korean Business Etiquette

    The Cultural Values and Attitudes that Make Up the Korean Business Personality

    South Korean companies and technology have suddenly conquered the world. Samsung, Hyundai and LG are industry leaders and the global brands. Korean culture in the form of K-Pop music videos and "Korean Wave" films and TV dramas are watched everywhere from Tel Aviv to Singapore to Rio. Korean gourmet food trucks ply the streets of New York and LA, and kimchi has found a place on the shelves of well ... Read more

    $11.59 USD