North Korea: State of Paranoia, Paperback

'If the 1960s were a wild weekend and the 1980s a hectic day at the office, the 1970s were a long Sunday evening in winter, with cold leftovers for...

An extraordinary photographic exploration of North Korea, from a Westerner who lived in Pyongyang and explored the country beyond for nearly two ye...

This Element evaluates the shifting relationship between the state, society, and markets in North Korea in an authoritarian context. By opening the...

Reducere. North Korea: Unmasking Three Generations of Mad Men explores the mysterious legacy of the Kim family. From the annexation of Korea by Japan to the ...

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DescriptionThis new edition of Bradt's North Korea has been completely written from scratch and remains the only standalone guide to what is often ...

A fascinating exploration of structures of government and rule around the world

Publisher: TurbspublishingNumber of pages: 60Publication date: 2012Dimensions: 226 x 152 x 5Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): Erik Yama Ti...

This book is the product of research undertaken at the African Development Bank (AfDB) on the lessons that the continent of Africa can draw from th...

Examines the ways in which compressed modernity, Cold War conflict, and ideological opposition has impacted the revival of traditional forms in bot...

Readers were instantly beguiled by Rob Brezsny's new approach to the humble horoscope when his "Free Will Astrology" column first appeared in 1996....

In this ambitious and innovative study Gregg Brazinsky examines American nation building in South Korea during the Cold War. Marshaling a vast arra...

WINNER OF THE SAMUEL ELIOT MORISON AWARD FOR NAVAL LITERATURE ``I devoured Act of War the way I did Flyboys, Flags of Our Fathers and Lost in Shang...

But among the statues, portraits and propaganda of leaders Kim Il-Sung and his son Kim Jong-Il - the world's only Communist dynasty - Delisle was a...

Reducere. In 1968 Fran and Jay Yardley, a young couple with pioneering spirit, moved to a remote corner of the Adirondacks to revive the long-abandoned but h...

In this unique and insightful book, Markus Bell explores the hidden histories of the men, women, and children who traveled from Japan to the world'...

Reducere. Asian/Pacific American Award for Children's Literature winner Ellie Crowe and bestselling children's author Scott Peters tell this gripping story a...

DescriptionThough North Korea holds the attention of the world, it is still rare for us to hear North Korean voices, beyond those few who have esca...

In January of 1965, twenty-four-year-old U.S. Army sergeant Charles Robert Jenkins abandoned his post in South Korea, walked across the DMZ, and su...

Contributor(s): Author: Loretta NapoleoniIn her characteristically direct approach, political analyst Loretta Napoleoni takes on the vexing story a...

As part of a series of reports in which RAND researchers examine the established concepts of deterrence and develop a framework for evaluating the ...

Paperback edition of this unique and timely account of life in North Korea from BBC journalist John Sweeney, who posed as a university professor to...

North Korea, the world's most closed off country, has begun to make a different move. Kim Jung-un has opened dialogue with South Korea and is also ...

Never-before-seen North Korea - a rare glimpse into the country behind the politics and the creativity behind the propaganda

Reducere. DescriptionCrisscrossing her home state of North Carolina over the course of six tasty years, Foy Allen Edelman visited families in their own kitch...

Reducere. The comedy and travel writing legend takes a deep journey into the world's most secretive country. The book behind the Channel 5 documentary.

Through direct access to DPRK leadership, Glyn Ford proposes that the media myth of a 'mad' or 'rogue' North Korea is unhelpful, that there is rati...

Diplomatic expert Patrick McEachern unpacks the contentious and tangled relationship between the two Koreas in an approachable question-and-answer ...

In 2010, while working on a PhD in South Korea, Andray Abrahamian visited the other Korea, a country he had studied for years but never seen. He re...

This book looks at external economic strategies that North Korea will show much interest in and are related with East Asian economic integration pr...

Reducere. Robert S. Kim contributes to a fuller understanding of Asia in World War II by revealing the role of American Christian missionary families in the ...

Reducere. In the aftermath of the events that nearly killed him, Parker Chipp is trying to learn to cope better with life as a Watcher. And it seems to be wo...

A spectacularly revealing and harrowing portrait of ordinary lives in the world's least ordinary country, North Korea. Newly updated in 2013

Reducere. When ambitious British journalist Jack Steele travels to the Russian Far East to investigate the mysterious disappearance of two UN officials, he b...

Reducere. When hope shatters through the most oppressive darkness ...Deep in the heart of the North Korean regime, men and women are praying, fighting, and e...

Reducere. Operating from a clandestine camp on an island off western North Korea, Army Lt. Ben Malcom coordinated the intelligence activities of eleven parti...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Bob CashnerIllustration(s): Colour artwork plates and maps; black & white and colour photographs and...

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Reducere. A searing story of starvation and survival in North Korea, followed by a dramatic escape, rescue by activists and Christian missionaries, and succe...

Santajat sa patrunda in lumea spionajului industrial, Adam descopera ca, odata intrat in joc, poate trai cu adevarat visul american - este bogat, c...

The story of Kilsoo Haan's brilliant espionage, first against Japan and then against the Soviet Union - a huge advantage spurned.