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Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West by Blaine Harden Publisher Comments A New York Times bestseller, the shocking story of one of the few people born in a North Korean political prison to have escaped and survived. North Korea is isolated and hungry, bankrupt and belligerent. It is also armed with nuclear weapons. Between... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $18.50 Used - Hardcover 
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The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves and Why It Matters by B R Myers Publisher Comments Understanding North Korea through its propaganda What do the North Koreans really believe? How do they see themselves and the world around them? Here B.R. Myers, a North Korea analyst and a contributing editor of The Atlantic, presents the first full... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick Publisher Comments A National Book Award finalist and National Book Critics Circle finalist, Barbara Demick’s Nothing to Envy is a remarkable view into North Korea, as seen through the lives of six ordinary citizens Award-winning journalist Barbara Demick... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Two Koreas : Contemporary History-updated (Rev 01 Edition) by Don Oberdorfer Publisher Comments Don Oberdorfer has written a gripping narrative history of Korea's travails and triumphs over the past three decades. The Two Koreas places the tensions between North and South within a historical context, with a special emphasis on the involvement of... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $12.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Korea: A Walk Through the Land of Miracles by Simon Winchester Publisher Comments In the late 1980s, New York Times bestselling author Simon Winchester set out on foot to discover the Republic of Korea — from its southern tip to the North Korean border — in order to set the record straight about this enigmatic and elusive... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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North Korea Through the Looking Glass (00 Edition) by Kong Dan Oh Publisher Comments Exploiting domestic and international news broadcasts and international news broadcasts and defector testimony, this book explores what the leadership and masses believe about their current predicament and why they refuse to adopt more pragmatic... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $19.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Spirit of Independence: A Primer of Korean Modernization and Reform by Syngman Rhee Publisher Comments Syngman Rhee (Yi Sung-man, 1875-1965) is undoubtably one of the most important figures in modern Korean history. He emerged as the dominant leader in Korea's nationalist struggle against Japan and served as the first president of the Republic of Korea... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $23.96 Google eBooks - Electronic
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History of Korea (Palgrave Essential Histories) by Kyung Moon Hwang Publisher Comments A concise, lively history of Korea, which explores the richness of Korean civilization from the ancient era through to the jarring transformation that resulted in two distinctive trajectories through the modern world. Chapters flow... (read more) Your price: $28.95 New - Trade Paper
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Under the Black Umbrella : Voices From Colonial Korea, 1910-1945 (01 Edition) by Hildi Kang Publisher Comments In the rich and varied life stories in Under the Black Umbrella, elderly Koreans recall incidents that illustrate the complexities of Korea during the colonial period. Hildi Kang here reinvigorates a period of Korean history long shrouded in the silence... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $15.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Korean Methodist Church in Australia and New Zealand: History and Character (Hardcover) by Yong-sun Yang Synopsis is an important book for the study of Korean Christianity in Australia and New Zealand. This important book contains 8 articles by Korean Christian clergy and scholars who have experienced the vibrancy of Korean Christianity in Australia and New Zealand.... (read more) Your price: $70.75 New - Hardcover
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A Concise History of Modern Korea: From the Late Nineteenth Century to the Present by Michael J. Seth Synopsis This comprehensive and balanced history of modern Korea explores the social, economic, and political issues it has faced since being catapulted into the wider world at the end of the nineteenth century. Placing this formerly insular society in a global... (read more) Your price: $40.25 New - Trade Paper 
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North Korea by Ian Jeffries Publisher Comments "As one of the nations comprising George W. Bush's 'axis of evil' and a suspected nuclear power in an already tense region, North Korea has been the subject of intense attention recently. Now for the first time there is a comprehensive compendium of... (read more) List Price $190.00 Your price: $182.88 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Guides to Economic and Political Developments in Asia #1: North Korea a Guide to Economic and Political Developments by Ian Jeffries Publisher Comments There is much intense interest in North Korea at present. This partly arises from questions about Korea's nuclear capability and intentions, and about the extent to which North Korea may be viewed as 'a rogue state' or part of 'the axis of evil'. In... (read more) Your price: $211.50 New - Hardcover
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The Making of Modern Korea: A History (Asia's Transformations) by Adrian Buzo Publisher Comments This text provides an accurate, balanced and readable history of Korea from 1909 to the present day. Key features of the book include: *Comprehensive coverage of Korean History *Analysis of important contemporary developments *A comparative... (read more) Your price: $180.25 New - Hardcover
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North Korea: A Country Study by Robert L. Worden Publisher Comments This series of country handbooks is a recognized standard in the field of social science. Each study is written by a multidisciplinary team of social scientists, who work to portray a particular foreign country through dynamic descriptions of its history,... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price: $8.87 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Korea's Twentieth-century Odyssey by Michael Edson Robinson Publisher Comments For more than half of the twentieth century, the Korean peninsula has been divided between two hostile and competitive nation-states, each claiming to be the sole legitimate expression of the Korean nation. The division remains an unsolved problem dating... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $22.19 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Koreans: Contemporary Politics & Society by Donald St Macdonald Publisher Comments In this new edition, Donald Clark has thoroughly revised and updated Donald Macdonald’s widely praised introduction to Korea, describing and assessing the volatile and dramatic developments on the peninsula over the last five years. Remaining true... (read more) List Price $47.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Sources of Korean Tradition: Volume 2: From the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Centuries (Introduction to Asian Civilizations) by Yongho Ch'oe Publisher Comments Modeled after the classic Sources of Chinese Tradition, Sources of Japanese Tradition, and Sources of Indian Tradition, this collection of seminal primary readings in the social, intellectual, and religious traditions of Korea from the sixteenth century... (read more) Your price: $122.25 New - Hardcover
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Korea, the Divided Nation by Edward A. Olsen Publisher Comments Following its liberation from Japanese colonialism, at the end of WWII, Korea was divided into two separate nations. Because the Korean nation enjoyed a long dynastic history, its postwar partition was particularly traumatic. The ensuing Cold War years... (read more) Your price: $58.25 New - Hardcover
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The Partition of Korea After World War II: A Global History by Jongsoo James Lee Publisher Comments Sixty years after Korea’s partition into South Korea and North Korea, a full understanding of how this partition occurred is still wanting. Based on a careful examination of sources in Russian, English and Korean, including new archival evidence... (read more) Your price: $104.25 New - Hardcover
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