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Escaping North Korea: Defiance and Hope in the World's Most Repressive Country by Mike Kim Synopsis Escaping North Korea provides a rare and unique inside look into the hidden world of ordinary North Koreans. It recounts firsthand experiences of enduring famine, women's sex trafficking experiences, and torture in the gulags, as well as inspirational... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Hardcover 
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The Koreas (Asia in Focus) by Mary E. Connor Publisher Comments Asia in Focus: The Koreas reveals how much life on the Korean peninsula has changed in just a few years. With a team of scholars comparing life in authoritarian North Korea and democratic South Korea, the reference book presents an authoritative and... (read more) Your price: $115.95 New - Hardcover
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Korea's Future and the Great Powers by Nicholas Eberstadt Publisher Comments The eventual reunification of the Korean Peninsula will send political and economic reverberations throughout Northeast Asia and will catalyse the struggle over a new regional order among the four great powers of the Pacific-Russia, China, Japan, and the... (read more) Your price: $26.95 New - 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: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Nation Building in South Korea: Koreans, Americans, and the Making of a Democracy (New Cold War History) by Gregg Brazinsky Publisher Comments In this ambitious and innovative study Gregg Brazinsky examines American nation building in South Korea during the Cold War. Marshalling a vast array of new American and Korean sources, he explains why South Korea was one of the few postcolonial nations... (read more) Your price: $24.25 New - Trade Paper
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A Concise History of Korea: From the Neolithic Period Through the Nineteenth Century by Michael J. Seth Publisher Comments This engaging text provides a concise history of Korea from the beginning of human settlement in the region through the late nineteenth century, equally emphasizing social, cultural, and political history. Students will be especially drawn to... (read more) Your price: $39.75 New - Trade Paper
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To Live to Work: Factory Women in Colonial Korea, 1910-1945 by Janice C. H. Kim Publisher Comments Linking economic and social historical research methods with special reference to the evolution of the industrial labor force, To Live to Work offers an account of the popular expansion of gender, labor, and political consciousnesses among working women... (read more) Your price: $65.25 New - Hardcover
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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: $36.75 New - Trade Paper
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South Korea's Minjung Movement: The Culture and Politics of Dissidence by Kenneth M. Wells Publisher Comments This volume is the first in English to grapple specifically with the nature of a national development that lies at the center of the last three decades of tumult and change in South Korea. Written by Korean and Western experts in the fields of literature,... (read more) Your price: $43.50 New - Hardcover
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Paths to Peace: Domestic Coalition Shifts, War Termination and the Korean War by Elizabeth A. Stanley Publisher Comments Paths to Peace begins by developing a theory about the domestic obstacles to making peace and the role played by shifts in states' governing coalitions in overcoming these obstacles. In particular, it explains how the longer the war, the harder it is to... (read more) Your price: $70.75 New - Hardcover
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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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Korea in the Pacific Century: Selected Speeches by Roh Tae Woo Book News Annotation In this selection of speeches, the president of the Republic of Korea addresses such issues as the reunification of South and North Korea, democracy and prosperity in the Republic, Korea's place in the world, relations with Japan and the former Soviet... (read more) Your price: $8.00 Used - Hardcover
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The Reluctant Communist: My Desertion, Court-Martial, and Forty-Year Imprisonment in North Korea by Charles Rob Jenkins Publisher Comments 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 surrendered to communist North Korean soldiers standing sentry along the world's most heavily militarized... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Koreans Contemporary Politics & Soci 3RD Edition 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 $45.00 Your price: $7.25 Used - Trade Paper
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Harvard East Asian Monographs #187: Constructing "Korean" Origins: A Critical Review of Archaeology, Historiography, and Racial Myth in Korean State-Formation Theories by Hyung Il Pai Publisher Comments In this wide-ranging study, Hyung Il Pai examines how archaeological finds from throughout Northeast Asia have been used in Korea to construct a myth of state formation. This myth emphasizes the ancient development of a pure Korean race that created a... (read more) Your price: $64.95 New - Hardcover
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North Korea Under Kim Jong II: From Consolidation to Systemic Dissonance by Song Chull Kim Publisher Comments North Korea has long been a country of mystique, both provoking two nuclear crises and receiving aid from the international community and South Korea in more recent times.... (read more) Your price: $75.95 New - Hardcover
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Texas A & M University Military History Series #88: Eye on Korea: An Insider Account of Korean-American Relations by James V. Young Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-182) and index.... (read more) Your price: $39.95 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: $98.95 New - Hardcover
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