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  • The 1728 Musin Rebellion

    Politics and Plotting in Eighteenth-Century Korea

    The 1728 Musin Rebellion: Politics and Plotting in Eighteenth-Century Korea provides the first comprehensive account in English of the Musin Rebellion, an attempt to overthrow King Yŏngjo (1694–1776; r. 1724–1776), and the largest rebellion of eighteenth-century Korea. The rebellion proved unsuccessful, but during three weeks of fighting the government lost control of over a dozen county seats and ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

  • Snapshots and Soundbites of Korean Culture

    Snapshots and Soundbites of Korean Culture takes a novel approach to understanding Korea’s past and present by blending sounds, imagery, texts, and online and printed materials to provide a multisensory, multimodal experience of Korean culture.Each entry showcases vitally important people, objects, places, events, and institutions that help us conceptualise Korean history, society, and culture. ... Read more

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  • Sport, Advertising and Global Promotional Culture

    Identities, Commodities, Spaces and Spectacles

    Series series Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
    This book explores the intersection of contemporary sport, advertising, promotional culture and wider society.Arguing that advertising and promotional culture remain key driving forces in relation to social structures and systems that contribute to enduring patterns of economic and other forms of inequality, this book examines how sport and related areas of social life continue to be transformed ... Read more

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  • The Two Koreas and their Global Engagements

    Edited by Andrew David Jackson ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book departs from existing studies by focusing on the impact of international influences on the society, culture, and language of both North and South Korea. Since President Kim Young Sam’s segyehwa drive of the mid-1990s, South Korea has become a model for successful globalization. In contrast, North Korea is commonly considered one of the least internationally integrated countries. This ... Read more

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  • Sport Stars

    The Cultural Politics of Sporting Celebrity

    In a culture obsessed with celebrity, sportmen and women are some of the highest profile figures. We are fascinated by sport stars' lifestyles, love lives, and earning power. Sport Stars investigates the nature of contemporary sporting celebrity, examining stars' often turbulent relationships with the media, and with the sporting establishment.Through a series of case studies of sporting stars, ... Read more

    $81.06 CAD

  • Korean Screen Cultures

    Interrogating Cinema, TV, Music and Online Games

    The «Korean Wave», or Hallyu phenomenon, has brought South Korean popular culture to the global population. Studies on Korean visual culture have therefore often focused on this aspect, leaving North Korea sidelined and often considered in a negative light because of its political regime. Korean Screen Cultures sets out to redress this imbalance with a broad selection of essays spanning both North ... Read more

    $102.29 CAD

  • Sport, Culture and Advertising

    Identities, Commodities and the Politics of Representation

    Despite the range of theoretical and methological positions adopted and the wide range of issues and topics related to advertising covered by cultural studies, relationships between sport and advertising have been largely overlooked.Given its gobal popularity and its prevalence across the spectrum of cultural and commercial life it is not surprising that scholars interrogating the cultural ... Read more

    $116.79 CAD

  • Korean Conversation Gambits: Developing Spoken Language

    A Resource Book for Learners and Teachers

    Korean Conversation Gambits: Developing Spoken Language provides specific linguistic and communicative strategies that help Korean language learners engage in daily conversations as well as discussions and negotiations in work and academic contexts.The book presents, and provides practice in, spoken Korean gambits that will help speakers organise their conversations and frame the type of extended ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

    Civil Disobedience

    Narrated by Andrew Jackson ...

    Unabridged

    51 min

    Civil Disobedience is Henry David Thoreau's influential essay on conscience, government, individual responsibility, and moral resistance. Written after Thoreau's refusal to pay a tax he believed supported slavery and the Mexican-American War, the essay argues that citizens should not surrender their moral judgment to the state when laws become unjust. With direct and uncompromising force, Thoreau ... Read more

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    The Death of Chaos (2 of 2) [Dramatized Adaptation]

    The Saga of Recluce 5

    Series Audiobook 2 - Saga of Recluce

    Unabridged

    5 hours 30 min

    L.E. Modesitt, Jr.'s The Death of Chaos continues his bestselling fantasy series the Saga of Recluce, which is one of the most popular in contemporary epic fantasy.Lerris has settled into being a woodworker and building a life with Krystal. But this newfound peace is endangered when both Candar and Recluce come under the threat of invasion from the Empire of Hamor. Despite the imminent possibility ... Read more

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    Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage

    by Lord Byron ...
    Narrated by Jamie Parker ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 55 min

    Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage is a fascinating portrait of 19th-century Europe, disillusioned and ravaged by the revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. The protagonist, whose breathtaking journey echoes Byron’s own life story, plunges into the exciting unknown: the nature of humanity and the transformative effects of travel burst through the pages in four powerful cantos of Spenserian stanzas. Here is ... Read more

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    Game of Logic, The

    by Lewis Carroll ...
    Narrated by Leo Nidas ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 42 min

    The Game of Logic, described by Lewis Carroll consists of discussing the meaning of propositions like "Some fresh cakes are sweet," and is an instructive introduction to the concepts of logic. The game takes place in a world divided into four quadrants. ... Read more

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