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  • A History of Football in North and South Korea c.1910–2002

    Development and Diffusion

    by Jong Sung Lee ...
    Series Book 5 - Sport, History and Culture
    For the Koreans, no sport has surpassed football in terms of its popularity and national importance, from the Japanese colonization era onwards. However, its importance has developed over time as a result of unusual and agonizing historical events, including the tragic split between North and South Korea.This volume attempts to assess football’s changing political and cultural place in Korea over ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD

  • Information Security and Cryptology - ICISC 2014

    17th International Conference, Seoul, South Korea, December 3-5, 2014, Revised Selected Papers

    Edited by Jooyoung Lee, Jongsung Kim ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Information Security and Cryptology, ICISC 2014, held in Seoul, South Korea in December 2014. The 27 revised full papers presented were carefully selected from 91 submissions during two rounds of reviewing. The papers provide the latest results in research, development and applications ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

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    The Fall and Rise of a Great Power, 1850 - 2009

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    'China's reemergence as a global economic powerhouse has compressed into a single generation an industrial and urban revolution on a scale the world has never seen. Its transformation looks to many foreigners, and to millions of newly prosperous Chinese, like a near-miraculous escape from the agonies of its recent history - late imperial, warlord-republican and Maoist. The great merit of Jonathan ... Read more

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  • The Cultural Revolution

    A People's History, 1962—1976

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    **The concluding volume--following Mao's Great Famine and The Tragedy of Liberation--in Frank Dikötter's award-winning trilogy chronicling the Communist revolution in China.After the economic disaster of the Great Leap Forward that claimed tens of millions of lives from 1958–1962, an aging Mao Zedong launched an ambitious scheme to shore up his reputation and eliminate those he viewed as a threat ... Read more

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  • Zhou Enlai

    The Last Perfect Revolutionary

    by Gao Wenqian ...
    Zhou Enlai, the premier of the People's Republic of China from 1949 until his death in 1976, is the last Communist political leader to be revered by the Chinese people. He is considered "a modern saint" who offered protection to his people during the Cultural Revolution; an admirable figure in an otherwise traumatic and bloody era. Works about Zhou in China are heavily censored, and every hint of ... Read more

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  • Behind the Curtain

    Football in Eastern Europe

    by Jonathan Wilson ...
    'EPIC' Financial Times'PERCEPTIVE' The Sunday Times'BLISSFUL' Daily Telegraph'FASCINATING' Independent on Sunday'TERRIFIC' Henry Winter'EXCELLENT*' Simon Kuper*The fascinating story of football in Eastern Europe following the collapse of the Berlin Wall, from the award-winning author of Inve... ... Read more

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  • China A to Z

    Everything You Need to Know to Understand Chinese Customs and Culture

    by Winberg Chai, May-lee Chai ...
    A practical and accessible guide to an ancient but rapidly changing culture—now revised and updatedPerfect for business, pleasure, or armchair travelers, China A to Z explains the customs, culture, and etiquette essential for any trip or for anyone wanting to understand this complex country. In one hundred brief, reader-friendly essays alphabetized by subject, this fully revised and updated ... Read more

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  • Kosovo : What Everyone Needs To Know

    by Tim Judah ...
    On February 17, 2008, Kosovo declared its independence, becoming the seventh state to emerge from the break-up of the former Yugoslavia. A tiny country of just two million people, 90% of whom are ethnic Albanians, Kosovo is central-geographically, historically, and politically-to the future of the Western Balkans and, in turn, its potential future within the European Union. But the fate of both ... Read more

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  • North of the DMZ: Essays on Daily Life in North Korea

    Essays on Daily Life in North Korea

    by Andrei Lankov ...
    The Kim dynasty has ruled North Korea for over 60 years. Most of that period has found the country suffering under mature Stalinism characterized by manipulation, brutality and tight social control. Nevertheless, some citizens of Kim Jong Il's regime manage to transcend his tyranny in their daily existence. This book describes that difficult but determined existence and the world that the North ... Read more

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  • The Beijing Bureau

    25 Australian Correspondents Reporting China's Rise

    by Trevor Watson, Melissa Roberts ...
    The Beijing Bureau is a collection of essays revealing the insights of twenty-five Australian foreign correspondents into China, from the 1970s to present day: the lives of its people, its government and its culture, and what China's rise means for Australia and the world community.China dominates the headlines across the world as the country takes for itself a global role. As governments, ... Read more

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  • The Sporting Statesman - Novak Djokovic and the Rise of Serbia

    by Chris Bowers ...
    Novak Djokovic is not just one of the world's great tennis players - he is the defacto ambassador for his homeland, Serbia. Not an easy job, given the lingering resonance in the world's news bulletins of Serbia's role in the 1990s Yugoslav wars. To this day, the words 'Serbia' and 'atrocities' are linked in the minds of many.In this study of both Djokovic and Serbia, Chris Bowers paints two ... Read more

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