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  • Revisiting Minjung

    New Perspectives on the Cultural History of 1980s South Korea

    by Sunyoung Park ...
    Series series Perspectives On Contemporary Korea
    An epoch-marking alliance of laborers, students, dissident intellectuals, and ordinary citizens was at the heart of South Korea’s transformation from a dictatorship into a vibrant democracy during the 1980s. Collectively known as the minjung (“the people”), these agents of Korean democratization historically carved out an expanded role for civil society in the country’s politics. In Revisiting ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • The Geometry of Hand-Sewing

    A Romance in Stitches and Embroidery from Alabama Chanin and The School of Making

    by Natalie Chanin ...
    This sewing guide reveals a breakthrough method to simplify learning stitches of all kinds, with more than 100 stitches from the simple to the fanciful.As makers, we tend to learn different stitches over time without thinking much about how they relate to one another. But when Natalie Chanin and her teams at Alabama Chanin and The School of Making began to look at needlework closely, they realized ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ideals of the Body

    Architecture, Urbanism, and Hygiene in Postrevolutionary Paris

    by Sun-Young Park ...
    Series series Culture Politics & the Built Environment
    Modern hygienic urbanism originated in the airy boulevards, public parks, and sewer system that transformed the Parisian cityscape in the mid-nineteenth century. Yet these well-known developments in public health built on a previous moment of anxiety about the hygiene of modern city dwellers. Amid fears of national decline that accompanied the collapse of the Napoleonic Empire, efforts to ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • Readymade Bodhisattva

    The Kaya Anthology of South Korean Science Fiction

    by Sunyoung Park, Park Sang Joon ...
    Spanning more than a half-century of South Korean sci-fi, this massive anthology documents a unique convergence of culture and genreReadymade Bodhisattva: The Kaya Anthology of South Korean Science Fiction presents the first book-length English-language translation of science and speculative fiction from South Korea, bringing together 13 classic and contemporary stories from the 1960s through the ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • Out of This World

    Speculative Fiction in Translation from the Cold War to the New Millennium

    by Rachel S. Cordasco, Emad El-Din Aysha, Sonja Fritzsche, Edward Gauvin, Maria Haskins, Dale Knickerbocker, J. Pekka Makela, Julie Novakova, Keren Omry, Wojciech Orlinski, Sunyoung Park, Mingwei Song, Takayuki Tatsumi, Francesco Verso ...
    The twenty-first century has witnessed an explosion of speculative fiction in translation (SFT). Rachel Cordasco examines speculative fiction published in English translation since 1960, ranging from Soviet-era fiction to the Arabic-language dystopias that emerged following the Iraq War. Individual chapters on SFT from Korean, Czech, Finnish, and eleven other source languages feature an ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Knitting For Dummies®, Mini Edition

    by Pam Allen ...
    Your get-started guide to knittingThe advice you need to begin a new hobby!Understand knitting basics with this easy-to-follow guide! From casting on and off to performing beginning stitches, this guide helps you discover the joys of knitting and create hand-knit items for family and friends.Discover how toSelect the right tools and yarnsCombine knit and purl stitchesMake simple projects ... Read more

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  • The Bonjour Effect

    The Secret Codes of French Conversation Revealed

    by Julie Barlow, Jean-Benoit Nadeau ...
    Jean-Benoît Nadeau and Julie Barlow spent a decade traveling back and forth to Paris as well as living there. Yet one important lesson never seemed to sink in: how to communicate comfortably with the French, even when you speak their language. In The Bonjour Effect Jean-Benoît and Julie chronicle the lessons they learned after they returned to France to live, for a year, with their twin daughters. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

    You Must Read Before You Die

    by Peter Boxall ...
    Series series 1001
    Completely revised and updated to include the most up-to-date selections, this is a bold and bright reference book to the novels and the writers that have excited the world's imagination. This authoritative selection of novels, reviewed by an international team of writers, critics, academics, and journalists, provides a new take on world classics and a reliable guide to what's hot in contemporary ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Principles of Knitting

    by June Hemmons Hiatt ...
    **Now featuring new instructions, new illustrations, and new information, The Principles of Knitting—beloved by knitters everywhere and one of the most requested out-of-print books for years—finally gets the revision that fans have been clamoring for!A treasured guide beloved by knitters everywhere, the classic book The Principles of Knitting is finally available again in a fully revised and ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Inventive Weaving on a Little Loom

    Discover the Full Potential of the Rigid-Heddle Loom, for Beginners and Beyond

    by Syne Mitchell ...
    This complete guide to rigid-heddle looms explores their full potential with a surprisingly broad array of techniques and projects—featuring step-by-step photography leads readers through the warping and setup process.Rigid-heddle weaving is simple to learn, is easy to master, and offers a lifetime of possibilities to discover! Inventive Weaving on a Little Loom covers everything rigid-heddle ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Paris Dreams, Paris Memories

    The City and Its Mystique

    by Charles Rearick ...
    "A rich and entertaining history of the French capital's predominant myths and 'image-making' from the nineteenth century to the present." —Roxanne Panchasi, H-France ReviewHow did Paris become the world favorite it is today? Charles Rearick argues that we can best understand Paris as several cities in one, each with its own history and its own imaginary shaped by dream and memory. Paris has long ... Read more

    $18.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Around the World in 80 Books

    by David Damrosch ...
    A transporting and illuminating voyage around the globe, through classic and modern literary works that are in conversation with one another and with the world around them*Featured in the *Chicago Tribune'*s Great 2021 Fall Book Preview * One of Smithsonian Magazine's Ten Best Books About Travel of 2021*Inspired by Jules Verne’s hero Phileas Fogg, David Damrosch, chair of Harvard University’s ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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