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  • Neoliberalization of South Korea

    Economic Restructuring, Social Precarity, and Post-Developmental Democracy

    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    No doubt South Korea‘s neoliberalization has been closely influenced by the ideologies, policies, and experiences of the precedingly neoliberal West, but neoliberal shifts in the South Korean context have most critically conflated with the conditions and structures of its own distinctive developmental political economy and life world. Over nearly four decades of apparent neoliberal transitions, ... Read more

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  • Korean Education in Changing Economic and Demographic Contexts

    Edited by Hyunjoon Park, Kyung-keun Kim ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This edited volume offers a comprehensive survey of Korean education in transition. Divided into three parts, the book first assesses the current state of Korean education. It examines how the educational system handles the effects of family background and gender in helping students smoothly transition from school to the labor market.Next, the book introduces growing concerns over whether the ... Read more

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  • Capitalism in South Korea, 1945–2025

    Compressed Development, Decompression, and Diverging Convergence

    Capitalism in South Korea, 1945–2025 provides an interdisciplinary and analytical account of the evolution of South Korea since 1945. This book employs a framework of "compressed development, decompression, and convergence" to better understand Korea's turbulent journey, which has been marked by economic miracles, crises, and, more recently, a slowdown in growth and rising inequality. The book ... Read more

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  • Star Fishing

    A Picture Book

    by Sang-Keun Kim ...
    A sleepless night turns into a marvelous adventure through the stars in Star Fishing, a dreamy picture book bedtime story.It's the kind of night when you just can't fall asleep.You feel as though everyone in the world is asleep but you."Oh, I see a light!Is somebody awake?"Brimming with wonder and enchantment, award-winning author-illustrator Sang-keun Kim's Star Fishing imagines wh... ... Read more

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  • Understanding North Korea

    Indigenous Perspectives

    Why does North Korea want to possess nuclear capabilities? In order to find the answer to this question, we must have an accurate understanding of the history and structure of the North Korean regime. So far, we have only formed conjectures and predictions regarding North Korea based on our own perspectives; we now need to deal with and consider North Korea “as is” to reach viable solutions to the ... Read more

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  • Little Mole's Wish

    by Sang-Keun Kim ...
    An Indie Next List Top 10 Pick!With echoes of Raymond Briggs's classic The Snowman, here is a magical, timeless story about the friendship between a lonely little mole and a snowball he molds into a bear that comes to life.Little Mole is new in town, and he's lonely. On his way home from school on a winter day, he rolls a snowball all the way to the bus stop. He tells it his problems and grows ... Read more

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  • Pocket Anatomy Of Cerebrovascular Imaging And Topography

    The book provides updated knowledge on cerebrovascular imaging-related anatomy and topographic maps for neurologists, neurosurgeons, neuroradiologists, and neurovascular researchers as well as medical or neuroscience students. It includes not only high-resolution cerebrovascular images but also topographic brain maps.The topographic brain maps will provide (a) 'recently-updated' knowledge on ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Feminist Praxis against U.S. Militarism

    Series series Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies in Religion and Theology
    Feminist Praxis against U.S. Militarism provides critical feminist and womanist analyses of U.S. militarism that challenge the ongoing U.S. neoliberal military-industrial complex and its multivalent violence that destroys people’s lives, especially women and other vulnerable populations. It highlights the intentional critique of U.S. militarism from feminist/womanist perspectives that seek to show ... Read more

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  • The Impossible State

    North Korea, Past and Future

    by Victor Cha ...
    From a seasoned advisor, "a meaty, fast-paced portrait of North Korean society, economy, politics and foreign policy" ( Foreign Affairs).In The Impossible State, international-policy expert and former Director for Asian Affairs at the National Security Council Victor Cha pulls back the curtain on this controversial and isolated country, providing the best look yet at North Korea's history, the ... Read more

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  • Transformations in Twentieth Century Korea

    Series series Routledge Advances in Korean Studies
    This edited collection traces the social, economic, political, and cultural dimensions of Korea’s dramatic transformation since the late nineteenth century. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, the chapters examine the internal and external forces which facilitated the transition towards industrial capitalism in Korea, the consequences and impact of social change, and the ways in which Korean ... Read more

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  • Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics

    Entrepreneurship and the State

    by Yasheng Huang ...
    Presents a story of two Chinas – an entrepreneurial rural China and a state-controlled urban China. In the 1980s, rural China gained the upper hand. In the 1990s, urban China triumphed. In the 1990s, the Chinese state reversed many of its rural experiments, with long-lasting damage to the economy and society. A weak financial sector, income disparity, rising illiteracy, productivity slowdowns, and ... Read more

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