North Korea is perhaps the most intriguing, infamous and enigmatic nation of our modern world. Yet how many of us know its full history, and how it came to be? How can we understand such a strange, isolated state? This new edition seeks to provide s...Loe edasi...
North Korea is perhaps the most intriguing, infamous and enigmatic nation of our modern world. Yet how many of us know its full history, and how it came to be? How can we understand such a strange, isolated state? This new edition seeks to provide s...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 03-Feb-2026, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: University of Pennsylvania Press, ISBN-13: 9781512828740)
How the US military origins of global capitalism facilitated both South Koreas "e;economic miracle"e; and the decline of US industrial might The US military has become a ubiquitous part of modern economic life. The Cold War prompted the firs...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 03-Feb-2026, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: University of Pennsylvania Press, ISBN-13: 9781512828740)
How the US military origins of global capitalism facilitated both South Koreas "e;economic miracle"e; and the decline of US industrial might The US military has become a ubiquitous part of modern economic life. The Cold War prompted the firs...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-Jan-2026, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: McFarland & Co Inc, ISBN-13: 9781476657349)
How can a war--labeled a police action yet costing millions of lives, traumatizing countless other individuals, and razing cities and villages--be forgotten? Despite its widespread effects, the Korean War received less media attention than World...Loe edasi...
The forgotten heroes of Chosinhow Task Force Faith fought against impossible odds and a legacy of unfair shame.On the 75th anniversary of the legendary Battle of Chosin Reservoir, Steve Vogel tells the little-known story of the Army soldiers who gave...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 19-Nov-2025, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: University Press of Kansas, ISBN-13: 9780700640492)
The compelling history of how the US Marines and their allies fought to preserve the Corps and establish its role in national defense.Only five years after Marines raised the American flag on Iwo Jima, the United States Marine Corps was close to beco...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 19-Nov-2025, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: University Press of Kansas, ISBN-13: 9780700642441)
The compelling history of how the US Marines and their allies fought to preserve the Corps and establish its role in national defense.Only five years after Marines raised the American flag on Iwo Jima, the United States Marine Corps was close to beco...Loe edasi...
Seoul, 1721. Laughter is illegal. Truth is treason. The powerful have outlawed the ancient mask dances, terrified of "e;the mirror the mask holds."e;Then, at twilight beneath Gwanghuimun gate, a figure appears wearing a grinning Yangban mask....Loe edasi...
On an island where gods hide as refugees and the sea remembers every promise, one woman carved a face from grief and taught a nation how to dance with death. When her husband drowned in a typhoon, the Seawife Shaman Sumyeong dove for seven nights i...Loe edasi...
In a time of famine, twelve spirits came wearing bone-white masks. They offered a bargain: Feed us stories, and we will feed you life. From the salt-winds of Koreas Hwanghae Province comes a myth that transforms everything we think we know about m...Loe edasi...
What happens when fire and shadow marry? Their children are masks-and those masks hold the secret to human transformation. Deep in Koreas Gyeongsang mountains, where iron veins run through volcanic earth and every cave whispers with memory, a myth...Loe edasi...
In 1394, a mysterious chest arrived at the construction site of Koreas new capital. Inside: twelve masks that mocked Heaven itself. When King Taejo ordered them buried, the earth erupted with laughter. The next morning, workers found the masks tra...Loe edasi...
In the northern highlands of old Korea, masks were not carved from wood-they were forged from iron, cooled in ritual blood, and filled with the souls of warriors who died without names. This is not the Korea you know from history books. This is the...Loe edasi...
In the mountain passes of Korea, where fog drifts through ancient pines and drums summon spirits each spring, lives a myth most of the world has never heard-yet one that speaks to the deepest needs of our time. The Mountain Spirit of Daegwallyeong...Loe edasi...
When the earth cracked and the rain refused to fall, a limping demon came to the farmers of Jeolla with an impossible offer: feed him stories, and he would feed them rain. In this electrifying exploration of a forgotten Korean myth, we discover Heo...Loe edasi...
What if laughter could trap death itself On Koreas storm-battered southern coast, fishermen once faced a plague that fed on fear until a Dragon King appeared in dreams with an impossible prescription: carve five masks and laugh the darkness out. I...Loe edasi...
Seoul, 1946. Liberation has come, but the wounds remain. In the ruins of a teahouse near Jongno, a troupe of talchum performers gathers around a sacred mask cracked during a Japanese police raid, half-burned, blackened with soot. For years, they su...Loe edasi...
In Korea, a mask is never just a mask. For over a thousand years, the sacred tal masks have been Koreas most dangerous truth-tellers, its most powerful healers, and its bridge between the living and the dead. Carved from lightning-struck trees and...Loe edasi...
In the valley of Chogapsan, where children once entered the world laughing, a strange mist descends from the northern cliffs. It smells of memory burned to ash. One by one, the children forget who they are. A boy bleats like a goat. A girl perches...Loe edasi...
