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9781250065056 | 3 revised edition (Thomas Dunne Books, April 4, 2017), cover price $27.99

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A bizarre, little-known tale about the most secretive culture on earthFor decades, North Korea denied any part in the disappearance of dozens of Japanese citizens from Japan’s coastal towns and cities in the late 1970s. But in 2002, with his country on the brink of collapse, Kim Jong-il admitted to the kidnapping of thirteen people and returned five of them in hopes of receiving Japanese aid. As part of a global espionage project, the regime had attempted to reeducate these abductees and make them spy on its behalf. When the scheme faltered, the captives were forced to teach Japanese to North Korean spies and make lives for themselves, marrying, having children, and posing as North Korean civilians in guarded communities known as “Invitation-Only Zones”―the fiction being that they were exclusive enclaves, not prisons.From the moment Robert S. Boynton saw a photograph of these men and women, he became obsessed with their story. Torn from their homes as young adults, living for a quarter century in a strange and hostile country, they were returned with little more than an apology from the secretive regime.In The Invitation-Only Zone, Boynton untangles the bizarre logic behind the abductions. Drawing on extensive interviews with the abductees, Boynton reconstructs the story of their lives inside North Korea and ponders the existential toll the episode has had on them, and on Japan itself. He speaks with nationalists, spies, defectors, diplomats, abductees, and even crab fishermen, exploring the cultural and racial tensions between Korea and Japan that have festered for more than a century.A deeply reported, thoroughly researched book, The Invitation-Only Zone is a riveting story of East Asian politics and of the tragic human consequences of North Korea’s zealous attempt to remain relevant in the modern world.

Hardcover:

9780374175849, titled "The Invitation-Only Zone: The True Story of North Korea’s Abduction Project" | Farrar Straus & Giroux, January 12, 2016, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: A bizarre, little-known tale about the most secretive culture on earthFor decades, North Korea denied any part in the disappearance of dozens of Japanese citizens from Japan’s coastal towns and cities in the late 1970s.

Paperback:

9780374536725, titled "The Invitation-only Zone: The True Story of North Korea’s Abduction Project" | Farrar Straus & Giroux, January 17, 2017, cover price $15.00

CD/Spoken Word:

9781511392921, titled "The Invitation-Only Zone: The True Story of North Korea's Abduction Project" | Mp3 una edition (Audible Studios on Brilliance audio, April 19, 2016), cover price $9.99

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Hardcover:

9780822362777 | Duke Univ Pr, December 30, 2016, cover price $94.95

Paperback:

9780822362883 | Duke Univ Pr, December 30, 2016, cover price $25.95

Hardcover:

9781138187368 | 2 revised edition (Routledge, July 7, 2017), cover price $150.00

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9781138187375 | 2 revised edition (Routledge, July 7, 2017), cover price $51.95

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This fully updated second edition of The Making of Modern Korea provides a thorough, balanced and engaging history of Korea from 1910 to the present day. The text is unique in placing emphasis on Korea’s regional and geographical context, through which Buzo analyzes the influence of bigger and more powerful states on the peninsula of Korea. Key features of the book include: comprehensive coverage of Korean history up-to-date analysis of important contemporary developments, including North Korea’s controversial missile and nuclear tests comparative focus on North and South Korea an examination of Korea within its regional context a detailed chronology and suggestions for further reading. The Making of Modern Korea is a valuable one-volume resource for students of modern Korean history, international politics and Asian Studies.

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9781138917491 | 3 revised edition (Routledge, October 28, 2016), cover price $46.95
9780415414821 | 2 edition (Routledge, April 18, 2008), cover price $200.00
9780415237482 | Routledge, April 1, 2002, cover price $155.00

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9781138917484 | 3 revised edition (Routledge, October 28, 2016), cover price $46.95
9780415414838 | 2 edition (Routledge, February 16, 2008), cover price $49.95
9780415237499 | Routledge, April 1, 2002, cover price $63.95 | About this edition: This fully updated second edition of The Making of Modern Korea provides a thorough, balanced and engaging history of Korea from 1910 to the present day.

Miscellaneous:

9780203964613 | 2 new edition (Routledge, December 20, 2007), cover price $43.95
9780203645123 | Routledge, March 7, 2002, cover price $59.95

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Six inactive missile silos on the dark side of the moon are at the focus of a volatile story when they are taken over by corporate interests and then activated. Reprint.

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9781605988023 | Pegasus Books, July 15, 2015, cover price $27.95

Paperback:

9781681772233 | Reprint edition (Pegasus Books, October 25, 2016), cover price $16.95
9780441004331, titled "The Tranquillity Alternative" | Reprint edition (Ace Books, April 1, 1997), cover price $5.99 | also contains The Tranquillity Alternative | About this edition: Six inactive missile silos on the dark side of the moon are at the focus of a volatile story when they are taken over by corporate interests and then activated.

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9781504609463 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, July 15, 2015), cover price $34.95

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780394129532, titled "Green Eggs and Ham" | Amer School Pub, June 1, 1960, cover price $14.00 | also contains Green Eggs and Ham

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9780674659865, titled "Park Chung Hee and Modern Korea: The Roots of Militarism, 1866–1945" | Belknap Pr, November 7, 2016, cover price $39.95

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Yeonmi Park has told the harrowing story of her escape from North Korea as a child many times, but never before has she revealed the most intimate and devastating details of the repressive society she was raised in and the enormous price she paid to escape. Park’s family was loving and close-knit, but life in North Korea was brutal, practically medieval. Park would regularly go without food and was made to believe that, Kim Jong Il, the country’s dictator, could read her mind. After her father was imprisoned and tortured by the regime for trading on the black-market, a risk he took in order to provide for his wife and two young daughters, Yeonmi and her family were branded as criminals and forced to the cruel margins of North Korean society. With thirteen-year-old Park suffering from a botched appendectomy and weighing a mere sixty pounds, she and her mother were smuggled across the border into China.I wasn’t dreaming of freedom when I escaped from North Korea. I didn’t even know what it meant to be free. All I knew was that if my family stayed behind, we would probably die—from starvation, from disease, from the inhuman conditions of a prison labor camp. The hunger had become unbearable; I was willing to risk my life for the promise of a bowl of rice. But there was more to our journey than our own survival. My mother and I were searching for my older sister, Eunmi, who had left for China a few days earlier and had not been heard from since. Park knew the journey would be difficult, but could not have imagined the extent of the hardship to come. Those years in China cost Park her childhood, and nearly her life.  By the time she and her mother made their way to South Korea two years later, her father was dead and her sister was still missing. Before now, only her mother knew what really happened between the time they crossed the Yalu river into China and when they followed the stars through the frigid Gobi Desert to freedom. As she writes, “I convinced myself that a lot of what I had experienced never happened. I taught myself to forget the rest.” In In Order to Live, Park shines a light not just into the darkest corners of life in North Korea, describing the deprivation and deception she endured and which millions of North Korean people continue to endure to this day, but also onto her own most painful and difficult memories. She tells with bravery and dignity for the first time the story of how she and her mother were betrayed and sold into sexual slavery in China and forced to suffer terrible psychological and physical hardship before they finally made their way to Seoul, South Korea—and to freedom. Still in her early twenties, Yeonmi Park has lived through experiences that few people of any age will ever know—and most people would never recover from. Park confronts her past with a startling resilience, refusing to be defeated or defined by the circumstances of her former life in North Korea and China. In spite of everything, she has never stopped being proud of where she is from, and never stopped striving for a better life. Indeed, today she is a human rights activist working determinedly to bring attention to the oppression taking place in her home country. Park’s testimony is rare, edifying, and terribly important, and the story she tells in In Order to Live is heartbreaking and unimaginable, but never without hope. Her voice is riveting and dignified. This is the human spirit at its most indomitable.

Hardcover:

9781410483386 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, October 21, 2015), cover price $34.99
9781594206795 | Penguin Pr, September 29, 2015, cover price $27.95

Paperback:

9780143109747 | Penguin USA, September 27, 2016, cover price $16.00
9781101980453 | Int edition (Random House, September 29, 2015), cover price $18.00

CD/Spoken Word:

9781611764666 | Unabridged edition (Penguin/Highbridge, October 13, 2015), cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Yeonmi Park has told the harrowing story of her escape from North Korea as a child many times, but never before has she revealed the most intimate and devastating details of the repressive society she was raised in and the enormous price she paid to escape.

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9780812248456 | Univ of Pennsylvania Pr, August 19, 2016, cover price $65.00

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A searing story of starvation and survival in North Korea, followed by a dramatic escape, rescue by activists and Christian missionaries, and success in the United States thanks to newfound faith and courage Inside the hidden and mysterious world of North Korea, Joseph Kim lived a young boy’s normal life until he was five. Then disaster struck: the first wave of the Great Famine, a long, terrible ordeal that killed millions, including his father, and sent others, like his mother and only sister, on desperate escape routes into China. Alone on the streets, Joseph learned to beg and steal. He had nothing but a street-hardened survival instinct. Finally, in desperation, he too crossed a frozen river to escape to China. There a kindly Christian woman took him in, kept him hidden from the authorities, and gave him hope. Soon, through an underground network of activists, he was spirited to the American consulate, and became one of just a handful of North Koreans to be brought to the U.S. as refugees. Joseph knew no English and had never been a good student. Yet the kindness of his foster family changed his life.  He turned a new leaf, became a dedicated student, mastered English, and made it to college, where he is now thriving thanks to his faith and inner strength. Under the Same Sky is an unforgettable story of suffering and redemption.
By Joseph Kim and Stephan Talty (contributor)

Hardcover:

9780544373174 | Houghton Mifflin, June 2, 2015, cover price $28.00 | About this edition: A searing story of starvation and survival in North Korea, followed by a dramatic escape, rescue by activists and Christian missionaries, and success in the United States thanks to newfound faith and courage Inside the hidden and mysterious world of North Korea, Joseph Kim lived a young boy’s normal life until he was five.

Paperback:

9780544705272 | Mariner Books, June 28, 2016, cover price $15.95
9780380001248, titled "The American Woman's Cookbook" | Avon Books, June 1, 1974, cover price $1.95 | also contains The American Woman''s Cookbook

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Eunsun Kim was born in North Korea, one of the most secretive and oppressive countries in the modern world. As a child Eunsun loved her country...despite her school field trips to public executions, daily self-criticism sessions, and the increasing gnaw of hunger as the country-wide famine escalated. By the time she was eleven years old, Eunsun's father and grandparents had died of starvation, and Eunsun too was in danger of starving. Finally, her mother decided to escape North Korea with Eunsun and her sister, not knowing that they were embarking on a journey that would take them nine long years to complete. Told with grace and courage, her memoir is a riveting expose of North Korea's totalitarian regime and, ultimately, a testament to the strength and resilience of the human spirit.
By Eunsun Kim and David Tian (trans)

Hardcover:

9781250064646 | St Martins Pr, July 21, 2015, cover price $24.99

Paperback:

9781250092847 | Griffin, June 28, 2016, cover price $15.99

CD/Spoken Word:

9781494557713 | Mp3 una edition (Tantor Media Inc, July 21, 2015), cover price $24.99 | About this edition: Eunsun Kim was born in North Korea, one of the most secretive and oppressive countries in the modern world.
9781494507718 | Unabridged edition (Tantor Media Inc, July 21, 2015), cover price $34.99 | About this edition: Eunsun Kim was born in North Korea, one of the most secretive and oppressive countries in the modern world.

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Spaces of Possibility, which arose from a 2012 conference held at the University of Washington's Simpson Center for the Humanities, engages with spaces in, between, and beyond the national borders of Japan and Korea. Some of these spaces involve the ambiguous longings and aesthetic refigurings of the past in the present, the social possibilities that emerge out of the seemingly impossible new spaces of development, the opportunities of genre, and spaces of new ethical subjectivities. Museums, colonial remains, new architectural spaces, graffiti, street theater, popular song, recent movies, photographic topography, and translated literature all serve as keys for unlocking the ambiguous and contradictory―yet powerful―emotions of spaces, whether in Tokyo, Seoul, or New York.

Hardcover:

9780295998411 | Univ of Washington Pr, October 4, 2016, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: Spaces of Possibility, which arose from a 2012 conference held at the University of Washington's Simpson Center for the Humanities, engages with spaces in, between, and beyond the national borders of Japan and Korea.

Paperback:

9780295998428 | Univ of Washington Pr, October 4, 2016, cover price $45.00

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Hardcover:

9780803285613, titled "An Asian Frontier: American Anthropology and Korea, 1882-1945" | Univ of Nebraska Pr, June 1, 2016, cover price $75.00

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By Raymond Lee (narrator)

CD/Spoken Word:

9781522691419 | Mp3 una edition (Audible Studios on Brilliance audio, May 24, 2016), cover price $9.99

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