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The Fetishist
Katherine Min
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A provocative, hilariously savage, and poignant novel by acclaimed
author Katherine Min, to be published posthumously, about a
daughter's revenge on the man whom she believes drove her mother to
her death . . . and nothing goes as planned. The rain has made
everything cold and damp, and it's the perfect evening for Kyoko to
exact her revenge. After years of rage and grief over her mother's
death, Kyoko has decided who is to blame: a man named Daniel, a
fellow violinist who had wooed her mother, Emi, during their time
together in an orchestra, and then dropped her-driving her to her
death. Kyoko follows the unsuspecting Daniel home and manages to
get her rash kidnapping plot off the ground . . . and really, what
could go wrong? The Fetishist is the story of three people-Kyoko, a
young singer in a punk band who cannot find enough ways to channel
her angry sorrow; Daniel, a seemingly hapless man who finally faces
the wreckage of his past; and Alma, the love of Daniel's life, long
adored for her beauty and talent, but who spends her final days
examining if she was ever, truly, loved. It's a beautiful,
piercing, and timely story that confronts race, ideals of
femininity, complicity, and visibility. Written and completed
before the celebrated author's death in 2019, it's startlingly
relevant and prescient, as wise and powerful as it is utterly
moving.
Interlinkages between the Sustainable Development Goals explores
the complex relationships between the 17 Sustainable Development
Goals (SDGs) adopted by 193 United Nations Member States in 2015.
The book provides an in-depth analysis of the interconnections
between the economic, social, and environmental dimensions of
sustainable development and the five pillars of the SDGs: peace,
people, planet, prosperity, and partnerships.> Covering a wide
range of topics and themes, this timely book examines interlinkages
at the thematic, regional, and country levels. Featuring case
studies from across the globe, contributors explore the synergies
and trade-offs among the SDGs using a variety of methodological
approaches. Chapters also include examples of best practices and
applications, demonstrating how interlinkages can be leveraged to
achieve multiple SDGs simultaneously.> This book will be an
essential resource for a diverse range of audiences, including
students and scholars in the areas of climate action, gender
equality, industry, innovation, and infrastructure, and sustainable
cities and communities. It will also be beneficial for
policymakers, practitioners, researchers, and stakeholders in both
the private and public sectors and civil society.
* The million-copy bestseller*
* National Book Award finalist *
* One of the New York Times's 10 Best Books of 2017 *
* Selected for Emma Watson's Our Shared Shelf book club *
'This is a captivating book ... Min Jin Lee's novel takes us through
four generations and each character's search for identity and success.
It's a powerful story about resilience and compassion' BARACK OBAMA.
Yeongdo, Korea 1911. In a small fishing village on the banks of the
East Sea, a club-footed, cleft-lipped man marries a fifteen-year-old
girl. The couple have one child, their beloved daughter Sunja. When
Sunja falls pregnant by a married yakuza, the family face ruin. But
then Isak, a Christian minister, offers her a chance of salvation: a
new life in Japan as his wife.
Following a man she barely knows to a hostile country in which she has
no friends, no home, and whose language she cannot speak, Sunja's
salvation is just the beginning of her story.
Through eight decades and four generations, Pachinko is an epic tale of
family, identity, love, death and survival.
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Natural City (DVD)
Ji-Tae Yu, Jae-un Lee, Rin Seo, Eun-pyo Jeong, Doo-Hong Jung, …
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Apocalyptic sci-fi thriller by Korean director Byung-Chun Min, set
in the year 2080 AD. Police detectives Agent R (Yu Ji-tae) and his
colleague Noma (Yun Chan) are responsible for eliminating cyborgs
that have expired past their lifespan. But unbenown to Noma, R has
fallen in love with beautiful android dancer Ria (Seo Rin), and is
desperately trying to find a way to dodge the law and save her
life.
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Towards 0% (Pamphlet)
Seo Ije; Translated by Rachel Min Park
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R172
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Camp Zero
Michelle Min Sterling
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R477
R360
Discovery Miles 3 600
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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A Today Show #ReadwithJenna Book
Club Pick In a near-future northern settlement, the fates of a
young woman, a professor, and a mysterious collective of
researchers collide in this mesmerizing and transportive debut that
"delivers its big ideas with suspense, endlessly surprising twists,
and abundant heart" (Jessamine Chan, New York Times bestselling
author). In remote northern Canada, a team led by a visionary
American architect is break-ing ground on a building project called
Camp Zero, intended to be the beginning of a new way of life. A
clever and determined young woman code-named Rose is offered a
chance to join the Blooms, a group hired to entertain the men in
camp--but her real mission is to secretly monitor the mercurial
architect in charge. In return, she'll receive a home for her
climate-displaced Korean immigrant mother and herself. Rose quickly
secures the trust of her target, only to discover that everyone has
a hidden agenda, and nothing is as it seems. Through skill-fully
braided perspectives, including those of a young professor longing
to escape his wealthy family and an all-woman military research
unit struggling for survival at a climate station, the fate of Camp
Zero's inhabitants reaches a stunning crescendo. Atmospheric,
fiercely original, and utterly gripping, Camp Zero is an
electrifying page-turner and a masterful exploration of who and
what will survive in a warming world, and how falling in love and
building community can be the most daring acts of all.
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Camp Zero
Michelle Min Sterling
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R280
R224
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**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** 'A gripping work of speculative
climate fiction . . . a page-turning feminist mystery-thriller'
Observer 'A cold, hungry adventure story about the power of choice
and the strength of solidarity' SEAN MICHAELS America, 2049: Summer
temperatures are intolerably high, the fossil fuel industry has
shut down, and humans are implanted with a 'Flick' at birth, which
allows them to remain perpetually online. The wealthy live in the
newly created Floating City off the coast, while people on the
mainland struggle to get by. For Rose, a job as a hostess in the
city's elite club feels like her best hope for a better future. At
a Cold War-era research station, a group of highly trained women
with the code name White Alice are engaged in climate surveillance.
But the terms of their employment become increasingly uncertain.
And in a former oil town in northern Canada called Dominion Lake, a
camp is being built-Camp Zero. A rare source of fresh, clean air
and cooler temperatures, it will be the beginning of a new
community and a new way of life. Grant believes it will be the
perfect place to atone for his family's dark legacy. Everyone has
an agenda. So who can you trust? Could falling in love be most the
radical act of all? Thrilling, immersive and disturbingly
prescient, Camp Zero is about the world we've built and where we go
from here.
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Camp Zero (Hardcover)
Michelle Min Sterling
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R643
Discovery Miles 6 430
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Squid Game meets The Left Hand of Darkness meets Under the Skin in
this radical literary sensation from South Korea about an alien's
hunt for food that transforms into an existential crisis about what
it means to be human. After crashing their spacecraft in the middle
of nowhere, a shapeshifting alien find themself stranded on an
unfamiliar planet and disabled by Earth’s gravity. To survive,
they will need to practice walking. And what better way than to
hunt for food? As they discover, humans are delicious. Intelligent,
clever, and adaptable, the alien shift their gender, appearance,
and conduct to suit a prey’s sexual preference, then attack at
the pivotal moment of their encounter. They use a variety of
hunting tools, including a popular dating app, to target the
juiciest prey and carry a backpack filled with torturous
instruments and cleaning equipment. But the alien’s existence
begins to unravel one night when they fail to kill their latest
meal. Thrust into an ill-fated chase across the city, the alien is
confronted with the psychological and physical tolls their
experience on Earth has taken. Questioning what they must do to
sustain their own survival, they begin to understand why humans
also fight to live. But their hunger is insatiable, and the alien
once again targets a new prey, not knowing what awaits. . . . Dolki
Min’s haunting debut novel is part psychological thriller, part
searing critique of the social structures that marginalize those
who are different—the disabled, queer, and nonconformist. Walking
Practice uncovers humanity in who we consider to be alien, and
illuminates how alienation can shape the human experience. Walking
Practice features 21 black-and-white line drawings throughout.
Translated from the Korean by Victoria Caudle
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Like A Barbie (Pamphlet)
Park Min-jung; Translated by Clare Richards
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R172
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Korean (Paperback)
Ho-Min Sohn
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R1,524
Discovery Miles 15 240
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This work, first published in 1994, provides a framework which
covers the major aspects of contemporary standard Korean and allows
cross-language comparisons. It offers a wide-ranging and
comprehensive grammatical description of Korean, covering syntax,
morphology, phonology, ideophone/interjections and lexicon.
Collaborated by Chinese and American scholars, Understanding
China's Urbanization opens up a new channel to disseminate Chinese
studies to the world. Highly readable, the book provides
fine-grained materials and detailed information on Chinese
urbanization. Li Zhang, Richard LeGates and Min Zhao effectively
convey an indigenous perspective on Chinese urban futures and
present a picture with sufficient complexity and wide coverage.' -
Fulong Wu, University College London, UK 'A most comprehensive book
about urbanization in China, with in-depth insights from a talented
scholarly team. This book is far more than a snapshot of the
Chinese story, it reveals the important developments that have
occured as China has transitioned into a dynamic urban country.' -
Shi Nan, Secretary General, Urban Planning Society of China 'Zhang,
LeGates, and Zhao's book builds on the voluminous literature on
China's urbanization by adding new data, findings, insights,
perspectives, and recommendations. Both academically sophisticated
and reader-friendly, the book surveys and critiques research in and
outside China and highlights new phenomena in urbanization,
governance, migration, foreign direct investment, and city
clusters. Richly decorated with illustrations as well as the
authors' original statistical and field analyses, the book is a
much welcome multidisciplinary contribution to understanding a
burning question in China.' - C. Cindy Fan, University of
California, Los Angeles China's urbanization is one of the great
earth-changing phenomena of recent times. The way in which China
continues to urbanize will have a critical impact on the world
economy, global climate change, international relations and a host
of other critical issues. Understanding and responding to China's
urbanization is of paramount importance to everyone. This book
represents a unique exploration of the demographic, spatial,
economic and social aspects of China's urban transformation. Based
on years of fieldwork and data analysis from different types of
cities and towns in every region of China, the authors present a
detailed description of how China has urbanized since 1978 and an
original theory about the way in which top-down and bottom-up
policies have impacted urbanization. They describe China's on-going
urbanization process as a 'double-dual' transformation from a
planned economy to a more market-oriented one and from a concern
with the quantity to the quality of urbanization. In doing so, the
authors provide the most comprehensive and up-to-date book on
Chinese urbanization to date. This scholarly study will appeal to
academics and practitioners, including professors and postgraduate
students of urban studies, planning, geography, Asian studies, and
other social science disciplines and professional fields concerned
with cities and urban development. Professionals involved in
international development, particularly in China and elsewhere in
Asia, will be particularly interested in the book.
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The Fetishist
Katherine Min
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The brilliant debut novel from the New York Times-bestselling
author of Pachinko. 'Ambitious, accomplished, engrossing... As easy
to devour as a nineteenth-century romance.' NEW YORK TIMES Casey
Han's years at Princeton have given her a refined diction, an
enviable golf handicap, a popular white boyfriend and a degree in
economics. The elder daughter of working-class Korean immigrants,
Casey inhabits a New York a world away from that of her parents.
But she has no job, and a number of bad habits. So when a chance
encounter with an old friend lands her a new opportunity, she's
determined to carve a space for herself in a glittering world of
privilege, power, and wealth - but at what cost? As Casey navigates
an uneven course of small triumphs and spectacular failures, a
clash of values and ambitions plays out against the colourful
backdrop of New York society, its many shades and divides.
Addictively readable, Min Jin Lee's bestselling debut Free Food for
Millionaires exposes the intricate layers of a community clinging
to its old ways in a city packed with haves and have-nots.
'Explores the most funadmental crisis of immigrants' children: how
to bridge a generation gap so wide it is measured in oceans.'
Observer 'A remarkable writer.' The Times
This book systematically addresses the issue of interdependence
between road projects in a network, when prioritising and
scheduling road expansion and maintenance. The book presents
substantial applications for both rural and urban projects and to
the optimization of maintenance. The authors confirm the extreme
sensitivity to project timing but also show that solutions with
almost equal net present values may have dissimilar work schedules.
One of these may be selected on environmental or other grounds
without losing road user benefits. They go on to explore and
demonstrate the issues associated with the integration of
evolutionary computing technique, transport modelling and cost -
benefit analysis to achieve an optimal road investment timetable.
Demonstrating the application of evolutionary computing technique
to an exceptionally complex problem in the real business world,
Cost - Benefit Analysis and Evolutionary Computing will be of great
value to academics and those practitioners and researchers
interested in addressing the classic issue of evaluating road
expansion and maintenance programs.
A summary of the international advanced experience and of green
consumption Gives insights into China's sustainable consumption
practice at community level Discusses the problems of China's green
consumption policy at the macro level
Unconventional, creative, and highly original, Wang Min'an's work
centres on the assemblage of household machines that create the
space of contemporary domesticity. It offers pathways to a new
understanding of how the sudden commodification of domestic space
in China beginning in the late 1980s has transformed Chinese
domestic life beyond recognition. In terms of modern urban Chinese
family life, people do not just move into new apartments; they move
into new modes of living which involve new ways of relating to the
world. Wang's discussion on the reconstitution of Chinese domestic
life-its founding moral, aesthetic, political values-is
tremendously useful and enlightening. In these essays, the author
stages a Latourian collapse of subject and object in adopting the
point of view of both human and non-human actants. This volume
brings a new sensibility to bear on objects of modern everyday
life. This work is not a "China book," but rather a work marked
profoundly by China. Wang experiments with the applicability of
"theory" to what might be thought of as a transcultural common life
embedded in mundane technologies. The book is particularly
concerned with rescuing everyday materiality and bodily life from
the numb obscurity to which things have been relegated by modern
consumerism and bourgeois hygiene. This book is not an oddity from
the mysterious East; it is a playful experiment in writing from a
unique scholar, a leading thinker and theorist in the humanities in
China, and will be of interest to scholars and students of East
Asian, particularly Chinese, political and domestic studies.
This book explains deliberative constitution-making with a special
focus on the connections between participation, representation and
legitimacy and provides a general overview of what the challenges
and prospects of deliberative constitution making are today. It
seeks to provide a more complete picture of what is at stake as a
political trend in various places in the world, both theoretically
and empirically grounded. Distinctively, the book studies not only
established democracies and well-known cases of deliberative
constitution-making but also such practices in authoritarian and
less consolidated democratic settings and departs from a
traditional institutional perspective to have a special focus on
actors, and in particular underrepresented groups. This book is of
key interest to scholars and students of deliberative democracy,
constitutional politics, democratization and autocratization
studies, citizen participation and more broadly to comparative
politics, public administration, social policy and law.
This book compares contemporary civil service systems across East
and Southeast Asia, a dynamic region of greater diversity in local
administrative tradition, imported models of modern administration,
and the character of prevailing political institutions. Featuring
chapters on Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong,
Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, and the Philippines, this
book provides a detailed analysis of key aspects of the civil
service system, including centralization, recruitment,
classification, openness of positions, performance assessment,
promotion, training, and senior civil service. It distinguishes
four modes of public employment, namely, bureaucratization,
professionalization, politicization, and marketization, to develop
a conceptual framework for comparing the civil service system at
the operational level. The region's contemporary civil service
systems appear to be hybrid systems that combine, at varying
degree, these modes of public employment, responding to
administrative reform pressures. The patterns of public employment
across East and Southeast Asia reflect local administrative
traditions, imported Western models of administration, and the
relative timing of democratization and bureaucratization. With
contributions from leading local experts across the region, this
book will be invaluable to students, scholars, and practitioners
interested in Asian public administration, especially civil service
systems.
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