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The South Korean Film Renaissance: Local Hitmakers, Global Provocateurs (Wesleyan Film)
by Jinhee ChoiFor the past decade, the Korean film industry has enjoyed a renaissance. With innovative storytelling and visceral effects, Korean films not only have been commercially viable in the domestic and regional markets but also have appealed to cinephiles everywhere on the international festival circuit. ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2010 -
Cine-Ethics: Ethical Dimensions of Film Theory, Practice, and Spectatorship (Routledge Advances in Film Studies)
by Jinhee Choi • Mattias FreyThis volume looks at the significance and range of ethical questions that pertain to various film practices. Diverse philosophical traditions provide useful frameworks to discuss spectators’ affective and emotional engagement with film, which can function as a moral ground for one’s connection to ot... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2014 -
Horror to the Extreme
This book compares production and consumption of Asian horror cinemas in different national contexts and their multidirectional dialogues with Hollywood and neighboring Asian cultures. Individual essays highlight common themes including technology, digital media, adolescent audience sensibilities, t... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2009 -
Associative Memory Cells: Basic Units of Memory Trace
by Jin-Hui WangThis book focuses on associative memory cells and their working principles, which can be applied to associative memories and memory-relevant cognitions. Providing comprehensive diagrams, it presents the author's personal perspectives on pathology and therapeutic strategies for memory deficits in pat... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
Curfew
by Jayne CowieThink The Handmaid's Tale but with the women in charge, set in a world where all men are electronically tagged and placed under strict curfew, and the murder investigation threatening to undo it all.Imagine a near-future Britain in which women dominate workplaces, public spaces, and government. Wher... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022 -
Beyond Filial Piety: Rethinking Aging and Caregiving in Contemporary East Asian Societies (Life Course, Culture and Aging: Global Transformations #6)
Known for a tradition of Confucian filial piety, East Asian societies have some of the oldest and most rapidly aging populations on earth. Today these societies are experiencing unprecedented social challenges to the filial tradition of adult children caring for aging parents at home. Marshalling mi... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
Teaching Students Who are Exceptional, Diverse, and at Risk in the General Education Classroom (Fifth Edition)
Based on the belief that even small accommodations make a difference in the success of students with disabilities, this text provides classroom teachers with the knowledge, tools, and practical strategies that will empower them to spark learning in every student. From students with disabilities, cu... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2011 -
Korean Syntax and Semantics
by EunHee LeeKorean has proven to be an invaluable language to theoretical linguists, providing abundant examples of, and counterexamples to, key theoretical issues at the forefront of modern linguistic theories. Exploring the Korean language from both a syntactic and semantic perspective, this book provides an ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
An Introduction to Lexical Semantics: A Formal Approach to Word Meaning and its Composition
by EunHee LeeAn Introduction to Lexical Semantics provides a comprehensive theoretical overview of lexical semantics, analysing the major lexical categories in English: verbs, nouns, adjectives, adverbs and prepositions. The book illustrates step-by-step how to use formal semantic tools. Divided into four part... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2023 -
Success Is 90% Spite
by Jane ZeiBased on the popular webcomic The Pigeon Gazette! Follow artist Jane Zei through the everyday rollercoaster of a quarter-life crisis—when high-flying optimism meets cold, hard adulthood during the journey from college to a full-time career.With favorites from viral webcomic The Pigeon Gazette, along... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
Long, Tall Temporary Husband
by Anne HaMR. AND MRS...FOR THE MOMENTTheirs was a whirlwind wedding-but Jake and Taylor Cassidy's marriage hadn't lasted much longer than the honeymoon. Now the sexy but tight-lipped rancher needed his pretty wife-who was not yet ready to be one-to come home again and "pretend" they were just as happily marr... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1998 -
Husband Next Door
by Anne HaI'M YOUR GROOM "Anne Ha has penned a charming, sweet romance filled with warmth, laughter and wit." -Debbie Macomber DEBUT AUTHOR HUSBAND 101 With women throwing themselves at him, how could anyone expect Aaron Carpenter to settle down with just one? Yet Shelly was determined to transform her irresi... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1997 -
Her Forgotten Husband
by Anne Ha"HER FORGOTTEN HUSBAND" shimmers with romance, sparkles with sensuality, and tantalizes with a story line that keeps you guessing to the very end!" -Bestselling Author Barbara McMahon WHAT HUSBAND? Amnesiac Samantha Randall couldn't remember her own name, let alone the handsome stranger who claimed ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1997 -
Spirit of the Valley (Green Valley Series #2)
by Jane Shoup"There are authors who touch the heart, but this one grabs hold of your soul." --Romance At Heart Reviews"Down in the Valley is a keeper."--Catherine Lanigan, author of Romancing the StoneIn Virginia, 1883, some things you can run from. . . some you have to fight. Pauline Ray is on the run, and s... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
Down In the Valley (The Green Valley Series #1)
by Jane ShoupSaint or Sinner? Miss Emeline Wright risked everything to escape the monster who stole her innocence, her dignity, her pride. Now no one in her little home town nestled in the West Virginia hills must ever know what she was forced to do while a captive in the city. Her only chance is to make a go ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
Waking Up to Beauty
by Anne HayPoems are small individual vignettes. Each one telling a story and painting a picture. Poetry is a special art form. People from all walks of life can express themselves and their thoughts through poetry. Sometimes a memory triggers an emotion: if you like to write poetry, then there is no better wa... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022 -
How to Print Fabric: Kitchen-Table Techniques for Over 20 Hand-Printed Home Accessories
by Zeena ShahLearn how simple hand printing techniques can transform your fabric into personalized designs with this easy fabric printing guide from talented textile designer Zeena Shah.In this beautiful yet practical project book, Zeena shows you how to create contemporary textiles though 20 easy-to-master tech... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
Female Prostitution in Costa Rica: Historical Perspectives, 1880-1930
by Anne HayesThis book analyzes the development of female prostitution in the Pacific port of Puntarenas, Costa Rica during the advanced stage of the coffee exporting economy (1880-1930), at the height of the consolidation of the liberal state. Hayes argues that prostitution in the port differed from that of the... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2006 -
Public Wrongs, Private Actions
by Emile van der Does de Willebois • Jean-Pierre Brun • Mahesh Uttamchandani • Sarah Jais • Jeanne Hauch • Pascale Helene Dubois • Yannis Mekki • Katherine Rose Sylvester • Anastasia SotiropoulouOver the last decade, the topics of corruption and recovery of its proceeds have steadily risen in the international policy agenda, with the entry into force of the United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) in 2005, the Arab Spring in 2011, and most recently a string of scandals in the fi... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
Micro and Nanomechanics, Volume 5
by Lavern Starman • Jenny HayMicro-and Nanomechanics, Volume 5 of the Proceedings of the 2017 SEM Annual Conference & Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, the fifth volume of nine from the Conference, brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering. The collection presents early f... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Mobilizing Traditions in the First Wave of the British Animal Defense Movement (The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series)
by Chien-Hui LiThis book explores the British animal defense movement’s mobilization of the cultural and intellectual traditions of its time- from Christianity and literature, to natural history, evolutionism and political radicalism- in its struggle for the cause of animals in the nineteenth and early twentieth c... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
The Secret of the Circle-K Cave (Science Solves It!)
Solve kid-sized dilemmas and mysteries with the Science Solves It! series. These fun books for kids ages 5–8 blend clever stories with real-life science. Why did the dog turn green? Can you control a hiccup? Is that a UFO? Find the answers to these questions and more as kid characters dive into phys... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2006 -
Mapping Media in China: Region, Province, Locality (Routledge Contemporary China Series)
by Wanning Sun • Jenny ChioMapping Media in China is the first book-length study that goes below the ‘national’ scale to focus on the rich diversity of media in China from local, provincial and regional angles. China’s media has played a crucial role in shaping and directing the country’s social and cultural changes, and whil... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2012 -
Same, Same but Different
Elliot lives in America, and Kailash lives in India. They are pen pals. By exchanging letters and pictures, they learn that they both love to climb trees, have pets, and go to school. Their worlds might look different, but they are actually similar. Same, same. But different! Through an invitin... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2011 -
Leddy & Pepper's Conceptual Bases of Professional Nursing, Edition 8
This Eighth Edition of Leddy & Pepper's Conceptual Bases of Professional Nursing provides a broad overview of the nursing profession, addressing philosophical, developmental, sociocultural, environmental, political, health care delivery, and leadership issues vital for career enhancement. The text w... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2014