Andrei Lankov has gone where few outsiders have ever been. A native of the former Soviet Union, he lived as an exchange student in North Korea in the 1980s. He has studied it for his entire career, using his fluency in Korean and personal contacts to build a rich, nuanced understanding. In The Real North Korea, Lankov substitutes cold, clear analysis for the overheated rhetoric...(展开全部)

Andrei Lankov has gone where few outsiders have ever been. A native of the former Soviet Union, he lived as an exchange student in North Korea in the 1980s. He has studied it for his entire career, using his fluency in Korean and personal contacts to build a rich, nuanced understanding. In The Real North Korea, Lankov substitutes cold, clear analysis for the overheated rhetoric...(展开全部)

作者簡介 安德烈·蘭科夫（Andrei Lankov） 安德烈·蘭科夫（Andrei Lankov ，1963－） 俄羅斯北韓問題專家，曾任首爾國民大學（Koomkin University）歷史教授、澳大利亞國立大學（the Australian National University）北韓歷史和政治高級講師。 1963年7月26日生於蘇聯列寧格勒（今聖彼得堡）， 大學和研究所就讀於列寧格勒國立大學。1985年他以一名平壤的交換學生在金日成綜合大學學習，並且在那裡學得一口流利的韓國語。關於北韓問題，從歷史到經濟和政治，他的著述頗多。本書是他在朝鮮期間的所見以及研究重要集結，是較早的有關北韓的重要文字記錄。著有：From Stalin to Kim Il Sung: The Formation of North Korea, 1945-1960(20...(展开全部)

作者簡介 安德烈·蘭科夫（Andrei Lankov） 安德烈·蘭科夫（Andrei Lankov ，1963－） 俄羅斯北韓問題專家，曾任首爾國民大學（Koomkin University）歷史教授、澳大利亞國立大學（the Australian National University）北韓歷史和政治高級講師。 1963年7月26日生於蘇聯列寧格勒（今聖彼得堡）， 大學和研究所就讀於列寧格勒國立大學。1985年他以一名平壤的交換學生在金日成綜合大學學習，並且在那裡學得一口流利的韓國語。關於北韓問題，從歷史到經濟和政治，他的著述頗多。本書是他在朝鮮期間的所見以及研究重要集結，是較早的有關北韓的重要文字記錄。著有：From Stalin to Kim Il Sung: The Formation of North Korea, 1945-1960(20...(展开全部)

This unique book provides a comprehensive overview of all aspects of life in North Korea today. Drawing on decades of experience, noted experts Ralph Hassig and Kongdan Oh explore a world few outsiders can imagine. In vivid detail, the authors describe how the secretive and authoritarian government of Kim Jong-il shapes every aspect of its citizens' lives, how the command socia...(展开全部)

In Pluriversal Politics Arturo Escobar engages with the politics of the possible and how established notions of what is real and attainable preclude the emergence of radically alternative visions of the future. Reflecting on the experience, philosophy, and practice of indigenous and Afro-descendant activist-intellectuals and on current Latin American theoretical-political debat...(展开全部)

The Grasshopper Games, Life and Utopia By Bernard Suits Introduced by Thomas Hurka In the mid twentieth century the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein famously asserted that games are indefinable; there are no common threads that link them all. "Nonsense," says the sensible Bernard Suits: "playing a game is a voluntary attempt to overcome unnecessary obstacles." The short book Sui...(展开全部)

The Grasshopper Games, Life and Utopia By Bernard Suits Introduced by Thomas Hurka In the mid twentieth century the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein famously asserted that games are indefinable; there are no common threads that link them all. "Nonsense," says the sensible Bernard Suits: "playing a game is a voluntary attempt to overcome unnecessary obstacles." The short book Sui...(展开全部)

Victor Cha is the former Director for Asian Affairs at the National Security Council, where he served as an adviser to the president from 2004 to 2007. The recipient of two Outstanding Service Commendations during his tenure at the White House, Cha is also the award-winning author of Alignment Despite Antagonism: The United States-Korea-Japan Security Triangle and Beyond the Fi...(展开全部)

'Extraordinary...smart, sophisticated, suspenseful - and important. If you try one new thing this year, make it Star of the North.' LEE CHILD `Tense and compelling.' James Swallow, Sunday Times bestselling author of NOMAD North Korea and the USA are on the brink of war A young American woman disappears without trace from a South Korean island. The CIA recruits her twin sister t...(展开全部)