Integrated Korean: Beginning Level 1 Textbook, Second Edition
by Young-mee Cho; Hyo Sang Lee; Carol Schulz; Ho-min Sohn; Sung-ock Sohn
November 2009
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Audio files for this volume may be downloaded on the web in RealAudio or MP3 format at http://www.kleartextbook.com. A set of CDs is also available for purchase.
This is a thoroughly revised edition of Integrated Korean: Beginning 1, the first volume of the best-selling series developed collaboratively by leading classroom teachers and linguists of Korean. All series’ volumes have been developed in accordance with performance-based principles and methodology—contextualization, learner-centeredness, use of authentic materials, usage-orientedness, balance between skill getting and skill using, and integration of speaking, listening, reading, writing, and culture. Grammar points are systematically introduced in simple but adequate explanations and abundant examples and exercises. |
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Integrated Korean: Beginning Level 1 Workbook, Second Edition
by Mee-Jeong Park; Joowon Suh; Mary Shin Kim; Sang-Suk Oh; Hangtae Cho
November 2009
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Audio files for this volume may be downloaded on the web in RealAudio or MP3 format at http://www.kleartextbook.com.
This workbook accompanies the thoroughly revised edition of Integrated Korean: Beginning 1, the first volume of the best-selling series developed collaboratively by leading classroom teachers and linguists of Korean. All series’ volumes have been developed in accordance with performance-based principles and methodology—contextualization, learner-centeredness, use of authentic materials, usage-orientedness, balance between skill getting and skill using, and integration of speaking, listening, reading, writing, and culture. Grammar points are systematically introduced in simple but adequate explanations and abundant examples and exercises.
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Lifestyle and Entertainment in Yangzhou
ed. by Lucie Olivova; Vibeke Bordahl
November 2009
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This richly illustrated volume celebrates Yangzhou’s cultural tradition with a well-balanced range of topics spanning the period from the late seventeenth century to modern times.
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Nagasaki: The British Experience, 1854-1945
by Brian Burke-Gaffney
November 2009
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Long overdue, this important first full-length account in English of the history of Japan’s first foreign settlement, which for centuries was the country’s only “front door” to the outside world, will be widely welcomed. Fully illustrated, the value of the work is reinforced by additional key data to be found in the appendices, including the 1866 and 1898 Directories of Foreign Residents, the 1872 List of Property Renters, a list of cultural assets remaining today in the former Nagasaki Foreign Settlement, and an outline of the connection between the opera Madame Butterfly and Nagasaki.
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The Kazakhs: Children of the Steppes
by Chokan Laumulin; Murat Laumulin
November 2009
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Here is a well-informed, concise introduction to the culture and history of the vast territory of Kazakhstan, equivalent to the size of Western Europe, located at the center of geographical Eurasia. Written by two brothers—one a distinguished scholar and the other well known in Kazakhstan’s media—the book focuses on the Kazakh people, who today make up over half the population of some 15 million.
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Japan and Germany: Two Latecomers on the World Stage, 1890–1945
ed. by Akira Kudo
November 2009
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Now available in English, this three-volume work focusing on the wide-ranging political, military, economic, technological, and social interconnections and interconnected-ness between the two “new powers” in the first half of the twentieth century marks an important milestone in collaboration at the highest level on this subject matter between German and Japanese scholars. |
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Reading The Tale of Genji: Its Picture Scrolls, Texts and Romance
ed. by Richard Stanley-Baker; Fuminobu Murakami; Jeremy Tambling
November 2009
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This new volume in Genji studies comprises a collection of six individual essays by leading international scholars addressing The Tale of Genji scrolls and The Tale of Genji texts in the context of new critical theory relating to cultural studies, narrative painting, narratology, comparative literature, and a global view of medieval romance. |
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The Ideologies of Japanese Tea: Subjectivity, Transience and National Identity
by Tim Cross
November 2009
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This provoking new study of the Japanese tea ceremony (chanoyu) examines the ideological foundation of its place in history and the broader context of Japanese cultural values where it has emerged as a so-called “quintessential” component of the culture. |
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From Shekki to Sydney: An Autobiography
by Stanley Hunt
November 2009
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In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, large numbers of Chinese travelled to the USA, Australia, and other parts of the world to prospect for gold or to work as laborers, gardeners, and traders, but there are very few accounts of the lives of these people, who predominantly came from the coastal region of Guangdong province. Stanley Hunt’s From Shekki to Sydney: An Autobiography fills part of this gap in Australian and Chinese social history by documenting his childhood in Shekki, his experiences in Australia, and the lives of his parents and grandparents.
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In the Company of Strangers
by Michelle Cruz Skinner
November 2009
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“Sixteen deceptively simple stories comprise Michelle Cruz Skinner’s much-anticipated follow-up to Balikbayan and Mango Seasons, many of them about Filipinos tongue-tied and alienated in the motherland, or scattered across the map of heartaches and homesickness in the company of strangers called countrymen, family, lovers. A book of quiet gems definitely worth the wait.” —R. Zamora Linmark, author of Prime Time Apparitions and The Evolution of a Sigh
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Bright Triumphs From Dark Hours: Turning Adversity into Success
by David Heenan
November 2009
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The dark hours: They occur when we find things spiraling out of control, when we feel most vulnerable and incapable of finding a solution. In a world often turned dark and cold, more and more people seem to be trapped in nightmarish circumstances. Americans, the world's optimists, when faced with an intractable situation, are taught to believe that through hardwork and will power they can "beat the odds." Yet, according to David Heenan, keeping one's nose to the grindstone may actually make things worse.
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Questioning Minds: Short Stories by Modern Korean Women
by Yung-Hee Kim
November 2009
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Available for the first time in English, the ten short stories by modern Korean women collected here touch in one way or another on issues related to gender and kinship politics. All of the protagonists are women who face personal crises or defining moments in their lives as gender-marked beings in a Confucian, patriarchal Korean society. Their personal dreams and values have been compromised by gender expectations or their own illusions about female existence. They are compelled to ask themselves “Who am I?” “Where am I going?” “What are my choices?” Each story bears colorful and compelling testimony to the life of the heroine. Some of the stories celebrate the central character’s breakaway from the patriarchal order; others expose sexual inequality and highlight the struggle for personal autonomy and dignity. Still others reveal the abrupt awakening to mid-life crises and the seasoned wisdom that comes with accepting the limits of old age.
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Hawaiian Birds of the Sea: Na Manu Kai
by Robert J. Shallenberger
November 2009
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More than 300 species of seabirds range across the world’s oceans. In excess of 14 million birds, representing nearly two dozen species, make their home in the Hawaiian islands. These are na manu kai, the birds of the sea.
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A Photographic Guide to the Birds of Hawaii: The Main Islands and Offshore Waters
by Jim Denny
November 2009
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Hawai‘i is home to some of the most beautiful and sought after birds in the world. From the offshore waters, where graceful seabirds glide on the cool, refreshing trade winds, to the lush ancient forests of the mountains, where colorful endemic honeycreepers reside, Hawai‘i’s birds are wonderfully diverse. Introduced species and long-distance migrants contribute to the splendid assortment. Some island bird species are extremely abundant and instantly familiar since we encounter them daily in our outdoor activities. Others are so rare they are glimpsed only once in a lifetime. In these magnificent islands there is something for birders of every sort.
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Shamans, Nostalgias, and the IMF: South Korean Popular Religion in Motion
by Laurel Kendall
November 2009
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Thirty years ago, anthropologist Laurel Kendall did intensive fieldwork among South Korea’s (mostly female) shamans and their clients as a reflection of village women’s lives. In the intervening decades, South Korea experienced an unprecedented economic, social, political, and material transformation and Korean villages all but disappeared. And the shamans? Kendall attests that they not only persist but are very much a part of South Korean modernity.
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