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Follow Her Home
St. Martin's Press 2013; US$ 25.99A stunning, edgy debut introducing Juniper Song, an amateur sleuth taking on the darkness in the veins of L.A. with razor-sharp wit and a breaking heart. Juniper Song knows secrets?how to keep them and how to search them out. As a girl, noir fiction was her favorite escape, and Philip Marlowe has always been her literary idol. So when her friend... more...
Hmong American Concepts of Health, Healing, and Conventional Medicine
Taylor and Francis 2003; US$ 158.00Examines Hmong American concepts of health, illness and healing, and looks at the Hmong American experience with conventional medicine. In this, it identifies factors that either obstruct or enable healthcare delivery to the Hmong. more...
The Impossible State
HarperCollins 2012; US$ 23.99Former White House official Victor Cha has written the definitive volume on North Korea, arguably the world?s most menacing and mysterious nation. In The Impossible State , Cha, a singular expert on the region, exposes North Korea?s veiled past; sheds light on its culture, economy, and foreign policy; and explores the possibilities of its uncertain... more...
Boosting-Based Face Detection and Adaptation
Morgan & Claypool Publishers 2010; US$ 40.00Face detection, because of its vast array of applications, is one of the most active research areas in computer vision. In this book, we review various approaches to face detection developed in the past decade, with more emphasis on boosting-based learning algorithms. We then present a series of algorithms that are empowered by the statistical view... more...
The Impossible State
Random House 2012; US$ 33.37Much discussed and often maligned, precious little is known or understood about North Korea, the world's most controversial and isolated country. In The Impossible State Victor Cha pulls back the curtain, providing an unprecedented insight into North Korea's history, the rise of the Kim family dynasty, and the obsessive personality cult that surrounds... more...
Say Goodbye to Powerless Christianity
Destiny Image Publishers 2009; US$ 16.99This book tells the story of a good man, a spiritual man, a cautious man, an obedient and faithful pastor. Then the bottom fell out. His marriage hit the rocks; his vision for the nations was quenched; he found himself as an itinerate minister struggling to pay the bills. Then God performed a miracle, and He restored all and more. Che now oversees... more...
White Badge
Soho Press 2003; US$ 15.00Han Kiju is an executive in modern Seoul, a Korean intellectual who has never adjusted to his postwar existence. When an old comrade-in-arms, a coward who crumpled in battle, begins to follow him, Han Kiju must finally deal with the ghosts of the past haunting his present. more...
Silver Stallion
Soho Press 2003; US$ 15.00In a mountain village in Korea, 1950, the memory of the Japanese occupation has just begun to fade when the farmers hear that the World Army, led by the great American General "Megado" has landed at Inchon. more...
The Pusan International Film Festival, South Korean Cinema and Globalization
Hong Kong University Press, HKU 2012; US$ 50.00This book provides a social, political and cultural exploration of the Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF) in South Korea that since its inception in 1996. By paying a particular attention to the organizers use of an Asian regionalization strategy, the book reveals how the festival staked out a unique and influential position within a rapidly... more...
An Introduction to Hmong Culture
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2010; US$ 32.00Presenting a holistic perspective of the Hmong way of life, this book touches on a spectrum of the Hmong culture, including traditions, customs, values, religion, arts, politics and ceremonial rituals. The book features and explains certain Hmong words, phrases and proverbs in the Hmong Roman Popularized Alphabet and in phonetic English. Topics include... more...









