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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 My mother told me many stories from my childhood years later, and as I grew older, I realized that she had been the most outgoing and bravest girl in her town. She was always called a pretty girl. She had many friends, but she never wanted to be with boys. #2 I met a military man, and he and I met every night following my performances for many months. The man told me I sang like a nightingale. I knew the day was approaching when he would ask his family if he could marry me. #3 When I was four, I was visited by my aunt, Youngrahn, who would be staying with us for a few months to help with the baby. She was very demanding and spoiled, and I was not pleased to see her. #4 My mother and I were walking through the hills looking for cabbage or potatoes left behind on the farms following last year’s harvest when I asked her about the military man. She said she had been walking with me in the pram when they bumped into each other. She had a little girl now, and she was happy with her life.
An extraordinary memoir by a North Korean woman who defied the government to keep her family alive. Born in the 1970s, Lucia Jang grew up in a common, rural North Korean household—her parents worked hard, she bowed to a photo of Kim Il-Sung every night, and the family scraped by on rationed rice and a small garden. However, there is nothing common about Jang. She is a woman of great emotional depth, courage, and resilience. Happy to serve her country, Jang worked in a factory as a young woman. There, a man she thought was courting her raped her. Forced to marry him when she found herself pregnant, she continued to be abused by him. She managed to convince her family to let her return home,...
"In this rare insider's view into contemporary North Korea, a high-ranking counterintelligence agent describes his life as a former poet laureate to Kim Jong-il and his breathtaking escape to freedom. "The General will now enter the room." Everyone turns to stone. Not moving my head, I direct my eyes to a point halfway up the archway where Kim Jong-il's face will soon appear... As North Korea's State Poet Laureate, Jang Jin-sung led a charmed life. With food provisions (even as the country suffered through its great famine), a travel pass, access to strictly censored information, and audiences with Kim Jong-il himself, his life in Pyongyang seemed safe and secure. But this privileged existence was about to be shattered. When a strictly forbidden magazine he lent to a friend goes missing, Jang Jin-sung must flee for his life. Never before has a member of the elite described the inner workings of this totalitarian state and its propaganda machine. An astonishing expose; told through the heart-stopping story of Jang Jin-sung's escape to South Korea, Dear Leader is a rare and unprecedented insight into the world's most secretive and repressive regime"--
'De sterren tussen zon en maan' van Lucia Jang (en co-auteur Susan McCelland) is het waargebeurde, eerste verhaal van een Noord-Koreaanse vrouw die strafkampen en mensenhandel overleefde. 'De sterren tussen zon en maan' van Lucia Jang (en co-auteur Susan McCelland) is het waargebeurde, eerste verhaal van een Noord-Koreaanse vrouw die strafkampen en mensenhandel overleefde. Lucia Jang (Sunhwa) werd in de jaren zeventig in een doorsnee Noord-Koreaans gezin geboren. Elke avond stofte Sunwha het portret van Kim Il-sung af, waarna zij en haar zusje bogen voor het portret en ‘Dank u Vader’ zeiden. In deze gesloten staat breekt een onzekere tijd aan als in 1994 de Grote Leider sterft en zijn zo...
A formal task of the Forest Genetic Resources Study Group/North American Forestry Commission/Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and Working Party 2.04.09 / Division 2- Physiology and Genetics /International Union of Forest Research Organizations, this international directory lists more than 1,800 forest geneticists and tree breeders from 86 countries. Each listing includes the entrant's title, mailing address, phone and fax numbers, and email address, when available. Indices organize entrants by country, by alphabetical order, by taxa of interest, and by research subjects.
Explores the role of quantum mechanics in biology for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in physics, biology and chemistry.
Social media has facilitated the sharing of once isolated testimonies to an extent and with an ease never before possible. The #MeToo movement provides a prime example of how such pooling of individual stories, in large enough numbers, can fuel political movements, fortify a sense of solidarity and community, and compel public reckoning by bringing important issues into mainstream consciousness. In this timely and important study, Helga Lenart-Cheng has uncovered the antecedents of this phenomenon and provided a historical and critical analysis of this seemingly new but in fact deeply rooted tradition. Story Revolutions features a rich variety of case studies, from eighteenth-century memoir ...
Providing a fundamental introduction to all aspects of modern plasma chemistry, this book describes mechanisms and kinetics of chemical processes in plasma, plasma statistics, thermodynamics, fluid mechanics and electrodynamics, as well as all major electric discharges applied in plasma chemistry. Fridman considers most of the major applications of plasma chemistry, from electronics to thermal coatings, from treatment of polymers to fuel conversion and hydrogen production and from plasma metallurgy to plasma medicine. It is helpful to engineers, scientists and students interested in plasma physics, plasma chemistry, plasma engineering and combustion, as well as chemical physics, lasers, energy systems and environmental control. The book contains an extensive database on plasma kinetics and thermodynamics and numerical formulas for practical calculations related to specific plasma-chemical processes and applications. Problems and concept questions are provided, helpful in courses related to plasma, lasers, combustion, chemical kinetics, statistics and thermodynamics, and high-temperature and high-energy fluid mechanics.