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Love in the Big City
A funny, transporting, surprising, and poignant novel that was one of the highest-selling debuts of recent years in Korea, Love in the Big City tells the story of a young gay man searching for happiness in the lonely city of Seoul Love in the Big City is the English-language debut of Sang Young Park, one of Korea’s most exciting young writers. A runaway bestseller, the novel hit the top five lists of all the major bookstores, went into twenty-six printings, and was praised for its unique literary voice and perspective. It is now poised to capture a worldwide readership. Young is a cynical yet fun-loving Korean student who pinballs from home to class to the beds of recent Tinder matches. He...
Unexpected Alliances
Since 1999, South Korean films have dominated roughly 40 to 60 percent of the Korean domestic box-office, matching or even surpassing Hollywood films in popularity. Why is this, and how did it come about? In Unexpected Alliances, Young-a Park seeks to answer these questions by exploring the cultural and institutional roots of the Korean film industry's phenomenal success in the context of Korea's political transition in the late 1990s and early 2000s. The book investigates the unprecedented interplay between independent filmmakers, the state, and the mainstream film industry under the post-authoritarian administrations of Kim Dae Jung (1998–2003) and Roh Moo Hyun (2003–2008), and shows h...
Spark of Madness: The Dream Show
There is a new tenant moving into the apartment complex, and Eliza Fields cannot help but wonder about him. Who is he? Where did he come from? And what do the strange inscriptions on his jacket mean? After introducing herself and helping him move into his apartment, Eliza Fields learns the new tenant's name: he is Theo, and he is a man determined to leave his mark on the world around him, and he will let nothing stand in his way. But Theo does not know the danger he is in. There is another man in the shadows, driven into madness, that seeks vengeance for Theo's pursuit of his dream. But can Theo save himself before it's too late? Spark of Madness: The Dream Show is a gripping and suspenseful tale of ambition, rivalry, madness, drama, and the art of Kung Fu. In what is, without a doubt, Alexander Rebelle's crowning achievement as an author to date, Spark of Madness offers an exciting story for everyone to enjoy.
SPARK-ing Big Questions: What is the Future of Health Technology?
Have you ever been assigned a group project in which your team had to work together to solve some sort of problem? Although not everyone always agrees, you may have learned that collaborating with people who have unique perspectives and interests is a really effective way to generate new, exciting solutions—solutions that nobody could have come up with alone! This is the idea behind an event called SPARKS! Future Technology for Health, which was held at CERN —one of the world’s largest and most respected centers for scientific research. A group of around 50 experts, in diverse fields ranging from medicine to computer science to nuclear physics, joined forces to collaborate, learn and u...
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Spark
Production-targeted Spark guidance with real-world use cases Spark: Big Data Cluster Computing in Production goes beyond general Spark overviews to provide targeted guidance toward using lightning-fast big-data clustering in production. Written by an expert team well-known in the big data community, this book walks you through the challenges in moving from proof-of-concept or demo Spark applications to live Spark in production. Real use cases provide deep insight into common problems, limitations, challenges, and opportunities, while expert tips and tricks help you get the most out of Spark performance. Coverage includes Spark SQL, Tachyon, Kerberos, ML Lib, YARN, and Mesos, with clear, acti...
As the Spark Flies Upward
Following four generations of a family living on the banks of a river in the Depression-era south, this volume visits the unspoken, unyielding bond of loyalty between siblings, yet highlights the stark contrast between sisters Grace and Athena, shown perhaps most vividly by the way they ultimately deal with the abuse of their mother.
Kindling the Spark
Gathering perspectives of musical talent from the psychological, musical, and educational fields, Kindling the Spark is the only single sourcebook that defines musical talent and provides practical strategies for identifying and nurturing it. Joanne Haroutounian uses her experience as teacher, researcher, and parent to clarify central issues concerning talent recognition and development in a way that will easily appeal to a wide audience. The book describes the different stages of development in musical training, including guidelines for finding a suitable teacher at different levels, social and psychological aspects that impact musical training, and research on talent development by ages an...
The History of Men
A collection of historical articles and essays by a pioneer in the field of masculinity studies.
