Kim: 4309 books

A fiercely beautiful love story for the ages, The Disappeared traces one woman’s three-decades-long journey from the peaceful streets of Montreal to the war-torn villages of Cambodia, as a brief affair turns into a grand passion of loss and remembrance, set against one of the most brutal genocides...

In the past twenty years, many traditionally white campus religious groups have become Asian American. Today there are more than fifty evangelical Christian groups at UC Berkeley and UCLA alone, and 80% of their members are Asian American. At Harvard, Asian Americans constitute 70% of the Harvard...

一本****挑戰傳統職涯發展論述，當前最實用可靠的職涯成功指南！ ** ** 世紀奧美公關創辦人 丁菱娟 富錦樹集團創辦人 吳羽傑 經理人月刊總編輯 齊立文　（依姓氏筆劃排列）／好評推薦 ** ** CEO**，跟你想的不一樣──** 他們不見得是常春藤名校畢業生； 他們並非從小就注定出人頭地； 他們不是無比自負的超級英雄； 他們更沒有完美零瑕疵的性格…… ** ** 本書作者耗費十年時間， 收集一萬七千名領導者的訪談與追蹤紀錄， 歸納整理出囊括成功實例的關鍵檔案， 提供可複製的經驗法則，讓所有企業或個人， 從這些領導者的親身經歷、豐功偉績和挫折失敗中， 得出這樣的結論──關鍵在於，養成4大致勝行為。 找到對的CEO，可以讓瀕危公司起死回生， 遇到不適合的CEO，可以讓正常企業從天堂墜入地獄……   本書所提供CEO的職涯收穫適用於所有個人及企業， 不管你是立志成為領導者，或單純想在職場上自我精進及有所貢獻， 本書所蒐集的職場發展藍圖，必能協助你發掘及發展成為高階主管的相關能力， 是你直接向企業界多位成功人士學習職涯智慧及經歷的絕佳管道。   先來看看這些人的例子： 平凡護士成為早產兒醫院的首位女性CEO，創下該院一百六十年的院史紀錄； 某投創者剛入行時敗光父母四十萬美元的積蓄，如今在業界闖出一片天； 義大利移民製鞋師傅之子，後來成功經營國際直升機企業和大型科技公司； 小時候演戲唱歌的童星，長大後掌管全國獲利前幾名的大型銀行。   美國廢棄物處理業之龍頭Republic...

Written by Kim Young-jin, one of Korea's foremost film critics, the book-which includes interviews, a biography, filmography and synopses-examines the cinematic world of Lee Chang-dong, widely hailed as one of Korea's top directors, despite having produced only four films to date. Lee's films embrace...

Since 2012, Public Books has championed a new kind of community for intellectual engagement, discussion, and action. An online magazine that unites the best of the university with the openness of the internet, Public Books is where new ideas are debuted, old facts revived, and dangerous illusions...

Set in Western Australia in the first decades of the nineteenth century, That Deadman Dance is a vast, gorgeous novel about the first contact between the Aboriginal Noongar people and the new European settlers. Bobby Wabalanginy is a young Noongar man, smart, resourceful, and eager to please....

An answer to Amy Chua’s Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, author Kim Wong Keltner’s Tiger Babies Strike Back takes the control-freak beast by the tail with a humorous and honest look at the issues facing women today—Chinese-American and otherwise. Keltner, the author of the novels Buddha...

Winner of the NSW Premier's Literary Awards Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-fiction,The Age Book of the Year Award for Non-fiction, The Dobbie Prize for Best First Book. A lyrical memoir from a first-time author that has won critical acclaim Australia-wide. In the tradition of Drusilla Modjeska's...

In her new collection, gifted poet and novelist Kim Addonizio uses her literary powers to bring to life a variety of settings, all connected through the suggestion that things in the known world are not what they seem. In “Beautiful Lady of the Snow,” young Annabelle turns to a host of family...

America’s Kim Addonizio has been called ‘one of the nation’s most provocative and edgy poets’. Her poetry is renowned both for its gritty, street-wise narrators and for a wicked sense of wit. With passion, precision and irreverent honesty, her poems explore life’s dual nature: good and evil,...

A STOLEN CROWN. A HANDSOME PRINCE. A GIANT DISASTER. Perfect for fans of Throne of Glass, Falling Kingdoms, and Graceling. Since childhood, Elena has lived inside the walls of the Pit, the filthy shantytown where the poor are forced to live out their lives as trash. But when she steals the...

Beautifully illustrated with watercolor paintings, The Magic Gem is a much-loved Korean folk tale that tells the story of why cats and dogs don't get along. A poor fisherman wins a fabulous magic gem that grants his every wish before it's lost to a conniving neighbor. His cat and dog manage...

From a team of seasoned, top horror experts, lead by uber-critic Kim Newman, carve their way through a century of fear with authority, humour and encyclopaedic knowledge. Packed images of the most terrifying scenes in cinema history, this unique, definitive, comprehensive guide traces the story of horror,...

This all-new book, by the co-author of Companion, invites you to discover and enjoy your poetic self. Inspired by the gratifying success of Companion, Kim Addonizio presents exciting new insights into the creative process, craft, and the lessons of her own creative subjects--love, loss, identity,...