Kim: 4309 books
by JaHyun Kim Haboush
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
The Imjin War (1592–1598) was a grueling conflict that wreaked havoc on the towns and villages of the Korean Peninsula. The involvement of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean forces, not to mention the regional scope of the war, was the largest the world had seen, and the memory dominated East Asian memory...
by Kim Kane
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
I'll just say it: I am a "woman of a certain age."
No one wants to talk about aging—especially aging women. We're not supposed to bring up the changes to our bodies or lifestyle. We're not supposed to mention the weird food grievances we develop, nor the fact that we can't help...
Anno Dracula
Anno Dracula, T1
Language: French
Release Date: May 16, 2018
Londres, 1888. L’obscur voile de la terreur est tombé sur la capitale depuis que la reine Victoria s’est unie au sulfureux comte Dracula. Sous son influence, les citoyens sont de plus en plus nombreux à rejoindre les rangs des vampires, toujours plus puissants. Mais la riposte ne se fait pas...
by Kim Thúy
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
LONGLISTED FOR THE SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE: The perfect complement to the exquisitely wrought novels Ru and Mãn, Canada Reads winner Kim Thúy returns with Vi, exploring the lives, loves and struggles of Vietnamese refugees as they reinvent themselves in new lands.
The daughter of an enterprising...
by Esther Kim Lee
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
Since the premiere of his play FOB in 1979, the Chinese American playwright David Henry Hwang has made a significant impact in the U. S. and beyond. The Theatre of David Henry Hwang provides an in-depth study of his plays and other works in theatre.
Beginning with his "Trilogy of Chinese...
I Just Lately Started Buying Wings
Missives from the Other Side of Silence
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
I Just Lately Started Buying Wings is a finely crafted debut, winner of the 2009 Bakeless Nonfiction Prize
Kim Dana Kupperman's essays plumb the emotional and spiritual depths of a transitory life. Her episodic "missives" cover territory from the chaos of a frenetic childhood to love...
by Kim Ekemar
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 5, 2016
En 1982 dos viajeros ingenuos llegaron a Paraguay para, como turistas, conocer al país. Por una pregunta trivial, la pareja fue detenida por la policía política bajo la sospecha oficial de ser terroristas. Fueron obligados de quedarse frente a una cámara de tortura, incomunicados, hasta lograr...
by Kim Knott
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2000
Hinduism is practised by eighty per cent of India's population, and by thirty million people outside India. In this Very Short Introduction, Kim Knott combines a succinct and authoritative overview of a major religion with an analysis of the challenges facing it in the twentieth century. She discusses...
The Renaissance Ethics of Music
Singing, Contemplation and Musica Humana
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
In early modern Europe, music – particularly singing – was the arena where body and soul came together, embodied in the notion of musica humana. Kim uses this concept to examine the framework within which music and song were used to promote moral education and addresses Renaissance ideas of religion, education and music.
Joy and Sorrow – Songs of Ancient China
A New Translation of Shi Jing Guo Feng: A Chinese–English Bilingual Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
The Shi Jing is the oldest anthology of Chinese songs. It contains 305 songs of ancient China, composed in the 12th to 7th century BCE. The collection is divided into four parts. The present work is a translation of its first part, namely Guo Feng, which translates as "songs of states" within...
by Kim Knott
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
Hinduism is practised by nearly eighty per cent of India's population, and by some seventy million people outside India. In this Very Short Introduction, Kim Knott offers a succinct and authoritative overview of this major religion, and analyses the challenges facing it in the twenty-first century....
Beyond the Miracle Worker
The Remarkable Life of Anne Sullivan Macy and Her Extraordinary Friendship with Helen Keller
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
After many years, historian and Helen Keller expert Kim Nielsen realized that she, along with other historians and biographers, had failed Anne Sullivan Macy. While Macy is remembered primarily as Helen Keller's teacher and mythologized as a straightforward educational superhero, the real story of...
Life and Death in the Andes
On the Trail of Bandits, Heroes, and Revolutionaries
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
“A thoughtfully observed travel memoir and history as richly detailed as it is deeply felt” (Kirkus Reviews) of South America, from Butch Cassidy to Che Guevara to cocaine king Pablo Escobar to Charles Darwin, all set in the Andes Mountains.
The Andes Mountains are the world’s longest...
Why Democracy is Broken
A Blueprint for Change
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2018
Democracy is being held hostage to the adversarial nature of party politics. We, the people, deserve better!
Since its inception in ancient Greece, democracy has stood the test of time for over 2,500 years. But it is under threat by the populist revolt - fuelled by the flames of voter discontent....