Young Park: 17 books
Ideals of the Body
Architecture, Urbanism, and Hygiene in Postrevolutionary Paris
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2018
Modern hygienic urbanism originated in the airy boulevards, public parks, and sewer system that transformed the Parisian cityscape in the mid-nineteenth century. Yet these well-known developments in public health built on a previous moment of anxiety about the hygiene of modern city dwellers. Amid...
by Kyu Young Park Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2003
Koreans first began to immigrate to Chicago at the turn of the 20th century. Drawn to the Windy City in search of a better life for themselves and their families, Korean Americans quickly began to establish what has become a thriving community that remains active and distinct. For the past 100 years,...
by Young Park
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
The Korean from America has just finished a mission of revenge in Harbin and on his arrival in Guangzhou is shot. It takes almost a month to recover from the gun shot wounds.
During recovery he is with close friends Yasha and Kam Wah. Once out of the hospital he continues his life as a consultant...
Tiny Holes
The Eighty-Five Million Dollar Deal
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2010
It was the deal that comes once in a lifetime. He is asked to go to China to find the contact who could make it all happen. Millions of dollars are at stake and there are Arab Princes, big investors from Canada and the US, American spies, and Chinese power brokers involved. Finding the right contact...
Choices
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2011
A summer in the life of a fixer. During that summer he is involved with springing a drug dealer from jail in Chicago, remodeling an ammunition plant in Hanoi, and proposing a resort/casino project in Vietnam. With the help of a close friend, he looks for the murderer of the Manchu lady in Harbin. Unknown to him, he is a target of a killer from North Korea. It was that kind of summer.
Unexpected Alliances
Independent Filmmakers, the State, and the Film Industry in Postauthoritarian South Korea
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014
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...
by Sung Woo Hwang, Young June Park, Byung-Gook Park
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2012
This book provides readers with the knowledge in fundamentals of nanoelectronic devices. The authors build the principles of nanoelectronic devices based on those of microelectronic devices wherever possible and introduce the inherently nanoelectronic principles gradually. They briefly review quantum mechanics and solid-state physics that can form
Techno-Orientalism
Imagining Asia in Speculative Fiction, History, and Media
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2015
What will the future look like? To judge from many speculative fiction films and books, from Blade Runner to Cloud Atlas, the future will be full of cities that resemble Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Shanghai, and it will be populated mainly by cold, unfeeling citizens who act like robots. Techno-Orientalism...
by Young Won Park
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
This book provides a framework and real case analyses concerning business architecture strategy and platform-based ecosystems. Firstly, the book introduces a framework of business architecture strategy and suggests an engineering process that employs a business architecture analysis system in which...
Strengths and Challenges of New Immigrant Families
Implications for Research, Education, Policy, and Service
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2009
Immigration to America is an issue that often sparks intense emotional reactions_from passion and compassion to anger and even rage. Often missing from the dialogue, however, is discussion of the strengths of immigrant newcomers_the abilities and positive characteristics they bring as individuals...
Asian Tradition and Cosmopolitan Politics
Dialogue with Kim Dae-jung
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017
The book is a collection of texts by the late former President of the Republic of Korea and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Kim Dae-jung, along with contributions by other authors including the late former President of the Federal Republic of Germany, Richard von Weizsäcker. The manuscript aims to explore...
Peace in the East
An Chunggun's Vision for Asia in the Age of Japanese Imperialism
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
On October 26, 1909, the Korean patriot An Chunggŭn assassinated the Japanese statesman Itō Hirobumi in Harbin, China. More than a century later, the ramifications of An’s daring act continue to reverberate across East Asia and beyond. This volume explores the abiding significance of An, his life,...
by Neha Ahmed, Angie Y. Chung, Miliann Kang
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2014
Second-Generation Korean Experiences in the United States and Canada, Pyong Gap Min and Samuel Noh have compiled a comprehensive examination of 1.5- and second-generation Korean experiences in the United States and Canada. As the chapters demonstrate, comparing younger-generation Koreans with first-generation...
by Young-Seuk Park, Sovan Lek, Christophe Baehr
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
Advanced Modelling Techniques Studying Global Changes in Environmental Sciences discusses the need for immediate and effective action, guided by a scientific understanding of ecosystem function, to alleviate current pressures on the environment.
Research, especially in Ecological Modeling,...
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