Homesick and alone, a teen-aged girl has just arrived in Seoul to work in a factory. Her family, still in the countryside, is too impoverished to keep sending her to school, so she works long, sun-les
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In Kenya, if you become a marathon runner you are seen as successful. This is the story of Samuel, a boy who dreams of being a great marathon runner. Run with Samuel and see some of Kenya.
Two decades of research and development in language and literacy education have yielded a broad, multidisciplinary focus. Yet education systems face constant economic and technological change, with at
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A tale inspired by the early 20th-century emigration of more than 1,000 Koreans, only to discover that they had been sold into indentured servitude in Mexico traces the experiences of orphan Ijeong, w
CMOS Digital Integrated Circuits: A First Course is an undergraduate textbook for electrical and computer engineering students that is dedicated solely to digital CMOS integrated circuits. It covers t
A tale inspired by the early 20th-century emigration of more than 1,000 Koreans, only to discover that they had been sold into indentured servitude in Mexico traces the experiences of orphan Ijeong, w
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A foreign film importer, Gi-yeong is a family man with a wife and daughter. An aficionado of Heineken, soccer, and sushi, he is also a North Korean spy who has been living among his enemies for twent
As molecular and cellular biologists move toward nano-techniques for performing experiments on single molecules rather than on populations of molecules, a comprehensive manual on how (and why) to car
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The term “body art” often conjures rude images of radical piercings and raunchy tattoos on “modern primitives.” Here artist Jean Paul Bourdier applies his skills to a complete
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The Bahir is one of the oldest and most important of all classical Kabbalah texts. Until the publication of theZohar, the Bahir was the most influential and widely quoted primary source of Kabbalistic
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Sharing accurate and timely supply and demand information throughout a supply chain can yield significant performance improvements to all members of the supply chain. Despite the benefits, many firms
Sharing accurate and timely supply and demand information throughout a supply chain can yield significant performance improvements to all members of the supply chain. Despite the benefits, many firms
This book is the first comprehensive, global treatment of landesque capital, a widespread concept used to understand anthropogenic landscapes that serve important economic, social, and ritual purposes
Le renvoi en droit international prive – technique de dialogue entre les cultures juridiques, par W. J. Kassir, Professeur a l’Universite Saint-Joseph de Beyrouth; Applying the Most Favourable Treaty
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