Han Han: 492 books

Bernie Madoff. Charles Ponzi. Nigerian princes. We recognize the names of famous con artists, but can we detect the con artists right in front of us? In three short stories, Sophia Han explores how we can be deceived by people we think we know. - My Boyfriend, My Thief: A woman searches for...

**Shortlisted for the 2018 Man Booker International Prize From Booker Prize-winner and literary phenomenon Han Kang, a lyrical and disquieting exploration of personal grief, written through the prism of the color white** While on a writer's residency, a nameless narrator wanders the...

Aiden Quinn refuses to be the reason his father holds up a big family announcement despite their strained relationship. On his way home to Texas and their family’s cattle ranch, he stops to investigate a single-vehicle accident. The driver is missing, the SUV abandoned and a search into nearby woods...

Welcome to the first book in the Orchard Agency series by USA TODAY, Publisher’s Weekly and Amazon Bestselling Author Barb Han. While healing from a bullet wound, ex-Special Forces sniper Jaden Dean takes what should be an easy mission. He quickly realizes that things aren’t always as they...

Welcome to the second book in the Orchard Agency series by USA TODAY, Publisher’s Weekly and Amazon Bestselling Author Barb Han. He lost everything with no chance of recovery She is hanging on to her last thread of hope When Clara’s niece disappears while vacationing on an...

The incomparable poetry of Han Shan (Cold Mountain) and his sidekick Shih Te, the rebel poets who became icons of Chinese poetry and Zen, has long captured the imagination of poetry lovers and Zen aficionados. Popularized in the West by Beat Generation writers Gary Snyder and Jack Kerouac, these legendary...

These nine stories span half a century of contemporary writing in Korea (1970s–2010s), bringing together some of the most famous twentieth-century women writers with a new generation of young, bold voices. Their work explores a world not often seen in the West, taking us into the homes, families,...

In his philosophical reflections on the art of lingering, acclaimed cultural theorist Byung-Chul Han argues that the value we attach today to the vita activa is producing a crisis in our sense of time. Our attachment to the vita activa creates an imperative to work which degrades the human being into...

Beauty today is a paradox. The cult of beauty is ubiquitous but it has lost its transcendence and become little more than an aspect of consumerism, the aesthetic dimension of capitalism. The sublime and unsettling aspects of beauty have given way to corporeal pleasures and 'likes', resulting in a...

Exploring how neoliberalism has discovered the productive force of the psyche Byung-Chul Han, a star of German philosophy, continues his passionate critique of neoliberalism, trenchantly describing a regime of technological domination that, in contrast to Foucault’s biopower, has discovered...

In onze prestatiemaatschappij worden we niet meer door geboden, verboden en regels beheerst, maar door projecten, initiatieven en motivatie. Dat klinkt positief, maar is het niet. Ons handelen staat in het teken van zo veel mogelijk productie en consumptie, en niet van het beschermen van wat voor...

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...

Through the course of almost twenty years of medical experience, Dr. Minh Han has collected in this book over a hundred stories of people and situations that have intersected and affected his life. These stories range from short and funny vignettes to more extensive recountings of a patient's...

Wealthy, educated, and more privileged people are more likely to participate and be represented in politics than their poorer, less educated, and less privileged counterparts. To reduce these inequalities, we need a better understanding of how the disadvantaged become motivated to participate. Moved...