Park: 651 books

Book cover of Travels In The Interior Of Africa - Volume 1
by Mungo Park
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Book cover of Oranges From Spain
by David Park
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2012

ORANGES FROM SPAIN is a collection of stories about of the trials of growing up in a community where tension, confusion and violence hold sway. Here, among other tales, a youthful seaside romance crosses the religious divide, a gang take turns at the wheel of a stolen car, and an exceptional student...
Book cover of Fictional International Relations

Fictional International Relations

Gender, Pain and Truth

by Sungju Park-Kang
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014

This book proposes the idea of fictional International Relations (IR) and engages with feminist IR by contextualising the case of a woman spy in Korea in the Cold War. Fictional imagination and feminist IR encourage one to go beyond conventional or standard ways of thinking; it reshapes taken-for-granted...
Book cover of Second-Generation Korean Experiences in the United States and Canada
by Neha Ahmed, Angie Y. Chung, Miliann Kang
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...
Book cover of Asian/Americans, Education, and Crime

Asian/Americans, Education, and Crime

The Model Minority as Victim and Perpetrator

by Andrew Cho, Harvey Gee, Nicholas Daniel Hartlep
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016

Asian/Americans, Education, and Crime: The Model Minority as Victim and Perpetrator analyzes Asian/Americans’ interactions with the U.S. criminal justice system as perpetrators and victims of crime. This book contributes to a limited amount of scholarly writing so that researchers, policymakers,...
Book cover of Trans Studies

Trans Studies

The Challenge to Hetero/Homo Normativities

by Yolanda Martinez-San Miguel, Sarah Tobias, Genny Beemyn
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016

Winner of the 2017 Sylvia Rivera Award in Transgender Studies from the Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS) From Caitlyn Jenner to Laverne Cox, transgender people have rapidly gained public visibility, contesting many basic assumptions about what gender and embodiment mean. The vibrant discipline...
Book cover of Among the Burmans: A Record of Fifteen Years of Work and its Fruitage
by Henry Park Cochrane
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015

The Chanda was slowly making her way with the tide up the Rangoon River. Two young missionaries, myself and wife, were leaning on the rail, deeply interested in the scene before us. The rising sun, sending its rays over the land, seemed to us a pledge of the Master's presence in the work to which...
Book cover of A Williams Anthology
by Compiled By Edwin Partridge Lehman And Julian Park
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Book cover of Gods and Angels
by David Park
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016

A seventeen-year-old boy visits his estranged mother on Boxing Day in a grey seaside town; a University lecturer falls in with a group of older men who inhabit a very different world while trying to learn how to swim; a detective breaks into his former home to spy on his estranged family; a couple...
Book cover of Historical Dictionary of Morocco
by Thomas K. Park, Aomar Boum
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016

A historical reference work on Morocco must take as its subject al-maghrib al-aqsa (the far west) as the Arabic scholars have generally referred to the approximate region of present-day Morocco, roughly the north-west corner of Africa but at times including much of the Iberian peninsula, because the...
Book cover of Abduction in Context

Abduction in Context

The Conjectural Dynamics of Scientific Reasoning

by Woosuk Park
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2016

This book offers a novel perspective on abduction. It starts by discussing the major theories of abduction, focusing on the hybrid nature of abduction as both inference and intuition. It reports on the Peircean theory of abduction and discusses the more recent Magnani concept of animal abduction,...
Book cover of A Philosophy of Sacred Nature

A Philosophy of Sacred Nature

Prospects for Ecstatic Naturalism

by Robert S. Corrington, Sigridur Gudmarsdottir, Joseph M. Kramp
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014

A Philosophy of Sacred Nature introduces Robert Corrington’s philosophical thought, “ecstatic naturalism,” which seeks to recognize nature’s self-transforming potential. Ecstatic naturalism is a philosophical-theological perspective, deeply seated in a semiotic cosmology and psychosemiosis,...
Book cover of Phosphate Phosphors for Solid-State Lighting
by Kartik N. Shinde, S.J. Dhoble, H.C. Swart
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012

The idea for this book arose out of the realization that, although excellent surveys and a phosphor handbook are available, there is no single source covering the area of phosphate based phosphors especially for lamp industry. Moreover, as this field gets only limited attention in most general books...
Book cover of Korean and Korean American Life Writing in Hawai'i

Korean and Korean American Life Writing in Hawai'i

From the Land of the Morning Calm to Hawai'i Nei

by Heui-Yung Park
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015

Korean and Korean American Life Writing in Hawai'i examines such self-representing genres as lyric poems, oral history, autobiography, and memoirs written by Korean and Korean Americans from the early twentieth century to the present, in order to explore how these people have shaped their individual...
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