franco tim unperson portraits of north korean defectors
Franco Tim Unperson. Portraits of North Korean Defectors
Unperson is one of the first photo books of North Korean Defectors. The 15 intimate portraits and the stories of the brave people who decided to take that chance to flee to South Korea. The road to South Korea is dangerous and can take years with the many different borders of Mongolia, Laos, Thailand, and China. The people fleeing are filled with the fear of being arrested and sent back to labour camps. Once they arrive in South Korea, they often struggle to find a new identity, lost between their North Korean past and South Korean future. Tim Franco travelled to the crossing points, aiming to capture the diversity of landscape that is the background of North Korean defection. He chose to use an 8x10 camera with Polaroid film to capture each defector. In George Orwell's 1984, an unperson is someone who has been vaporized, whose record has been erased. As each defector begins their new life, they all start out as an Unperson.
3842 Руб.
Vandersavel Sigrid North Sea Living
Stunning and engaging portraits of the architecture and interior design of North Sea coastal houses and apartments North Sea Living presents inspirational seaside architectural and interior design projects. The book showcases beautiful houses and apartments situated on the North Sea coast of Belgium and The Netherlands.
8735 Руб.
Inha Jung. Constructing the Socialist Way of Life
Что архитектурные чертежи рассказывают о Северной Корее. Жилье и городское планирование составляют ключевой элемент материальной основы Северной Кореи. В послевоенную эпоху в стране предпринимались попытки социализировать все типы жилых пространств на основе политической идеологии: от небольших квартирных комнат до городских условий. Идея о том, что политические силы Северной Кореи промывают мозги своему народу, как показывают свидетельства многих перебежчиков, поверхностна. Эта книга, исследуя отечественную культуру и повседневную жизнь, призвана охватить реальную жизнь северокорейцев, которые во многом поддерживают уникальную политическую систему страны. Для этого используются рисунки, карты и схемы, полученные из различных архивов. Хотя это нейтральные формы общения, они также передают истинные намерения северокорейских архитекторов и планировщиков, скрытые за заявлениями политических лидеров. What Architectural Drawings Reveal about North KoreaHousing and urban planning constitute a key element of the material foundation of North Korea. In the post-war era, the country attempted to socialize all types of living spaces based on political ideology, from small apartment rooms to urban set- tings. The idea that North Korea’s political forces are brainwashing their people is, as the testimonies of many defectors reveal, superficial.Exploring domestic culture and daily life, this book aims to capture the actual lives of North Koreans, who have largely supported the unique political system of the country. To this end, it uses drawings, maps, and diagrams obtained from various archives. While these are neutral forms of communication, they also convey the actual intentions of North Korean architects and planners hidden behind the claims of political leaders.
4650 Руб.
Inha Jung. Constructing the Socialist Way of Life
Что архитектурные чертежи рассказывают о Северной Корее.Жилье и городское планирование составляют ключевой элемент материальной основы Северной Кореи. В послевоенную эпоху в стране предпринимались попытки социализировать все типы жилых пространств на основе политической идеологии: от небольших квартирных комнат до городских условий. Идея о том, что политические силы Северной Кореи промывают мозги своему народу, как показывают свидетельства многих перебежчиков, поверхностна.Эта книга, исследуя отечественную культуру и повседневную жизнь, призвана охватить реальную жизнь северокорейцев, которые во многом поддерживают уникальную политическую систему страны. Для этого используются рисунки, карты и схемы, полученные из различных архивов. Хотя это нейтральные формы общения, они также передают истинные намерения северокорейских архитекторов и планировщиков, скрытые за заявлениями политических лидеров.What Architectural Drawings Reveal about North KoreaHousing and urban planning constitute a key element of the material foundation of North Korea. In the post-war era, the country attempted to socialize all types of living spaces based on political ideology, from small apartment rooms to urban set- tings. The idea that North Korea’s political forces are brainwashing their people is, as the testimonies of many defectors reveal, superficial.Exploring domestic culture and daily life, this book aims to capture the actual lives of North Koreans, who have largely supported the unique political system of the country. To this end, it uses drawings, maps, and diagrams obtained from various archives. While these are neutral forms of communication, they also convey the actual intentions of North Korean architects and planners hidden behind the claims of political leaders.
3990 Руб.
Cha Victor The Impossible State. North Korea, Past and Future
The definitive account of North Korea - its veiled past and uncertain future - from former White House adviser and Korea expert Victor Cha 'We killed Americans. We are killing Americans. We will kill Americans.' North Korean schoolchildren conjugating verbs How did North Korea become The Impossible State, where citizens found humming South Korean pop songs risk being sent to a gulag, and yet a starving populace clings fiercely to its Dear Leader Kim Jong-un? What does the future hold for a regime with terrifying nuclear ambitions and an endless war with its southern counterpart? Former White House adviser and Director of Asian Studies at Georgetown University, Victor Cha, pulls back the curtain on the world's most isolated country to provide this unprecedented and timely insight into North Korea's history, present and future. In the era of the Trump administration and with South Korean relations seemingly on the brink of great change, this authoritative account of the country interweaved with exclusive personal anecdotes offers much-needed answers in an increasingly uncertain political climate. Indeed, Cha warns of a future North Korea for which the Western world may be woefully unprepared. Extensive and fast-paced, The Impossible State is an extraordinarily edifying portrait of the society, economy and foreign policy of the most enigmatic nation-state.
3145 Руб.
Theroux Marcel The Sorcerer of Pyongyang
Growing up amid the starvation and oppression of 1990s North Korea, 10-year-old Cho Jun-su stumbles upon a mysterious game, left behind in a hotel room by a rare foreign visitor. As Jun-su painstakingly deciphers the rules of the game in secret, he unlocks an inner world that is at first an antidote and then a threat to the political cult that surrounds him. Over time, the game leads Jun-su on a spellbinding and unexpected journey through the hidden layers of his country, towards precocious success, glory, love, betrayal, prison, a spell at the pinnacle of the North Korean elite and an extraordinary kind of redemption. Warm, uplifting, and deeply-researched,The Sorcerer of Pyongyang is a love story and a tale of survival against the odds. Inspired by the testimony of North Korean refugees, and drawing on the author's personal experience of North Korea, it testifies to the power of empathy and the human imagination.
4017 Руб.
Hastings Max The Korean War
On 25 June 1950 the invasion of South Korea by the Communist North launched one of the bloodiest conflicts of the last century. The seemingly limitless power of the Chinese-backed North was thrown against the ferocious firepower of the UN-backed South in a war that can be seen today as the stark prelude to Vietnam. Max Hastings draws on first-hand accounts of those who fought on both sides to produce this vivid and incisive reassessment of the Korean War, bringing the military and human dimensions into sharp focus. Critically acclaimed on publication, republished with an introduction from the author, The Korean War remains the best narrative history of this conflict.
3860 Руб.
North Korea
An ingenious approach to personal portraiture in a country with a virtual embargo on the formWhile undertaking this photographic investigation of North Korea, French photographer Stéphan Gladieu (born 1969) found himself under constant surveillance everywhere he went. Because of these constraints, he managed to invent an ingenious space of freedom. Gladieu created mirror-portraits of people he encountered and was hosted by, often full length, which require a face-on pose and a direct gaze. In this way, he managed to create a form similar to North Korea's propaganda imagery, which made his approach more comprehensible and permissible to the authorities.Fifty years after its foundation, North Korea endures a media portrayal of war, famine, nuclear programs and military parades. Indoors, people are required to display portraits of the regime's founder, Kim Il-sung and his son Kim Jong-Il. Family photos are not allowed; nor are personal portraits. Consequently, Gladieu's work attains an almost historic act of intervention in the country's visual politics.
5500 Руб.
John D. Star of the North
North Korea and the USA are on the brink of war.A young American woman disappears without trace from a South Korean island.The CIA recruits her twin sister to uncover the truth.Now, she must go undercover in the world’s most deadly state.Only by infiltrating the dark heart of the terrifying regime will she be able to save her sister…and herself.Star of the North is the most explosive thriller of the year - you won't be able to put it down.
470 Руб.
John D. Star of the North
North Korea and the USA are on the brink of war.A young American woman disappears without trace from a South Korean island.The CIA recruits her twin sister to uncover the truth.Now, she must go undercover in the world’s most deadly state.Only by infiltrating the dark heart of the terrifying regime will she be able to save her sister…and herself.Star of the North is the most explosive thriller of the year - you won't be able to put it down.
470 Руб.
Demick Barbara Nothing To Envy. Real Lives in North Korea
A spectacularly revealing and harrowing portrait of ordinary lives in the world’s least ordinary country, North Korea North Korea is Orwell’s 1984 made reality: it is the only country in the world not connected to the internet; Gone with the Wind is a dangerous, banned book; during political rallies, spies study your expression to check your sincerity. After the death of the country’s great leader Kim Il Sung in 1994, famine descended, and Nothing to Envy – winner of the 2010 BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction – weaves together the stories of adversity and resilience of six residents of Chongin, North Korea’s third-largest city. From extensive interviews and with tenacious investigative work, Barbara Demick has recreated the concerns, culture and lifestyles of North Korean citizens in a gripping narrative, and vividly reconstructed the inner workings of this extraordinary and secretive country.
2604 Руб.
Cho Hang-rok, Lee Jee-young Practical Korean Vol.2 (+CD) / Практический курс корейского языка. Часть 2 (+CD)
Книга 1 .Practical Korean 2: Basic. Авторы: Cho Hang-rok, Lee Jee-young .PRACTICAL KOREAN series aims to enable beginners to engage in practical conversations and to develop basic communication skills. As the second volume of the PRACTICAL KOREAN series, PRACTICAL KOREAN 2 focuses on the essential vocabulary words, grammar structures, tasks, and topics at a basic level. .Книга 2 .Practical Korean 2: Basic: Workbook. Авторы: Cho Hang-rok, Lee Jee-young .As the second volume of the PRACTICAL KOREAN WORKBOOK series, this book is designed for the learner of Korean to use this self-study resource to strengthen his or her understanding of the material covered in PRACTICAL KOREAN 2. This workbook consists of various styles of questions based on grammar structures and will enable learners to confirm their knowledge of the vocabulary words presented in PRACTICAL KOREAN 2.
8964 Руб.
Cho Hang-rok, Lee Jee-young Practical Korean Vol.2 (+CD) / Практический курс корейского языка. Часть 2 (+CD)
Книга 1 .Practical Korean 2: Basic. Авторы: Cho Hang-rok, Lee Jee-young .PRACTICAL KOREAN series aims to enable beginners to engage in practical conversations and to develop basic communication skills. As the second volume of the PRACTICAL KOREAN series, PRACTICAL KOREAN 2 focuses on the essential vocabulary words, grammar structures, tasks, and topics at a basic level. .Книга 2 .Practical Korean 2: Basic: Workbook. Авторы: Cho Hang-rok, Lee Jee-young .As the second volume of the PRACTICAL KOREAN WORKBOOK series, this book is designed for the learner of Korean to use this self-study resource to strengthen his or her understanding of the material covered in PRACTICAL KOREAN 2. This workbook consists of various styles of questions based on grammar structures and will enable learners to confirm their knowledge of the vocabulary words presented in PRACTICAL KOREAN 2.
8964 Руб.
Korean Dictionary. Essential Edition
The home of trusted Korean dictionaries for everyday language learning. A handy and affordable Korean to English and English to Korean reference for every day, including short grammars of Korean and English. Offers travellers and learners at home, school or in the office extensive and up-to-date coverage of Korean and English in a portable format. 27,000 translations. Designed for all those studying Korean who need maximum information in a handy travel format. Offers comprehensive and up-to-the-minute coverage of Korean and English. Delivers the accuracy and reliability you expect from the Collins name. With natural, idiomatic example phrases, in-depth treatment of the most important core vocabulary and help to find the exact translation you want. All Korean words, phrases and translations are transcribed using the revised Korean romanization system - ideal for beginners.
2304 Руб.
Flannery Tim A Warning from the Golden Toad
Taking us on an extraordinary journey into the past and around the globe, from coral reefs to the North Pole, deserts to rainforests, Tim Flannery tells the story of the earth's climate, and how we have changed it.
1210 Руб.
Cornwell Bernard Stormchild
Tim Blackburn's wife died in a ball of flame in the Channel, victim of a mystery bomber. His son had died years earlier in Northern Ireland, killed in a terrorist attack. And his daughter Nicole had vanished in the North Pacific after joining an outlawed organisation called Genesis dedicated to saving the planet, by violence if necessary. The police think Nicole might have been involved in the death of her mother, but Tim won't believe it. And he means to prove it. With nothing else to live for, Tim goes in search of Nicole in his yacht Stormchild. He hopes to rescue her from the clutches of Genesis. But where would a secretive organization of ruthless environmentalists hide? And even if he does find Nicole, will he be a welcome visitor? . . .
2827 Руб.