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This much-needed study draws on fresh material and firsthand observation to provide an understanding of North Korea as it exists today.

North Korea under Kim Chong-il: Power, Politics, and Prospects for Change delves deeply into what we knowand what we think we knowabout the current North Korean system.

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As perennial famine and material shortages call into question the tenability of North Korea's military-authoritarian government, the international community has struggled to reconcile contradictory humanitarian, economic, and political goals in formulating foreign policy and aid responses to the secretive Pyongyang regime.

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Commonly mistaken for the locally raised Viet Cong, the NVA was an entirely different force, conducting large-scale operations in a conventional war. Covering the evolution of the forces from 1958 onwards, this book looks at the civilian and military lives of the soldiers.

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In this book, Alan Ward has collected contributions from education, psychology, law, political science, religion, literature, and poetry in order to examine the life and mind of a community in crisis. This book fills the gap by addressing not only the way violence affects daily life by also it's influence on art and culture.

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Provides a documentary history of the relationships between labour and abolitionists from the early 1830s to the US Civil War. This text shows labour's response to episodes like the 1831 Nat Turner Revolt, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, John Brown's execution and the election of Abraham Lincoln.

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The history, uniforms, insignia and equipment of the volunteer Norwegian SS unit that fought on the Leningrad front in Russia.

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Through a detailed examination of the party's post-war development, this book outlines how nostalgia has shaped the party's trajectory. It argues that Labour's nostalgically-informed identity has determined the extent to which the party has been able to respond effectively to the changing nature of Britain. -- .

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At dawn on March 2, 2002, the first major battle of the 21st Century began. Over 200 soldiers of the 101st Airborne and 10th Mountain Divisions flew into Afghanistan's Shahikot valley - and into the mouth of a buzz-saw. This book is suitable for fans of Black Hawk Down, Zero Dark Thirty, Chris Ryan, and Andy McNab.

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This book examines the unusual circumstances of de facto states, countries which are not considered to be sovereign nations by the international community.

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This unique guide will enable students, librarians, teachers, and general readers to easily identify the best biographies and autobiographies of 500 of the most notable women in American history.

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The goal of war is to defeat the enemy's will to fight. But how this can be accomplished is a thorny issue. Nothing Less than Victory provocatively shows that aggressive, strategic military offenses can win wars and establish lasting peace, while defensive maneuvers have often led to prolonged carnage, indecision, and stalemate. Taking an ambitious

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Includes essays that intend to restore the social context of ancient Greek drama. This title considers how individual plays and groups of dramas pertained to the concerns of the body politic and how these issues were presented in the convention of the stage and as centerpieces of civic ceremonies.

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Notions of Neutralities examines the concept of neutrality at the international level over the last millennium. The contributors approach the topic from multiple disciplinary perspectives and examine neutrality in several regions and time periods. They demonstrate that neutrality is an active and essential part of the international system

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Engages with nineteenth-century visual culture in an unusually broad way, juxtaposing photography, fashion, broadside ballads, popular prints and caricature in order to re-examine Victorian society between Chartism and the Great Exhibition. -- .

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"General Leslie Groves and J. Robert Oppenheimer were the two men chiefly responsible for the building of the first atomic bomb at Los Alamos, code name "The Manhattan Project." As the ranking military"