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"International Booker-nominated virtuoso Hwang Sok-yong is back with another powerful story -- an epic tale that threads together a century of Korean history. In contemporary Seoul, a laid-off worker stages a months-long sit-in atop a sixteen-story factory chimney. During the long and lonely nights, he talks to his ancestors, chewing on the meaning of life, on wisdom passed down the generations. Through the lives of those ancestors, three generations...

"This book is a historical consideration of how poor posture became a dreaded pathology in the United States at the turn of the twentieth century. It opens with the "outbreak" of the poor posture epidemic, which began with turn-of-the-century paleoanthropologists: If upright posture was the first of all attributes that separated human from beasts - and importantly a precondition for the development of intellect and speech - what did it mean that a...

"In April 1942, the Imperial Japanese Army steamrolled through Burma, capturing the only ground route from India to China. Supplies to this critical zone would now have to come from India by air - meaning across the Himalayas, on the most hazardous air route in the world. SKIES OF THUNDER is a story of an epic human endeavor, in which Allied troops faced the monumental challenge of operating from airfields hacked from the jungle, and took on "the...

"Shanghái, 1931: el escenario está preparado para una nueva década de intrigas Hace cuatro años, Rosalind Lang fue rescatada del borde de la muerte, pero el extraño experimento que la salvó le impide dormir y envejecer… y también le permite ser capaz de curarse de cualquier herida. En resumen, Rosalind no puede morir. Ahora, desesperada por redimirse de su pasado de traiciones, utiliza sus habilidades como asesina para servir a su país....

Invites the reader to take a closer look at works of art while pointing out tiny details hidden in famous works, providing information about a work or an artist, or explaining the techniques used to create the piece.

"There was something peculiar about Paradise Prairie, south of Pendleton. It was good grassland. But when Kent Durwin went to buy up the old Costain place, where the three Costains had been killed in a Bannock Indian raid, he suspected foul play. And when he dug up the Costains' stuff that the Indians were supposed to have taken with them, he knew he was right. Then Durwin mysteriously disappeared . . . Tony Landers was bound for Pendleton to settle...

"Una antigua guerra de sangre entre dos bandas baña las calles de rojo, dejando a la ciudad indefensa ante las garras del caos. En el centro de esta disputa se halla Juliette Cai, la orgullosa heredera de la Pandilla Escarlata, una red de gánsteres que opera por encima de la ley. Sus únicos rivales son los criminales rusos que integran la Banda de las Flores Blancas; detrás de cada movimiento está su heredero: Roma Montagov, el primer amor de...