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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Kim Dae-Jung, Paul Mellon, Lee Bollinger, Brian Pippard, Ekhard Salje, Keith Peters, Gillian Beer, Anthony Low, Michael Stoker, Robert Honeycombe, Frederick Burkhardt. Excerpt:Anthony Low (also, D. A. Low or Donald Anthony Low ) is a historian of modern South Asia , Africa , the British Commonwealth , and, especially, decolonization . He is the Emeritus Smuts Professor of History of the British Commonwealth at the University of Cambridge , former Vice-Chancellor of the Australian National University , Canberra , and Honorary Fellow of Clare Hall , Cambridge University . Career Highlights The academic positions which Professor Low has held include the following: Selected bibliography See also (online edition) Academic offices A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Sir Brian Pippard Sir Alfred Brian Pippard , ScD , FRS (7 September 1920, Earl's Court , London 21 September 2008, Cambridge ), was a British physicist. He was Cavendish Professor of Physics from 1971 until 1984 and an Honorary Fellow of Clare Hall , University of Cambridge , of which he was the first President. He was educated at Clifton College . Pippard demonstrated the reality (as opposed to a mere abstract concept) of Fermi surface in metals by establishing the shape of the Fermi surface in copper through measuring the reflection and absorption of microwave electromagnetic radiation (see the anomalous skin effect ). He also introduced the notion of coherence length in superconductors in his proposal for the non-local generalisation of the London equation concerning electrodynamics in superfluids and superconductors. The non-local kernel proposed by Pippard (inferred on the basis of Chambers' non-local generalisation of the Ohm law) can be deduced within the framework of the BCS (Bardeen , Cooper and Schrieff... ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Cancer Deaths in South Korea, Infectious Disease Deaths in South Korea, Kim Dae-Jung, Jang Jin-Young, Kim Mu-Saeng, Kim Yong-Ki. Excerpt: Jang Jin-young (June 14, 1972 - September 1, 2009) was a South Korean actress and former model. Her death came after a year-long battle with stomach cancer. Jang began her career as a model, and participated in the 1993 Miss Korea beauty contest, before making the switch into acting. After making her film debut in 1998, Jang received critical praise and won a number of awards for her work. She became only the second winner of two Blue Dragon Film Awards for Best Actress, having won in 2001 for Sorum, and again in 2003 for Singles. As of 2008, Jang was one of the highest paid stars in the Korean film industry, earning in the region of 400 million per film. Jang began her career as a model, and represented the Chungcheongnam-do province at the 1993 Miss Korea beauty contest. After making the transition into acting with appearances in a number of TV dramas, she received her film debut with a supporting role in the 1998 fantasy Ghost in Love. In 2000 she appeared in Kim Ji-woon's The Foul King, one of the biggest domestic hits of that year, and Jang's tough image in the film drew attention from critics, with Derek Elley of Variety saying that she "makes an impression as the lightly romantic, not-so-fragile daughter". Also that year, she had a role in the fire fighting film Siren. Jang as the abused, chain smoking Sun-yeong in Sorum (2001), her first starring role for which she won several awards.Jang's first starring role was in the 2001 psychological horror film Sorum, in which she was cast against type as Sun-yeong, a chain smoking abused wife. The part required her to look badly bruised and dishevelled, a... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=12043324 ... Read more

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Chapters: Japanese Films of 1973, 1973 Intercontinental Cup, Kidnapping of Kim Dae-Jung, 1973 Japan Soccer League, 1973 Taiyo Department Store Fire, Japan Air Lines Flight 404, 15th Japan Record Awards. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 27. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The South Korean dissident leader Kim Dae-jung, later president of South Korea, was kidnapped on August 8, 1973, in Tokyo, Japan. In the 1971 presidential election, Kim represented the Democratic Party, challenging incumbent President Park Chung-hee of the Democratic Republican Party, who ruled as an authoritarian leader. Kim was defeated by a small margin of votes. Despite the victory, Park saw Kim, who called for democracy, as a threat to the Third Republic military dictatorship. Following the election, an assassination attempt staged as a car accident was attempted on Kim, leaving him with a permanent injury on his hip joint. Kim fled to Japan and began an exile movement for democracy in South Korea based in Japan and the United States. Around noon of August 8, 1973, Kim was attending a meeting with the leader of the Democratic Unification Party held in the Room 2212 of the Hotel Grand Palace in Tokyo. At around 13:19, Kim was abducted by a group of unidentified agents as he walked out of the room after the meeting. He was then taken into the empty Room 2210 where he was drugged and fell unconscious. Later Kim was moved to Osaka and later to Seoul, South Korea. Kim was later quoted as saying that a weight had been attached to his feet aboard the boat heading toward Korea, indicating that the kidnappers had intended to drown Kim by throwing him into the sea. They were, however, forced to abandon this plan as the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force began a pursuit of the kidnappers' boat. Subsequently Kim was rel...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=14811529 ... Read more

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Chapters: South Korean Democracy Activists, Kim Dae-Jung, Ham Seok-Heon, Yun Bo-Seon, Moon Ik-Hwan, Kim Geun Tae. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 22. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Kim Dae-jung (3 December 1925 18 August 2009) was President of South Korea from 1998 to 2003, and the 2000 Nobel Peace Prize recipient. A Roman Catholic since 1957, he has been called the "Nelson Mandela of Asia" for his long-standing opposition to authoritarian rule. Kim was born in Mokpo in what was then the Jeolla province; the city is now in South Jeolla province. Kim graduated from Mokpo Commercial High School in 1943 at the top of the class. After working as a clerk for a Japanese-owned shipping company during the Japanese occupation of Korea, he became its owner and became very rich. Kim escaped Communist capture during the Korean War. Kim first entered politics in 1954 during the administration of Korea's first president, Syngman Rhee. Although he was elected as a representative for the National Assembly in 1961, a military coup led by Park Chung-hee, who later assumed dictatorial powers, voided the elections. He was able to win a seat in the House in the subsequent elections in 1963 and 1967 and went on to become an eminent opposition leader. As such, he was the natural opposition candidate for the country's presidential election in 1971. He nearly defeated Park, despite several handicaps on his candidacy which were imposed by the ruling regime. A very talented orator, Kim could command unwavering loyalty among his supporters. His staunchest support came from the Jeolla region, where he reliably garnered upwards of 95% of the popular vote, a record that has remained unsurpassed in South Korean politics. Kim was almost killed in August 1973, when he was kidnapped from a hotel in Tokyo by KCIA ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=152967 ... Read more

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Chapters: Kim Dae-Jung, Joseph Brodsky, Paul Mellon, Lee Bollinger, John D. Barrow, Ralph Erskine, Brian Pippard, Michael Green, Ekhard Salje, Athanassios S. Fokas, Julius J. Lipner, Keith Peters, Robert Anderson, Gillian Beer, Anthony Low, Marjorie Chibnall, Peter Dronke, Michael Stoker, Robert Honeycombe, Frederick Burkhardt. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 81. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky (Russian: ) (24 May 1940 28 January 1996) was a Soviet-Russian-American poet, essayist, and Nobel Laureate in Literature. He was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1991. Brodsky was born into a Jewish family in Leningrad. His father was a professional photographer in the Soviet Navy and also published photos in papers and magazines. His mother was a professional interpreter. In early childhood Brodsky survived the Siege of Leningrad when he and his parents nearly died of starvation, and later he suffered from various health problems caused by the siege. When he was fifteen, Brodsky left school and tried to enter the School of Submariners without success. He went on to work as a milling machine operator. Later, having decided to become a physician, he worked at the morgue at the Kresty prison. He subsequently held a variety of jobs at a hospital, in a ship's boiler room, and on geological expeditions. At the same time, Brodsky engaged in a program of self-education. He learned English and Polish (mainly to translate poems by Czesaw Miosz, who was Brodsky's favorite poet and a friend), and acquired a deep interest in classical philosophy, religion, mythology, and English and American poetry. Brodsky began writing his own poetry and producing literary translations around 1957. His writings were apolitical. The young Brodsky ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=262593 ... Read more

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Chapters: Kim Dae-Jung, Ham Seok-Heon, Yun Bo-Seon, Moon Ik-Hwan, Kim Geun Tae. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 22. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Kim Dae-jung (3 December 1925 18 August 2009) was President of South Korea from 1998 to 2003, and the 2000 Nobel Peace Prize recipient. A Roman Catholic since 1957, he has been called the "Nelson Mandela of Asia" for his long-standing opposition to authoritarian rule. Kim was born in Mokpo in what was then the Jeolla province; the city is now in South Jeolla province. Kim graduated from Mokpo Commercial High School in 1943 at the top of the class. After working as a clerk for a Japanese-owned shipping company during the Japanese occupation of Korea, he became its owner and became very rich. Kim escaped Communist capture during the Korean War. Kim first entered politics in 1954 during the administration of Korea's first president, Syngman Rhee. Although he was elected as a representative for the National Assembly in 1961, a military coup led by Park Chung-hee, who later assumed dictatorial powers, voided the elections. He was able to win a seat in the House in the subsequent elections in 1963 and 1967 and went on to become an eminent opposition leader. As such, he was the natural opposition candidate for the country's presidential election in 1971. He nearly defeated Park, despite several handicaps on his candidacy which were imposed by the ruling regime. A very talented orator, Kim could command unwavering loyalty among his supporters. His staunchest support came from the Jeolla region, where he reliably garnered upwards of 95% of the popular vote, a record that has remained unsurpassed in South Korean politics. Kim was almost killed in August 1973, when he was kidnapped from a hotel in Tokyo by KCIA agents in response to his criticis...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=152967 ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: South Korean People Taken Hostage, Kim Dae-Jung, Kim Sun-Il, 2007 South Korean Hostage Crisis in Afghanistan, Shin Sang-Ok, Kidnapping of Kim Dae-Jung. Excerpt: Kim Dae-jung (3 December 1925 18 August 2009) was President of South Korea from 1998 to 2003, and the 2000 Nobel Peace Prize recipient. A Roman Catholic since 1957, he has been called the "Nelson Mandela of Asia" for his long-standing opposition to authoritarian rule. Kim was born in Mokpo in what was then the Jeolla province; the city is now in South Jeolla province. Kim graduated from Mokpo Commercial High School in 1943 at the top of the class. After working as a clerk for a Japanese-owned shipping company during the Japanese occupation of Korea, he became its owner and became very rich. Kim escaped Communist capture during the Korean War. Kim first entered politics in 1954 during the administration of Korea's first president, Syngman Rhee. Although he was elected as a representative for the National Assembly in 1961, a military coup led by Park Chung-hee, who later assumed dictatorial powers, voided the elections. He was able to win a seat in the House in the subsequent elections in 1963 and 1967 and went on to become an eminent opposition leader. As such, he was the natural opposition candidate for the country's presidential election in 1971. He nearly defeated Park, despite several handicaps on his candidacy which were imposed by the ruling regime. A very talented orator, Kim could command unwavering loyalty among his supporters. His staunchest support came from the Jeolla region, where he reliably garnered upwards of 95% of the popular vote, a record that has remained unsurpassed in South Korean politics. Kim was almost killed in August 1973, when he was kidnapped from a hotel... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=152967 ... Read more

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Chapters: Aldo Moro, Kim Dae-Jung, Pierre Laporte, Íngrid Betancourt, Marios Matsakis, Abebe Aregai, Evgeny Miller, Alexander Kutepov, Francisco Santos Calderón, Kidnapping of Kim Dae-Jung, Andreas Shipanga, Paul Vanden Boeynants, Ancízar López López, Oscar Tulio Lizcano, James Bernard, 4th Earl of Bandon, Hermanus Beukes, David S. Dodge. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 87. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Ingrid Betancourt Pulecio (born 25 December 1961) is a French-Colombian politician, former senator and anti-corruption activist. Betancourt was kidnapped by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) on 23 February 2002 and was rescued by Colombian security forces six and a half years later on 2 July 2008. The rescue operation, dubbed Operation Jaque, rescued Betancourt along with 14 other hostages (three Americans and 11 Colombian policemen and soldiers). In all, she was held captive for 2,321 days after being taken while campaigning for the Colombian presidency as a Green. She had decided to campaign in rebel controlled areas despite warnings from the government, police and military not to do so. Her kidnapping received worldwide coverage, particularly in France, because of her dual French citizenship. She has received multiple international awards, such as the Légion d'honneur. In 2008 she received the Concord Prince of Asturias Award. Nonetheless, recent books by fellow hostages Clara Rojas and Marc Gonsalves, Keith Stansell, and Thomas Howes paint a picture of a more complex and less heroic person, who sought and obtained privileges because of her privileged status as a well-known political hostage. Betancourt was born in Bogotá, Colombia. Her mother, Yolanda Pulecio, is a former beauty queen who later served in Congress representing poor southern neighborhoods of Bo...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=185816 ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Armée Rouge Japonaise, Aum Shinrikyō, Kenkoku Giyugun Kokuzoku Seibatsutai, Enlèvement de Kim Dae-Jung, Kakurōkyō, Chūkaku-Ha, Fusako Shigenobu, Shōkō Asahara, Armée Révolutionnaire, Front Armé Anti-Japonais D'asie Du Sud, Attentat Au Gaz Sarin Dans le Métro de Tōkyō. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : L'Armée rouge japonaise (japonais : , Nihon Sekigun, JRA acronyme international pour Japanese Red Army) est un groupe armé d'extrême gauche japonais fondé par Fusako Shigenobu en février 1971, après s'être séparé de la Ligue communiste japonaise - Fraction armée rouge. L'organisation est placée sur la liste officielle des organisations terroristes des États-Unis d'Amérique. Le groupe comptait environ quarante membres et une centaine de sympathisants à son apogée et était l'un des groupes terroristes les plus craints dans le monde. Les objectifs de la JRA était de renverser le gouvernement japonais et sa monarchie parlementaire et de commencer une révolution mondiale. Le JRA avait des liens étroits avec le Front populaire de libération de la Palestine (FPLP). Dans les années 1980, la JRA n'était plus active au Japon et était presque entièrement dépendant du FPLP pour son financement, son entraînement et son armement. La JRA est aussi connue en tant que Brigade internationale anti-impérialiste, Nippon Sekigun, Nihon Sekigun, Brigade de la guerre sainte et Front démocratique anti-guerre. En 1971, l'Armée rouge unie (Rengo Sekigun ou United Red Army) est créée par la fusion des restes de la Fraction armée rouge et d'un groupuscule, le Keihin Joint Struggle Commitee against the US-Japan Security Treaty (Keihin Anpo Kyoto). Les premiers apportaient des capitaux financiers tandis que les autres, anciens me...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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Chapters: Syngman Rhee, Kim Dae-Jung, Roh Tae-Woo, Lee Myung-Bak, Roh Moo-Hyun, Chun Doo-Hwan, Lee Soon-Jae, Park Chung-Hee, Lee Hyori, Yu Jae-Seok, Lee Young Ae, Kang Ho Dong, Park Geun-Hye, Tiger Jk, Bae Yong Joon, Lee Byung-Hun, Choi Soo Jong, Kim Young-Sam, Choi Ji-Woo, Chung Dong-Young, Park Myeong-Su, Kim Hye-Su, Stephen Kim Sou-Hwan, Chung Un-Chan, Kwang Jo Choi, Choi Kyu-Hah, Nicolas Cheong Jin-Suk, Kim Jong-Pil, Jang Dong-Gun, Lee Hoi-Chang, Yun Bo-Seon, Ko Hyeon-Jeong, Kim Seong-Su, Lee Jong-Beom, Kim Gu-Ra, Ji Sang Ryul, Lee Yeong-Duk. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 226. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Lee Myung-bak (pronounced ; Korean pronunciation: ; born 19 December 1941 in Osaka, Japan) is a Korean politician and is the President of South Korea. Prior to his presidency, he was the CEO of Hyundai Engineering and Construction, and the mayor of Seoul. Lee Myung-bak was born on December 19, 1941 in Osaka, Japan. His father, Lee Chung-u (, ), was employed as a farm hand on a cattle ranch in Japan. His mother, Chae Taewon (, ) was a housewife. Lee has three brothers and three sisters and is the fifth child of seven children. After the end of World War II in 1945, his family returned to his father's hometown Pohang, Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea. Lee's sister, Lee Ki-sun, made it known that they smuggled themselves into the country in order to avoid their property they acquired in Japan being confiscated by the officials. However, because the ship they took was wrecked off the coast of Tsushima island they lost their whole property after all and barely survived. Lee attended night school at Dongji Commercial High School in Pohang on a full scholarship. A year after graduation, Lee gained admission to Korea University. In 1964, during his third year in college, Lee was ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=3844691 ... Read more

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Chapters: Kim Dae-Jung, Kevyn Aucoin, Harry S. Truman, Jyoti Basu, Marie Louise D'orléans, R. Venkataraman, Gummadi Venkateswara Rao, Audrey Santo, Cochin Haneefa, Akira Ifukube, Ihsan Doğramacı, Wilbert Tatum, Richard Biegenwald, Ali Meshkini, Ibrahim Ferrer, Carmen Silva, John Hervey, 7th Marquess of Bristol, Ram Niwas Mirdha, Barbara Payton, Kung Te-Cheng, Nicolae Dobrin, Hanumant Singh, Anna Manahan, Renata Fronzi, Oswaldo Louzada, Tan Jiazhen, Dorival Caymmi, José Mindlin, Victor Sumulong, Robert 'dolly' Dunn, Prakash Mehra, Michiya Mihashi, Friaça, Peter Houghton, Xu Simin, Jamelão, Ana González, Célio de Castro, Fialho Gouveia, Florence Finch, Orlando Bobo, Debby, Haroldo de Andrade, Chao Yao-Dong. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 233. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884 December 26, 1972) was the 33rd President of the United States (19451953). As President Franklin D. Roosevelt's third vice-president and the 34th Vice President of the United States, he succeeded to the presidency on April 12, 1945, when President Roosevelt died less than three months after beginning his fourth term. During World War I, Truman served as an artillery officer, making him the only president to have seen combat in World War I (his successor Eisenhower spent the war training tank crews in Pennsylvania). After the war he became part of the political machine of Tom Pendergast and was elected a county commissioner in Missouri and eventually a Democratic United States senator. After he gained national prominence as head of the wartime Truman Committee, Truman replaced vice president Henry A. Wallace as Roosevelt's running mate in 1944. Truman faced challenge after challenge in domestic affairs. The disorderly postwar reconversion of the economy of the United States was mark...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=3418303 ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Kim Dae-jung (3 December 1925 18 August 2009) was President of South Korea from 1998 to 2003, and the 2000 Nobel Peace Prize recipient. A Roman Catholic since 1957, he has been called the "Nelson Mandela of Asia" for his long-standing opposition to authoritarian rule. Kim was born in Mokpo in what was then the Jeolla province; the city is now in South Jeolla province. Kim graduated from Mokpo Commercial High School in 1943 at the top of the class. After working as a clerk for a Japanese-owned shipping company during the Japanese occupation of Korea, he became its owner and became very rich. Kim escaped Communist capture during the Korean War. Kim first entered politics in 1954 during the administration of Korea's first president, Syngman Rhee. Although he was elected as a representative for the National Assembly in 1961, a military coup led by Park Chung-hee, who later assumed dictatorial powers, voided the elections. He was able to win a seat in the House in the subsequent elections in 1963 and 1967 and went on to become an eminent opposition leader. As such, he was the natural opposition candidate for the country's presidential election in 1971. He nearly defeated Park, despite several handicaps on his candidacy which were imposed by the ruling regime. A very talented orator, Kim could command unwavering loyalty among his supporters. His staunchest support came from the Jeolla region, where he reliably garnered upwards of 95% of the popular vote, a record that has remained unsurpassed in South Korean politics. Kim was almost killed in August 1973, when he was kidnapped from a hotel in Tokyo by KCIA agents in response to his criticism of President Park's yushin program, which granted near-dictatorial powers to the president. Only the interve... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=152967 ... Read more