Human Acts (Kang Han)(Paperback)

Human Acts (Kang Han)(Paperback)

From the internationally bestselling author of The Vegetarian, a 'rare and astonishing' (The Observer) portrait of political unrest and the universal struggle for justice.'Compulsively readable, universally relevant, and deeply resonant . . . in equal parts beautiful and urgent.'--The New York

Human Acts (Kang Han)(Paperback)

Gwangju, South Korea, 1980. In the wake of a viciously suppressed student uprising, a boy searches for his friend's corpse, a consciousness searches for its abandoned body, and a brutalised country searches for a voice. In a sequence of interconnected chapters the victims and the bereaved encounter

Treatise on Happiness - The Treatise on Human Acts (Aquinas Thomas)(Paperback / softback)

The Vegetarian (Kang Han)(Paperback)

Yeong-hye and her husband are ordinary people. He is an office worker with moderate ambitions and mild manners; she is an uninspired but dutiful wife. The acceptable flatline of their marriage is interrupted when Yeong-hye, seeking a more 'plant-like' existence, decides to become a vegetarian,

The Human Contribution: Unsafe Acts, Accidents and Heroic Recoveries (Reason James)(Paperback)

This book explores the human contribution to the reliability and resilience of complex, well-defended systems. Usually the human is considered a hazard - a system component whose unsafe acts are implicated in the majority of catastrophic breakdowns. However there is another perspective that has

Human (Asher Neal)(Paperback / softback)

A warship is laying waste to the galaxy, committing incredible acts of war. So old enemies must work together - or face annihilation. This is the high-octane conclusion to Neal Asher's Rise of the Jain

Vegetariánka - Han Kang

Ten pocit syrového masa rozžvýkaného mezi mými zuby.Jonghje se jednoho dne probudí z krvavé noční můry a její život se začne dramaticky měnit. Ze všeho nejdřív přestane jíst maso. Ovšem v dravé patriarchální společnosti její náhlé vegetariánství a zejména neoblomný

Kde kvete tráva - Han Kang

V noci na 27. května 1980 proběhl v jihokorejském Kwangdžu nejhorší masakr civilistů nařízený vlastní vládou, jaký moderní dějiny země pamatují. Pod záminkou potírání komunistické diverze schválili čelní představitelé státu vojenský zásah k potlačení lidových

Bílá kniha - Han Kang

Bílá kniha je intimní meditací o barvě. Náladu uvozuje výčet bílých věcí: sůl, sníh, led, měsíc, rýže, vlny, magnólie... Zároveň jde o autobiograficky laděné rozjímání nad smrtí vypravěččiny sestry, která zemřela dvě hodiny po narození. Han Kang napsala Bílou

Conversational Chinese 301 (A) (Yuhua Kang)(Paperback / softback)

Conversational Chinese 301 (B) (Yuhua Kang)(Paperback / softback)

This Is Paradise! (Kang Hyok)(Paperback)

Hyok Kang was eighteen when he escaped from North Korea, a country locked away from the outside world. This personal, illustrated account of school days in a rigidly communist institution and everyday life with his family and community provides a rare glimpse of this secretive nation. His shocking

Human (Asher Neal)(Pevná vazba)

A warship is laying waste to the galaxy, committing incredible acts of war. So old enemies must work together - or face annihilation. This is the high-octane conclusion to Neal Asher's Rise of the Jain

Between the Acts (Woolf Virginia)(Paperback / softback)

Between the Acts (Woolf Virginia)(Paperback / softback)

Love in Five Acts (Krien Daniela)(Paperback)

Early China (Feng Li)(Paperback)

'Early China' refers to the period from the beginning of human history in China to the end of the Han Dynasty in AD 220. The roots of modern Chinese society and culture are all to be found in this formative period of Chinese civilization. Li Feng's new critical interpretation draws on the most

Acts (Keener Craig S.)(Paperback)

As the earliest narrative source for the origins of Christianity, Acts is of unrivalled importance for understanding early Christianity and the mission that originally brought it from Judea and Galilee to gentiles, and even the heart of the Roman Empire. This volume is an abridged version of

100 Acts Of Minor Dissent (Thomas Mark)(Paperback / softback)

Comedian Mark Thomas accounts an entire year spent committing acts of minor

The Vegetarian (Kang Han)(Paperback)

Winner of the 2016 Man Booker International Prize NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review - Publisher's Weekly - Buzzfeed - Entertainment Weekly - Time - Wall Street Journal - Bustle - Elle - The Economist - Slate - The Huffington Post - The St. Louis Dispatch -

The Anthropology of the Fetus: Biology, Culture, and Society (Han Sallie)(Paperback)

As a biological, cultural, and social entity, the human fetus is a multifaceted subject which calls for equally diverse perspectives to fully understand. Anthropology of the Fetus seeks to achieve this by bringing together specialists in biological anthropology, archaeology, and cultural

Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics (Lowe Lisa)(Paperback)

In Immigrant Acts, Lisa Lowe argues that understanding Asian immigration to the United States is fundamental to understanding the racialized economic and political foundations of the nation. Lowe discusses the contradictions whereby Asians have been included in the workplaces and markets of the

Acts - Tyndale New Testament Commentary (Marshall Howard (Author))(Paperback / softback)

Acts of the Apostles (Kurz William S. Sj)(Paperback)

What message was the author of Acts seeking to convey, and what would the original audience have understood? How is God speaking to believers today through Acts as it has been used by the church throughout the centuries? In this addition to the Catholic Commentary on Sacred Scripture, respected New