The New Korea: An Inside Look at South Korea's Economic Rise

Myung Oak Kim, Sam Jaffe
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In 1953, South Korea was rated by the U.N. as the poorest country in the world. Five decades later, it is the fifteenth largest economy. Now, South Korea's decisions on how to manage its society and its role as a modern democracy while also establishing its policy regarding reunification with North Korea will determine where the country will go in the next fifty years. The New Korea examines the political, economic, industrial, and societal aspects of Korea today. Will it continue to enjoy an economic boom through new industries while competing against low-wage countries like China and India? Will it return to its role as a stomping ground for other powers? And what should Westerners pay attention to in terms of investment and business opportunities? As South Korea enters the most critical phase of its journey, it is crucial that we understand the factors involving its decisions and evolution. The New Korea is a fascinating account of what is and may become the state of this important region.


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半島唐風: 朝韓作家與中國文化

劉順利
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同屬漢文化圈的中國與朝鮮、韓國，一衣帶水，交通自古，文化交融源遠流長。箕子受武王之封，孔子向往“東國”；朝鮮使臣往來不斷，七百年間寫下洋洋灑灑《燕行錄》。崔致遠、李齊賢、樸趾源情系中華，《全唐詩》裡眾多朝鮮優秀詩家留下華章。

古代朝鮮作家學習、吸納中國文化，也以自己的智慧與領悟，豐富和發展了漢文化。王仁博士東渡日本傳授漢文化，眾多學人闡釋儒家經典、弘揚性理之學，大量寫作漢文詩歌與散文，造就了一個中國之外絕無僅有的漢文世界。

半島唐風，餘韻悠長。近現代朝鮮作家的文化抉擇，可資借鑒。願本書上領您去東鄰半島作一番文化之旅，領略浸潤著唐風古韻的朝韓古代文化的一脈馨香，品味中國與朝鮮、韓國人民間彌足珍貴的友好情懷……

本書引領讀者去東鄰半島做一番文化之旅，領略浸潤這唐風古韻的朝韓古代文化的一脈馨香，品味中國與朝鮮、韓國人民間彌足珍貴的友好情懷。

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The Beatles As Musicians: The Quarry Men through Rubber Soul

Walter Everett
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The Beatles as Musicians: The Quarry Men through Rubber Soul is a comprehensive, chronologically-ordered study of every aspect of the group's musical life--composition, performance, recording and reception histories--from its beginnings in 1956 through 1965. Richly authoritative interpretations from every available reliable musical document are interwoven through a documentary study of many thousands of audio, video, print, and multimedia sources. The text will enable general readers and musicians as well as educated music theorists to learn new levels of beauty in the music of the Beatles.

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Topic: The Music of The Beatles

傷花怒放: 搖滾的被縛與抗爭

郝舫 著
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《傷花怒放:搖滾的被縛與抗爭》是西方垮掉一代文化最優秀的作品。近500幅稀缺歷史圖片，規模宏大，材料豐富，從搖滾與革命，搖滾與極權，搖滾與高雅，搖滾與民族，搖滾與秩序，搖滾與性，搖滾與宗教，搖滾與毒品幾個方面講述了搖滾在發展歷程上的被縛與抗爭。

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Genre: Pop and Rock
(An impressive array of Scandinavian rock and pop music, jazz, indie-pop and folk/accoustic pop)

Conceptual Revolutions in Twentieth-Century Art

David W. Galenson
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From Picasso's Cubism and Duchamp's readymades to Warhol's silkscreens and Smithson's earthworks, the art of the twentieth century broke completely with earlier artistic traditions. A basic change in the market for advanced art produced a heightened demand for innovation, and young conceptual innovators - from Picasso and Duchamp to Rauschenberg and Warhol to Cindy Sherman and Damien Hirst - responded not only by creating dozens of new forms of art, but also by behaving in ways that would have been incomprehensible to their predecessors. Conceptual Revolutions in Twentieth-Century Art presents the first systematic analysis of the reasons for this discontinuity. David W. Galenson, whose earlier research has changed our understanding of creativity, combines social scientific methods with qualitative analysis to produce a fundamentally new interpretation of modern art that will give readers a far deeper appreciation of the art of the past century, and of today, than is available elsewhere.

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畢加索畫傳

周時奮 著
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……凡是知道畢加索名字的人，絕大多數並不知道他的作品。這是一個太奇特的畫家。他用一生的作品來描述一個畢加索，因為他的所有作品，幾乎就是他自己坦率的自傳，他繪畫的主體始終都是他自己、他的情人、他的朋友、他的崇拜者，總之，這一切構成了畢加索的精美細膩而又傷感的個人世界。因此不了解畢加索奇特的經歷，確實無法理解他的作品。

畢加索的目光是質詢，是以一個陌生者的目光對著一個異已世界的深深質詢。在這種質詢中，有著懷疑、驚奇和深藏的驚恐，並且把這樣的驚奇與驚恐一併傳遞給我們。畢加索以他開創的立體主義繪畫聞名於世，然而，他並不僅僅是一位立體主義畫家，他始終隨著他自己的時代，從立體主義轉向新古典主義，又轉向超現實主義、表現主義，幾乎在他涉足的每一個美術流派領域裡，他都取得了輝煌的成就。

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