Miss kim knows and other stories

Eight women. Eight stories. One reality. A woman is born. A woman is filmed in public without consent. A woman suffers domestic violence. A woman is gaslit. A woman is discriminated against at work. A woman grows old. A woman becomes famous. A woman is hated, and loved, and then hated again. Written in Cho Nam-Joo’s masterful, razor-sharp prose, Miss Kim Knows brings together the lives …

The convenience store by the sea

An international bestseller with over half a million copies sold between Japan and South Korea, The Convenience Store by The Sea tells the delightfully quirky and heartfelt stories of the store’s customers and employees, offering us all a unique recipe for a good, fulfilling life.

I want to die but I still want to eat tteokbokki

Edition

Ed. 1

ISBN/ISSN

9781526663665

Collation

224 p. ; 19 cm

Series Title

-

Call Number

616 SEH i

Kumpulan cerita rakyat Asia Tenggara

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

9786237543114

Collation

135 p. ; 20 cm

Series Title

-

Call Number

300 HAN k

Localising power in post-authoritarian Indonesia: a southeast asia perspective

This book is about how the design of institutional change results in unintended consequences. Many post-authoritarian societies have adopted decentralization—effectively localizing power—as part and parcel of democratization, but also in their efforts to entrench "good governance." Vedi Hadiz shifts the attention to the accompanying tensions and contradictions that define the terms under wh…

Countries Around The World North Korea

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

9781406235562

Collation

48p; ill; col; pbk

Series Title

-

Call Number

915 RAU c

The third Indochina war: an international history

The Third Indochina War – comprised of the Vietnam-Kampuchea War from 1978 to 1990 and the brief Sino-Vietnamese War in February 1979 – has received far less scholarly attention than the earlier two Indochina Wars. Ang Cheng Guan utilises a wide range of archival and secondary material, including Vietnamese, Cambodian, Chinese, Soviet, American, British, Australian and ASEAN sources, to pro…

Countries Around The World : China

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

9781406235548

Collation

48 p. ; 24 cm

Series Title

Country Around the World

Call Number

915 CAT c

Countries around the World: Iran

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

9781406228090

Collation

48p; ill; col; pbk

Series Title

-

Call Number

915 SPI c

A Brief History of the Dynasties of China

This concise summary of Chinaâ€s 3,500-year-old civilization tells how the warring states of the Zhou period were united under the Qin dynasty, creators of the terracotta army and the Great Wall. It follows the rise of the powerful Han Empire, and the political, military, scientific and cultural achievements of the succeeding dynasties, down to the overthrow of the Qing monarchy in 1912.