Hannah Arendt's work inspires many to stand in solidarity against authoritarianism, racial or gender-based violence, climate change, and right-wing populism. But what if a careful analysis of her oeuvre reveals a darker side to this intellectual legacy? What if solidarity, as she conceives of it, is not oriented toward equality, freedom, or justice for all, but creates a barrier to intersectional coalition building?In Arendt's Solidarity, David D. Kim illuminates Arendt's ...

The Postcolonial World presents an overview of the field and extends critical debate in exciting new directions. It provides an important and timely reappraisal of postcolonialism as an aesthetic, political, and historical movement, and of postcolonial studies as a multidisciplinary, transcultural field. Essays map the terrain of the postcolonial as a global phenomenon at the intersection of several disciplinary inquiries. Framed by an introductory chapter and a concluding essay, ...

This volume focuses on the various phenomena of religious encounters in a transcultural society where religion or religious traditions play a significant role in a multi-cultural concept. Religious Encounters in Transcultural Society is divided into three parts: Islamic encounters with regional religions, East Asian religious encounters, and alternative religious encounters. This book evokes the fact that religious encounters exist in every transcultural society even though they often rema...

Read by the author.Author and pastor David Kim shares his experiences with loneliness as a Korean American immigrant and delivers compelling research about belonging that includes the revolutionary five anchors for developing meaningful relationships.Even though we are connected more than ever--through social media, video calls, and texts, and advanced travel opportunities--we're also drowning in loneliness and isolation. As discipleship pa...

Not every Marine carries a rifle into combat. Some carry clipboards, spreadsheets, and the weight of keeping an entire mission running.Bullets Don't Fly is the memoir of a supply Marine-one of the thousands who serve in support roles that rarely make headlines but make everything else possible. From the brutal transformation of boot camp at MCRD San Diego to deployments across three continents, David Kim chronicles eight years of service in the often-invis...

"The soul hears the Word and resonates with poetry. This discipline of 'creative listening' is felt on every page of David Kim's new book, Greater Things."-Michael Card, award winning artist, songwriter, and authorNext to the Word of God itself, David's writings are perfect for daily reading." -Rev. Cory Ishida, Pastor Emeritus of Evergreen Baptist Church in Los AngelesGreater Things was written during the unprecedented time of the worldwide COVID-...

This book of poems was written during a difficult season during the author's life as a way to connect with God. They were written in the Spirt of the book of Psalms in the Bible, where King David poured out his soul to God through writing the psalms. The author's hope is that these poems will help the reader to find comfort and strength in God during difficult times.

The Secret Place is a book of devotional poems written to help people connect with God. They were written during the personal devotional times of the author. The hope of the author is that these poems will bring spiritual encouragement to all who read them,

This book is a good reference book for city planners, architects and civil engineers involved in the conceptualisation, design and building of urban habitations, who aspire to increase the liveability of their cities. It introduces the Singapore Green Plot Ratio (GnPR) as an Urban Planning Metric to promote the widespread and intensive use of greenery for new and existing buildings in towns and cities like Singapore — a former third world city that has transformed into one of the world's m...

In this important and revelatory book, David Young Kim examines how mobility and travel affected the identities and artistic styles of artists such as Giotto, Brunelleschi, Donatello, Lotto, Michelangelo, Raphael, and Titian. It is well known that Italian Renaissance artists traveled; this book considers the cultural and historical contexts of their voyages. Kim establishes connections between artists’ travel and responses to their work in early modern literature, with critical analysis ...

An illuminating look at a fundamental yet understudied aspect of Italian Renaissance paintingThe Italian Renaissance picture is renowned for its depiction of the human figure, from the dramatic foreshortening of the body to create depth to the subtle blending of tones and colors to achieve greater naturalism. Yet these techniques rely on a powerful compositional element that often goes overlooked. Groundwork provides the first in-depth examination of the c...

This book offers a detailed analysis of the Gospel of Thomas in its historic and literary context, providing a new understanding of the genesis of the Jesus tradition. Discovered in the twentieth century, the non-canonical Gospel of Thomas is an important early text whose origins and place in the history of Christianity continue to be subjects of debate. Aiming to relocate the Thomasine community in the wider context of early Christianity, this study considers the Gospel of Thomas as a bri...