North Korea is perhaps the most intriguing, infamous and enigmatic nation of our modern world. Yet how many of us know its full history, and how it came to be? How can we understand such a strange, isolated state?This new edition seeks to provide some answers to these questions. Starting with its origins in the colonial period, Michael J Seth masterfully traces how North Korea transformed itself from a Soviet-style socialist state to the ultra-nationalist, dynastic...

Garrett has survived nightmares come to life and an insane murderer bent on carving his body to pieces, but that doesn’t mean the fight is over.Banding together with the remnants of the Ghoul’s Tooth gang, Garrett finds himself thrust into a power struggle he wants nothing to do with. The city is filled with warring factions, each bent on using every means possible to come out on top, and they all seem to think Garrett is the perfect tool to achieve that.With merchants comi...

From bestselling LitRPG author Seth Ring—creator ofthe Titan and Battle Mage Farmer series—comes Dark Dawn, the second book in an epic new series of alien contact, fast-paced military action, and thrilling adventure.Mark Fields has achieved his dreams—once a dishwasher, he’s now one of the empowered, with superhuman abilities that just keep building. He’s got friends, a place in the Engineering Corps, and a new mission.Joining the Black Mountain Ba...

Lady Ammalie Avington, Baroness of Faebarrow, has discovered the truth, and it should not come as a surprise: the blood mage who threatened, spellbound, and abducted her intends to bring ruin to the realm—the very one she is sworn to serve. It's just a terribly inconvenient fact to learn because, well . . . he's rather cute. But it's not safe to pine after the son of a demon, especially not whilst locked up in a tower surrounded by infernal beings and a rival for your affection, nor trappe...

Their destinies are irrevocably entangled, but will their bond be the realm’s undoing?Damien and Amma have landed themselves in the midst of Yvlcon, the preeminent congregation of the vilest and most unscrupulous villains in existence. Once again amongst his peers, Damien’s moral growth is threatened just when he’s learning to be slightly less evil. Consequently, Amma finds her own virtue in peril when faced with so much temptation, namely in the form of a...

During the nineteenth century, the United States entered the ranks of the world’s most advanced and dynamic economies. At the same time, the nation sustained an expansive and brutal system of human bondage.This was no mere coincidence. Slavery’s Capitalism argues for slavery’s centrality to the emergence of American capitalism in the decades between the Revolution and the Civil War. According to editors Sven Beckert and Seth Rockman, the issue is not wheth...

Myra thought her only worry would be how to get out of living in a low-income neighborhood and dealing with her drug-addicted mother. Entering the prestigious St. John's University and dating one of the football team's star players, Milton, she never dreamed her life would take a turn from bad to worse. As Myra's past comes back to haunt her in a series of bad dreams, she never imagined that Milton was dealing with his own demons that would ultimately push him over the edge. Myra's sanity ...

Across the vast expanse of a hostile planet an endless war rages. A once besieged empire has turned the tables on their foes, leaving a trail of destruction and death in its wake.In the lakeside town of Parak the citizenry enjoy peace under the watchful eye of the gods and the old ruler who protects them. But peace has a way of making restless those built for warfare. Corruption and decadence has spread through the populace.As the people lose reverence for authority and tak...

Dr. Sebi, a world-renowned herbalist, naturalist, and pathologist, had a silent exit from the world in 2016. Dr. Sebi’s alkaline diet is aimed towards changing the potential hydrogen (pH) level in our body. The major change that occurs in the body of anyone that sticks to this alkaline diet is a shift from an acidic side of neutral (pH of 7) to an alkaline side of neutral. The logic and backbone of this diet is the discovery that diseases can never survive in an alkaline environment which ...

Exploring Korean history from its ancient roots to the present day, A Brief History of Korea is the story of a people with a rich and united culture that has become two Koreas in modern times—one isolated and secretive and the other among the world's most successful economies. Korean culture developed on a 600-mile-long peninsula, bordered on the north by mountains and three sides by the sea, set apart from the Asian mainland.Korea was one of the last countries in Asia to ...

Is the universe actually a giant quantum computer? According to Seth Lloyd, the answer is yes. All interactions between particles in the universe, Lloyd explains, convey not only energy but also information–in other words, particles not only collide, they compute. What is the entire universe computing, ultimately? “Its own dynamical evolution,” he says. “As the computation proceeds, reality unfolds.” Programming the Universe, a wonderfully accessible book, presents an original and...

"[The Bigot List]" is a mystery thriller from S. D. Skye ... hard to put down for lovers of spy fiction, highly recommended. -- Carl Logan, Midwest Book Review  ★★★★ "Thick with layers, [The Bigot List] is filled with strife, deceit, lust, pain, mystery, and humor." OOSA Online Book Club  TWO Bureau sources are dead. TEN FBI spy catchers on The Bigot List are suspects.  ONE is a ruthless traitor spying for the Russians.