****Named one of the best books of 2015 by The Economist**Private Markets, Fashion Trends, Prison Camps, Dissenters and Defectors.**North Korea is one of the most troubled societies on earth. The country's 24 million people live under a violent dictatorship led by a single family, which relentlessly pursues the development of nuclear arms, which periodically incites risky military clashes with the larger, richer, liberal South, and which forces each and every perso...

While Nietzsche's works and ideas are relevant across the many branches of philosophy, the themes of contest and conflict have been mostly overlooked. Conflict and Contest in Nietzsche's Philosophy redresses this situation, arguing for the importance of these issues throughout Nietzsche's work.The volume has three key lines of inquiry: Nietzsche's ontology of conflict; Nietzsche's conception of the agon; and Nietzsche's warrior-philosophy. Under these three umbrel...

Whether you are scaling the world’s most challenging peaks, bouldering on epic rock faces or hanging underneath cavernous crags spread out along the ocean, rock climbing is one of the world’s most exciting sports.From the most beautiful routes in the UK, France and America to deep-water soloing in Majorca and opening new lines in South Africa, James Pearson and Caroline Ciavaldini, two of rock climbing’s biggest stars, take you to the sport’s most iconic, unusual and daring destina...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.In the quiet countryside of 1926, a tragic accident claims the life of Mary, a young woman whose spirit seemed as bright as the stars she loved to watch. As her brother Thomas mourns her loss, he witnesses mysterious lights streaking across the sky—meteors that seem to carry a secret far beyond the understanding of his time.Fast forward to 1984. David, a brilliant but lonely scientist working on cutting-edge research, feels a pr...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.In the quiet countryside of 1926, a tragic accident claims the life of Mary, a young woman whose spirit seemed as bright as the stars she loved to watch. As her brother Thomas mourns her loss, he witnesses mysterious lights streaking across the sky—meteors that seem to carry a secret far beyond the understanding of his time.Fast forward to 1984. David, a brilliant but lonely scientist working on cutting-edge research, feels a pr...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.In the quiet countryside of 1926, a tragic accident claims the life of Mary, a young woman whose spirit seemed as bright as the stars she loved to watch. As her brother Thomas mourns her loss, he witnesses mysterious lights streaking across the sky—meteors that seem to carry a secret far beyond the understanding of his time.Fast forward to 1984. David, a brilliant but lonely scientist working on cutting-edge research, feels a pr...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.In the quiet countryside of 1926, a tragic accident claims the life of Mary, a young woman whose spirit seemed as bright as the stars she loved to watch. As her brother Thomas mourns her loss, he witnesses mysterious lights streaking across the sky—meteors that seem to carry a secret far beyond the understanding of his time.Fast forward to 1984. David, a brilliant but lonely scientist working on cutting-edge research, feels a pr...

**Named one of the best books of 2015 by The Economist**Private Markets, Fashion Trends, Prison Camps, Dissenters and Defectors.North Korea is one of the most troubled societies on earth. The country's 24 million people live under a violent dictatorship led by a single family, which relentlessly pursues the development of nuclear arms, which periodically incites risky military clashes with the larger, richer, liberal South, and whi...

Eunsun Kim was born in North Korea, one of the most secretive and oppressive countries in the modern world. As a child Eunsun loved her country...despite her school field trips to public executions, daily self-criticism sessions, and the increasing gnaw of hunger as the country-wide famine escalated.By the time she was eleven years old, Eunsun's father and grandparents had died of starvation, and Eunsun was in danger of the same. Finally, her mother decided to escape North Korea wi...

**“I am most grateful for two things: that I was born in North Korea, and that I escaped from North Korea.” —Yeonmi Park“One of the most harrowing stories I have ever heard—and one of the most inspiring.” —The Bookseller**In In Order to Live, Yeonmi Park shines a light not just into the darkest corners of life in North Korea, describing the deprivation and deception she endured and which millions of North Korean people continue to endure to this d...

THE STORY THEY COULDN'T HACK: In this international bestseller, a high-ranking counterintelligence agent describes his life as a former poet laureate to Kim Jong-il and his breathtaking escape to freedom.As North Korea’s State Poet Laureate, Jang Jin-sung led a charmed life. With food provisions (even as the country suffered through its great famine), a travel pass, access to strictly censored information, and audiences with Kim Jong-il himself, his life in Pyongya...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAn extraordinary insight into life under one of the world’s most ruthless and secretive dictatorships – and the story of one woman’s terrifying struggle to avoid capture/repatriation and guide her family to freedom.As a child growing up in North Korea, Hyeonseo Lee was one of millions trapped by a secretive and brutal communist regime. Her home on the border with China gave her some exposure to the world beyond the confines of the Hermit Kingdom and...