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UNINA9910791205103321 |
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Autore |
Breen Michael <1952-> |
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Kim Jong-il [[electronic resource] ] : North Korea's Dear Leader / / Michael Breen |
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Singapore, : J. Wiley & Sons, 2012 |
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1-118-15379-0 |
1-283-40107-X |
9786613401076 |
1-118-15380-4 |
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[Rev. and updated ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xvii, 183 p., [8] p. of plates ) : ill. (some col.) |
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Dictators - Korea (North) |
Korea (North) Biography |
Korea (North) Politics and government |
Korea (North) Foreign relations |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Preface xi Acknowledgments xvii Chapter 1 Dark Country 1 Pool of Darkness 4 Who Is Charlie Chaplin? 7 Teaching Journalists 9 Chapter 2 Two States 15 Kim Il-sung and the Division of Korea 19 The Cold War 23 Chapter 3 Going Nuclear 29 North Korean Aggression in 2010 31 Weapons of Mass Destruction 34 Anti-Americanism in South Korea 37 Chapter 4 Dear Boy 41 Childhood and War 44 Teaching the Teachers 50 Chapter 5 Dear Successor 55 How Kim Jong-il Was Chosen 57 Dear Leader and His Loves 62 Chapter 6 Portrait of the Artist 67 Limiting the Joy 69 Kim Turns to Kidnapping 72 Chapter 7 Is Jong-il Evil? 77 Kim the Micromanager 79 The Temper and the Humor 84 How His People See Him 87 The Malignant Narcissist Theory 89 Chapter 8 Country of the Lie 93 The Secret to North Korean Communism 95 Race-Based Nationalism 99 Trouble with the Truth 101 The Control on Information 103 Chapter 9 The Gulag 107 The Gulag 109 The Story of Lee Soon-ok 110 Kang Chol-hwan: Child of the Camps 116 Chapter 10 The One Fat Man 121 A Journey through Russia 123 The Struggle for Food 124 |
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Escaping to China 127 Chapter 11 Submerging Market 131 Looking in Vain for Signs of Change 134 Tourists from South Korea 136 Business Zones for China and South Korea 137 Chapter 12 Follow the Money 141 Chapter 13 Collision Course 145 Notes 151 Korean Names 163 Recommended Reading 167 About the Author 173 Index 175 |
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An expert on North Korea sheds new light on the enigmatic tyrant From his goose-stepping military parades to his clownish macho swagger, North Korea's Kim Jong-il is an odd amalgam of political cartoon and global menace. In charge of a nuclear arsenal he's threatened to use against the U.S. |
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UNINA9910524867503321 |
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Edison Thomas A (Thomas Alva), <1847-1931, > |
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The papers of Thomas A. Edison . Volume 3 Menlo Park: The early years, April 1876-December 1877 / / edited by Robert A. Rosenberg, Paul B. Israel, Keith A. Nier, and Martha J. King; editor Reese Jenkins |
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Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994 |
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Baltimore, Maryland : , : Project Muse, , 2014 |
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©2014 |
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1-4214-4224-8 |
1-4214-1288-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (776 p.) |
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Inventors - United States |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 705-710) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Contents; Calendar of Documents; List of Editorial Headnotes; Preface; Chronology of Thomas A. Edison, April 1876-December 1877; Editorial Policy; Editorial Symbols; List of Abbreviations; 1 April-June 1876: (Docs. 738-757); 2 July-September 1876: (Docs. 758-797); 3 October-December 1876: (Docs. 798-833); 4 January-March 1877: (Docs. 834-879); 5 April-June 1877: (Docs. 880-951); 6 July-September 1877: (Docs. 952-1075); 7 October-December 1877: (Docs. |
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1076-1163); Appendix 1. Edison's Autobiographical Notes; Appendix 2. Charles Batchelor's Recollections of Edison |
Appendix 3. Edison's U.S. Patents, April 1876-December 1877 -- Bibliography; Credits; Index. |
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The third volume of this widely acclaimed series reveals the breath-taking intensity, intellectual acumen, and vast self-confidence of twenty-nine-year-old Thomas Edison. In the depths of the 1870s depression, he moved his independent research and development laboratory from industrial Newark to pastoral Menlo Park, some fifteen miles to the south on the main line of the railroad from New York to Philadelphia. There, equipped with resources for experimental development that were extraordinary for their time, Edison and a few close associates began twenty months of research that expanded their well-established accomplishments in telegraphy into pioneering work on the telephone. Edison's ideas and techniques from telegraph message recording and the telephone next led to his invention of the phonograph, the first patent for which was filed in December 1877. This invention ultimately gave Edison a world-wide reputation—and the nickname "the wizard of Menlo Park." |
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