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You've seen the glamorous depictions of Wall Street life: penthouse apartments, champagne, and parties galore. But the journey to success in the infamous financial district isn't all it's cracked up to be, and Jung-Sook Camilla Lee knows that better than most.

From her first junior position on the trading floor, Lee learns that getting ahead means dealing with greedy colleagues, treacherous bosses, and more-in an ultra-competitive "macho" industry that already considers her an underdog by virtue of being a woman.

Through instinct, hard work, and sheer tenacity, she eventually finds...

Homesick and alone, a teen-aged girl has just arrived in Seoul to work in a factory. Her family, still in the countryside, is too impoverished to keep sending her to school, so she works long, sun-less days on a stereo-assembly line, struggling through night school every evening in order to achieve her dream of becoming a writer.

Korea s brightest literary star sets this complex and nuanced coming-of-age story against the backdrop of Korea s industrial sweatshops of the 1970 s and takes on the extreme exploitation, oppression, and urbanization that helped catapult Korea s economy out...

Einfache buddhistische Geschichten und Weisheiten für den Alltag

Aus menschlicher Perspektive ist die Geschwindigkeit der Schnecke lächerlich langsam, aber aus der Sicht des Universums ist sie schlicht perfekt. Die buddhistische Nonne Jung-mok zeigt in ihrem erzählerischen Ratgeber, wie wir uns vom Stress des modernen Lebens befreien können.

Ihr inspirierendes Buch in der Tradition des Zen-Buddhismus enthält:

• buddhistische Geschichten und Gleichnisse,

• ermutigende Inspirationen, Mikro-Praktiken, Meditationen und...

The question at the heart of the book is what might an education with self-care and care-for-others look like? Juxtaposing self-understanding through the method of currere and the historical character of hakbeolism (a concept indigenous to Korea referring to a kind of social status people achieve based on a shared academic background), this book articulates how subjective reconstruction of self in conjunction with historical study can be transformative, and how this can be extended to social change. Articulating how having one's own standard can be a way of making one's life...

This new edition of Innovations in Food Packaging ensures that readers have the most current information on food packaging options, including active packaging, intelligent packaging, edible/biodegradable packaging, nanocomposites and other options for package design.

Today's packaging not only contains and protects food, but where possible and appropriate, it can assist in inventory control, consumer education, increased market availability and shelf life, and even in ensuring the safety of the food product. As nanotechnology and other technologies have developed, new and...