An account of one woman's travels through North Korea. Populated with the author's observations on the poverty of this country, the book predicts that one day the North Korean people will end their isolation and join the world's mainstream.

Since the appearance of the first edition of the Encyclopedia of National Anthems in 2003, many new events and situations have radically redrawn the political boundaries of the world map and redefined the policies and goals of individual nation-states from Nepal to Afghanistan, Mozambique to Montenegro. All of these shifts have entailed the creation or adoption of new anthems or the modification of existing ones. This revised and expanded edition of the Encyclopedia of National Anthems not only makes the long-overdue updates to the national anthems of the world but also improves upon the...

A major new interpretation of the Zheng family of merchants and militarists, who dominated the seventeenth-century China Seas.

A major new interpretation of the Zheng family of merchants and militarists, who dominated the seventeenth-century China Seas.