Important Import Pest
Native to China, Korea, and Japan, the Asian longhorned beetle hitchhikes across the ocean on solid wood packing materials like pallets and crates. From there, adults fly off in search of many types of hardwood trees but among their favorites ... [... more]
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Yangsook Choi
Being the new kid in school is hard enough, but what about when nobody can pronounce your name? Having just moved from Korea, Unhei is anxious that American kids will like her. So instead of introducing herself on ... [... more]
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Far Eastern Tour: The Canadian Infantry in Korea, 1950-1953
 What living amid such combat was like Far Eastern Tour: The Canadian Infantry In Korea 1950-1953 by Brent Byron Watson (History Teacher, Okanagan University College) is a tautly written and serious-minded examination and history of Canada's involvement ... [... more]
CDN$29.95
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Culture Shock! Korea: A Survival Guide to Customs and ...
Don't Leave Home Without It (or an updated version)! This book answers many common questions about Korean culture. With humor, insight, and understanding, it explains why Koreans do the things they do, especially those things that boggle foreigners ... [... more]
CDN$19.95
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SOS Korea 1950
A unique and seminal collection of eyewitness accounts Raymond B. Maurstad's SOS Korea 1950 Illustrated is a unique and seminal collection of eyewitness accounts, illustrated with black-and-white photographs, about Americans present in South Korea when ... [... more]
CDN$17.01
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Korea and Its Futures: Unification and the Unfinished War
Valuable Addition to the Discussion on Korean Unification In this exceptional book, Roy Richard Grinker argues that South Korean discourses on division and unification actually work against reconciliation between the two Koreas and stand as a barrier to ... [... more]
CDN$38.09
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Inside North Korea
A propaganda paradise I recently reviewed Philippe Chancel's excellent photographic book 'North Korea' (ISBN 0500543291) and Mark Harris in his book has filled in more of the jigsaw. The Chancel book essentially covered the capitol Pyongyang and Harris ... [... more]
CDN$38.50
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23 Navy Air in Korea
Forgotten war, no longer forgotten Anyone with even the slightest interest in the Korean War can thoroughly enjoy the adventures that John Newburn and his crew had while John was a navy pilot in Korea during the war. Life among the pilots, the various ... [... more]
CDN$18.74
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Vines - Part 4
Originating in temperate Asia (China, Japan and Korea) and introduced to the US from China in 1907, E. fortunei, (climbing euonymus, winter-creeper or evergreen bittersweet) is one who is sometimes an evergreen shrub and sometimes a trailing or ... [... more]
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Oscar Gilbert
By 1960, following Korea, tanks and their crews had proved themselves to be a fundamental part of the Marine Corps' combined arms team. When the Marines were ordered to Vietnam in 1965, they took their tanks with them. This book explores this ... [... more]
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Perennials For Moist Soil - Petasites To Z
PETASITES These hardy perennials are found wild near streams in the woods of China, Japan and Korea. They are very invasive plants, but make good ground cover by streambanks in large wild gardens. P. japonicus (Giant Butterburr) has coarse, ... [... more]
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Clearing Woods - Shrubs - Part 2 - Rose
The multiflora rose, from Japan, Korea and eastern China, was introduced in the US in 1886 for use as a rootstock for ornamental roses. In the 1930s, it was widely promoted for use in soil conservation programs and as a high quality wildlife ... [... more]
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