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Powerplay

The Origins of the American Alliance System in Asia

By: Victor D. Cha

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Powerplay

The Origins of the American Alliance System in Asia

By: Victor D. Cha

A close look at the evolution of American political alliances in Asia and their future While the American alliance system in Asia has been fundamental to the region's security and prosperity for seven decades, today it encounters challenges from the growth of China-based regional organizations. How was the American alliance system originally established in Asia, and is it currently under threat? How are competing security designs being influenced by the United States and China? In Powerplay, Victor Cha draws from theories about alliances, unipolarity, and regime complexity to examine the evolution of the U.S. alliance system and the reasons for its continued importance in Asia and the world. Cha delves into the fears, motivations, and aspirations of the Truman and Eisenhower presidencies as they contemplated alliances with the Republic of China, Republic of Korea, and Japan at the outset of the Cold War. Their choice of a bilateral "hub and spokes" security design for Asia was entirely different from the system created in Europe, but it was essential for its time. Cha argues that the alliance system’s innovations in the twenty-first century contribute to its resiliency in the face of China’s increasing prominence, and that the task for the world is not to choose between American and Chinese institutions, but to maximize stability and economic progress amid Asia’s increasingly complex political landscape. Exploring U.S. bilateral relations in Asia after World War II, Powerplay takes an original look at how global alliances are achieved and maintained.

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Princeton University Press

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0691180946

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9780691180946

Skate

By: Yura Blessyn,Cha Ed Dan

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Skate

By: Yura Blessyn,Cha Ed Dan

Daniel found his soul mate when he met Carmen. Friendship blossomed into love. Carmen's calculating husband made her pay the ultimate price with her life and he got away with it.

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Trafford Publishing

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1425166679

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9781425166670

America's First Black Town

Brooklyn, Illinois, 1830-1915

By: Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua

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America's First Black Town

Brooklyn, Illinois, 1830-1915

By: Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua

Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua traces Brooklyn's transformation from a freedom village into a residential commuter satellite that supplied cheap labor to the city and the region.".

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University of Illinois Press

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0252025377

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9780252025372

Nuclear North Korea

A Debate on Engagement Strategies

By: Victor D. Cha,David C. Kang

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Nuclear North Korea

A Debate on Engagement Strategies

By: Victor D. Cha,David C. Kang

Victor D. Cha and David C. Kang’s Nuclear North Korea was first published in 2003 amid the outbreak of a lasting crisis over the North Korean nuclear program. It promptly became a landmark of an ongoing debate in academic and policy circles about whether to engage or contain North Korea. Fifteen years later, as North Korea tests intercontinental ballistic missiles and the U.S. president angrily refers to Kim Jong-un as “Rocket Man,” Nuclear North Korea remains an essential guide to the difficult choices we face. Coming from different perspectives—Kang believes the threat posed by Pyongyang has been inflated and endorses a more open approach, while Cha is more skeptical and advocates harsher measures, though both believe that some form of engagement is necessary—the authors together present authoritative analysis of one of the world’s thorniest challenges. They refute a number of misconceptions and challenge the faulty thinking that surrounds the discussion of North Korea, particularly the idea that North Korea is an irrational actor. Cha and Kang look at the implications of a nuclear North Korea, assess recent and current approaches to sanctions and engagement, and provide a functional framework for constructive policy. With a new chapter on the way forward for the international community in light of continued nuclear tensions, this book is of lasting relevance to understanding the state of affairs on the Korean peninsula.

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Columbia University Press

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0231548249

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Koreans in Central California (1903-1957)

A Study of Settlement and Transnational Politics

By: Marn J. Cha

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Koreans in Central California (1903-1957)

A Study of Settlement and Transnational Politics

By: Marn J. Cha

The Korean Kingdom and the United States signed a Treaty of Amity and Commerce in 1882. This treaty opened Korea to American missionaries who proselytized Christianity to the Koreans. When Hawaii sugar planters recruited Koreans to come to Hawaii to work in the Hawaii sugar plantations, they picked most of the Korean Hawaii emigrants from the Korean Christian converts. Between 1902 and 1905, some 7,000 of them immigrated to Hawaii. Of those 7,000, about 2,000 transmigrated to the mainland. Most of these Hawaii Korean trans-migrants settled on the West Coast, primarily in California. This book tells the Korean immigrants' life stories in California's eight San Joaquin Valley farm communities: Fresno, Hanford, Visalia, Dinuba, Reedley, Delano, Willows, and Maxwell. It describes how they survived through discrimination and injustices in early twentieth-century America, and also details the Korean immigrants' efforts to regain their lost motherland from Japanese colonialism (1910-1945).

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University Press of America

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0761852212

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9780761852216

Folk Stories of the Hmong

Peoples of Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam

By: Dia Cha,Norma J. Livo

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Folk Stories of the Hmong

Peoples of Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam

By: Dia Cha,Norma J. Livo

Hmong culture has had an oral tradition for millennia, but the language itself did not even exist in written form until the 1950s. Compiled by famed author and storyteller Norma Livo and coauthor, Dia Cha, this is the first collection of authentic Hmong tales to be published commercially in the English language. Beginning with a description of Hmong history, culture, and folklore, the book includes 16 pages of full-color photographs of Hmong dress and needlework and 27 captivating tales divided into three sections: beginnings; how/why stories; and stories of love, magic, and fun. Appropriate for high school and adult readers, with selected stories appropriate for younger children, this collection is an important addition to multicultural units.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313069549

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9780313069543

Balancing Communities

Nation, State, and Protestant Christianity in Korea, 1884–1942

By: Paul S. Cha

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Balancing Communities

Nation, State, and Protestant Christianity in Korea, 1884–1942

By: Paul S. Cha

Starting in 1884 with the arrival of the first resident Protestant missionary in Korea and ending with the expulsion of missionaries from the peninsula by the Japanese colonial government in 1942, Balancing Communities examines how the competing demands of communal identities and memberships shaped the early history of Protestantism in Korea. In so doing, the author challenges the conventional history of Korean Protestantism in terms of its relationship to the (South) Korean nation-state. Conversion to Christianity granted Koreans membership in a faith-based organization that, at least in theory, transcended national and political boundaries. As a result, Korean Christians possessed dual membership in a transnational religious community and an earthly political state. Some strove to harmonize these two associations. Others privileged one membership over the other. Regardless, the potential for conflict was always present. Balancing competing demands was not simply a Korean issue. Missionaries also struggled to reconcile their national allegiances, political identities, and religious partnerships with both Korean Christian leaders and government officials. Improperly calibrated communal demands produced conflict and instability among missionaries, Korean Christians, and the state. These demands led to struggles for control over social institutions such as hospitals and schools, incited schisms and debates over church membership, and challenged state power and social patterns. When they were balanced differently, these demands could lead to surprisingly stable and long-lasting relations. The price of this stability, however, was often the perpetuation of inequality, for the language of community masked the hierarchy of power embedded in these associations. Scholars of both Korea and World Christianity have identified South Korea as a prime example of the “successful” spread of Christianity outside Euro-America in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Paul S. Cha interrogates the construction of Korean Protestantism and successfully argues that frameworks anchored to nationalism or the nation-state fail to capture the complexities of this religion’s history in Korea and the relationships that formed among Korean Christians, missionaries, and government officials, especially during the colonial period.

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University of Hawaii Press

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0824891155

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9780824891152

The Philological Museum

By: Edited by Julius Cha

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The Philological Museum

By: Edited by Julius Cha

This 1833 volume, containing the last three issues of a short-lived journal, illuminates tensions between classical scholarship and Anglicanism.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108054153

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9781108054157

Hmong American Concepts of Health

By: Dia Cha

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Hmong American Concepts of Health

By: Dia Cha

America's healthcare system in the twenty-first century faces a variety of pressures and challenges, not the least of which is that posed by the increasingly multicultural nature of American society itself. Large numbers among the Hmong, immigrants from the landlocked Asian nation of Laos, continue to prefer their own ancient medical traditions. That these Hmong Americans should continue to adhere to a tradition of folk medicine, rather than embrace the modern healthcare system of America, poses questions that must be answered. This book takes up the task of examining Hmong American concepts of health, illness and healing, and looks at the Hmong American experience with conventional medicine. In so doing, it identifies factors that either obstruct or enable healthcare delivery to the Hmong, specifically a target sample of Hmong Americans resident in Colorado. Drawing upon scientific methods of data collection, the research reveals attitudes currently held by a group of American citizens toward health and medicine which run the gamut from the very modern to those which have prevailed in the highlands of Southeast Asia for centuries.

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Routledge

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1135944385

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9781135944384

Integrated Distributed Intelligent Systems in Manufacturing

By: M. Rao,Qun Wang,Jianzhong Cha

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Integrated Distributed Intelligent Systems in Manufacturing

By: M. Rao,Qun Wang,Jianzhong Cha

Intelligent Manufacturing is a new disciplinary field which applies computer science, artificial intelligence, mechanical engineering and systems science to industrial manufacturing processes. This book presents a new integration architecture for implementing real-time distributed intelligent manufacturing systems.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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0412543702

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9780412543708

Misunderstanding Galatians

An Exegetical, Originalist Commentary

By: M. I. Cha

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Misunderstanding Galatians

An Exegetical, Originalist Commentary

By: M. I. Cha

This commentary on Galatians seeks to provide an originalist understanding of the epistle by viewing Paul as a Torah-observant apostle of the Messiah who was arguing against compulsory proselyte conversion into Pharisaic Judaism and not the Old Testament law of God in general. As such, this commentary pays closer attention to the perpetuity of the Old Testament law of God, Paul's nuanced use of "law" (nomos), Jewish oral tradition, and the historical context of gentile proselyte conversion in Paul's time. The goal of this commentary is to combine the strengths of evangelical hermeneutics and recent advances in Pauline studies to arrive at a more accurate understanding of the original author's intended meaning within his own historical context.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1666713414

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9781666713411

Composite Materials

Science and Engineering

By: Krishan K. Cha

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Composite Materials

Science and Engineering

By: Krishan K. Cha

The third edition of Krishan Chawla's widely used textbook, Composite Materials, offers integrated and completely up-to-date coverage of composite materials. The book focuses on the triad of processing, structure, and properties, while providing a well-balanced treatment of the materials science and mechanics of composites. In this edition of Composite Materials, revised and updated throughout, increasing use of composites in industry (especially aerospace and energy) and new developments in the field are highlighted. There is a new chapter on non-conventional composites, which covers polymer, metal and ceramic matrix nanocomposites, self-healing composites, self-reinforced composites, biocomposites and laminates made of metals and polymer matrix composites. The third edition, featuring all figures in color, also includes new solved examples and problems as well as increased coverage of: Carbon/carbon brakes. Composites for civilian aircraft and jet engines. Second generation high-temperature superconducting composites. Composites for use in windmill blades. WC/metal particulate composites. Examples of practical applications in various fields are given throughout the book, and extensive references to the literature are provided. The book is intended for use in graduate and upper-division undergraduate courses, and as a reference for the practicing engineers and researchers in industry and academia.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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0387743642

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9780387743646

Hmong American Concepts of Health, Healing, and Conventional Medicine

By: Dia Cha

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Hmong American Concepts of Health, Healing, and Conventional Medicine

By: Dia Cha

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Psychology Press

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0415944953

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9780415944953

A Just Transition for All

Workers and Communities for a Carbon-Free Future

By: J. Mijin Cha

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A Just Transition for All

Workers and Communities for a Carbon-Free Future

By: J. Mijin Cha

Why the energy transition must be more than a fuel source replacement, and how we can seize the opportunity of the transition to build a more just future for all. To meet the greenhouse gas emissions reductions needed to stave off the worst impacts of climate change, a transition away from fossil fuels must occur, as quickly as possible. But there are many unknowns when it comes to moving from theory to implementation for such a large-scale energy transition, not least regarding the social impact. In A Just Transition for All, J. Mijin Cha—a seasoned climate policy researcher who also works with advocacy organizations and unions—offers a comprehensive analysis of how we can enact transformational changes that meaningfully improve people’s lives. Cha provides a novel governance framework called the Four+ Pillars, formulated from original research to provide a way to move from theory to practice. The Pillars framework includes a novel analysis that guides readers in understanding how to formulate effective just transition policies, what makes them just or unjust, and, similarly, what makes transition just and unjust. The framework also combines theoretical discussions with original empirical research and provides insights into perceptions of just transition. Grounded in real-world perspectives that make the case for policies that advance the interests of all, not just of fossil fuel workers, Cha charts the path forward to an equitable and sustainable future that no longer depends on fossil fuels.

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MIT Press

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0262550792

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9780262550796

The Black Box

Demystifying the Study of Korean Unification and North Korea

By: Victor D. Cha

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The Black Box

Demystifying the Study of Korean Unification and North Korea

By: Victor D. Cha

North Korea is commonly thought of as the most mysterious place in the world. The country is marked by its opacity and inaccessibility, its inner workings seen as impossible for outsiders to grasp. In this groundbreaking book, the leading scholar and practitioner Victor D. Cha shines a light into the “black box” of North Korea and draws critical lessons for the possible reunification of Korea after many decades of division. The Black Box demonstrates convincingly that North Korea, while far from transparent, is less inscrutable than is typically assumed. Using innovative research methods from data scraping to ethnography, including microsurveys of ordinary North Koreans, Cha unearths a trove of new information. Through these pioneering findings, and incorporating his experiences as a White House official negotiating with North Korean interlocutors and traveling to North Korea, he paints a vivid picture of this enigmatic country and develops a grounded account of its behavior. Cha explores the regime’s core tendencies, its policies toward the U.S.–South Korea alliance, cybersecurity threats, the potential for economic development, the growth of a nascent civil society, and pathways toward Korean unification, among other topics. The Black Box provides both an essential understanding of contemporary North Korea and an insightful guide to studying the country from one of the world’s most esteemed experts.

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Columbia University Press

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0231558732

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9780231558730

Who You Are

Internalizing the Gospel to Find Your True Identity

By: Judy Cha

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Who You Are

Internalizing the Gospel to Find Your True Identity

By: Judy Cha

In our culture today, the preoccupation over self-identity--or who we are--is hard to ignore. But the pursuit of self-understanding has been a recurring theme throughout human history. How many times have you asked yourself, "Who am I?" The desire to answer this question--whether it manifests in self-enhancement strategies or self-serving biases--is part of being human. Yet, through a Biblical lens, we know something has gone terribly wrong with our human nature. Brokenness happened when sin separated us from our Creator God, and the answers we seek are only obtainable when we reconnect with him. Using the Gospel-Centered Integrative Framework for Therapy developed at Redeemer Counseling Services, Judy Cha explains: The human desire for an identity The role of shame and hurt in shaping who we think we are Self-redemption, and why it doesn't work The Gospel as God's rescue plan for a lost humanity How to ardently know your story, truly live in your community, and deeply connect with God Who You Are shows us that the Gospel is the only thing that sets you free from the verdict of sin and justifies you as God's prized possession. When you internalize the Gospel--this message of restorative love--you come to know who you are more and more every day. This unique resource is ideal for those who feel stuck in a perpetual loop of "finding themselves" and for counselors or ministry leaders seeking to help others with gospel-centered healing.

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Zondervan

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0310154642

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9780310154648

Unmovable

Settling into the Truths for These Last Days

By: Henry Cha

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Unmovable

Settling into the Truths for These Last Days

By: Henry Cha

Putting God’s Last-day Church on Unmovable Footing In 1861, Ellen White wrote that we are now living in the time of the shaking and that everything that can be shaken will be shaken. (See Letters and Manuscripts, vol. 1, Letter 5b). These words are very alarming and cannot be brushed off lightly. Then in 1902, she penned the following: “Just as soon as the people of God are sealed in their foreheads—it is not any seal or mark that can be seen, but a settling into the truth, both intellectually and spiritually, so they cannot be moved—just as soon as God’s people are sealed and prepared for the shaking, it will come. Indeed, it has begun already.” –The SDA Bible Commentary, vol 4, page 1161. The truths that the people of God need to be settled into both intellectually and spiritually so they are unmovable in the time of the shaking, include the sanctuary, the investigative judgment and the three angels’ messages. We cannot aff ord to be willfully ignorant of these foundational life and death messages. We cannot afford to know just bits and pieces about them. If we are to remain secure and unmovable in the shaking time, we need to be grounded and fully settled in these truths which bring out more fully the work and mission of Jesus Christ in the heavenly sanctuary especially for those living in the time of the end. “Unmovable is recommended reading for all pursuing the backstory to Daniel’s chapter 8 vision, ‘Unto two thousand and three hundred days, then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.’” ~ John Fleming, Lay Pastor, Dobbins Seventh-day Adventist Church “This book has to be read by every single Christian who is waiting for the soon return of Christ. It deals with the very knowledge that will enable the readers to comprehend Christ’s redemptive work as the Great High Priest in the heavenly sanctuary and be ready to meet Him face to face.” ~ Eld. Michael Lee, Carnesville Korean SDA Church, Georgia, U.S.A. “Unmovable shines a bright light unto the path that leads to eternal life and helps guide the Christian through the theology that prepares us for translation!” ~ Sean Worix, Co-founder, Protestant Church Ministries

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TEACH Services, Inc.

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1479614467

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