Four Seasons By: Han-Jae Lee This essay collection recounts the modern and contemporary history of Korea through the life of the author. Korea was a poorly developed country that was devastated during the Japanese colonial period in the early 20th century, followed by liberation, and the Korean War. In the process, there was a time when many Korean people gathered their strength to create something out of nothing in order to escape poverty. And now, Korea is standing shoulder to shoulder with developed countries. Korea has achieved not only political democratization and remarkable economic development in a relatively short period of time in recent decades, but also Korean literature is making remarkable progress toward globalization in many ways. The following essays describe various elements of rural life in Korea as a child, life in a large city in Seoul as a youth and living abroad as an adult. Before writing this essay collection, he compiled seven poetry and essay collections in Korean and English, and published them in Korea and the United States. Advance praise for Four Seasons Han-Jae Lee’s, Four Seasons is an engaging collection of essays that recount the author’s experiences as a native Korean coming of age in a poor rural area, going on to lead a prosperous career as a working man for a large corporation, fathering children, traveling around the globe and spending time in the United States. Lee’s observations about both past and present life are touching and astute. A poet at heart, his reflections are tender and poignant, as he covers a wide range of topics, from tending a cow as a young man to his influences in literature and writing, to the old customs in Korea to new information technologies. Relationships, both intimate and professional are examined. Reading Four Seasons cover to cover, you will be entertained throughout. – Magdalena Montagne, poet-teacher The Four Seasons is a distillation of the author’s life. In providing vignettes of his life both in prose and poetry, Han-Jae Lee presents the reader with the thoughts and impressions of a life rich in experience tempered by wisdom. This will not be a book that you only read once, but several times because you will always find something new and instructive in its pages. – Alexander E. Braun, author of The Adventure of the Maiden Voyage
Han-Jae Lee's poetry depicts a passionate portrait of the world around us. He exquisitely defines nature's wonders, its beauty and its joy, but also the sadness which completes it.
Eisner Award-winning artist JAE LEE returns to creator-owned comics with his first new title since 1994, a seven-issue limited series, collected here in its entirety. In this thriller set in an alternate timeline, Nicolaus Balaak correctly predicted that on July 7, 1977, seven identical sons would be born to virgin mothers. Now, on their 21st birthday, one of these Seven Sons will be revealed as the new son of God and lead humanity into a golden age of morality, peace, and prosperity. It’s The Fugitive meets The Book of Revelation, as Delph breaks free from his sheltered life to uncover the truth behind the Church and find his place in the world before Judgment Day arrives. Collects SEVEN SONS #1-7
Myoung-jae Lee reviews the three most popular methods (and their extensions) in applied economics and other social sciences: matching, regression discontinuity, and difference in differences. This book introduces the underlying econometric and statistical ideas, shows what is identified and how the identified parameters are estimated, and illustrates how they are applied with real empirical examples. Lee emphasizes how to implement the three methods with data: data and programs are provided in a useful online appendix. All readers-theoretical econometricians/statisticians, applied economists/social-scientists and researchers/students-will find something useful in the book from different perspectives.
Enter once more the world of Roland Deschain—and the world of the Dark Tower...now presented in a stunning graphic novel form that will unlock the doorways to terrifying secrets and bold storytelling as part of the dark fantasy masterwork and magnum opus from #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King. “The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.” With these unforgettable words, millions of readers were introduced to Stephen King’s iconic character Roland Deschain of Gilead. Roland is the last of his kind, a “gunslinger” charged with protecting whatever goodness and light remains in his world—a world that “moved on,” as they say. In this desolate reality—a dangerous land filled with ancient technology and deadly magic, and yet one that mirrors our own in frightening ways—Roland is on a spellbinding and soul-shattering quest to locate and somehow save the mystical nexus of all worlds, all universes: the Dark Tower. Now, in the graphic novel series Stephen King's The Dark Tower: Beginnings, originally published by Marvel Comics in single-issue form and creatively overseen by Stephen King himself, the full story of Roland's troubled past and coming-of-age is revealed. Sumptuously drawn by Jae Lee and Richard Isanove, plotted by longtime Stephen King expert Robin Furth, and scripted by New York Times bestselling author Peter David, Beginnings is an extraordinary and terrifying journey into Roland’s origins—ultimately serving as the perfect introduction for new readers to Stephen King’s modern literary classic The Dark Tower, while giving longtime fans thrilling adventures merely hinted at in his blockbuster novels. Bringing the dramatic history of Roland into chronological order—as originally published in the novels The Gunslinger and Wizard and Glass—The Gunslinger Born begins with a reckless act of courage that gains Roland his first set of guns and earns him and his friends, Cuthbert Allgood and Alain Johns, a special mission to the town of Hambry...not only for their personal safety but on behalf of the Affiliation—an alliance resisting the ruinous advance of “the Good Man,” a monster named John Farson. But the expedition will quickly become Roland’s first experience of the evil forces that he will encounter again and again throughout his life, and in a myriad of guises. And he will also discover the overwhelming power and pain of true love, through which, more than anything, he will learn beyond a shadow of a doubt what things are worth killing for....
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The Golden Gate Bridge and Other Natural Wonders is Han-Jae Lee's first collection of poetry to be published in English. Described as ..".a curious mix of Eastern sensibility and Western playfulness," Lee's poetry speaks with striking detail and understated elegance. His is the mind of a seeker who persistently asks us to go beyond how things appear, and in looking deeply, to arrive at the soul of all things. Painting Sometimes the carelessly lined circle becomes a flower. And a casually drawn horizontal line becomes the place where Earth meets up with Heaven. I glimpse the bony branches while I sketch... The lines on the paper become the morning sunlight. Or the thorns of rose bushes. Bright flowers bloom. The rose thorns turn into pins which pierce the fin of the fishes like memories that are sleeping in the deep lake. The lilies are shy and smiling; hiding in the woods. I'm listening to Vivaldi's "Four Seasons." Outside, it is raining; gusty winds whip around me. And lightning strikes with a loud voice. Just at that moment the electric lights go out. Everything vanishes into the darkness. I light a candle and start again- Put my pencil to the blank page. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Han-Jae Lee began writing poetry in 1997. He studied poetry and creative writing at Chung-Ang University and Korea University in Korea, and also in the United States, attending writing workshops at the Aptos and Campbell Public Libraries and at the Almaden Community Center in San Jose. In 2005 he won a poetry award (silver) in a national poetry contest for his work, A High-rise Apartment, given annually for an outstanding poem, sponsored by The National Assembly of Korea and The Federation of Korean Cultural Center. His first poetry collection, A High-Rise Apartment, was published in Korea in 2008. He also co-published three poetry anthologies and his poems have appeared in the magazines, Literary Movement and Trend, Literature World and Vision of Poetry (all in Korean). He has been writing poetry in English since 2004 and this poetry collection is his first book in English. He lives in both San Jose and Seoul.
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Three bounty hunter siblings blaze a path of death and destruction across the old west. Traveling by moonlight they rip criminals screaming for mercy from their hiding places, but none is ever given. Each bounty is torn, broken, and bled dry before they are delivered dead and payment collected in gold - no silver. The Irons are the most feared bounty hunting killers in the west, but that fear isn't based on them being the fastest with a pistol or rifle. It's because they're the Walking Dead. A lone tortured soul tracks them with vengeance and salvation driving him to end the curse upon his family. Those who he rescues call him savior but those who look upon his twisted and scarred face call him monster. Silas Irons is the only hope his brothers and sister have of salvation from the abominations they've become. But even the purity of his heart can't stop the unnatural rage and bloodlust building in his diseased soul.
This book presents the scientific evidence for the role of vitamin C in health and disease and offers new guidance on vitamin C intake in humans. The importance of vitamin C in preventing cancer and cardiovascular disease, its relevance to aging and stress, and its impacts on each of the human body systems are thoroughly assessed on the basis of the author’s extensive research and his deep understanding, as an anatomy professor, of the body as a whole. Findings published in the international scientific literature are fully taken into account, and due consideration is also given to empirical evidence, bearing in mind that mechanisms of action cannot always be precisely defined in the absence of human experiments. Beyond providing an up-to-date scientific perspective on the effects of vitamin C, the author hopes to promote human health worldwide by encouraging proper use of the vitamin. To this end, recommendations are made on the amount of vitamin C that should be taken daily and on the best way to take it. The book will be of interest to researchers, clinicians, and all others who wish to learn more about this vitamin and its significance.
** 2015년 2월 출간된 《열정에 기름붓기》의 영문판입니다.** 1. 책의 혁신, 편집력에 상상력을 더하다 20장 남짓의 페이스북 메시지를 북미디어로 만들어내다 ― 이 책을 보다 ‘천년의상상’이 20대 저자들과 함께 혁신적인 물성을 지닌 《열정에 기름붓기》(이재선 표시형 박수빈 김강은)를 발간하였다. 페이스북 17만 회원을 가진 인기페이지를 책이라는 미디어로 탄생시킨 작품이다. ‘사진 한 장+문장 한 줄’로 압축적이고 강렬한 메시지를 전달하는 페이스북 페이지를 보며 ‘천년의상상 편집진’은 한 가지 즐거운 상상을 시작했다. “우리가 책으로 만들어낸다면 어떤 형식과 내용으로 채울 것인가?” 페이스북 메시지를 책으로 만드는 편집은 상상력이 절실하게 요구되었다. 편집과 디자인을 새로운 개념으로 혁신해야 했다. 글의 명료한 메시지를 사진의 공감·감동으로 이어지는 책의 레이아웃과 디자인이 필요했다. 두세 번의 시행착오를 겪으며 메시지를 살리는 편집과 한 페이지, 한 페이지의 시각적 공감을 끌어내는 디자인이 만들어졌다. 표지는 어떻게 할 것인가? 독자와 저자 그리고 책을 연결하는 고리를 만드는 표지, 그리고 이것이 책의 이야기가 될 수 있는 커버. 무척이나 혁신적인 시도를 했다. “책에 야광 물질을 입히는 것은 어떨까?” 어릴 적 야광별이 반짝이던 방 안을 기억하는지……. 독자들의 마음에 아로새겨진 내용처럼 《열정에 기름붓기》라는 책 자체가 빛나기를 바랐다. 언뜻 단순해 보이는 책의 표지는 낮의 빛을 한껏 머금고 밤이 되면 새로운 옷으로 갈아입는다. 책장에 꽂힌 무수한 책 사이에서 이 책은 저 홀로 빛난다. “불 꺼진 방, 침대맡에 가만히 책을 놓아주기를. 작지만 단단한 희망이 당신을 비추고 있을 테니.” 2. 내던져진 4명의 청춘! 2,800만 명의 심장을 두드리다 무리를 벗어나 달리기를 망설이는 수많은 평범한 사람들의 열정에 기름붓기! ― 이 책이 말하다 《열정에 기름붓기》의 기획은 페이스북 페이지에서 발견한 ‘모소대나무’ 이야기에서 시작한다. 4년 동안 위로 성장하지 않은 대나무는 사실, 조용하지만 깊게 밑으로 뿌리를 내리고 있었다. 나직한 위로였다. 한편 어릴 때 묶인 말뚝에서 벗어나지 못하고 스스로의 한계를 규정지어버린 코끼리를 빗댄 〈코끼리 말뚝 이론〉 등의 이야기를 따라가다 보면 독자들은 어느새 꿈만 꾸고 실행하지 못하는 나, 환경만 탓하며 매너리즘에 빠진 채 살아가는 나, 그럼에도 불구하고 내 안에 꿈틀거리며 살아 있는 열정을 발견하게 될 것이다. 4명의 저자는 여느 ‘취준생’처럼 앞으로의 삶을 걱정하는 자질구레한 젊은이다. 다르다면, 그들은 머릿속으로 생각한 일을 겁 없이 실행하는 청춘이다. “요즘 청춘은 나약해, 꿈이 없어, 제대로 할 줄 아는 게 없어”라는 세상의 냉소에 맞서 그들은 “하고 싶은 일을 하는 사람들”에게 힘을 주기 위해 뭉쳤다. 저자들은 말한다. “세상은 우리에게 꿈을 가지라고 말한다. 하지만 꿈을 말하면 현실을 보라고 한다. 이 시대의 청춘들은 제멋대로 꿈을 설계하고, 꾸는 것조차 의식을 강요당한다. 청춘이 말하는 진짜 청춘의 열정을 담고 싶었다. 꿈을 크게 가져라. 깨져도 그 조각이 크다”라고. 때마다 떠오르는 아이디어가 있다면 당장 실행한다. 열정적으로 자신의 꿈을 좇는 인물을 발굴하여 소개하는 ‘기름부자’ 콘텐츠 제작, 청춘들의 꿈과 고민을 소통하는 ‘열대야’ 오프라인 행사 진행, 잘 때만 꿈을 꾸는 청춘들을 ‘번데기’라 칭하며 이들에게 당당히 꿈을 말하는 나비가 되라고 말하는 ‘번데기 프로젝트’를 전국 각지(서울·대전·부산·광주)를 돌며 펼치는 등 직접 발로 뛰고 끊임없이 움직인다.
The Dark Knight and the Man of Steel uncover a plot by the Toymaster to use a secret, potentially deadly element in his new video game, the characters created by players manifest in real life. The ultimate fighting game results--and a world-wide network of players must team up to create the most powerful, skilled Super Heroes imaginable with one goal: To kill Batman. When Batman and Superman are corned by the Toymaster and Mongul, they are pitted against on another in a battle to the death, with their only hope being the The Worlds' Finest. Collects BATMAN/SUPERMAN #5-9, BATMAN/SUPERMAN ANNUAL #1, WORLDS' FINEST #20-21.
This study aims to read Jesus’s foot washing narrative missionally (John 13:1–38). A missional reading is identical to a missional hermeneutics based on the literary-theological interpretation of the text. John uses sending language and formulae, and the frame of “as . . ., so . . .” throughout the whole Gospel, which clarifies Jesus’s and his disciples’ mission as integrated witness. In this literary context, the foot washing narrative signifies the integrated witness of Jesus and the disciples. The narrative consists of two parts: one, Jesus’s symbolic action for his death, and the other, for its interpretation for the disciple community. Jesus’s death, as his unique mission, results in purifying both his disciples and the world so that they might dwell in the holy union with the triune God. The disciples are sent into the world. Just as Jesus did, so must they proclaim Jesus and his teachings. Also, they should bear witness to him by living Jesus’s life-pattern of self-giving, sacrificial love, and humble service. Their verbal proclamation as evangelism and life-witness cannot be separated to testify to Jesus and their identity. Finally, today’s Christians, specifically Evangelicals, are invited to participate in the Johannine mission as the integrated witness of evangelism and life-witness.
In order to deeply understand a work of literature or film, one requires the emotional and spiritual experience of the sublime aesthetic power, through which one may glimpse the ultimate reality, as well as the thematic approach. This book, mainly from the perspective of literary criticism of postmodern ethics and kongan (koan)/hwadu Ch’an, Seon, and Zen Buddhism, guides the reader to not simply follow the conventional thematic approach, but to catch nondual, spiritual feelings while appreciating a given work. Through a meditative state, the reading or watching of such work would ultimately be a way of questing for spiritual enlightenment.
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