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Attention, Genes, and Developmental Disorders

By: Kim Cornish,John Wilding

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Attention, Genes, and Developmental Disorders

By: Kim Cornish,John Wilding

What is attention? How does it go wrong? Do attention deficits arise from genes or from the environment? Can we cure it with drugs or training? Are there disorders of attention other than deficit disorders?The past decade has seen a burgeoning of research on the subject of attention. This research has been facilitated by advances on several fronts: New methods are now available for viewing brain activity in real time, there is expanding information on the complexities of the biochemistry of neural activity, individual genes can be isolated and their functions identified, analysis of the component processes included under the broad umbrella of "attention" has become increasingly sophisticated, and ingenious methods have been devised for measuring typical and atypical development of these processes, from infancy into childhood, and then into adulthood.In this book, Kim Cornish and John Wilding are concerned with attention and its development, both typical and atypical, particularly in disorders with a known genetic etiology or assumed genetic linkage. Tremendous advances across seemingly diverse disciplines - molecular genetics, pediatric neurology, child psychiatry, developmental cognitive neuroscience, and education - have culminated in a wealth of new methods for elucidating disorders at multiple levels, possibly paving the way for new treatment options. Cornish and Wilding use three specific-yet-interlinking levels of analysis: genetic blueprint (genotype), the developing brain, and the behavioral-cognitive outcomes (phenotype), as the basis for charting the attention profiles of six well-documented neurodevelopmental disorders: ADHD, autism, fragile X syndrome, Down syndrome, Williams syndrome, and 22q11 deletion syndrome. Their overarching aim in this book is to provide the most authoritative and extensive account to date of disorder-specific attention profiles and their development from infancy through adolescence.

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Oxford University Press

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0195179943

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9780195179941

It's Only the Beginning

A Journey with Jesus

By: Kim Kollins,John Patrick Grace

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It's Only the Beginning

A Journey with Jesus

By: Kim Kollins,John Patrick Grace

In this book the author gives an account of spiritual revival in Catholic churches on the Continent. She made an impression as one of the main speakers at the Canterbury '88 conference and has support from both Anglican and Roman Catholic groups.

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0946616566

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9780946616565

Rewriting Revolution

Women, Sexuality, and Memory in North Korean Fiction

By: Immanuel Kim

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Rewriting Revolution

Women, Sexuality, and Memory in North Korean Fiction

By: Immanuel Kim

North Korea, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), is firmly fixed in the Western imagination as a barbaric vestige of the Cold War, a “rogue” nation that refuses to abide by international norms. It is seen as belligerent and oppressive, a poor nation bent on depriving its citizens of their basic human rights and expanding its nuclear weapons program at the expense of a faltering economy. Even the North’s literary output is stigmatized and dismissed as mere propaganda literature praising the Great Leader. Immanuel Kim’s book confronts these stereotypes, offering a more complex portrayal of literature in the North based on writings from the 1960s to the present. The state, seeking to “write revolution,” prescribes grand narratives populated with characters motivated by their political commitments to the leader, the Party, the nation, and the collective. While acknowledging these qualities, Kim argues for deeper readings. In some novels and stories, he finds, the path to becoming a revolutionary hero or heroine is no longer a simple matter of formulaic plot progression; instead it is challenged, disrupted, and questioned by individual desires, decisions, doubts, and imaginations. Fiction in the 1980s in particular exhibits refreshing story lines and deeper character development along with creative approaches to delineating women, sexuality, and the family. These changes are so striking that they have ushered in what Kim calls a Golden Age of North Korean fiction. Rewriting Revolution charts the insightful literary frontiers that critically portray individuals negotiating their political and sexual identities in a revolutionary state. In this fresh and thought-provoking analysis of North Korean fiction, Kim looks past the ostensible state propaganda to explore the dynamic literary world where individuals with human emotions reside. His book fills a major lacuna and will be of interest to literary scholars and historians of East Asia, as well as to scholars of global and comparative studies in socialist countries.

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University of Hawaii Press

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0824873602

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9780824873608

Without You, There Is No Us

Undercover Among the Sons of North Korea's Elite

By: Suki Kim

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Undercover Among the Sons of North Korea's Elite

By: Suki Kim

A haunting account of teaching English to the sons of North Korea's ruling class during the last six months of Kim Jong-il's reign Every day, three times a day, the students march in two straight lines, singing praises to Kim Jong-il and North Korea: Without you, there is no motherland. Without you, there is no us. It is a chilling scene, but gradually Suki Kim, too, learns the tune and, without noticing, begins to hum it. It is 2011, and all universities in North Korea have been shut down for an entire year, the students sent to construction fields—except for the 270 students at the all-male Pyongyang University of Science and Technology (PUST), a walled compound where portraits of Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il look on impassively from the walls of every room, and where Suki has gone undercover as a missionary and a teacher. Over the next six months, she will eat three meals a day with her young charges and struggle to teach them English, all under the watchful eye of the regime. Life at PUST is lonely and claustrophobic, especially for Suki, whose letters are read by censors and who must hide her notes and photographs not only from her minders but from her colleagues—evangelical Christian missionaries who don't know or choose to ignore that Suki doesn't share their faith. As the weeks pass, she is mystified by how easily her students lie, unnerved by their obedience to the regime. At the same time, they offer Suki tantalizing glimpses of their private selves—their boyish enthusiasm, their eagerness to please, the flashes of curiosity that have not yet been extinguished. She in turn begins to hint at the existence of a world beyond their own—at such exotic activities as surfing the Internet or traveling freely and, more dangerously, at electoral democracy and other ideas forbidden in a country where defectors risk torture and execution. But when Kim Jong-il dies, and the boys she has come to love appear devastated, she wonders whether the gulf between her world and theirs can ever be bridged. Without You, There Is No Us offers a moving and incalculably rare glimpse of life in the world's most unknowable country, and at the privileged young men she calls "soldiers and slaves.

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Crown

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0307720667

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9780307720665

Escaping North Korea

Defiance and Hope in the World's Most Repressive Country

By: Mike Kim

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Escaping North Korea

Defiance and Hope in the World's Most Repressive Country

By: Mike Kim

The first of its kind, this book provides a unique inside look into the hidden world of ordinary North Koreans. Mike Kim, who worked with refugees on the Chinese border for four years, recounts their experiences of enduring famine, sex-trafficking, and torture, as well as the inspirational stories of those who overcame tremendous adversity to escape the repressive regime of their homeland and make new lives."--BOOK JACKET.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0742556204

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9780742556201

Without You, There Is No Us

My secret life teaching the sons of North Korea’s elite

By: Suki Kim

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My secret life teaching the sons of North Korea’s elite

By: Suki Kim

It is 2011, and all universities in North Korea have been shut down for an entire year, except for the all-male Pyongyang University of Science and Technology. This is where Suki Kim has accepted a job teaching English. Over the next six months she will eat three meals a day with her young charges and struggle to teach them to write, all under the watchful eye of the regime. Life at the university is lonely and claustrophobic. Her letters are read by censors and she must hide her notes and photographs not only from her minders but also from her colleagues, evangelical Christian missionaries, whose faith she does not share. As the weeks pass she discovers how easily her students lie, and how total is their obedience to Kim Jong-il. She also, bravely, hints at the existence of a world beyond their own: the internet, free travel, democracy, and other ideas forbidden in a country where torture and execution are commonplace. Yet her pupils are also full of boyish enthusiasm, with flashes of curiosity not yet extinguished. Without You, There Is No Us offers a moving and incalculably rare glimpse of life inside the world's most inscrutable country.

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306

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Random House

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1473527651

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North Korea under Kim Jong Il

From Consolidation to Systemic Dissonance

By: Sung Chull Kim

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North Korea under Kim Jong Il

From Consolidation to Systemic Dissonance

By: Sung Chull Kim

North Korea has long been a country of mystique, both provoking two nuclear crises and receiving aid from the international community and South Korea in more recent times. North Korea under Kim Jong Il examines how internal changes in North Korea since the early 1970s have structured that nation's apparently provocative nuclear diplomacy and recent economic reform measures. To understand these changes, author Sung Chull Kim uncovers relatively unknown internal aspects of the country under Kim Jong Il's leadership. His account, based on a thorough examination of primary sources, traces the origins, consolidation, and dissonance of North Korea's systemic identity. He reveals how official and unofficial developments in the domains of North Korea's politics, ideology, economics, and intellectual-cultural affairs have brought about system-wide duality, particularly between socialist principles embedded in the official ideology and economic institutions.

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State University of New York Press

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0791480933

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9780791480939

North Korea under Kim Jong Il

From Consolidation to Systemic Dissonance

By: Sung Chull Kim

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North Korea under Kim Jong Il

From Consolidation to Systemic Dissonance

By: Sung Chull Kim

Examines internal changes in North Korea under the expanding rule of Kim Jong Il.

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SUNY Press

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079146928X

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Heroes and Toilers

Work as Life in Postwar North Korea, 1953-1961

By: Cheehyung Harrison Kim

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Heroes and Toilers

Work as Life in Postwar North Korea, 1953-1961

By: Cheehyung Harrison Kim

Heroes and Toilers offers an unprecedented account of life and labor in postwar North Korea that looks at both governance and popular resistance. Cheehyung Harrison Kim traces the state's pursuit of progress through industrialism and examines how ordinary people challenged the state every step of the way.

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Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University

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0231185308

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9780231185301

North Korean Decisionmaking

Economic Opening, Conventional Deterrence Breakdown, and Nuclear Use

By: John V. Parachini,Scott W. Harold,Gian Gentile,Leah Heejin Kim

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North Korean Decisionmaking

Economic Opening, Conventional Deterrence Breakdown, and Nuclear Use

By: John V. Parachini,Scott W. Harold,Gian Gentile,Leah Heejin Kim

The authors examine (1) experiences of different communist regimes to forecast North Korean adoption of a new economic model; (2) what might happen if conventional deterrence fails on the Peninsula; and (3) why North Korea might use nuclear weapons.

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1977405533

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Attention, Genes, and Developmental Disorders

Attention, Genes, and Developmental Disorders

It's Only the Beginning

It's Only the Beginning

Rewriting Revolution

Rewriting Revolution

Without You, There Is No Us

Without You, There Is No Us

Escaping North Korea

Escaping North Korea

Without You, There Is No Us

Without You, There Is No Us

North Korea under Kim Jong Il

North Korea under Kim Jong Il

North Korea under Kim Jong Il

North Korea under Kim Jong Il

Heroes and Toilers

Heroes and Toilers

North Korean Decisionmaking

North Korean Decisionmaking

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