Cho: 179 books
Overrated
Are We More in Love with the Idea of Changing the World Than Actually Changing the World?
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
"It can be fashionable to talk about the poor but not as fashionable to talk to the poor. It may be popular to talk about justice and still not know any victims of injustice. But we will never make poverty history until we make poverty personal. Eugene Cho shatters all our hipster coffee-shop...
Critical Pedagogy and Social Change
Critical Analysis on the Language of Possibility
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
At its core, the main goal of critical pedagogy is deceptively simple—to construct schools and education as agents of change. While noble and ambitious, it is not always realistic in a climate of increased commodification, privatization of schooling, and canned curriculum. By assuming rather than...
Haunting the Korean Diaspora
Shame, Secrecy, and the Forgotten War
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2008
Since the Korean War—the forgotten war—more than a million Korean women have acted as sex workers for U.S. servicemen. More than 100,000 women married GIs and moved to the United States. Through intellectual vigor and personal recollection, Haunting the Korean Diaspora explores the repressed history...
The Jazz Process
Collaboration, Innovation, and Agility
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2010
"An insider’s guide to translating the creative techniques of jazz to the business world.” Scott Berkun, author of The Myths of Innovation What Can Your Team Learn From Jazz Musicians? Experienced jazz musicians apply specific principles to collaborate, execute, and manage change in...
For Nirvana
108 Zen Sijo Poems
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
For Nirvana features exceptional examples of the poet Cho Oh-Hyun's award-winning work. Cho Oh-Hyun was born in Miryang, South Gyeongsang Province, Korea, and has lived in retreat in the mountains since becoming a novice monk at the age of seven. Writing under the Buddhist name Musan, he has composed...
88 Poems By Cho
A Sojourn of Thoughts and Stories
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
A collection of poems that cover a dazzling range of topics, 88 Poems by Cho addresses observations of everyday life, fictional stories in an historical context, imaginary worlds, and commentaries on society. While part of the collection deals with Asian or Asian-American characters, readers from...
by Margaret Cho
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Comedian. Icon. TV star. Role model. Trash talker. Fag hag. Gypsy. Tramp. Thief. Margaret Cho displays her numerous sides in this funny, fierce, and honest memoir. As one of the country’s most visible Asian Americans, she has a unique perspective on identity and acceptance. As one of the country’s...
by Zen Cho
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2014
"If you live near the jungle, you will realise that what is real and what is not real is not always clear. In the forest there is not a big gap between the two."A Datin recalls her romance with an orang bunian. A teenage pontianak struggles to balance homework, bossy aunties, first love, and...
Eating Chinese
Culture on the Menu in Small Town Canada
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2010
"Chicken fried rice, sweet and sour pork, and an order of onion rings, please."
Chinese restaurants in small town Canada are at once everywhere - you would be hard pressed to find a town without a Chinese restaurant - and yet they are conspicuously absent in critical discussions of...
by Frank Cho
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2016
A new, original series from celebrated creator Frank Cho (Totally Awesome Hulk, Savage Wolverine)! nFull of fast-paced action, Skybourne is Indiana Jones meets James Bond with fantasy elements thrown in. Cho describes it as "one of the most cinematic stories I've envisioned." The legend...
The Specter of "the People"
Urban Poverty in Northeast China
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
Despite massive changes to its economic policies, China continues to define itself as socialist; since 1949 and into the present, the Maoist slogan "Serve the People" has been a central point of moral and political orientation. Yet several decades of market-based reforms have resulted in high urban...
by Tom Cho
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
First published to acclaim in Australia, Look Who's Morphing by Asian Australian writer Tom Cho is a funny, fantastical, often outlandish collection of stories firmly grounded in popular culture. Often with his family, the book's central character undergoes a series of startling physical transformations,...
Far-Off Saint
Poems of Cho O-hyun
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
Cho O-hyun, a Buddhist monk and poet, was born in 1932. He became a Buddhist monk in 1958, and started his literacy career in 1966. He has become one of the prominent figures in the literary world and has been awarded several prestigious prizes in Korea.Currently, he is the director of the Paektam Temple in the northeastern part of Korea.
Jonathan Edwards on Justification
Reform Development of the Doctrine in Eighteenth-Century New England
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758) was a preacher, theologian, and missionary to the Native Americans. This book deals with Jonathan Edwards’ doctrine of justification and its continuity with Reformed tradition. In his Reformed Theology, Edwards interprets the doctrine with scholastic as well as forensic...