The French writer and Nobel Literature laureate J.M.G. Le Clézio is one of the most translated authors in the world and widely considered a living legend of French literature. He also harbors a keen interest in Korea that not only prompted him to learn and master the Korean language on his own but also inspired his new novel. BITNA: UNDER THE SKY OF SEOUL is Le Clézio's portrait of Seoul--its people and its places--rendered with an intimate familiarity and attention to detail that few non-Korean writers, not to mention non-natives of Seoul, could replicate. It is a story of life in the city.
SEOUL Magazine is a travel and culture monthly designed to help both expats and tourists get the most of their stay in the city, whether they’re in for only a few days or dedicated lifers who are always in search of new places, facts and interesting events. Featuring in-depth reporting on how to enjoy the city, foreigners’ perspectives on life as an expat in Korea and more, SEOUL is an eclectic publication that has something for everyone, whether you’re looking for an interesting read or a simple source of information.
SEOUL Magazine is a travel and culture monthly designed to help both expats and tourists get the most of their stay in the city, whether they’re in for only a few days or dedicated lifers who are always in search of new places, facts and interesting events. Featuring in-depth reporting on how to enjoy the city, foreigners’ perspectives on life as an expat in Korea and more, SEOUL is an eclectic publication that has something for everyone, whether you’re looking for an interesting read or a simple source of information.
Enjoy this free steamy science-fiction romance series starter from USA Today Bestselling author Kate Rudolph! He’s dying. She’s running. They’re each other’s only hope. Ruwen’s cursed alien species is on the brink of extinction, and he’s about to add to the death toll. He’ll be dead before the month is out if he can’t find his mate. Too bad that most Detyen women are dead. Abandoned, ditched, and on the run from vicious aliens… After being kidnapped from Earth by unknown forces, Lis has been dropped on a inhospitable planet with little food and no hope. She'll do anything to find a ship to take her back to Earth, but Polai is hostile to all alien life, and Lis is running out of places to hide. Can she trust the alien hunk who looks at her with heat in his eyes? An impossible chance... From the moment he sees her, Ru knows Lis is his mate. But she's already wounded and distrustful of aliens. How can he prove that he’s trustworthy? If he can’t overcome Lis’s fears, their bond will break before it has a chance to form, leaving Ru dead and Lis all alone in a hostile galaxy. Ruwen is the first book in the Mated to the Alien science fiction romance series. Detyens are doomed to die young if they don't find their fated mates. The Mated to the Alien series can be read in any order and there are no cliffhangers! Enjoy fated mates, steamy alphas, alien romance, and plenty of space adventures. This book is great for readers of paranormal romance and sci fi romance who love to read in their free time! Perfect for fans of Ruby Dixon and the Ice Planet Barbarians, Honey Phillips, and Michele Mills! Get your taste of these fated mates in ebook or audiobook!
Detyens are doomed to die at the age of thirty if they don't find their fated mates in time. This bundle brings together the first three books in the Mated to the Alien series. Read as Ruwen, Tyral, and Stoan find human mates and a new hope for their dying race. This series will bring you fated mates, steamy alphas, and plenty of space adventures. Start reading today! Book One: Ruwen Dead alien walking... Ruwen NaNaran knows he's a goner. His alien species is cursed by a deadly genetic quirk and he'll be dead before the month is out, unless he finds his denya. She's the only woman in the universe who can save him. It's too bad that most Detyen women are dead. Down on her luck and lost in space... Lis Jaynx just wants to go home. Kidnapped from Earth by unknown foes, she's dropped on a inhospitable planet with little food and no hope. She'll do anything to find a ship to take her back to Earth, but Polai is hostile to all alien life, and Lis is running out of places to hide. An unexpected chance... From the moment he sees her, Ru knows Lis is his denya. But she's already wounded and distrustful of aliens, even those who claim they want to help. Will the explosive chemistry between them be enough to topple Lis's fears? Or will their bond break before it even forms, leaving Ru a dead alien walking and Lis all alone in the black of space. Book Two: Tyral One week to live... Captured by pirates with only a week to live, Tyral NaRaxos is on the verge of losing all hope. With no denya, he is doomed to die on his next birthday, if his captors don't finish the job first. A price on her head... Someone is after Dorsey Kwan and she doesn’t know why. Captured by pirates, she’s wasting away, dreading death or slavery. A chance escape with a fellow prisoner gives them both a chance, but nowhere is safe with a bounty on her head. A desperate passion... From the moment he sees her, Ty knows Dorsey is his mate. But even if they can defeat the pirates, there are worse enemies after both of them. A man living on borrowed time doesn't care about making enemies, but given the chance he will fight with everything he has to ensure his mate's survival... and his own. Book Three: Stoan An alien spy... Unless he finds his mate, Stoan will die when he turns thirty, which makes him willing to take the most dangerous jobs. When he spots the human woman who awakens the denya bond within him, he knows they can never be. A shattered woman... Reina Draven almost lost everything at the hands of a warlord’s ambition. As she’s pulled into a world of danger and intrigue, her only stable force is the closed off blue alien assigned to be her partner on a mission she's been drafted into undertaking. Though the flame of desire sparks hot between them, she doesn’t know if she’s ready for romance, and he seems determined to keep away from her. A bond too strong to be denied... Their mission takes them deep into enemy territory, and Reina and Stoan need to learn to trust one another or face fatal consequences. As the danger heats up, so does the spark of their bond. But when a surprise from Stoan’s past throws a wrench in the works, their future is threatened by something even more dangerous than a brutal general's attention. Will Stoan choose to step into the future with his denya? Or will his secrets swallow him whole? Detyens are doomed to die at the age of thirty if they don't find their fated mates in time. The series can be read in any order and there are no cliffhangers! Enjoy fated mates, steamy alphas, alien romance, and plenty of space adventures. This book is great for readers of paranormal romance and sci fi romance who love to read in their free time!
How could they win the Earth? They were Anarkhists. Black and white, Gay and straight, diverse in many ways, Poor and semi-affluent-‘Middle-Class,’ spending their young lives protesting government atrocities. They believed their society needed a Revolution, but how long would it be before the Poor and the Oppressed rose up to take their planet and their civilization back from the monsters who held them all in thrall? And how violent would that Revolution need to be? How could they practice living together in equality before the Revolution? One woman thought she had the answer: a way to make a peaceful Revolution so that no one — no Black people, no Poor people, no dedicated Activists, no LGBTQ, and no one Oppressed by a vicious economic system — needed to be killed by the violent push-back of the greedy-Rich. She told her idea to her fiancé, a young activist with some family money who could donate the 100 acres of land needed. Building their own mortgage-free, solar-powered housing, they became an Egalitarian-Commune, pretending to be starry-eyed dropouts from 21st-century Conservative-leaning cultures in Canada, the USA and Mexico. In their own Charter School, outside government control, they intended to educate all the Commune’s children in the civilized ideals of the Sharing and Diversity of Voluntary-Socialism. They believed in the Equality of all people, Christian or not, of whatever Ability to Make Money, or whatever their Colour, Gender, or sexual orientation. But they discovered they were under surveillance. . . . * * * “We’ve caught a spy.” He gestured toward the mashed insect-sized drone on the glass plate under the dissecting-microscope. “Ah, yes, a modern miracle of miniaturization. Who mashed it?” “I did,” David said. “Why?” “I thought it was an insect biting me.” “I wish you hadn’t been so good at destroying it,” Allison mumbled, peering intently into the microscopic world. “That thing is an Enemy,” he said. “Sorry I couldn’t have been more gentle.” She again peered through the microscope at the wreck of the Enemy drone. “Clever,” she said. “They can attach themselves anywhere. That plastic camouflage-carapace gives it a mutable pattern to match whatever the background might be. These damned things were designed to be unnoticed as they spy on us. Even in people’s bedrooms, I’ll bet, via infrared. . . .” “We don’t know how many of those damned things are all around us, or how long we’ve been spied on,” David snarled.
Learning and identity development are lifetime processes of becoming. The construction of self, of interest to scholars and practitioners in adult development and adult learning, is an ongoing process, with the self both forming and being formed by lived experience in privileged and oppressive contexts. Intersecting identities and the power dynamics within them shape how learners define themselves and others and how they make meaning of their experiences in the world. I Am What I Become: Constructing Identities as Lifelong Learners is an insightful and diverse collection of empirical research and narrative essays in identity development, adult development, and adult learning. The purpose of this series is to publish contributions that highlight the intimate connections between learning and identity. Our aim is to promote reflection and research at the intersection of identity and adult learning at any point across the adult lifespan and in any space where learning occurs: in school, at work, or in community. The series aims to assist our readers to understand and nurture adults who are always in the process of becoming. Adult educators, adult development scholars, counselors, psychologists, and sociologists, along with education and training professionals in formal and informal learning settings, will revel in the rich array of qualitative research designs, methods, and findings as well as autobiographies and narrative essays that transform and expand our understanding of the lived experience of people both like us and unlike us, from the U.S. and beyond. Volume One, Identity and Lifelong Learning in Higher Education, contains chapters by and about post-secondary educators and students. Together these chapters enhance our understanding of the inextricable link between learning and identity.
