Of Love and Russia: The Eleven-Year Fight for My Husband and Freedom

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An intimate look into the tumultuos lives of Korea's foremost family in the thirty year struggle for their nation's democracy. Mrs. Lee Hee-ho, wife of Kim Dae-jung, writes of her husband's persecution, imprisonment, house arrests, death sentence and kidnapping under Korea's dictators. Her story reveals their darkest hours and sheds light on the extraordinary Christian faith which gave them hope and courage to withstand and triumph over their adversities.

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an intense love story

My Russian Love
Dan Franck , and Jon Rothschild
Manufacturer: Nan A. Talese
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0385484887
Release Date: 1997-01-20

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In a mere 176 pages, French writer Dan Franck's My Russian Love details the history of a love affair that spans two decades. The story begins on a train when 40-year-old Luca, a successful French filmmaker, glimpses a woman in the dining car. An unusual gesture she makes transports him back in memory to Paris of the 1970s. That's when Luca, then a young film student, first met Anna, a Russian girl whose parents sent her to France to study. The two fell in love but were separated when Anna was suddenly called back to the Soviet Union. The rest of the novel follows Luca's quest to find the girl on the train and perhaps solve the mystery of Anna.

The novel is short, the story deceptively simple, but the themes Franck explores are profound ones. The author's experience as a screenwriter is apparent throughout, both in his characterization of the world Luca travels and in the scenes themselves, which are as finely crafted as if seen through the lens of a discerning cinematographer.

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My Russian Love opens in the present as Luca, a successful 40-year-old screenwriter, is returning to Paris from newly renamed St. Petersburg, where he intends to shoot a film based on a short story by Pushkin. In the dining car of the train, five tables in front of him and across the aisle, he sees a woman make an unusual gesture, tossing her hair back and putting her palm to the back of her neck in pain. The gesture shocks him, awakening a twenty-year-old memory he had thought buried forever. Before he can react, the girl rises from the table and disappears.

The memory is of a girl named Anna, the great love of Luca's youth, and the rest of the novel is a braid woven of two strands: how Luca and Anna met, fell in love, and were separated; and Luca's increasingly desperate effort to find the girl he glimpsed on the train.

What follows, in flashback, is a recounting, in passionately intimate detail, of Luca and Anna's affair. Despite its simplicity of style, My Russian Love is a complex, seamless love story spanning a generation, and effortlessly switching locales between St. Petersburg, Paris, and New York. The ending is an explosive secret few readers will guess in advance, and it is shattering.

Soaked in art, poetry, music, and film, My Russian Love packs an emotional wallop."

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an intense love story.......2000-10-28

This is much more than your run of the mill love story because if its intensity and strong writing. We travel seamlessly between Paris and Russia as the narrative switches from the narrator's current train ride to his older love affair with the beautiful Anna. His memory starts when he spies someone on the train making one of Anna's most intimate gestures, but he cannot find her. This sighting starts him on his personal quest both to finish the film he's working on and to come to a sense of closure in this relationship.

Though the plot is fairly straightforward, the author brings us to more profound levels of emotion through the characters' interactions and love story. Though it's a quick read, it's not a simple read and there are some breathtaking scenes that will stay with you long after the close of the novel. The ending felt a bit too cinematic, but I overall I really enjoyed this book. His 1991 book Separation won the Prix Renaudot, so I plan on finding that one next.

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My Russian Love
Dan Franck
Manufacturer: Doubleday
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000NZS49Q

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MY RUSSIAN LOVE
Don (translated from the French by Jon Rothschild) Franck
Manufacturer: Doubleday - Nan A. Talese
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OA5G8W

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My Russian Love
Dan Franck
Manufacturer: Doubleday (Nan A. Talese)
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000J1BZMW

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BradyGames’ Phantasy Star Universe Signature Series Guide includes the following:

A comprehensive walkthrough of the entire game.
Detailed area maps.
Extensive listing of available items and equipment.
Expert boss strategies to defeat even the toughest foe.
Tactics for each mode of gameplay including all online and offline quests.
Game secrets revealed!
Signature Series guide features bonus foldout and more!

Platform: PS2, Xbox 360 and PC

Genre: Role-Playing Game

This product is available for sale in North America only.

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awesome book .......2007-03-21

The book covered what i needed to know an di got it very fast and in great shape. just awesome.

ADD THIS ITEM TO YOUR INVENTORY.......2006-11-05

This guide is a must have companion for enjoying your experience within the Phantasy Star Universe.not only does this guide cover all the missions you'll be sent on Story or Network Mode.(please note that network mode will probally be updated with new missions).It has complete information on all the shops,items and equipment you will want on your adventures.I found it very helpful in earning my S-Ranks.their well detailed maps make exploration and trials easy.this guide also contains a two sided foldout which has the complete data on guiding you through your partner machinery's evolutions.detailed tactics for every class, S-Rank requirements and complete enemy lists (at the time of printing)will help you quickly gain experience in network mode.I was a 1/4 way through Story Mode and earned several A-Ranks and continued,when i got this guide a few days later and found out how many items i was missing out on. I restarted the game and from this point on i will try for and have had success in gaining S-Ranks.this guide is well composed and i think brady games has come along way with much improvement from their earlier guides this is why i have given it 5-STARS.

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Too narrow of focus and too slim on content
Great game for frist time gamers
Lack of specificity is both strength and weakness
The Perfect Game...
An awesome RPG...

Marvel Universe RPG Guide HC
Marvel Entertainment
Manufacturer: Marvel Comics
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0785110283

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Get the must-have guide that gets you started playing your own Marvel Universe adventures! Contains everything you need to learn and play, including full game system rules, character profiles, briefings and background for the Marvel Universe, pull-out Character Action Display, and a beginning adventure complete with maps.

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Too narrow of focus and too slim on content.......2006-12-19

The book is thinner than I expected/hoped (guess I should have checked the page count) and has only seven pages of source material for the massive marvel world. There is absolutely no support from Marvel and only two sourcebooks ever published, so that's huge in my opinion. Most of the book is dedicated to the system. You can however find descriptions of 40 heroes and villains from the marvel universe which is nice but brief.

Also, the system is too narrowly focused for me because the range of abilities goes from 1 to 10 leaving very little room for the awesome range of ability that should exist in the marvel universe.

That it is more free form and somewhat simpler than many RPGs may appeal to some people and the game is presented as though you are writing your own comic which has a nice sense of style.

Great game for frist time gamers.......2006-02-22

This is a great game for frist time players but if you are use to having dice to roll can be hard.

Lack of specificity is both strength and weakness.......2005-05-25

MURPG has its strengths, foremost among them ease of play. However, there is very little differentiation between characters of approximate strength and/or ability (as already mentioned).

MURPG does have one significant strength that its developers may have overlooked. Because it focuses on recource allocation, it is excellent for online play (no fudging of die rolls). In the online groups in which I participate, the focus is more on the cinematic nature of the game, rather than the mechanics itself. Its simplicity allows the players a great deal of freedom, and allows for a load of fun.

I recommend this system for novice roleplayers, or players wishing for a quick & easy system of not-so-serious roleplaying.

The Perfect Game..........2004-11-29

At first, I was hesitant to buy this book coz i under-estimated its size, plus it got no dice roll stuff. But to my surprise, it got all that i was expecting for a well designed and well balanced game of Superheores/Supervillains.

Though this book doesn't contain the complete lists of all the superheores that every marvel comic fan is expecting, but hey, the rules are all here. No more tons of cross referencing to several books. Just one, simple, straight to the point rules. I think this is the way how RPG should be.

The stone system is cleverly designed! Just like in real life. The more you exert effort, the more you will succeed, but you will most likely tire yourself out. Resting is a solution, but can you do it if you are badly outnumbered by the bad guys? This is the thrill and the challenge! It's a matter of how wisely you use the energy that you have.

The character progression takes a bit long coz you need to record the actions/stunts/experiences that your character had gone through. But it's just like telling a story by keeping a record of it. And it's no nonsense coz the experience speaks for itself, unlike the other RPG. The action that you record will determine your action difficulty to perform. The more experience you are in an action, the less difficulty you will encounter in doing it again.

This is a major improvement to the Marvel saga system. The powers that were vague in the previous rules were made clear in this book. Like the Mastery of Elements, it gives a well defined limitation on up to how wide the scope of ones power can reach. Having a Mastery of magic as an action doesn't mean you have a god-like power to do almost anything you want, but simply what you can only do in a balanced manner. Overall, it's a nice game. Greatly recomended.

An awesome RPG..........2004-05-13

This is the first RPG I've come across that uses a system with no dice! Which means it makes for easy online adaptation and puts the game more in the hands of the players. It's got tons of good information, statistics and biographies for all of the biggest names in Marvel, a built-in starter mission, and a flexible creation system allowing you to create your very own super heroes and villains.

There are really only a few problems I have with this book. First off, it's a really small book. While it is a lot cheaper then all the other RPG rule books out there, it seems like they could have included a lot more without having to raise the price. Also, the system has a very slow skill development proccess. It will take your character a very long time before they will be able to use their skills as well as the characters from the comic books can. Aside of that though, it's a lot of fun and a much better system then all the dice-based ones rolling around.

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Gamer's Handbook of the Marvel Universe: Serpent Society thru Zzzax (Marvel Super Heroes Accessory MU4)
David E. Martin , Chris Mortika , and Scott Bennie
Manufacturer: TSR
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Gamer's Handbook of the Marvel Universe MU1: Abomination thru Dreadnought (Marvel Super Heroes)

Gamer's Handbook of the Marvel Universe: Eel thru Mad-Dog (Marvel Super Heroes Accessory MU2)

ASIN: 0880386177

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RPG.......2007-09-03

The fourth volume of the excellent Marvel Super Heroes game roster
encyclopedia, basically. Very useful, indeed, even for comic fans in
general.

The Marvel Universe Role Playing Game: Guide to the Hulk & the Avengers

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A great addition!
If you're interested in the Avengers, find the old TSR books
Battle Ready!

The Marvel Universe Role Playing Game: Guide to the Hulk & the Avengers
Marvel Entertainment
Manufacturer: Marvel Comics
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0785111581

Book Description

Avengers Assemble. The second supplement to the Marvel Universe Role-Playing Guide delivers Earth's Mightiest Heroes in all their glory... and most of their lineups. You'll find dozens of new super hero and super-villain profiles, as well as a few surprises, including Character Variants for the Hulk, Thor, Giant-Man, and Iron Man. Add to your campaign with Aliens, demi-gods, super-villains, humanoids, androids and robots. Dive into detailed maps of the Avengers' Mansion and technical plans for the Quinjet. Explore new settings for your adventures, from Wakanda to Asgard. Plus a brand new Marvel Universe Adventure, complete with maps. · Marvel Universe Roleplaying Game Guide required to play

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A great addition!.......2004-05-21

This book is filled with more information about the Hulk and the Avengers then I could find on any online source. It has a lot of new profiles for heroes and villains encountered by both the Avengers and the Hulk, which naturally leads to a few villains and heroes that have encountered other Marvel characters like Scorpion and Shocker from Spiderman. It's also got a lot of new actions, options, modifiers, and a few advantages, disadvantages, and challenges. It's as big an upgrade to the game as the guide to the X-men was if not bigger. The only thing I thought I would get that I didn't was a better description of Asguard and other magical realms. Oh well, aside from that, it's a great upgrade.

If you're interested in the Avengers, find the old TSR books.......2004-03-29

Once again the people in charge of Marvel roleplaying books have made a blunder. Their inability to even give the complete Avengers roster shocked me! I intended to buy this book til I thumbed through it, and couldn't find updated stats for Hank Pym. If you're at all interested in Marvel roleplaying games go find TSR's old MSH system, while a bit old and out of date both Avengers Assembled and Avengers Coast to Coast are deeper and more worthwile!

Battle Ready!.......2004-02-14

The Avengers. Earth's Mightiest Heroes. With this, the third supplement from Marvel entertainment and Q.E.D. Games, you can take on the role of many Avengers. It's got a great list of stats fols. Great supplement for the best Super Heroes RPG on the market. If you have reservations, don't... buy this game.

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An essential guide for dealers & collectors

A Universe of Star Wars Collectibles
Stuart W., III Wells
Manufacturer: kp books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0873494156

Book Description

The force will be with all collectors who own this comprehensive guide to one of today's hottest collecting fields.

Star Wars fans will find more than 600 photos and more than 2,000 listings of collectible items related to the popular movie series from 1976 through 2001, including Episode 1: The Phantom Menace. Features photos, up-to-date pricing, and accurate descriptions for more than 40 categories such as action figures, books, clothing, food collectibles, games, trading cards, vehicles, wall art, statues, comics, coins, and more!

Star Wars is hotter than ever and this updated and revised edition of the best-selling collector's guide is the ultimate resource for fans.

Author Stuart W. Wells III is a well-known authority on Star Wars collectibles. He is also the author of Star Wars Collector's Pocket Companion.

• More than 2,000 listings of the hottest Star Wars collectibles, including up-to-date pricing, accurate descriptions, and more than 600 photographs to aid in identification

• Features more than 40 collecting categories

• All-new section covering Episode 1: The Phantom Menace

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An essential guide for dealers & collectors.......2002-09-07

Now in a completely and authoritatively updated second edition, A Universe Of Star Wars Collectibles: Identification And Price Guide continues to be the premier reference for fans and collectors. Featured are exhaustive price lists, color photographs of collector's items on almost every page, the straight scoop on figure package variations and a "user friendly" index for quick and easy reference. A superb guide for the dedicated Star Wars collector or Star Wars merchandise seller, A Universe Of Star Wars Collectibles is an essential guide for dealers, collectors, and anyone wanting to look up the value of a Star Wars related item in the possession of themselves, friends or family.

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Heroes protecting the Earth from the scum of the DC Universe

DC Universe Roleplaying Game Rulebook

Manufacturer: West End Games
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0874316251

Book Description

Fight alongside the Justice League. Battle against the Joker. Match wits with Lex Luthor. Find yourself involed in battles where the fate of the entire world is at stake! The rulebook includes:

* The full-color Hero's Guide, which ecplans how to create heroes; it also takes you on a brief tour of the DC Universe and describes the basic rules of the game system.

* The two-color Narrator's Guide, which teaches you how to become a Narrator, with optional rules, details on creating new equipment, and introductions to some of the more legendary heroes, villains, and other important people of the DC Universe.

* A solitaire adventure featuring Robin that demonstrates the game system, and a full-length adventure set in Metropolis that can kick off your super-hero exploits.

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Heroes protecting the Earth from the scum of the DC Universe.......2001-06-13

West End Games's last production was the DC Universe. Using the Legend System, a variation of the last D6 system that marked its story with games like Star Wars, Men In black and Xena the Warrior Princess now takes us in the universe of classic heroes like Batman and Superman. This book is fully complete with information of events from the DC Universe since 1989 to 1999. The only reason it isn't rated with 5 stars is that a few rules like any first edition RPG are with some "errors" but nothing that can be fixed, so other books have more rules and you can find erratas in the web site or in mailing lists. The new rules are very easy and the Game Master doesn't have to check too many tables like the older book, the construction of devices is one of the most creative ideas for this version, now you can easily build itens from a simple Wacky Ray Rod to a Off-road Batmobile (obviusly if your character has the proper skills... And money). The first 128 pages of the books are fully colored and the other 125 pages are in green,black and white which makes the book worth its price.

Aberrant: Awaken the Power Within (Part Two of the Trinity Universe, d20 v. 3.5)

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Aberrant: Awaken the Power Within (Part Two of the Trinity Universe, d20 v. 3.5)
Mike Lee
Manufacturer: White Wolf / Arthaus
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1588469654

Guardian Universe II: Power Overwhelming

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Guardian Universe II: Power Overwhelming
Jay Libby
Manufacturer: Dilly Green Bean Games
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Back in 2002 we brought you Guardian Universe Core Fuzion. The game put real world grit back in your super hero diet. But that is over because now we are giving people what they asked for: POWER! Get ready for Guardian Universe II: Power Overwhelming. Fans of the Guardian Universe product line will be one up on newcomers, but that's ok. GU2 gets you up and running faster than any other super hero RPG on the market. Not to mention the simple mechanics designed for all ages. So get ready, because GU2 will be destroying the reality you thought you knew! GU2 is a stand-alone RPG. All players need is paper, pencil and dice or a deck of cards!

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DC Universe Roleplaying Game

Manufacturer: West End Games
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Pamphlet
ASIN: B000EBP9YC

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Narrator's book, plus screen. Two-color book is jammed with: new Advantages, Disadvantages and game mechanics; Dramatic Effect Cards; Tips and suggestions on designing dynamic characters and thrilling adventures; Arkham Mayhem (a collection of scenarios); an index to the book and the DC Universe rule book. Narrator's Screen is vibrantly colored on one side and eerily black-and-white on the other. (Dimensions: 8.5x11 inches.)

The Universe in a Handkerchief: Lewis Carroll's Mathematical Recreations, Games, Puzzles, and Word Plays

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the editorial review math is exactly correct!
Letter to the editorial review
Essential for Lewis Carroll fans

The Universe in a Handkerchief: Lewis Carroll's Mathematical Recreations, Games, Puzzles, and Word Plays
Martin Gardner
Manufacturer: Springer
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ASIN: 038794673X

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This book contains scores of intriguing puzzles and paradoxes from Lewis Carroll, the author of Alice in Wonderland, whose interests ranged from inventing new games like Arithmetical Croquet to important problems in symbolic logic and propositional calculus. Written by Carroll expert and well-known mathematics author Martin Gardner, this tour through Carroll's inventions is both fun and informative.

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the editorial review math is exactly correct!.......2005-04-21

Ok, since there is some confusion on the issue, let me explain how the 2/3 comes about. We are looking for the probability that the second marble is white, given that the first one pulled out of the bag was.

First intuitively - if you think about it, if there had been 2 white marbles in the bag to start with you're more likely to have pulled out a white marble on the first draw than you would have if the bag started with one white and one black. That is, knowing that you pulled out a white marble, it's more likely that both marbles were white than it is that there was one of each.

Now mathematically - this is called conditional probability. Because of the problem description, before drawing the bag could either contain one of each color or two white marbles, each of these options with probability .5 (50%). If the bag has one of each, your probability of drawing white first is .5, and if it has two whites your probability of drawing white first is 1 (100%).

So, the (compound) probability that the bag has one of each *and* you get white first is .5 x .5 = .25 and the probability that the bag has both white and you get white first is .5 x 1 = .5. So, the total probability of getting white first is the sum of the probabilities of these two possible ways of that occuring, .75.

Now, the actual probability that was requested was that of there being a white marble in the bag after taking out a white one...that is, what's the probability of the bag having had 2 white marbles if you know it had at least one. This should be the same as the probability of getting two white marbles divided by the probability that the first marble was white.

Probability notation for this conditional probability is
P(W2|W1) = P(W1 & W2)/P(W2)

Which then is .5/.75, which is equal to 2/3 - the number given in the editorial. The result does maybe initially seem to be a strange number, but there is no wiggle room here. It's correct.

Letter to the editorial review.......2005-03-11

The Editorial has single handedly solved a modern dilemma in the world of Mathematics. I do believe it has been said that it is better to be assumed a fool then to open your mouth and remove all doubt. The final conclusion is that the contradiction leads us to realize a possible incompleteness in the system. Here is how:

Solution #1 As the state of the bag, after the operation, is necessarily identical with its state before it, the chance is just what it was, viz. 1/2. Solution #2 Let B and W1 stand for the black or white counter that may be in the bag at the start and W2 for the added white counter. After removing white counter there are three equally likely states:

Inside bag------Outside bag
W1--------------W2
W2--------------W1
B ---------------W2

In two of these states a white counter remains in the bag, and so the chance of drawing a white counter the second time is 2/3. This contradiction of the first solution might indicate that the system offers an incomplete answer (not that the first answer was wrong).

Essential for Lewis Carroll fans.......2002-01-08

Lewis Carroll was in "real life" Charles Dodgson, lecturer in mathematics at Oxford University and author of books on geometry and logic. Mathematics intrudes into his children's books, especially Sylvie and Bruno. There is nobody better qualified to explain this side of Lewis Carroll to the non-mathematician than Martin Gardner, author of the Annotated Alice and for many years the compiler of the Mathematical Puzzles column in Scientific American. This book will delight Carroll's many fans and may intrigue many who would not normally be attracted to children's fiction. I also recommend the two books on Lewis Carroll's puzzles by Edward Wakeling; as a professional mathematician, he brings a complementary perspective.

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