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  • Prostitution Narratives

    Stories of Survival in the Sex Trade

    Edited by Caroline Norma, Melinda Tankard Reist ...
    Unmasking the Realities of the Sex Trade: Survivor Stories of Trauma and ResilienceFor too long, the global sex industry has dominated the conversation, obscuring the harsh realities faced by those involved. Prostitution Narratives challenges the myths and lies, presenting firsthand accounts of trauma, exploitation, and the struggle for survival.This powerful collection features the stories of 20 ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Japanese Comfort Women and Sexual Slavery during the China and Pacific Wars

    by Dr Caroline Norma ...
    Series series War, Culture and Society
    The Japanese military was responsible for the sexual enslavement of thousands of women and girls in Asia and the Pacific during the China and Pacific wars under the guise of providing 'comfort' for battle-weary troops. Campaigns for justice and reparations for 'comfort women' since the early 1990s have highlighted the magnitude of the human rights crimes committed against Korean, Chinese and other ... Read more

    $42.89 USD

  • Transpacific Visions

    Connected Histories of the Pacific across North and South

    by Yasuko Hassall Kobayashi, Shinnosuke Takahashi, Dario Di Rosa, Danton Leary, Christine Winter, Caroline Norma, Facundo Garasino, Alexander Brown, Ryota Nishino0, Tessa Morris-Suzuki1 ...
    This book argues that transpacific history cannot be comprehended without including “vertical” connections; namely, those between the southern hemisphere and the northern hemisphere. It explores such connections by uncovering small histories of ordinary people’s attempts at événements which they undertake by means of uneven, unlevel, and multidirectional mobilities. In this way, this book goes ... Read more

    $107.79 USD

  • Police Investigative Interviews and Interpreting

    Context, Challenges, and Strategies

    by Sedat Mulayim, Miranda Lai, Caroline Norma ...
    Series series Advances in Police Theory and Practice
    Police interviews with suspects and witnesses provide some of the most significant evidence in criminal investigations. Frequently challenging, they require special training and skills. This interaction process is further complicated when the suspect or witness does not speak the same language as the interviewer. A professional reference that can b ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Comfort Women and Post-Occupation Corporate Japan

    by Caroline Norma ...
    Series series ASAA Women in Asia Series
    This book provides an overview of the Japanese sex industry in the years of Japan’s postwar economic boom. It argues that the origins of gender inequality in contemporary Japan resulted from the policies put in place during this period, when there was instituted a “sexual contract” which provided male salarymen whose work was arduous, underpaid and subject to military-like organisation with easy ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

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  • The Lady and the Peacock

    The Life of Aung San Suu Kyi

    by Peter Popham ...
    Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi—known to the world as an icon for democracy and nonviolent dissent in oppressed Burma, and to her followers as simply "The Lady"—has recently returned to international headlines. Now, this major new biography offers essential reading at a moment when Burma, after decades of stagnation, is once again in flux.Suu Kyi's remarkable life begins with that of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • My Friend the Fanatic

    Travels with a Radical Islamist

    by Sadanand Dhume ...
    A nation once synonymous with tolerance, Indonesia, the fourth-most populated country in the world and its most populous Muslim country, now finds itself in the midst of a profound shift toward radical Islam. Sadanand Dhume, a Princeton-educated Indian atheist with a fondness for literary fiction and an interest in economic development, travels across Indonesia to find out how a society goes from ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Long March

    The True History of Communist China's Founding Myth

    by Sun Shuyun ...
    In The Long March, Sun Shuyun uncovers the true story behind the mythic march of Mao's soldiers across China, exposing the famine, disease, and desertion behind the legend.In 1934, in the midst of civil war, the Communist party and its 200,000 soldiers were forced from their bases by Chiang Kai-shek and his Nationalist troops. Led by Mao Tse Tung, they set off on a strategic retreat to the barren ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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  • China Matters

    Getting it Right for Australia

    by Bates Gill, Linda Jakobson ...
    Australia and China face a new era, but are we ready?Australia’s prosperity and security are linked to China as never before. But what kind of a country is China becoming? Will its demand for Australian goods and services increase? Can the Communist Party continue to keep the middle class satisfied while cracking down on political freedoms? How will China use its economic and military might, ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • China Renaissance, The: The Rise Of Xi Jinping And The 18th Communist Party Congress

    by Writers, Artists And Editors Of The South China Morning Post, Jonathan Sharp ...
    Rising superpower China duly anointed a new generation of leaders led by Xi Jinping at the Communist Party's 18th National Congress held in November 2012. While the conclave itself passed off with smoothly choreographed efficiency, the months leading up to this once-a-decade transition were anything but orderly. Intense factional wrangling behind the scenes was accompanied by scandals very much in ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • China's Rise in Historical Perspective

    Edited by Brantly Womack ...
    China, with its geographical, historical, cultural, and political distance from the West, long has been a black box upon which we readily paste labels—communist, non-Western, developing country—but whose internal logic remains a mystery to us. Arguing that it would be a major step forward in our genuine knowledge of China if we understood its internal dynamic, this innovative book considers China ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • ASEAN, Sovereignty and Intervention in Southeast Asia

    by L. Jones ...
    Series series Critical Studies of the Asia-Pacific
    Drawing on the fields of political economy and historical sociology, Jones dispels the overwhelming consensus among scholars that members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) never interfere in the internal affairs of other states, and pioneers a new approach to the understanding of regional politics in Southeast Asia. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD