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  • Lonely Planet Southeast Asia

    by Simon Richmond, Morgan Awyong, Austin Bush, Jayne D'Arcy, David Eimer, Mark Eveleigh, Marco Ferrarese, Michael Grosberg, Paul Harding, Nick Ray, Sarah Reid, Leyla Rose, Kara Santos, Cheng Sim, Aydan Stuart, Barbara Woolsey, Joshua Zukas, Ria de Jong ...
    Series series Travel Guide
    Lonely Planet's local travel experts reveal all you need to know to plan the trip of a lifetime in this latest edition of our guide to Southeast Asia.Discover Southeast Asia's most popular experiences and best kept secrets from lounging on the sandy beaches of Cambodia's Koh Tonsay; to walking through the lush rainforest of Lombok's Mt Rinjani National Park; and eating your way around Hanoi's Old ... Read more

    $21.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Lonely Planet Malaysia, Singapore & Brunei

    by Winnie Tan, Lindsay Brown, Marco Ferrarese, Simon Richmond, Jaclynn Seah, Cheng Sim, Regis St Louis, Ria de Jong ...
    Series series Travel Guide
    Lonely Planet's Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei is our most comprehensive guide that extensively covers all the region has to offer, with recommendations for both popular and lesser-known experiences. Trek through the rainforest to see flying lizards, eat fresh fish with coconut spice atmarkets; all with your trusted travel companion.Inside Lonely Planet's Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei Travel Guid ... Read more

    $18.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • For Better or Worse

    Marriage and family in Sarawak

    Edited by Cheng Sim Hew ...
    Family and kinship structures have long been the subject of anthropological research in Sarawak, but little is known of the changes wrought by social transformative forces. Globalisation, urbanization and an increasing mobile work-force are some of the processes at work. The chapters in this book examine many important issues such as economic development of the state and intergenerational social ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Women Workers, Migration and Family in Sarawak

    by Cheng Sim Hew ...
    In many parts of South-East Asia, women's lifestyles are going through enormous changes as women move from traditional rural, agricultural lifestyles to modern, urban lifestyles, which often involve migration to cities, taking on paid work, and having a quite different relationship with their families. This book, based on intensive research among the women of the Bidayuh people in Sarawak, all of ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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    by Teo You Yenn ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLERThis New Edition of This Is What Inequality Looks Like by Teo You Yenn features a new Afterword by the author, and a Foreword by Kwok Kian Woon, Professor of Sociology at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.What is poverty? What is inequality? How are they connected? How are they reproduced? How might they be overcome? Why should we try?The way we frame our questions ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

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  • Race, Racialization and Antiracism in Canada and Beyond

    Edited by Genevieve Fuji Johnson, Randy Enomoto ...
    This multidisciplinary volume brings together scholars and activists to examine expressions of racism in contemporary policy areas, including education, labour, immigration, media, and urban planning. While anti-racist struggles during the twentieth century were largely pitched against overt forms of racism (e.g., pogroms, genocide, segregation, apartheid, and 'ethnic cleansing'), it has become ... Read more

    $41.09 USD

  • Tourism and Sustainability

    Development, globalisation and new tourism in the Third World

    by Martin Mowforth, Ian Munt ...
    By January 2015 the world’s richest 80 people had as much wealth as the poorest 50 per cent of the world’s population. It is a global unevenness through which the barriers to in-migration of Third World migrants to wealthy First World nations go ever higher, while the barriers to travel in the reverse direction are all but extinct.So how exactly does tourism contribute to narrowing this glaring ... Read more

    $91.99 USD

  • Trapped in the Gap

    Doing Good in Indigenous Australia

    by Emma Kowal ...
    In Australia, a ‘tribe’ of white, middle-class, progressive professionals is actively working to improve the lives of Indigenous people. This book explores what happens when well-meaning people, supported by the state, attempt to help without harming. ‘White anti-racists’ find themselves trapped by endless ambiguities, contradictions, and double binds — a microcosm of the broader dilemmas of ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Ecotourism, NGOs and Development

    A Critical Analysis

    by Jim Butcher ...
    Series series Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility
    Ecotourism has emerged over the last twenty years not just as a market niche, but also as a strategy for combining development with conservation in the developing world. Ecotourism, NGOs and Development considers the basis for advocacy and argues that it is premised upon a very limited and limiting view of the potential for development.Jim Butcher examines the advocacy of tourism as sustainable ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Nature Unbound

    Conservation, Capitalism and the Future of Protected Areas

    by Dan Brockington, Rosaleen Duffy, Jim Igoe ...
    This groundbreaking volume is the first comprehensive, critical examination of the rise of protected areas and their current social and economic position in our world. It examines the social impacts of protected areas, the conflicts that surround them, the alternatives to them and the conceptual categories they impose.The book explores key debates on devolution, participation and democracy; the ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Women and Work in Indonesia

    Edited by Michele Ford, Lyn Parker ...
    Series series ASAA Women in Asia Series
    This book examines the meaning of work for women in contemporary Indonesia. It takes a broad definition of work in order to interrogate assumptions about work and economic activity, focusing on what women themselves see as their work, which includes not only paid employment, home life and child care, but also activities surrounding ritual, healing and religious life. It analyses the key issues, ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Community, Environment and Local Governance in Indonesia

    Locating the commonweal

    Edited by Carol Warren, John F. McCarthy ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series
    This book explores the forces reconfiguring local resource governance in Indonesia since 1998, drawing together original field research undertaken in a decade of dramatic political change. Case studies from across Indonesia’s diverse cultural and ecological landscapes focus on the most significant resource sectors – agriculture, fisheries, forestry, mining and tourism –providing a rare in-depth ... Read more

    $42.99 USD