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  • Marutas of Unit 731

    Human Experimentation of the Forgotten Asian Auschwitz

    by Jenny Chan ...
    Euphemistically labeled as the "Water Supply and Prophylaxis Administration" and "HippoEpizootic Administration" of the Imperial Japanese Army, Unit 731 and Unit 100, as well as their subsidiary branches, performed human experimentation on the innocents under the leadership of Dr. Ishii Shiro. The Kempeitai, AKA, the military police captured any patriots for Unit 731's prison. The prisoners ... Read more

    $7.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dying for an iPhone

    Apple, Foxconn, and The Lives of China's Workers

    by Jenny Chan, Mark Selden, Ngai Pun ...
    Suicides, excessive overtime, and hostility and violence on the factory floor in China. Drawing on vivid testimonies from rural migrant workers, student interns, managers and trade union staff, Dying for an iPhone is a devastating expose of two of the world’s most powerful companies: Foxconn and Apple.As the leading manufacturer of iPhones, iPads, and Kindles, and employing one million workers in ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Global Labor Migration

    New Directions

    by Eileen Boris, Heidi Gottfried, Julie Greene, Joo-Cheong Tham, Bridget Anderson, Rutvica Andrijasevic, Katie Bales0, Jenny Chan1, Penelope Ciancanelli2, Felipe Barradas Correia Castro Bastos3, Charlie Fanning4, Judy Fudge5, Jorge L Giovannetti-Torres6, Justin Jackson7, Radhika Natarajan8, Pun Ngai9, Bastiaan Nugteren0, Nicola Piper1, Jessica R Pliley2, Devi Sacchetto3, Helen Sampson4, Yael Schacher5, Matt Withers6 ...
    Series series Studies of World Migrations
    Around the world, hundreds of millions of labor migrants endure exploitation, lack of basic rights, and institutionalized discrimination and marginalization. What dynamics and drivers have created a world in which such a huge--and rapidly growing--group toils as marginalized men and women, existing as a lower caste institutionally and juridically? In what ways did labor migrants shape their living ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Flipped Classrooms for Legal Education

    by Lutz-Christian Wolff, Jenny Chan ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book discusses comprehensively the use of Flipped Classrooms in the context of legal education. The Flipped Classroom model implies that lecture modules are delivered online to provide more time for in-class interactivity. This book analyses the pedagogical viability, costs and other resource-related implications, technical aspects as well as the production and online distribution of Flipped ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

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  • The Third Revolution

    Xi Jinping and the New Chinese State

    by Elizabeth C. Economy ...
    In The Third Revolution, eminent China scholar Elizabeth C. Economy provides an incisive look at the transformative changes underway in China today. Chinese leader Xi Jinping has unleashed a powerful set of political and economic reforms: the centralization of power under Xi, himself, the expansion of the Communist Party's role in Chinese political, social, and economic life, and the construction ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

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  • Lee Kuan Yew School Of Public Policy: Building A Global Policy School In Asia

    by Kishore Mahbubani, Stavros N Yiannouka, Astrid S Tuminez, Scott A Fritzen, Kenneth Paul Tan ...
    In an industry of higher education that measures the longevity of its leading institutions in decades and centuries, the establishment and rapid growth of the eight-year-old Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy (LKY School), National University of Singapore, is a remarkable story that deserves to be told. The five co-authors, all of whom were involved in guiding the School during its formative ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • International Migration: A Very Short Introduction

    by Khalid Koser ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Why has international migration become an issue of such intense public and political concern? How closely linked are migrants with terrorist organizations? What factors lie behind the dramatic increase in the number of women migrating? This Very Short Introduction looks at the phenomenon of international human migration -- both legal and illegal -- to reveal that migration actually presents ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Neoliberalism

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Manfred B. Steger, Ravi K. Roy ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Anchored in the principles of free-market economics, neoliberalism emerged in the 1990s as the world's most dominant economic paradigm. It has been associated with various political leaders from Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, and Bill Clinton, to Tony Blair, Barack Obama, and Manmohan Singh. Neoliberalism even penetrated deeply into ... Read more

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  • How We Compete

    What Companies Around the World Are Doing to Make it in Today's Global Economy

    by Suzanne Berger ...
    "Impressive... This is an evidence-based bottom-up account of the realities of globalisation. It is more varied, more subtle, and more substantial than many of the popular works available on the subject." -- Financial TimesBased on a five-year study by the MIT Industrial Performance Center, How We Compete goes into the trenches of over 500 international companies to discover which practices are ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Can We Trust China?

    by Pascal Coppens ...
    By 2030, China will be the largest economy in the world. How is it that the country is overtaking the West in lots of areas? Does China have the wealthy West to thank for this? Or is it the result of a decisive collective society? Do the Chinese play by the rules? And what do the Chinese themselves think of the Party and the system?In the search for answers to these questions, opinions quickly get ... Read more

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  • The World Trade Organization

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Amrita Narlikar ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The World Trade Organization (WTO) is scarcely ten years old, but even in these early years of its existence it has generated debate, controversy and even outrage. Rulings on beef hormones and tuna-dolphin cases provide graphic examples of how the organization regulates and intrudes into areas of individual consumer choice, ethical preferences, and cultural habits. This deep and far-ranging impact ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • The BRICS

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Andrew F. Cooper ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    In the wake of the post-Cold War era, the aftermath of 9/11, the 2008 global financial crisis, and the emergence of the G20 at the leaders level, few commentators expected a reshaping of the global system towards multipolarity, and away from the United States. And yet, the BRICS - encompassing Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa - has emerged as a challenge to the international status ... Read more

    $7.99 USD