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  • The Chinese Heroin Trade

    Cross-Border Drug Trafficking in Southeast Asia and Beyond

    by Ko-lin Chin, Sheldon X. Zhang ...
    In a country long associated with the trade in opiates, the Chinese government has for decades applied extreme measures to curtail the spread of illicit drugs, only to find that the problem has worsened. Burma is blamed as the major producer of illicit drugs and conduit for the entry of drugs into China. Which organizations are behind the heroin trade? What problems and prospects of drug control ... Read more

    $42.29 USD

  • Immersed Methods for Coupled Continua

    by Sheldon Wang, Lucy T Zhang ...
    Series Book 6 - Frontier Research in Computation and Mechanics of Materials and Biology
    This compendium provides a broad introduction of original immersed boundary methods and current extension in computational mechanics communities. It highlights a comprehensive review of immersed methods in the context of computational fluid and solid mechanics.More importantly, a complete set of working Fortran 90 codes named as IFEM–ICM for two-dimensional immersed continuum method with mixed ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

  • Clarkesworld Magazine Issue 147

    by Neil Clarke, D.A. Xiaolin Spires, Alan Bao, Eleanna Castroianni, Zhang Ran, Sheldon J. Pacotti, Kelly Robson ...
    Clarkesworld is a Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning science fiction and fantasy magazine. Each month we bring you a mix of fiction (new and classic works), articles, interviews and art.Our December 2018 issue (#147) contains:Original fiction by D.A. Xiaolin Spires ("Marshmallows"), Alan Bao ("Bringing Down the Sky"), Eleanna Castroianni ("When We Find Our Voices"), Sheldon J. Pacotti ("The ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Urban Generation

    Chinese Cinema and Society at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century

    by Jason McGrath, Chris Berry, Sheldon H. Lu ...
    Since the early 1990s, while mainland China’s state-owned movie studios have struggled with financial and ideological constraints, an exciting alternative cinema has developed. Dubbed the “Urban Generation,” this new cinema is driven by young filmmakers who emerged in the shadow of the events at Tiananmen Square in 1989. What unites diverse directors under the “Urban Generation” rubric is their ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Protest and Resistance in the Chinese Party State

    Edited by Hank Johnston, Sheldon Zhang ...
    Although contemporary China is a repressive state, protests and demonstrations have increased almost tenfold between 2005 and 2015. This is an astounding statistic when one considers that Marxist-Leninist regimes of the past tolerated little or no public dissent. How can protests become so common in an autocratic state? What are the trends of repression and mobilization? This collection helps to ... Read more

    $34.79 USD

  • Bridging the Gaps in Our Efforts to Combat Human Trafficking

    Edited by John Winterdyk, Sheldon Zhang ...
    This book brings together a rich international and cross-sectional collection of articles that examine the current knowledge on gaps in the research realm or intervention development as they relate to our effort to combat human trafficking/modern-day slavery. The anthology includes chapters from established scholars, practitioners, and persons with lived experience.Modern-day slavery or human ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Beyond Drugs, Smuggling and Trafficking

    Violence, Victimization and Community Action in Mexico’s Criminal Landscape

    Edited by Gabriella Sanchez, Sheldon X. Zhang ...
    Graphic depictions of crime in Mexico abound in the global imagination, fueled not merely by media representations, but also by an abundant body of scholarship that reproduces grotesque, simplistic characterizations of Mexico’s people, cities and towns as crime-ridden and almost inherently violent. These representations, however, often lack evidence and forgo important contextual analyses, not to ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Routledge Handbook of International Criminology

    Edited by Cindy J. Smith, Sheldon X. Zhang, Rosemary Barberet ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    The Routledge Handbook of International Criminology brings together the latest thinking and findings from a diverse group of both senior and promising young scholars from around the globe. This collaborative project articulates a new way of thinking about criminology that extends existing perspectives in understanding crime and social control across borders, jurisdictions, and cultures, and ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

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    A Queer Film Classic

    by Helen Hok-Sze Leung ...
    Series series Queer Film Classics
    Helen Hok-Sze Leung: Helen Hok-Sze Leung is an Associate Professor in Gender, Sexuality & Women's Studies at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, BC, Canada. She has published widely on queer cinema and is the author of Undercurrents: Queer Culture and Postcolonial Hong Kong (UBC Press, 2008). ... Read more

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  • Locked In

    The True Causes of Mass Incarceration-and How to Achieve Real Reform

    by John Pfaff ...
    **A groundbreaking reassessment of the American prison system, challenging the widely accepted explanations for our exploding incarceration rates“A must-read for anyone who dreams of an America that is not the world’s most imprisoned nation.” —Chris Hayes, host of MSNBC’s All In**In Locked In, John Pfaff argues that the factors most commonly cited to explain mass incarceration -- the failed War on ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • Economies of Desire

    Sex and Tourism in Cuba and the Dominican Republic

    by Amalia L. Cabezas ...
    Is a native-born tour guide who has sex with tourists—in exchange for dinner or gifts or cash—merely a prostitute or gigolo? What if the tourist continues to send gifts or money to the tour guide after returning home? As this original and provocative book demonstrates, when it comes to sex—and the effects of capitalism and globalization—nothing is as simple as it might seem.Based on ten years of ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The South Korean Film Renaissance

    Local Hitmakers, Global Provocateurs

    by Jinhee Choi ...
    Series series Wesleyan Film
    For the past decade, the Korean film industry has enjoyed a renaissance. With innovative storytelling and visceral effects, Korean films not only have been commercially viable in the domestic and regional markets but also have appealed to cinephiles everywhere on the international festival circuit. This book provides both an industrial and an aesthetic account of how the Korean film industry ... Read more

    $15.89 USD