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In Chinese AND English. Explores what foreigners think of Taiwan, how long they stay, what do they do, and other oddities of West meeting East. Great cartoons. 450pages of insights and humour.

This new book is the first to explore Filipina Cam Models (ie. cyber-sex), in a burgeoning and exploitative industry.
It explores the ACM industry in the Philippines. It pioneers research in economics, labour relations, sexuality, globalization, and digital technology. It specifically identifies the economic piecework relations of a new global industry; the commoditization of sexuality & (emotional) labour by cyber-technology.
Here I document the labour relations of ACMs & the impact of digital technology & globalization. While ACM-ing provides new employment opportunities for young, unskilled Filipinas, economic, cultural & digital factors have also enabled exploitation through piecework, & thus further entrenched the economic & "digital divide".
This initial study raises more questions than it answers. Nevertheless, it directs us to a contemporary form of economic exploitation of vulnerable populations using an old form of labour relations prevalent in the 18thC. The new ACM "cottage industry" of… Leer más

Gone to join the Army! Joe's mother read the note he left on their Yorkshire mantel in 1936. But at 21 Joe could not foresee the horrors he would encounter 6 years later in Singapore as a POW. At his peril, Joe kept a diary of the hell hole of Changi & the Burma Railway. This book replicates Joe's diary of one-line entries, recorded in his copperplate handwriting, telling of his experiences.

The lives of Cielo, a sex-worker, and Angie, a bureaucrat, briefly but antagonistically intersect in Manila. Several years later Angie seeks the help of Cielo, but neither are aware now of who the other is. They both come to realize that each has barely a foothold in life and that they both want the same things: family, love, respect, dignity. In their respective struggles to attain these, each girl recognizes the other as fundamentally mabait (good at heart). Just as we may judge a book by its cover, so too may we judge people we meet, in whatever circumstance. Mabait tells the story of how Cielo, a Pinay sex-worker, is maligned largely because of her "appearance"—what she does to survive. But the narration also tells of a righteous middle-class girl, Anghel, who, once having denigrated sex-workers, not only herself becomes one, but in a twist has to call on the help of those whom she had once despised. She discovers that being mabait as more central, perhaps because it is that both girls have only… Leer más

A sequel to Asian cam Models. A social and anthropological insight into the lives of cybersex models and how they and others perceive their work. Based on several interviews/case studies of ACMs, and addresses issues raised in an earlier book. Also outlines the structure of the sex industry in the Philippines and where ACM-ing may fit within that. 130pp approx

This long book (450pp) is about bullying. James' basic thesis is that his early life is representative of many young people growing up; it is a period of growth in which they encounter many trials, tribulations and small triumphs, in a society that is unable or unwilling to acknowledge these tribulations, and especially the sexuality of young people and the bullying they experience, and its effects. James was different, and he dared to be different. As a result, he was teased, bullied, marginalized, labelled strange, and experienced a lot of anguish. Thus, his life was often about finding someone like him, to avoid loneliness and friendlessness, to be understood.
James wrote this narrative diary to tell his story, without clear intent. And when one looks at it, it does seem to be all about him. But when you begin to look at what he experienced, suffered, it is in fact more about the society in which he lived; and although it is set in the 1950s to '70s, many of the conditions, thinking, social… Leer más

Shahua is a very magical cat, who can cross time and space, bringing luck and good fortune to those hoomins who deserve it. In Taiwan Mark and Kitty save Shahua from certain death. She/he magically brings good fortune to Kitty and her family of cats. Twenty years later Mark meets Ping, "the cat lady" in Australia. He helps her feed the cats, and coming to know her they fall in love. But Ping thinks she is ugly because of her deformity. Mark helps with Ping's life and together they discover a prophecy from Shahua. Following instructions, they discover Ping's father has left her a large inheritance. Now she is able to fulfill her dream of having a safe-house for abandoned cats, to fix her hands, and marry her 'prince'. But in this journey Mark and Ping also meet with a 'fairy'. Is she also an incarnation of Shahua? While the narrative tells of Mark meeting Ping and their good fortunes, it also draws parallels with a story that Mark reads to Ping about his experience with Shahua in Taiwan. It is the same… Leer más

Ben Coady is the epitome of what Oldies call a hippy. He is five foot six inches tall, has green eyes and 18 inch long brown hair. He wears a ragged beard and moustache liberally sprinkled with colonies of lice and nits. He loves surfing the big tubes when he is not downing a cold one or blowing a joint with his equally unkempt mates. He has a knack for getting into all sorts of strife and usually comes out of it by the skin of his smoke-stained teeth.A sequel to The Can: Benny and the Gems also at Smashwords.

Mark, a retired, divorced professor, looking for a young female travel companion, falls in love with one of his research subjects, Annalyn, and sets out to educate her and help her poor family in the rural Philippines. But her education changes her to reject Mark's love and exploit him. Despite helping other similar girls, he is left with no girlfriend. Finally, he embarks on helping yet another girl. Through these engagements he realizes that these girls cannot see themselves as perhaps others do, nor the possibility of a better life; and the only way they can move forward to that is with outside help, of sorts. But in order to benefit from such patronage they need to see themselves as something other… As Mark travels the country with different girls their adventures depict and remark on various aspects of Philippine culture, society and life. Mark's search for love shows that desire is sad, sometimes cruel, and girls beguiling.
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Fifteen heartfelt poems and several essays/reflections on profound philosophical life and controversial issues: Images of Public Servitude, Land Rights for Gay Whales, and Lost in (Third) Space [How I Lost My Ethnic Identity].

This annotated bibliography, read as a chronology, traces a change in beliefs and attitudes, where the body, health, nature and society have come to mean different things and imply different consequences for both the individual and society. The compilation lists, in alphabetical order, and annotates dissertations, books, chapters and miscellaneous reports etc on complementary therapeutics.

A Tale of Two Families dramatizes the lives of the Protestant Valdez and Catholic Garcia families in the rural Philippines. It centres around Juan Garcia who has a lackadaisical attitude toward life and responsibilities, compared to the Valdezes who plan, are thrifty and diligent, without being reclusive. In fact, they try to help various neighbours: Merly, a single mom who is homeless and the child's father is unknown; and Amy, who owes money to a loan-shark, said to be the sister of the barrio captain, who is a spluttering Presidential facsimile, and with whom Amy also has to deal. The Valdezes also help Cielo and Jody, two bisexual girls, set up a restaurant, and Pearl with her pregnancy. Cielo and Jody seduce Jerry, Juan's 19 year old son, showing his gender and class-based unpreparedness following in his father's footsteps, while he attempts to seduce Heidi (a Valdez niece), and Pearl, his cousin's best friend. But there's another dark secret for the Valdez and Garcia clans that shows sympathy,… Leer más

Awesome new book, about women, sex, student-teacher relationships, education….

600 pages about student-teacher sexual relationships and the woeful conditions of and corruption in the education system, feminist moralizing, and she certainly hates fat ppl. Good style, funni and scathing.
If you have read Garner's The First Stone, then u will need to read this....just to find out what the trinity and the terror is.
NOT a horror book, but consequences and actions are horrible. Full of twists and turns....

170 riddles fully illustrated. Suitable for ages 5 to 10

In 1970 London, Constance Foster takes care of identical twin girls, Melody and Melanie Markle, forsaken at birth by their mother. Given a new lease of life from the pitiful orphanage they had known for 12 years, the twins travel to Venice with Connie and her friend, 'aunt' Amanda. There they stumble upon a cold case of alleged murder, for which Eddy Downton is about to be hung. Can they save him from the gallows at the eleventh hour, and expose a nefarious kidnapping scheme at the same time? Will the twins be reunited with their long-absent mother? A charming, traditional and intricate British mystery. No damsels swooning at the feet of narcissistic macho-men, but ample drama and romance, antics and laughter, a touch of cuteness, and twists and turns at every step from London to Venice. Follow the footsteps of this feel-good drama to uncover mysteries, where nothing is quite as it seems.

A focus on systemic problems & issues of EFL teaching/learning in Taiwan. Despite goal posts constantly shifting, nothing changes: rote learning, exams, hierarchic structures, culturally-based vis-a-vis earned respect, cheating/plagiarism, credentialism, profiteering, linguistic incompetence,& political infighting persist. Despite 9yrs of EFL many college graduates are not competent in English.The various chapters of this book focus on systemic problems and issues that lay much—but not all—of the ills of EFL teaching/learning and education generally in Taiwan squarely at the door of MoE and the various teaching institutions. Beginning with a brief overview of pre-school education and EFL, Part 1 focuses on direct observations of and reports on numerous actual teaching episodes in schools, from pre-school to University education levels. Five papers form a series of studies employing the same methodology, as described in the papers. We aimed to examine the connection, or lack thereof, between MoE… Leer más

This book explores the discourses of bio-medicine (ie. Family Planning), nationalism and citizenship specifically in the Philippines. Little has been researched into how the biomedical discourse has helped constitute the nature of citizenship of the Filipino for the purpose of building a nation-State; that is, who is a "medically" proper and fit person to be a citizen of and to reproduce the nation-State. Prior analyses of FPPs have often focused on their failure in terms of either blind peasant resistance or, at best, fertility as culturally inspired and functional. Little attention has been given to basic antagonistic class relations at the national and transnational levels and how these may be linked with Family Planning (FP), bio-medicine generally, bio-citizenship and nationalism. I argue that the Philippines State attempts to intrude into the lives of Filipinos and construct them as national subjects at various levels of competence on the basis of their "medical" status. Their level of such… Leer más

The first paper describes aspects of male prostitution of Ermita (Manila, Philippines) in the 1980s and '90s. I suggest various reasons for such prostitution, how the boys reconcile their activities with church and morality, and how they construct their sexual identity. The second paper is a critique of "Being A Prostitute" in Australia, that unconvincingly suggests all such prostitutes are gay.

An insight into taxi driving and crazy passengers. Things have changed, technically, since the 1980s, but the stories will keep you amazed and laughing, and the pictures of historical value.

Ben spent 8 years in jail for a diamond heist. Set in the 1970s when petrol was leaded and cell-fones weren’t even a dream, The Can was written while Ben was in jail. It tells the story of how he came to be there, following a series of crazy, hippy events that will keep you incredulous and laughing. A chance for you to know what it what it was like 40 years ago on the NSW Nimbin-vego north coast.

Ideal for teens, especially those who never read a thing, or for remedial reading....will keep their attention. Approx 100 pages.