This book provides a comprehensive overview of human trafficking in Cambodia and the mechanisms of poverty in Southeast Asia. By examining personal narratives, the author traces trafficked women's efforts to liberate themselves from the poverty trap with the aid of external supporting organizations.
Memoirs of a QA (Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps)
In this heartfelt memoir, spanning the 1950s and '60s, Major Margaret Thomas ARRC rises through the ranks of the Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps (the QAs), the nursing branch of the British Army, healing injured soldiers far from home as well as educating and recruiting sisters back in Britain.
• This revised edition in a new size and contemporary layout features some of the most beautiful homes and commercial spaces in Indochina
• The book is a visual spectacle with over 300 specially commissioned colours photographs
• Comprehensive text is written in a personal and warm manner
• Includes architectural drawings
This Southeast Asia guidebook is ideal for travellers seeking inspirational guides and planning a more extended trip. It provides interesting facts about Southeast Asia's people, history and culture and detailed coverage of the best places to see. This Southeast Asia travel book has the style of an illustrated magazine to inspire you and give a ......
What is the impact of powerful female deities - their images, textuality and history - on the social standing and psychological health of women? Do they empower women, or serve the interests of the patriarchal culture? This work studies the goddesses of South Asia to address these questions.
What is the impact of powerful female deities - their images, textuality and history - on the social standing and psychological health of women? Do they empower women, or serve the interests of the patriarchal culture? This work studies the goddesses of South Asia to address these questions.
This study examines the Indonesian martial arts pencak silat as media practices. The author delineates embodied and disembodied media practices to analyze the dynamics of mediatization in pencak silat and Indonesian society at large.
Attentive to intersecting issues of colonialism, political marginalization, and ethnic diversity, this book examines the crucial role that local actors play in working towards sustainable peace in Mindanao, Philippines.
Southeast Asia, as covered in this guide, includes Myanmar, Malaysia, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, Sumatra, Borneo, Cambodia, & the Philippines. Filled with an impressive array of bird species, this region will be a delight to bird watchers and nature enthusiasts. Southeast Birds is the perfect pocket-sized, reference guide to bring along as you ......