This book address the yawning gap in both academic and general knowledge of male prostitution (in Sydney, Australia), with some comparison with UK & USA. Its central argument is that such prostitution is in part motivated by an aspiration to achieve, and that male prostitutes and their clients cannot be considered in purely psychological terms as sexually deviant or mentally aberrant. A Capitalist Success Ethic (CSE) accounts for juvenile delinquency and, in particular, the special form of...

This short book provides some 170 riddles, suitable for children 6-12 years of age. It contains some funny and at times tricky riddles, with illustrations on almost every page. Your kids will love trying these out on their friends and family, and bring more than a giggle to everyone.Net proceeds go to the Foundation for Single Pinay Moms in College

There is a dearth of information on cohabitation and the 13 million single parent families in the Philippines. Our understanding of the plight of abandoned families following dissolution of cohabitation is pre-embryonic. A sizeable proportion of the millions of single (mostly) mothers desperately struggle to survive. Limited policies address cohabitation or single parenthood. This book details in a narrative style two instances—in Manila and Tacloban—of single mothers besieged on a daily b...

A brutal but uplifting story of survival. Cielo, a Filipina sex-worker, works hard just to survive. But she would not even be a footnote in the mainstream telling of poverty in the Philippines. She would have been overlooked because she's a woman, a puta, and poor. Nonetheless, her life is a lens through which we can clearly view the horrors of neo-colonialism and the brutality of patronage that bankroll poverty, exploitation, and extra judicial killings.Even though Cielo is seeming...

A new virus was sweeping the globe. How far would it challenge or sweep aside the endless diseases of desire, of human yearnings—of love, lust, passion, greed, ambition, selfishness, and calamities of poverty, tempest and soullessness?Mark was soul sick. Once again he was alone, and hence vulnerable. His psyche was howling for a new role in life he could call his own, his soul was screaming to be loved and nurtured. It was at this point that he excavated his own life from the dismal...

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...

This work explores the ACM (cybersex) industry in the Philippines. It pioneers research in several interlinked areas: economics, labour relations, sexuality, globalization, digital technology, and Asia. It specifically identifies the economic piecework relations of a new global industry; the commoditization of sexuality & (emotional) labour by cyber-technology; and injects new ideas into debates about cultural & economic globalization. Here I document the labour relations of ACMs & the imp...

Here I narrate with insight and drama the lives of two families, one Protestant, the other Roman Catholic, in the rural Philippines. I narrates how the Garcia family, Catholics, headed by Juan, live out their lives. Up the street is Wenico and Lennie Valdez, Protestants. The story depicts, also, how they live their lives. Other characters impinge upon both the Garcia and Valdez households, bringing twists and turns, and highlighting certain characteristics of not only the two families but ...

Most books give some baiting information without giving away the plot details. Unfortunately, this book cannot. Why? Because you are part of a social experiment.Certainly you can cheat, by jumping ahead, or you can trust me, and yourself, and follow the linear structure I have provided: Read Part 1, as a novel, as it is indeed, which will then be explained in Part 2. See if you twigged to it….Part 1 simply narrates with some insight and drama the lives of two families, one Pr...

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 p...

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 b...

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 employ...