A heartfelt MM hockey romance about unexpected connection, quiet strength, and the courage to love out loud.Charlie never planned to work in a café.And he definitely never planned on falling in love.When Charlie, the notoriously private captain of the Denver Devils, agrees to help out at a small-town coffee shop—thanks to his persistent grandmother Rosie—he expects a few awkward shifts and little more.He doesn't expect Sam.Soft-spoken...

This book is part of a two volume set that examines prostitution and sex trafficking on a global scale, with each chapter devoted to a particular country in one of seven "geo-cultural" areas of the world. The 18 chapters in this volume (Volume I) are devoted to examination of the commercial sex industry (CSI) in countries within Africa, Asia, Middle East, and Oceania, while the 16 chapters that comprise Volume II focus exclusively on Europe, Latin America, and North America. Volume II also...

In the years before England is broken and remade at the Battle of Hastings, three women move through a world on the brink of conquest.Matilda of Flanders - Duchess of Normandy and Queen of England.Judith, sister to Matilda and wife to the volatile Tostig Godwinson.Godgifu, bastard granddaughter to Queen Emma of Normandy, and one of the last descendants of England’s ancient Anglo-Saxon royal line.Bound by kinship, friendship, and the ambitions of the men arou...

A slow-burn MM hockey romance about healing, identity, and the quiet power of love.Jusuf and Nico never expected to grow close—least of all off the ice.Jusuf, a gifted hockey player with a late start and a painful past in foster care, has spent most of his life keeping people at arm's length. Quiet, private, and emotionally guarded, he focuses on the game and nothing else.Nico, his new teammate on the Denver Devils, is in the middle of his own transformation—learnin...

This book is part of a two-volume set that examines prostitution and sex trafficking on a global scale, with each chapter devoted to a particular country in one of seven geo-cultural areas of the world. The 16 chapters in this volume (Volume II) are devoted to examination of the commercial sex industry (CSI) in countries within Africa, Asia, Middle East, and Oceania, while the 18 chapters comprising Volume I focus exclusively on Europe, Latin America, and North America. This volum...

An illuminating follow-up to the powerful landmark book Female Sexual Slavery that assesses the landscape of abuse prostitution.In 1979, Kathleen Barry's Female Sexual Slavery pulled back the curtain on a world of abuse prostitution that shocked the world. Documenting in devastating detail the lives of street prostitutes and the international traffic in women, Barry's work was called "powerful and compassionate"...

Women, Crime and Criminal Justice is the winner of the Division of International Criminology’s Distinguished Book Award 2014 and the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences International Section's 2015 Outstanding Book Award and the first fully internationalised book to focus on women as offenders, victims and justice professionals. It provides background, as well as specialized information that allows readers to comprehend the global forces that shape women and crime; analy...

When you are 15 years old and destitute, too unskilled to work and too young to claim unemployment benefit, your body is all you have left to sell.'THE BEST WORK BY ANYONE ON PROSTUTION EVER.' Catherine A. MacKinnonRachel Moran came from a troubled family background. Taken into state care at 14, she became homeless and got involved in prostitution aged 15, ending up isolated, drug-addicted, outside of society.Rachel's experience was one of violence, loneliness, and relentless exploitation ...

Sex and World Peace unsettles a variety of assumptions in political and security discourse, demonstrating that the security of women is a vital factor in the security of the state and its incidence of conflict and war.The authors compare micro-level gender violence and macro-level state peacefulness in global settings, supporting their findings with detailed analyses and color maps. Harnessing an immense amount of data, they call attention to discrepancies between national...

If you listen to some politicians and voices in the media, you might well believe that asylum seekers are ‘illegal’. You might think that they should wait their turn in the so-called ‘queue’. You might think that they pose a potential threat to our national security, and that the government is right to keep them from our shores. Or you might take a humanitarian stance, believing that drastic border protection policies, though harsh in effect, are necessary to deter asylum seekers from enda...

In her latest book, sociologist Diane Crocker challenges the popular perception that crime in Canada is on the rise and argues that public opinion is becoming a bigger barrier to achieving justice than the actual extent of crime. Using the most current data available, her research reveals how we can better assess the effectiveness of crime control policies, as well as our own responses to crime, while promoting democratic values such as equity and accountability.

Today it is usually not long before a problem gets expressed as a human rights issue. Indeed, human rights law continues to gain increasing attention internationally, and must move quickly in order to keep up with a social world that changes so rapidly. This Very Short Introduction, in its second edition, brings the issue of human rights up to date, considering the current controversies surrounding the movement. Discussing torture and arbitrary detention in the context of counter ...