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The Pimping of Prostitution
This book examines one of the most contested issues facing feminists, human rights activists and governments around the globe – the international sex trade. For decades, the liberal left has been conflicted as to whether pro-prostitution activists or abolitionists hold the correct view, and debates are ongoing as to who holds the key to the solutions facing the women and girls involved. Over the course of two years, Bindel conducted 250 interviews in almost 40 countries, cities and states, traveling around Europe, Asia, North America, Australia, New Zealand, and East and South Africa. Visiting legal brothels all around the world, Bindel got to know pimps, pornographers, survivors of the se...
Historical Representation and the Postcolonial Imaginary
Historical Representation and the Postcolonial Imaginary: Constructing Travellers and Aborigines endeavours to provide an overview of the role which oral history plays in the documentation, representation and subsequent empowerment of neglected and long-marginalised social groups, in this case: the cultural minorities that are the Irish Travellers and the Australian Aborigines. Oral history has proved paramount in enabling such groups to document their pasts, pasts which until recently had been occluded and often-ignored. This work explores the genre that is oral history through the prism that is the construction of the ‘Other’ in society and with particular reference to two minorities whose histories share a range of similar characteristics. In examining this process, it is possible to trace the transformation of folklore and storytelling into documented historical narrative.
The Devil's Own
A set of century-old diaries found in an attic draws an Irish couple into a tale of murder and madness, in this absorbing new suspense. After forty years in the Irish army, Brian is looking forward to retiring and spending time with his wife—though he worries about adjusting to civilian life. While clearing the attic before they move house, he makes a discovery: three journals dating back to the early twentieth century. One was written by Arthur, an ex-Connaught Ranger; another by Arthur’s wife, Edith, a colonel’s daughter; and the third by Henry, a British soldier and Arthur’s best friend. Brian and his wife are soon engrossed in reading the diaries and following the intertwined stories of these three people from the past. But it soon becomes chillingly clear that these diaries contain more than the daily adventures of ordinary lives. Because one of the three is a killer . . .
Fields of Fire
These are exceptional times for the game of hurling. The skill, speed and summer long edge of the seat drama of recent All Ireland championships has led many to conclude that something very special is happening in the ancient game. The Kilkenny team of the last decade has undoubtedly been the greatest in the history of hurling. Their extraordinary record speaks for itself. But has a chink finally begun to appear in Kilkenny’s armour? Or is it that the challengers have begun to catch up, at last recognising the immense effort required to compete at the highest level? Fields Of Fire tells the story of Kilkenny’s phenomenal success and explores how the Cats became an almost indomitable forc...
An Element of Chance
The fourth voyage into print for Harry and James Ludlow. Captain Toner illegally forces Harry's crew to work on his own frigate. Vowing revenge and determined to retrieve his crew, Harry pursues Toner to the West Indies where he is thrown into a maelstrom of piracy, lies, murder and corruption.
The River's Revenge
The River's Revenge Fanatical terrorists plot to kill thousands of innocent people, but as Thames Division's Body Identification Officer Lloyd Ferris soon realises, they aren't the only fanatics to be worried about. As he struggles against powerful hidden forces to identify two severely mutilated bodies fished out of the River Thames, Ferris and his new assistant find themselves stumbling into a world where not all is as it seems. Somebody somewhere wants to stop this investigation, but who and why? What are they afraid of? The River's Revenge is a real page turner, meticulously researched and based on fact, painting an unnervingly realistic picture of a terrifying scenario that is waiting to happen. As you will discover, Thames Division is no back water- what happens above and below the surface will give you sleepless nights. "A cracking good read!" Marine PC Bob Jeffries (ret) curator of the Thames Police Museum
Black Money and Economic Crimes
In the modern economic system, Black Money refers to funds earned in the black market, on which income and other taxes have not been paid. The total amount of black money deposited in foreign banks by Indians is unknown, but one estimate by an expert reveals that the black money held by Indians, in foreign banks is more than all the black money, hoarded by people in the rest of the world, combined together. While official numbers are not available, Swiss banking personnel have also said that the largest depositors of illegal foreign money in Switzerland are Indians. Black Money is an economic term, hard to define, accurately. Black Money is also sometimes used for payments to evade tax. Howe...
Numerical Methods in Coupled Systems
The only book devoted entirely to coupled systems. It presents a unified and systematic approach to the subject, covering fluid-structure interaction, coupled numerical techniques, structure-structure interaction, geotechnical and electro-magnetic couplings, and much more. This topic will become increasingly important and this volume is significant as a guide to recent developments in the analysis of coupled systems.
Gypsy Empire
Irish Travellers have never enjoyed a higher profile, at home and abroad, for good reasons and bad. On the one hand are the positive stories like the success of boxers such as John Joe Nevin and Tyson Fury, the popularity of Big Fat Gypsy Wedding and Paddy Doherty’s victory on Celebrity Big Brother. On the other are controversial news stories such as the Dale Farm stand-off and the recent convictions for slavery. Gypsy Empire delves into the heart of Traveller life, focusing on three aspects that have coloured perceptions of Travellers among the wider community: family feuds, bare-knuckle fights and trading. Many Irish Travellers are driven by the need to prove their status among their own...
Black Operations
Revealing for the first time on-the-record interviews with members of the Real IRA - members who have never before spoken of their involvement - this fascinating, undercover insight into Ireland's deadly secret army chronicles everything from the events that led up to the Omagh bombing to the arrest and trial of Michael McKevitt. This enlightening expose also features numerous personal, never-before-published photographs, to offer a unique, complete and fully authorised insight into one of the most covert political organisations in the world.
