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  • A Crime So Monstrous

    Face-to-Face with Modern-Day Slavery

    To be a moral witness is perhaps the highest calling of journalism, and in this unforgettable, highly readable account of contemporary slavery, author Benjamin Skinner travels around the globe to personally tell stories that need to be told -- and heard.As Samantha Power and Philip Gourevitch did for genocide, Skinner has now done for modern-day slavery. With years of reporting in such places as ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • A Crime So Monstrous

    A Shocking Exposé of Modern-Day Sex Slavery, Human Trafficking and Urban Child Markets

    Two hundred years after Parliament passed the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act, over 27 million people worldwide languish in slavery, forced to work, under threat of violence, for no pay. In Africa, hundreds of thousands are considered chattel, while on the Indian subcontinent millions languish in generational debt bondage. Across the globe, women and children, sold for sex and labour, are already ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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  • McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld

    A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld

    by Misha Glenny ...
    Drugs, weapons, migrant labour, women - these are just a few of the many goods that effortlessly cross national borders in this globalized age, often without the knowledge or permission of the nations concerned. How is this remarkable criminal feat managed? From gun runners in the Ukraine, to money launderers in Dubai, cyber criminals in Brazil, racketeers in Japan, and the booming marijuana ... Read more

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  • Moneyland

    The Inside Story of the Crooks and Kleptocrats Who Rule the World

    Inc.com 5 Business Thrillers to Read on the Beach This Summer * Amazon Best Book of the Month - Nonfiction * An Economist Book of the Year * The Sunday Times Business Book of the Year"If you want to know why international crooks and their eminently respectable financial advisors walk tall and only the little people pay taxes, this is the ideal book for you. Every politician and moneyman on the ... Read more

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  • The Natashas

    The Horrific Inside Story of Slavery, Rape, and Murder in the Global Sex Trade

    On the black market, they’re the third most profitable commodity, after illegal weapons and drugs. The only difference is that these goods are human, to their handlers they are wholly expendable. They are women and girls, some as young as twelve, from all over the Eastern Bloc, where sinister networks of organized crime have become entrenched in the aftermath of the collapse of the Communist ... Read more

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  • Modern Day Slaves

    Modern Day Slaves is all about slaves around the world that exist today, often hidden from view, living a life of hell. This book will open your eyes to child slaves, prostitution, child soldiers, human trafficking, sweatshops and more. It makes interesting reading and will open your mind to a world that isn't as perfect as you thought it was. We live in the 21st Century, but after this book you ... Read more

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  • The Natashas

    The New Global Sex Trade

    The buying and selling of human beings for the worldwide sex industry is organized crime’s fastest-growing business with up to two million people globally—mostly women and children—being trafficked into the sex trade every year.In The Natashas, leading investigate journalist Victor Malarek details the tragic lives of the women and girls ensnared in the most recent wave of this brutal trade. He ... Read more

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  • Absurdistan

    by Eric Campbell ...
    The highs and lows of being a reporter in some of the strangest, most dysfunctional places on Earth.Award-winning foreign correspondent Eric Campbell has been stoned by fundamentalists, captured by US Special Forces, arrested in Serbia and threatened with expulsion from China. He's negotiated dating rituals in Moscow, shared a house with a charismatic mercenary in Kabul and taken up smoking at ... Read more

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  • Diplomat, Dissident, Spook

    by Bill Warden ...
    In this timely memoir, the late cold warrior-diplomat Bill Warden chronicles his years in the realm of western diplomacy during a period when the world stood at, and pulled back from, the brink of nuclear annihilation. Diplomat, Dissident, Spook relays firsthand the experiences of this former Canadian diplomat who, like Voltaire’s Candide, gets successively disabused of his ideological certainties ... Read more

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  • No Escape

    The True Story of China's Genocide of the Uyghurs

    by Nury Turkel ...
    ***Winner of the Moore Prize on Human Rights Literature!*A powerful memoir by Nury Turkel that lays bare China’s repression of the Uyghur people. Turkel is cofounder and board chair of the Uyghur Human Rights Project and a commissioner for the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom.**In recent years, the People’s Republic of China has rounded up as many as three million ... Read more

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  • May You Live in Interesting Times

    by Conor O'Clery ...
    Conor O’Clery has been a witness to some of the major world events of the last thirty years, including the Troubles in Northern Ireland; the ending of the Cold War as viewed from Moscow; the reluctant opening up of China to the West; the Clinton years in the White House; and the 9/11 attacks. As foreign correspondent for The Irish Times, he was the first western journalist to open an office in ... Read more

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  • Minefields

    A life in the news game - the bestselling memoir of Australia's legendary foreign correspondent

    by Hugh Riminton ...
    Minefields is a compelling exploration of a foreign correspondent's life - proof of Hugh's belief that 'if you go looking for trouble, you'll probably find it'.Over nearly forty years as a journalist and foreign correspondent, Hugh Riminton has been shot at, blown up, threatened with deportation and thrown in jail. He has reported from nearly fifty countries, witnessed massacres in Africa, wars ... Read more

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