Jenny Chan

Mark Selden

Ngai Pun

Suicides, excessive overtime, and hostility and violence on the factory floor in China. Drawing on vivid testimonies from rural migrant workers, student interns, managers and trade union staff, Dying for an iPhone is a devastating expose of two of the world’s most powerful companies: Foxconn and Apple. As the leading manufacturer of iPhones, iPads, and Kindles, and employing one million workers in China alone, Taiwanese-invested Foxconn’s drive to dominate global electronics manufacturing has aligned perfectly with China’s goal of becoming the world leader in technology. This book reveals the human cost of that ambition and what our demands for the newest and best technology means for workers. Foxconn workers have repeatedly demonstrated their power to strike at key nodes of transnational production, challenge management and the Chinese state, and confront global tech behemoths. Dying for an iPhone allows us to assess the impact of global capitalism’s deepening crisis on workers.’

Apple, Foxconn, and The Lives of China's Workers

Dying for an iPhone

Olivia worked in an industry where women rarely got the acknowledgement they deserved. While most failed, she thrived. She is a manager of the hippest bar and club in Hong Kong. And after meeting a man, who would soon show his true colors, he led Olivia on a whirlwind ride in the bustling city of Los Angeles. Where she meets the rich and very savvy Andy Sutton. There is obvious tension and attraction that they both tried to fight off. In the end, will distance be the factor to break them apart or set up their future?

Tomorrow's Promise

Lutz-Christian Wolff

This book discusses comprehensively the use of Flipped Classrooms in the context of legal education. The Flipped Classroom model implies that lecture modules are delivered online to provide more time for in-class interactivity. This book analyses the pedagogical viability, costs and other resource-related implications, technical aspects as well as the production and online distribution of Flipped Classrooms. It compares the Flipped Classroom concept with traditional law teaching methods and details its advantages and limitations. The findings are tested by way of a case study which serves as the basis for the development of comprehensive guidelines for the concept’s practical implementation. As Flipped Classrooms have become a very hot topic across disciplines in recent years, this book offers a unique resource for law teachers, law school managers as well as researchers in the field of legal education. It is a must-have for anyone interested in innovative law teaching methodologies.

Flipped Classrooms for Legal Education

Arya was born into three generations of a military serving family. Naturally, she was expected to follow the legacy. Losing her brother at age 6 was a blow to the heart and her mother was forced out of the family due to this accident. She held plenty of resentment against her father. He took pride in his role as the General of the A.B.D. Org, a highly skilled special ops team formed to assist in all matters foreign or domestic. Matters that could not be resolved in a diplomatic manner. During a recruiting mission, Arya met Leo, who would change her views about life and love. She befriended a male named Gabriel, who was mysteriously skilled and would later prove to be her biggest advocate. And then there's Jax, a man who gave up logic and empathy for the advancement of the team. But with Arya's help, he soon finds the path back to the light.

Alpha Team-2

Based on a true story, Undrowning Lotus centers on Chunhua who grew up during the opium crisis in Shanxi, located in Northern China. After being sold as a child bride, her feet were bounded by her in-laws, a popular practice in China at the time. She worked on the farm day and night while trying to find meaning in her life. As communism rose in China, she became a revolutionary. This allowed her to contribute to her country at a time of civil war in China. During the invasion of China by the Imperial Japanese Army, she was captured and put into sexual slavery known as comfort women station. According to Iris Chang, the author of the Rape of Nanking, these women were called "public toilets" by Japanese soldiers. This is a story of survival through the comfort woman station in Northern China, where our heroine escaped and was recaptured a couple of times before the war ended. This book features interviews from 2014 with Chinese comfort women from Shanxi before they passed away as well as rare photos of a comfort station from Northern China.

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