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  • Travellers in Taiwan: Reflections of Formosa

    by Shi-Hui Lee, Paul Mathews ...
    What do "foreigners" think of Taiwan ? How long do they stay ? What do they do ? Are Taiwanese really friendly & smart ? Should Taiwan be part of China ?These questions and curiosities are answered in this study, the first of its kind in Taiwan.The government will hate it, you will love it !Find out what these strange "white monkeys" get up to in this Formosa…..I like Taiwan; I am really ... Read more

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  • My Riddle Book

    by Jhenna Umali, Paul Mathews ...
    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 ... Read more

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  • Failed Families, Unfailing Mothers The Dissolution of Cohabitation

    by Paul Mathews ...
    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 ... Read more

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  • Bankrolling Poverty

    by Paul Mathews ...
    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 ... Read more

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  • A Virus of Everything

    by Paul Mathews ...
    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 ... Read more

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  • The Things We Do for Money…! Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Taxis but the Driver Wouldn’t Tell You . .

    by Paul Mathews ...
    The first of its kind about the inside of the Taxi Industry, this book has something for everyone: for cabbies a common theme with which they can identify; a word or two about the various authorities, companies and cab owners; and for the paying public heaps of interesting information, where over forty pages of their questions are specifically answered: Can I smoke in a cab? How much does a cabbie ... Read more

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  • Asian Cam Models: Digital Virtual Virgin Prostitutes?

    by Paul Mathews ...
    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 ... Read more

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  • A Tale of Two Families

    by Paul Mathews ...
    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, ... Read more

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  • Directory of Filipinists in Australia and Bibliography

    by Paul Mathews, Annabelle Fisher ...
    This publication lists in Part 1 the names, qualifications and interests of Filipinists in Australia and a few former residents who have made significant contributions to Philippine studies in Australia and/or continue to take an active interest in such studies.Part 2 lists Dissertations on the Philippines undertaken at Australian Universities, with a small section of theses undertaken at ... Read more

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  • The Magical Shahua and Fifty Shades of Fur

    by Paul Mathews ...
    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 ... Read more

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  • Princes of Beauty. Boy Prostitution in Sydney

    by Paul Mathews ...
    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 ... Read more

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  • The Habitus of Fertility: A Tale of Two Families

    by Paul Mathews ...
    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 ... Read more

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