This book explores how low-wage labour migration policies in seven Asian economies affect millions of migrant workers. It identifies two contrasting regulatory approaches that bookend a governance spectrum, offering an original theoretical framework for understanding which policies heighten workers’ vulnerability to exploitation and which improve their chances of success.The book argues that the regulatory choice to either invest in and manage, or privatise and outsource, key labou...

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is Joyce's first novel, published after the previous success of his short story collection Dubliners. The novel is written in a modernist style, with dialog and narration blending together in a kind of stream-of-consciousness meant to invoke the blurriness of memory.Joyce originally planned writing a realist autobiographical novel of 63 chapters titled Stephen Hero. He abandoned the attempt halfway through, and refo...

Though James Joyce earned his literary fame mostly through his short stories and novels, he also published several short books of poetry. In fact Chamber Music, a collection of thirty-six short love poems, was his first major independent publication.The title of Chamber Music is said to have come from the sound of urine tinkling into a chamber pot-though this was actually a story made up by Joyce after the fact. As he grew older, he came to dislike the title, sayi...

Having spent nine years in Italy, writer Richard Rowan and his de facto wife Bertha have recently returned to Dublin with their eight-year-old son Archie. Beatrice Justice, who arrives at the Rowans' house at the play's opening, has corresponded with Richard throughout their absence, and her appointment as his son's piano teacher is an excuse for them to see one another. The beginnings of a relationship have also formed between Bertha and Richard's friend the journalist Robert Hand.

Dubliners is a collection of picturesque short stories that paint a portrait of life in middle-class Dublin in the early 20th century. Joyce, a Dublin native, was careful to use actual locations and settings in the city, as well as language and slang in use at the time, to make the stories directly relatable to those who lived there.The collection had a rocky publication history, with the stories being initially rejected over eighteen times before being provisionally accep...

James Joyce's most celebrated novel, and one of the most highly regarded novels in the English language, records the events of one day-Thursday the 16th of June, 1904-in the city of Dublin.The reader is first reintroduced to Stephen Dedalus, the protagonist of Joyce's previous novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Stephen is now living in a rented Martello tower and working at a school, having completed his B.A. and a period of attempted further study in Paris. Th...

What the Soil Remembered follows Nicolina and Jeniffer, two women in their late 30s whose lives intersect in a community gardening program designed to restore abandoned land—and, unintentionally, the people who tend it.Nicolina, recently divorced, is rebuilding her sense of identity after years of emotional uncertainty and self-doubt. Jeniffer, a widow carrying deep grief after the complicated loss of her husband, is learning how to exist in a world that continues after lo...

**An Instant USA Today Bestseller!An Indie Next PickA Library Reads PickEstranged exes must stick close together to save their best friend’s wedding after a string of disasters in this swoony and steamy second-chance romance from the USA Today bestselling author of You, with a View.**Georgia Woodward lives by her lists, none more so than the one about her ex, Eli Mora. It’s full of the ironclad dos and don’ts they’ve been following s...

The Complete Collection by James Joyce is a carefully prepared Bookjack digital edition of classic literary fiction. The book is presented for clear ebook reading, with metadata and structure designed for discoverability in a modern digital catalogue. Readers will find a work shaped by character, setting, conflict, style, and the lasting pleasures of storytelling, making it a useful addition for anyone exploring James Joyce's writing or building a library of enduring books.

Ulysses by James Joyce is a carefully prepared Bookjack digital edition of classic literary fiction. The book is presented for clear ebook reading, with metadata and structure designed for discoverability in a modern digital catalogue. Readers will find a work shaped by character, setting, conflict, style, and the lasting pleasures of storytelling, making it a useful addition for anyone exploring James Joyce's writing or building a library of enduring books.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce is a carefully prepared Bookjack digital edition of classic literary fiction. The book is presented for clear ebook reading, with metadata and structure designed for discoverability in a modern digital catalogue. Readers will find a work shaped by character, setting, conflict, style, and the lasting pleasures of storytelling, making it a useful addition for anyone exploring James Joyce's writing or building a library of enduring books....

Dubliners by James Joyce is a carefully prepared Bookjack digital edition of classic literary fiction. The book is presented for clear ebook reading, with metadata and structure designed for discoverability in a modern digital catalogue. Readers will find a work shaped by character, setting, conflict, style, and the lasting pleasures of storytelling, making it a useful addition for anyone exploring James Joyce's writing or building a library of enduring books.