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Ivan Franceschini, Ling Li, Mark Bo

Running the gamut from the infamous 'pig butchering' romance con to sophisticated online extortion and investment fraud, Southeast Asia has emerged as the global hub for cybercrime. Based on years of field research, Scam takes an in-depth look at the history and inner dynamics of the region's online scam industry. Revealed are the appalling working conditions - akin to modern slavery - in the hundreds of prisonlike compounds that have mushroomed throughout multiple countries. The ...

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Bo Rinaldi, Mark Reinfeld

A raw food diet is a purely healthy diet.More people than ever are turning to a raw food diet. In this guide, readers will find the secrets to raw food weight loss; how raw foods can heal the body and boost energy and enthusiasm; information on the anti-aging properties of raw food; and 100+ recipes that show how raw foods can be combined into delectable meals.* Fully explains the benefits of this increasingly popular diet choice, plus presents a mini cookb...

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various authors, Yuri Rasovsky, Yuri Rasovsky, Yuri Rasovsky, Yuri Rasovsky, John Baker

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a full cast, Tom Towles, Mark Bramhall, Ira Burton, Robertson Dean, Bo Foxworth, Jane Jacobs, James Otis, Lorna Raver, Stefan Rudnicki, Tom Alderman, Annabel Armour, Carolyn Brenner, Viola Berwick, Hamilton Camp, David Chadderdon, James Deuter, John Doremus, Michelle M. Faith, Gary Gears, Joe Greco, Melissa Greenspan, Richard Kind, Glenn Kovacevich, Sonja Lanzener, Stephen Markle, David Mink, Roger Mueller, William Munchow, Brian Murray, Phil Proctor, David Rasche, Avery Schreiber, Pat Terry

Blackstone Audio presents an eclectic mix of stories, plays and sketches dedicated to the thinking paranoiac. Gore, sex, horror, literature and edifying morals—what more could you want from an audiobook?This collection includes "In a Grove," upon which Akira Kurosawa based his classic film, Rashomon; an adult fairy tale by the author of Winnie-the-Pooh; the real story (honest!) behind Edgar Rice Burroughs's novel The Moon Maid; and cautionary and scary ta...

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Sam Cooper

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Holding the Chinese Communist Party to Account

Revised and updated edition of the Globe and Mail and Amazon bestselling book“If you want to understand war in the 21st century, read this to get part of the story.” — Robert Spalding, US Brigadier General (retired)“This book reads like a thriller and is stranger than fiction. Gripping, racy and exciting, it is difficult to put down. A tale of gambling, narcotics, tycoons, criminal gangs and Communists. And the shocking p...

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Eva Dou

**2026 LIONEL GELBER PRIZE FINALIST“Authoritative… a tale that sits at the heart of the most significant geopolitical relationship today.” – Financial Times“There’s probably no better account of China’s rise to economic dominance as seen through the prism of a single company.” – The Wall Street JournalABOUT THE BOOKThe untold story of the mysterious company that shook the world.**On the coast of southern China, an eccentric entrepre...

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Joel Brinkley

A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist describes how Cambodia emerged from the harrowing years when a quarter of its population perished under the Khmer Rouge.A generation after genocide, Cambodia seemed on the surface to have overcome its history -- the streets of Phnom Penh were paved; skyscrapers dotted the skyline. But under this façe lies a country still haunted by its years of terror.Although the international community tried to rebuild Cambodia and int...

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Siddharth Kara

" The best book ever written on human trafficking for sexual exploitation "—the basis for the feature film, Trafficked, starring Ashley Judd ( Kevin Bales, president of Free the Slaves ).Every year, hundreds of thousands of women and children are abducted, deceived, seduced, or sold into forced prostitution. These trafficked sex slaves form the backbone of one of the world's most profitabl...

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Johann van Loggerenberg, Adrian Lackay

The story of a 'rogue unit' operating within the South African Revenue Service (SARS) became entrenched in the public mind following a succession of sensational reports published by the Sunday Times in 2014. The unit, the reports claimed, had carried out a series of illegal spook operations: they had spied on President Jacob Zuma, run a brothel, illegally bought spyware and entered into unlawful tax settlements.In a plot of Machiavellian proportions, head of the elite crime-busting...

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Dennis Molinaro

**FINALIST FOR THE 2026 BALSILLIE PRIZE FOR PUBLIC POLICYLONGLISTED FOR THE 2026 J.W. DAFOE BOOK PRIZEA National Business Book Award Summer Reading List selection: The Canadian Deep Dive (Politics, Policy & Power)A Hill Times’ Top 100 Best Book in 2025Foreword by Cherie WongNational security expert Dennis Molinaro reveals the shocking details of Beijing’s five-decades-long effort to influence and interfere in Canadian political life. From cu...

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Moises Naim

A groundbreaking investigation of how illicit commerce is changing the world by transforming economies, reshaping politics, and capturing governments.In this fascinating and comprehensive examination of the underside of globalization, Moises Naím illuminates the struggle between traffickers and the hamstrung bureaucracies trying to control them. From illegal migrants to drugs to weapons to laundered money to counterfeit goods, the black market produces enormous profits that are reinvested ...

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Sebastian Strangio

To many in the West, the name Cambodia still conjures up indelible images of destruction and death, the legacy of the brutal Khmer Rouge regime and the terror it inflicted in its attempt to create a communist utopia in the 1970s. Sebastian Strangio, a journalist based in the capital city of Phnom Penh, now offers an eye-opening appraisal of modern-day Cambodia in the years following its emergence from bitter conflict and bloody upheaval.   In the early 1990s, Cambodia became the ...

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Jonathan Manthorpe

“If you value living in a free and open society, read this excellent book and heed its warnings.” — Michael KovrigClaws of the Panda tells the story of Canada’s failure to construct a workable policy towards the People’s Republic of China. In particular, the book tells of Ottawa’s failure to recognize and confront the efforts by the Chinese Communist Party to infiltrate and influence Canadian institutions and to exert control over Canadians of Chinese heri...