This book contains a collection of cutting-edge chapters that explore various connections between urban living, sexuality and sexual desire around the world. The key themes featured address a number of topical issues including:

• the controversies and debates raging around the evolution, defining patterns and appropriate regulation of commercial sex zones and markets in the urban landscape
• how gay public spaces, districts and 'gay villages' emerged and developed in various towns and cities around the world
• how changing attitudes to, and the usage of urban...

The Security Dilemmas of Southeast Asia utilises a key security concept to examine one of the most dramatic regions of the world. Focusing on ethnic tensions, intra-ASEAN rivalries and the emergence of Chinese hegemony, the security dilemma is used to provide insights into a wide range of the region's contemporary security issues. In addition, the book expounds upon some of the new uses of the security dilemma, exploring both its applicability to ethnic tensions and a new variant, a state-induced security dilemma.

Best Kept HR Secrets lays out the most powerful advice you'll ever get for attaining outrageous success in Human Resources. This isn't the same old tired, weak, warmed-over corporate-speak that passes for HR job advice in most organizations. This is the real deal...over 400 brutal truths, tips, best practices, inspirations, confessions, and expert insights that practically no one else will sit down and tell you about. Nothing is held back. Nothing is considered taboo. And, nothing is off-limits in this book. If you want to discover the REAL secrets for winning big in your current HR role or...

Frustrated by your HR day job, but can't afford to quit? Discover how you can make more money on the side, create a profoundly more meaningful HR career for yourself...and become a powerful difference in other people's lives. How? By simply sharing what you already know about Human Resources. In this pull-no-punches, tell-all book, Alan Collins takes you by the hand and reveals step-by-step how to quickly and easily package, promote and cash in on your HR know-how and advice, without leaving your day job in Human Resources. You don't have to be a corporate HR executive or a highly-paid...

Alan Collins, former Vice President of HR at Pepsi and Quaker Oats, reveals 21 secrets for attaining awesome career success in Human Resources. If you want to take your HR career to the next level or you're aspiring to someday become a human resources executive, then you MUST know the unwritten rules for HR success. This book reveals blunt, no bull, un-sugarcoated strategies for skyrocketing your career as an HR professional. Discover ways to move your HR career forward that you cannot depend on your company to tell you about. If you'd like to understand the realities of navigating your HR...

Ready to step up your HR game to the next level of greatness? Then this is the book you'll want to own and carry with you often. Winning Big in HR is packed with an amazing collection of the absolute best human resources career advice, confessions, stories and insights from Alan Collins' popular blog, SuccessInHR.com -- along with some brand new tricks and tips he's never shared before. This book pulls no punches. It's organized into fun, bite-sized strategies you can act on right now This is the real deal for the super-busy HR professional who wants to get great results faster...and build a...

Frustrated because you can't land any HR job interviews? No response back when you submit your resume? Can't get your LinkedIn profile page to produce HR job opportunities for you? Networking like crazy, but no results? Finally, here's the edge you need to bring a quick end to your job search. In HR RESUME SECRETS, Alan Collins, former Vice President of Human Resources at PepsiCo, reveals his proven approach for crafting a powerful resume that will quickly land you job interviews in Human Resources. These strategies are based on his twenty-five years of experience hiring hundreds of HR...

Want to crush your next Human Resources interview and land the job offer you deserve? Now you can. HR Interview Secrets will give you the edge you need to confidently position yourself as a top HR candidate in the fastest time possible. Use the easy-to-follow tips, job-winning interview answers, talking points and insider secrets to capitalize on your HR experience, wow your interviewers and bring home the salary you deserve. Inside these pages you'll discover: How to conquer pre-interview fears and jitters so that you come across powerfully -- and with poise, and confidence. How to sell...