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Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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This book offers a in-depth look at human trafficking in its many forms, ranging from single operators to large, transnational organizations and how they coerce, deceive, and exploit their victims in the domestic service, farming, construction, and sex industries as well as in the harvesting of organs. It eables a greater appreciation for the social, economic, cultural, and environmental factors that contribute to human trafficking and how these crimes...
Author
Publisher
Reaktion Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Introduction: 'The Blue Marble' - Babylon: 'The four quarters of the Earth' -- Egypt: 'The black loam and the red sand' -- Persia: 'Order and deceit' -- Archaic Greece: 'The Shield of Achilles' -- The origins of Greek thought: 'Equally distant from all extremes' -- The Presocratics and Socrates: 'Floating on air' -- Plato: 'Flat or round, whichever is better' -- Aristotle: 'Necessarily spherical' -- Greek debate on the shape of the world: 'Either...
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