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Author
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons
Pub. Date
©2007
Language
English
Description
What do the Taliban, Liberian war criminal Charles Taylor, and the U.S. government have in common? They have all done business with the man who put the "blood" in blood diamonds--an immensely wealthy and powerful arms dealer who has flooded Africa and Southwest Asia with weapons of war. Here, two respected journalists tell the story of Viktor Bout, the Russian weapons supplier whose global network has changed the way modern warfare is fought. Bout's...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
For more than twelve years the Mexican border city of Juarez has been the center of an epidemic of horrific crimes against women and girls: kidnappings, rape, mutilation, and murder, with most of the victims conforming to a specific profile--young, slender, and poor. Speculation that the killer or killers are American citizens has led the U.S. government to send in criminal profilers from the FBI, but little real information about this international...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Ciudad Juarez, México, queda en la frontera sur del Río Bravo, frente a El Paso, Texas. Por más de doce años, aquí se ha llevado a cabo un sinnúmero de crímenes atroces contra mujeres y niñas que incluyen secuestros, violaciones, mutilaciones y asesinatos. Según Amnistia Internacional, para 2006, se habían encontrado más de 400 cadaveres, sin contar centenares de desaparecidas. Muchos creen que las muertes se deben a la violencia e impunidad...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Detective Lindsay Boxer and her husband Joe Molinari team up to protect San Francisco from an international war criminal in the newest Women's Murder Club thriller. For a trio of colleagues, an innocent night out after class ends in a deadly torture session. They vanish without a clue -- until a body turns up. With the safety of San Francisco's entire school system as stake, Lindsay Boxer has never been under more pressure at work and could really...
Author
Publisher
Paidós
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Español
Description
¿Qué son las drogas? ¿Desde cuándo, por qué y en dónde se producen y se consumen?¿En qué contexto histórico se prohibieron? ¿Por qué el tabaco y el alcohol sí se legalizaron? ¿Quiénes y cómo trafican? ¿Cómo forjaron su leyenda los jefes y jefas narcos, qué es la narcocultura, cómo se establecen los precios de los drogas, cuál es el efecto de este negocio en la economía mundial? ¿Cuándo y cómo se vincularon el narcotráfico...
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