 | Mitchel P. Roth - 2010 - 308 pagine
ABC-CLIO's celebrated Contemporary World Issues series---available in both print and eBook formats---provides accurate, unbiased reference handbooks on the major topics of the ... | |
 | Claire Sterling - 1984 - 264 pagine
A study of the 1981 attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II argues that the would-be killer was not a fanatic working on his own, but was part of a full-scale ... | |
 | Miyazaki Manabu, Robert Whiting - 2005 - 460 pagine
Shot, stabbed, and beaten, Miyazaki Manabu somehow emerged intact from his first fifty years to put his astonishing life story down on paper. Born the son of a yakuza boss in ... | |
 | Robert I. Friedman - 2009
In the past decade, from Brighton Beach to Moscow, Toronto to Hong Kong, the Russian mob has become the world's fastest-growing criminal superpower. Trafficking in prostitutes ... | |
 | Antonino Calderone, Pino Arlacchi - 1993 - 285 pagine
The startling 1992 confessions of Antonino Calderone, a boss in the Sicilian Mafia, provide a behind-the-scenes look at la Cosa Nostra that reveals the Mafia's history ... | |
 | Diego Gambetta - 1996 - 335 pagine
In a society where trust is in short supply and democracy weak, the Mafia sells protection, a guarantee of safe conduct for parties to commercial transactions. Drawing on the ... | |
 | Joseph Serio - 2008 - 304 pagine
In the 1990s, the so-called Russian mafia dominated newspaper headlines, political analysis, and academic articles around the world. It was the new scourge, a threat so massive ... | |
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