| David E. Kaplan, Alec Dubro - 2003 - 438 pagine
"A fascinating study of how criminal enterprise can infect the very heart of modern capitalism. Here is the backstage world of political influence and organized crime in the ... | |
| Miyazaki Manabu, Robert Whiting - 2005 - 488 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 ... | |
| Eiko Maruko Siniawer - 2008 - 288 pagine
Violence and democracy may seem fundamentally incompatible, but the two have often been intimately and inextricably linked. In Ruffians, Yakuza, Nationalists, Eiko Maruko ... | |
| Nicholas Bornoff - 1991 - 520 pagine
This extraordinary book reveals the exotic realm of the Water Trade--a world of bars and brothels, love hotels, baths and massage parlors, theaters and strip shows--and takes ... | |
| V. Vale, Andrea Juno - 1989 - 220 pagine
"An anthropological inquiry into ... the increasingly popular revival of ancient human decorations practices such as symbolic/deeply personal tattooing, multiple piercings, and ... | |
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