This meticulously researched study represents the first effort to provide a nonpartisan and objective analysis of how the United States should approach the drug legalization question. It surveys what is known about the effects of different drug policies in Western Europe and what happened when cocaine and heroin were legal in the US a century ago. The book shows that legalization involves different tradeoffs between health and crime and the interests of the inner city minority communities and the middle class. The book explains why it is so difficult to accomplish substantial reform of drug...
This meticulously researched study represents the first effort to provide a nonpartisan and objective analysis of how the United States should approac...
Originally developed to reduce drug trafficking, national and international efforts to reduce money laundering have broadened over the years to address other crimes, and most recently, terrorism. These efforts now constitute a formidable regime applied to financial institutions and transactions throughout much of the world. Yet few assessments of either the achievements or consequences of this regime have been made. Reuter and Truman (1) explore what is know about the scale and characteristics of money laundering, (2) describe the current anti-money laundering regime, (3) develop a framework...
Originally developed to reduce drug trafficking, national and international efforts to reduce money laundering have broadened over the years to addres...
Mass Customization leads the strategy of todays well succeeded companies. It indulges the customer with the so long yearned for product and/or service that exactly fits his desires and specifications. This book compiles a hand-selected variety of testimonies from Mass Customization experts worldwide with different experiences both on an academic research basis as well as on practical case studies. This diversity makes it a compulsory guide to use in any enterprise throughout the world that wants to take its business into new and more ambitious dimensions. Furthermore, its contents are...
Mass Customization leads the strategy of todays well succeeded companies. It indulges the customer with the so long yearned for product and/or service...
Heroin is universally considered the world's most harmful illegal drug. This is due not only to the damaging effects of the drug itself, but also to the spread of AIDS tied to its use. Burgeoning illegal mass consumption in the 1960s and 1970s has given rise to a global market for heroin and other opiates of nearly 16 million users. The production and trafficking of opiates have caused crime, disease, and social distress throughout the world, leading many nations to invest billions of dollars trying to suppress the industry. The failure of their efforts has become a central policy concern....
Heroin is universally considered the world's most harmful illegal drug. This is due not only to the damaging effects of the drug itself, but also to t...
This Pocket Dictionary of Biochemistry is the most comprehensive Engli sh-German/German-English dictionary on the international market. More than 30,000 entries and subentries with some 50,000 translations and a n extent appendix with abbreviations provide users with an unrivaled c overage of biochemistry and related bioscientific areas. The dictionar y excels through a harmonious synthesis of biochemical and general bil ingual dictionaries, making it the ideal choice for users from both sc ientific and linguistic fields. Unlike other, more basic technical dic tionaries, Birkh#userFs Pocket...
This Pocket Dictionary of Biochemistry is the most comprehensive Engli sh-German/German-English dictionary on the international market. More than 30,0...
A growing concern among those interested in economic development is the realization that hundreds of billions of dollars are illicitly flowing out of developing countries to tax havens and other financial centers in the developed world. This volume assesses the dynamics of these flows, much of which is from corruption and tax evasion. What causes them, what are their consequences and how might they be controlled? The chapters by authors from a variety of backgrounds, including criminologists and practicing lawyers as well as economists, examine many dimensions of the phenomenon. For example,...
A growing concern among those interested in economic development is the realization that hundreds of billions of dollars are illicitly flowing out of ...
While citizens experiment with illegal drugs, their governments experiment with regulations to prohibit drugs. Scholars, analysts, and policy makers who know what legal prohibitions other countries have tried and found successful will have a better chance of crafting effective drug policy for their countries. This special issue of The Annals describes the experiences of eleven countries: Australia, Canada, Columbia, Denmark, France, Iran, Jamaica, Mexico, Portugal, Russia, and Sweden. Articles are grouped by geography and wealth: the wealthy West, the western hemisphere, and the...
While citizens experiment with illegal drugs, their governments experiment with regulations to prohibit drugs. Scholars, analysts, and policy maker...
While citizens experiment with illegal drugs, their governments experiment with regulations to prohibit drugs. Scholars, analysts, and policy makers who know what legal prohibitions other countries have tried and found successful will have a better chance of crafting effective drug policy for their countries. This special issue of The Annals describes the experiences of eleven countries: Australia, Canada, Columbia, Denmark, France, Iran, Jamaica, Mexico, Portugal, Russia, and Sweden. Articles are grouped by geography and wealth: the wealthy West, the western hemisphere, and the...
While citizens experiment with illegal drugs, their governments experiment with regulations to prohibit drugs. Scholars, analysts, and policy maker...
- Topaktuelles Worterbuch fur Onkologie und Immunologie - Je ca. 20.000 Stichworte im deutsch-englischen und englisch-deutschen Lexikonteil - Amerikanisches wie britisches Englisch wurde berucksichtigt - Unentbehrlich fur medizinische Berufe und Ubersetzer - Ausfuhrlicher Anhang mit Akronymen und Chemotherapieprotokollen - Beinhaltet anatomisches Glossar mit ca. 10.000 Eintragen, das auf der neuesten Version der "Terminologica anatomica" basiert - Up-to-date dictionary for oncology and immunology - About 20.000 entries each German-English and English-German, American and British English...
- Topaktuelles Worterbuch fur Onkologie und Immunologie - Je ca. 20.000 Stichworte im deutsch-englischen und englisch-deutschen Lexikonteil - Amerikan...
