1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910464370403321

Autore

Lambright W. Henry <1939->

Titolo

Why Mars : NASA and the politics of space exploration / / W. Henry Lambright

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore, Maryland : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-4214-1280-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (334 p.)

Collana

New Series in NASA History

Disciplina

629.43/543

Soggetti

Space flight to Mars

Astronautics and state - United States

Electronic books.

Mars (Planet) Exploration

United States Politics and government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The call of Mars -- Beginning the quest -- Leaping forward -- Searching for life -- Struggling to restart -- Moving up the agenda -- Prioritizing Mars -- Accelerating Mars sample return -- Overreaching, rethinking -- Adopting "follow the water" -- Implementing amidst conflict -- Attempting alliance -- Landing on Mars and looking ahead.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910160333703321

Titolo

Anti-drug policies in Colombia : successes, failures, and wrong turns / / edited by Alejandro Gaviria and Daniel Mejia ; translated by Jimmy Weiskopf

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Nashville, Tennessee : , : Vanderbilt University Press, , [2016]

©2016

ISBN

0-8265-0375-6

0-8265-2073-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (pages cm.)

Collana

Vanderbilt University Center for Latin American Studies Series

Disciplina

363.4509861

Soggetti

Drug control - Colombia

Drug traffic - Colombia

Drug control

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction -- Dimension of the drugs problem in Colombia : production, trafficking and consumption -- The microeconomics of cocaine production and trafficking in Colombia / Daniel Mejia and Daniel Mauricio Rico -- Drug consumption in Colombia / Adriana Camacho, Alejandro Gaviria, and Catherine Rodriguez -- Policies for the reduction of supply and demand -- Anti-drugs policies under plan Colombia : costs, effectiveness and efficiency / Daniel Mejia -- Alternative development policies in Colombia (1982-2009) / Carlos Zorro-Sanchez -- Demand as a drama : the prevention and treatment of drugs use in Colombia / Jorge Larreamendy-Joerns and Maria Fernanda Vence -- International relations and anti-drugs policies in Colombia -- Colombia's multilateral drugs policy during the two Uribe administrations : toward prohibitionist activism in an era of detente / Sandra Borda -- Colombia and Europe face the drugs problem : disagreement yet cooperation / Muriel Laurent -- The role of illegal drugs in Colombian-US relations / Arlene Beth Tickner and Carolina Cepeda -- Legal and institutional aspects of the war against drugs -- The consumer's right to a "personal dose" and the war on



drugs : a study of the policing of drug consumption in Bogota, Colombia / Julieta Lemaitre and Mauricio Albarracin -- The penal treatment of narcotics trafficking and associated crimes / Manuel Iturralde and Libardo Jose Ariza -- The fight against money laundering : institutions, results and disincentives / Carlos Caballero and Alfonso Amaya -- Institutions and narcotics trafficking -- Colombian institutions and narcotics trafficking : mutations and politics / Alvaro Camacho -- Illegal crops, political participation, and institutional trust / Miguel Garcia -- The failure of decentralization in the war against drugs / Juan Carlos Echeverry and Maria Paula Gomez -- Violent non-state actors and narcotics trafficking in Colombia / Arlene Beth Tickner, Diego Garcia, and Catalina Arreaza.

Sommario/riassunto

"This book compiles the most up-to-date research and evidence on the different dimensions of drugs and drugs policy in Colombia, a country that has done everything possible to fight illicit drug production and trafficking"--