The Chinese Heroin Trade : Cross-Border Drug Trafficking in Southeast Asia and Beyond / / Ko-lin Chin, Sheldon X. Zhang

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910480983103321
• Autore: Chin Ko-lin
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, NY : , : New York University Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• ISBN: 1-4798-6557-5; 1-4798-3251-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (541 p.)
• Disciplina: 363.450951
• Soggetti: Drug control - China; Drug traffic - Southeast Asia; Drug traffic - China; Heroin industry - Southeast Asia; Heroin industry - China; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. The Chinese Connection -- 2. The Drug Market in Burma -- 3. Wholesale Heroin Trafficking -- 4. Low-Level Heroin Trafficking -- 5. The Social Organization of Entrepreneurial Traffickers -- 6. The Retail Heroin Market in China -- 7. Women in the Heroin Trade -- 8. Drug Treatment with a Chinese Characteristic -- 9. Combating Drug Trafficking -- 10. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About the Authors
• Sommario/riassunto: In a country long associated with the trade in opiates, the Chinese government has for decades applied extreme measures to curtail the spread of illicit drugs, only to find that the problem has worsened. Burma is blamed as the major producer of illicit drugs and conduit for the entry of drugs into China. Which organizations are behind the heroin trade? What problems and prospects of drug control in the so-called “Golden Triangle” drug-trafficking region are faced by Chinese and Southeast Asian authorities? In The Chinese Heroin Trade, noted criminologists Ko-Lin Chin and Sheldon Zhang examine the social ; organization of the trafficking of heroin from the Golden Triangle to China and the wholesale and retail distribution of the drug in China. Based on face-to-face interviews with hundreds of incarcerated drug traffickers, street-level drug dealers, users, and authorities, paired with extensive fieldwork in the border areas of Burma and China and several major urban centers in China and Southeast Asia, this volume reveals how the drug trade has evolved in the Golden Triangle since the late 1980's. Chin and Zhang also explore the marked characteristics of heroin traffickers; the relationship between drug use and sales in China; and how China compares to other international drug markets. The Chinese Heroin Trade is a fascinating, nuanced account of the world of high-risk drug trafficking in a tightly-controlled society.

By the King [[electronic resource] ] : Whereas, upon summons from us, divers gentlemen of this our county of York did attend us upon Thursday the twelfth of this instant May, .

• Record Nr.: UNISA996386956503316
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: [London], : Imprinted at York, and reprinted at London for Edward Blackmore, at the signe of the Angel in Pauls Church-yard, 1642
• Descrizione fisica: 1 sheet ([1] p.)
• Soggetti: Great Britain History Civil War, 1642-1649 Early works to 1800
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from caption and opening words of text.; "Given at our court at York, the fourteenth day of May, in the eighteenth yeer of our reigne, 1642.".; Certain gentlemen of Yorkshire attended the King on Thursday, 12 May, and others were unable to come. All gentlemen charged with horse and others are to appear at York on Friday, 20 May, in such manner and equipage as will be convenient for the guard of his person. -- Steele.; Reproduction of the original in the British Library.; With engraving of royal seal at head of document.
• Sommario/riassunto: eebo-0018

Complex metallic alloys [[electronic resource] ] : fundamentals and applications / / edited by Jean-Marie Dubois and Esther Belin-Ferré

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910830210503321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Weinheim [Germany], : Wiley-VCH, 2011
• ISBN: 1-282-94454-1; 9786612944543; 3-527-63304-9; 3-527-63271-9; 3-527-63272-7
• Edizione: [4th ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (435 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): DuboisJean-Marie; Belin-FerréEsther
• Disciplina: 546.31
• Soggetti: Alloys; Crystals
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Complex Metallic Alloys: Fundamentals and Applications; Foreword; Contents; Preface; List of Contributors; 1 Introduction to the Science of Complex Metallic Alloys; 2 Properties of CMAs: Theory and Experiments; 3 Anisotropic Physical Properties of Complex Metallic Alloys; 4 Surface Science of Complex Metallic Alloys; 5 Metallurgy of Complex Metallic Alloys; 6 Surface Chemistry of CMAs; 7 Mechanical Engineering Properties of CMAs; 8 CMA's as Magnetocaloric Materials; 9 Recent Progress in the Development of Thermoelectric Materials with Complex Crystal Structures; 10 Complex Metallic Phases in CatalysisIndex
• Sommario/riassunto: Covering fundamental research as well as real-world applications, this first book on CMAs at an introductory level treats everything from atomistic details to surface processing. Comprehensive, self-contained ; chapters provide readers with the latest knowledge on the most salient features of the topic, selected in terms of their relevance to potential technological applications. Edited by one of the most distinguished authorities on quasicrystals and this most important of their subclasses, the contributions elucidate aspects of CMAs from a particular viewpoint: physical and chemical character