1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911107482703321

Autore

Kaplan David E

Titolo

Yakuza : Japan's criminal underworld / / David E. Kaplan and Alec Dubro

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2012

ISBN

9786613806758

9781282134171

1282134175

9780520953819

0520953819

Edizione

[25th anniversary ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (440 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

DubroAlec

Disciplina

364.1060952

Soggetti

Yakuza - Japan - History

Yakuza - History

Organized crime - Japan - History

Crime - Japan - History

Gangs - Japan - History

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

pt. 1. Early history -- pt. 2. The Kodama years -- pt. 3. The modern Yakuza -- pt. 4. The move abroad.

Sommario/riassunto

Known for their striking full-body tattoos and severed fingertips, Japan's gangsters comprise a criminal class eighty thousand strong--more than four times the size of the American mafia. Despite their criminal nature, the yakuza are accepted by fellow Japanese to a degree guaranteed to shock most Westerners. Yakuza is the first book to reveal the extraordinary reach of Japan's Mafia. Originally published in 1986, it was so controversial in Japan that it could not be published there for five years. But in the west it has long served as the standard reference on Japanese organized crime and has inspired novels, screenplays, and criminal investigations. This twenty-fifth anniversary edition tells the full story or Japan's remarkable crime syndicates, from their feudal start as bands of medieval outlaws to their emergence as



billion-dollar investors in real estate, big business, art, and more.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911154198003321

Titolo

Dopamine-glutamate interactions in the basal ganglia / / edited by Susan Jones

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boca Raton : , : CRC Press, , 2012

ISBN

9786613525369

9781040207499

1040207499

9780429143625

0429143621

9781280121500

1280121505

9781420088809

1420088807

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (282 p.)

Collana

Frontiers in neuroscience

Altri autori (Persone)

JonesSusan, Ph. D.

Disciplina

616.83

Soggetti

Basal ganglia

Dopamine

Glutamic acid

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 Cover; Contents; Series Preface; Preface; Editor; Contributors; Chapter 1: Metabotropic Glutamate Receptor-Dopamine Interactions in the Basal Ganglia Motor Circuit; Chapter 2: Ionotropic Glutamate Receptors in the Basal Ganglia; Chapter 3: Dopamine Receptors and their Interactions with NMDA Receptors; Chapter 4: Synaptic Triad in the Neostriatum: Dopamine, Glutamate, and the MSN; Chapter 5: Dopaminergic Modulation of Glutamatergic Synaptic Plasticity in Striatal Circuits: New Insights from BAC-Transgenic Mice

Chapter 6: Striatal Acetylcholine-Dopamine Crosstalk and the Dorsal-



Ventral DivideChapter 7: Electrophysiology of the Corticostriatal Network in Vivo; Chapter 8: Functional Organization of the Midbrain Substantia Nigra; Chapter 9: Striatal Dopamine and Glutamate in Action: The Generation and Modification of Adaptive Behavior; Chapter 10: Impaired Dopamine-Glutamate Receptor Interactions in Some Neurological Disorders; Back Cover

Sommario/riassunto

An exploration of the nature of dopamine-glutamate interactions in the basal ganglia from receptor molecules to complex behaviors, this volume reviews basic anatomy, discusses the subtypes and signaling pathways of the dopamine and glutamate receptors expressed in the basal ganglia, and their interaction down to the molecular level. Coverage includes endogenous and exogenous modulators of dopamine-glutamate interactions and the implications of these interactions, measuring the key basal ganglia functions at the physiological and behavioral level. It also examines the concept that compromised dopamine-glutamate interactions may underpin basal ganglia disorders--Provided by publisher.