Decoding Albanian organized crime : culture, politics, and globalization / / Jana Arsovska |
Autore | Arsovska Jana <1981-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (311 p.) |
Disciplina | 364.106094965 |
Soggetto topico |
Organized crime - Albania
Organized crime - Balkan Peninsula Organized crime - Europe, Western Organized crime - United States Transnational crime |
Soggetto non controllato |
albania
albanian mafia albanian organized crime groups balkans codes of conduct comparative research confidential intelligence reports court files crime criminal underworld culture and politics global phenomenon globalization international crime international organized crime law enforcement mafia migration myths national boarders offenders organized crime police political security concern southeast europe united states of america victims western europe |
ISBN |
0-520-28281-7
0-520-95871-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Author's Note -- 1. Introduction: Ethnic Mob on the Rise -- 2. Why We Do What We Do -- 3. On the Run: Albanians Going West -- 4. Iron Ties: In Blood We Trust -- 5. Violence, Honor, and Secrecy -- 6. Sex, Guns, and Extortion -- 7. Conclusion: Dangerous Hybrids? What Now? -- Notes -- References -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910787220403321 |
Arsovska Jana <1981->
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Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2015 | ||
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Decoding Albanian organized crime : culture, politics, and globalization / / Jana Arsovska |
Autore | Arsovska Jana <1981-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (311 p.) |
Disciplina | 364.106094965 |
Soggetto topico |
Organized crime - Albania
Organized crime - Balkan Peninsula Organized crime - Europe, Western Organized crime - United States Transnational crime |
Soggetto non controllato |
albania
albanian mafia albanian organized crime groups balkans codes of conduct comparative research confidential intelligence reports court files crime criminal underworld culture and politics global phenomenon globalization international crime international organized crime law enforcement mafia migration myths national boarders offenders organized crime police political security concern southeast europe united states of america victims western europe |
ISBN |
0-520-28281-7
0-520-95871-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Author's Note -- 1. Introduction: Ethnic Mob on the Rise -- 2. Why We Do What We Do -- 3. On the Run: Albanians Going West -- 4. Iron Ties: In Blood We Trust -- 5. Violence, Honor, and Secrecy -- 6. Sex, Guns, and Extortion -- 7. Conclusion: Dangerous Hybrids? What Now? -- Notes -- References -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910813261203321 |
Arsovska Jana <1981->
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Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2015 | ||
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Holy feast and holy fast : the religious significance of food to medieval women / / Caroline Walker Bynum |
Autore | Bynum Caroline Walker |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c1987 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xvi, 444 pages, 30 pages of plates ) |
Disciplina | 248.46 |
Collana | New historicism |
Soggetto topico |
Food - Religious aspects - Christianity
Women - History - Middle Ages, 500-1500 Food habits - History - To 1500 |
Soggetto non controllato |
anthropology
catholicism devotional practices eucharist fasting feminism feminist theory food studies food gender studies gender historiography history inedia medieval asceticism medieval religion medieval society medieval women middle ages miracles mysticism nonfiction piety religion religiosity religious studies religious vocation religious women renunciation saints lives saints stigmata symbolism western europe women and religion womens lives womens studies womens writing world history |
ISBN |
0-520-05722-8
1-280-07891-X 9786613520180 0-520-90878-3 0-585-32648-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- List of Plates -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I. The Background -- Part II. The Evidence -- Part III. The Explanation -- Epilogue -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- General Index -- Index of Secondary Authors |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778862403321 |
Bynum Caroline Walker
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c1987 | ||
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Rich democracies [[electronic resource] ] : political economy, public policy, and performance / / Harold L. Wilensky |
Autore | Wilensky Harold L |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2002 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (925 p.) |
Disciplina | 320.3 |
Soggetto topico |
Welfare state
Comparative government |
Soggetto non controllato |
academic
agriculture american government american history britain career case study churches democracy environmental globalization government high tech industry information age israel japan labor mass media modern society modern world performance political economy political parties politics post industrial poverty profession public policy research scholarly sociology us history welfare state western europe |
ISBN |
9786612759031
1-282-75903-5 1-59734-873-2 0-520-92833-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- CONTENTS -- FIGURES -- TABLES -- PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1. CONVERGENCE THEORY -- 2. TYPES OF POLITICAL ECONOMY -- 3. MASS SOCIETY, PARTICIPATION, AND THE MASS MEDIA -- 4. THEORIES OF THE POSTINDUSTRIAL SOCIETY -- 5. THE WELFARE STATE: CONVERGENCE AND DIVERGENCE -- 6. SECTOR SPENDING AND PROGRAM EMPHASIS -- 7. TYPES OF POLITICAL ECONOMY, PARTY IDEOLOGY, AND FAMILY POLICY: CONTRASTING GOVERNMENT RESPONSES TO A COMMON PROBLEM -- 8. THE AMERICAN WELFARE MESS IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE -- 9. BUREAUCRATIC EFFICIENCY AND BLOAT -- 10. TAX-WELFARE BACKLASH: HOW TO TAX, SPEND, AND YET KEEP COOL -- 11. ARE POLITICAL PARTIES DECLINING? AN ANALYSIS OF NATIONAL VARIATION IN DEALIGNMENT -- 12. TYPES OF POLITICAL ECONOMY, SPENDING, TAXING, AND ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE -- 13. THE GREAT AMERICAN JOB MACHINE IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE -- 14. RISK AND SAFETY: AMERICAN MAYHEM IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE -- 15. TYPES OF POLITICAL ECONOMY, REGULATORY REGIMES, AND THE ENVIRONMENT -- 16. HEALTH PERFORMANCE: AFFLUENCE, POLITICAL ECONOMY, AND PUBLIC POLICY AS SOURCES OF REAL HEALTH -- 17. GLOBALIZATION: DOES IT SUBVERT JOB SECURITY, LABOR STANDARDS, AND THE WELFARE STATE? -- 18. AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS -- APPENDIX A: METHODS -- APPENDIX B: CONCEPTS AND MEASURES OF LEFT AND CATHOLIC PARTY POWER -- APPENDIX C: SOCIAL SPENDING, GNP, TAX EXPENDITURES, AND HOUSING EXPENDITURES -- APPENDIX D: SECTOR SPENDING CORRELATIONS -- APPENDIX E: FAMILY POLICY -- APPENDIX F: ESTIMATING RELIANCE ON MEANS TESTING -- APPENDIX G: MEASURES OF ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE -- APPENDIX H: MEASURES OF CENTRAL BANK AUTONOMY -- APPENDIX I: MAYHEM INDEX, MOBILITY-MERITOCRACY INDEX, AND MINORITY-GROUP CLEAVAGES -- APPENDIX J: PUBLIC EMPLOYEES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910782933903321 |
Wilensky Harold L
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2002 | ||
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Rivers of the Anthropocene / edited by Jason M. Kelly, Philip Scarpino, Helen Berry, James Syvitski, and Michel Meybeck |
Autore | Meybeck Michel |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | University of California Press |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource |
Disciplina | 551.48/3 |
Soggetto topico |
Human ecology
Rivers - Environmental aspects |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
Soggetto non controllato |
agency
anthropocene blue nile basin case study chicago river city state drainage ecological ecology ecosystem engineering ethics ethnography flooding great flood immigration landscape natural history natural world nile river public ecology rivers riverscape scholars seine river society water system waterways western europe world history |
ISBN | 0-520-96793-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Anthropocenes : a fractured picture / Jason M. Kelly -- The importance of ecosystem service-based approaches to management of Anthropocene riverscapes / Andy Large, David Gilvear, and Eleanor Starkey -- Political ecology in the Anthropocene : a case study of irrigation management in the Blue Nile basin / Sina Marx -- Rivers at the end of the end of nature : ethical trajectories of the Anthropocene grand narrative / Celia Deane-Drummond -- Rivers, scholars, and society : a situation analysis / Kenneth S. Lubinski and Martin Thoms -- An Anthropocene landscape : drainage transformed in the English fenland / Jan Zalasiewicz, Mark Williams, and Dinah Smith -- A western European river at the Anthropocene : the Seine (1880-2010) / Michel Meybeck and Laurence Lestel -- Anthropocene rivers : a historical examination of ideas and agency / Philip Scarpino -- The Great Tyne Flood of 1771 : community responses to an environmental crisis in the early Anthropocene / Helen Berry -- Engineering an island city- state : a 3D ethnographic comparison of the Singapore River and Orchard Road / Stephanie C. Kane -- Decoding the river : artists and scientists reveal the water system of the White River / Mary Miss and Tim Carter -- What is a river? : the Chicago River as hyperobject / Matt Edgeworth and Jeffrey Benjamin. |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996333145503316 |
Meybeck Michel
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University of California Press | ||
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Rivers of the Anthropocene / edited by Jason M. Kelly, Philip Scarpino, Helen Berry, James Syvitski, and Michel Meybeck |
Autore | Meybeck Michel |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | University of California Press |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource |
Disciplina | 551.48/3 |
Soggetto topico |
Human ecology
Rivers - Environmental aspects |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
Soggetto non controllato |
agency
anthropocene blue nile basin case study chicago river city state drainage ecological ecology ecosystem engineering ethics ethnography flooding great flood immigration landscape natural history natural world nile river public ecology rivers riverscape scholars seine river society water system waterways western europe world history |
ISBN | 0-520-96793-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Anthropocenes : a fractured picture / Jason M. Kelly -- The importance of ecosystem service-based approaches to management of Anthropocene riverscapes / Andy Large, David Gilvear, and Eleanor Starkey -- Political ecology in the Anthropocene : a case study of irrigation management in the Blue Nile basin / Sina Marx -- Rivers at the end of the end of nature : ethical trajectories of the Anthropocene grand narrative / Celia Deane-Drummond -- Rivers, scholars, and society : a situation analysis / Kenneth S. Lubinski and Martin Thoms -- An Anthropocene landscape : drainage transformed in the English fenland / Jan Zalasiewicz, Mark Williams, and Dinah Smith -- A western European river at the Anthropocene : the Seine (1880-2010) / Michel Meybeck and Laurence Lestel -- Anthropocene rivers : a historical examination of ideas and agency / Philip Scarpino -- The Great Tyne Flood of 1771 : community responses to an environmental crisis in the early Anthropocene / Helen Berry -- Engineering an island city- state : a 3D ethnographic comparison of the Singapore River and Orchard Road / Stephanie C. Kane -- Decoding the river : artists and scientists reveal the water system of the White River / Mary Miss and Tim Carter -- What is a river? : the Chicago River as hyperobject / Matt Edgeworth and Jeffrey Benjamin. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910245737803321 |
Meybeck Michel
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University of California Press | ||
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