Strange Trade
Title | Strange Trade PDF eBook |
Author | Asale Angel-Ajani |
Publisher | Seal Press |
Pages | 675 |
Release | 2010-09-28 |
Genre | True Crime |
ISBN | 1580053793 |
Strange Trade tells the compelling stories of Mary, a Liberian drug courier with a college education, and Pauline, a Ugandan wife, mother, and drug cartel boss. A leading expert on women and organized crime, Asale Angel-Ajani spent years interviewing these women in Italy's notorious Rebibbia Prison—and gained unprecedented access into the narcotics trade. Herself the daughter of a drug trafficker, Angel-Ajani brings a wrenching, deeply personal perspective to the account of these women's lives, and offers a nuanced understanding of the global context within which African women are entering the drug trade in ever-increasing numbers. Strange Trade follows Pauline and Mary as they traverse three continents, survive wars, poverty, and shattered families, secure drug shipments, and commit murder. Angel-Ajani paints rich, intimate, and profoundly surprising portraits without glamorizing, sanitizing, or offering judgment. The result is an unvarnished journey into a world that, until now, has remained hidden; and a glimpse into the motives that led these women to risk—and ultimately lose—everything.
Strange Natures
Title | Strange Natures PDF eBook |
Author | Kent H. Redford |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 296 |
Release | 2021-06-22 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 0300230974 |
A groundbreaking examination of the implications of synthetic biology for biodiversity conservation Nature almost everywhere survives on human terms. The distinction between what is natural and what is human-made, which has informed conservation for centuries, has become blurred. When scientists can reshape genes more or less at will, what does it mean to conserve nature? The tools of synthetic biology are changing the way we answer that question. Gene editing technology is already transforming the agriculture and biotechnology industries. What happens if synthetic biology is also used in conservation to control invasive species, fight wildlife disease, or even bring extinct species back from the dead? Conservation scientist Kent Redford and geographer Bill Adams turn to synthetic biology, ecological restoration, political ecology, and de-extinction studies and propose a thoroughly innovative vision for protecting nature.
Free Trade Versus Fair Trade
Title | Free Trade Versus Fair Trade PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Henry Farrer Baron Farrer |
Publisher | |
Pages | 404 |
Release | 1886 |
Genre | Free trade |
ISBN |
Reports of Patent, Design, and Trade Mark Cases
Title | Reports of Patent, Design, and Trade Mark Cases PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 456 |
Release | 1927 |
Genre | Design protection |
ISBN |
Speeches on Free Trade
Title | Speeches on Free Trade PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Cobden |
Publisher | |
Pages | 250 |
Release | 1903 |
Genre | Corn laws (Great Britain) |
ISBN |
Writing Global Trade Governance
Title | Writing Global Trade Governance PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Strange |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 238 |
Release | 2013-08-15 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1136022805 |
Writing Global Trade Governance operationalises a key post-structuralist methodology in order to expand understanding on the institution at the heart of the global political economy. Despite the WTO’s centrality and the growing popularity of methods utilizing discourse theory, no other text has yet demonstrated how these two fields of learning can be productively combined. The book seeks to move beyond existing literatures that assume the WTO to be a structure, institution or normative framework, in order to enquire into the discursive processes of identity formation that make the WTO both possible and contested. The book criticises conventional approaches that treat critical civil society as distinct to the WTO, arguing instead that it is only through including such social practices within the field of relations making the WTO that we can properly understand what makes the WTO work. The book presents an empirical analysis of the discursive character of the present-day WTO (including its formation and operation) and then moves on to evaluate how it is subject to change within a broader social context. The final stage of the book seeks to discuss the impact of the findings on future research, both on the WTO and other institutions. This work is a significant intervention in the literature on the World Trade Organization and the politics of global trade and social movements, and will be of great interest to students and scholars of global governance, discourse theory and international organizations
Lockwood's Directory of the Paper and Stationary Trade
Title | Lockwood's Directory of the Paper and Stationary Trade PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 856 |
Release | 1911 |
Genre | Paper industry |
ISBN |