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Illicit: How Smugglers, Traffickers and Copycats Are Hijacking the Global Economyby Moises NaimISBN 1400078849 (1-4000-7884-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Illicit: How Smugglers, Traffickers and Copycats Are Hijacking the Global Economy'Book summary:Illicit activities are exploding worldwide. The onslaught of globalization has unleashed a tidal wave of bad stuff--everything from arms trafficking, human smuggling, and money laundering to music bootlegging. Here is the dark side of globalization: the mushrooming underground economy. Moisés Naím explores this murky world in his book Illicit. Naím is the editor of the relaunched magazine Foreign Policy and a former executive director of the World Bank and Minister of Trade and Industry of Venezuela. In Illicit, he unties the connections between the Colombian cocaine dealer, the New York banker steering money to offshore tax havens, the Albanian forcing women into prostitution, and the Chinese market stall-holder selling counterfeit DVDs.
Naím reports that legitimate global trade has doubled since 1990 from $5 to $10 trillion. Meanwhile, money laundering has gone up tenfold, exceeding $1 trillion a year. Smuggling and money laundering have always existed, but Naím shows how they have increased at a staggering pace in the wake of globalization, despite new government controls since 9/11. The main culprits are the collapse of the Iron Curtain and state deregulation. As the reach of organized crime has expanded, governments have failed to keep up. Naím illustrates the problems with stories about A.Q. Khan, the father of Pakistan's atomic bomb who sold nuclear technology to North Korea and Libya; Walter C. Anderson, an American who was accused of hiding $450 million in offshore accounts to evade taxes; and Vladimir Montesinos, the Peruvian intelligence czar who is on trial for trafficking drugs and arms. The book, while a little dry, will be interesting to policy buffs and aspiring crooks alike. --Alex Roslin [via]
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Lethal Cargoby Franklin W. Dixon, Anne GreenbergISBN 0671731033 (0-671-73103-3)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
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The Medici Conspiracy: The Illicit Journey of Looted Antiques from Italy's Tomb Raiders to the World's Greatest Museumsby Peter Watson, Cecilia TodeschiniISBN 1586484028 (1-58648-402-8)
Hardcover, PublicAffairs
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Medici Conspiracy: The Illicit Journey of Looted Antiques from Italy's Tomb Raiders to the World's Greatest Museums'Book summary:The story begins, as stories do in all good thrillers, with a botched robbery and a police chase. Eight Apuleian vases of the fourth century B.C. are discovered in the swimming pool of a German-based art smuggler. More valuable than the recovery of the vases, however, is the discovery of the smuggler's card index detailing his deals and dealers. It reveals the existence of a web of tombarolitomb raiders who steal classical artifacts, and a network of dealers and smugglers who spirit them out of Italy and into the hands of wealthy collectors and museums. Peter Watson, a former investigative journalist for the London Sunday Times and author of two previous exposés of art world scandals, names the key figures in this network that has depleted Europe's classical artifacts. Among the loot are the irreplaceable and highly collectable vases of Euphronius, the equivalent in their field of the sculpture of Bernini or the painting of Michelangelo. The narrative leads to the doors of some major institutions: Sothebys, the Getty Museum in L.A., the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York among them. Filled with great characters and human drama, The Medici Conspiracy authoritatively exposes another shameful round in one of the oldest games in the world: theft, smuggling and duplicitous dealing, all in the name of art.[via]More editions of The Medici Conspiracy: The Illicit Journey of Looted Antiques from Italy's Tomb Raiders to the World's Greatest Museums:
The Natashas: Inside the New Global Sex Tradeby Victor MalarekISBN 1559707798 (1-55970-779-8)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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The Outlaw Sea: A World of Freedom, Chaos, and Crimeby James E. GoodmanISBN 0865475814 (0-86547-581-4)
Hardcover, North Point Pr
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The Outlaw Sea: A World of Freedom, Chaos, and Crimeby William LangewiescheISBN 0865477221 (0-86547-722-1)
Softcover, North Point Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Outlaw Sea: A World of Freedom, Chaos, and Crime'Book summary:The open ocean--that vast expanse of international waters--spreads across three-fourths of the globe. It is a place of storms and danger, both natural and manmade. And at a time when every last patch of land is claimed by one government or another, it is a place that remains radically free.[via]
With typically understated lyricism, William Langewiesche explores this ocean world and the enterprises--licit and illicit--that flourish in the privacy afforded by its horizons. But its efficiencies are accompanied by global problems--shipwrecks and pollution, the hard lives and deaths of the crews of the gargantuan ships, and the growth of two pathogens: a modern and sophisticated strain of piracy and its close cousin, the maritime form of the new stateless terrorism.
This is the outlaw sea that Langewiesche brings startlingly into view. The ocean is our world, he reminds us, and it is wild.More editions of The Outlaw Sea: A World of Freedom, Chaos, and Crime:
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Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Marketby Eric SchlosserISBN 0618446702 (0-618-44670-2)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market'Book summary:As much as 10% of the American economy, and perhaps more, is comprised of illegal "underground" enterprises, according to author and Atlantic Monthly correspondent Eric Schlosser. And while this segment is never discussed in the newspaper business pages, Schlosser tackles it with the same in-depth analysis and compulsive readability that made his Fast Food Nation a best seller. Reefer Madness spotlights marijuana, migrant labor, and pornography, three of the most thriving black market industries, and analyzes the often-tenuous place each holds in society as a whole. While each of the three could be the subject of its own book, Schlosser keeps his scope narrow by concentrating on the lives of the participants in the underground economy, especially Mark Young, an Indiana man given a life sentence for participating in a marijuana sale, and Ohio porn magnate Reuben Sturman. At just 21 pages, the treatment of migrant laborers in the California strawberry fields is dealt with more briefly but is just as compelling thanks to the first-person narrative of Schlossers investigation. In telling these stories, which are both personal and universal, Schlosser deftly explores the manner in which his subjects are treated (and punished) compared to others in more above-ground ventures. Along the way, he asks hard questions as to what that treatment says about America. Schlosser writing is passionately opinionated, but this is no mere opinion piece: his perspective is amply supported by extensive research and clearly reasoned interpretation of data. His direct and forceful writing style makes the impact greater still. After reading Reefer Madness, readers are likely to be shocked, appalled, and flat-out bewildered by whats happening in the cracks and crevices of American business. --John Moe [via]
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Stealing History: Tomb Raiders, Smugglers, And the Looting of the Ancient Worldby ROGER ATWOODISBN 0312324073 (0-312-32407-3)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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The Stories of Heinrich Bollby Heinrich Boll, Leila VennewitzISBN 0810112078 (0-8101-1207-8)
Softcover, Northwestern Univ Pr
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Wages of Crime: Black Markets, Illegal Finance, and the Underworld Economyby R. NaylorISBN 0801489601 (0-8014-8960-1)
Softcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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