Author: Peter Carey
Publisher: Random House Canada
Keywords: illegal
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2008-02-05
List price: $30.81
ISBN-10: 0307356566
ISBN-13: 9780307356567

Two-time Booker Prize-winner Peter Carey’s His Illegal Self crackles with passionate, electrifying prose and characters that leap off the page and into your psyche. Utterly captivating. It is 1972 and Ché, a precocious seven-almost-eight-year-old boy, leads a rather bourgeois life on Park Avenue with his eccentric grandmother. His parents are young radicals in hiding from the FBI – he has never even met his father and he last saw his mother at the age of two. Ché is ecstatic when a woman called Dial – who he believes is his mother – appears at his front door to take him out for lunch

Author: Paul Levine
Publisher: Bantam
Keywords: illegal
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2009-03-24
List price: $22.00
ISBN-10: 0553806734
ISBN-13: 9780553806731

The Edgar-nominated author acclaimed for his crackling courtroom scenes delivers an adrenaline-laced, no-holds-barred thriller—his most powerful novel to date—as a disgraced lawyer travels the twisted border between justice and revenge.Haunted by a tragedy in his past and wanted by the cops for his latest malfeasance, trial lawyer Jimmy “Royal” Payne needs to skip town. That’s when he crosses paths with twelve-year-old Tino Perez, newly arrived from Mexico with no money and no papers. The gutsy kid first robs Payne, then pleads for his help. Marisol, the boy’s mother, is missing, a

Author: K., R. Sutter
Publisher: Dog Ear Publishing, LLC
Keywords: healthy, illegal
Number of Pages: 76
Published: 2006-03-17
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1598581406
ISBN-13: 9781598581409

Terminally ill????? Disease isn’t something you get. Health is something you lose. It seems almost absurd in its simplicity. You were healthy once. What happened? Where do these diseases come from? Are they just floating around in the ether somewhere randomly falling on an unsuspecting victim? And there’s so many of them now. Fifty years ago Cancer was at one in two thousand. Today it’s one in three. Back in 1971 President Nixon declared war on cancer. Looks like the war on cancer went the same way as the war in Vietnam. We lost. Why? I am Dr. Kenneth R. Sutter II. I a

中文参考译名:他的非法自我（老式国际）
Author: Peter Carey
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: international, vintage, illegal
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2009-02-10
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 030727649X
ISBN-13: 9780307276490

Seven-year-old Che Selkirk was raised in isolated privilege by his New York grandmother. The son of radical student activists at Harvard in the late sixties, Che has grown up with the hope that one day his parents will come back for him. So when a woman arrives at his front door and whisks him away to the jungles of Queensland, he is confronted with the most important questions of his life: Who is his real mother? Did he know his real father? And if all he suspects is true, what should he do? In this artful tale of a young boy’s journey, His Illegal Self lifts your spirit in the most une

Author: Robert Turkington
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: purposes, illegal, used, chemicals
Number of Pages: 456
Published: 2009-10-26
List price: $99.95
ISBN-10: 0470187808
ISBN-13: 9780470187807

Chemicals Used for Illegal Purposes helps hazmat professionals and others determine if chemicals at a suspicious site could be used to make illegal substances such as drugs, explosives, pyrotechnics, nerve agents, and other toxins. It profiles dangerous chemicals, covering their appearance, smell, incompatibilities, and identification tests. It features diagrams to assist responders in identifying illegal laboratories. This is a hands-on reference for crime scene responders, policemen, firemen, bomb squad members, drug enforcement officials, and others who need to be able to identify potential

Author: Lee V. Barton
Publisher: Nova Science Publishers
Keywords: policies, governmental, drugs, illegal
Number of Pages: 153
Published: 2007-04-26
List price: $89.00
ISBN-10: 1600213510
ISBN-13: 9781600213519

This book deals with the rising epidemic of illegal drug use and its relation to governmental policies. Drug trafficking in the United States has become a significant problem, both within the country and from foreign sources. The development of international drug policies can prove difficult, as other countries exhibit different national policies, goals and concerns. Terrorist funding is yet another threat resulting from drug trafficking activity.

Author: Josiah Heyman
Publisher: Berg Publishers
Keywords: practices, illegal, states
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1999-03-01
List price: $37.95
ISBN-10: 1859732623
ISBN-13: 9781859732625

Joining theories of states and state formation with theories of illegal practices, this pioneering book traces the unholy alliance of official practices with criminality. Criminal subcultures, mafias and gangs have been the subject of a great deal of attention, as have formal policy approaches of the state. However, the interaction of state police apparatuses with illegal practices has been neglected, despite the recent Foucauldian emphasis on discourses of power, order and disorder.Written by leading experts in the fields of anthropology and history, this book asks why illegal practices -- i