Author: Jeffrey Robinson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781559703857
Category : Money laundering
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Every year, in banks and financial sinks throughout the world, billions of dollars in dirty money get washed clean. Most of it comes from drugs. The people laundering the money, however, are upstanding lawyers, bankers, and accountants. Robinson proves why any war on drugs must begin with the mind-boggling profits the drug trade produces.
The Laundrymen
Author: Jeffrey Robinson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781559703857
Category : Money laundering
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Every year, in banks and financial sinks throughout the world, billions of dollars in dirty money get washed clean. Most of it comes from drugs. The people laundering the money, however, are upstanding lawyers, bankers, and accountants. Robinson proves why any war on drugs must begin with the mind-boggling profits the drug trade produces.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781559703857
Category : Money laundering
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Every year, in banks and financial sinks throughout the world, billions of dollars in dirty money get washed clean. Most of it comes from drugs. The people laundering the money, however, are upstanding lawyers, bankers, and accountants. Robinson proves why any war on drugs must begin with the mind-boggling profits the drug trade produces.
The Chinese Laundryman
Author: Paul C.P. Siu
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 9780814778746
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
The definitive scholarly study of Chinese laundries and those who worked in them in the U.S. Considered a classic piece by students of overseas Chinese and Asian American studies, "The Chinese Laundryman" is also a landmark in the study of ethnic occupations and in the social and cultural history of the immigrant in America. *Lightning Print On Demand Title
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 9780814778746
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
The definitive scholarly study of Chinese laundries and those who worked in them in the U.S. Considered a classic piece by students of overseas Chinese and Asian American studies, "The Chinese Laundryman" is also a landmark in the study of ethnic occupations and in the social and cultural history of the immigrant in America. *Lightning Print On Demand Title
The Laundry Man
Author: Kenneth Rijock
Publisher: Penguin Global
ISBN: 9780241954768
Category : Criminals
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Meet Ken Rijock, decorated Vietnam veteran, high flying lawyer, and one of the world's biggest money launderers. In 1980s Miami, he was the middle man between the Colombians and the domestic cartels flooding America's streets with cocaine. 'The Laundry Man' is the story of an ordinary man caught up in an extraordinary life.
Publisher: Penguin Global
ISBN: 9780241954768
Category : Criminals
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Meet Ken Rijock, decorated Vietnam veteran, high flying lawyer, and one of the world's biggest money launderers. In 1980s Miami, he was the middle man between the Colombians and the domestic cartels flooding America's streets with cocaine. 'The Laundry Man' is the story of an ordinary man caught up in an extraordinary life.
The Fra
The Fra
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arts and crafts movement
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arts and crafts movement
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
Chinese Laundries
Author: John Jung
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1430329793
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
A social history of the role of the Chinese laundry on the survival of early Chinese immigrants in the U.S.during the Chinese Exclusion law period, 1882-1943, and in Canada during the years of the Head Tax, 1885-1923, and exclusion law, 1923-1947. Why and how Chinese got into the laundry business and how they had to fight discriminatory laws and competition from white-owned laundries to survive. Description of their lives, work demands, and living conditions. Reflections by a sample of children who grew up living in the backs of their laundries provide vivid first-person glimpses of the difficult lives of Chinese laundrymen and their families.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1430329793
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
A social history of the role of the Chinese laundry on the survival of early Chinese immigrants in the U.S.during the Chinese Exclusion law period, 1882-1943, and in Canada during the years of the Head Tax, 1885-1923, and exclusion law, 1923-1947. Why and how Chinese got into the laundry business and how they had to fight discriminatory laws and competition from white-owned laundries to survive. Description of their lives, work demands, and living conditions. Reflections by a sample of children who grew up living in the backs of their laundries provide vivid first-person glimpses of the difficult lives of Chinese laundrymen and their families.
To Save China, To Save Ourselves
Author: Renqiu Yu
Publisher: Temple University Press
ISBN: 1439907714
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Combining archival research in Chinese language sources with oral history interviews, Renqiu Yu examines the Chinese Hand Laundry Alliance (CHLA), an organization that originated in 1933 to help Chinese laundry workers break their isolation in American society. Yu brings to life the men who labored in New York laundries, depicting their meager existence, their struggles against discrimination and exploitation, and their dreams of returning to China. The persistent efforts of the CHLA succeeded in changing the workers' status in American society and improving the image of the Chinese among the American public. Yu is especially concerned with the political activities of the CHLA, which was founded in reaction to proposed New York City legislation that would have put the Chinese laundries out of business. When the conservative Chinese social organization could not help the launderers, they broke with tradition and created their own organization. Not only did the CHLA defeat the legislative requirements that would have closed them down, but their "people's diplomacy" won American support for China during its war with Japan. The CHLA staged a campaign in the 1930s and 40s which took as its slogan, "To Save China, To Save Ourselves." Focusing on this campaign, Yu also examines the complex relationship between the democratically oriented CHLA and the Chinese American left in the 1930s.
Publisher: Temple University Press
ISBN: 1439907714
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Combining archival research in Chinese language sources with oral history interviews, Renqiu Yu examines the Chinese Hand Laundry Alliance (CHLA), an organization that originated in 1933 to help Chinese laundry workers break their isolation in American society. Yu brings to life the men who labored in New York laundries, depicting their meager existence, their struggles against discrimination and exploitation, and their dreams of returning to China. The persistent efforts of the CHLA succeeded in changing the workers' status in American society and improving the image of the Chinese among the American public. Yu is especially concerned with the political activities of the CHLA, which was founded in reaction to proposed New York City legislation that would have put the Chinese laundries out of business. When the conservative Chinese social organization could not help the launderers, they broke with tradition and created their own organization. Not only did the CHLA defeat the legislative requirements that would have closed them down, but their "people's diplomacy" won American support for China during its war with Japan. The CHLA staged a campaign in the 1930s and 40s which took as its slogan, "To Save China, To Save Ourselves." Focusing on this campaign, Yu also examines the complex relationship between the democratically oriented CHLA and the Chinese American left in the 1930s.
End of the Century
Author: Chris Roberson
Publisher: Pyr
ISBN: 1591028396
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
At the eve of the new millennium, teenager Alice Fell is alone on the streets of a strange city, friendless and without a pound to her name. She is not sure whether she's losing her mind, or whether she is called by inescapable visions to some special destiny. Along with a strange man named Stillman Waters, a retired occultist and spy – or so he claims – she finds herself pursued by strange creatures, and driven to steal the priceless "vanishing gem" that may contain the answers to the mysteries that plague her. A century earlier, consulting detective Sandford Blank, accompanied by his companion Roxanne Bonaventure, is called upon to solve a string of brutal murders on the eve of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee. The police believe that Jack the Ripper is back on the streets, but Blank believes that this is a new killer, one whose motive is not violence or mayhem, but the discovery of the Holy Grail itself. And what of the corpse-white Huntsman and his unearthly hounds, who stalks the gaslit streets of London? And in the sixth century, Galaad, a young man driven by strange dreams of a lady in white and a tower of glass, travels to the court of the high king Artor in Londinium, abandoned stronghold of the Roman Empire in Britain. With Galaad’s bizarre dreams as their only guide, Artor and his loyal captains journey west to the Summerlands, there to face a threat that could spell the end of the new-forged kingdom of Britain. These three adventures—Dark Ages fantasy, gaslit mystery, and modern-day jewel heist—alternate until the barriers between the different times begin to break down, and our heroes confront the secrets that connect the Grail, the Glass Tower, and the vanishing gem. And lurking behind it all, the entity known only as Omega.
Publisher: Pyr
ISBN: 1591028396
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
At the eve of the new millennium, teenager Alice Fell is alone on the streets of a strange city, friendless and without a pound to her name. She is not sure whether she's losing her mind, or whether she is called by inescapable visions to some special destiny. Along with a strange man named Stillman Waters, a retired occultist and spy – or so he claims – she finds herself pursued by strange creatures, and driven to steal the priceless "vanishing gem" that may contain the answers to the mysteries that plague her. A century earlier, consulting detective Sandford Blank, accompanied by his companion Roxanne Bonaventure, is called upon to solve a string of brutal murders on the eve of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee. The police believe that Jack the Ripper is back on the streets, but Blank believes that this is a new killer, one whose motive is not violence or mayhem, but the discovery of the Holy Grail itself. And what of the corpse-white Huntsman and his unearthly hounds, who stalks the gaslit streets of London? And in the sixth century, Galaad, a young man driven by strange dreams of a lady in white and a tower of glass, travels to the court of the high king Artor in Londinium, abandoned stronghold of the Roman Empire in Britain. With Galaad’s bizarre dreams as their only guide, Artor and his loyal captains journey west to the Summerlands, there to face a threat that could spell the end of the new-forged kingdom of Britain. These three adventures—Dark Ages fantasy, gaslit mystery, and modern-day jewel heist—alternate until the barriers between the different times begin to break down, and our heroes confront the secrets that connect the Grail, the Glass Tower, and the vanishing gem. And lurking behind it all, the entity known only as Omega.
Thinking Orientals
Author: Henry Yu
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198027613
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
Thinking Orientals is a groundbreaking study of Asian Americans and the racial formation of twentieth-century American society. It reveals the influential role Asian Americans played in constructing the understandings of Asian American identity. It examines the unique role played by sociologists, particularly sociologists at the University of Chicago, in the study of the "Oriental Problem" before World War II and also analyzes the internment of Japanese Americans during the war and the subsequent "model minority" profile.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198027613
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
Thinking Orientals is a groundbreaking study of Asian Americans and the racial formation of twentieth-century American society. It reveals the influential role Asian Americans played in constructing the understandings of Asian American identity. It examines the unique role played by sociologists, particularly sociologists at the University of Chicago, in the study of the "Oriental Problem" before World War II and also analyzes the internment of Japanese Americans during the war and the subsequent "model minority" profile.
Cobbett's Parliamentary Debates
Author: Great Britain. Parliament
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1038
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1038
Book Description