Product Description: Read The Camarena Story And Find Out Why The Drug Trade Is Killing Us. Desperados takes you to the front line of the drug wars. You'll come face to face to with: Swaggering, flamboyant drug lords who rule over immense empires; Federal police and government officials who are silent partners in the vicious drug trade; A Cia locked in a unholy relationship with the Mexican security police; The Regan administration's duplicitous and ambivalent fight against narcotics...read more

Since the successful first edition of The Gold Standard in Theory and History was published in 1985, much new research has been completed. This updated version contains five new essays including:* post 1990 literature on exchange rate target zones* a discussion of the light shed by the gold standard on the European Monetary Union debate* a new introduction by Eichengreen with Marc FlandreauThis will be an invaluable resource for students of macroeconomics, international economics and economic history at all levels.

Product Description: If ever there was an odd couple.A suburban mom and a coal miner's son.Bonnie Klapper is an attractive, funny, off-beat but tenacious federal prosecutor who constantly thinks out of the box, often to the chagrin of her superiors. She is a full-time Assistant US Attorney, and a full-time mom to two sons, one of whom is a special needs child...read more

Product Description: The mean streets of Boston in the 1970s played host to a nefarious underworld of pimps, pushers, and addicts, and Paul "Sully" Doyle was there. From Kenmore Square hippies to South Boston junkies to Combat Zone prostitutes, this undercover operative with the federal Drug Enforcement Administration met every type of unsavory character in town in his fight to bust violent rings of dope, coke, and smack dealers during a turbulent era in the city's history...read more

A twenty-five-year DEA veteran argues that mismanagement is costing the lives of agents

Product Description: Focuses on successful strategies for confronting drug trafficking in federally subsidized inner-city housing developments. This study is about the details of drug fighting: the institutional moves that lie below the policy exhortations...read more