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Money laundering is as old as money itself and yet the laws designed to prevent it are as ineffective as they ever have been.Todays anti-money laundering (AML) regulations were designed to eliminate profits from drug trafficking and combat tax evasion, terrorism and the spread of weapons of mass destruction. However, the modern laws have done little to stop crime and have instead significantly increased the regulatory burden on legitimate businesses and consumers. As one banker at an AML conference quipped, This does not stop money laundering; it just enables those in the know to charge more.Indeed, AML laws have laid the foundations for massive and sophisticated criminal enterprise support services that help criminals evade detection.How to Launder Money: A guide for law enforcement, prosecutors and policymakers offers a peek behind the veil to see the bent levers of finance and how they are pulled. It also examines how many who have pulled them, including one of the authors, have ended up behind bars. While acknowledging the challenges faced by law enforcement in a borderless world, it also provides concrete recommendations on how to reduce the crime associated with money laundering.The criminals already know how to launder money; this is, in part, their inside story. This book is for the rest of us, who want to know how the laws that are supposed to protect us from crime are in reality doing more damage than ever before.

Dos ventos gelados do Norte europeu surgiram histórias que atravessaram séculos e ainda hoje influenciam livros, filmes, séries e jogos. A mitologia nórdica é um universo marcado por deuses poderosos, herois corajosos, criaturas lendarias e profecias sobre o fim do mundo. Neste livro, o leitor e conduzido por uma jornada epica atraves dos mitos e lendas dos povos nordicos, conhecendo figuras iconicas como Odin, Thor, Loki, Freya e Tyr, alem das historias que envolvem gigantes, anes, drages e o temido Ragnarok. Cada narrativa revela valores como honra, coragem, destino e sacrificio, fundamentais para a cultura viking. Com uma linguagem acessivel e envolvente, a obra combina pesquisa historica e narrativa mitologica, tornando-se ideal tanto para quem esta tendo o primeiro contato com a mitologia nordica quanto para leitores que desejam aprofundar seus conhecimentos. Uma leitura indispensavel para amantes de mitologia, historia antiga e do fascinante mundo dos vikings.

A mitologia japonesa é um universo fascinante onde deuses, espíritos e forças da natureza coexistem com o mundo humano, revelando uma visão única sobre a vida, a morte e o sagrado. Nesta obra, o leit

Seleço de versos nascidos entre 1998 e 2022, soletrados principalmente em noites cujas imperfeiçes, em meio a escurido, conseguiram se camuflar com duvidosa eficiencia e nas quais as rimas se conheceram aos tropeços, impunes e desavergonhadas. E fato que algumas tardes intrometidas colaboraram; guardanapos rascunhados em mesinhas de bar com o velho papo de sempre: tempo, saudade, paixo, amor, todos esses elementos com os quais os versos costumam sonhar. E aos quais nos, pobres criaturas sentimentais, nos submetemos com indevida, mas necessaria, intensidade como se no houvesse amanh.

A grieving detective on the edge. A missing woman. And a serial killer hunting in the shadows of Stockholms cobbled alleys.Criminal investigator Thomas Ravnsholdt known as Ravn is adrift after the brutal murder of his wife. Once a relentless detective in Copenhagens special crime unit, he is now forced on leave, living in self-imposed exile on his neglected boat, with his grumpy Old English Bulldog.But when a friend pleads for help finding a missing young woman, Ravn is pulled back into a grim world he swore hed abandoned. His search crosses the cold waters between Denmark and Sweden, leading him to the stark and forbidding scrapyards of Stockholm, where victims are preserved like grotesque trophies. As the body count rises, Ravn must confront his own haunted past to deliver justice and perhaps find a path to redemption.Dark and moody, "The Reckoning" is a Nordic noir thriller perfect for fans of Netflixs "The Chestnut Man", and brooding Harry Bosch-like detectives such as Jo Nesbos Harry Hole and Jussi Adler-Olsens Carl Mrck in "Department Q".Previously published as "Derailed".Praise for Michael Katz Krefelds INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER "Darkness Calls":"An intricate police procedural, taut with intrigue that explodes into terrifying violence." Kirkus Reviews"If you like fast-paced thrillers with unpredictable plot lines that pit good versus evilwith some of that Nordic noir atmospherethen Michael is certainly the author read." Crime Fiction Lover"For those who take their Nordic noir extra bleak" Kirkus Reviews

Em meio à caótica cidade de São Paulo, o detetive Clark persegue um assassino em série impiedoso, responsável por transformar mulheres em vítimas silenciosas.Sua esposa, Silvia, convive com um transt

Uma jovem ruiva de invulgar beleza é encontrada morta em uma luxuosa residência. O principal suspeito, um respeitável senhor de provecta idade, retorna ao local do crime e acaba morto em confronto co

"Quando tu te encontrares, sentirás o que procuravas."Durante nossa árdua jornada em busca de uma profissão, desejos, convivência familiar, amigos, amores ou aquele único amor que desejamos ter sempr

"With Pictures and Maps"My Disillusionment in Russia is a famous book by Emma Goldman. The book was based on a much longer manuscript entitled "My Two Years in Russia" which was an eyewitness account of events in Russia from 1920 to 1921 that ensued in the wake of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and which culminated in the Kronstadt rebellion.Long-concerned about developments with the Bolsheviks, Goldman described the rebellion as the "final wrench. I saw before me the Bolshevik State, formidable, crushing every constructive revolutionary effort, suppressing, debasing, and disintegrating everything".Much to Goldmans dismay, only upon receiving the first printed copies of the book did she become aware that the publisher had changed the title; and the last twelve chapters were entirely missing, including an Afterword which Goldman felt was "the most vital part" of the book. Sympathetic to the initial Russian Revolution, the (complete) book is nonetheless a strong and impassioned left critique of the Bolshevik Revolution as well as Vladimir Lenins New Economic Policy-an "all-powerful, centralized Government with State Capitalism as its economic expression".

"Winner of the Pulitzer Prize"So Big is a 1924 novel written by Edna Ferber. The book was inspired by the life of Antje Paarlberg in the Dutch community of South Holland, Illinois, a Chicago suburb. It won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1925.The story follows the life of a young woman, Selina Peake De Jong, who decides to be a school teacher in farming country. During her stay on the Pool family farm, she encourages the young Roelf Pool to follow his interests, which include art. Upon his mothers death, Roelf runs away to France. Meanwhile, Selina marries a Dutch farmer named Pervus. They have a child together, Dirk, whom she nicknames "So Big," from the common question and answer "How big is baby? ""So-o-o-o big!".Pervus becomes ill and dies, and Selina is forced to take over working on the farm to give Dirk a future. As Dirk gets older, he works as an architect but is more interested in making money than creating buildings and becomes a stock broker, much to his mothers disappointment. His love interest, Dallas OMara, an acclaimed artist, echoes this sentiment by trying to convince Dirk that there is more to life than money.

THIS book contains twelve stories of great inventions, with a concluding chapter on famous inventors of today. Each of the inventions described has added to the comforts and joys of the world. Each of these inventions has brought about new industries in which many men and women have found employment. These stories, therefore, offer an easy approach to an understanding of the origin of certain parts of our civilization, and of the rise of important industries.The story of each invention is interwoven with that of the life of its inventor. The lives of inventors furnish materials of the highest educative value. These materials are not only interesting, but they convey their own vivid lessons on how big things are brought about, and on the traits of mind and heart which make for success.It is hoped that this book will set its readers to thinking how the conveniences of life have been obtained, and how progress has been made in the industrial world. While appealing to their interest in inventions and in men who accomplish great things, may it also bring them into contact with ideas which will grip their hearts, fire the imagination, and mold their ideals into worthier forms.

"A Novel of the Wilderness"A Gentleman of Courage, A novel of love and adventure in a French-Canadian pioneer village on Lake Superior in the 1890s.Pierre Gourdon had the love of God in his heart, a mans love for a mans God, and it seemed to him that in this golden sunset of a July afternoon the great Canadian wilderness all about him was whispering softly the truth of his faith and his creed. For Pierre was the son of a runner of the streams and forests, as that sons father had been before him, and love of adventure ran in his blood, and romance, too; so it was only in the wild and silent places that he felt the soul in him attuned to that fellowship with nature which the good teachers at Ste. Anne de Beaupre did not entirely approve. Nature was Pierres God, and would ever be until he died. And though he had crept up the holy stair at Ste. Annes on his knees, and had touched the consecrated water from the sacred font, and had looked with awe upon mountains of canes and crutches left by those who had come afflicted and doubting and had departed cured and believing, still he was sure that in this sunset of a certain July afternoon he was nearer to the God.

Poirot Investigates is a short story collection written by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by The Bodley Head in March 1924. In the eleven stories, famed eccentric detective Hercule Poirot solves a variety of mysteries involving greed, jealousy, and revenge. The American version of this book, published by Dodd, Mead and Company in 1925, featured a further three stories. The UK first edition featured an illustration of Poirot on the dust jacket by W. Smithson Broadhead, reprinted from the 21 March 1923 issue of The Sketch magazine.Poirot receives a visit from Miss Mary Marvell, the famous American film star on her visit to London. She has received three letters, handed to her by a Chinese man, which warn her to return her fabulous diamond jewel, the "Western Star", to where it came from the left eye of an idol before the next full moon. Her husband, Gregory Rolf, who bought it from a Chinese man in San Francisco, gave Mary the jewel three years ago. The pair are going to stay at Yardly Chase, the home of Lord and Lady Yardly when the moon is next full to discuss the making of a film there and Mary is determined to go with her diamond.

The struggle of man against his unseen and silent enemies, the lower or bacterial forms of life, once one becomes alive to it, has an irresistible fascination. More dramatic than any novel, more sombre and terrifying than a battle fought in the dark, would be the intimate picture of the battle of our bodies against the hosts of disease.If we could see with the eye of the microscope and feel and hear with the delicacy of chemical and physical interactions between atoms, the heat and intensity and the savage relentlessness of that battle would blot out all perception of anything but itself. Just as there are sounds we cannot hear, and light we cannot see, so there is a world of small things, living in us and around us, which sways our destiny and carries astray the best laid schemes of our wills and personalities.The gradual development of an awareness, a realization of the power of this world of minute things, has been the index of progress in the bodily well-being of the human race through the centuries marking the rebirth of medicine after the sleep of the Dark Ages.

The House on the Borderland is one of the most unsettling works of early twentieth-century fantastic horror. Presented as a manuscript discovered among the ruins of an isolated house, the narrative recounts the experience of a man who inhabits a dwelling perched on the edge of an inexplicable abyss, where increasingly disturbing phenomena begin to occur.With visionary imagination and an atmosphere of cosmic desolation, William Hope Hodgson crafts a tale that transcends traditional terror and anticipates modern cosmic horror. The House on the Borderland is a novel in which human fragility confronts the incomprehensible vastness of the universe.

Em Algum Lugar é um romance intenso sobre tempo, memória e pertencimento. Kairon, um jovem que vive no piloto automático, encontra em Ana e no gato Tempo um respiro em sua rotina cinzenta. O que começa como encontros casuais no onibus se transforma em uma historia de descobertas, amor e cicatrizes. Conforme os dois compartilham alegrias, traumas e sonhos, o tempo passa a costurar suas vidas, revelando que algumas conexes so maiores do que o acaso. Mas o destino tambem guarda sombras: perdas, desigualdades e escolhas dificeis que desafiam o amor e a coragem de ambos.Em Algum Lugar fala sobre reencontros possiveis e impossiveis, sobre carregar fantasmas e aprender a amar apesar deles. E uma narrativa que percorre silencios, afetos, dores historicas e a beleza da resistencia. Um livro que olha para personagens negros com delicadeza e profundidade, trazendo a tona temas de pertencimento, identidade e a busca por um lugar no mundo. No fim, resta a pergunta que ecoa: quando o tempo e o destino se cruzam, o que realmente permanece?

We have all experienced it: those rare moments when time seems to vanish, self-consciousness fades away, and our performance skyrockets. We call it being "in the zone" or in a state of "Flow." For decades, this optimal state of consciousness was considered accidental or reserved for elite athletes. However, recent advances in neuroscience have decoded the specific neurochemical cocktaildopamine, norepinephrine, endorphins, anandamide, and serotoninthat creates this state."The Flow Trigger" moves beyond the theory of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi to provide a practical, engineering-based approach to high performance. Emily Thorne presents a manual of "Flow Triggers"environmental, psychological, and social constraints that reliably force the brain into hyper-focus. You will learn how to structure your workday to ride the "Flow Cycle," how to balance the challenge-skills ratio to avoid anxiety or boredom, and how to use risk and novelty to hack your attention span.This book is for developers, writers, executives, and creatives who can no longer afford to wait for inspiration to strike, but need a repeatable protocol to access their highest cognitive potential on command.

When Columbus brought corn back from the Americas, it was hailed as a miracle crop. It grew anywhere and fed everyone. But the Europeans failed to bring back the crucial indigenous cooking method: "Nixtamalization," soaking the corn in lime water to release Vitamin B3 (Niacin). Without this process, a diet of corn is slowly lethal."The Corn Curse" tells the horrifying story of the Pellagra epidemic that swept through Europe and the American South for centuries. Victims developed pale skin that blistered in the sun, receded gums, aggression, and eventual insanity. The book explores the compelling theory that these symptoms fueled the vampire myths of the 18th century.For decades, doctors blamed the disease on bad genes or germs, ignoring the simple truth that the Native Americans had known for millennia. It is a story of colonial arrogance, medical blindness, and how discarding traditional knowledge can lead to a public health catastrophe. It took until the 20th century to realize that the cure was simply adding limestone to the pot.

On Thanksgiving Eve 1971, a man calling himself Dan Cooper boarded a flight from Portland to Seattle, ordered a bourbon and soda, and calmly handed the stewardess a note claiming he had a bomb in his briefcase. What followed is the only unsolved air piracy case in commercial aviation history."The Skyjackers Ghost" dissects the legend of D.B. Cooper, the polite criminal who ransomed a plane for $200,000, demanded four parachutes, and then jumped into the freezing rain over the Washington wilderness, never to be seen again. Was he a genius daredevil who escaped to a tropical island, or a desperate amateur who died on impact in the dense forest?This book explores the thousands of FBI files, the discovery of rotting cash on a riverbank years later, and the fascinating lineup of suspectsfrom special forces veterans to transgender mechanics. It goes beyond the facts to examine why Cooper became an American folk hero, a symbol of anti-establishment rebellion who beat the system and vanished into thin air without hurting a soul.

We spend nine months preparing for the birth, decorating the nursery, and reading about labor. But almost no one prepares for what happens the moment they get home. "The Missing Trimester" addresses the concept that human babies are born "early" compared to other mammals, due to our large brains. The first three months of life are essentially a "fourth trimester" where the fetus is outside the womb but still needs a womb-like environment to survive.This book is a survival guide for exhausted parents navigating this biological bridge. It explains why newborns cry, why they cant sleep alone, and why the "cry it out" method is developmentally inappropriate at this stage. It offers practical techniques for recreating the sensory experience of the wombswaddling, white noise, and rhythmic movementto trigger the "calming reflex."Beyond baby care, it focuses on the mothers physical and emotional recovery, a topic often neglected in modern healthcare. From healing after birth to managing the hormone crash, this book validates the struggle of the early days and provides a roadmap for turning chaos into connection.