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See Sharp Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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A searing exposé of the misuses and misrepresentations of science from the time of Galileo continuing through to the present day, this new edition includes updates on the asbestos industry, the chemicals industry, the sugar industry, the agriculture industry (the abuse of antibiotics), and the automobile industry (lead in gasoline). The final chapter has been expanded to include the full-blooded assault on science mounted by the Trump administration....
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A bracing call to arms for hockey fans, players, and coaches everywhere Those who have been lured by the the sound of skate blades slicing into fresh ice, by the incomparable speed, split-second decisions, and everything-or-nothing attitude of the game know that hockey can seem like its own world. It's all-consuming and exhilarating, boasting its own language and complex morality code. Yet in another light, that tight community can turn insular, the...
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English
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This “searing and persuasive exposé of the American health care system” demonstrates the disastrous consequences of putting profit before people (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).
In this timely and important book, Mike Magee, M.D., sends out a “Code Blue” —an urgent medical emergency—for the American medical industry itself. A former hospital administrator and Pfizer executive, he has spent years investigating the...
In this timely and important book, Mike Magee, M.D., sends out a “Code Blue” —an urgent medical emergency—for the American medical industry itself. A former hospital administrator and Pfizer executive, he has spent years investigating the...
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Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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The groundbreaking investigation into the corruption of American democracy, beginning at the voting booth This book is the culmination of a 25-year investigation into computerized vote fraud in the United States. Journalists James and Kenneth Collier pose the question, "Why can't we vote the bastards out?" Their answer: "Because we didn't even vote the bastards in." Votescam fills in the blanks for anyone who senses that their ballot is worthless,...
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English
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In this comprehensive account of Bernie Madoff' s epic Ponzi scheme, Catastrophe exposes the real story behind the financial mastermind' s upstanding faç ade-- his confession, his family's involvement, and his unlikely rise and incredible crash. The book defines and explains the whole diabolical debacle, including how Madoff evaded SEC watchdogs and how his far-reaching crime pervaded the world. With first-hand accounts from his victims, the book...
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Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Pub. Date
2007.
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English
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The investment advice and management industry is built on fraud: the idea that professional advisors can predictably and consistently help you get a better rate of return on your investments. The industry sells us on this lie using manipulative tactics that are studied, refined, Wall Street minted, and Madison Avenue packaged. And extraordinarily effective. Here, Michael Edesess exposes the shocking truth that, in fact, behind the success of nearly...
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2009]
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English
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Here is the true story of a top Wall Street player's transformation from a straight-arrow believer to a jaded cynic, who reveals how Wall Street's insider game is really played.
Dan Reingold was a top Wall Street analyst for fourteen years and Salomon Smith Barney analyst Jack Grubman's chief competitor in the red-hot sector of telecom. Reingold was part of the "Street" and believed in it.
But in this action-packed, highly personal memoir written...
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WildBlue Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"A leader of Ministry Watch examines how cases of abuse and financial corruption have hurt the church -- and how to bring back integrity. We live in a secular, skeptical, and cynical age. Many Americans have lost faith in institutions -- including the church. Although the vast majority of Christian leaders serve faithfully, examples of financial fraud, greed, sexual and emotional abuse, and other systemic problems are almost everyday occurrences....
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DSI Publications
Pub. Date
[2011]
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English
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From June 1963, following the author's graduation from the Harvard Business School, until April 2005, when he sold his Resort Hotel company. Mr. Zuckerman enjoyed the privilege of working for forty-two years as a entrepreneurial problem solving leader in what many people regarded as the Golden Age of American Commerce. Through-out his career he would witness, hear, or become aware of major events that appeared to have a significant influence over...
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Abrams / Vearsa Limited
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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The Obie-winning play by the Tony-nominated playwright of A Doll's House, Part 2.
Ray's swum his way to the eve of the Olympic trials. If he makes the team, he'll get a deal with Speedo. If he gets a deal with Speedo, he'll never need a real job. So, when someone's stash of performance-enhancing drugs is found in the locker-room fridge, threatening the entire team's Olympic fate, Ray has to crush the rumors or risk losing everything. Red Speedo...
11) The Watchman
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Pelican Book Group
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
When Detective Noah Adams meets the abused son of a powerful judge, he knows he must intervene-and fast. The violence is escalating, and even Noah's special gifts may not prevent the unthinkable from happening. Relentlessly pursuing two cases, Noah receives a chilling message: Cody's deranged father has taken his son and it's up to Noah to follow the judge's twisted trail to find the boy before it's too late. Corrupt city officials, a missing socialite,...
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The New Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
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English
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"No country in history has ever handed over so many inmates to private corporations. This book looks at the consequences" (Eric Schlosser, bestselling author of Fast Food Nation ). In Prison Profiteers , coeditors Tara Herivel and Paul Wright "follow the money to an astonishing constellation of prison administrators and politicians working in collusion with private parties to maximize profits" ( Publishers Weekly ). From investment banks, guard unions,...
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Winner of the Edgar Award: The riveting account of an audacious fraud scheme that stretched from a Mafia hangout on the Lower East Side to the Vatican. With a round, open face and a penchant for tall tales, Matteo de Lorenzo resembled everyone's kindly uncle. But Uncle Marty, as he was known throughout the Genovese crime family, was one of the New York mob's top earners throughout the 1960s and '70s, the mastermind of a billion-dollar trade in stolen...
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Harlequin
Pub. Date
[2012]
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English
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Nobody's Girl? As far as Faith Latimore was concerned, that was the way she wanted to stay! Why, then, did Lady Sunny seem so determined to throw her together with Harry Holson? Drop-dead gorgeous he might be, but he was also a liar. The trouble was, until she could expose Harry's dirty double-dealings over a hotel construction, Faith was going to have to put up with his company -- and the fact that he obviously found her very attractive, too!
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The Kent State University Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
Description
The absence of medical licensing laws in most states during the years following the American Civil War made it possible for unscrupulous individuals to exploit the weak over- sight and unregulated state issuance of school charters. Diploma Mill traces the rise and spectacular fall of Dr. John Buchanan -- educator, author, and criminal -- and the Eclectic Medical College of Pennsylvania (EMC) over the course of its three decades' existence. Founded...
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Inspector Van In novels volume 3
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Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
Description
"Behind the glamorous facade of elite Belgian society lies a seedy world unseen by the public eye--but nothing stays hidden forever Inspector Pieter Van In is begrudgingly finishing up a healthy lunch when he hears the news: While restoring their farmhouse, the Vermasts have found a skeleton in the backyard. Van In, who happens to be married to the deputy public prosecutor, is determined to solve the case in double-quick time and squeeze in one last...
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Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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New York Times Bestseller: A history of the S&L scandal that caused a financial disaster for American taxpayers: "Hard to put down" (Library Journal).
For most of the 20th century, savings and loans were an invaluable thread of the American economy. But in the 1970s, Congress passed sweeping financial deregulation at the insistence of industry insiders that allowed these once quaint and useful institutions to spread their taxpayer-insured assets...
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Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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A "spellbinding account" of Wall Street deregulation in the 1980s, based on a Pulitzer Prize--winning Washington Post series (The New York Times Book Review). Described by the New York Times Book Review as "worthy of being on the same shelf" as Liar's Poker, Greed and Glory on Wall Street, and Barbarians at the Gate, this eye-opening business history explains how Washington and Wall Street cut the deals that led to a decade of greed. For the Securities...
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Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Pub. Date
2005.
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English
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For the past 20 years, corporations have been receiving huge tax breaks and subsidies in the name of "jobs, jobs, jobs." But, as Greg LeRoy demonstrates in this important new book, it's become a costly scam. Playing states and communities off against each other in a bidding war for jobs, corporations reduce their taxes to next-to-nothing and win subsidy packages that routinely exceed $100,000 per job. But the subsidies come with few strings attached....
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