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Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Many have hailed the widespread use of generic drugs as one of the most important public-health developments of the twenty-first century. Today, almost 90 percent of our pharmaceutical market is comprised of generics, the majority of which are manufactured overseas. We have been reassured by our doctors, our pharmacists and our regulators that generic drugs are identical to their brand-name counterparts, just less expensive. But is this really true?...
Publisher
A&E Home Video
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Compares and contrasts what Bernie Madoff did with other Ponzi schemes throughout history. Plus an additional program, Crash: The Next Great Depression? which looks at the current financial crisis in the U.S. and compares and contrasts it with what led up to the Great Depression, its immediate aftermath, and the efforts that helped the country break free from it. Includes interviews.
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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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English
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Mags leaves her banking job in New York and travels to her aunt's Nevada ranch with her wire-haired dachshund, Baxter, only to discover that her aunt and neighbors are battling to prevent their water from being diverted to Reno, but when the conflict is exacerbated, Mags's aunt becomes suspect of murder.
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Series
Publisher
Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Publisher
WildBlue Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"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....
49) A killer bargain
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The killer bargain referred to by this hard-hitting documentary's title is the availability of cheap consumer goods, imported by Western companies, whose prices don't reflect the actual human and environmental costs associated with their production in the developing world. Consumers remain largely unaware of the conditions under which the goods they buy are produced; this film makes those connections shockingly clear. While some retailers and manufacturers...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Sisters Peyton and Skye--one the co-anchor of a hit morning show, the other a stay-at-home mom in the New York suburbs--seem to have everything, until an Ivy League college admissions sting involving Peyton's husband threatens all they have worked for.
Peyton has a seat at the anchor desk of the most-watched morning show, an adoring husband and a Princeton-bound daughter. Skye, her sister, is a stay-at-home mom living in a glitzy suburb of New York,...
51) Crude Deception
Author
Publisher
DSI Publications
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
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...
52) Admission
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"An affluent teen who thinks she is headed off to the college of her dreams, must reckon with the truth and possibly her own guilt when her mother is arrested in a college admissions bribery scandal"--
Chloe Wynn Berringer is headed off to the college of her dreams. She's going to prom with the boy she's had a crush on since middle school. Her best friend always has her back, and her mom, a B-list Hollywood celebrity, may finally be on her way to...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
After a quarrel over her decision to follow in her grandfather's footsteps and run for Congress, Nell MacDermott's husband dies in a boat explosion, and Nell, who has long possessed psychic gifts, must find out who killed him before she becomes the next victim.
54) The heist
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2013], ©2013
Language
English
Description
Just when it seems that international crook Nicolas Fox has been captured for good, he pulls off his greatest con of all: he convinces the FBI to offer him a job, working side by side with Special Agent Kate O'Hare. Problem is, teaming up to stop a corrupt investment banker who's hiding on a private island in Indonesia is going to test O'Hare's patience and Fox's skill -- if the two don't kill each other first.
Author
Publisher
Abrams / Vearsa Limited
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
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...
56) The Watchman
Author
Publisher
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,...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Larry is a small town sheriff who witnesses what he believes is a kidnapping and rushes to rescue the woman. The kidnappers turn out to be FBI agents assigned to protect her and deliver her to a big corporation corruption trial in Chicago. The agents, it turns out, are found to be on the take and are villains who are bent on killing her.
58) Cure
Author
Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
New York City medical examiner Laurie Montgomery returns to work to investigate the mysterious death of CIA agent Kevin Markham, and questions why the toxicology report doesn't agree with her suspicions that he was poisoned.
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Examines the growth of lobbying and its implications for American politics, detailing the organized special interest groups and their role in shaping policy and funding elections, and how lobbyists have undermined government efforts in critical areas.
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Series
Language
English
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Best friends, James Lessor and Skip Moore are still stuck in dead end jobs. When Skip lands a job to install a state-or-the-art security system for Synco Systems, they think their dreams have finally come true. But, as usual for these two, things are not exactly what they seem.
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