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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Formats
Description
Presents an account of the FIFA corruption scandal that implicated nearly every aspect of international soccer, sharing insights into the roles of key personalities while tracing the efforts of law enforcement officials to expose the truth.
2) Graduation
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Romanian
Description
Blending rigorous naturalism with the precise construction of a thriller, this Cannes award-winning drama from Cristian Mungiu sheds light on the high stakes and ethical complexities of life in contemporary Romania. As his daughter nears high-school graduation, Romeo, an upstanding doctor, counts on her winning a competitive scholarship that will send her to university in England.
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In this follow-up to his film BIGGER FASTER STRONGER, director Chris Bell turns his camera on the abuse of prescription drugs and, ultimately, himself. As Bell learns more about Big Pharma, an industry he had been brought up to trust, he falls down his own hole of addiction.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 2014 the death of Bill Broeksmith, a senior executive at Deutsche Bank was a mystery, made more so by the bank's efforts to deter investigation. Enrich traces bank's history back to the 1880s; to helping the Nazis build Auschwitz, and wooing Eastern Bloc authoritarians. He shows how in the 1990s Deutsche made a decision to pursue Wall Street riches, often at the expense of ethics and the law: scamming investors, defrauding regulators, and laundering...
7) Equity
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A female investment banker, fighting to rise to the top of the corporate ladder at a competitive Wall Street firm, navigates a controversial tech IPO in the post-financial crisis world, where loyalties are suspect, regulations are tight, but pressure to bring in "big money" remains high.
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Rachel Maddow's Blowout offers a dark, serpentine, riveting tour of the unimaginably lucrative and corrupt oil-and-gas industry. With her trademark black humor, Maddow takes us on a switchback journey around the globe-from Oklahoma City to Siberia to Equatorial Guinea-exposing the greed and incompetence of Big Oil and Gas. She shows how Russia's rich reserves of crude have, paradoxically, stunted its growth, forcing Putin to maintain his power by...
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014?]
Language
English
Description
When a mysterious heiress asks famed but unscrupulous art appraiser and auctioneer Virgil Oldman to evaluate her late parents' collection yet remains forever unseen behind closed doors, it ignites a spark of curiosity in the normally austere Virgil that soon grows into an all-out obsession. Before long everything in Virgil's carefully constructed life threatens to come apart as he delves ever further into the world of intrigue surrounding his enigmatic...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Ever heard of a labradoodle, a goldendoodle, or a puggle? How about a cockapoo, a pomsky, or a spoodle? You or a friend have certainly been enticed by a "hypoallergenic dog" or smiled at a "teacup." These are not dog breeds that nature created; these are the results of the forced mating or genetic engineering of different breeds, or inbreeding, and popularized by social media and celebrities. In Designer Dogs, Madeline Bernstein, one of the country's...
11) Chinatown
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1974.
Language
English
Description
A landmark movie in the film-noir tradition, CHINATOWN stands as a true screen classic. Jack Nicholson is private eye Jake Gittes, living off the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-war Southern California. Hired by a beautiful socialite (Faye Dunaway) to investigate her husband's extra-marital affair, Gittes is swept into a maelstrom of double dealings and deadly deceits, uncovering a web of personal and political scandals that come crashing together....
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Exposing the invisible - but all-pervasive - public relations industry, Toxic Sludge Is Good for You helps viewers understand the tools PR professionals use to shape public opinion. Naomi Klein, acclaimed journalist and author of the best-selling book No Logo, examines the rise of international branding and the grassroots anti-corporate campaigns it has inspired. She asks viewers to consider the costs of globalization, including the disappearance...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"From the 1920s through 1950, Georgia Tann ran a black-market baby business at the Tennessee Children's Home Society in Memphis. She offered up more than 5,000 orphans tailored to the wish lists of eager parents--hiding the fact that many weren't orphans at all, but stolen children of poor families, desperate single mothers, and women told in maternity words that their babies died. The publication of Lisa Wingate's novel Before We Were Yours brought...
14) So the doves
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Marcus Murray was only 17 when his best friend Melanie vanished from his hometown in Oceanside Kent. Afterward, she seemed like a figment of his imagination - she became a story, a myth, a series of actions and consequences incorporated into his own history.
Working as a journalist years later, Marcus is flush with success at having uncovered a corrupt alliance between a U.K. bank, the arms trade, and the government. So he's a bit disconcerted when...
Author
Series
Paper princess volume 2
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"How has the United States, with more resources than any nation, developed a healthcare system that delivers much poorer results, at near double the cost of any other developed country--such that legendary seer Warren Buffett calls the Medical Industrial Complex "the tapeworm of American economic competitiveness"? Mike Magee, M.D., who worked for years inside the Medical Industrial Complex administering a hospital and then as a senior executive at...
Author
Series
Jamela books volume 2
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Describes the corruption, including drug use, theft, and human trafficking, witnessed by the author during his nine years working in security for the Boston Red Sox and his six years working for Major League Baseball to clean up the sport.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The dramatic expose of how the University of Oregon sold its soul to Nike--and what that means for the future of academics and college sports. In the world of college sports, winning means big dollars. But that money often comes at a cost. University of Nike explores the University of Oregon's complex relationship with its corporate partner, Nike, and how the arrangement has undermined the school's academic integrity, transparency, and campus culture....
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Historically, whistleblowers are rarely rewarded for their efforts. Our cameras were on hand for the keynote address at FEI's Current Financial Reporting Issues conference, as Mich'l Woodford, the former president of the Olympus Corporation, recounted his painful journey from CEO to whistleblower .Learning Objectives: Upon successful completion of this segment, you should be able to: list the allegations made in 2011 by the FACTA publication related...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
The author forces readers to confront fundamental questions about the balance between free speech and state secrecy, and between individual rights and corporate power as he traces the rise of whistleblowing through a series of riveting cases.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Chronicles the rise of the multibillion dollar college sports empire through the experience of the Florida State Seminoles, discussing how ethical and legal compromises undermine the academic missions of universities. "A searing exposé of how the multibillion-dollar college sports empire fails universities, students, and athletes. With little public debate or introspection, our institutions of higher learning have become hostages to the rapacious,...
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