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(0)Tom Mueller
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
596 pages ; 24 cm
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.
We live in a period of sweeping corruption -- and a golden age of whistleblowing. Over the past few decades, principled insiders who expose wrongdoing have gained unprecedented legal and social stature, emerging...
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
238 pages, 16 unnumbered p of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
For millennia, fresh olive oil has been one of life's necessities, not just as food but also as medicine, a beauty aid, and a vital element of religious ritual. Today's researchers are continuing to confirm the remarkable, life giving properties of true extra-virgin, and "extra-virgin Italian" has become the highest standard of quality. But what if this symbol of purity has become deeply corrupt? Starting with an explosive article in The New Yorker,...