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Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xxi, 377 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Why were no bankers put in prison after the financial crisis of 2008? Why do CEOs seem to commit wrongdoing with impunity? The problem goes beyond banks deemed "Too Big to Fail" to almost every large corporation in America-- to pharmaceutical companies and auto manufacturers and beyond. The Chickenshit Club-- an inside reference to prosecutors too scared of failure and too daunted by legal impediments to do their jobs-- explains why. A character-driven...
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
ix, 305 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Explores substances, from the everyday to the exotic, that can affect human performance; discusses how they work, which are illegal, and how they can be detected; and examines the ethical issues associated.
325) Eight men out
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
20th anniversary ed., Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Film about the infamous 1919 Chicago White Sox scandal. The young, idealistic White Sox players who, despite being pennant winners, are treated with disdain by their penny-pinching owner/manager. Ripe for a money-making scheme, the demoralized team agrees to throw the World Series. But when they're defeated, a couple of sports writers smell a fix and a national scandal explodes.
Author
Publisher
Twelve, Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xv, 329 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the beginning, Fani Willis saw Donald Trump's crimes as a voting rights case, and an attempt by the former president to deprive the citizens of Georgia of the franchise, a right for which her forebears had bled. Isikoff and Klaidman take us deep inside both the nerve center of Trump's effort to steal the election and the DA's team of prosecutors as they build their case against the president. Their reporting reveals new information on the plot...
327) The nobodies
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
260 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"If there's one thing Joan Dixon knows about herself, it's that she is a damn good journalist. But when she is laid off from yet another soon-to-be-shuttered newspaper, and even the soulless, listicle-writing online jobs have dried up, she is left with few options. Closer to 40 than 30, single, living with her parents again, Joan decides she needs to reinvent herself. She goes to work as a junior copywriter at Bloom, a Los Angeles startup where her...
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
304 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
When PI Talba Wallis goes undercover as a housekeeper for a crooked judge, she dredges up lots of interesting material. He's dirty all right. When the story breaks and the scandal deepens, Judge Champagne winds up dead. And, to her surprise, Talba is asked to investigate. Did politics kill the judge? Or was it his own family?
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 436 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The tale of the Bechtel family dynasty is a classic American business story. It begins with Warren A. 'Dad' Bechtel, who led a consortium that constructed the Hoover Dam. From that auspicious start, the family and its eponymous company would go on to 'build the world, ' from the construction of airports in Hong Kong and Doha, to pipelines and tunnels in Alaska and Europe, to mining and energy operations around the globe. Today Bechtel is one of the...
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (369 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Fortress: After losing their first baby, John and Karen Brennick dare to have another child in a futuristic world that does not allow it. The couple is sentenced to a sadistic prison buried 33 stories beneath the Earth, a place no one has escaped alive.
Total recall 2070 machine dreams: In the year 2070, the planet Earth is crime free and the innocent are defended by the Citizen's Protection Bureau. When one of the Bureau agents is gunned down, the...
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
xiii, 127 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Two-year-old Rachel Haines didnt know that she would be committing to twenty-one years of hard work, dedication, and perseverance as she jumped into the foam pit during her first {28}mommy and me
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
x, 420 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The saga of the Duke lacrosse team members' alleged rape of an African-American stripper and the unraveling of the case against them. Covering all five aspects of the case (personal, legal, academic, political, and media), journalist Taylor and historian Johnson argue that law enforcement, a campaigning prosecutor, biased journalists, and left-leaning academics repeatedly refused to pursue the truth while scapegoats were made of these young men, recklessly...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 276 pages, 8 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
On December 9, 1938, the state of Georgia executed six black men in eighty-one minutes in Tattnall Prison's electric chair. The executions were a record for the state that still stands today. The new prison, built with funds from FDR's New Deal, as well as the fact that the men were tried and executed rather than lynched were thought to be a sign of progress. They were anything but. While those men were arrested, convicted, sentenced, and executed...
Author
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
Abridged.
Physical Desc
4 audio discs (approximately 4.5 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Nicholas Spencer disappeared just as the FDA denied approval for a promising anti-cancer drug. When it is revealed that Spencer apparently embezzled money from his medical research company, Carley DeCarlo, a columnist for Wall Street Weekly is assigned to cover the story. But as she digs into the investigation, she finds more questions than answers, and becomes the target of a dangerous group of swindlers.
339) Deliver us from evil
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A documentary on confessed pedophile priest Oliver O'Grady and attempts by the Catholic Church to cover up his actions. Includes interviews with O'Grady and his victims.
Author
Publisher
Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
310 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of unnumbered plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"After the Communist Revolution, Desmond Shum's grandfather was marked as belonging to a "black category" that included former landlords and rich peasants--meaning the Shums would be stigmatized and impoverished. As Desmond was growing up, he vowed his life would be different. Through hard work and sheer tenacity Shum earned an American college degree and returned to China to establish himself in business. There, he met his future wife, the highly...