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Corporations Corrupt practices Fiction Corruption Elections Corrupt practices United States Environmental responsibility Gas companies Corrupt practices Hazardous wastes National Collegiate Athletic Association. United States Universities and colleges Corrupt practices Universities and colleges Corrupt practices United StatesReingold, Dan
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Publisher / Publication Date: Collins 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.6 REIClark, Simon
Summary: "In this compelling story of greed, theft, and the dark underbelly of globalization and impact investing, two Wall Street Journal financial reporters investigate the shocking collapse of Abraaj-the largest private-equity failure in history-and the face behind its glimmering rise and catastrophic fall"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Business, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.6 CLAEnrich, David
Summary: "A searing exposé by an award-winning journalist of the most scandalous bank in the world, including its shadowy ties to Donald Trump's business empire"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Custom House 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.1 ENRCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.1 ENRThorp, Edward O.
Summary: Traces the author's experiences as a mathematics wizard, author, inventor, hedge-fund manager, and card-counter who revealed casino-beating strategies, invented the first wearable computer, and launched a Wall Street revolution.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 THORP, EDWARD O. THOMaddow, Rachel
Summary: Rachel Maddow 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 338.2 MADRampton, Sheldon
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 659.2 RAMStewart, James B.
Summary: No one could have predicted that Wall Street and its thriving population of financial institutions would almost be brought to its knees from the inside. A small but enormously powerful group of men, some of the biggest and richest names in American finance -- Michael Milken, Ivan Boesky, Martin Siegel, and Dennis Levine -- crafted a scheme to grab billions from unassuming investors through...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.168 STESmith, Jay M.
Summary: "Examines athletic-academic corruption at UNC-Chapel Hill and in NCAA athletics"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796 SMIBarr, John
Summary: "From ESPN journalists whose investigation garnered a Peabody Award, the full devastating story of former physician Larry Nassar's serial abuse of America's elite gymnasts and others, revealing the win-at-all-costs culture in youth athletics and higher education that enabled him"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.15 BARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 364.15 BARMason, Christopher
Summary: Journeys inside the scandal that rocked the art auction world, describing how Alfred Taubman, Diana Brooks, and Christopher Davidge conspired to cheat clients, while describing the operations of Sotheby's and Christie's.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.168 MASToubassy, Samir
Summary: The exodus of Palestinians from their homes during the 1948 war—the Nakba, or catastrophe—is the starting point for this memoir by Samir Toubassy. But it is his trek to excel, while wrestling with his roots and identity as a Palestinian in the shadow of his family’s expulsion that is at the heart of his story. Global business leader, philanthropist, and educator, Samir Toubassy left Jaffa with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Olive Branch Press, an imprint of Interlink Publishing Group, Inc. 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TOUBASSY, SAMIR TOUPatterson, Scott
Summary: A gripping narrative of brilliance and hubris, "The Quants" follows the rise of 1950s-era math geniuses let loose on Wall Street--who then set in motion ever widening market catastrophes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Business 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Abrams, Stacey
Summary: "Voter suppression has plagued America since its inception, and so has the issue of identity-who is really American and what that means. When tied together, as they are in our modern politics, citizens are harmed in overt, subtle, and even personal ways.Stacey Abrams experienced the effects firsthand, running one of the most unconventional races in modern politics as the Democratic nominee for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 324.6 ABRIsikoff, Michael
Summary: "In Find Me the Votes, two years of immersive reporting by Isikoff and Klaidman has produced the most authoritative and dramatic account yet of a defeated president's conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election and how a local Georgia prosecutor--a daughter of the civil rights movement--decided to indict him and his allies for his desperate attempt to hold on to power. From the beginning, Fani...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve, Hachette Book Group 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Examines efforts by a group of citizens in West Virginia to hold the industrial giant Du Pont responsible for poisoning the drinking water supply as a result of dumping toxic chemicals.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DEVSummary: It is the world's biggest white-collar heist involving government corruption at the highest level, abuse of power, and international money laundering. A hot-shot financier embezzles US$ 3.5 billion from Malaysia's wealth fund 1MDB (1Malaysia Development Berhad); money from the audacious scam flows into New York and The Hollywood, where the thieves court A-list celebrities and even finance...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC KLEOsborne, Karen
Summary: "Terminally ill salvage pilot Ash Jackson lost everything in the war with the alien Vai, but she'll be damned if she loses her future. Her plan: to buy, beg, or lie her way out of corporate indenture and find a cure. When her crew salvages a genocidal weapon from a ravaged starship above a dead colony, Ash uncovers a conspiracy of corporate intrigue and betrayal that threatens to turn her into...
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Publisher / Publication Date: TOR 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OSBAndrews, V. C. (Virginia C.)
Summary: "Faith Eden's brief foray into motherhood is marked by tragedy. Distraught that her baby was ripped away from her, she is determined to get little Paula back from the wealthy family who adopted her. Her brother, Trevor, is also anxious to get the baby back and will do anything necessary to do so. But when the dark truth comes to light, this twisted family will stop at nothing to keep outsiders...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC ANDCopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction AndrewsBensinger, Ken
Summary: "This is the definitive, shocking account of the highest-profile corruption case of recent years, spearheaded by U.S. investigators, involving dozens of countries, and implicating nearly every aspect of the world's most popular sport, soccer, including its biggest event, the World Cup. The case began small, boosted by an IRS agent's review of an American soccer official's tax returns. But that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.334 BENCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 796.334 BENRoose, Kevin.
Summary: A business columnist at "New York" magazine explores the secret lives of college graduates working on Wall Street in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.64 ROOClark, Mary Higgins.
Summary: In a novel that reaffirms her reputation as "America's Queen of Suspense," Mary Higgins Clark delivers a gripping tale of deception and tantalizing suspense. Nicholas Spencer, charismatic head of the medical research company Gen-stone, involved in the development of an anticancer vaccine, suddenly disappears. His private plane crashes en route to Puerto Rico, but his body is not found. Early...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLAHart, Matt
Summary: "Game of Shadows meets Shoe Dog in this explosive behind-the-scenes look that reveals for the first time the unsettling details of Nike's secret running program-the Nike Oregon Project. In May 2017, journalist Matt Hart received a USB drive containing a single file-a 4.7-megabyte PDF named "Tic Toc, Tic Toc. . . ." He quickly realized he was in possession of a stolen report prepared a year...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.7 HARFuredi, Chelsey
Summary: Ren Mittal's last memory in the year 1996 is getting on a bus to visit his mystery pen pal Georgia. When he wakes up in 2122, he thinks he might be hallucinating...he's not! Tech conglomerate Chronotech sponsors a time-travel program to help students in 2122 learn what history was really like...from real-life subjects who've been transported into the future...and Ren is one of them. In 2122,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books, Harper Alley, imprints of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 FUROlder, Malka Ann.
Summary: "It's been twenty years and two election cycles since Information, a powerful search engine monopoly, pioneered the switch from warring nation-states to global micro-democracy. The corporate coalition party Heritage has won the last two elections. With another election on the horizon, the Supermajority is in tight contention, and everything's on the line."--Front jacket flap.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tom Doherty Assoc Llc 2016