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Author
Publisher
Forefront Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"If you value the integrity of our elections-or want a behind-the-scenes look at an attempt at overturning one-Disproven by Ken Block takes you out of the voting booth and into the chaos that was the attempt to challenge the results of the 2020 U.S. presidential election. In November 2020, data specialist Ken Block received a phone call from the Trump Campaign. They wanted to hire him to find evidence of election fraud. What followed were late night...
Series
Publisher
Federal Trade Commission, Bureau of Consumer Protection, Office of Consumer and Business Education
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) presents the August 1998 consumer alert "Lights! Camera! Ripp-off! How to Tell When a Scam is Born" in PDF format. The alert warns consumers that investment opportunity in the entertainment industry, including film, infomercials, and the Internet, can be risky ventures.
Author
Publisher
Avid Reader Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Award-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author Gerald Posner traces the heroes and villains of the trillion-dollar-a-year pharmaceutical industry and uncovers how those once entrusted with improving life have often betrayed that ideal to corruption and reckless profiteeringwith deadly consequences. Pharmaceutical breakthroughs such as antibiotics and vaccines rank among some of the greatest advancements in human history. Yet exorbitant...
372) Marlowe: a novel
Author
Series
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe returns in award-winning author John Banville’s Marlowe―originally published as The Black-Eyed Blonde under the pen name Benjamin Black―the basis for the major motion picture starring Liam Neeson as the iconic detective. "Somewhere Raymond Chandler is smiling . . . I loved this book. It was like having an old friend, one you assumed was dead, walk into the room." ―Stephen King "It was one of those Tuesday...
375) Who speaks for you?: the inside story of the prosecutor who took down Baltimore's most crooked cops
Author
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"This book is on the investigation and prosecution of Baltimore Police Department's Gun Trace Task Force (GTTF), a group of detectives who were both cops and robbers at the same time. The GTTF was supposed to trace guns back to the criminals responsible for Baltimore's stubbornly high rate of violent crime. Instead, federal authorities traced dozens of robberies, burglaries, and even an armed home invasion to the members of the GTTF. In 2015 and 2016,...
Author
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A behind-the-scenes look inside the three trials involving a popular weed killer (Roundup), cancer, and the search for justice--written by a physician expert witness who saw it all"--
"A behind-the-scenes look inside three key trials involving Monsanto's weed killer Roundup, cancer, and the search for justice―written by an expert witness medical oncologist who lived it all. For years, Monsanto declared that their product Roundup, the world's...
377) Chinatown
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A private detective, Jake Gittes, hired to investigate an adultery case, stumbles on the plot of a murder involving incest and the privatization of water through state and municipal corruption, land use and real estate. If he doesn't drop the case at once he faces threats of legal action, but he pursues it anyway, slowly uncovering a vast conspiracy.
A seemingly routine matrimonial snooping job for a private detective mushrooms into a murderous scandal...
Author
Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Perhaps we were too distracted by the pandemic, or the endless financial crises, or the rise of TikTok. But under cover of them all, a new and more exploitative system has been taking hold. Insane sums of money that were supposed to re-float our economies after the crash of 2008 went to big tech instead. With it they funded the construction of their private cloud fiefdoms and privatized the internet. Technofeudalism says Yanis Varoufakis, is the...
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