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Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Formats
Description
The definitive account of the FIFA scandal, the biggest international corruption case of recent years, touching dozens of countries and spearheaded by U.S. investigators.
Author
Language
English
Description
Maddow takes us on a switchback journey around the globe 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 spreading Russia's rot into its rivals, its neighbors, the United States, and the West's most important alliances. ExxonMobil and the deceptively well-behaved Rex Tillerson emerge as two of the past century's most...
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The first book to fully explore the arsenal of methods NFL teams use to spy on their opponents and the countermeasures used to deter them, Spies on the Sidelines includes incredible stories of covert surveillance, encryption, radio frequency jamming, stolen documents, and more"--
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
In recent decades, the NFL can’t seem to go more than a few weeks without a scandal. Yet no matter the drama, the TV networks keep showing games, the revenue keeps rising, and the viewers keep tuning in.
In this wide-ranging book, with new insights and reporting on scandals past and present, the author takes readers from the boardroom to the locker room, from draft day to Super Bowl night, showing what really goes on in the sport America can’t...
Author
Language
English
Description
"From the former Stanford University sailing coach, the first person sentenced in the Varsity Blues college admissions scandal, the riveting true story of how he was drawn unwittingly into a web of deceit, about the sophisticated scheme designed to take advantage of college coaches and play to the endless appetite for university fundraising, and about the ways in which justice and fairness do not always intersect"--
Author
Publisher
Twelve
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
An expose of the Varsity Blues scandal reveals how an unscrupulous college counselor named Rick Singer preyed on the desperation of wealthy, upper class, insecure parents who sought to have their children admitted to elite colleges to maintain their own social status.
Author
Publisher
Nation Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
When Sepp Blatter joined FIFA in 1975 it had just twelve employees. Forty years later, the FBI have accused fourteen executives of forty-seven counts of money laundering, racketeering and tax evasion linked to kickbacks. This book tells the story of how football got big, how FIFA got corrupt and what this means for soccer fans around the world.
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
This is the story of Baltimore police sergeant Wayne Jenkins and the Gun Trace Task Force (GTTF), a super group of dirty detectives who exploited some of America's greatest problems: guns, drugs, toxic masculinity, and hypersegregation. In the upside-down world of the GTTF, cops were robbers and drug dealers were the perfect victims, because no one believed them.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The unauthorized, unvarnished story of famed Wall Street hedge-fund manager Ray Dalio. Late last year, when the founder of Bridgewater Associates, the largest hedge fund on the planet, announced that he was stepping down, the news made headlines around the world. Drawing on hundreds of interviews with those inside and around the firm, Copeland takes readers into the room as a rotating cast of memorable characters grapple with their personal psychological...
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