corrupt practices

Relates how a longtime Interpol cop and former FIFA head of security has taken on a mission to track down the fixers and financial backers acting on behalf of Asian criminal syndicates to fix more than seven hundred international soccer matches since 2008.

An exploration of the economic aspects of college sports that cites the revenue that is gained by athletic programs and contends that the NCAA is full of corrupting influences and affects every aspect of youth sports.

"Examines athletic-academic corruption at UNC-Chapel Hill and in NCAA athletics"--Provided by publisher.

This year the robot races are just for children, and Jimmy Roberts is entering the robot taxi his genius grandfather has built--but he will have to compete with a racer designed by NASA engineers for the wealthy and unscrupulous Horace Pelly.

Offers a comprehensive analysis of the financial scandals that arose in the wake of the market downturn that took place in 2000 and examines the legislation adopted in response to those scandals.

""Gabriela McKenzie's daughter has been kidnapped. In exchange for her safe return, her abductors demand two things: $400,000 in cash, and a document known only as the October List." --.

Reveals how drug companies are distorting the practice of medicine and jeopardizing the health of Americans by offering doctors bribes to prescribe their medicines, even when another treatment might be more effective.

Analyzes what went wrong in corporate America in 2000, looking at how stock price per share came to be the indicator of a company's health, showing how those numbers were manipulated by corporations, and explaining some of the reasons why the Securities and Exchange Commission failed to see what was going on.

Forty-two-year-old former Florida state investigator Mick Stranahan, having just speared an intruder with a stuffed marlin head, realizes that someone wants him dead, but it is going to take a lot of work to sort through the long list of suspects.

Jimmy Roberts and his robot, Maverick, are ready for the next stage of the robot races which will go through the Amazon rain forest, but his enemy Horace Pelly is equally determined to win--and he does not care how he does it.