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"Rachel Maddow's Blowout 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 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. Chevron, BP, and a host of other industry players get their star turn, but ExxonMobil and the deceptively well-behaved Rex Tillerson emerge as two of the past century's most consequential corporate villains. The oil-and-gas industry has weakened democracies in developed and developing countries, fouled oceans and rivers, and propped up authoritarian thieves and killers. But being outraged at it is, according to Maddow, "like being indignant when a lion takes down and eats a gazelle. You can't really blame the lion. It's in her nature.""--.

"Explores the shadow economy and how it evolved, drawing on millions of leaked documents from the files of the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca--a trove now known as the Panama Papers--as well as other journalistic and government investigations. [The author] shows how shell companies operate, how they allow the superwealthy and celebrities to escape taxes, and how they provide cover for illicit activities . . . by crime bosses and corrupt politicians across the globe"--Amazon.

"The author forces readers to confront fundamental questions about the balance between free speech and state secrecy, and between individual rights and corporate power as he traces the rise of whistleblowing through a series of riveting cases"--OCLC.

"Examines the phenomenon of disenfranchisement through the lens of history, race, law, and the democratic process. Argues that voter suppression works in cycles, constantly adapting and finding new ways to hinder access for an exponentially growing minority population"--Amazon.

Looks at the illegal recruiting practices of former University of Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino, who, along with other coaches and fixers, laundered money from Adidas to the families of players to entice them to attend Adidas-branded colleges.

"There are few remaining frontiers on our planet. But perhaps the wildest, and least understood, are the world's oceans: too big to police, and with no clear international authority, the oceans have become the setting for rampant criminality--from human trafficking and slavery to environmental crimes and piracy. Now, in The Outlaw Ocean, Ian Urbina--prize-winning reporter for The New York Times--gives us a galvanizing account of the several years he spent exploring and investigating the high seas, the industries that make use of it, and the people who make their--often criminal--living on it. He traveled on fishing boats and freighters, visited port towns and hidden outposts. He witnessed both environmental vigilantes and transgressors in action, and faced a near-mutiny aboard a police ship conveying him to a meeting point miles from the coast. He describes pursuing employment agencies and shipowners to hold them accountable for labor abuses, and traveling with a maritime repo man. Combining high drama, an investigative reporter's eye for detail, and a commitment to social justice, The Outlaw Ocean is both a gripping adventure story and a stunning expos? of some of the most disturbing realities that lie behind fishing, shipping, and, by turn, the entire global economy"--Provided by the publisher.

" ... the Mueller inquiry focuses on Donald Trump, his presidential campaign, and Russian interference in the 2016 election, and draws on the testimony of dozens of witnesses and the work of some of the country's most seasoned prosecutors" -- Back of cover.

" ... details two dozen of the most important ... U.S. judicial opinions dealing with commercial bribery, both domestic and foreign" -- Back of cover.

Harvard Law grad Mitch McDeere takes a job with a small prosperous Memphis firm that offers him a lifestyle beyond his imagination. When the FBI approaches him with evidence of corruption and crime ties, he must choose between his sense of right and his personal safety.

When a Department of Defense contract ends up causing more harm than good after sparking the interests of international arms dealers, global marketing magnate Hubertus Bigend assembles a team of highly skilled individuals to put an end to the dealers' plans.