corrupt practices

Major league baseball has had its share of major league scandals: Shoeless Joe and the Black Sox (the fixed baseball game of 1919); the 1985 Pittsburgh drug trials; and the steroid era. This book tells the whole story, in all its details, of the Pittsburgh drug trials.

Examines clinical drug trials in developing countries of Africa and Asia, discussing the pharmaceutical industry's motivation to test on poor people, the treatment of patients, and ethical issues involved; and providing what the author believes to be solutions to the problem.

Examines the rise in autism cases in American children since the 1980s, a trend that corresponds to new childhood vaccinations which contain thimerosal, a preservative made of the toxin mercury, and follows the struggles of several families to learn why their once-healthy children became autistic.

Reviews the history of the Olympic Games and provides information about some of the scandals that have marred the Games, including bribery, doping, and cheating.

Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter David Johnston describes how big corporations legally exploit consumers using the fine print of contracts. Presents dozens of real examples, and offers solutions for fighting back against hundreds of unnecessary fees and taxes.

Business attorney Hannah Dain, settling back into her law practice at the family firm in Arizona after dumping her boyfriend Cooper for the second time, finds herself in over her head when she agrees to stand in for her sister and fellow attorney Shelby on a lawsuit brought by a local Native American tribe, and somehow ends up appointed the lead counsel in the complicated case.

Explains the unwritten rules and the code of conduct that professional football players in the United States are bound to follow, covering rules about sportsmanship, retaliation, and intimidation, and discussing memorable violations of the unwritten rules about trash-talking, brawling, sign-stealing, and more.

Examines the history of the use of performance enhancing drugs by college athletes, describes steroid and supplemental abuse scandals in the NCAA, and discusses testing policies.

A high-interest book for low-reading-level students that provides an overview of the ways people cheat and the consequences for the cheater, for those who do not cheat, and for society.

Independent contractor Jack Holloway discovers a collection of valuable jewels on planet Zarathustra and offers ZaraCorp a percentage of the wealth in exchange for their help in extracting them, but when Jack sees a family of small furry creatures, he realizes that ZaraCorp does not have a true claim to resources on the planet.