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  • ASTRAY
    Yantis Green
    Yantis Green was the only National Delegate ordered by the FBI not to attend the 2012 Republican National Convention. ’Astray’ is his faith story of his rise to political prominence with an eye on higher office, his fall from grace as he struggled with personal demons and his salvation through faith. This book lays open with raw honesty the brutal, personal struggle between r...
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    11,92 €

  • ASTRAY
    Yantis Green
    Yantis Green was the only National Delegate ordered by the FBI not to attend the 2012 Republican National Convention. ’Astray’ is his faith story of his rise to political prominence with an eye on higher office, his fall from grace as he struggled with personal demons and his salvation through faith. This book lays open with raw honesty the brutal, personal struggle between r...
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    27,05 €

  • Do International Corruption Metrics Matter?
    Hawthorne / Omar E. Hawthorne / Omar EHawthorne
    Corruption, often seen as the main hindrance to development and growth in many societies, has led to greater demand for accountability and transparency in how governments conduct their businesses. This text examines the impact of Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index and whether or not the CPI and hence TI matter. It explores three areas: the world’s politic...
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    125,28 €

  • The City and Sex
    Mary Beth McConahey
    The City and Sex examines American political sex scandals at the national level. Studying these events over time with an emphasis on the evolving responses of both statesmen and citizens reveals the republic’s deteriorating moral health and illuminates the country’s dangerous tendency toward servitude. Using scandals as a window through which to glimpse our deterioration, the b...
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    125,12 €

  • Please Delete
    John Nathan Diamond
    “I’VE MADE A TERRIBLE MISTAKE.”So confessed Joy Sharp, a longtime budget director for the University of Arkansas. Trembling and unsteady, she informed her boss that she had lost control of their division’s finances.It was an understatement. University leaders would soon discover that Sharp had routinely spent millions of dollars beyond what was available, shifting money from on...
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    19,84 €

  • Please Delete
    John Nathan Diamond
    “I’VE MADE A TERRIBLE MISTAKE.”So confessed Joy Sharp, a longtime budget director for the University of Arkansas. Trembling and unsteady, she informed her boss that she had lost control of their division’s finances.It was an understatement. University leaders would soon discover that Sharp had routinely spent millions of dollars beyond what was available, shifting money from on...
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    12,59 €

  • Why Elections Fail
    Pippa Norris
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    35,66 €

  • How To Oust A King
    Scott Killian
    It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see that America is quickly falling to destruction and future suffering like no other time in history.  Corrupt leadership in government, corporations, the workplace and other areas of authority are a primary cause that everyone is well aware of but is there really anything that can be done about it?  Is there truly any hope for America or ...
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    19,53 €

  • The Quest for Good Governance
    Alina Mungiu-Pippidi
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    130,01 €

  • The Quest for Good Governance
    Alina Mungiu-Pippidi
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    39,14 €

  • The Governor’s Hometown
    Rich Locaparra
    Can an honest businessman survive when the fix is in?In this fascinating true story, Rich Locaparra describes what it's like when a third-generation entrepreneur tries to fight against systemic corruption.When the rules change, people can get hurt.In moveis and fiction books, people rise above impossible odds on the hero's journey.  But real life is different.  How woul...
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    10,41 €

  • London Bus on the Q.T
    William Andrew Mudie
    Refusing to pay a bribe to corrupt officials lurking within the corridors of power of Queensland Transport the author, Andrew Mudie, is hit with sixteen criminal charges for driving his privately registered London bus on Queensland roadsConsisting of perjury, fabricated evidence, conspiracy and false accusations, the trial evidence developed by Queensland Transport is corrupt a...
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    12,24 €

  • State Crime on the Margins of Empire
    Kristian Lasslett
    This book offers a pioneering window into the elusive workings of state-corporate crime within the mining industry. It follows a campaign of resistance organised by indigenous activists on the island of Bougainville, who struggled to close a Rio Tinto owned copper mine, and investigates the subsequent state-corporate response, which led to the shocking loss of some 10,000 lives...
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    51,24 €

  • St. Louis’ Civil War
    Ken Zimmerman Jr.
    On Saturday, May 5, 1900 at 11:30 p.m., the bombing of the Suburban Line at the Wabash and Sarah Street railroad crossing marked the beginning of the St. Louis Street Car Strike of 1900. Before the strike was over, the streets of St. Louis were a battle ground between rich and poor. Read the graphic details about this explosive time. ...
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    12,97 €

  • An Angel Betrayed
    David Hughes / David JHughes
    JonBenet Ramsey was six years old when she was murdered on Christmas night, 1996 in her home in Boulder, Colorado.Her killer has never been brought to justice, because the police, prosecutors, lawyers, and her own family were too focused on their own careers, public images, political agendas, and social status. Experts sold out, lawyers used every dirty trick available, and pol...
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    11,10 €

  • Lethal Allies
    Anne Cadwallader
    Farmers, shopkeepers, publicans and businessmen were slaughtered in a bloody decade of bombings and shootings in the counties of Tyrone and Armagh in the 1970s. Four families each lost three relatives; in other cases, children were left orphaned after both parents were murdered. For years there were claims that loyalists were helped and guided by members of the RUC and Ulster D...
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    27,57 €

  • The Devil Inside the Beltway
    Michael J. Daugherty
    'The Devil Inside the Beltway'. This chilling and personal story that reveals, in detail, how the Federal Trade Commission repeatedly bungled a critically important cybersecurity investigation and betrayed the American public. Michael J. Daugherty, author and CEO of LabMD in Atlanta, uncovers and details an extraordinary government surveillance program that compromised nationa...
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    37,99 €

  • The Devil Inside the Beltway
    Michael J. Daugherty
    'THE GOVERNMENT HAS BEEN WATCHING YOUR WORKSTATION LONGER THAN YOU THINK.' Small business owner Michael J. Daugherty is fighting back against US Government's sinister surveillance tactics in his book, The Devil Inside the Beltway: The Shocking Expose of the US Government's Surveillance and Overreach into Cybersecurity, Medicine, and Small Business. During the past decade the US...
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    24,87 €

  • Preventing Regulatory Capture
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    91,21 €

  • Preventing Regulatory Capture
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    33,19 €

  • Northern Ireland’s Lost Opportunity
    Tony Novosel
    A significant contribution. Exposes the limitation of commonly held views that loyalism was apolitical and merely sectarian' - Professor Peter Shirlow, School of Law, Queen's University Belfast 'Novosel's study of the UVF and its attempts to develop a politicised loyalism challenges the standard one-dimensional representation of loyalism that so dominates the me...
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    40,65 €

  • State Violence, Collusion and the Troubles
    Maurice Punch
    The period in Northern Ireland known as ’the Troubles’ (1968-98) seemed to have been conclusively ended by the official peace process. But recent violence from dissident Republicans shows that tensions from the past remain unresolved. State Violence, Collusion and the Troubles reveals disturbing unanswered questions about the use of state violence during this period. Maurice ...
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    48,65 €

  • From My Heart
    Leonard Karshima Shilgba / Leonard Shilgba
    From My Heart is a chronological assessment of the contributing events between 2004 and 2009 that have helped define Nigeria and Africa.What leashes have kept Nigeria from fulfilling the expectations of her people? Can a country which spends more on public officials than it does on public education make rewarding economic progress? Was Dr. James D. Watson accurate in his assess...
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    28,84 €

  • Change In Putin’s Russia
    Simon Pirani
    This is an investigation into the interaction of power, money and people in Russia during the presidencies of Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev. 'Profiling Putin's team, including his security services and pro-market economic 'reformers', Simon Pirani argues that the growth during the oil boom was one-sided. The gap between rich and poor widened. Now the boom i...
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    44,79 €

  • Cool Capitalism
    Jim McGuigan
    Thomas Frank coined the term ’the conquest of cool’. This book shows how this conquest is at the heart of the dynamics of contemporary capitalism. Jim McGuigan argues that ’cool capitalism’ incorporates disaffection into capitalism itself, absorbing rebellion and neutralising opposition to the present system of culture and society.The book explores a huge variety of cultural ex...
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    38,04 €

  • The Blantyre House Prison Affair
    Tom Murtagh
    Tom Murtagh OBE was a governor at The Maze Prison and Armagh Prison, Northern Ireland before becoming Area Manager - one of the highest ranks in HM Prison Service - for Kent, Surrey and Sussex. Building on a fine record and long experience he set out to raise standards in all the prisons under his charge, only to be demonised by a Parliamentary Home Affairs Committee in 'Th...
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    48,16 €

  • Charles W. Colson
    Aitken / Jonathan Aitken
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    14,90 €

  • Post-Soviet Chaos
    Joma Nazpary
    In the 1990s, the former states of the Soviet Union underwent dramatic and revolutionary changes. As a result of enforced, neoliberal reforms the fledgling republics were exposed to the familiar effects of globalised capital. Focusing on Kazakhstan, where violence and corruption are now facts of everyday life, Joma Nazpary examines the impact of the new capitalism on the people...
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    53,98 €

  • Beyond Criminology
    Crime forms only a small and often insignificant amount of the harm experienced by people. While custom and tradition play an important role in the perpetuation of some types of harm, many forms of harm are rooted in the inequalities and social divisions systematically produced in - and by - contemporary states.Exploring a range of topics including violence, indifference, corpo...
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    50,92 €


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