December Scandal

Author : Suzi Love
Publisher : Suzi Love
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780992570491

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December Scandal by Suzi Love Pdf

In this novella length, stand-alone story, the Jamison family joins the Duke of Sherwyn and the St. Martin clan at the duke’s country estate, but the guest numbers double when stranded travelers seek refuge after early December snowfalls make roads impassable. Michael Brandon travels to introduce the woman he loves, and her daughter, to his family, but a missing bridge delays their journey. To their shock, horror, and yet profound relief, Michael’s missing brother is carried into the house by the four men who rescued him from captivity. Frederick battles to stay alive long enough to convict his kidnappers, and to warn his family of future danger. Four years ago, Melissa called herself a widow to protect her daughter. When she reveals the truth to her past lover, and her present love, will the men forgive her deceit? And can Frederick convince his brother to protect Melissa and Freda, or will Michael walk away?

Author : Alison Dagnes,Mark Sachleben
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781623562229

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Scandal! by Alison Dagnes,Mark Sachleben Pdf

There are many types of political scandals: sex, corruption, and election scandals are but a few. Political scandals are public events that have tremendous consequence on citizenry and can undermine democratic institutions-when we pay attention to scandal, we risk ignoring weightier matters. This volume brings together an array of academics to explore the impact of political scandals. What makes this book different from others is the wide spectrum of perspectives brought together to help analyze a single subject.

Author : Sheldon Anderson
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-22
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780826275028

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Schools for Scandal by Sheldon Anderson Pdf

For well over a century, big-time college sports has functioned as a business enterprise, one that serves to undermine the mission of institutions of higher education.This book chronicles the long and tortured history of the NCAA’s attempt to maintain the myth of amateurism and the student-athlete, along with the attendant fiction that the players’ academic achievement is the top priority of Division-I athletic programs. It is an indictment of the current system, making the case that big-time college sports cannot continue its connection to universities without undermining the mission of higher education. It concludes with bold proposals to separate big-time college sports from the university, transforming them into on-campus business operations.

Author : Carrie Lomax
Publisher : Carrie Lomax
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781393057451

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Twelve Nights of Scandal by Carrie Lomax Pdf

A Christmas Conspiracy Mr. Finlay Weston braves deep snowfall to attend a tedious Christmas party in the countryside for one reason—he intends to take a wife. Miss Stanton is the obvious choice. Her father's property neighbors his estate. He has already sought her father's permission. Yet it is her cousin, Miss Amity Mayweather, who compels him. Her a sharp quips cause scenes night after night. Could the women be conspiring to prevent Finn from proposing? A New Year's Wish Amity doesn't resent her cousin for living in her childhood home. It's not Holly's fault that her father and brother died in a carriage accident, leaving Amity, her mother and sisters to eke out an existence in genteel poverty. Vivacious Holly wants nothing to do with Finlay "Mr. Poker-Arse" Weston and his looming betrothal. Of course, Amity will help Holly avoid his proposal for a fortnight. But Amity is unprepared for the wholly inappropriate longing Finn stirs in her… Dreams Do Come True When Holly abruptly changes course, Amity must decide whether to claim the unexpected love blossoming between her and her brother's best friend—or to step aside and preserve her closeness with Holly. Finn won't be cajoled into proposing to the wrong woman. He'll have Amity—no matter what his choice costs him. This is a brother's-best-friend Regency romance. Always a happy ever after!

Author : David George Surdam
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781496205711

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The Age of Ruth and Landis by David George Surdam Pdf

As the 1919 World Series scandal simmered throughout the 1920 season, tight pennant races drove attendance to new peaks and presaged a decade of general prosperity for baseball. Babe Ruth shattered his own home-run record and, buoyed by a booming economy, professional sports enjoyed what sportswriters termed a "Golden Age of Sports." Throughout the tumultuous 1920s, Major League Baseball remained a mixture of competition and cooperation. Teams could improve by player trades, buying Minor League stars, or signing untried youths. Players and owners had their usual contentious relationship, with owners maintaining considerable control over their players. Owners adjusted the game so that the 1920s witnessed a surge in slugging and a diminution in base stealing, and they provided a better ballpark experience by both improving their stadiums and minimizing disruptions by rowdy fans. However, they hesitated to adapt to new technologies such as radio, electrical lighting, and air travel. The Major Leagues remained an enclave for white people, while African Americans toiled in the newly established Negro Leagues, where salaries and profits were skimpy. By analyzing the economic and financial aspects of Major League Baseball, The Age of Ruth and Landis shows how baseball during the 1920s experienced both strife and prosperity, innovation and conservatism. With figures such as the incomparable Babe Ruth, Kenesaw Mountain Landis, Rogers Hornsby, Ty Cobb, Walter Johnson, Tris Speaker, and Eddie Collins, the decade featured an exciting brand of livelier baseball, new stadiums, and overall stability.

Author : J. VanHeerde-Hudson,Jennifer Van Heerde-Hudson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137034557

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The Political Costs of the 2009 British MPs’ Expenses Scandal by J. VanHeerde-Hudson,Jennifer Van Heerde-Hudson Pdf

This study examines the evolution and political consequences of the 2009 British MPs' expenses scandal. Despite claims of a revolution in British politics, we show how the expenses scandal had a limited, short-term impact.

Author : Igor Prusa
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000923445

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Scandal in Japan by Igor Prusa Pdf

This book is an exploration of media scandals in contemporary Japanese society. In shedding new light on the study of scandal in Japan, the book offers a novel view of scandal as a specific mediatized ritual which follows moral disturbances throughout Japanese history. Media and society are analyzed largely in terms of social performances, while the focus is on how Japanese transgressors talk and act when explaining their scandals to the public. A detailed analysis of three case studies is provided: the drug scandal of the popular Japanese celebrity Sakai Noriko; the donation scandal centering the heavyweight politician Ozawa Ichirō; and the Olympus accounting fraud revealed by the British CEO Michael Woodford. This book will appeal to students and scholars of Japanese culture and society, anthropology, communication and media studies.

Author : Rosemary Stevens
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9781421421308

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A Time of Scandal by Rosemary Stevens Pdf

Was the founding director of the US Veterans Bureau a criminal—or a scapegoat? In the early 1920s, with the nation still recovering from World War I, President Warren G. Harding founded a huge new organization to treat disabled veterans: the US Veterans Bureau, now known as the Department of Veterans Affairs. He appointed his friend, decorated veteran Colonel Charles R. Forbes, as founding director. Forbes lasted in the position for only eighteen months before stepping down under a cloud of criticism and suspicion. In 1926—after being convicted of conspiracy to defraud the federal government by rigging government contracts—he was sent to Leavenworth Penitentiary. Although he was known in his day as a drunken womanizer, and as a corrupt, betraying toady of a weak, blind-sided president, the question persists: was Forbes a criminal or a scapegoat? Historian Rosemary Stevens tells Forbes’s story anew, drawing on previously untapped records to reveal his role in America’s initial and ongoing commitment to veterans. She explores how Forbes’s rise and fall in Washington illuminates President Harding’s efforts to bring business efficiency to government. She also examines the Veterans Bureau scandal in the context of class, professionalism, ethics, and etiquette in a rapidly changing world. Most significantly, Stevens proposes a fascinating revisionist view of both Forbes and Harding—and raises questions about not only the validity but the source of their respective reputations. They did not defraud the government of billions of dollars, Stevens convincingly documents, and do not deserve the reputation they have carried for a hundred years. Packed with vibrant characters—conniving friends, FBI agents, and rival politicians split by sectional and ideological interests as well as gamblers, revelers, and wronged wives—A Time of Scandal will appeal to anyone interested in political gossip, presidential politics, the “Ohio Gang,” and the 1920s.

Author : Angela Senander
Publisher : Liturgical Press
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012-06-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780814634110

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Scandal by Angela Senander Pdf

The Boston Globe's Pulitzer Prize - winning coverage of clergy sexual abuse of minors in 2002 led to what few would hesitate to call the most significant scandal in the history of the Catholic Church in the United States. In contrast, Catholics themselves disagree about whether the voting records of some Catholic politicians or the particular policies and practices of Catholic institutions might be called scandalous. Such questions often both reflect and intensify divisions within the Catholic community. Whether understood as negative public relations or as an action, attitude, law, or institution influencing another to sin, scandal affects the Catholic Church's proclamation of the good news of God's saving love. This makes theological reflection about scandal an essential aspect of being Catholic today. Failure to engage in this reflection risks truncating the tradition and obscuring the Good News. This book invites this reflection in order to understand differences in perception and judgment, make appropriate courses of action more clear, and enable Catholics to participate more effectively and authentically as a faith community in public life.

Author : Mary E. McCoy
Publisher : Southeast Asia Program Publications
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781501731051

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Scandal and Democracy by Mary E. McCoy Pdf

Successful transitions to enduring democracy are both difficult and rare. In Scandal and Democracy, Mary E. McCoy explores how newly democratizing nations can avoid reverting to authoritarian solutions in response to the daunting problems brought about by sudden change. The troubled transitions that have derailed democratization in nations worldwide make this problem a major concern for scholars and citizens alike. This study of Indonesia's transition from authoritarian rule sheds light on the fragility not just of democratic transitions but of democracy itself and finds that democratization's durability depends, to a surprising extent, on the role of the media, particularly its airing of political scandal and intraelite conflict. More broadly, Scandal and Democracy examines how the media's use of new freedoms can help ward off a slide into pseudodemocracy or a return to authoritarian rule. As Indonesia marks the twentieth anniversary of its democratic revolution of 1998, it remains among the world's most resilient new democracies and one of the few successful democratic transitions in the Muslim world. McCoy explains the media's central role in this change and corroborates that finding with comparative cases from Mexico, Tunisia, and South Korea, offering counterintuitive insights that help make sense of the success and failure of recent transitions to democracy.

Author : Jimmy Sanderson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-24
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9798216171102

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Corruption and Scandal in American Sports by Jimmy Sanderson Pdf

Scandals about cheating and corruption have dogged amateur and professional sports in the United States since the nation's earliest days. This work examines the most infamous and consequential of these controversies and scandals both on and off the field. Authoritative Individual essays tackle notorious events in popular American sports ranging from the 1919 Black Sox scandal to revelations of sign stealing by the Houston Astros throughout their 2020 championship season, with stops in between to survey horrific sex abuse scandals at Penn State, Baylor, and Michigan State; steroid and drug scandals that brought down once-admired athletes like Mark McGwire and Lance Armstrong; and cheating/betting controversies that tainted individual players (Pete Rose), teams (Boston College, New England Patriots), and entire leagues (including the Little League World Series in 2001). But this work does more than just recount these events; it will also examine the cultural and economic pressures and forces that contributed to these events, as well as the lessons learned and steps taken (if any) to enact reform and help the sport recover.

Author : Bernhard Poerksen,Hanne Detel
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781845407650

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The Unleashed Scandal by Bernhard Poerksen,Hanne Detel Pdf

In an age of ubiquitous digital media and permanent mutual observation scandals are omnipresent. Everybody can release them, everybody can become their victim. Videos on mobile phones terminate careers, Twitter messages generate outrage, and SMS messages turn into evidence. Documents of embarrassment and public disgrace today display a novel kind of lightness and agility. They can be copied in no time, spread very quickly, resist all censorship - and in the extreme case stir up worldwide indignation. The consequence: the reputation of the powerful and the powerless, of enterprises and states, can be destroyed in record time. In order to illustrate these considerations the books describes recent case-(hi)stories, discussing public figures such as Tiger Woods and Anthony Weiner, the powerful and the helpless that suddenly find themselves in a worldwide pillory.

Author : Robert Busby
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030916381

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Scandal and American Politics in the 21st Century by Robert Busby Pdf

This book examines how scandal allegations have been managed in the contemporary era in the United States and how understandings of the impact of scandal on political credibility have changed over time. It incorporates prominent scandals, at both federal and state level, in which sudden and unexpected revelations created an uncertain political environment. The primary focus is on sex scandals and how damage limitation strategies have been utilized in order to try to limit and accommodate a demise in political standing. The book considers how damage limitation strategies were utilized, the core components of each, and their impact on the political standing of the individuals involved. Rather than marking the end of a political journey, scandal increasingly appears to be an issue that can be perceived as a temporary impediment in a political career.

Author : Otto Lerbinger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780415892315

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The Crisis Manager by Otto Lerbinger Pdf

The Crisis Manager offers wise counsel for anticipating and responding to crises as well as taking the steps required to reduce the impact of these events. Author Otto Lerbinger helps readers understand the ways of thinking required for successful crisis management in today's world.

Author : Bruno Vercruysse
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 654 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Meditations
ISBN : HARVARD:HWT7WC

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From July to December by Bruno Vercruysse Pdf