The Corruptible

Author : Brian Klaas
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-09
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781982154110

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Corruptible by Brian Klaas Pdf

An “absorbing, provocative, and far-reaching” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) look at what power is, who gets it, and what happens when they do, based on over 500 interviews with those who (temporarily, at least) have had the upper hand—from the creator of the Power Corrupts podcast and Washington Post columnist Brian Klaas. Does power corrupt, or are corrupt people drawn to power? Are tyrants made or born? Are entrepreneurs who embezzle and cops who kill the result of poorly designed systems or are they just bad people? If you were suddenly thrust into a position of power, would you be able to resist the temptation to line your pockets or seek revenge against your enemies? To answer these questions, Corruptible draws on over 500 interviews with some of the world’s top leaders—from the noblest to the dirtiest—including presidents and philanthropists as well as rebels, cultists, and dictators. Some of the fascinating insights include: how facial appearance determines who we pick as leaders, why narcissists make more money, why some people don’t want power at all and others are drawn to it out of a psychopathic impulse, and why being the “beta” (second in command) may actually be the optimal place for health and well-being. Corruptible also features a wealth of counterintuitive examples from history and social science: you’ll meet the worst bioterrorist in American history, hit the slopes with a ski instructor who once ruled Iraq, and learn why the inability of chimpanzees to play baseball is central to the development of human hierarchies. Based on deep, unprecedented research from around the world, and filled with “unexpected insights…the most important lesson of Corruptible is that when psychopaths inadvertently reveal their true selves, the institutions that they plague must take action that is swift, brutal, and merciless” (Business Insider).

Author : Mark Mynheir
Publisher : Multnomah
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781601422866

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How much money would it take for you to betray the truth? Ex-homicide detective Ray Quinn never had glamorous thoughts of the life of a private investigator—but being cornered in a bathroom stall by the enraged philandering husband of a client? That’s something he could live without. Retired from homicide and living with a painful disability, Ray’s options are limited. Stick to the job, keep impetuous sidekick Crevis alive, and spend quiet evenings with trusted pal Jim Beam, that’s about the best he can hope for. As a new client emerges, Ray finds himself in an impossibly large boardroom holding a check with enough zeros to finally lift him from his financial pit. The job seems easy enough: find Logan Ramsey, an ex-cop turned security officer who’s taken off with sensitive corporate information. But few things are easy in Ray’s world, regardless of the amount of zeros in the check. In what should be an open-and-shut case, Ray stumbles across Logan Ramsey in a seedy motel room. Only Ray wasn’t the first to find him. Now Logan’s dead, the client’s information is nowhere to be found, and Ray’s employer is less than forthcoming with the details. Suddenly the line between the good guys and bad guys isn’t so clear. With a foot in both worlds and an illuminating look at an unhappy ending that could well be his own, which will Ray choose?

Author : Penelope Douglas
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780593642009

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Corrupt by Penelope Douglas Pdf

Dreams might be a heart’s desire, but nightmares are its obsession in the first novel of a dark romance series from New York Times bestselling author Penelope Douglas. Erika Fane’s boyfriend's older brother is handsome, strong, and completely terrifying. The star of his college's basketball team gone pro, he's more concerned with the dirt on his shoe than he is with her. But she saw him. She heard him. The things that he did, and the deeds that he hid... For years, Erika bit her nails, unable to look away. Now, she’s in college, but she hasn’t stopped watching him. He’s bad and the things she’s seen aren’t content to stay in her head anymore. Because he's finally noticed her. But Michael Crist knows the hold he has on Rika, how much she fears him. She looks down when he enters the room and stills when he’s close. He knows she thinks only of him. When Michael’s brother leaves for the military, leaving Rika alone and unprotected, he knows the opportunity is too good to be true. Three years ago she put Michael’s friends in prison, and now they’re free. Every last one of her nightmares is about to come true.

Author : Shiv Chopra
Publisher : KOS Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Drugs
ISBN : 097319457X

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Corrupt to the Core by Shiv Chopra Pdf

To protect the integrity of our food, Dr Shiv Chopra has waged many battles against a succession of Canadian Prime Ministers and federal ministries of health. This title presents an account of how government corruption endangers the food supply and how Dr Chopra and his colleagues continue to speak the truth.

Author : Thomas J. Gradel,Dick Simpson
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780252097034

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Corrupt Illinois by Thomas J. Gradel,Dick Simpson Pdf

Public funds spent on jets and horses. Shoeboxes stuffed with embezzled cash. Ghost payrolls and incarcerated ex-governors. Illinois' culture of "Where's mine?" and the public apathy it engenders has made our state and local politics a disgrace. In Corrupt Illinois, veteran political observers Thomas J. Gradel and Dick Simpson take aim at business-as-usual. Naming names, the authors lead readers through a gallery of rogues and rotten apples to illustrate how generations of chicanery have undermined faith in, and hope for, honest government. From there, they lay out how to implement institutional reforms that provide accountability and eradicate the favoritism, sweetheart deals, and conflicts of interest corroding our civic life. Corrupt Illinois lays out a blueprint to transform our politics from a pay-to-play–driven marketplace into what it should be: an instrument of public good.

Author : Kenneth Sebastian León
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-22
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780429589379

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Corrupt Capital by Kenneth Sebastian León Pdf

This book offers a deep dive into the social, political, and economic forces that make white-collar crime and corruption a staple feature of the nightlife economy. The author, a former bouncer-turned-bartender of party bars and nightclubs in a large U.S. city, draws from an auto-ethnographic case study to describe and explain the routine and embedded nature of corruption and deviance among the regulators and the regulated in the nightlife environment. This text offers a contemporary and incisive theoretical framework on the criminogenic features and structural contradictions of capitalism. The author both describes and explains how the dominant political economy is rife with structural contradictions that, in turn, generate various manifestations of white-collar crime, organizational deviance, and public corruption. The author uses the bar and nightlife environment to empirically anchor these claims. Methodologically, the research is innovative in advancing inquiry into ethically and logistically challenging environments. The style of writing and framing of the text is one that punches upward and avoids the voyeuristic and reductionist tropes historically associated with "dangerous fieldwork." Through a range of disciplinary perspectives, Corrupt Capital offers both scholarly rigor and inviting prose to advance our understanding of crimes of the relatively powerful and powerless alike. An accessible and compelling text, this book will appeal to readers in criminology, sociology, law and society, political science, and all those interested in learning about the relationship between power, law, and routinized corruption in the nightlife economy.

Author : Robert Payne
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015002400128

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Author : Raymond Hubbard
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781506305370

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Corrupt Research by Raymond Hubbard Pdf

Addressing the immensely important topic of research credibility, Raymond Hubbard’s groundbreaking work proposes that we must treat such information with a healthy dose of skepticism. This book argues that the dominant model of knowledge procurement subscribed to in these areas—the significant difference paradigm—is philosophically suspect, methodologically impaired, and statistically broken. Hubbard introduces a more accurate, alternative framework—the significant sameness paradigm—for developing scientific knowledge. The majority of the book comprises a head-to-head comparison of the "significant difference" versus "significant sameness" conceptions of science across philosophical, methodological, and statistical perspectives.

Author : Natasha Knight
Publisher : Natasha Knight
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Corruptible by Natasha Knight Pdf

When I disappeared out of Lina's life years ago, it was for her own good. Now our paths cross again. But things are different. She has secrets. Dangerous ones involving the Russian mafia. She thinks she can keep me out of her world, but she's in over her head and needs a protector. I just have to remember I can’t be more than that to her. I can’t give in to the temptation. Because in six months I'll be a priest. And she complicates things. *Author’s Note: Corruptible was originally published with the title Disgraced.

Author : Pete Sotos
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781491762103

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Disband the Corrupt Federal Reserve System and the IRS NOW! by Pete Sotos Pdf

Local and international bankers gathered on Jekyll Island in November 1910 for a secret meeting that would have lasting consequences. The evil men drafted illegal legislation to control our entire banking system and economy. They also schemed to force every citizen to pay income taxes or face incarceration. Pete Sotos, a financial expert, reveals the names of the people to blame, as well as places and dates. He answers critical questions such as: Why were the Federal Reserve System and the Internal Revenue Service created in the same year? Why should we demand that the Federal Reserve System and the IRS be disbanded? How could we get the money we need under a new system? What can we learn from what past figures have said about money and taxes? Corrupt legislators continue to close tax loopholes every single year—increasing the tax burden for hard working Americans everywhere. What they’re doing is illegal and wrong, which is why we must Disband the Corrupt Federal Reserve System and the IRS NOW!

Author : Ninsin, Kwame A.
Publisher : Freedom Publications
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789988281434

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The Corrupt Elites by Ninsin, Kwame A. Pdf

The Corrupt Elites is a simple and straight-forward narrative in which explains the incidence of corruption or the rise of corruption within successive historical conjunctures in the Ghana. Some of the questions raised and answered in the study relate to how the Ghanaian precolonial, colonial and post-colonial states and their mutually interrelated political processes affected the production and distribution of wealth. In particular, how political decisions and interests of the political elites influenced the location of economic activities and the distribution of the costs and benefits of these activities. An explanation is given as to why corruption has festered in the Ghanaian polity and recrudesced from the 1990s with such devastating social, economic and political effect. The purpose of this essay is to substantiate the assumptions underpinning the narrative with concrete historical evidence.

Author : Renzi D. Renzi,D. Renzi
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781426925900

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We the Corrupt People by Renzi D. Renzi,D. Renzi Pdf

Since writing We the Corrupt People over two years ago, many things of a corrupt nature have occurred in this country. To write of these important events would necessitate another book. The author randomly took three days of his local newspaper encompassing one week, and marked out all items dealing with corruption in all its forms. Day one had thirty items, day two contained forty-five items, and day three reported another thirty items. All items ranged from the least corrupt actions such as ticketing of all types of driving infractions, hit and run accidents, drug offenses of all types, murders–especially between teenagers, or family members killing other family members to rapes, child molesting, spies in this country, telephone and internet wire- tapping, bribing of officials, corporate bonuses of corrupt bank officials, and the Bernard Madoff case. There were hundreds of people fired for elder abuse, political officials cheating on their spouses, parents giving kids alcohol, the list goes on and on, ad nauseam every day, week, month—forever— these noted are only a few of the many corrupt actions. The country that once was the envy of the world is now the most corrupt of countries anywhere.

Author : England
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1859
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0020228052

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The Election Statutes; Including the Corrupt Practices Act, Chronologically Arranged, with an Index. Edited by William Henry Cooke by England Pdf

Author : John Hollis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1775
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600095201

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Hints and essays, theological and moral, intended briefly to expose the corrupt principles of Calvinism, by a lay-man [J. Hollis]. by John Hollis Pdf

Author : Abdul Bilal
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2008-05-16
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781463464936

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The Corrupt Gene by Abdul Bilal Pdf

The Corrupt Gene is a novel interwoven with four people that shows how life predisposes us to fall in love and seek certain relationships. The story unfolds with Sunita, a Wedding Boutique owner, who wants to be married as much as the customers buying her gowns, so to become married, she increases her efforts to make her boyfriend propose to her. Meanwhile, her best-friend, the tantalizing Katie, who has no problem making men commit to her, can no longer ignore the harsh and cold ways she breaks up with them. But as the consequences of Katie’s actions catch up to her, and begin to toil on her conscious, she finds apart of herself more humane when meeting the most unlikely of people, Stew, who is an inspiring actor, and who also happens to be stalking his ex-girlfriend. Just as friends are naturally acquainted through mutual friends, Novice, friend to Stew, becomes deeply affected by Sunita, even though he is married. And as the ties of affection increase between him and Sunita, it is thwarted by the same ideals of faithfulness that they both espouse.