Author: Kyle Jackson
Publisher: North Star Editions, Inc.
ISBN: 1631632337
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 107
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Coyote Canyon’s tennis team is counting on newcomer Roe Danner. But when Roe switches up her game with an old wooden racket, the whole school is abuzz. It’s up to sports reporter Stewart “Mac” McKenzie to uncover the story and help bring Roe’s signature performance back to the court.
Author: Matt Taibbi
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781682194072
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: Matt Kennard
Publisher: Zed Books Ltd.
ISBN: 1780329903
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 322
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'Kennard reports with devastating precision.' Naomi Klein While working at the Financial Times, investigative journalist Matt Kennard uncovered a scam - a deception and rip-off of immense proportions. From slanging matches with Henry Kissinger to afternoon coffees with the man who captured Che Guevara, Kennard’s unbridled access over four years to the crème de la crème of the global elite left him with only one conclusion: the world as we know it is run by a squad of cigar-smoking men with big guns, big cash and a reach much too close to home. But, through encounters with high-profile opponents of the racket, such as Thom Yorke, Damon Albarn, Gael García Bernal and others, Kennard shows that human decency remains. Now it’s time for the world’s citizens to also uncover the racket.
Author: Bill Brioux
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313084785
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 213
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When you first heard it, you couldn't believe it: Jerry Mathers, from TV's Leave It To Beaver, had been killed in Vietnam. Then word came that Abe Vigoda, the actor who played the curmudgeonly cop Fish on Barney Miller, was dead; and that Mikey, who would eat anything as the Life Cereal tyke, had eaten too many Pop Rocks and exploded. Besides exposing us to things we couldn't otherwise believe, television can convince us of things that never actually happened. But how did these outrageous TV legends get started? How did they spread from classrooms to boardrooms across North America and beyond? And, most important, what do these rumors, so quickly transformed into facts and common knowledge, reveal about our relationship to reality through the medium of television? Put in other words, what exactly is it that were doing when were dealing in these fabulous rumors—are we chasing after surprising truths or simply more incredible entertainment? To take one telling example: Jerry Mathers was not actually killed in Vietnam—but the basic sense of this lie wasn't far removed from the emotions factually expressed in the two-page spread of the faces of the dead in Time magazine. In the course of this compelling work—which is supplemented with interviews with many of the people implicated in these rumors—author Bill Brioux exposes the reality behind the many stories that currently circulate in our culture. Through these stories (both true and false), he sheds a revealing light on just what role these rumors play in contemporary society—and what role our society plays in regard to these rumors as well.
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crime prevention
Languages : en
Pages : 1042
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Also investigates the problem of crime prevention in general. Oct. 3, 1933 hearing was held in Detroit, Mich; Oct. 23, 24, 1933 hearings were held in Chicago, Ill.; Aug. 14, 15, Nov. 23, 24, Dec. 21, 1933 hearings were held in NYC, Jan,31, 1934 hearings were held in Washington.
Author: Kate Reed Petty
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1984877690
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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“A gripping, ripped-from-headlines tale.” —People “Spellbinding.” —Megan Abbott, The New York Times Book Review Tracing the fifteen-year fallout of a toxic high school rumor, a riveting, astonishingly original debut novel about the power of stories—and who gets to tell them 2015. A gifted and reclusive ghostwriter, Alice Lovett makes a living helping other people tell their stories. But she is haunted by the one story she can't tell: the story of, as she puts it, "the things that happened while I was asleep." 1999. Nick Brothers and his lacrosse teammates return for their senior year at their wealthy Maryland high school as the reigning state champions. They're on top of the world—until two of his friends drive a passed-out girl home from of the team's "legendary" parties, and a rumor about what happened in the backseat spreads through the town like wildfire. The boys deny the allegations, and, eventually, the town moves on. But not everyone can. Nick descends into alcoholism, and Alice builds a life in fits and starts, underestimating herself and placing her trust in the wrong people. When she finally gets the opportunity to confront the past she can't remember—but which has nevertheless shaped her life—will she take it? An inventive and breathtaking exploration of a woman finding her voice in the wake of trauma, True Story is part psychological thriller, part fever dream, and part timely comment on sexual assault, power, and the very nature of truth. Ingeniously constructed and full of twists and turns that will keep you guessing until the final pages, it marks the debut of a singular and daring new voice in fiction.
Author: Smedley D. Butler
Publisher: Wyatt North Publishing, LLC
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 33
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War Is a Racket is a famous anti-war book written by retired Major General Smedley Buter. In the book, Butler discusses how businesses profit from conflict.
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Interstate commerce
Languages : en
Pages : 1570
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Author: United States. Congress Senate
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1482
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Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 914
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