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  • Chicago, Satan’s Sanctum
    L. O. Curon
    Behind the prosperity and astonishing growth of one of America’s greatest cities, L. O. Curon saw another Chicago-a city where crime, vice, political influence, and official corruption flourished beneath the surface.Chicago, Satan’s Sanctum is a fierce examination of the darker side of urban life, turning its attention to the relationships between criminals, saloons, gambling h...
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    16,48 €

  • Well, Lookie Here the President is a Convicted Felon. How Can a Buffoon Make Nixon Look Like an Amateur?
    Gerard Hendrix
    What happens when you hand the keys to the world’s most powerful democracy to a subsidized fraud?When Richard Nixon broke the law to protect his power, it was a terrifying display of dark, calculated competence. He laundered money through Mexican banks, deployed CIA operatives, and operated with the disciplined silence of a mafia syndicate.Today, Watergate looks like a Cub Scou...
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    9,47 €

  • Waters of Betrayal
    David G. Stone
    They promised progress. They delivered devastation.In 1950, the residents of Oscarville, Georgia-a thriving Black community-were told their homes would be flooded to create Lake Lanier, a recreational paradise for Atlanta’s elite. What they weren’t told was the truth behind one of America’s most shocking acts of environmental racism.WATERS OF BETRAYAL exposes the government con...
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    25,98 €

  • Strike 120
    William J.B. Ernest
    Prices have increased 25% in the last five years, the billionaire class is growing, and the United States of America is ruled by oligarchs. Enraged by the misplaced priorities of their elected and appointed representatives, Americans are beginning to push back against policies that serve the ultra-wealthy above working class individuals. Strike 120 concisely summarizes the unde...
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    8,73 €

  • The ANTI-CORRUPTION Mandate
    Dolphine Maleshe / Torben Vestergaard Frandsen
    CORRUPTION is Not a Necessary Evil. In His decades of working in the Humanitarian and Developmental space, Torben Vestergaard Frandsen has interacted with Wolrd leaders, Governments, and Large Organisations through his company: Vestergaard Frandsen. He notes that the greatest barrier to progress, is Corruption.Now retired, He lays out from his experience a 30 point manifesto to...
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    11,89 €

  • Israel’s Nuclear Monopoly
    Terry Malone
    Israel’s Nuclear Monopoly: The Nuclear Trigger That Could Ignite the Middle East examines one of the most dangerous contradictions in the modern international order: Israel possesses nuclear weapons outside the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, while Iran, a treaty member, has faced sanctions, sabotage, assassinations and military attack over a nuclear program...
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    16,44 €

  • COVID’s Leading Psychopaths
    Abdiel LeRoy
    A Gripping Narrative of Outrage and HopeIntroducing and exposing Dr. Peter Marks, medical tyrant in chief during COVID; Dr. Robert Frenck, medical torturer of children; and a legion of other unsung medical psychopaths.Among the roster of COVID criminals, you know the household names. There was Anthony Fauci, a secret-society operative pulling the strings; and Donald Trump haili...
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    33,29 €

  • A New Epoch of Enlightenment - Volume I
    Sascha Ferber
    Why Today’s 'Epoch of Ideologies' Now Must, and Will, Be Replaced by Reason. We live in an Epoch of Ideologies. Feelings, narratives, and the politics of interest have displaced reason and the careful testing of premises. What began as postmodernism’s critical impulse has hardened into structures of thought that immunize themselves against evidence, moralize disagreement, treat...
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    25,73 €

  • Restoration
    John Mutz
    Trust is the foundation of effective policing-but when that trust is broken, everyone suffers. In Restoration, veteran law enforcement leader John Mutz offers a timely, practical, and hopeful roadmap for rebuilding the relationship between police officers and the communities they serve.Drawing from more than three decades of firsthand experience, Mutz examines the challenges fa...
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    22,84 €

  • Science of Government
    Al Case
    The Science of GovernmentHow do we fix the chaos on the streets? How do we protect our history from those who would tear down our statues? How do we protect our police from those who throw fireworks at them, who use slingshots and lasers and whatever method they can to harm our thin, blue line?This book, 'The Science of Government,’ is the solution.’The Science of Government: F...
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    16,70 €

  • The Demons of Nigeria
    Stephen S. Enada
    What keeps a nation rich in resources trapped in cycles of corruption, violence, and underdevelopment?In The Demons of Nigeria, Stephen S. Enada presents a comprehensive examination of the political, institutional, cultural, and moral forces that have shaped modern Nigeria. Drawing from history, sociology, political science, economics, and personal reflection, the book explores...
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    21,74 €

  • The Corruption Machine
    Aaron Aaberg
    Corruption rarely begins with a dramatic crime. It begins with a favour, an exception, a loyal appointment or a compromise presented as politically necessary. Then the system learns to protect itself. The Corruption Machine reveals how isolated abuses can develop into a governing method sustained by patronage, propaganda, captured institutions, political identity and fear of ch...
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    21,67 €

  • Golden Age Rising
    Sidney Pines
    The saga continues... In this gripping sequel, Sidney returns with an unflinching chronicle of America at a crossroads. From the electric tension of election night 2024 through the dawn of what she calls the 'Golden Age of America,' this diary-style narrative captures the heartbeat of a movement and the pulse of a nation divided. Through vivid personal accounts, sharp political...
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    15,58 €

  • Earth’s Secret Alien War
    Andrew Parry
    For more than seventy years, humanity has been told that UFOs are either mistakes, myths, military secrets, or threats. Witnesses were mocked. Pilots were ignored. Civilians were dismissed. Scientists were warned away by stigma. Governments denied, delayed, classified, and carefully controlled the language around the greatest mystery in modern history. But what if the deepest s...
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    35,14 €

  • Hands in the Till
    James R Crockett
    In 2004 the Corporate Crime Reporter asserted that Mississippi was the most crooked state in America. By comparing the number of federal corruption convictions over the past decade and the 2002 population of the state, the conclusion was inescapable. Too many officials were robbing the public they had sworn to serve and protect.Hands in the Till: Embezzlement of Public Monies i...
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    35,48 €

  • Ehrlichkeit, Fairness und Korruption in der europäischen Geschichte - Band II
    Sascha Ferber
    In einer Zeit tiefgreifender Vertrauenskrisen in Wirtschaft, Politik und gesellschaftlichen Institutionen legt Dr. Sascha Ferber mit dem zweiten Band seines mehrbändigen Werkes 'Ehrlichkeit, Fairness und Korruption in der europäischen Geschichte' eine wissenschaftlich fundierte und programmatisch weitreichende Diagnose der Pathologien der Gegenwart vor. Während Band I die histo...
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    66,52 €

  • Exposing the Rotten System
    Christian Bittencourt
    Niccolò Machiavelli wrote The Prince in exile, amid personal grief and the ruin of his republic. The book stripped power naked. The system never forgave him. Thomas More wrapped his critique in irony and Christian safety. It was tolerated. Marie Corelli denounced the spiritual cost of materialism with raw fury. She was sidelined.Thisinquiry cuts through three distinct ways of c...
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    9,47 €

  • Who Killed Michael Francke
    Phil Stanford
    Michael Francke was a ranking law enforcement official-a good and decent man, former prosecutor and judge, just 42 years of age, recently appointed head of the Oregon Corrections Department. He was stabbed to death the night before he was scheduled to appear before the Oregon State Senate Judiciary Committee to expose a rats’ nest of corruption he’d discovered within his own de...
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    17,51 €

  • 'THE SYSTEM' AS UNCOVERED BY The San Francisco Graft Prosecution (Cram Edition)
    Franklin Hichborn
    This XpressRead Cram Edition of 'THE SYSTEM' AS UNCOVERED BY The San Francisco Graft Prosecution pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic.Uncover the shocking truth behind turn-of-the-century political corruption in 'The System,' as uncovered by the San Francisco Graft Prosecution. This historical...
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    34,63 €

  • Corruption in American Politics and Life (Cram Edition)
    Robert C. (Robert Clarkson) Brooks
    This XpressRead Cram Edition of Corruption in American politics and life pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic.'Corruption in American Politics and Life' offers a comprehensive exploration of political corruption in the United States during the 20th century and the Progressive Era. Robert Clark...
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    25,23 €

  • The Tree
    Lee McGarr
    This, the tenth book in a series written about corruption in Oklahoma and their attempts to take all from anyone they wish. Look just inside of the front cover and you will see my previous nine books, all true crime and all centered in Oklahoma.It is well known that as Oklahoma achieved statehood the murderers, thieves, and scoundrels were forced to step-by-step adhere to the n...
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    20,57 €

  • The Grafters (Cram Edition)
    Francis Lynde
    This XpressRead Cram Edition of The Grafters pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic.Francis Lynde’s 'The Grafters' is a gripping tale of political corruption set against the backdrop of the American West. This meticulously prepared print republication unveils a timeless story of ambition, greed,...
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    27,06 €

  • Customs, Cash, and Courtesy
    Rael Mboroshi
    Every border in the world runs on two economies. One is official, documented, and taxed. The other is not.This is the book about the second one.When a truck driver in West Africa approaches a customs checkpoint with thirty-seven more to cross before he reaches his destination, he does not think about trade law. He thinks about what the officer at the window will accept and how ...
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    45,47 €

  • Behind the Closed Door in Brussels
    Marcus Halvorsen
    Every law that touches your life in the European Union was supposedly written in public. Read that sentence again, because it is the lie this book takes apart, page by page, with names, dates, court cases, and a suitcase full of cash.Picture a small room with no cameras, no public seating, and no published agenda. Three people sit at a table. One represents the European Commiss...
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    45,47 €

  • Justice by Deception
    J. K. Cook
    A compelling true story about the potential for virtuosity to reclaim a sense of justice long ago lost and a strident overture to fix a dysfunctional, tainted conception of justice-from the eyes of a mother whose personal five-year journey takes her through an often exhausting and enigmatic judicial system.J.K. Cook is a veteran nurse of twenty-three-plus years with an extensiv...
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    20,26 €

  • The Scareadigm
    Torre A. DeVito
    In the United States, the rules of the political game are engines of inevitability. Duverger’s Law predicted that winner-take-all, single-member districts would produce only two dominant parties. By 1967, it became a reality with the Uniform Congressional District Act. Primaries reward zealots, general elections reward centrists, and a feedback loop of extremes ensures polariza...
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    16,52 €

  • Institutionalised Deceit
    Ron Bailey
    How does Westminster really work when government does not want to be challenged?In Institutionalised Deceit, Ron Bailey draws on 40 years of parliamentary campaigning to lift the lid on the hidden pressures, tactics and evasions that shape political decision-making in Britain. This is not a textbook account of Parliament. It is a first-hand story from a campaigner who has worke...
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    19,06 €

  • Marseille Connexion, Enquête sur la nouvelle géographie du narcotrafic européen
    Patrick Soulard
    Chaque nuit, des tonnes de drogue traversent l’Europe. Presque personne ne les voit passer.Tout commence sur un quai du port de Fos-sur-Mer. Un conteneur de bananes en provenance d’Amérique du Sud. Des papiers en règle. Un chauffeur ordinaire. Quelques minutes plus tard, plusieurs dizaines de millions d’euros de cocaïne disparaissent dans la nature.Personne n’est arrêté.De Mars...
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    22,31 €

  • Walden
    Henry David Thoreau
    In 1857 Henry David Thoreau moved to a small cabin in the woods near Walden Pond where he lived as a recluse from society for just over two years. In his time of self-prescribed isolation, Thoreau recorded his daily routine and reflections in an effort to get away from the noise brought about by a mainstream society. His work became one of the most influential American literary...
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    8,28 €

  • How to Run a Country
    Jahidul Islam
    Why do countries that know exactly what good governance looks like continue to choose bad governance instead? That is the question at the heart of this book - and the answer it gives, drawing on 2,500 years of evidence from Rome to Baghdad to Singapore, is as uncomfortable as it is precise: because the people who hold power have chosen their own enrichment over their country’s ...
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    16,40 €


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