Showing titles in Corruption & Misconduct

Explore a ascensão e a queda brutal de impérios do crime nesta análise profunda sobre as corporações do submundo. Perfeito para acompanhar seu trajeto diário, este áudio investigativo substitui o glamour das telas pela dura realidade da violência urbana e da corrupção estrutural...

貧困や国家の機能不全を養分にして巨大化する麻薬カルテル、その台頭と血塗られた崩壊の歴史的構造を解き明かし、裏社会のメカニズムを浮き彫りにする本格犯罪学ノンフィクションです。毎日の通勤時間やじっくりと...

Plongez au cœur des sociétés secrètes et développez votre esprit critique face aux mythes d'une domination mondiale. Que vous cherchiez à stimuler votre réflexion lors de vos trajets quotidiens ou à comprendre les véritables coulisses du pouvoir, cette analyse historique captivante...

Décodez l'ascension et la chute des empires criminels mondiaux grâce à cette investigation géopolitique captivante. Parfait pour transformer vos trajets quotidiens en une session d'apprentissage intense, ce récit immersif dissèque la hiérarchie et la stratégie de profit des groupes...

Plongez au cœur du narcotrafic, là où violence et corruption forgent d'impitoyables empires criminels internationaux. Cette enquête documentaire haletante dissèque la mécanique des organisations illicites, de leur genèse clandestine jusqu'à leur effondrement sous les redoutables guerres...

Descubre la verdad detrás de los «ídolos» que marcaron el pensamiento popular contemporáneo. El mundo occidental los ha exaltado como héroes. Se nos impuso que debíamos admirarlos, celebrarlos e imitarlos. Pero detrás de su fama y el brillo propagandístico, se esconden contradicciones...

New York Times best-selling author and legendary political insider Roger Stone lashes out with a blistering indictment that exposes the true history and monumental hypocrisy of the Bushes. In his usual "go for the jugular" style, Stone collaborates with Saint John Hunt - author, musician, and son of legendary CIA operative E. Howard Hunt - to make this a "no-holds-barred" history of the Bush family.

Vier Frauen, vier Leben und die Sehnsucht nach Sichtbarkeit, Liebe und Selbstbestimmung. Der lang erwartete neue Roman von Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Spiegel-Bestsellerautorin, literarischer Superstar und feministische Ikone. Chiamaka ist Reiseschriftstellerin, navigiert zwischen ihrer nigerianischen Heimat und ihrem amerikanischen Zuhause und versucht, sich im Rückblick auf die Männer ihres Lebens zu erklären, wann genau ihr ihre Träume abhandengekommen sind.

*THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER* A GUARDIAN AND SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR ‘An astonishing book’ James O’Brien ‘A gripping, devastating read’ Sunday Times The inside story of the UK’s response to the pandemic from the Insight investigations unit at The Sunday Times Failures of State...

In 2017 the Salvator Mundi was sold at auction for $450m. But is it a real da Vinci? In a thrilling narrative built on formidable research, Ben Lewis tracks the extraordinary journey of a masterpiece lost and found, lied and fought over across the centuries. In 2017, Leonardo da Vinci’s small...

In this explosive memoir, a political consultant and technology whistleblower reveals the disturbing truth about the multi-billion-dollar data industry, revealing to the public how companies are getting richer using our personal information and exposing how Cambridge Analytica exploited...

In this explosive, controversial, and profoundly alarming insider’s report, Senator Bob Graham reveals faults in America’s national security network severe enough to raise fundamental questions about the competence and honesty of public officials in the CIA, the FBI, and the White House. For...

No subject is more hotly debated than the extreme measures that our government has taken after 9/11 in the name of national security. Torture, extraordinary rendition, drone assassinations, secret detention centers (or "black sites"), massive surveillance of citizens. But while the press occasionally exposes the dark side of the war on terror, and congressional investigators sometimes raise alarms about the abuses committed by US intelligence agencies and armed forces, no high US official has been prosecuted for these violations.

Bloomsbury presents Dictatorland by Paul Kenyon, read by Hamilton McLeod. A Financial Times Book of the Year 'Jaw-dropping' Daily Express 'Grimly fascinating' Financial Times 'Humane, timely, accessible and well-researched' Irish Times The dictator who grew so rich on his country's cocoa crop...

Bloomsbury presents Code of Conduct written and read by Chris Bryant. THE INSTANT TOP TWO SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE PARLIAMENTARY BOOK AWARDS Longstanding Labour MP Chris Bryant tells the inside story of what went so wrong with Westminster – and how we might solve it. 'Takes...

The Tangled Web tells the dramatic story of detective Richard Cain's criminal career as revealed by his half-brother, Michael. Cain led a double-life—one as a well-known cop who led raids that landed on the front pages, and the other as a "made man" in one of Chicago's most notorious mob families.

In today’s chaotic world, where the multiplication of information sources creates competing narratives, credibility is the key to winning the war of ideas. This is the reason why governments and corporations resort to astroturfing - creation of ostensibly grassroots movements set up to advance political agendas and commercial campaigns. The democratization of information and polarization of politics offer a perfect storm.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The first definitive account of the rise and fall of the Secret Service, from the Kennedy assassination to the alarming lapses of the Obama and Trump years—from Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Carol Leonnig “This book is a wake-up call, and a valuable study...

How did America end up with a leader who acts so crudely and despotically, and counter to our democratic principles? Why do his followers stick with him, even when he acts against their interests? John Dean, a man with a history of standing up to autocratic presidents, joins with Bob Altemeyer, a psychology professor with a unique area of expertise: authoritarianism. Together, using psychological diagnostic tools, as well as exclusive research and analysis from the Monmouth University Polling Institute, the authors provide us with an eye-opening understanding of the Trump phenomenon.

Bloomsbury presents The Book of Secrets by Xinran Xue, read by Daniel York Loh and Crystal Yu. ‘An extraordinary firsthand account of Communist Party machinery at its most brutal and paranoid’ --Sunday Telegraph Picked as Hilary Spurling's Book of the Year in The Spectator. The spellbinding...