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Innovation Corrupted: The Origins and Legacy of Enron's Collapse
Malcolm S. Salter

Harvard University Press, 2008

Although much has already been written about the rise and fall of Enron, four important questions remain unanswered: What management behavior and practices led Enron down the path from truly innovative to fraudulent management? How could Enron?s board of directors have failed to detect the business, ethical, and legal risks embedded in the company?s aggressive financial strategies and accounting practices? Why did Enron?s external ...

Bailout Nation: How Easy Money Corrupted Wall Street and Shook the World Economy
Barry Ritholtz

McGraw-Hill, 2009

A Wall Street insider?s look at how the Fed shifted risk to taxpayers, rewarded reckless risk, and damaged the economy Years of trying to control the economy with easy money has finally caught up with the federal government, and now its practice of repeatedly rescuing Wall Street is under acute scrutiny. In Bailout Nation , financial heavyweight and industry pundit Barry Ritholtz connects the dots to reveal how corporations were allowed to ...

This Tragic Gospel: How John Corrupted the Heart of Christianity

1 review
Louis A. Ruprecht

Jossey-Bass, 2008

A passionate contrast of two Gospels
Ruprecht's eye for classical literature helps expose gapping differences between the Gospels of Mark and John. He shows the influence of Greek tragedy in Mark's account, with it's emphasis on a suffering, struggling, deeply human Jesus. He contrasts this with John's Jesus, presented as an all-knowing, omnipotent Lord, who never doubts, never knows fear, and never really suffers. Ruprecht ...

The Brothers Bulger: How They Terrorized and Corrupted Boston for a Quarter Century

138 reviews
Howie Carr

Grand Central Publishing, 2006

Existential Corruption American Style
This is a quintessentially American story that is both important and unforgettable. One reason it is important is that it affirms the adage: "power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." Another is that, the deep FBI and police corruption begged the question: Who guards the guards themselves? But also, no matter how distorted morally, this story is still somehow a perverse but generic ...

The Politics of Jesus: Rediscovering the True Revolutionary Nature of Jesus' Teachings and How They Have Been ...

24 reviews
Obery Hendricks

Three Leaves, 2007

Discovering The Complete Jesus
This is an extraordinary, sold five star book aimed at revealing exactly where Jesus stood on the political scale of his time. Through careful analysis of quotes from the New Testament, author Obery Hendricks discovers a politically liberal, even radical Jesus who worked tirelessly and risked his life daily to organize the poor and protest against their oppression by a brutal Roman occupation ...

Transformation of Desire: How Desire Became Corrupted - and How We Can Reclaim It

1 review
Diarmuid O'murchu

Orbis Books, 2007

Looking Reality in the Eye
We humans are staring extinction in the face. Unless we discover consciousness in its cosmic depth there may be no tomorrow for us. But that stark reality, as O'Murchu lays it out clearly and courageously, can wake us up to new ways of thinking and living that will open for us a future beyond our imagination. This book is a fast read yet so full of fertile insights-- such as the ...

Tenured Radicals, 3rd Edition: How Politics Has Corrupted Our Higher Education

21 reviews
Roger Kimball

Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, 2008

Breeding Ground
Kimball exposes Marxist profs for their secure, big paying, cushy jobs within Capitalism. Tenured guerillas? Nay! These Marxists are more like rabid dogs that engage in fits of verbal madness while trying to bite the invisible hand of the Capitalism that feeds them! Marxist delirium induces the worse incoherency and nonsense and the Humanities is a breeding ground for this kind of culture. ...

The Number: How the Drive for Quarterly Earnings Corrupted Wall Street and Corporate America

21 reviews
Alex Berenson

Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2004

What Might Those Quarterly Earnings Mean?
New York Times business reporter Alex Berenson has written a book that every investor should read. "The Number" traces the history of Wall Street trends, bubbles, busts, and the accounting fashions that accompanied them from the 1920s to the present day. He explains how the cult of The Number was born, making quarterly earnings reports the last word on any company's health, and how this ...

Chasing Lolita: How Popular Culture Corrupted Nabokov's Little Girl All Over Again
Graham Vickers

Chicago Review Press, 2008

In the summer of 1958, a 12-year-old girl took the world by storm? Lolita was published in the United States?and since then, her name has been taken in vain to serve a wide range of dubious ventures, both artistic and commercial. Offering a full consideration of not only ?the Lolita effect? but shifting attitudes toward the mix of sex, children, and popular entertainment from Victorian times to the present, this study explores the movies, ...

Infectious Greed: How Deceit and Risk Corrupted the Financial Markets

19 reviews
Frank Partnoy

Holt Paperbacks, 2004

Good advice and exiting facts
This book it's a very exiting journey since the late 80's until the issues of enron and worldcom, it covers step by step how financial innovation has been changing and is a good reference for anyone who likes true stories.

Coloring the News: How Political Correctness Has Corrupted American Journalism

44 reviews
William McGowan

Encounter Books, 2003

Clear view from the inside
Though this book condemns mainstream American journalism for its overwhelmingly superficial and one-sided reporting on crucial current social issues -- immigration, "diversity," gay rights and feminism, etc -- it won the 2002 National Press Club Award for press coverage. Black and Hispanic NPC members squawked loudly, of course, but for once good sense prevailed and they were overruled. Thus ...

Corrupted Science: Fraud, Ideology and Politics in Science

7 reviews
John Grant

Facts, Figures & Fun, 2007

Realpolitik tries to hide the Scientific Truth+
This little book is packed with quite a bit of interesting informational topics, exposing political schemes to bend the truth about scientific logic.I agree with about ninty-five percent of his research findings.Yet,on a few topics he does not elaborate enough evidence to support his arguments.There are no foot-notes.There are many books listed to support his writing though.I would have given the ...

John Dewey & Decline Of American Education: How Patron Saint Of Schools Has Corrupted Teaching & Learning

8 reviews
Henry T. Edmondson III

Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2006

Most Succinctly
Most of my thirty four years of teaching the physical sciences and math were enjoyable despite being beclouded by the frustrating confusion of the pernicious decline of educational statistics. Our most earnest efforts in "inovative" programs, better book and innumerable caimpaigns for bigger budgets and better schools notwithstanding, the stats continued their depressing downslides. Why??? ...

The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg (The Art of the Novella)

1 review
Mark Twain

The Art of the Novella, 2006

One of Twain's great works from his later, more cynical days
Some books have a way of coming back. They are not of their time necessarily. But at their core is the human comedy which never grows stale or loses its relevance. Shakespeare's MacBeth is such a work. After all, the hunger for power and the willingness to murder in order to obtain it are universal in the human experience. The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg retains its luster for very similar ...

The Baby Thief: The Untold Story of Georgia Tann, the Baby Seller Who Corrupted Adoption

23 reviews
Barbara Bisantz Raymond

Union Square Press, 2008

Amazing book
A couple of years ago I watched a docudrama on A & E starring Mary Tyler Moore as the depraved monster Georgia Tann. When I searched for a book written about Georgia Tann and the Tennessee Children's Home Society, I found this one and read it in two days. It was riveting, thought-provoking, and heartbreaking. What a shame that her lies were not exposed years earlier when more of her victims may ...

Tenured Radicals: How Politics Has Corrupted Higher Education

1 review
Roger Kimball

Harpercollins, 1990

Exposing Derrida, de Man, and the hermeneutical mafia
Anyone who has squirmed in his seat as a university professor touts the obfuscating nihilism of the deconstructionists certainly owes Mr. Kimball a huge debt of gratitude. The best expose of the deconstruction sham there is. Hard-hitting and scathing . . . guaranteed to raise eyebrows.

The Corrupted (Warhammer Novels)

2 reviews
Robert Earl

Games Workshop, 2006

Good premise, but bounces around too much
It's an amazing read, but the book continuously jumps from character to character and plot to plot. It definitely captures the feel of Warhammer FRP, but I think that it could have been fleshed out a little more (the book is very short).

Science in the Private Interest: Has the Lure of Profits Corrupted Biomedical Research?
Sheldon Krimsky

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2004

University science is now entangled with entrepreneurship, and researchers with a commercial interest are caught in an ethical quandary. Science in the Private Interest investigates the trends and effects of modern, commercialized academic science. Visit our website for sample chapters!

How Greek Philosophy Corrupted the Christian Concept of God

5 reviews
Richard R. Hopkins

Horizon Pub & Dist Inc, 2005

A must read
This is an excellent summary of exactly what the title suggests. Richard Hopkins exposes with detailed documentation how "orthodox" Christian thinking of God today actually is extremely Hellenistic and came into existence much after the time of Christ. He skillfully uses quotes and ideas from Greek and modern philosophers, the early Christian Apologists, and scripture to effectively convey his ...

Puddnhead Wilson and Other Tales : Those Extraordinary Twins, the Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg (Oxford ...

1 review
Mark Twain, R.D. Gooder

Oxford University Press, USA, 1999

Absolutely joyful and totally entertaining with mystery.
As entertaining as any of Mark Twain's works. Fun for all ages. Great stroy and lessons in life as well as Twain's great gift for humor, subtle and obvious. Totally entertaining with enough drama to keep your interest. Great for entertainment, education or teaching.

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