Follow the Money

• Author : Bob DeGeorge
• Publisher : iUniverse
• Release : 22 March 2011

It appears to be just another case in a pile of hundreds for seasoned San Jose police detectives Rex Johnson and Kat Sanchez. But when the two detectives open a seemingly standard investigation into credit card fraud, they are soon pulled into the murky underworld of Asian organized crime. Rex and Kit center their investigation on San Joses card clubs and soon uncover evidence of counterfeiting, loan sharking, extortion, and human trafficking. Led straight to a shadowy Vietnamese underworld figure

• Author : Steve Boggan
• Publisher : Union Books
• Release : 01 January 2012

DIV ‘Fantastic debut’ Time Out 5-Star Review 'Its randomness is its joy' The Independent 'A picaresque travelogue about chasing an idea through down-home modern America.' The Times What do you do if you want to get underneath the skin of a country, to understand its people and feel its heartbeat? You can follow the rest of the tourists, or you can take the advice of Watergate reporter Bob Woodward’s source, ‘Deep Throat’, and ‘follow the money.’ Starting out

• Author : Sarah Reckhow
• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• Release : 17 January 2013

Some of the nation's wealthiest philanthropies, including the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Walton Family Foundation, and the Broad Foundation have invested hundreds of millions of dollars in education reform. With vast wealth and a political agenda, these foundations have helped to reshape the reform landscape in urban education. In Follow the Money, Sarah Reckhow shows where and how foundation investment in education is occurring and presents in-depth analysis of the effects of these investments within the two largest

• Author : Peter Corris
• Publisher : Atlantic Books
• Release : 01 January 2017

The thirty-sixth book in the Cliff Hardy series 'When beautiful young women kiss you on the cheek you know you're over the hill, but I didn't really feel like that. As Wesley said, I still had the moves.' Cliff Hardy may still have the moves but he's in trouble. The economy's tanking and he's been conned by an unscrupulous financial advisor and lost everything he's got. Cliff only knows one way, and that's forward, so he's following the money

• Author : Lynne A. Weikart
• Publisher : SUNY Press
• Release : 26 March 2009

Reveals the powerful influence of financial elites on New York City’s mayors.

• Author : Connie L. Cook
• Publisher : FriesenPress
• Release : 26 May 2021

Look out, there’s a new private investigator on the scene and her name is Diana Darling. In her forties and unsatisfied with her job as a number cruncher, Diana takes the plunge and completes an online course to become a private investigator. The ink is still wet on her private investigator certificate and her business, the Diana Darling Private Investigator Agency, has just opened, but she has already landed her very first client. While on her first case investigating

• Author : John Anderson
• Publisher : Simon and Schuster
• Release : 11 September 2007

With its barbecues, new Cadillacs, and $4,000 snakeskin cowboy boots, Texas is all about power and money -- and the power that money buys. This detailed and wide-scope account shows how a group of wealthy Texas Republicans quietly hijacked American politics for their own gain. Getting George W. Bush elected, we learn, was just the tip of the iceberg.... In Follow the Money, award-winning journalist and sixth-generation Texan John Anderson shows how power in Texas has long been vested in the

• Author : Kevin Taft
• Publisher : Brush Education
• Release : 18 January 2012

Alberta's most insightful political commentator is back with another essential book. Kevin Taft, together with economists Mel McMillan and Junaid Jahangir, follows the money to uncover why Alberta--one of the richest places on earth--still talks poor when it comes to public services. Do we really spend more than we can afford, more than we can sustain, on health care? On education? Why doesn't Alberta have enough hospital beds? Why have our schools faced teacher layoffs? Why are our city streets

• Author : Philip McCauley,Brett Neubert
• Publisher : Pearson Education
• Release : 17 May 2011

This is the eBook version of the printed book. An objective framework for assessing management’s effectiveness in deploying capital to increase shareholder value. Shareholders’ lack of direct control over cash flow represents a blind spot in traditional cash flow-based valuation. Management might deploy a company’s free cash flow in many ways that don’t add shareholder value. Management controls the balance sheet, retaining discretion over assets and power to borrow against future cash flows. This document will help

• Author : Duncan Campbell-Smith
• Publisher : Penguin UK
• Release : 27 March 2008

Most books on politics and government take a view from the top down. They focus on the individuals and institutions that set policies in place and make the laws. But how are these policies and laws translated into action on the ground, where their success or failure helps determine the day to day running of schools and hospitals, police forces and councils? This is the much less familiar territory explored by Follow The Money. It tells the story of the

• Author : Michael B. Dwyer
• Publisher : CIFOR
• Release : 06 April 2015

Half a decade into the global land rush, land-intensive investment throughout Southeast Asia continues to confront social and environmental issues such as land conflict and improperly regulated forest conversion. This study uses publicly available financial and spatial data to examine the geography of land-intensive investment in Southeast Asia, and to identify the limits imposed by problems with data availability. It focuses on three regions where land has been widely seen to be available for new investment: Indonesia’s outer islands;

• Author : David McWilliams
• Publisher : Gill & Macmillan Ltd
• Release : 22 October 2009

The Pope's Children are turning 30 and in the four years since David McWilliams introduced us to the generation that could have had it all, the Pope's Children have been betrayed. This book is about real people and how good people can be broken by bad economics. But it doesn't have to be like this. There is a way out. We catch up with old friends, Breakfast Roll Man and Miss Pencil Skirt, and meet new characters like the Merchant of

• Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology (2007). Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 06 July 2022

• Author : Henry R. Bourne,Eric B. Vermillion
• Publisher : Lulu.com
• Release : 01 June 2016

Threatened by sharp cuts in state government support and stagnant federal research funding, US public research universities are becoming fragile ecosystems. By charting flows of research dollars through a leading public research university-the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)-this book illuminates how such schools work to cope with these funding threats and how the challenges and coping strategies affect organization and direction of research. Academic leaders, faculty, administrators, and students will learn how a complex academic health center manages

• Author : Marsha Sinetar
• Publisher : Dell
• Release : 06 July 1989

A handbook designed to show readers how to follow their own hearts to the work of their dreams, suggesting that people can achieve fulfillment through pursuing the right livelihood.