From Library Journal
Relying on prisoners’ firsthand reports, Hornblum (urban studies, Temple Univ.) has written a thorough account of the questionable medical experimentation carried out in Philadelphia’s Holmesburg Prison from the mid-1940s to 1974. Research on everything from cosmetics to chemical warfare agents was conducted there, often [...]
Even those who think the idea of a “corporate soul” is an oxymoron will be persuaded by journalist David Batstone’s whip-smart suggestions for how values can reinvent an organization’s bad behavior. Saving the Corporate Soul alternates examples of principled companies like Clif Bar and Timberland with those of innovative leaders such as [...]
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From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. After looking into how terrorism gets paid for (Terror Incorporated: Tracing the Money Behind Global Terrorism), Napoleoni tackles the whole of capitalism’s dark side: the economics of illegal, criminal and terrorist activities worldwide. There’s no shortage of material, including the sex trade [...]
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“The book is required reading…brilliantly organized…Mann’s style makes the reading enjoyable." –Ana Lucia Araujo Published on H-Atlantic (June, 2008)
A 2008 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Finalist –The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History online
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Editorial Reviews
From Library Journal
Relying on prisoners’ firsthand reports, Hornblum (urban studies, Temple Univ.) has written a thorough account of the questionable medical experimentation carried out in Philadelphia’s Holmesburg Prison from the mid-1940s to 1974. Research on everything from cosmetics to chemical warfare agents was conducted there, often [...]
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