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Author
Publisher
Regnery Publishing, a division of Salem Media Group
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xii, 194 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Missouri Senator Josh Hawley argues that big tech companies--Facebook, Google, Amazon, and Apple--represent the gravest threat to American liberty since the monopolies of the Gilded Age, and proposes a democratic, hopeful path forward"--
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
381 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
When an unpopular local dies in a suspicious accident, the husband-and-wife legal team of Joe and Lisa Stone are entangled in a corporate conspiracy that threatens their lives and Lisa's desperate secret.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"At seventeen, Ezra Green doesn't have a lot going for him: he's shorter than average, snaggle-toothed, internet-addicted, and halfway to being legally blind. He's also on his way to Last Chance Camp, the final stop before juvie. But Ezra's summer at Last Chance turns life-changing when he meets Orson, brilliant and Adonis-like with a mind for hustling. Together, the two embark upon what promises to be a fruitful career of scam artistry. But when...
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Large print ed.
Physical Desc
251 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Another one for the keeper shelf! Enjoy again this classic romance from #1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber.
Janine Hartman loved her grandfather dearly-but she balked at his plan to choose her a husband. Zach Thomas, the intended groom, didn't like it any better.
Zach had recently merged his business with the Hartman family firm, and that was the only Hartman-Thomas merger he wanted. But Grandfather had other ideas, ideas belonging...
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
390 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
New York Times bestselling author Brian Haig returns with a riveting new thriller about a man caught between the politics of big government and the corruption of big business.
The Capitol Game
It was the deal of the decade, if not the century. A small, insignificant company on the edge of bankruptcy had discovered an alchemist's dream; a miraculous polymer, that when coated on any vehicle, was the equivalent of 30 inches of steel. With bloody conflicts...
66) Fallen angel
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fallen Angel: "Amy Johnson is firmly anchored in Seattle, working as an executive for her father's oil company. It's always been assumed she'll eventually take over, even if her heart isn't in it. When Amy meets Josh Powell, a self-described drifter who's rejected his money and power, she begins to question what she really wants. Maybe it's time to craft a new future--together." -- Page [4] cover.
The Soldier's Secret Child: "Former soldier Vito...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xvi, 398 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The shocking inside story of the struggle for power and control at Paramount, the multibillion-dollar entertainment empire controlled by the Redstone family, and the dysfunction, misconduct, and deceit that threatened the future of the company, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists who first broke the news In 2016, the fate of Paramount--the entertainment conglomerate that includes Viacom, CBS, and Simon & Schuster--hung precariously in the...
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (584 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Leverage follows a team of expert thieves that take down corrupt corporations in elaborate high-tech schemes. Insurance investigator Nate Ford exposed scams and recovered stolen items worth millions. But his life hit the skids when his insurance company allowed his ailing 8-year-old son to die. Years later, Nate gets even as the leader of a specialized team of thieves, computer experts and con artists that right corporate and governmental injustices...
69) Firebrand
Author
Series
Publisher
Entropy Cottage
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
295 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Currant Keppler has a fresh MBA and her first corporate job: participating in the LATTE Management Rotation Program at Alpine Chalet Coffee Company, the Midwest's second-largest coffee chain. She's fluent in jargon, excited for new challenges, and completely bought in--until she realizes that there's something fishy with her first project. I'm in the big leagues now, she tells herself. This is just how the game is played. But when a question of ethics...
70) Truth be told
Author
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
350 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"1890s Arizona newspaper reporter Amelia Wagner means to expose the truth about the Great Western Investment Company, no matter what--or who--they send to stop her" --
Author
Publisher
Wiley
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xiii, 242 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The probability of failure in corporate innovation outside of a firm's core business is staggeringly high. Yet, the vast majority of existing books about innovation focus on startups and their entrepreneurs, methodologies, and ecosystems. Few, if any, focus on corporate innovation, those leaders who champion it, and how to maximize their chances of success. Corporate Explorer fills this gap. In January 2021 alone, there were over 10,000 Google searches...
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
305 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
DemoCRIPS and ReBLOODlicans uncovers the truth about how corporations have bought the American electoral and legislative process through the power of lobbyists, campaign contributions, and political action committees. Using historical details, such as the development of the two-party system and the advent of third-party candidates throughout U.S. history, DemoCRIPS and ReBLOODlicans exposes how the two major parties have allowed corporations, businesses,...
Author
Publisher
MCD
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
456 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Following a mysterious murder on an island off the coast of Vietnam, a research team convenes to study an octopus community that seems to be developing its own language and culture. Humans, AIs, and animals are swept up in the machinations of governments and corporations in this near-future thriller about the nature of intelligence"--
Rumors begin to spread of a species of hyperintelligent, dangerous octopus that may have developed its own language...
74) Dead end
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
346 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
A scientist's miraculous discovery pits him against a multinational drug company in a fight for his life Richard Parnell is one of the leading minds in gene therapy research, and he expects the job at Dubette, Inc., to be his first step to a Nobel Prize. But when he arrives at the American pharmaceutical giant, he finds himself shut out of the main avenues of research, isolated from the cutting edge in a way he has never been before. To force his...
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Widescreen and full screen versions.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 90 min.) : anamorphic, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the year 2000, Dick gets a plum promotion as a mega-corporate communications director. His boss is preparing to bail out of the company just before stock prices plummet. Dick's wife Jane has quit her job as a travel agent, so when the corporate stocks hit rock bottom, Dick and Jane are left penniless and desperate. They decide to resort to petty thievery and this eventually gets them plotting high-stakes revenge against the greedy executives who...
76) Hard rules
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
293 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The only man within the Brandon empire with a moral compass, Shane Brandon is ready to take his family's business dealings legitimate. His reckless and ruthless brother, Derek wants to keep Brandon Enterprises cemented in lies, deceit, and corruption. But the harder Shane fights to pull the company back into the light, the darker he has to become. Then he meets Emily Stevens, a woman who not only stirs a voracious sexual need in him, but becomes...
77) Fallen dragon
Author
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
630 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In the distant future, corporations have become sustainable communities with their own militaries, and corporate goals have essentially replaced political ideology. On a youthful, rebellious impulse, Lawrence joined the military of a corporation that he now recognizes to be ruthless and exploitative. His only hope for escape is to earn enough money to buy his place in a better corporation. When his platoon is sent to a distant colony to quell a local...
78) Infomocracy
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
380 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"It's been twenty years and two election cycles since Information, a powerful search engine monopoly, pioneered the switch from warring nation-states to global micro-democracy. The corporate coalition party Heritage has won the last two elections. With another election on the horizon, the Supermajority is in tight contention, and everything's on the line."--Front jacket flap.
79) Judas unchained
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1008 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
The factions in the embattled Commonwealth must come together to battle not only the predatory alien species, the Prime, but also the Starflyer, a mysterious and undetectable alien with irresistible mind-control abilities.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
306 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Over the last generation, the United States has undergone seismic changes. Stable institutions have given way to frictionless transactions, which are celebrated no matter what collateral damage they generate. The concentration of great wealth has coincided with the fraying of social ties and the rise of inequality. How did all this come about? In Transaction Man, Nicholas Lemann explains the United States--and the worlds--great transformation by...