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Author
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A baby is born with a coin in her hand. An orphan crafts a mysterious wooden object. The CEO of a large corporation finds himself under extraordinary pressure at work and at home. And on a remote hilltop on a Caribbean island, a medicine man seems to understand the meaning of all these events and to hold the key to the future. Montaro Caine, CEO of the Fitzer Corporation, is losing control of the company he built just as his teenage daughter is experiencing...
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
xi, 62 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
John Kenneth Galbraith has long been at the center of American economics, in key positions of responsibility during the New Deal, World War II, and since, guiding policy and debate. His trenchant new book distills this lifetime of experience in the public and private sectors, it is a scathing critique of matters as they stand today.
Sounding the alarm about the increasing gap between reality and "conventional wisdom" - a phrase he coined - Galbraith...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 640L
Physical Desc
484 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"When a radical band of teen activists [claims] that Alix's powerful father covers up wrongdoing by corporations that knowingly allow innocent victims to die in order to make enormous profits from unsafe products, she must decide if she will blow the whistle on his misdeeds"--
85) War, Inc
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Turaqistan is a country occupied by an American private corporation run by a former U.S. vice-president. In an effort to monopolize the opportunities the war-torn nation offers, the corporation's CEO hires a troubled hit man to kill a Middle East oil minister. Now, struggling with his own growing demons, the assassin must pose as the corporation's Trade Show producer in order to pull off his current hit. He has to do all this while maintaining his...
Author
Publisher
Center Street
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
vii, 358 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"There's a new invisible force at work in our economic and cultural lives. It affects every advertisement we see and every product we buy, from our morning coffee to a new pair of shoes. 'Stakeholder capitalism' makes rosy promises of a better, more diverse, environmentally-friendly world, but in reality this ideology championed by America's business and political leaders robs us of our money, our voice, and our identity. Vivek Ramaswamy is a traitor...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1935
Physical Desc
xii, 483 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
An acclaimed classic detailing the economic history of America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and exposing the capitalist giants who changed the world Frederick Lewis Allen's insightful financial history of the United States-from the late 1800s through the stock market collapse of 1929-remains a seminal work on what brought on America's worst economic disaster: the Great Depression. In the decades following the Civil War, America...
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
xix, 342 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Critical, independent voices are seldom found within the citadels of international finance. That's what makes Nomi Prins unique. During fifteen years as an executive at skyscraping banks like Goldman Sachs, Bear Stearns, and Lehman Brothers, Prins never lost her ability to see the broader picture. She walked away from the game in 2002 out of disgust with the burgeoning corporate corruption, just as its magnitude was becoming clear to the public. In...
92) The key to fury
Author
Series
Key volume 2
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
323 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"What price would you pay for freedom? Return to the acclaimed dystopian world of the Key by New York Times bestselling author Kristin Cast, as two young rebels fight to determine their own worth and change the world along with themselves. Safety comes with a price. The Key Corporation has kept Westfall safe from pandemics for the last fifty years. But that's not all they've done. After discovering the shocking truth behind the Key Corporation, nurse...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
800L
Physical Desc
336 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Studious, socially conscious Emerson Watts learns startling news about the family of Nikki Howard, the teen supermodel into whose body Emerson's brain was transplanted by the nefarious Stark corporation.
94) Poison pill
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
348 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
After years of struggle, Emma Conway is the driving force behind Acordinol, a hugely successful product that has pharmaceutical giant Percival & Baxter riding high. But her dream life becomes a nightmare when a Wall Street raider threatens P&B with a hostile takeover. Worse, the raider is no ordinary cut-throat, but her ex-husband Josh Katz, father of their 16-year-old son.
Author
Pub. Date
2020
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
281 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Oak Flat tells the story of a race-against-time struggle for a swath of American land, which pits one of the poorest communities in the United States against the federal government and two of the world's largest mining conglomerates. The book follows the fortunes of two families with profound connections to the contested site: the Nosies, an Apache family whose teenage daughter is an activist and leader in the Oak Flat fight, and the Gorhams, a mining...
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
xv, 222 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
This book teaches concepts that are not well-appreciated or understood among lay investors--but are well known and appreciated among Wall Street insiders, dealmakers and certain enthusiasts. These ideas stand the test of time, reliably producing profits decade after decade. The greatest investors have a different approach to risk than most people. The author also examines the principles of wealth creation, and urges readers to take advantage of the...