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Teddy Fay novels volume 2
Language
English
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Teddy Fay has donned a new disguise as a stuntman and actor starring in Centurion Studios' newest film. When the picture's leading lady begins receiving blackmail threats, Teddy is in the perfect position to investigate, and it soon becomes clear that the villains have more in their sights than just money.
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"In the vein of Neal Stephenson and Jeff VanderMeer, an epic speculative novel from Young Lions Fiction Award-finalist Matt Bell, a breakout book that explores climate change, manifest destiny, humanity's unchecked exploitation of natural resources, and the small but powerful magic contained within every single apple"--
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Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A history of how corporate innovation has shaped society, from ancient Rome to Silicon Valley Americans have long been skeptical of corporations, and that skepticism has only grown more intense in recent years. Meanwhile, corporations continue to amass wealth and power at a dizzying rate, recklessly pursuing profit while leaving society to sort out the costs. In For Profit, law professor William Magnuson argues that the story of...
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Series
Unincorporated volume 4
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Sandra O'Toole is the president of the Outer Alliance, which stretches from the asteroid belt to the Oort Cloud beyond Pluto. Resurrected following the death of Justin Cord, the unincorporated man, O'Toole has become a powerful political figure determined to win the Civil War against the inner planets at almost any cost. And the war has been going badly. Nothing is predictable, even the behavior of artificial intelligences. There may be only one way...
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English
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The decendents of Kate Blackwell battle to carry on her powerful legacy. Each is determined to control Kruger-Brent, Limited, the multibillion-dollar international corporation with holdings in diverse industries around the world. But only one can reign supreme.--From publisher's description.
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Publisher
Harcourt, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Two years after destroying a corporate empire intent on controlling human thinking through technology, teenagers Mal and Laura engage in another battle to save humanity when a "coporate bogeyman" known only as the Old Man tries to gain absolute power.
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English
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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 surging in Iraq and Afghanistan, the polymer promises to save thousands of lives and change the course of both wars.
Jack Wiley, a successful Wall Street banker,...
Jack Wiley, a successful Wall Street banker,...
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English
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"Once the hottest mergers and acquisitions executive in the company, Henrietta Wegner can see the ambitious and impossibly young up-and-comers gunning for her job. When Henri’s boss makes it clear she’ll be starting the New Year unemployed unless she can close a big deal before the holidays, Henri impulsively tells him that she can convince her aging parents to sell Wegner’s—their iconic Frankenmuth, Michigan, Christmas store—to a massive,...
Author
Series
Unincorporated volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Exiled hero Justin Cord works to outmaneuver a power-hungry corporate Earth society that has launched an interplanetary war in order to regain control over the outer planets.
Publisher
HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
In the 1980s, everyone was making the big bucks and F. Ross Johnson, CEO of RJR Nabisco, wants to make his fortune. He decides to buy out the Nabisco shareholders and take over his company in order to escape the tyranny of the stockholders. Johnson is introduced to the master of the leveraged buyout, Henry Kravis, but afraid of losing the company to this sharp dealer, he decides to make his move with Peter Cohen. Kravis mounts his own buy-out campaign,...
14) Project Namahana
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Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
""An enthralling tale of disappearances, deaths, dark secrets, and corporate evil."--Douglas Preston, #1 bestselling co-author of the Agent Pendergast series. Nothing stays hidden forever... Two men, unified by a string of disappearances and deaths, search for answers--and salvation--in the jungles of Kaua'i. Together, they must navigate the overlapping and complicated lines between a close-knit community and the hated, but economically necessary...
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Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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“Business Adventures remains the best business book Ive ever read.” Bill Gates, The Wall Street JournalWhat do the $350 million Ford Motor Company disaster known as the Edsel, the fast and incredible rise of Xerox, and the unbelievable scandals at General Electric and Texas Gulf Sulphur have in common? Each is an example of how an iconic company was defined by a particular moment of fame or notoriety; these notable and fascinating accounts are...
16) Invisible armies
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Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
17) Run: a novel
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Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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"Marc Bowman is an in-demand hired gun, a computer consultant for AmeriTel, the huge technical corporation where his wife Carolyn happens to work as a high-powered executive. Then, one morning, AmeriTel unceremoniously fires Marc with no notice and no cause. Furious, Marc turns to Carolyn for an explanation--and is stunned when she sides with her employer. Suddenly, things are happening in Marc's life that he can't explain; strange men are following...
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Garrett Kohl volume 2
Language
English
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Special Agent Garrett Kohl has just taken down a dangerous and deadly cartel boss when he finds trouble brewing back on his family’s homestead. A powerful energy consortium, Talon Corporation, has started an aggressive mining operation that threatens to destroy Garrett’s land, his family’s way of life, and everything they hold dear. To achieve its goals, Talon is flouting the law, bribing public officials, and meeting anyone who challenges it...
20) The corporation
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
The Corporation charts the spectacular rise of the corporation as a dramatic, pervasive presence in our everyday lives. With a deft mix of humor, visual panache and seriousness, this documentary is a timely, entertaining critique of global conglomerates.
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