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61) Null states
Author
Series
Centenal cycle volume 2
Publisher
A Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"After the last controversial global election, the global infomocracy that has ensured thirty years of world peace is fraying at the edges. As the new Supermajority government struggles to establish its legitimacy, agents of Information across the globe strive to keep the peace and maintain the flows of data that feed the new world order. In the newly-incorporated DarFur, a governor dies in a fiery explosion. In Geneva, a superpower hatches plans...
62) Fuzzy nation
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Jack Holloway, prospecting on Zara XXIII for ZaraCorp, finds an immensely valuable stream of sunstone. But when he forwards footage of the planet's catlike, native "fuzzies" to a biologist friend --who believes the "fuzzies" are sentient--hired company thugs, murder, and arson soon follow to protect ZaraCorp's mining interests.
63) Luna: new moon
Author
Series
Luna novels (Ian McDonald) volume 1
Publisher
Tor Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"The Moon wants to kill you. Whether it's being unable to pay your per diem for your allotted food, water, and air, or you just get caught up in a fight between the Moon's ruling corporations, the Five Dragons. You must fight for every inch you want to gain in the Moon's near feudal society. And that is just what Adriana Corta did. As the leader of the Moon's newest "dragon," Adriana has wrested control of the Moon's Helium-3 industry from the Mackenzie...
Publisher
Showtime Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Now that Kaan & Associates is back on top, their biggest mission is staying there. In the fifth and final season of House of Lies, the tight-knit, profit-seeking pod launches life-changing moves with some game-changing tactics.
69) LIV and let die
Author
Publisher
Avid Reader Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Alan Shipnuck, the New York Times bestselling author of Phil, returns with a major new work of insider reporting on the battle for the soul of professional golf between the PGA Tour and the Saudi-funded LIV Golf League. Over the past two years, professional golf has been at war, and Alan Shipnuck has been our most trusted correspondent on the front lines. Following closely on the heels of his bestselling sensation Phil, Shipnuck turns to the conflict...
Author
Series
Jack Dana novels volume 1
Publisher
Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Jack Dana is a star history student at Yale with a bright career in academia ahead of him. But after 9/11 he feels it is his duty to change course. As a Marine infantry officer he is deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan. Severely wounded in combat, he begins writing a novel about his wartime experiences while surgeons at the Walter Reed Hospital patch up his pelvis. Jack then moves to Manhattan to live with his Uncle Harry, a partner in a leading New...
Author
Publisher
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
American courts routinely hand down harsh sentences to individual convicts, but a very different standard of justice applies to corporations. Too Big to Jail takes readers into a complex, compromised world of backroom deals, for an unprecedented look at what happens when criminal charges are brought against a major company in the United States.
73) The courier
Author
Series
San Angeles volume 1
Publisher
Daw Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Scraping by as a cycle courier in a future world run by corporations, Kris witnesses a client's murder and finds herself targeted by dangerous adversaries before she is rescued by a member of an underground resistance group.
74) Moon rising
Author
Series
Luna novels (Ian McDonald) volume 3
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"A hundred years in the future, a war wages between the Five Dragons--five families who control the Moon's leading industrial companies. Each clan does everything in their power to claw their way to the top of the food chain--marriages of convenience, corporate espionage, kidnapping, and mass assassinations. Through ingenious political manipulation and sheer force of will, Lucas Cortas rises from the ashes of corporate defeat and seizes control of...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"An urgent and witty manifesto, Monopolies Suck shows how monopoly power is harming everyday Americans and practical ways we can all fight back. In this slim, accessible guide, Sally Hubbard gives us an easy-to-understand overview of the history of monopolies and antitrust law, and urges us to use our voices, votes, and wallets to protest monopoly power. Emboldened by the previous century when we successfully broke up monopoly power in the US, we...
Publisher
Public Broadcasting Service
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Frontline travels to Alaska to probe the fault lines of a growing battle between those who depend on the Bristol Bay region of southwest Alaska, home to the last great wild Sockeye salmon fishery in the world for a living, the mining companies who are pushing to extract enormous amounts of mineral deposits, estimated to be worth some $300 billion, and the political framework that will ultimately decide the outcome.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"The body of a woman who worked the overnight shift at the factory of a massive American tech company near Hong Kong is found in the marshes, bearing odd markings. Mei, an inspector for the Guangdong Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, is called out in the middle of the night to investigate--only to confront the most shocking discovery imaginable: the dead woman's face is identical to her own. At the same time, a retired American operative...
79) The road to ruin
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Having set up a con on Monroe Hall, a fabulously wealthy and corrupt CEO, John Dortmunder and his hapless gang of crooks suddenly find themselves caught in the deadly crossfire between their would-be mark Hall and his own victims.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Buffett and Clark clearly outline Warren Buffett's strategies in a way that will appeal to newcomers and seasoned Buffettologists alike. Inspired by the seminal work of Buffett's mentor, Benjamin Graham (The Interpretation of Financial Statements, 1937), this book presents Buffett's interpretation of financial statements with anecdotes and quotes from the master investor himself. Potential investors will discover: Buffett's time-tested dos and don'ts...
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