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Financial Intelligence, Revised Edition
Financial Intelligence, Revised Edition
The book Inc. magazine calls one of "the best, clearest guides to the numbers" on the market.Inc. magazine calls it one of "the best, clearest guides to the numbers" on the market. Readers agree, saying it's exactly "what I need to know" and calling it a "must-read" for decision makers without expertise in finance.Since its release in 2006, Financial Intelligence has become a favorite among…
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The Constant Gardener
Frightening, heartbreaking, and exquisitely calibrated, John le Carré's new novel opens with the gruesome murder of the young and beautiful Tessa Quayle near northern Kenya's Lake Turkana, the birthplace of mankind. Her putative African lover and traveling companion, a doctor with one of the aid agencies, has vanished from the scene of the crime.
Tessa's much older husband, Justin, a career…
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It's Not about the Truth
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The trial of Dr. Adams
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Here is the accused, Dr. John Adams, being tried for the murder of Mrs. Morell (after rumors connected with other ""mysterious"" deaths) six years previously (there were 16 other, earlier charges). Then come the nurses in attendance on Mrs. Morell, next the doctors in the hands of the prosecution. The defense takes over the cross-examination and, after the closing…
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The Winner
A rags-to-riches deal for single mother LuAnn Tyler is deadlier than she ever could have imagined in this #1 New York Times bestselling thriller from David Baldacci."Flat out fun to read ... a wildfire of a thriller." -Publisher's Weekly THE DREAM LuAnn Tyler is twenty, beautiful, dirt-poor, and hoping for a better life for her infant daughter when she is offered the gift of a lifetime: a…
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Mastering Corporate Finance Essentials
Mastering Corporate Finance Essentials
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State Tectonics
State Tectonics
The future of democracy must evolve or die. The last time Information held an election, a global network outage, two counts of sabotage by major world governments, and a devastating earthquake almost shook micro-democracy apart. Five years later, it's time to vote again, and the system that has ensured global peace for 25 years is more vulnerable than ever. Unknown enemies are attacking…
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Tomatoland
Investigative food journalist Barry Estabrook reveals the huge human and environmental cost of the $5 billion fresh tomato industry and the price we pay as a society when we take taste and thought out of our food purchases.
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Silent Spring
This account of the effects of pesticides on the environment launched the environmental movement in America.
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Climate Change Education
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Conspiracy of Fools
Conspiracy of Fools
In late 2001, the Enron Corporation--a darling of the financial world, a company whose executives were friends of presidents and the powerful--imploded virtually overnight, leaving vast wreckage in its wake and sparking a criminal investigation that would last for years. Journalist Eichenwald transforms the Enron scandal into a rip-roaring narrative of epic proportions, suitable for readers of…
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Corruption in international business
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Black Water Rising
Writing in the tradition of Dennis Lehane and Greg Iles, Attica Locke, a powerful new voice in American fiction, delivers a brilliant debut thriller that readers will not soon forget. Jay Porter is hardly the lawyer he set out to be. His most promising client is a low-rent call girl and he runs his fledgling law practice out of a dingy strip mall. But he's long since made peace with not living…
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When the Wolves Bite
When the Wolves Bite
"With their unprecedented amounts of capital and their savvy understanding of business, activist investors Carl Icahn and Bill Ackman have the ability to move markets and change the fortunes of investors, workers, and even large companies with the flick of a wrist. But what happens when they run into the one thing in business they can't control: each other? On January 25, 2013, Scott Wapner, the…
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The museum experience revisited
"The first book to take a 'visitor's eye view' of the museum visit when it was first published in 1992, The Museum Experience revolutionized the way museum professionals understandtheir constituents. Falk and Dierking have updated this essential reference, incorporating advances in research, theory, and practice in the museum field over the last twenty years. Written in clear, non-technical…
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Power Failure
Power Failure
Power Failure: the Inside Story of the Collapse of Enron follows the story of Enron from the perspective of Sherron Watkins, the vice president who exposed its illegal practices, and traces how its "anything goes" culture led to its being hailed a model company until its highly publicized collapse.
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The Rooster Bar
"Mark, Todd, and Zola came to law school to change the world, to make it a better place. But now, as third-year students, these close friends realize they have been duped. They all borrowed heavily to attend a third-tier, for-profit law school so mediocre that its graduates rarely pass the bar exam, let alone get good jobs. And when they learn that their school is one of a chain owned by a shady…
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How to form your own California corporation
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