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Financial Intelligence, Revised Edition
Financial Intelligence, Revised Edition Karen Berman & Joe Knight · 2013 · 272p · ≈ 9h · Moderate 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… Shares Corporations
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The Constant Gardener John le Carré · 2000 · ★ 3.8 · 557p · ≈ 18h · Moderate 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… Shares Corporations, Corrupt practices
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It's Not about the Truth Don Yaeger · 2007 · 321p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Shares Corrupt practices, Trials with this book.
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The trial of Dr. Adams Sybille Bedford · 1958 · 245p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Taken from a review: 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… Shares Trials
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The Winner David Baldacci · 1997 · ★ 4.5 · 513p · ≈ 17h · Moderate 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… Shares Corrupt practices
Mastering Corporate Finance Essentials
Mastering Corporate Finance Essentials Stuart A. McCrary · 2010 · 208p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Shares Corporations with this book.
State Tectonics
State Tectonics Malka Older · 2018 · 430p · ≈ 14h · Moderate 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… Shares Corporations, Corrupt practices
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Tomatoland Barry Estabrook · 2011 · 238p · ≈ 7h · Moderate 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. Shares Environmental aspects
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Silent Spring Rachel Carson · 1962 · ★ 4.1 · 352p · ≈ 11h · Moderate This account of the effects of pesticides on the environment launched the environmental movement in America. Shares Environmental aspects
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Climate Change Education Chang Chew Hung · 2014 · 180p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Shares Environmental aspects with this book.
Conspiracy of Fools
Conspiracy of Fools Kurt Eichenwald · 2005 · 742p · ≈ 24h · Moderate 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… Shares Corrupt practices
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Corruption in international business Sharon Eicher · 2008 · 264p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Shares Corporations, Corrupt practices with this book.
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Black Water Rising Attica Locke · 2009 · ★ 3.8 · 448p · ≈ 14h · Moderate 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… Shares Corporations, Corrupt practices
When the Wolves Bite
When the Wolves Bite Scott Wapner · 2018 · ★ 4.5 · 243p · ≈ 8h · Moderate "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… Shares Corporations
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The museum experience revisited John H. Falk · 1992 "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… Shares Environmental aspects
Power Failure
Power Failure Mimi Swartz & Sherron Watkins · 2003 · ★ 4.0 · 400p · ≈ 13h · Moderate 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. Shares Corrupt practices
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The Rooster Bar John Grisham · 2017 · ★ 4.0 · 368p · ≈ 12h · Moderate "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… Shares Corrupt practices
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How to form your own California corporation Anthony Mancuso · 1977 · 147p · ≈ 4h · Moderate Shares Corporations with this book.

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