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What started out as a joke landed seventeen-year-old Dillon Yates in a lockdown juvenile facility in Boston Harbor. When he set up a prank Twitter account for his vice principal, he never dreamed he could be brought up on criminal charges, but that's exactly what happened. This is Blackburn, Massachusetts, where zero tolerance for minors is a way of life. Leading the movement is tough-as-nails Judge Joe Scali, who gives speeches about getting tough...

Private investigator Nick Heller returns home to Boston to start up his own business. His first job is to quickly find Alexandra, the eighteen-year-old daughter of a hedge fund tycoon who has been kidnapped. Worse, Alexandra, who Nick has known since she was a baby, is buried alive and the entire ordeal is being streamed over the Internet. As Nick investigates, he discovers Marshall Marcus, Alexandra's father, has made himself many enemies.

Robert H. Bloom has discovered that every enterprise has at least one strategic asset-one existing strength-that can form the foundation for future growth. He calls this an Inside Advantage. This strength usually lies unrecognized in an activity the business is currently performing or in a concept or an idea that the business already owns. Finding this hidden potential and becoming well known for it will grow the business. This strategy reflects Bloom's...

"An investigation into corporate bribery around the world and how it undermines democracy and the free market system."--

In this groundbreaking portrait of corporate seizure of political power, We the Corporations reveals how American businesses won equal rights and transformed the Constitution to serve the ends of capital. Corporations-like minorities and women-have had a civil rights movement of their own, and now possess nearly all the same rights as ordinary people. Uncovering the deep historical roots of Citizens United, Adam Winkler shows how that controversial...

This book tells the story of the clash of Carl Icahn and Bill Ackman over Herbalife, a nutritional supplement company whose business model Ackman questioned. Icahn decided to vouch for them, and the dispute became a years-long feud, complete with secret backroom deals, public accusations, billions of dollars in stock trades, and one dramatic insult war on live television. Wapner, who hosted that memorable TV show, has gained unprecedented access to...

After helping expose government corruption, hacker Max Stein has spent a semester abroad studying in Paris. He intends to keep a low profile, but things change when he's detained on suspicion of cyberterrorism.