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Murderbot diaries volume 7
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Following the events in Network Effect, the Barish-Estranza corporation has sent rescue ships to a newly-colonized planet in peril, as well as additional SecUnits. But if there's an ethical corporation out there, Murderbot has yet to find it, and if Barish-Estranza can't have the planet, they're sure as hell not leaving without something. If that something just happens to be an entire colony of humans, well, a free workforce is a decent runner-up...
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Series
Murderbot diaries volume 4
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Murderbot wasn't programmed to care. So, its decision to help the only human who ever showed it respect must be a system glitch, right? Having traveled the width of the galaxy to unearth details of its own murderous transgressions, as well as those of the GrayCris Corporation, Murderbot is heading home to help Dr. Mensah--its former owner (protector? friend?)--submit evidence that could prevent GrayCris from destroying more colonists in its never-ending...
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English
Description
Be it any field, it is surprisingly easy to identify good leaders; however, it's a monumental effort to define what constitutes good leadership.
Two grieving brothers, Sandeep and Sanju, one budding entrepreneur and the other a cricketer, are inspired by the words of their dying father to hold onto their goal of becoming successful entrepreneurs in their respective fields. They are resilient in the face of obstacles and to overcome it they seek directions...
4) BZRK
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Series
BZRK volume 1
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
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In the near future, the conjoined Armstrong twins, under the guise of the Armstrong Fancy Gifts Corporation, plot to create their own version of utopia using nanobots, while a guerilla group known as BZRK develops a DNA-based biot that can stop bots, but at risk of the host's brain.
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Charlie Baker is a neurotic but charming 50-year-old workaholic CEO of a major Chicago ad agency who seems to have it all: an impressive house in an upscale suburb, an equally impressive salary, the requisite pretty wife and accomplished son. All of this comes crashing down when Charlie is unceremoniously fired. In an instant, his life is transformed from corporate titan to just another out of work American.
For Charlie-an admitted workaholic-a world...
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Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"U., a 'corporate anthropologist,' is tasked with writing the Great Report, an all-encompassing ethnographic document that would sum up our era. Yet at every turn, he feels himself overwhelmed by the ubiquity of data, lost in buffer zones, wandering through crowds of apparitions, willing them to coalesce into symbols that can be translated into some kind of account that makes sense. As he begins to wonder if the Great Report might remain a shapeless,...
8) Venus
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Series
Grand tour of the solar system volume 16
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Corporate tycoon Martin Humphries offers a ten-billion-dollar prize to anyone who can land on Venus and retrieve the remains of his eldest son, who died trying to land years earlier.
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Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"In a small, tidy apartment on the outskirts of Seoul, Kim Jiyoung--a millennial 'everywoman'--spends her days caring for her infant daughter. Her husband, however, worries over a strange symptom that has recently appeared: Jiyoung has begun to impersonate the voices of other women--dead and alive, both known and unknown to her. As she plunges deeper into this psychosis, Jiyoung's concerned husband sends her to a psychiatrist, who listens to her...
12) Dreamships
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Pub. Date
1992.
Language
English
Description
Dreamships is the story of a freelance space pilot and her crew, who are hired by a rich corporate owner to track down her crazy brother--who just may have created the first sentient Artificial Intelligence.
13) Bite-sized magic
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English
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Twelve-year-old Rosemary Bliss must use her magical baking skills to escape when she is kidnapped by the owner of the Mostess Snack Cake Corporation.
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English
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Sixteen-year-old Rosalinda Fitzroy, heir to the multiplanetary corporation UniCorp, is awakened after sixty years in stasis to find that everyone she knew has died and as she tries to make a new life for herself, learns she is the target of a robot assassin.
16) Truth be told
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"1890s Arizona newspaper reporter Amelia Wagner means to expose the truth about the Great Western Investment Company, no matter what--or who--they send to stop her"--
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Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
In this new edition of his classic book, David Korten illuminates the convergence of ideological, political, and technological forces that have driven an ever-greater concentration of economic and political power in a handful of corporations and financial institutions and left the market system blind to all but its own short-term financial gains. As he vividly documents, the social and environmental consequences of these efforts have been devastating....
19) Unleashed
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Series
Jinxed (McCulloch) volume 2
Language
English
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Armed with their companioneering and coding skills and accompanied by their loyal bakus, Lacey Chu and her friends attempt a rescue mission deep in the heart of a sinister transnational tech corporation.
20) The silent war
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English
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The lives of thousands hang in the balance when the ruthless competition between Astro Corporation and Humphries Space Systems reaches a peak and others decide to take advantage of the conflict.
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