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Crash landing : the inside story of how the world's biggest companies survived an economy on the brink / by Hoffman, Liz(Wall Street Journal reporter),author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."A kaleidoscopic account of the financial carnage of the pandemic, revealing the fear, grit, and gambles that drove the economy's winners and losers--from a leading Wall Street Journal reporter. The world's most powerful CEOs never saw it coming. In 2018, after a decade-long bull market, the CEO of American Airlines declared, "I don't think we're ever going to lose money again." The U.S. entered March 2020 riding an eleven-year economic high, with unemployment at record lows, the Dow Jones flirting with 30,000, and the good times certain to continue. By the end of the month, ten million people were out of work, iconic firms were begging for bailouts, and countless small businesses were in freefall. Slick consulting teams and country-club connections were suddenly of little use: CEOs were fumbling in the dark, tossing out long-term strategy and making decisions on the fly that, they hoped, might just save them. In Crash Landing, Liz Hoffman shows how the pandemic set the economy on fire--but if you look closely, the tinder was already there. After 2008, corporate leaders had embraced cheap debt and growth at all costs. Wages went stagnant. Millions were pushed into the gig economy. Companies crammed workers into offices, and airlines did the same with planes. Wall Street cheered on this relentless march toward efficiency, overlooking its collateral damage. Based on access to an astonishing array of business titans, Crash Landing is Liz Hoffman's account of the most remarkable year in modern economic history. She takes readers into the beating heart of the twenty-first-century economy, revealing how the pandemic exposed its pressure points. Bankruptcies decimate retail. Banking and pharma rivals team up. Bleeding cash, airlines like Delta weigh safety against survival. An untested White House fumbles for the 2008 playbook. There's Goldman Sachs's David Solomon blindsided by a virus in the middle of a high-stakes reinvention; American Airlines's Doug Parker, shuttling between K Street and the White House, determined to secure a multi-billion-dollar bailout; and Ford's Jim Hackett, gambling on the switch from cars to ventilators. In Crash Landing, Hoffman probes the pandemic's implications for the future of work, corporate leadership, and capitalism itself, asking: Will this remarkable time give rise to newfound resilience, or become just another costly mistake to be forgotten?"--
Subjects: COVID-19 (Disease);
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Death of the Author A Novel [electronic resource] : by Okorafor, Nnedi.aut; cloudLibrary;
Recommended by New York Times Book Review • People • NPR • Rolling Stone • Los Angeles Times • Reader's Digest • and more! “This one has it all.” — George R.R. Martin • “As delicious as it is disorienting.” — Zakiya Dalila Harris • “Suspenseful, timely, and heartfelt.” — People • “Mind-bending.” — New York Times Book Review In this exhilarating tale by New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Nnedi Okorafor, a disabled Nigerian American woman pens a wildly successful Sci-Fi novel, but as her fame rises, she loses control of the narrative—a surprisingly cutting, yet heartfelt drama about art and love, identity and connection, and, ultimately, what makes us human. This is a story unlike anything you’ve read before. The future of storytelling is here. Disabled, disinclined to marry, and more interested in writing than a lucrative career in medicine or law, Zelu has always felt like the outcast of her large Nigerian family. Then her life is upended when, in the middle of her sister’s lavish Caribbean wedding, she’s unceremoniously fired from her university job and, to add insult to injury, her novel is rejected by yet another publisher. With her career and dreams crushed in one fell swoop, she decides to write something just for herself. What comes out is nothing like the quiet, literary novels that have so far peppered her unremarkable career. It’s a far-future epic where androids and AI wage war in the grown-over ruins of human civilization. She calls it Rusted Robots. When Zelu finds the courage to share her strange novel, she does not realize she is about to embark on a life-altering journey—one that will catapult her into literary stardom, but also perhaps obliterate everything her book was meant to be. From Chicago to Lagos to the far reaches of space, Zelu’s novel will change the future not only for humanity, but for the robots who come next. A book-within-a-book that blends the line between writing and being written, Death of the Author is a masterpiece of metafiction that manages to combine the razor-sharp commentary of Yellowface with the heartfelt humanity of Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow. Surprisingly funny, deeply poignant, and endlessly discussable, this is at once the tale of a woman on the margins risking everything to be heard and a testament to the power of storytelling to shape the world as we know it.  “An ambitious, inventive tribute to the power of storytelling itself.” — Nikki Erlick, New York Times bestselling author of The Measure “A deeply felt dazzle. A blaze. It is true deep to the bones.” — Luis Alberto Urrea, Pulitzer Prize finalist and bestselling author of The House of Broken Angels "There’s more vivid imagination in a page of Nnedi Okorafor’s work than in whole volumes." — Ursula K. Le Guin
Subjects: Electronic books.; Visionary & Metaphysical; Literary; Sagas; Contemporary Women; Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic; Suspense;
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The Bridge: S1. by Sieling, Charlotte,film director.; Georgsson, Henrik,film director.; Siwe, Lisa,film director.; Malmberg, Dag,actor.; Pettersson, Rafael,actor.; Boberg, Sarah,actor.; Helin, Sofia,actor.; MHz (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Dag Malmberg, Rafael Pettersson, Sarah Boberg, Sofia HelinOriginally produced by MHz in 2011.When a body is found on Oresund Bridge, between Sweden and Denmark, Saga Noren from Malmo and Martin Rohde from Copenhagen will begin a race-against-time hunt for a sadistic killer waging a trail of violence that will change both detectives forever.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Feature films.; Television series.; Motion pictures.;
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The Bridge: S1. by Sieling, Charlotte,film director.; Georgsson, Henrik,film director.; Siwe, Lisa,film director.; Malmberg, Dag,actor.; Pettersson, Rafael,actor.; Boberg, Sarah,actor.; Helin, Sofia,actor.; MHz (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Dag Malmberg, Rafael Pettersson, Sarah Boberg, Sofia HelinOriginally produced by MHz in 2011.When a body is found on Oresund Bridge, between Sweden and Denmark, Saga Noren from Malmo and Martin Rohde from Copenhagen will begin a race-against-time hunt for a sadistic killer waging a trail of violence that will change both detectives forever.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Feature films.; Television series.; Motion pictures.;
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Woman at war [videorecording] / by Benedikt Erlingsson,1969-producer,screenwriter,film director.; Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir,actor.; Jóhann Sigurðarson,1956-actor.; Jörundur Ragnarsson,actor.; Magnolia Home Entertainment (Firm),film distributor.;
Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir, Jóhann Sigurðarson, Jörundur Ragnarsson.When a determined environmental activist waging a war against the local aluminum industry receives news that her application to adopt a child from Ukraine has been approved, she faces the problem of reconciling her eco-terrorist activities with her dream of becoming a mother.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Motion pictures, Icelandic.; Foreign films.; Fiction films.; Feature films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Adoption; Ecoterrorism; Environmentalism;
For private home use only.
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle. by Harari, Arthur,film director.; Bayani, Angeli,actor.; Ogata, Issei,actor.; Tsuda, Kanji,actor.; Endô, Yûya,actor.; Matsuura, Yûya,actor.; Dark Star Pictures (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Angeli Bayani, Issei Ogata, Kanji Tsuda, Yûya Endô, Yûya MatsuuraOriginally produced by Dark Star Pictures in 2021.Japan, 1944. Trained for intelligence work, Hiroo Onoda, 22 years old, discovers a philosophy contrary to the official line: no suicide, no giving up, the mission is more important than anything else. Sent to Lubang, a small island in the Philippines where the Americans are about to land, his role will be to wage a guerrilla war until the return of the Japanese troops. The Empire will surrender a year later. Onoda -- 10,000 days later.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Feature films.; Foreign films.; Motion pictures.; Drama.; War films.; Historical films.; Motion pictures--Japan.; Action and adventure films.; War.; Motion pictures--Asia.;
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