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The new corporation : how "good" corporations are bad for democracy / by Bakan, Joel,author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-224) and index.A brilliant follow up to 'The Corporation', 'Killing Us with Kindness' provides a new look inside the minds of corporations to see how they've changed and, most importantly, how they haven't. Joel Bakan lives in Vancouver, BC.
Subjects: Corporate governance.; Corporations.; Corporations; Corporations; Social responsibility of business.;
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Boiling point : government neglect, corporate abuse, and Canada's water crisis / by Barlow, Maude,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Water security; Water security; Water; Water; Water; Water-supply; Water-supply;
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Losing our voice : Radio-Canada under siege / by Saulnier, Alain.; Couture, Pauline,1954-translator.; Saulnier, Alain.Ici était Radio-Canada.English.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation; Public broadcasting; Public radio; Public television;
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Dark money : the hidden history of the billionaires behind the rise of the radical right / by Mayer, Jane.;
Includes bibliographical references, Internet addresses and index.LSC
Subjects: Koch, David H., 1940-; Koch, Charles G. (Charles de Ganahl), 1935-; Political activists; Libertarianism; Conservatism; Political culture; Corporate speech; Corporations; Radicalism;
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America, the farewell tour / by Hedges, Chris,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."In the footsteps of his bestselling Empire of Illusion, America: The Farewell Tour is a provocative examination of a nation in crisis. In it, Pulitzer Prize-winner Chris Hedges argues that unemployment, deindustrialization, and a bitter hopelessness have allowed an array of pathologies to rise. The opioid crisis, the retreat into gambling to cope with economic distress, the pornification of culture, the rise of magical thinking, the celebration of sadism, hate, and plagues of suicides are the physical manifestations of a society that is being ravaged by corporate pillage and a failed democracy. As our society unravels, we also face global upheaval caused by catastrophic climate change. All these ills presage a frightening reconfiguration of the nation and the planet. Donald Trump rode this disenchantment to power. In America: The Farewell Tour, Hedges argues that neither political party, now captured by corporate power, addresses the systemic problem. Until our corporate coup d'état is reversed, these diseases will grow and ravage the country. A poignant cry reported from communities across North America, Chris Hedges seeks to jolt us out of our complacency while there is still time."--
Subjects: Corporate power; Political culture; Social values;
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Evil geniuses : the unmaking of America : a recent history / by Andersen, Kurt,1954-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Americans have disabled the government's ability to solve even basic problems, making us vulnerable to the most dangerous demagogue ever to pretend to the White House. Kurt Andersen shows how the masterminds of the economic right rode an unprecedented wave of nostalgia by dressing up their harsh new rich-get-richer system in patriotic old-time drag, making it their mission to take over the government for their purposes alone and convincing the country that the mid-century consensus about the function of the American government was all wrong. Only a writer with Andersen's crackling energy, deep intelligence, and ability to see complex systems with clarity could make such a vital book both intellectually formidable and completely entertaining. In his diagnosis of what happened and what it means for us today, Andersen spares no one, committing to a pinpointing of his own boomer generation as accessories to the great dismantling of the American experiment"--
Subjects: Big business; Corporate power; Democracy; Wealth;
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The smartphone society : technology, power, and resistance in the new gilded age / by Aschoff, Nicole Marie,1980-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."The smartphone is the defining commodity of the twenty-first century, pitting ordinary peoples' desire for entertainment, connection, and justice against government and corporate drives for control and profit"--
Subjects: Cell phone services industry; Mobile computing; Online social networks; Smartphones;
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Rogers v. Rogers : the battle for control of Canada's telecom empire / by Posadzki, Alexandra,author.;
"A riveting and definitive account that takes us inside the spectacular battle for control of Canada's largest wireless carrier, and paints a larger picture of the telecom industry, known for its cut-throat competetiveness and high stakes drama. Alexandra Posadzki's groundbreaking coverage in the Globe and Mail of the long-simmering tensions within Rogers exposed one of the most spectacular boardroom and family dramas in Canadian corporate history--one that has not only pitted the extraordinarily powerful chairman and largest shareholder, Edward Rogers, against current management but also the wishes of his own late mother, and sisters. Hanging in the balance is no less than the recent acquisition of Shaw Communications for $26 billion, Roger's biggest deal in their history that can transform them into the truly national telecom that founder Ted Rogers always envisioned. Based on deeply sourced investigative reporting of the iconic $30 billion publicly traded telecom and media giant, Posadzki takes us inside a company that touches the lives of millions of Canadians, and challenges what we thought we knew about corporate governance and who really holds the power. Rogers vs. Rogers is also a story of family ownership and succession, of the new guard pushing back at the old guard, and how warring factions each interpret the desires of the founding patriarch and the very legacy of the company that bears their name."--
Subjects: Rogers, Edward (Edward Samuel), 1969-; Rogers Communications.; Telecommunication;
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The corporal's wife / by Seymour, Gerald.;
A suspenseful and thrilling novel about a small British team sent into Iran to smuggle out a feisty, independent young woman named Farideh. If they are caught, they will all be executed by the fundamentalist government - the Brits because they are effectively spies and Farideh because her husband is regarded as a traitor and she has a dangerous mind of her own.
Subjects: Suspense fiction.; Mystery fiction.;
© 2013., Hodder & Stoughton,
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@WAR : the rise of the military-Internet complex / by Harris, Shane.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Prologue -- The first cyber war -- RTRG-- Building the cyber army -- The internet is a battlefield -- The enemy among us -- The mercenaries -- Cops become spies -- "Another Manhattan Project" -- Buckshot Yankee -- The secret sauce -- The corporate counterstrike -- Spring awakening -- The business of defense -- At the dawn.
Subjects: United States. National Security Agency.; United States. Strategic Command (2002- ). Cyber Command.; Computer crimes; Cyberspace; Cyberterrorism; Information warfare;
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