In The Trough

Author : Adam Knight
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781950412693
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book At the Trough written by Adam Knight and published by . This book was released on 2019-05-13 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a future where schools have no teachers and no classrooms, Jennifer Calderon is the perfect student. Every day she watches her video modules, plays her edu games, and never misses an answer. Life is comfortable in the Plex, a mile-wide apartment building. Corporations and brand names surround her and satisfy her every want and need. Then one day, her foul-mouthed, free-spirited, 90's-kitsch-wearing girlfriend Melody disrupts everything. She introduces her to a cynical, burned-out former teacher, who teaches them the things no longer taught in school. Poetry. Critical thinking. Human connection. But these lessons draw the attention of EduForce, the massive corporation with a stranglehold on education. When they show how far they are willing to go keep their customers obedient, Jennifer has to decide what is most important to her and how much she is willing to sacrifice for it.

Author : Arianna Huffington
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307590496
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pigs at the Trough written by Arianna Huffington and published by Crown. This book was released on 2009-07-28 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Wonderfully incendiary and right-headed . . .Huffington is mad as hell, and rightly so.” –Esquire The scathing and insightful New York Times bestseller, now updated to include the current economic crisis Pigs at the Trough is Arianna Huffington’s eerily prescient exposé of the financial meltdown–and the flagrant greed that triggered it. Once again, Huffington takes on the nexus of corporate highfliers, lobbyists, and Washington insiders who have created and zealously protected a culture of corruption in America. Hearkening back to the days of Enron and WorldCom, she draws a line connecting those accounting frauds to the much larger and more sophisticated corruption that drove the latest financial crisis. The list of new culprits is long, and in this updated version of Pigs at the Trough, Huffington calls them out–including AIG, Citigroup, and Merrill Lynch–and asks the probing questions of how things went so wrong and how we can rebuild our free market capitalist system on a sounder moral foundation. Wickedly amusing yet powerfully indicting, Pigs at the Trough will once again stir up heated discussion among Americans outraged by the bailout of corporate swine. “With a passion for the truth and an eye for detail, Arianna Huffington reports on the hijacking of democracy. Read it and weep–then head for the barricades.”–Bill Moyers “Huffington indicts with precision, verve, and sparkling wit.” –Barbara Ehrenreich “Arianna Huffington makes an appealing and compelling argument for the repeal of human nature–that part of it that indulges savage, unconscionable, and despicable greed.” –Walter Cronkite

Author : Andrew Fraser
Publisher : Hardie Grant Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1742735401
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Snouts in the Trough written by Andrew Fraser and published by Hardie Grant Publishing. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ken Foxe
Publisher : Gill & Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780717150502
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Snouts in the Trough written by Ken Foxe and published by Gill & Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-04-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the salubrious offices of John O'Donoghue, the former Ceann Comhairle, to Senator Ivor Callely's long commute to work, award-winning journalist Ken Foxe provides an irresistible read. This is an eye-opening glimpse into the world of unearned privilege, unreasonable expectation and gross extravagance that characterises our political and administrative elite. Yes, the same geniuses who have overseen our slide towards disaster. 'A damning dissection of a culture of excess and entitlement' Fintan O'Toole, The Irish Times 'Foxe's level of detail on individual expense claims is praiseworthy and is sure to succeed in angering many readers' David Clerkin, Sunday Business Post RT� 'Liveline' Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2010

Author : Thomas F. Jaras
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1491706546
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In the Trough written by Thomas F. Jaras and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013-10-10 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A few months out of college, followed by a sixteen-week course on how to be a naval officer, author Thomas F. Jaras found himself standing bridge watches on the USS Vance in the middle of nowhere, providing navigational aid for aircraft flying to the polar ice. Now, almost fifty years later, Jaras recalls the three years he spent aboard the Vance in the 1960s, on the ramparts of the Cold War. In his memoir, In the Trough, Jaras attempts to understand his love-hate relationship with the USS Vance, an insignificant radar picket ship that supported Operation Deep Freeze in the Antarctic Ocean for a year and then spent two years on the Pacific Distant Early Warning Line. He describes life on an endurance ship afloat in midocean, battling eighty-foot walls of water crashing over the bridge. In the Trough chronicles Jarass transition from a boy to man as he dreamed of life ashore during long weeks at sea that were punctuated by short, intense visits to terra firma. Young, inexperienced, and nave, he feared the best years of his life were being wasted at sea. He searched desperately for women, love, and a normal existence while ashore for precious short stints in Tahiti, New Zealand, Tasmania, Australia, Japan, and Hawaii. Despite three stressful, unhappy, and difficult years at sea, Jaras acknowledges a tearful departure but promised himself to never go to sea again.

Author : Yomi Akinode
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595398707
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wallow in the Trough written by Yomi Akinode and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-06 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zook Madoo arrived back in the United States once again, after many years in Nigeria, toiling in the underbelly of government security services. His presence this time however, was as a professional bodyguard. His title, Chief of security details for the Nigerian, UN representative - Alhaji Suni Matami. But his real "covert" assignment from the Minister for External Affairs - Mallam Adamu Ceroko - was to investigate and eradicate an Illegal Oil-Bunkering consortium - Asamaki Enterprises - whose major subsidiary office happened to be on 5th Avenue, New York City..the so-called Fashion alley.. Barely weeks into his investigations, trails led him and his assistant - Dorne Imbroglio, a former classmate at Columbia and an Ex-New Jersey Homicide Detective - to the world-famous Watergate Apartment complex in Annapolis, a suburb of the Washington D.C. Capitol. While Zook waited as back-up in the street, Dorne shadowed their quarry - Slim Piccolo - into the complex, talking her way into an apartment where Slim supposedly resided. Dorne broke in, only to find a very dead body..The body turned out to be that of Dexter Cameron.the current CIA Director...Zook knew they were in a heap of trouble.... Aside from Zook's unorthodox investigative methods, his inner demons threatened to derail his efforts while gallivanting across the United States and South America for clues.. "How will it all end?" he asked Dorne, before she hung up her cell phone after discovering the dead body...

Author : Mary E. Carlson, DVM
Publisher : She Writes Press
ISBN 13 : 1631524321
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Drinking from the Trough written by Mary E. Carlson, DVM and published by She Writes Press. This book was released on 2018-08-28 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Carlson didn't start out to become a veterinarian, let alone the owner and caretaker of cats (many), dogs (two, both huskies), and horses (some with manners, some without) in Colorado. She was a suburban Chicago girl; all she knew of the American West came from the stories her uncle, who had settled in northern Colorado, told her during his annual visits. But thanks to him, she ended up moving to Fort Collins, Colorado for college—and after falling in love with a man she'd become friends with in her final year of college, when he was a student at the CSU School of Veterinary Medicine, she remained there. Watching the work Earl did as a veterinarian inspired Mary to eventually leave her tenured teaching position and enter vet school, after which she opened her own, feline-exclusive clinic. Along the way, there were numerous pets, grueling years of vet school, a shattered hip, an enduring love, illness, and death—and the rediscovery that life, especially a life full of delightful animals, is worth living.

Author : Adam Schwab
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1742469329
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pigs at the Trough written by Adam Schwab and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-09-16 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The past decade has seen a period of unparalleled growth in executive remuneration. But while CEO pay exploded, shareholders looked on helplessly as some of Australia's best-known companies self-destructed. When the fall eventually came, executives were well protected. Shareholders and creditors were not so lucky. From Telstra's enriching of Sol Trujillo to the toppling of Eddy Groves's ABC Learning Centres and the untold accounts of the billions lost by the collapsed Babcock & Brown, Allco Finance Group and MFS, Pigs at the Trough tells the story of how a generation of executives, under the supervision of well-known and respected non-executive directors, pushed all the boundaries and sometimes sailed right over them ... and got away with it. A pacey, irreverent read but with a devastatingly serious message, Pigs at the Trough gives investors invaluable insights into how to spot the telltale signs of impending corporate collapse, and how to avoid being another victim.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 910 pages
Book Rating : 4.0H/5 ( download)

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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