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4) Vanished
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Lauren Heller and her husband Roger, a brilliant executive at a major corporation, are attacked in a Georgetown parking lot after an evening out. Knocked unconscious by the assailants, Lauren lies in a coma in the hospital while her husband has vanished without a trace. With nowhere else to turn, Lauren's teenage son Gabe reaches out to his uncle, Nick Heller, a high-powered investigator with a corporate intelligence firm in Washington, D.C. Having...
5) The corporation that changed the world: how the East India Company shaped the modern multinational
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xix, 260 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
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The English East India Company was the mother of the modern multinational. Established in 1600, its trading empire encircled the globe, creating a lifestyle revolution. The Company's practices shocked its contemporaries and still reverberate today. This book explores the Company's enduring global legacy. It investigates how the Company's spectacular rise and fall were driven by the four forces of finance, technology, monopoly and regulation.
6) Satori
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504 pages ; 24 cm
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In a prequel to Trevanian's "Shibumi," amid the chaos of the Korean War, the CIA offers Nicholai Hel his freedom only if he kills the Soviet Union's Commissioner to China in Beijing, a mission that draws on all his strengths.
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7 audio discs (7.5 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Executives can no longer predicate international growth strategies on the assumption that globalization will continue to advance. But how should they respond to the growing pressures against globalization? Should they reshape their global strategies or stay the course? What can businesses do to control their destinies in this time of uncertainty? The New Global Road Map explains the key trends affecting global business today and -- separating fact...
8) The agency
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316 pages ; 22 cm
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As an agent in a multinational media agency, Tess Drake deals with some of the world's biggest egos, in this wickedly sharp, page-turning novel that turns the world of being an agent inside out and lays bare all the ambition, adrenaline, and luck at the center of one young woman's success.
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xvi, 285 pages ; 24 cm
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A guide for Western companies to understand how their new competitors from China do business and how they can change their game to win in global markets. The China Factor offers Western businesses a practical framework based on first-hand experience leading a competitive program at a high-tech multinational. It suggests how they can succeed in this new global paradigm by changing the way they do business.
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3 videodiscs (approximately 485 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Enter the "completely captivating" world of Mr. Robot. Cyber-security engineer by day and vigilante hacker by night, Elliot finds himself at a crossroads when the mysterious leader of an underground hacker group recruits him to destroy the firm he is paid to protect. Compelled by his personal beliefs, Elliot struggles to resist the chance to take down the multinational CEOs he believes are running (and ruining) the world.
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375 pages ; 24 cm
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An exposé on the rise of Coca-Cola to become one of the world's most profitable and recognized brands shares unsettling reports on franchise deals in adversarial nations, the role of company products in obesity rates, and the environmental impact of its bottling practices.
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4 videodiscs (9 hrs., 54 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Winner of the Golden Globe for Best TV Drama, it follows Elliot Alderson, a young cyber-security engineer who becomes involved in the underground hacker group fsociety, after being recruited by their mysterious leader. Following the events of fsociety's 5/9 hack on multi-national company Evil Corp, the second season explores the consequences of that attack as well as the illusion of control.
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308 pages ; 24 cm
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On the edge of twenty-seven, Jazzy hatches a plan for her and her best girlfriends: Sher, Imo, and Fann. Before the year is out, these Sarong Party Girls will all have spectacular weddings to expat ang moh -- caucasian -- husbands, with Chanel babies (half-white children, the ultimate status symbol) quickly to follow. Razor-sharp, spunky, and cheerfully brand-obsessed, Jazzy is a woman who plays to win. As she fervently pursues her quest to find the...
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4 videodiscs (642 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Cyber-security engineer Elliot Anderson, along with the titular character and fsociety, starts a revolution to change the world. Season four will pick up where the third season finale left off, delving into the pros and cons of Elliot hitting ₁send₂ on the email that could reverse Five/Nine.
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4 videodiscs (approximately 600 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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"Epic in scope, this multi-generation, globe-trotting saga covers not only the entire gamut of wine making, but wine's place in a treacherously globalized and hyper-marketed world. From the billionaire power brokers of Napa Valley, to the aristocratic rivalries of competing Florentine dynasties, to the efforts of three generations of a Burgundian family fighting to preserve their few acres of land, Mondovino: the series brings to life the human drama...
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Bestseller). Biblioteca John Le Carré volume 99/19
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618 pages ; 19 cm.
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Español
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323 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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There may be no story today with a wider gap between fact and fiction than the relationship between the United States and Mexico. Wall or no wall, deeply intertwined social, economic, business, cultural, and personal relationships mean the US-Mexico border is more like a seam than a barrier, weaving together two economies and cultures. Mexico faces huge crime and corruption problems, but its remarkable transformation over the past two decades has...
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