Corporate Corruption

There are about 1 million lawyers in America and 40,000 new each year. Many law firm lawyers dream about an 'in-house counsel' job. Many lawyers and non-lawyers wonder what exactly an in-house counsel does. Many in-house counsel have similar experiences, many struggle in the role, and many want to have easier days and deals. Until now, the in-house counsel experience - the true full picture has not been shared in one spot. This book is the 101 of in-house counsel. The book is a short and sweet guide to the in-house counsel role. It's for those thinking about going in-house, those in-house ...

2015 saw the worst American maritime disaster in decades. The captain of the SS El Faro commanded his crew to sail straight into a hurricane. The ship sank and all 33 crew members died. The sinking raised troubling questions: Why did the captain choose to sail into the hurricane? Why did no one on board or on shore stop him? And why was such an old and heavily loaded ship even allowed on the water? The crew of the SS El Faro is gone, but their haunting final hours were preserved by the ship’s black box.

Profiling the Fraudster: Removing the Mask to Prevent and Detect Fraud takes a step-by-step approach beyond the Fraud Triangle to identify characteristics in potential fraudsters, employees and new hires that will sound alarm bells before they get their hands on your organization's assets. The...

Deb Mallory spent 22 years as an ER nurse. She knew what every knock on the door meant. Every hesitation. Every too-careful word. Then she became the patient. Her treatment exists. Her surgeon is two floors up. Her insurance company has 14 business days to respond. Her daughter Cassie has no legal training, no connections, and no plan. She has a color-coded spreadsheet and a refusal to accept the word denied. But the deeper Cassie digs, the worse it gets. Her mother is not the only one. The denials follow the same pattern. The same language. The same two initials at the bottom of every ...

Public Relations is an industry that moves at lightning pace. Few sectors hold responsibility for such a broad remit; from managing reputation to crisis communications, from creating content for multiple channels to supporting the sales team. This book calls on practitioners to make a choice: Hasty, predictable campaigns that tick boxes but never truly exceed expectations, or a more considered approach that accounts for a fully integrated strategic process. What does the book cover: Chapter 1: A brief look at the Barcelona Principles 2.0, and what the 2016 news cycle means for the future of...

She thought it was the flu. She was wrong. Reese Calloway is 24, stubborn, and not built for hospital beds. She drives herself to the ER on a Tuesday night with a fever she has been ignoring for three days. By Wednesday morning, she is in the ICU with a diagnosis she did not see coming and an insurance company that has already begun processing her case. Meridian Health Solutions has a system. The system has a timeline. The timeline does not care about Reese's body. In the room next door, a retired Meridian executive named Roland Voss is dying. He knows exactly how the system works. He knows...

The definitive volume on Enron's amazing rise and scandalous fall, from an award-winning team of Fortune investigative reporters...

Lee Johnson was a man with simple dreams. He never imagined that he would become the face of a David-and-Goliath showdown against one of the world's most powerful corporate giants. But a workplace accident left Lee doused in a toxic chemical and facing a deadly cancer that turned his life upside down. In 2018, the world watched as Lee was thrust to the forefront of one the most dramatic legal battles in recent history. The Monsanto Papers takes listeners behind the scenes of a grueling legal battle, pulling back the curtain on the frailties of the American court system.

Dr. Kira Venn warned them. She mapped the fracture line, modeled the failure, and wrote the report that predicted exactly how the seafloor off Cape Mercy, Oregon would collapse. The corporation that owned the drilling lease buried her findings. Her own husband helped seal them. Now someone has turned her worst-case scenario into a weapon. When a tsunami strikes Cape Mercy with the warning sirens remotely locked and the buoy network feeding false data, Kira is trapped on an aquarium roof with her estranged sixteen-year-old daughter, her ex-husband who quietly consulted for the corporation ...

"Christine Lakin's reading is terrific. Her narration is wonderfully deadpan...and her characterization is pure ear candy. Lakin grants each character complexity and humanity..." — BookPage (Starred Review) "[Narrator Christine] Lakin excels in her performance of the characters’ dialogue...

A visceral military sci-fi thriller about a combat nurse trapped on an alien beach where every scratch is a death sentence, forced to saw soldiers apart to save them while uncovering a neuro-viral conspiracy her own command is desperate to bury. Chief Petty Officer Clara Elara hits the beach on Acheron-IV expecting a meat grinder. She gets worse. The Hemorrhage Mist — an alien atmospheric agent — shuts down blood clotting on contact. Standard medicine dissolves. Every cut becomes fatal. Clara's only option: cauterize and amputate at industrial scale. Her thermal-shear becomes the most ...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An explosive, deeply reported exposé of Johnson & Johnson, one of America’s oldest and most trusted pharmaceutical companies—from an award-winning investigative journalist “A damning portrait.”—Associated Press “A page-turning drama that raises...

A prominent senator assesses the destructive ideas that have seized the American spirit—and shows how the hidden alignments in our politics can free us from their hold. This program is read by the author. Today, the United States is in a crisis—and it’s not just a political one: over fifty...

“Facts Are Stubborn Things” by Richard A. Danzig is a smart, suspenseful, and deeply human thriller that takes readers inside the courtroom—and far beyond it. When Brooklyn litigator Chance Cormac reluctantly agrees to handle a simple divorce case as a favor, he’s drawn into a web of international money laundering, corruption, and betrayal. What begins as a family dispute soon spirals into something far more dangerous—forcing Chance to face brutal truths about the law, loyalty, and himself. Blending gritty courtroom drama, sharp dialogue, and moral depth, Danzig delivers a story ...

Winner of the 2025 Ellen Meiksins Wood Prize In the vein of The Shock Doctrine and Evil Geniuses, this timely and “galvanizing” (Naomi Klein, New York Times bestselling author) manifesto illustrates how corporate and political power brokers have used capitalism to advance their own interests...

In today’s chaotic world, where the multiplication of information sources creates competing narratives, credibility is the key to winning the war of ideas. This is the reason why governments and corporations resort to astroturfing - creation of ostensibly grassroots movements set up to advance political agendas and commercial campaigns. The democratization of information and polarization of politics offer a perfect storm.

"[We need] a grassroots, bottom-up movement that understands the challenge in front of us, and then organizes against monopoly power in communities across this country. This book is a blueprint for that organizing. In these pages, you will learn how monopolies and oligopolies have taken over...

As European empires crumbled in the 20th century, the power structures that had dominated the world for centuries were up for renegotiation. Yet instead of a rebirth for democracy, what emerged was a silent coup – namely, the unstoppable rise of global corporate power. Exposing the origins of...

From an award-winning New York Times investigative reporter comes a gripping account of one of the most captivating and bizarre tales in the history of the FBI and corporate America. It was one of the FBI's biggest secrets: Mark Whitacre, a senior executive at Archer Daniels Midland--America's...

The thrilling new Virgil Flowers novel from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author. The superstore chain PyeMart has its sights set on a Minnesota river town, but two very angry groups want to stop it: local merchants, fearing for their businesses, and environmentalists, predicting ecological...