Private Government

One in four American workers says their workplace is a "dictatorship." Yet that number almost certainly would be higher if we recognized employers for what they are—private governments with sweeping authoritarian power over our lives. In this compelling book, Elizabeth Anderson examines why, despite all this, we continue to talk as if free markets make workers free, and she proposes a better way to think about the workplace, opening up space for discovering how workers can enjoy real freedom.

A sinister cabal of corrupt law enforcement personnel, intelligence agents, and military officials at the highest levels of government plotted to overthrow a president. Even after they failed, they continue to secretly pull the levers of power without any accountability to the American people. This isn’t the synopsis of a fictional spy thriller. This is what is actually happening in the United States government.

Private equity firms have long been at the center of public debates on the impact of the financial sector on Main Street companies. Are these firms financial innovators that save failing businesses or financial predators that bankrupt otherwise healthy companies and destroy jobs? The first comprehensive examination of this topic, Private Equity at Work provides a detailed yet accessible guide to this controversial business model.

The locals in the southern Italian town where he lives call him Signor Farfalla - Mr. Butterfly - for he is a discreet gentleman who paints rare butterflies. His life is inconspicuous: mornings are spent brushing at a canvas, afternoons idling in the cafés, and evenings talking with his friend, the town priest, over a glass of brandy. Yet there are other sides to this gentleman’s life.... Part thriller, part character study, part drama of deceit and self-betrayal, The American shows Martin Booth at the very height of his powers.

Bloomsbury presents The Ruling Class by Jennifer Lynn Barnes, read by Ina-Marie Smith. This mystery thriller by the bestselling author of The Inheritance Games is a gripping story of high stakes, betrayal, and unpredictable twists. Any problem can be fixed for a price . . . When Tess Kendrick is...

Money. Betrayal. Murder.That's a Private conversation. Hired to protect a visiting American woman, Private Johannesburg's Joey Montague is hoping for a routine job looking after a nervous tourist. After the apparent suicide of his business partner, he can't handle much more. But this case is not...

From the world’s #1 bestselling author, the renowned investigation firm, Private, is in charge of security for the Olympic Games—but when a killer strikes hours before the event, they must stop him in his tracks. Private, the world's most renowned investigation firm, has been commissioned to...

Bloomsbury presents Lessons in Power by Jennifer Lynn Barnes, read by Ina Marie-Smith This mystery thriller by the bestselling author of The Inheritance Games is a gripping story of high stakes, betrayal, and unpredictable twists. Knowledge is power, but secrets can kill . . . For Tess Kendrick...

Understanding John Locke is the second book in a series of books on the classical philosophers. Other books in the Smart Student's Guide series are: Understanding Plato: The Socratic Dialogues and the Republic; and Understanding John Stuart Mill: Utilitarianism and On Liberty. The series is designed for beginning and intermediate philosophy students who would like more depth than they would ordinarily get from books that only give outlines of the philosopher's thoughts and theories. At the same time, the books do not delve so deeply and critically into the philosopher's ideas that they ...

THE MERCENARY WHO HIJACKED THE WAR MACHINE Book One of the Ghost Seven Series He was never there. Someone needed him to have been. When Idris Okonkwo watches drone footage of a massacre carried out under his own unit's biometric signature, he knows two things: he wasn't at that compound, and someone spent years making sure the world would believe he was. Four years off the grid since his dishonorable discharge, Idris has built a life in the gray, expensive, unreliable, and exactly deniable enough for clients who can't officially hire him. That gray has just been curated. AegisCorp, the ...

Two ex-Secret Service agents must face a dark world of violence, codes, and spies at a secret CIA training camp in this #1 New York Times bestseller about a mystery that could destroy the nation. ★ "Compulsively readable ... Baldacci, always strong on suspense ... finds his voice here. The...

She followed every rule. The government broke them all. When Ariana Wilkinson—a lawful U.S. resident and Afghan-born wife of an Air Force Colonel—is wrongfully detained by ICE during a religious festival in Westchester County, her disappearance sets off a desperate search that exposes the darkest corners of American immigration enforcement.

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Sherrilyn Kenyon comes Born of Night, the first book in her blockbuster series, The League. In the Ichidian Universe, The League and their ruthless assassins rule all. Expertly trained and highly valued, the League Assassins are the backbone of the...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER George Stephanopoulos, the legendary political news host and former advisor to President Clinton, recounts the history-making crises from the place where twelve presidents made their highest-pressure decisions. No room better defines American power and its role in...

They came to the forest to capture a weapon. They just became prey. Cole Marsden thought the blood was finally washed from his hands. Deep in the remote Whispering Peaks National Forest, the cursed ranger lives a life of brutal isolation, guarding the woods and hiding the beast within. But his sanctuary is shattered when a heavily armed private military team descends upon the mountains. Funded by a shadowy biotech corporation, Commander Devon Baker and his elite mercenaries aren't here to hunt animals. They are tracking a highly classified biological asset. Armed with thermal drones, sonic ...

“It’s official Take a Psycho to Work Day. Why else would I be here?” Hunted. Hated. Betrayed. Dagger Ixur is on the run for his life. As one of the most recognizable members of his royal house, he has a bounty on his head that guarantees him no quarter from any friend or even family. But...

In this dazzling thriller from the world's #1 bestselling author, two secret agents hunt down a serial killer targeting honeymoon couples in Rome. A newlywed couple steps into the sauna in their deluxe honeymoon suite-and never steps out again. When another couple is killed while boarding their...

Born an Outcast, Talyn Batur has spent the whole of his life fighting against the prejudice of his people. An Andarion without a father is not something anyone wants to be. But when his companion's brother draws him into a plot against the Andarion crown, he finds himself torn between the...

Jason Bourne returns in this stunning new thriller from Eric Van Lustbader, continuing Robert Ludlum's classic series. General Boris Karpov, head of the feared Russian FSB, is dead. But Karpov has reached out from the grave with an unstoppable cyber operation he conceived before his murder...

Marcus Rhys has spent eight years fighting wars that officially don't exist. As an operator for Tidal Group, a private military contractor with no name on any government org chart and a payroll built from shell companies, he does the missions the United States needs done and never has to explain. He trusts the chain above him. He has always trusted the chain above him. Then a stand-down order arrives mid-operation in Yemen, and the weapons shipment his team was sent to stop reaches its target anyway. Twenty-three people die in a market eight kilometers from the strike. When Marcus starts ...