Modern Box Set 5-8 August 2023/The Boss's Forbidden Assistant/Awakened on Her Royal Wedding Night/The Billionaire's Accidental Legacy/Impossib
Modern Box Set 5-8 August 2023/The Boss's Forbidden Assistant/Awakened on Her Royal Wedding Night/The Billionaire's Accidental Legacy/Impossib

Author: Natalie Anderson

Publisher: HarperCollins Australia

Published: 2023-08-01

Total Pages: 728

ISBN-13: 1867287730

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Mills & Boon Modern — Escape to exotic locations where passion knows no bounds. " The Boss’s Forbidden Assistant - Clare Connelly Clare Connelly will have you head over heels for one sexy boss in this scorching workplace romance! Two weeks on his island. Two weeks to resist temptation! Ever since a tragic loss, Brazilian billionaire Salvador da Rocha has retreated to his private island, vowing not to love again. When he’s forced to hire a temporary assistant, he’s convinced Harper Lawson won’t meet his scrupulous standards. Instead, she exceeds them. If only he wasn’t tempted by the forbidden... Usually hyper-focused, Harper is dangerously distracted by Salvador. His arrogance is infuriating yet their chemistry is untameable...and their surrender, inevitable! As Harper’s departure from paradise draws closer, their connection only deepens, but is it enough to make her stay? Awakened on Her Royal Wedding Night - Dani Collins The virgin and the prince make a pact in this sizzling marriage-of-convenience romance by USA TODAY bestselling author Dani Collins! Swept away to the palace to become his bride! Having dived into the ocean to escape one man, model Claudine Bergqvist washes up at Prince Felipe’s feet. She’s never felt the searing heat that flashes between them before. But she hardly expects Felipe to propose marriage! Felipe must wed promptly or lose his place in line to the throne. So, in return, he’ll provide everything needed to help Claudine’s ailing mother. Claudine agrees — this could be her only chance to experience true pleasure! But can she enjoy the benefits of their marital bed, without catching feelings for her new husband... The Billionaire’s Accidental Legacy - Millie Adams The stakes are sky-high for one playboy billionaire in this secret-pregnancy romance by Millie Adams! Their one night...only raises the stakes! Poker pro Jessie Hargreave’s future depends on the riskiest game of her life. And playboy billionaire Ewan Kincaid has just gone all in! Winning Ewan’s Scottish highland estate is astounding. But it’s their sizzling night together that is most shocking, especially when she discovers the consequences... Ewan was playing to lose, but he hadn’t counted on his memories of their encounter haunting him beyond measure. When he sees a photo of a very beautiful, very pregnant Jessie, a new endgame is required. This time, to claim his child, he’s playing for keeps! Impossible Heir for the King - Natalie Anderson This royal-pregnancy romance by USA TODAY bestselling author Natalie Anderson is perfect for fans of Jane the Virgin!

The Manchurian Candidate
The Manchurian Candidate

Author: Richard Condon

Publisher: RosettaBooks

Published: 2013-11-25

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 0795335067

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The classic thriller about a hostile foreign power infiltrating American politics: “Brilliant . . . wild and exhilarating.” —The New Yorker A war hero and the recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor, Sgt. Raymond Shaw is keeping a deadly secret—even from himself. During his time as a prisoner of war in North Korea, he was brainwashed by his Communist captors and transformed into a deadly weapon—a sleeper assassin, programmed to kill without question or mercy at his captors’ signal. Now he’s been returned to the United States with a covert mission: to kill a candidate running for US president . . . This “shocking, tense” and sharply satirical novel has become a modern classic, and was the basis for two film adaptations (San Francisco Chronicle). “Crammed with suspense.” —Chicago Tribune “Condon is wickedly skillful.” —Time

Don't Be Evil
Don't Be Evil

Author: Rana Foroohar

Publisher: Currency

Published: 2019-11-05

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 198482399X

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A penetrating indictment of how today’s largest tech companies are hijacking our data, our livelihoods, our social fabric, and our minds—from an acclaimed Financial Times columnist and CNN analyst WINNER OF THE PORCHLIGHT BUSINESS BOOK AWARD • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND EVENING STANDARD “Don’t be evil” was enshrined as Google’s original corporate mantra back in its early days, when the company’s cheerful logo still conveyed the utopian vision for a future in which technology would inevitably make the world better, safer, and more prosperous. Unfortunately, it’s been quite a while since Google, or the majority of the Big Tech companies, lived up to this founding philosophy. Today, the utopia they sought to create is looking more dystopian than ever: from digital surveillance and the loss of privacy to the spreading of misinformation and hate speech to predatory algorithms targeting the weak and vulnerable to products that have been engineered to manipulate our desires. How did we get here? How did these once-scrappy and idealistic enterprises become rapacious monopolies with the power to corrupt our elections, co-opt all our data, and control the largest single chunk of corporate wealth—while evading all semblance of regulation and taxes? In Don’t Be Evil, Financial Times global business columnist Rana Foroohar tells the story of how Big Tech lost its soul—and ate our lunch. Through her skilled reporting and unparalleled access—won through nearly thirty years covering business and technology—she shows the true extent to which behemoths like Google, Facebook, Apple, and Amazon are monetizing both our data and our attention, without us seeing a penny of those exorbitant profits. Finally, Foroohar lays out a plan for how we can resist, by creating a framework that fosters innovation while also protecting us from the dark side of digital technology. Praise for Don’t Be Evil “At first sight, Don’t Be Evil looks like it’s doing for Google what muckraking journalist Ida Tarbell did for Standard Oil over a century ago. But this whip-smart, highly readable book’s scope turns out to be much broader. Worried about the monopolistic tendencies of big tech? The addictive apps on your iPhone? The role Facebook played in Donald Trump’s election? Foroohar will leave you even more worried, but a lot better informed.”—Niall Ferguson, Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford, and author of The Square and the Tower

The Search for the "Manchurian Candidate"
The Search for the

Author: John D. Marks

Publisher: Dell Publishing Company

Published: 1988-07-01

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 9780440201373

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The CIA's attempt to find effective mind control techniques are recounted from their origins in the drug research of World War II, to their experiments on frequently unknowing subjects involving hypnosis and drugs such as LSD

Technocreep
Technocreep

Author: Thomas P. Keenan

Publisher: Greystone Books Ltd

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 1771641223

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"Technology is rapidly moving into our bodies," writes cyber expert Keenan, "and this book gives a chilling look ahead into where that road may lead us - on a one way trip to the total surrender of privacy and the commoditization of intimacy." Here is the definitive dissection of privacy-eroding and life-invading technologies, coming at you from governments, corporations, and the person next door. Take, for example, "Girls Around Me": a Russian-made iPhone App that allowed anyone to scan the immediate vicinity for girls and women who checked in on Foursquare and had poorly secured Facebook profiles. It combined this information in a way never intended by the original poster. Going to a Disney theme park? Your creepy new "MagicBand" will alert Minnie Mouse that you're on the way and she'll know your kid's name when you approach her. Thinking about sending your DNA off to Ancestry.com for some "genetic genealogy"? Perhaps you should think again: your genetic information could be used against you. "This masterful weaving of the negatives and positives of technology makes for a book that is realistic about technology's perils yet optimistic about it's great potential."--Foreword Reviews

A People's Guide to Capitalism
A People's Guide to Capitalism

Author: Hadas Thier

Publisher: Haymarket Books

Published: 2018-06-02

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 1642592188

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A lively, accessible, and timely guide to Marxist economics for those who want to understand and dismantle the world of the 1%. Economists regularly promote Capitalism as the greatest system ever to grace the planet. With the same breath, they implore us to leave the job of understanding the magical powers of the market to the “experts.” Despite the efforts of these mainstream commentators to convince us otherwise, many of us have begun to question why this system has produced such vast inequality and wanton disregard for its own environmental destruction. This book offers answers to exactly these questions on their own terms: in the form of a radical economic theory. “Thier’s urgently needed book strips away jargon to make Marx’s essential work accessible to today’s diverse mass movements.” —Sarah Leonard, contributing editor to The Nation “A great book for proletarian chain-breaking.” —Rob Larson, author of Bit Tyrants: The Political Economy of Silicon Valley “Thier unpacks the mystery of capitalist inequality with lucid and accessible prose . . . . We will need books like A People’s Guide to help us make sense of the root causes of the financial crises that shape so many of our struggles today.” —Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, author of Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership “Ranging from exploitation at work to the operations of modern finance, this book takes the reader through a fine-tuned introduction to Marx’s analysis of the modern economy . . . . Thier combines theoretical explanation with contemporary examples to illuminate the inner workings of capitalism . . . . Reminds us of the urgent need for alternatives to a crisis-ridden system.” —David McNally, author of Blood and Money

Holiday Home Run
Holiday Home Run

Author: Priscilla Oliveras

Publisher: Zebra Books

Published: 2020-10-27

Total Pages: 141

ISBN-13: 1420152920

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HOLIDAY HOME RUN Event planner Julia Louisa Fernandez dreams of a life in Chicago. But her family in Puerto Rico expects her to take over the catering business. Former pro baseball player Ben Thomas knows what that’s like—and when they meet, he might be the one to inspire a winning strategy, just in time for the holidays . . . Previously published in A Season to Celebrate.

A New Paradigm of the African State
A New Paradigm of the African State

Author: M. Muiu

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2009-01-05

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 0230618316

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Offers a historical, multidisciplinary perspective on African political systems and institutions, ranging from Antiquity (Egypt, Kush and Axum) to the present with particular focus on their destruction through successive exogenous processes including the Atlantic slave trade, imperialism, colonialism and neo-colonialism or globalization.