corporations

Features 50 joint stock companies that have exerted a critical influence on the social and economic history of the past four hundred years.

A discussion of corporate crime, including background and history, chronology of events, a biography of legislators, activists, and advocates, a directory of agencies and organizations, and an annotated list of resources.

Shows how corporations have infiltrated all aspects of American life and suggests ways to reconnect with our communities and each other.

An investigation into the death of a beautiful young woman in a new Japanese conglomerate leads through a maze of industrial intrigue in which American technology is the prize.

Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter David Johnston describes how big corporations legally exploit consumers using the fine print of contracts. Presents dozens of real examples, and offers solutions for fighting back against hundreds of unnecessary fees and taxes.

Business attorney Hannah Dain, settling back into her law practice at the family firm in Arizona after dumping her boyfriend Cooper for the second time, finds herself in over her head when she agrees to stand in for her sister and fellow attorney Shelby on a lawsuit brought by a local Native American tribe, and somehow ends up appointed the lead counsel in the complicated case.

Provides information about two thousand U.S. companies in varied engineering- and computer-related industries that are growing and hiring employees; listing the name, address, telephone and fax numbers, company type, and other facts about each included firm.

Intrepid eleven-year-old journalist Casey Smith protests Crush Cola's corporate sponsorship of her school, a deal that would give the company a monopoly on the soda sold there.

Independent contractor Jack Holloway discovers a collection of valuable jewels on planet Zarathustra and offers ZaraCorp a percentage of the wealth in exchange for their help in extracting them, but when Jack sees a family of small furry creatures, he realizes that ZaraCorp does not have a true claim to resources on the planet.

Profiles twelve business leaders, including Jeff Bezos, Richard Branson, Carly Fiorina, and Bill Gates, describing their personal lives, career paths, leadership strategies, political influence, critics' charges, and possible future impacts. Includes chronologies and lists of further resources.