Rats in the Grain

Rats in the Grain
Author: James B Lieber
Publisher: Basic Books
Total Pages: 392
Release: 2002-01-10
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0465024270
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Beneath the wholesome image of Archer Daniels Midland lie some of the dirtiest practices in American business: price-fixing, bribery, and cover-ups. Unfolding like a legal thriller, Rats in the Grain portrays the crime and punishment of ADM during the largest white-collar criminal trial of the 1990s. James Lieber profiles the witnesses, the defense lawyers and federal prosecutors, the inner workings of the Justice Department's Antitrust Division, and the unpredictable mole Lieber had access to. "A detailed account of how an influential corporation can go rotten." -- The Cleveland Plain Dealer

The Informant

The Informant
Author: Kurt Eichenwald
Publisher: Portobello Books
Total Pages: 498
Release: 2012-02-09
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1846274648
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The Informant is Mark Whitacre, a senior executive with America's most powerful food giant, who put his career and his family's safety at risk to become a confidential government witness. Using Whitacre's secret recordings and a team of agents, the FBI uncovered the corporation's scheme to steal millions of dollars from its own customers. But as the FBI closed in on their target, they suddenly realized that Whitacre wasn't quite playing the game they'd thought ... This is the gripping account of how a corporate golden boy became an FBI mole and went on to double-cross both the authorities and his employers in one of the most extraordinary cases of global corporate corruption of the last thirty years.

More Cunning Than Man

More Cunning Than Man
Author: Robert Hendrickson
Publisher: Zebra Books
Total Pages: 300
Release: 1999
Genre: Medical
ISBN:
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This eye-opening, well-researched examination of mankind's oldest competitor is filled with weirdly fascinating information about the history of the rat and the way it consistently outsmarts man. Illustrations.

Merchants of Grain

Merchants of Grain
Author: Dan Morgan
Publisher: Backinprint.com
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2000
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780595142101
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The first and only book to describe the seven secretive families and five far-flung companies that control the world's food supplies. Little has changed their central role since Morgan's best-selling book first appeared in 1979.

Friendly Takeover

Friendly Takeover
Author: James B. Lieber
Publisher: Penguin Paperbacks
Total Pages: 404
Release: 1996
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:
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Lieber spent five years studying Wierton Steel's turnaround from another near-Rust Belt casualty to an inspirational success story, talking to people at all levels--ordinary workers, local and national labor leaders--to show what it took to make the company work for employee and management alike. Photos.

SAT & BAF!

SAT & BAF!
Author: Doug DePew
Publisher: Doug DePew
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2011
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1432771329
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Second Place Winner in the 2011 Reader Views Literary Awards (History/Science)The year is 1986. The Soviet Union is five years from collapsing, and the arms race has ramped up to unbelievable proportions. It appears nothing can end this standoff except nuclear annihilation or capitulation by one of the antagonists. One company of infantry stands between the entire Soviet arsenal and live Pershing II nuclear missiles which are the threat used by President Ronald Reagan as he orders Mr. Gorbachev to "tear down this wall". In this brutally honest and irreverently funny account, one of the men who stood the perimeter describes what it was like. You will be taken to the field, inside the towers, and out on the town. You will be carried through the two year tour of one very young Infantryman as he arrives in Germany straight out of Infantry School and gradually navigates his way through the mind numbingly tedious and insanely active life of a tower rat. For possibly the first time, a person who was actually there relates the amazing bond forged in the towers of Waldheide Nuclear Weapons Storage Area. You will see it through his eyes. You will live it.

Piper

Piper
Author: Jay Asher
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 75
Release: 2017-10-31
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0448493683
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#1 international bestselling author of Thirteen Reasons Why Jay Asher and co-author Jessica Freeburg brilliantly reimagine the classic Pied Piper legend as a powerful graphic novel about loneliness, love, and vengeance. Fans of Through the Woods by Emily Carroll will devour this eerie, atmospheric retelling. “A moving graphic novel about isolation, love, and retribution, this dark version of a familiar tale will remain with readers long after the last page is turned.”—School Library Journal Long ago, in a small village in the middle of a deep, dark forest, there lived a lonely, deaf girl named Maggie. Shunned by her village because of her disability, her only comfort comes from her vivid imagination. Maggie has a gift for inventing stories and dreams of one day finding her fairy-tale love. When Maggie meets the mysterious Piper, it seems that all her wishes are coming true. Spellbound, Maggie falls hard for him and plunges headfirst into his magical world. But as she grows closer to the Piper, Maggie discovers that he has a dark side. The boy of Maggie’s dreams might just turn out to be her worst nightmare… With striking illustrations from Eisner-nominated artist Jeff Stokely, mixed with Jessica Freeburg's work on historic and legendary horrors, Piper is an exciting new departure for Jay Asher that deftly touches on the same themes of truth, guilt, and redemption that made Thirteen Reasons Why a beloved bestseller.