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1) Firewall
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Josh is a gamer. After his parents' divorce and his move from Chicago to a small town where he doesn't know anybody, he copes by staying up way too late playing Killswitch online. Then he discovers a "mod" version of the game that is an exact reproduction of his new town. Strange things start to happen in the game, and they are somehow connected with events in the real world
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"You just boarded a flight to New York. There are one hundred and forty-three other passengers onboard. What you don't know is that thirty minutes before the flight your pilot's family was kidnapped. For his family to live, everyone on your plane must die. The only way the family will survive is if the pilot follows his orders and crashes the plane. Enjoy the flight." --book jacket
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What special problems arise for managers and employees of companies when they do business in countries and cultures other than their own? The essays in this book identify universal principles of business ethics and spell out minimal legal and ethical absolutes in foreign trade. They examine human rights and analyze the cross-cultural aspects of two sexual harassment cases filed against Mitsubishi in America.--Provided by the publisher.
8) Win or lose
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Wildcats center PJ Harris is the tallest player on the team, but he's horrible at free throws. When a game comes down to PJ's free throws making the difference between winning and losing, he freaks. Can he solve his problem in time to earn back the respect of his coach and teammakes, and himself?
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Geltab
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2011.
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English
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The ghost legion is completely embroiled in the war between the armies of ancient sorcerers. They must stay joined with one to survive and continue north to face down the evil seeking to own the world. Unbound by any ethics or morals but their own the ghost legion acts to keep their livelihood intact. Finding more wizards, Dagger finds himself at its mercy. Only magic can solve his natural problems. --Provided by publisher.
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University of California Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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"What issues, of both form and content, shape the documentary film? What role does visual evidence play in relation to a documentary's arguments about the world in which we live? Can a documentary be believed, and why or why not? How do documentaries abide by or subvert ethical expectations? Are mockumentaries a form of subversion? In what ways can the documentary be an aesthetic experience and at the same time have political or social impact? And...
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Flora Speer
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2013.
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English
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"India Baldwin, young widow and now a secretary in the Cheswick University History Department, must update her computer skills before her new boss arrives. Hank, boyfriend of Willie, India's best friend since childhood, offers to help. But Hank has installed a secret program that, with just one slip on the keyboard, sends India to an 8th century battlefield. Rescued by the handsome Theuderic of Metz, India must travel with him and his men to meet...
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Boroughs Publishing Group
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2018.
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English
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CAN YOU KEEP A SECRETSimon Bridgeworth believes in loyalty, and keeping things in-house. When he discovers his best friend, who has been running the Canadian division of Simon's tech empire, has been skimming millions from the company, Simon flies to Toronto to get to the bottom of the theft and learns his friend has been murdered. Devastated and at a loose end, Simon knows there's no way the company's problems can be kept under wraps now. Imagine...
13) Shadow Aspect
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Breukelen Girl
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2013.
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English
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"Katelyn Phoenix leads a low life. She's never had a life full of privilege, prominence or affluence. But she's always been able to see the truth in other people; it's always been her gift. Because Katelyn's not your average human female. She's a truth-sayer and being one of those is rare and highly, valuable if you want to commit personal espionage on others. Katelyn's never had a problem with what she does, it's not for her to question the ethics...
14) Please give
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
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English
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Kate has a lot on her mind. There's the ethics problem of buying furniture at estate sales and marking it up at her Manhattan store. There's the materialism problem of not wanting her teenage daughter to want the expensive things that she wants. There's the marriage problem of sharing a partnership in parenting, business, and life with husband Alex but sensing doubt nibbling at the foundations. And worst of all are the neighbors, cranky, old Andra...
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Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
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2021.
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English
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In the middle of the bustle of London's Soho, among the theaters and sex shops and pubs, sits a building. It isn?t particularly assuming. But it?s a prime piece of real estate, and a young millionaire, Agatha Howard, wants to convert it into luxury condos as soon as she can kick out all the tenants. The problem is, the building in question houses a brothel, and Precious and Tabitha, two of the women who live and work there, are not going to go quietly....
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Melville House
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Set in failing small town in central Ohio, [this novel] asks how one manages, in an America of increasing division, to find a sense of family and community. [It focuses] on the members of three families: the Baileys, a white family who have put down deep roots in the community; the Marwats, an immigrant family that owns the town's largest employer; and the Shaws, especially young Anthony, an outsider whose very presence gently shakes the town's understanding...
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Max Einstein volume 1
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Duomo Ediciones
Pub. Date
2020.
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Español
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"Conoce a Maxine Einstein. Valiente. Creativa. Brillante. Los unicos superpoderes que necesita una chica."--
Max and her CMI friends attempt to use their smarts to find solutions to a water crisis, while a greedy corporation with an eye on capturing Max seems to know their every move.
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Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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"The antic and often dire stories in Bring Me the Head of Quentin Tarantino depict the violence and corruption that plague Mexico today, but they are also deeply ruminative and layered explorations of the narrative impulse and the ethics of art making. Herbert asks: Where are the lines between fiction, memory, and reality? What is the relationship between power, corruption, and survival? How much violence can a person (and a country) take?"--Provided...
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Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
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English
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"From the acclaimed writer and thinker--whose award-winning books include both fiction and non-fiction--a dazzlingly original plunge into the drama of philosophy, revealing its hidden but essential role in today's debates on love, religion, politics, and science. Imagine that Plato came to life in the 21st century and set out on a multi-city speaking tour: How would he handle a host on Fox News who challenges him on religion and morality? How would...
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University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
[1995]
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English
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As malady or inspiration, boredom looms large in our culture. Forever egging the writer on to new feats of interest, new forms of poetry, new, more engrossing ideas and creations, boredom both haunts and motivates the literary imagination. This book offers a witty literary explanation of why this should be. Investigating boredom's imaginative functions during the last two and a half centuries, Patricia Meyer Spacks reveals the shifting cultural purposes...
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