Download or read book How to Bang a Billionaire written by Alexis Hall and published by Hachette+ORM. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rules are made to be broken . . . If England had yearbooks, I'd probably be "Arden St. Ives: Man Least Likely to Set the World on Fire." So far, I haven't. I've no idea what I'm doing at Oxford, no idea what I'm going to do next and, until a week ago, I had no idea who Caspian Hart was. Turns out, he's brilliant, beautiful . . . oh yeah, and a billionaire. It's impossible not to be captivated by someone like that. But Caspian Hart makes his own rules. And he has a lot of them. About when I can be with him. What I can do with him. And when he'll be through with me. I'm good at doing what I'm told in the bedroom. The rest of the time, not so much. And now that Caspian's shown me glimpses of the man behind the billionaire I know it's him I want. Not his wealth, not his status. Him. Except that might be the one thing he doesn't have the power to give me.

Download or read book Exposure written by Robert Bilott and published by Atria Books. This book was released on 2020-07-14 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “For Erin Brockovich fans, a David vs. Goliath tale with a twist” (The New York Times Book Review)—the incredible true story of the lawyer who spent two decades building a case against DuPont for its use of the hazardous chemical PFOA, uncovering the worst case of environmental contamination in history—affecting virtually every person on the planet—and the conspiracy that kept it a secret for sixty years. The story that inspired Dark Waters, the major motion picture from Focus Features starring Mark Ruffalo and Anne Hathaway, directed by Todd Haynes. 1998: Rob Bilott is a young lawyer specializing in helping big corporations stay on the right side of environmental laws and regulations. Then he gets a phone call from a West Virginia farmer named Earl Tennant, who is convinced the creek on his property is being poisoned by runoff from a neighboring DuPont landfill, causing his cattle and the surrounding wildlife to die in hideous ways. Earl hasn’t even been able to get a water sample tested by any state or federal regulatory agency or find a local lawyer willing to take the case. As soon as they hear the name DuPont—the area’s largest employer—they shut him down. Once Rob sees the thick, foamy water that bubbles into the creek, the gruesome effects it seems to have on livestock, and the disturbing frequency of cancer and other health problems in the area, he’s persuaded to fight against the type of corporation his firm routinely represents. After intense legal wrangling, Rob ultimately gains access to hundreds of thousands of pages of DuPont documents, some of them fifty years old, that reveal the company has been holding onto decades of studies proving the harmful effects of a chemical called PFOA, used in making Teflon. PFOA is often called a “forever chemical,” because once in the environment, it does not break down or degrade for millions of years, contaminating the planet forever. The case of one farmer soon spawns a class action suit on behalf of seventy thousand residents—and the shocking realization that virtually every person on the planet has been exposed to PFOA and carries the chemical in his or her blood. What emerges is a riveting legal drama “in the grand tradition of Jonathan Harr’s A Civil Action” (Booklist, starred review) about malice and manipulation, the failings of environmental regulation; and one lawyer’s twenty-year struggle to expose the truth about this previously unknown—and still unregulated—chemical that we all have inside us.

Download or read book Davos Man written by Peter S. Goodman and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2022-01-18 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A San Francisco Chronicle Bestseller The New York Times’s Global Economics Correspondent masterfully reveals how billionaires’ systematic plunder of the world—brazenly accelerated during the pandemic—has transformed 21st-century life and dangerously destabilized democracy. “Davos Man will be read a hundred years from now as a warning.” —Evan Osnos “Excellent. A powerful, fiery book, and it could well be an essential one.” —NPR.org The history of the last half century in America, Europe, and other major economies is in large part the story of wealth flowing upward. The most affluent people emerged from capitalism’s triumph in the Cold War to loot the peace, depriving governments of the resources needed to serve their people, and leaving them tragically unprepared for the worst pandemic in a century. Drawing on decades of experience covering the global economy, award-winning journalist Peter S. Goodman profiles five representative “Davos Men”—members of the billionaire class—chronicling how their shocking exploitation of the global pandemic has hastened a fifty-year trend of wealth centralization. Alongside this reporting, Goodman delivers textured portraits of those caught in Davos Man’s wake, including a former steelworker in the American Midwest, a Bangladeshi migrant in Qatar, a Seattle doctor on the front lines of the fight against COVID, blue-collar workers in the tenements of Buenos Aires, an African immigrant in Sweden, a textile manufacturer in Italy, an Amazon warehouse employee in New York City, and more. Goodman’s revelatory exposé of the global billionaire class reveals their hidden impact on nearly every aspect of modern society: widening wealth inequality, the rise of anti-democratic nationalism, the shrinking opportunity to earn a livable wage, the vulnerabilities of our health-care systems, access to affordable housing, unequal taxation, and even the quality of the shirt on your back. Meticulously reported yet compulsively readable, Davos Man is an essential read for anyone concerned about economic justice, the capacity of societies to grapple with their greatest challenges, and the sanctity of representative government.

Download or read book Barefoot to Billionaire written by Jon Huntsman and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inspiring autobiography by “one of the finest human beings, industrial leaders, and philanthropists on the planet” (Stephen R. Covey). The company Jon Huntsman founded in 1970, the Huntsman Corporation, is now one of the largest petrochemical manufacturers in the world, employing more than 12,000 people and generating over $10 billion in revenue each year. Success in business, though, was always a means to an end for him—never an end in itself. In Barefoot to Billionaire, Huntsman revisits the key moments in his life that shaped his view of faith, family, service, and the responsibility that comes with wealth. He writes candidly about his brief tenure in the Nixon administration, which preceded the Watergate scandal but still left a deep impression on him about the abuse of power and the significance of personal respect and integrity. He also opens up about his faith and prominent membership in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. But most importantly, Huntsman reveals the rationale behind his commitment to give away his entire fortune before his death. In 1995, Huntsman and his wife, Karen, founded the Huntsman Cancer Institute and eventually dedicated more than a billion dollars of their personal funds to the fight for a cure. In this increasingly materialistic world, Barefoot to Billionaire is a refreshing reminder of the enduring power of traditional values.

Download or read book The Billionaire s Vinegar written by Benjamin Wallace and published by Crown. This book was released on 2009-04-14 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rivetingly strange story of the world's most expensive bottle of wine, and the even stranger characters whose lives have intersected with it. The New York Times bestseller, updated with a new epilogue, that tells the true story of a 1787 Château Lafite Bordeaux—supposedly owned by Thomas Jefferson—that sold for $156,000 at auction and of the eccentrics whose lives intersected with it. Was it truly entombed in a Paris cellar for two hundred years? Or did it come from a secret Nazi bunker? Or from the moldy basement of a devilishly brilliant con artist? As Benjamin Wallace unravels the mystery, we meet a gallery of intriguing players—from the bicycle-riding British auctioneer who speaks of wines as if they are women to the obsessive wine collector who discovered the bottle. Suspenseful and thrillingly strange, this is the vintage tale of what could be the most elaborate con since the Hitler diaries. “Part detective story, part wine history, this is one juicy tale, even for those with no interest in the fruit of the vine. . . . As delicious as a true vintage Lafite.” —BusinessWeek

Download or read book Billionaire s Paradise written by Peter Antonucci and published by . This book was released on 2019-03-20 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Billionaire's Paradise: Ecstasy at Sea chronicles the adventures of Eva Lampedusa, a high-powered and highly successful attorney, who dreams of creating a community of wealthy jetsetters and captains of industry sailing around the world aboard a super yacht.

Download or read book Pity the Billionaire written by Thomas Frank and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Economic meltdown usually brings calls for change - or it's supposed to. But when Thomas Frank set out to find these, all he heard were loud demands that the losers be hit harder and that the winners get more. e were told for decades that the market knows best, then had a once-in-a-lifetime crash. And now we see a popular uprising supporting free-market principles. As Frank explains, until 2009 the man on the dole did not weep for the man lounging on his yacht. sing first-hand reporting, a deep political understanding and a wicked sense of humour, Frank looks at the weird double-think that has enlisted the powerless in a fan club for the prosperous. i>Pity The Billionaire takes us on a wild road-trip through the strange landscape of the American Right, the Tea Party and Glenn Beck, makes sense of a topsy-turvy world and shows how instead of complying with the new speed limit, conservative America has stamped hard on the accelerator. It is essential reading for understanding how we all got to where we are, and how we might get out."

Download or read book Richistan written by Robert Frank and published by Currency. This book was released on 2008-06-24 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER RICH-I-STAN n. 1. a new country located in the heart of America, populated entirely by millionaires, most of whom acquired their wealth during the new Gilded Age of the past twenty years. 2. a country with a population larger than Belgium and Denmark; typical citizens include “spud king” J. R. Simplot; hair stylist Sydell Miller, the new star of Palm Beach; and assorted oddball entrepreneurs. 3. A country that with a little luck and pluck, you, too, could be a citizen of. The rich have always been different from you and me, but Robert Frank’s revealing and funny journey through “Richistan” entertainingly shows that they are truly another breed.

Download or read book Billionaire s Virgin written by Claire Adams and published by Ownit Publishing LLC. This book was released on with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He knows he shouldn't make a move on his daughter's hot nanny...but he can't help himself... Running a business is hard. Being a single parent is harder. Reed is trying his best to keep his head above water and to keep his daughter happy and safe. But he can’t help feeling that sometimes, even his best isn’t good enough. Which is why he decides to hire a full-time nanny. Taylor is beautiful and interesting and Reed is instantly attracted to her, but he knows that getting involved with his daughter’s nanny is a bad idea. He has enough on his plate, with work and fatherhood and a past that keeps coming back to haunt his present in the form of his wealthy socialite ex, Sofia. Reed must decide what kind of future he wants for himself and his daughter and if that future includes Taylor.

Download or read book This Billionaire s Fake Marriage written by Rachel Foster and published by DM Publishing. This book was released on with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mia is a small-town girl with small town pride. She is smart and resourceful with just the right amount of curves. Jason wants out of the small town. After his parents die, he decides he’s going to move to NYC. He is rugged with a muscular frame. Inherits his grandpa’s billions and never knew him. But Jason needs a bride, even if it’s fake. That’s where Mia comes in. But how will it end?

Download or read book Billionaire s Sweet Love written by Qian ShuiDeXiaoYao and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-05-31 with total page 623 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Living a new life again, Xia Chuyi continued, "Take mine and return it back to me. Eat mine and give it back to me and spit it out twice!" She had acknowledged a master teacher, opened a resort, and made herself a rich man. All her life, she had led a carefree life, and even she had sought for debts. Yet, she had unknowingly provoked a big tail wolf...

Download or read book Billionaire s Child Bride written by Mi MiZhiYin and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-05-04 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: i have an ancestral treasure to give you huh he was the president of the abstinence department and he was extremely proud of her and turned a blind eye to her she had been separated from her mother and brought back to be his potential donor and fated wife but she was unwilling to be manipulated the two people who looked at each other in the wrong were playing conquering he had picked up a girl and hung her up she had made him go berserk in just a few minutes can't understand i want to have a baby with you a certain man with an evil smile a certain woman said in a coquettish tone you're annoying

Download or read book Billionaire s Deep Love written by Niu NiuShiKeAiNiu and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-05-08 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: in the past han mo had spent five million to buy su qinglian at that time su qinglian naively believed that this man was an angel sent by heaven to save her she could not help but fall in love with him and rely on him if possible she wished to spend her life with him in such a dull manner however after qiao mei appeared su qing lian's world fell into darkness she had been chased out of her home and forced to leave the yan clan she had thought that she and the yan clan's yan han mo had been separated by a great distance never to see each other again however he had wandered around for many years but the man said to her i love you

Download or read book This Billionaire s Revenge written by Rachel Foster and published by DM Publishing. This book was released on with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Luke Curran is part of a wealthy family who owns the Curran Ranch. Hurt by his brother Andrew who began dating his ex-girlfriend, Anna, he decides he is going to get even. He comes up with a plan to get Anna’s best friend Molly to fall for him. Now he’s scrambling when his plan begins to fall apart because he’s falling for her instead. Molly is in need of extra cash and ends up at the Curran’s ranch as a side job. She finds herself falling for Luke. Now she finds out that she was just a plan to make his brother and her best friend mad. Will Molly be able to forgive him and move forward? Or will Luke’s plan have ruined everything between them?

Download or read book This Billionaire s Doctor written by Rachel Foster and published by DM Publishing. This book was released on with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To not have to spend all his days working and be with his grandmother who is dying, he decides to volunteer at the humane society. The last person he expects to run into is Phoebe. Aft first he doesn’t even recognize her, the nerdy saxophone player he sat next to his senior year. Now, she’s grown up and beautiful and he can’t stop thinking about her. Phoebe is a local nurse practitioner who also volunteers her time at the local humane society. She’s shocked when she sees Rome volunteering. She had a huge crush on him in high school but she wasn’t a part of the same social circle. Now he’s discovered that Phoebe is taking care of his ailing grandmother who adores her. They end up falling for each other, but Rome’s past comes back to haunt him when his ex Katelynn shows interest in him. Phoebe feels like she’s back in high school again trying to compete with the popular girl. Will Rome be able to prove to her that he doesn’t care about all those opinions about her, or will his past come back and haunt him?

Download or read book The Billionaire s Loyalty written by April Murdock and published by Sweet River Publishing. This book was released on 2022-01-20 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When you’re the designated party animal in your group, it’s impossible to shed the hard shell you’ve developed. Add a fear of loss and the tough guy will avoid falling in love at all cost. That’s where Loukas Mikos finds himself. After meeting Loukas on one of the luxury family vacations Natalie had started crushing on him almost immediately. She’d been the nanny of his cousin’s daughter but she’d spent time enough with Loukas to know she’d fall completely in love with him if he gave her more than a friendly smile. And here they both are on a Mikos cruise ship to Greece for Loukas’s sister’s wedding. The high society wedding is a big deal in the Mikos family and the mother of the bride is on high alert. Everything must be perfect. Loukas has been set up with a date he doesn’t want and he’s balking. When Natalie seems to be a good diversion from the set up, Loukas takes advantage of the opportunity. As a temporary stand in, Natalie has a great time, though caution screamed in the back of her mind. She reminds herself constantly that this isn’t real, but she still feels herself falling for the brash billionaire cruise line owner. Who wouldn’t? But once they’re past the wedding, there’s no more reason to spend time together. Natalie is sure her chance was lost and she’s tempering her emotions to go back to real life when the special vacation was over. Loukas feels lost but can't quite give in to the idea of being tied down. Will the family scandal that's looming just on the horizon pull these two together or will their connection be lost forever?

Download or read book The Billionaire s Generosity written by April Murdock and published by Sweet River Publishing. This book was released on 2022-01-13 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gabrielle Evans needs a higher paying job. Zachary Lewis doesn't really need anything. He already has it all. When Gabrielle gets a chance to break back into the modeling scene, she's beside herself. The new job and money will change her life. And boy does she need a change. Her new boss is rude and she dislikes him as soon as he sneers at her for no reason. She can't ignore that he's drop dead gorgeous - far and away the only man to ever melt her insides with a single glance. Even that annoys her about him. Zachary runs his top notch jewelry company with creativity and efficiency. His company and his friends are his life. He has no desire for a relationship and he has plenty of roadblocks in place to keep himself unentangled. When he meets Gabrielle, he assumes she's just like the other models he's met or dated - empty-headed, self-centered, and only interested in what they can get. This sweet enemies to lovers romance may never be a romance at all since Gabrielle and Zach just might have realized too late that their assumptions about each other are all wrong. When the truth finally emerges, life will never be the same for either of them. Is there too much hurt and anger for them to sort through or will one of them be the hero to heal past hurts?