Penguin Books Australia

Under Corporate Skies is about what happens to communities when they stand in the way of corporate profits.  It is the story of a tiny town pitted against a strong corporate neighbour.

With the help of international campaigner, Erin Brockovich, the small town of Yarloop in Western Australia is preparing a civil class action against Alcoa World Alumina.  The struggle is over social, health...

When, in late 2008, the dust finally started to settle on one of the worst financial crises in history, only one Wall Street institution still stood virtually unassailed - Goldman Sachs. Why did Goldman survive, and even flourish when so many of its peers were collapsing around it? 

'If they could screw you over, they totally would . . . '

Goldman Sachs are the investment bank all other banks - and most businesses -want to emulate; the firm with the best talent, the best clients, the best strategy. But is their success just down to the gilded magic of the 'Goldman way'?

In Private Empire, Steve Coll investigates the notoriously secretive ExxonMobil Corporation, revealing the true extent of the power wielded by a company whose annual revenues are larger than the total economic activity in most countries. In many of the countries where it operates, ExxonMobil has a greater sway than that of the US embassy and in Washington it spends more on lobbying than any other corporation...