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Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Nowhere does the ceaseless struggle to maintain democracy in the face of political corruption come more alive than in Paul Preston's magisterial history of modern Spain. The culmination of a half-century of historical investigation, A People Betrayed is not only the definitive history of Spain from 1876 to 2016, but an absorbing narrative that becomes a lens for understanding the challenges that all democracies have faced in the modern world. As...
Author
Publisher
Aguilar
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Español
Description
"Denise Dresser, la politóloga más punzante de México entrega en este libro un diagnóstico audaz y demoledor de la situación política y social que impera en nuestro país, denuncia la corrupción de nuestras instituciones, la voracidad de los monopolios, la nociva parcialidad de las televisoras y sus agendas políticas, y las componendas oscuras de líderes sindicales y partidistas"--Page 4 of cover.
"Distinguished political scientist and journalist...
Publisher
First Run Features Theatrical
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Independent journalists Jeremy Scahill, Glenn Greenwald and Michael Moore expose government lies and corporate deception, inspired by the legendary investigative journalist I.F. Stone. ALL GOVERNMENTS LIE: TRUTH, DECEPTION AND THE LEGACY OF I.F. STONE is a theatrical documentary created by a team of Emmy Award-winning filmmakers, who subscribed to I. F. Stone's newsletter in their teens. "I. F. Stone's Weekly" inspired us then, and compels us now...
85) Super Chief
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
his documentary is about a campaign and election for a new tribal chairman of the White Earth Ojibwe Reservation.By 1996, millions of dollars that had come through the new casino on the White Earth Reservation seemed to stop at the tribal chairman's desk. The self-proclaimed "Super Chief", Darryl "Chip" Wadnea had been tribal chairman for the past 20 years.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Follows the adventures of "good old boy" cousins Bo and Luke Duke, who with the help of their eye-catching cousin Daisy and moonshine-running Uncle Jesse, try and save the family farm from being destroyed by Hazzard County's corrupt commissioner Boss Hogg.
Author
Series
Light the abyss volume 2
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a post-apocalyptic future, teenaged Leyla feels compelled to search for Ari, while seeking to uncover the mystery behind her past.
90) Marca de sangre
Author
Series
Publisher
Editorial Planeta Mexicana
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
Español
Description
Recounts the rise and fall of the most notable figures in Mexico's drug dealing cartels since 1985, highlighting the violence, the betrayals, and the role of corrupted law enforcement and government officials.
95) Bacurau
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Portuguese
Description
A few years from now, Bacurau, a small village in the Brazilian sertô, mourns the loss of its matriarch, Carmelita, who lived to be 94. Days later, its inhabitants notice that their village has literally vanished from online maps and a UFO-shaped drone is seen flying overhead. There are forces that want to expel them from their homes, and soon, in a genre-bending twist, a band of armed mercenaries led by Udo Kier arrive in town picking off the inhabitants...
Author
Series
Defy the night volume 1
Publisher
Puck
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
Un reino dividido por la corrupción. Un rey desesperado que intenta mantener el control. Una joven dispuesta a arriesgarlo todo para destruirlo todo.
The kingdom of Kandala is recovering from a devastating plague but the cure is rare and expensive, so a girl hatches a plan to infiltrate the castle and bring the corrupt system crashing down.
97) Brush back
Author
Language
English
Description
No one would accuse V.I. Warshawski of backing down from a fight, but there are a few she'd be happy to avoid. High on that list is tangling with Chicago political bosses. Yet that's precisely what she ends up doing when she responds to Frank Guzzo's plea for help. For six stormy weeks back in high school, V.I. thought she was in love with Frank. He broke up with her, she went off to college, he started driving trucks for Bagby Haulage. She forgot...
98) Comedy of power
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Français
Description
The latest thriller from French New Wave veteran Claude Chabrol opens with a tongue-in-cheek claim that it does not depict real events, even though it's timely and provocative account of corporate and political corruption was inspired by a real-life scandal involving a French oil giant and several top-level politicians. The stunning and accomplished Isabelle Huppert (I heart huckabees) stars as Jeanne, a tenacious magistrate known as "the piranha"...
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