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"What modern authoritarian leaders have in common (and how they can be stopped). Ours is the age of authoritarian rulers: self-proclaimed saviors of the nation who evade accountability while robbing their people of resources and corroding or destroying democracy. Their mutual-admiration club also draws on models from the past. Vladimir Putin rehabilitates Soviet tyrant Joseph Stalin, Donald Trump praises Libyan despot Muammar Gaddafi, Jair Bolsonaro...
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"Lincoln and California portrays the previously unrecognized ties between President Abraham Lincoln and the Golden State, portraying his key relationships with close friends and personal acquaintances that helped influence the imperiled Union"--
"The ties that bound Abraham Lincoln to California, and California to Lincoln, have been long overlooked by historians. Although the great Civil War president has been the subject of thousands of books, his...
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Alfaguara
Pub. Date
c2012
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Español
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"Simón Bolívar es llamado 'El Libertador' porque liberó del imperio español a un enorme territorio que hoy ocupan seis países latinoamericanos. En esa hazaña, que no fue nada fácil de lograr, lo acompañaron dos entrañables amigos: su caballo, Palomo Blanco, y su perro, Nevado. ¿Quieres conocer a Simón Bolívar? ¡Abre este libro y empieza a leer!"--P. [4] of cover.
Simón Bolívar is known as "The Liberator" because he liberated an enormous...
5) Out of Reach
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Divided Films
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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As the fate of some 11 million undocumented immigrants has become the political football of the 2016 campaign, actress America Ferrera heads to Texas, the state with the longest border and home to 1.65 million people living without papers. Ferrera, whose parents and siblings are immigrants from Honduras, understands the challenges faced by the new arrivals to the U.S. fleeing in Central America. In “Out of Reach,” she witnesses the special difficulties...
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2021.
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English
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"In 2020, history came tumbling down. From the US and the UK to Belgium, New Zealand, and Bangladesh, Black Lives Matter protesters defaced, and in some cases, hauled down statues of Confederate icons, slaveholders, and imperialists. General Robert E. Lee, head of the Confederate Army, was covered in graffiti in Richmond, Virginia. Edward Colston, a member of Parliament and slave trader, was knocked off his plinth in Bristol, England, and hurled into...
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Mexican refugees tell their stories. An El Paso Texas lawyer fights for asylum-seekers searching for safety and the recognition that they are the victims of a genocide.
The Juarez Valley, a region once known for cotton production, is now nothing more than burned down houses, empty towns, and memories. Carlos Spector, an immigration lawyer born in El Paso, TX, fights to obtain political asylum for Mexicans fleeing from violence. This is the story...
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Algoritm
Pub. Date
2020.
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Russian
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Dėvid Rokfeller (1915 - 2017) - odin iz krupneĭshikh politicheskikh i finansovykh deiateleĭ XX veka, izvestnyĭ amerikanskiĭ bankir, glava doma Rokfellerov. Vnuk neftianogo magnata i pervogo v istorii milliardera Dzhona D. Rokfellera, osnovatelia Standart Oĭl.Rokfeller izvesten kak odin iz pervykh i naibolee vliiatelʹnykh ideologov globalizatsii i neokonservatizma, osnovatelʹ znamenitogo Bilʹderbergskogo kluba. Na odnom iz zasedaniĭ Bilʹderbergskogo...
10) Sinaloa Cartel
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Java Films
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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Whether it’s opium, cocaine, marijuana or fentanyl, trafficking drugs earns the SINALOA CARTEL an estimated three to twelve billion dollars per year. It’s a huge business, with more than 200,000 people in the region of Sinaloa alone, working directly or indirectly for organized crime. We gained exceptional access to several factions of the SINALOA CARTEL. In the heart of a clandestine laboratory, the “cooks” showed us how drugs are manufactured...
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Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2009, c2008
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English
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Draws on previously unavailable material to present a dual portrait of Fidel Castro and Che Guevara set against a backdrop of Cuba's revolutionary era, describing how their initial association of convenience was to fundamentally shape their political visions.
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Teaching Co
Pub. Date
c2001
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English
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48 lectures that addresses six major themes that cover the entire spectrum of policy debate over our economic well-being and our future: the forces of competition, America's workers, investing in America's future, budget and monetary policies, trade and exchange-rate policy, a tour of the global economy.
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DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2020
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English
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"Exploring more than 100 big ideas on topics as diverse as the rule of law, the extent of liberty, and the justification of warfare, [this book] takes you on a journey through the history of politics, from the influential theories of ancient Greece, Rome, and Asia to modern concepts voiced by today's brightest political thinkers."--Front jacket flap.
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DK Pub
Pub. Date
2013
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English
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"Exploring more than 100 big ideas on topics as diverse as the rule of law, the extent of liberty, and the justification of warfare, [this book] takes you on a journey through the history of politics, from the influential theories of ancient Greece, Rome, and Asia to modern concepts voiced by today's brightest political thinkers."--Front jacket flap.
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