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  • Angola at the Crossroads
    Rui Santos Verde
    Angola is poised between a past marked by civil war and corruption, and a future of potential economic development. This book examines the post-Civil War period which began in 2002 and saw the rise of a corrupt ruling elite, as well as recent developments in the country. These include the efforts of the current President, João Lourenço, to reform the regime through political op...
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    51,24 €

  • The Next Benghazi
    Ezekiel Smith
    At approximately 9:40 PM, on September 11, 2012, a culmination of bureaucratic failures materialized as members of a terrorist organization known as Ansar al Sharia attacked the US diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya. That attack resulted in the deaths of US Ambassador to Libya John Christopher Stevens and U.S. Foreign Service Information Management Officer Sean Smith. As th...
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    17,83 €

  • Shanghai Saga
    John Pal
    No book provides a more authentic view of the colorful and corrupt world of old Shanghai through the eyes of a foreign resident than Shanghai Saga, the memoir by an Australian who worked as a customs official and newspaper reporter before fleeing from Shanghai in the face of Japanese threats to the fragile world of the 'Paris of the Orient.' In one of the most wicked cities in ...
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    19,52 €

  • The COVID Chronicles
    W. E. Gutman
    Sardonic, iconoclastic, profane, and unapologetically blunt, The COVID Chronicles casts a dystopian eye on the self-inflicted ills that plague mankind - global warming and climatic disasters; unfettered capitalism, corruption, and injustice; greed, violence, and a lust for war; the rising irrelevance of knowledge and the pride of ignorance; the subversion of democracy and the s...
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    20,31 €

  • Dynamics of an Authoritarian System
    Mária Csanádi / Márton Gerő / Miklós Hajdu
    In this book, six researchers from different professional backgrounds examine the dynamics of the development and reproduction of an authoritarian system. The chapters empirically show how the authoritarian system gradually captures -- and diffuses into -- the society’s and the economy’s subsystems; describe how it captures the national, intermediate, and micro level sub-struct...
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    134,12 €

  • Estrategias para prevenir y combatir la corrupción
    Aquiles Rigail Santistevan
    Las razones y finalidades que me motivan a discurrir sobre los gravitantes problemas nacionales que se analizan en este trabajo investigativo, se vinculan con el juzgamiento y la sanción que debe aplicarse por todos los medios de los que la legitimidad constitucional y legal dispone, así como tratar del compromiso de las Naciones para concertar instrumentos jurídicos comunes, e...
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    27,04 €

  • The Moneywasting Machine
    Dušan Pavlović
    For five months in 2013-2014, Dušan Pavlović took time off from teaching to accept a senior position in Serbia’s Ministry of Economy. This short period was long enough for him to make a penetrating diagnosis of the economic activity of the postcommunist government. He found that a coterie of tycoons and politicians live off the wealth of the majority of citizens and smaller ent...
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    69,83 €

  • Ayn Rand’s Anthem
    Ayn Rand / Charles Province
    Written in 1937, Anthem was published in England after being refused publication in America. It was finally published in 1946 by Pamphleteers, Inc. In 1950, it was published in Famous Fantastic Mysteries as a Science-Fantasy story.Anthem tells the story of a man who rediscovers individualism and the personal pronoun 'I' in a world where enslaved people have been subjugated to a...
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    46,83 €

  • Así mataron a Danilo Anderson
    Alfredo Meza
    Anderson, investigador estrella del gobierno venezolano, era responsable de las investigaciones del golpe de Estado contra Hugo Chávez. Fue una muerte tan inesperada como sorpresiva, puesto que en Venezuela no son frecuentes los atentados con explosivos. Las pesquisas condujeron con celeridad a la detención de tres personas que desde entonces pagan condena. La rápida respuesta ...
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    20,80 €

  • Blind Justice
    Wayne Beyea
    Drawing on his background as a police officer, the author examines true criminal cases where legal loopholes contributed to the issuance of no sentence, or lenient sentences. In the author’s opinion, these represent cases where justice was not served. ...
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    13,28 €

  • Dirty News
    Penny Fletcher
    Forty-year journalist Penny Fletcher describes how drastic changes in US news stem from Supreme Court decisions favoring corporations and from the elimination of the FCC’s Fairness Doctrine. But she doesn’t leave you trying to sort truth from propaganda pushed by the six corporate owners who have bought out all the national media in the United States. Remember, this does not ap...
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    8,62 €

  • The History of the Standard Oil Company
    Ida M. Tarbell / Ida MTarbell
    Journalist Ida Tarbell wrote her exposé of the monopolistic practices of John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Company as a serialized work in McClure’s Magazine before the appearance of the first book edition of 1904. The breakup of Standard Oil in 1911 into thirty-four 'baby Standards' can be attributed in large part to Tarbell’s masterly investigative reporting, often labeled a...
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    18,21 €

  • Dumb Genius
    Jr. Rod Martin
    Rod Martin, Jr. claims to be an expert on the Dumb Genius syndrome, having suffered this malady on numerous occasions. This, he says, made him uncomfortably aware of the symptoms of this syndrome in all his fields of interest-from history, myth and legend, to climate science, geology, mathematics and education. This syndrome has even corrupted religion and spirituality.The synd...
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    34,06 €

  • The Intrepid Brotherhood
    Gordon Graham
    Deep corruption threatened to ruin jobs and harm lives. Intimidation, distrust, and secrecy became the norm among the executive management group of Chelan County Public Utility.Even in a small and semirural American government, corrupt leaders aren’t simply dishonest and immoral. They’re dangerous.A board of directors should hold wrongdoers accountable, but sometimes that respo...
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    21,29 €

  • The Rhetorical Rise and Demise of 'Democracy' in Russian Political Discourse, Volume 1
    David Cratis Williams / Marilyn J. Young / Marilyn JYoung / Michael K. Launer / Michael KLauner
    The 1983shootdown of KAL 007 and the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident dramatically changedthe Soviet Union in unpredictable ways. The Communist Party, which struggled tomaintain control of political messaging after the KAL crisis, lost control inthe aftermath of Chernobyl. ...
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    199,27 €

  • Fighting Tyranny
    Bruce Jenkins / Gene Sharp
    Fighting Tyranny combines two of Gene Sharp’s books in a single pocket-sized volume - From Dictatorship to Democracy and The Anti-Coup. At a time when governments around the world are becoming increasingly authoritarian and aggressive towards their citizens, this book offers ideas and nonviolent methods of action to defend or establish democratic systems. From Dictatorship to D...
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    11,99 €

  • Fighting for Justice
    Paulette Buchanan
    Abuse victims often feel very alone, helpless, and hopeless. Fighting for Justice will resonate with anyone who has experienced long term abuse and injustice from both the perpetrator and 'the system' that enables abusers. This book will encourage and empower abuse victims to refuse to be silenced and demand justice.Author Paulette J. Buchanan takes the reader through her lifet...
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    24,69 €

  • Tax Haven Ireland
    Brian O’Boyle / Kieran Allen
    This is the story of how a small island on the edge of Europe became one of the world’s major tax havens. From global corporations such as Apple and Google, to investment bankers and mainstream politicians, those taking advantage of Ireland’s pro-business tax laws and shadow banking system have amassed untold riches at enormous social cost to ordinary people at home and abroad....
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    126,93 €

  • Free Speech and Koch Money
    Isaac Kamola / Ralph Wilson
    In recent years hundreds of high-profile ’free speech’ incidents have rocked US college campuses. Milo Yiannopoulos, Ben Shapiro, Ann Coulter and other right-wing speakers have faced considerable protest, with many being disinvited from speaking. These incidents are widely circulated as examples of the academy’s intolerance towards conservative views. But this response is not t...
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    126,99 €

  • Politics
    Scott Bolinger
    Introduction     This book was started based on my fight against a corrupt government. I served on a community board and ran for several public offices. The local city government and city council did not like my campaigns so I became a political target. I took a lot of heat from the local government for several years with them interfering with my business and my everyday life. ...
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    31,53 €

  • Venezuela invertebrada
    Paola Bautista De Alemán
    Venezuela invertebrada, reúne un coro de voces imprescindibles para entender y enmendar un país que se deshace, con una debilitada democracia.Paola Bautista de Alemán,  joven venezolana entregada a la tarea de pensar y formar políticos congrega en este libro los análisis de políticos, académicos e intelectuales sobre la hora que vivimos.Ella dice:Este episodio en nuestra histor...
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    15,60 €

  • Manna from Heaven and other True Stories
    Christopher Spencer
    Is Edwards a typical Englishman? He is lazy but can work hard. He likes his home comforts. When he can get it, he likes the High Life. He is sociable, but hates crowds. He has an ability to fit in, especially with foreigners.But Edwards seems to get himself into some very difficult situations, both at home and abroad. Too often, he finds himself steeped in Intrigue, Espionage o...
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    17,16 €

  • Thoughts of an American Taxpayer
    G. Williamson / GWilliamson
    'Government is not a solution to our problem; government is the problem.' -President Ronald ReaganLooking all around us, it is evident that the United States of America is heading down a course of economic, financial, and social ruin thanks, in most part, to an irresponsible and careless government. Author G. Williamson, through his passionate writing, shows us why he believes ...
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    15,02 €

  • The Great Education Robbery
    Nigel Gann
    Nigel Gann explains how English schools provided by local councils and embedded in communities were grabbed by an authoritarian government and handed to billionaire business owners. Administrators and academics with knowledge and understanding built up over decades were replaced by a new ’educational establishment’ of hedge-fund investors and political cronies. Utilising the ’s...
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    13,00 €

  • Anatomía de una catástrofe
    José Guerra
    Anatomía de una catástrofe, documenta el auge y la caída de Venezuela. Un recorrido histórico por 100 años de políticas económicas erradas.El punto de partida del análisis de José Guerra es el período de expansión de la economía desde la explotación petrolera en la década del 20. En los años 80 se inicia una fase de decadencia, caracterizada por la reducción del ingreso por hab...
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    26,00 €

  • Estado profundo - uma história de agendas secretas e de governos sombra
    Ian Fitzgerald
    Quem dirige nossas vidas? Quais segredos são escondidos de nós pelos governos? Estamos realmente sendo manipulados por um 'estado profundo'? Nada é o que parece. Quando governos democráticos são eleitos, você já se perguntou por que eles não parecem ser capazes de mudar muito? Em quem quer que votemos, prevalecem os interesses particulares. Ao longo do tempo, os grupos de inter...
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    29,69 €

  • ¿Quién destruyó PDVSA?
    Gustavo Coronel
    ¿Quién destruyó PDVSA? es un estudio pormenorizado de la gestión de Rafael Ramírez frente a la estatal petrolera.Por primera vez el lector tiene en sus manos una investigación sobre las causas que llevaron a la ruina a PDVSA (Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A.). No se trata de un tema menor. La destrucción de la industria petrolera ha significado el colapso de la nación. Se trata de ...
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    15,60 €

  • Release The Kraken
    Dr. Terry Lee LaFleur / DrTerry Lee LaFleur
    This is a legal point of view about the Coup D’état of the Constitution Party of South Dakota by the Republican Party of South Dakota; the coup was created by Dan Lederman and Shantel Krebs to fix the November Gubernatorial election in 2018. The fix was in and Kristi Noem was guaranteed to win the governor’s race of SD. The Republican Party has the Courts and the CBS and NBC ...
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    27,79 €

  • Corruption in the Public Sector
    Evan Berman
    This edited collection examines corruption in the public sector, assessing case studies from across the world to provide an international perspective on this global issue. Providing a broad overview of public sector corruption, including local and national perspectives, this volume will appeal to scholars of public policy and corruption worldwide. ...
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    136,23 €

  • Ten Days in a Mad House
    Nellie Bly
    Ten Days in a Mad-House (1887) is a book by American investigative journalist Nellie Bly. For her first assignment for Joseph Pulitzer’s famed New York World newspaper, Bly went undercover as a patient at a notorious insane asylum on Blackwell’s Island. Spending ten days there, she recorded the abuses and neglect she witnessed, turning her research into a sensational two-part s...
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    8,18 €


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