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Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
306 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"Does power corrupt, or are corrupt people drawn to power? Are entrepreneurs who embezzle and cops who kill the result of poorly designed systems or are they just bad people? Are tyrants made or born? If you were suddenly thrust into a position of power,would you be able to resist the temptation to line your pockets or seek revenge against your enemies? To answer these questions, Corruptible draws on over 500 interviews with some of the world's top...
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
259 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"Filipino-American Christina "Ting" Klein has just travelled from New York to Manila, both to escape her imminent divorce, and to begin research for a biography of Timicheg, an indigenous Filipino brought to America at the start of the twentieth century to be exhibited as part of a 'human zoo.' It has been a year since Ting's last visit, and one year since Procopio "Copo" Gumboc swept the elections in an upset and took power as president. Arriving...
6) Duck soup
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
1 DVD (69 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After being appointed the dictator of Freedonia, Rufus T. Firefly proceeds to bring the mythical nation to a halt by showing up late and insulting everyone at his inauguration. Hoping to oust the unfit new leader, two spies are sent from the neighboring Sylvania. Soon enough, war is declared between the two nations with outrageous results. Including Groucho's famous mirror scene and final battle scene, it remains as entertaining and relevant today...
7) Dune
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
1998, c1984.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (2 hr., 17 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Paul Atreides, son of Duke Leto, struggles with the native inhabitants of the dry planet Arrakis (Dune) to overthrow the terrible Baron Barkonnen and his family and control the special product of the planet, a mind-altering spice produced by giant sand worms.
8) Total recall
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 118 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Welcome to Rekall, the company that can turn your dreams into real memories. For a factory worker named Douglas Quaid, even though he's got a beautiful wife who he loves, the mind-trip sounds like the perfect vacation from his frustrating life. But when the procedure goes horribly wrong, Quaid becomes a hunted man.
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
608 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"(S0(B Que nos quedaba?: El fascismo aleman o el fascismo espanol... A eso se reducia la oferta poliitica de los anos treinta. Y la democracia? adios a la Republica espanola: trendriamos que escoger entre dos dictaduras, con todas sus consecuencias...(S1(B Ante la inesperada confesion de un secreto celosamente guardado, se desata la poderosa necesidad por descubrir las raices e historias de dos familias separadas por la religion, la georgrafia, el...
Author
Series
Dark biology volume 2
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1997
Physical Desc
xiv, 404 p. ; 24 cm.
11) House of Saddam
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (240 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Revealing the private world of Saddam Hussein and his inner circle, this gripping miniseries charts the rise and fall of one of the most significant political figures in recent history.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
212 pages ; 21 cm
Description
World-renowned Shakespeare scholar Stephen Greenblatt explores the playwright's insight into bad (and often mad) rulers. -- Cherished institutions seem fragile, political classes are in disarray, economic misery fuels populist anger, people knowingly accept being lied to, partisan rancor dominates, spectacular indecency rules--these aspects of a society in crisis fascinated Shakespeare and shaped some of his most memorable plays. With uncanny insight,...
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
xiv, 308 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"Skeptical yet insightful, Fifield creates a captivating portrait of the oddest and most secretive political regime in the world--one that is isolated yet internationally relevant, bankrupt yet in possession of nuclear weapons--and its ruler, the self-proclaimed Beloved and Respected Leader, Kim Jong Un."--Book jacket.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
©2014.
Physical Desc
295 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Exiled to the United States after her father, a Middle Eastern dictator, is killed in a coup, fifteen-year-old Laila must cope with a completely new way of life, the truth of her father's regime, and her mother and brother's ways of adjusting.
Series
Criterion collection volume 153
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. .
Description
Portrait of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin at the height of his power through several interviews and other informal settings as the filmmakers follow his daily activities.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (123 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Chronicles Idi Amin's rise and fall. Amin's despotic reign of terror is viewed through the eyes of Nicholas Garrigan, a Scottish doctor who arrives in Uganda in the early 1970s to serve as Amin's personal physician. His perspective as an outsider causes him to be initially impressed by Amin's calculated rise to power and he grows increasingly monstrous. A pointed examination of how independent Uganda (a British colony until 1962) became a breeding...
18) Cat's cradle
Author
Formats
Description
Written contemporaneously with the Cuban missile crisis and countenancing a version of a world in the grasp of magnified human stupidity, the novel is centered on Felix Hoenikker, a chemical scientist reminiscent of Robert Oppenheimer… except that Oppenheimer was destroyed by his conscience and Hoenikker, delighting in the disastrous chemicals he has invented, has no conscience at all. Hoenikker’s “Ice 9” has the potential to convert all liquid...
Author
Publisher
Real Academia Española
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
cxxiv, 437 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Description
Escrita entre 1920 y 1933 y publicada en 1946, "El señor presidente" es uno de los máximos exponentes de la llamada «novela del dictador» en la que se encuadran otras obras fundamentales como Tirano Banderas, de Valle-Inclán; Yo el Supremo, de Roa Bastos; El otoño del patriarca, de García Márquez, o, más recientemente, La Fiesta del Chivo y Tiempos recios, de Mario Vargas Llosa. En ella, Asturias se inspira en el último gobierno de Manuel...
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (142 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Nacho is obsessed with Lola. Lola, however, is obsessed with two other men: one a famous Mexican wrestler and the other a Spanish dictator whom she wants killed. Between Lola and the anti-Franco Trotskyites who frequent his café, Nacho may be losing touch with reality - his actions will surely tell.
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