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327 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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Español
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" 'Este libro es un testimonio de lo alcanzado hasta ahora, de los desafíos pendientes y de cómo imagino que estará el país en 2024. [...] Desde antes de asumir por mandato popular la Presidencia de la República, fuimos elaborando un plan de desarrollo que surgió de muchos años de brega, recorriendo a ras de tierra el territorio nacional, valorando las potencialidades y los vastos recursos naturales, reflexionando sobre los obstáculos para...
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1 videodisc (73 min.) : sound, color w/black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
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Español
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A vibrant celebration of artists and musicians in Havana, Cuba's capital. Musicians, painters, sculptors, writers, and filmmakers reveal and reflect on Cuba's precarious political climate, its African heritage, the ironies of tourism, and how to live with dignity in the face of the United States embargo.
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335 pages ; 19 cm.
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Español
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The author of the signature bestseller Liar's Poker explains how the event we were told was impossible -- the free fall of the American economy -- finally occurred; how the things that we wanted, like ridiculously easy money and greatly expanded home ownership, were vehicles for that crash; and how shareholder demand for profit forced investment executives to eat the forbidden fruit of toxic derivatives.
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3 videodiscs (approximately 360 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, Carnegie, Morgan, Ford, the Men Who Built America. Meet the titans who forged the foundation of modern America and created the American Dream. The mini-series shines a spotlight on the influential builders, dreamers and believers whose feats transformed the United States, a nation decaying from the inside after the Civil War, into the greatest economic and technological superpower the world had ever seen.
6) Why we fight
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1 videodisc (approximately 99 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Explores a half-century of U.S. foreign policy from World War II to the Iraq War, revealing how, as Dwight Eisenhower had warned in his 1961 Farewell Address, political and corporate interests have become alarmingly entangled in the business of war. On a deeper level, what emerges is a portrait of a nation in transition--drifting dangerously far from her founding principles toward a more imperial and uncertain future.
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218 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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Español
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"En junio de 2004 el equipo de la preparatoria Carl Hayden, de Phoenix, sorprendió a todos los asistentes a la competencia anual de robótica auspiciada por la nasa cuando resultó ganador en el evento. No era para menos, el equipo estaba conformado por cuatro adolescentes, cuyas circunstancias a todas luces los colocaban en una situación poco aventajada. Se trataba de hijos de inmigrantes ilegales, provenientes de una escuela pública con recursos...
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