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275 pages ; 24 cm
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Español
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"Con su novela Coltán, Alberto Vazquez-Figueroa fue el primero en denunciar que empresas multinacionales se estaban enriqueciendo con el preciado mineral a base de financiar sangrientas guerras en el Congo. La repercusión fue inmediata: el mundo supo reaccionar, cesaron las guerras y se salvaron vidas. El mismo autor rompe ahora otro tabú informativo al acusar a aquellos que atentan contra la salud de millones de hombres, mujeres y niños. Crimen...
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English
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In 1946 North Carolina, seamstress Maddie Sykes, a dressmaker for Bright Leaf's most influential women -- the wives of powerful tobacco executives -- uncovers dangerous truths about this lucrative industry in a place where everyone depends on Big Tobacco to survive.
Maddie Sykes is a burgeoning seamstress who's just arrived in Bright Leaf, North Carolina -- the tobacco capital of the South -- where her aunt has a thriving sewing business. After years...
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272 pages : portrait ; 21 cm
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English
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Nick Naylor, chief spokesman for the Academy of Tobacco Studies, undertakes a media blitz to defend the rights of smokers, a job that has unexpected repercussions when he is targeted by someone out to prove just how hazardous smoking can be.
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