The Stolen Wealth of Slavery: A Case for Reparations

Business & Money

Montero, David

Biography & History

Legacy Lit

An investigation into corporate bribery around the world and how it undermines democracy and the free market system The World Bank estimates that rich multinational corporations pay hundreds of billions of dollars in bribes every year to officials overseas. The perpetrators are not a handful of rogue companies, but many members of the Fortune 500. Kickback is a sweeping, global investigation into corporate bribery around the world and how backdoor financial transactions undermine democracy and the free market system by lining the pockets of some of the world's worst dictators and criminals. Ultimately, this system affects billions of people by creating conditions that lead to poverty, violence, environmental disaster, and political instability in countries like Nigeria, Bahrain, Costa Rica, and Iraq. Kickback traces the origins of corporate bribery from the reign of the British East India Company to the methods by which it is carried out today. Traveling across four continents and interviewing police and intelligence officials, convicted criminals, business executives, and corruption experts, David Montero takes an inside look at bribery's pernicious effects. He examines its ramifications at both the individual and national levels--from the murder of a young activist in Bangladesh to a Texas billionaire's dealings with Saddam Hussein, from pharmaceutical firms' payoffs in China to how the entrenched culture of bribery helped destroy the Greek economy. Montero also examines the countermeasures that have been introduced to combat these practices, such as the Justice Department's efforts to halt them and attempts to identify and provide restitution to victims. Given the new era of profound uncertainty we are entering--the strength of the European Union founders, the power of China rises, the global economy continues on a path of perilous flux, and allegations mount that President Donald Trump and his associates are possibly tainted by bribery themselves--the stakes for eradicating corporate bribery have never been higher.

Kickback: Exposing the Global Corporate Bribery Network

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VIKING

The essay film – ‘a form that thinks’ – serves to create a self-reflexive space for contemporary society by challenging expectations and demanding the creative involvement of the spectator. Using film to provoke thought has never been more important than now, when non-fiction films are gaining in popularity and playing a growing part in debates about culture and politics. This timely publication argues that the appeal of the essay film lies primarily in the dialogic engagement with the spectator and the richness of the intellectual and artistic debate it stimulates. The book focuses on the work of three key European film directors associated with the essay film: Chris Marker, Harun Farocki and José Luis Guerín. It provides a detailed analysis of several films by each director, exploring the relationship between dialogism and essayism in their work and placing this in the wider context of debates on the cinematic essay as a genre. Central aspects of essayistic filmmaking are explored, including its radical approach to knowledge, its distinctive patterns of subjectivity, its challenging of the formal representation of reality, and its contribution to new understandings of spectatorship. Written with clarity and perception, this volume offers new insights into the rise of the non-fiction film and the essay film, in particular.

Thinking Images: The Essay Film as a Dialogic Form in European Cinema (New Studies in European Cinema)

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften

«Paella Lovers», de David Montero, también conocido como RicePaella, maestro arrocero y representante de la cultura de la paella valenciana alrededor del mundo, hace un alto en el camino y nos trae, en forma de libro, una gran parte de su conocimiento, pero sobre todo, grandes cantidades de su ilusión y pasión en los fogones. En este libro podemos aprender los diferentes tipos de arroz y los materiales básicos para cocinar el arroz en paella. Después de leer este libro sabremos cómo diferenciar los mejores materiales a la hora de hacer una paella y el complicado arte de la cocina con llama. Descubriremos cómo escoger el mejor tipo de arroz según la receta y a calcular sus tiempos (secreto de maestro arrocero). Pero lo más fascinante es que RicePaella nos trae las recetas que le han hecho ser más conocido, divididas por épocas y estaciones para que podamos hacer algo de lo que él es un gran apasionado: utilizar el producto de temporada. Junto con cada receta nos cuenta un pedacito de experiencia personal y sobre todo, sus «tips» de chef para que nuestro resultado sea como el de un maestro arrocero de verdad. ¿Estáis preparados para aprender los arroces tradicionales y los más originales? ¿Tenéis ganas de ser de verdad maestros arroceros? Galardonado con el primer premio a la mejor paella de la Comunidad Valenciana en la 58ª Edición del Campeonato del Mundo de paellas de Sueca.

Paella lovers

Editorial Sargantana

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