Peru is being brought to its knees. 500 years after the Spanish conquest, a dark ideological zealotry is threatening to demolish every vestige of the European culture in that country. Former philosophy lecturer Abimael Guzman, alias Chairman Gonzalo, and self-acclaimed "fourth sword" of communism in the wake of Marx, Lenin and Mao, is leader of the Shining Path - Sendero Luminoso - the ferocious and highly secretive guerrilla organization sworn to reverse the tide of history. Shining Path considers all forces of reaction, be they in the form of power stations, ballot posts, farming co-operatives or hospitals legitimate bombing targets. By mid-1991 their struggle for power had caused economic damage amounting to more than #10 billion, with more than half the country living in a state of emergency and at least 22,000 people having died in the violence. The author of this book uses his understanding of this situation to show how it has been possible for Shining Path to attain popular support despite its cruelty in the face of the random savagery and impotence of the Peruvian police and armed forces.

Shining Path: The world's deadliest revolutionary force

Politics & Social Sciences

Strong, Simon

Politics & Government

HARPER/COLLINS

Pablo Escobar, king of the Medellin Cartel in Columbia, was the world's richest cocaine baron, with an estimated personal fortune of $5 billion. His forces of hit men became small armies, he had a payroll of judges, politicians, generals and presidents. But Escobar was a wanted man, and nothing could prevent his assassination at the hands of the Columbian police in December 1993. This work paints a complex picture of a man who, although totally ruthless in business, firmly believed that he was working for the good of his country, twice offering to pay off its national debt. Using Escobar's life as a lens through which to focus on the cocaine trade in general, this work examines the corruption behind the legimitate facades of governmental and financial institutions both in columbia and the West.

Whitewash: Pablo Escobar and the Cocaine Wars

Biographies & Memoirs

MACMILLAN PUB. LTD.

<p>Discusses the cocaine trade, the Medellin Cartell, government corruption, and violence in Columbia through an examination of the drug lord's life</p>

Shining Path

Random House Value Publishing

<p>A detailed account of Peru's Shining Path explores the devastating impact of the terrorist revolutionaries on Peru; exposes the group's history, bizarre ideology, and global links; and examines the potential international implications of the Shining Path. 12,500 first printing.</p>

Shining Path : Terror and Revolution in Peru

History

Crown

It's a searing indictment of contemporary publishing that the first full-length survey of WSB's influential intrusions into the fields of film and music must come from the pen of the world's most obscure and frustrating experimental novelist. Boasting more than 323 items, this uh idiosyncratic survey is as comprehensive and insightful as it is undisciplined and incoherent, all of which qualities Strong appears to regard as cardinal virtues. If his self-designated mission is to somehow undermine the canon, his inspiration appears to be drawn from the charge of the Light Brigade. Nevertheless, even the most ardent Burroughs scholar will find something new here, even if it's just been made up for funty laff value. Nice try pal.

Even the Old Dude Is Cool: William S. Burroughs on the Wheels of Steel and the Silver Screen

Humor & Entertainment

Movies

Ledatape Organisation

Unquiet Dreams: The Bestiary of Walerian Borowczyk

Walerian Borowczyk was far and away the classiest of sleazy film-makers, and the sleaziest of the classy ones. Starting as an animator and director of visually rich kafkaesque fantasies ("Blanche", "Goto, Island of Love") he went on to divide audiences by moving into graphic erotica ("Immoral Tales", "The Beast") and subsequently worked his way through exploitation tropes (nunsploitation, Jeksploitation, togasploitation) before creatively imploding spectacularly with his bizarre contribution to the Emmanuelle series. Inspired in look and feel by seventies film and filth mags like "Continental Film Review" and "Sex Stars System", the present author does not much value coherence or consistency. He is interested in contexts and connections, obscure minutiae, jokes (he will judge what is funny), and blurry screen grabs of topless women from seventies softcore flicks. Whilst not ideal, it's better than nothing. Probably. You figure it out. Plus INDEX!

The LedaTape Organisation

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Shining Path: The world's deadliest revolutionary force

Whitewash: Pablo Escobar and the Cocaine Wars

Whitewash: Pablo Escobar and the Cocaine Wars

Shining Path

Shining Path : Terror and Revolution in Peru

Even the Old Dude Is Cool: William S. Burroughs on the Wheels of Steel and the Silver Screen

Unquiet Dreams: The Bestiary of Walerian Borowczyk

Unquiet Dreams: The Bestiary of Walerian Borowczyk