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Author
Publisher
Umbriel Editores
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Español
Description
"Del aclamado cineasta Guillermo del Toro llega La forma del agua, una historia de amor sobrenatural ambientada en 1963 con el tel̤n de fondo de la Guerra Fr̕a en Am̌rica. Protagonizada por Octavia Spencer, Michael Shannon, Richard Jenkins, Sally Hawkins, y Doug Jones, La forma del agua cuenta la historia de una conserje (Hawkins) que se enamora de un hombre (Jones) que est̀ cautivo para hacer las pruebas del agua. El arte y la creaci̤n de La...
Series
Criterion collection volume 224
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Petty crook Skip McCoy has his eye set on the big score. When the three-time convict picks the pocketbook of unsuspecting Candy, he finds a haul bigger than he ever could have imagined: a strip of microfilm bearing confidential U.S. secrets. Tailed by the Feds and the unwitting courier's Communist puppeteers, Skip and Candy find themselves in a precarious gambit that pits greed against redemption.
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, chairman of the bipartisan Commission on Protecting and Reducing Government Secrecy, here presents an eloquent and fascinating account of the development of secrecy as a mode of regulation in American government since World War I - how it was born, how world events shaped it, how it has adversely affected momentous political decisions and events, and how it has eluded efforts to curtail or end it. Senator Moynihan...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
An otherworldly fairy tale, set against the backdrop of Cold War-era America circa 1962. In the hidden high-security government laboratory where she works, lonely Elisa is trapped in a life of isolation. Elisa's life is changed forever when she and co-worker Zelda discover a secret classified experiment.
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Timed to the start of the first trial in March 2024, this essential volume collects the four unprecedented indictments against Donald Trump and features extensive commentary by NYU law professors and MSNBC contributors Melissa Murray and Andrew Weissmann. In the long span of American history, Donald Trump is the first former president to face criminal indictment. He is the subject of a series of explosive charges across four cases: the January 6...
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