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Publisher
Pragda
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (64 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Portuguese
Description
South America’s geographic giant is polarized due to seemingly endless corruption investigations and a less than optimistic economic recovery. . In an accessible and constructive way, twelve interviewees seek to bring a renewed type of debate about Brazil in the 21st century through broader themes such as corruption, racism and machismo, education, violence, economy, media and culture. Rather than presenting answers, the documentary aims to stimulate...
Author
Language
Portuguese
Description
After supporting Préval as the indispensable President of Haiti, the United States and France grew increasingly antagonistic to him and were bent on preventing the election of his handpicked successor, Jude Célestin. In fact, Seitenfus reveals that this antagonism reached the point where the Core Group led by Mulet attempted to remove Préval from office and send him into exile. Had it not been for the intervention of Seitenfus himself, Préval...
3) The Prince
Author
Language
Portuguese
Description
Àqueles que chegam desavisados ao texto límpido e elegante de Nicolau Maquiavel pode parecer que o autor escreveu, na Florença do século XVI, um manual abstrato para a conduta de um mandatário. Entretanto, esta obra clássica da filosofia moderna, fundadora da ciência política, é fruto da época em que foi concebida.
Em 1513, depois da dissolução do governo republicano de Florença e do retorno da família Médici ao poder, Maquiavel é...
4) Utopia
Author
Language
Portuguese
Description
Neste clássico que tem atraído a atenção de estudiosos e intrigado leitores desde a sua publicação no século XVI, Thomas More idealiza uma ilha onde não existe a propriedade privada nem o dinheiro, e onde o Estado se preocupa com a felicidade do povo e a organização da produção. Para o filósofo, seria a sociedade ideal. Uma das mais importantes obras de filosofia política de todos os tempos, a "Utopia" discorre sobre a contradição...
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Series
Language
Portuguese
Description
On the 25th April 1974, a coup destroyed the ranks of Portugal's fascist Estado Novo government as the Portuguese people flooded the streets of Lisbon, placing red carnations in the barrels of guns and demanding a 'land for those who work in it'.
This became the Carnation Revolution - an international coalition of working class and social movements, which also incited struggles for independence in Portugal's African colonies, the rebellion of...
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