Lawrence R. Maxted

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The Kids Grow Up

A child leaving for college is a time for reflection in families...
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The Shock Doctrine

Filmmakers Winterbottom and Whitecross equate 1950s electroshock therapy and later interrogation torture scandals with economist Milton Friedman's advocacy of free markets...
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QuickBooks Ultimate Lesson Guide 2011

Poulos, an accountant, a national speaker, and a financial talk-show host, provides a package of learning materials for the popular QuickBooks accounting program...
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Inside Job

Filmmaker Ferguson (No End in Sight) scrutinizes the underlying causes of the 2008 financial crisis and parcels out blame in this 2011 Academy Award-winning documentary...
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Collapse

In this provoking documentary, filmmaker Smith focuses on the economic collapse theories of journalist and author Michael Ruppert (Confronting Collapse, 2009)...
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Let's Make Money

This documentary reveals how investors pursue profit in the global economy despite the social costs...
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Susan Sontag's Promised Lands

The late author Sontag's 1974 documentary was produced in the aftermath of the 1973 Yom Kippur War and was initially banned in Israel...
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The Last Truck

Bringing a human dimension to the headlines of plant closings, this documentary gives voice to some of the 2500 workers at the General Motors truck assembly plant in Moraine, OH, following its December 23, 2008, shutdown notice...
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Presumed Guilty

s are convictions and that 92 percent of the convictions lack physical proof. Stark scenes of Zuniga's prison life and the trial are powerful indictments of the Mexican legal system. Angry musical and dance scenes by Zuniga add to the film's mood. Though a pricey item for most libraries, this film will disturb, anger, and, ultimately, captivate viewers of all types.—Lawrence R. Maxted, Gannon Univ. Lib., Erie, PA
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