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How the World Works

English · Paperback / Softback

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Informationen zum Autor Noam Chomsky is the bestselling author of over 100 influential political books, including Hegemony or Survival, Imperial Ambitions, Failed States, Interventions, What We Say Goes, Hopes and Prospects, Making the Future, On Anarchism , Masters of Mankind and Who Rules the World. He has also been the subject of numerous books of biography and interviews and has collaborated with journalists on books such as Perilous Power, Gaza in Crisis, and On Palestine . Noam Chomsky is Institute Professor (emeritus) in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Laureate Professor of Linguistics and Agnese Nelms Haury Chair in the Program in Environment and Social Justice at the University of Arizona. Klappentext With exceptional clarity and power of argument, Noam Chomsky lays bare as no one else can the realities of contemporary geopolitics. Divided into four sections and originally published in the US as individual short books which have collectively sold over half a million copies, How the World Works is a collection of speeches and interviews with Chomsky by David Barsamian, edited by Arthur Naiman. It includes What Uncle Sam Really Wants , about US foreign policy; The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many , about the new global economy, food, Third World 'economic miracles' and the roots of racism; Secrets, Lies and Democracy , about the US, the CIA, religious fundamentalism, global inequality and the coming eco-catastrophe; and The Common Good, about equality, freedom, the media, the myth of Third World debt and manufacturing dissent. Zusammenfassung With exceptional clarity and power of argument! Noam Chomsky lays bare as no one else can the realities of contemporary geopolitics. Divided into four sections and originally published in the US as individual short books which have collectively sold over half a million copies! How the World Works is a collection of speeches and interviews with Chomsky by David Barsamian! edited by Arthur Naiman. It includes What Uncle Sam Really Wants ! about US foreign policy; The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many ! about the new global economy! food! Third World 'economic miracles' and the roots of racism; Secrets! Lies and Democracy ! about the US! the CIA! religious fundamentalism! global inequality and the coming eco-catastrophe; and The Common Good! about equality! freedom! the media! the myth of Third World debt and manufacturing dissent. ...

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Authors David Barsamian, Noa Chomsky, Noam Chomsky
Assisted by Arthu Naiman (Editor), Arthur Naiman (Editor)
Publisher Hamish Hamilton
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 01.10.2011
 
EAN 9780241145395
ISBN 978-0-241-14539-5
No. of pages 336
Dimensions 134 mm x 215 mm x 24 mm
Series HAMISH HAMILTON
Subjects Non-fiction book

Gesellschaftskritik, Globalisierung, USA; Politik, Zeitgeschichte, Demokratie, Iran, Afghanistan, Israel, SCIENCE / Global Warming & Climate Change, Globalization, Climate Change, Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Globalization, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, HISTORY / Military / Nuclear Warfare, International Relations, Colonialism & imperialism, Political structure & processes, Political structures: democracy, Social welfare & social services, International Economics, Social welfare and social services, Pressure groups, protest movements and non-violent action, Colonialism and imperialism, Palestine, Economic & financial crises & disasters, Economic and financial crises and disasters, Nuclear weapons, Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Human rights, civil rights, Elections & referenda, Demonstrations & protest movements, Afghan War, North Korea, Political structure and processes, Iraq War, Elections and referenda

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