Luke Harding – författare

DEN 23 FEBRUARI 2022 är Luke Harding på fest hos vänner i Kiev. Alla är oroliga, men ingen tror på ett ryskt anfall. Harding bryter upp vid midnatt och på väg hem ringer hans telefon. En insiderkälla meddelar lakoniskt: Det börjar klockan fyra.

Det blir inte mycket sömn den natten. Följande dag när alarmen ljuder gör Harding redan sina första intervjuer. Invasion är besläktad med Svetlana Aleksijevitj texter genom den stora mängden röster som kommer till tals. Harding intervjuar både mannen på gatan, soldaten vid fronten och personer med makt såsom Volodymyr Zelenskyjs talskrivare Dmytro Lytvyn.

Boken utforskar två mycket olika ledare: Zelenskyj och Putin. Den reder också ut de ofattbara konsekvenserna av den ryska attacken: Sverige och Finland övergav sin neutralitet, Tyskland sin pacifism, Storbritannien sin Brexitisolering. Harding har redan i tidigare böcker varnat för Putins mörka avsikter. Nu analyserar han Putins strategi och beskriver utan omsvep Rysslands ambition att rita om gränserna.

Harding skriver dessutom ett alldeles nytt kapitel för den svenskspråkiga upplagan, där han tar upp situationen i Ukraina år 2024.

I Sammansvärjningen berättar Luke Harding historien om Donald Trumps band till Ryssland. Han tar läsarna bakom kulisserna i Trump Tower och in i Kremls maktcirklar. Den otroliga historien om ett samröre med ryska intressen som går flera decennier tillbaka i tiden avslöjas för första gången. Internationellt spionage, tveksamma företagsaffärer, Miss Universum-tävlingar, sexfilmer, gangsters, förgiftade dissidenter och penningtvätt är några av ingredienserna. Resultatet är en spännande thriller om hur den storpolitiska verkligheten kan få ohyggliga konsekvenser för den demokratiska världen.

It was the biggest leak in history. WikiLeaks infuriated the world''s greatest superpower, embarrassed the British royal family and helped cause a revolution in Africa. The man behind it was Julian Assange, one of the strangest figures ever to become a worldwide celebrity. Was he an internet messiah or a cyber-terrorist? Information freedom fighter or sex criminal? The debate would echo around the globe as US politicians called for his assassination.

Award-winning Guardian journalists David Leigh and Luke Harding have been at the centre of a unique publishing drama that involved the release of some 250,000 secret diplomatic cables and classified files from the Afghan and Iraq wars. At one point the platinum-haired hacker was hiding from the CIA in David Leigh''s London house. Now, together with the paper''s investigative reporting team, Leigh and Harding reveal the startling inside story of the man and the leak.

This second edition of The Routledge Handbook of Language Testing provides an updated and comprehensive account of the area of language testing and assessment.

The volume brings together 35 authoritative articles, divided into ten sections, written by 51 leading specialists from around the world. There are five entirely new chapters covering the four skills: reading, writing, listening, and speaking, as well as a new entry on corpus linguistics and language testing. The remaining 30 chapters have been revised, often extensively, or entirely rewritten with new authorship teams at the helm, reflecting new generations of expertise in the field. With a dedicated section on technology in language testing, reflecting current trends in the field, the Handbook also includes an extended epilogue written by Harding and Fulcher, contemplating what has changed between the first and second editions and charting a trajectory for the field of language testing and assessment.

Providing a basis for discussion, project work, and the design of both language tests themselves and related validation research, this Handbook represents an invaluable resource for students, researchers, and practitioners working in language testing and assessment and the wider field of language education.

This second edition of The Routledge Handbook of Language Testing provides an updated and comprehensive account of the area of language testing and assessment.

The volume brings together 35 authoritative articles, divided into ten sections, written by 51 leading specialists from around the world. There are five entirely new chapters covering the four skills: reading, writing, listening, and speaking, as well as a new entry on corpus linguistics and language testing. The remaining 30 chapters have been revised, often extensively, or entirely rewritten with new authorship teams at the helm, reflecting new generations of expertise in the field. With a dedicated section on technology in language testing, reflecting current trends in the field, the Handbook also includes an extended epilogue written by Harding and Fulcher, contemplating what has changed between the first and second editions and charting a trajectory for the field of language testing and assessment.

Providing a basis for discussion, project work, and the design of both language tests themselves and related validation research, this Handbook represents an invaluable resource for students, researchers, and practitioners working in language testing and assessment and the wider field of language education.