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10 produkter
Jeffrey Sachs
The Strange Case of Dr. Shock and Mr. Aid
Av Japhy Wilson
Häftad, 2014
284 kr
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Jeffrey Sachs is a man with many faces. A celebrated economist and special advisor to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, he is also no stranger to the world of celebrity, accompanying Bono, Madonna and Angelina Jolie on high-profile trips to Africa. Once notorious as the progenitor of a brutal form …
Imperial Messenger
Thomas Friedman at Work
E-bok, 2011
130 kr
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The Imperial Messenger reveals the true value of this media darling, a risible writer whose success tells us much about the failures of contemporary journalism. Bel�n Fern�ndez dissects the Friedman corpus with wit and journalistic savvy to expose newsroom practices that favor macho rhetoric over …
Unhitched
The Trial of Christopher Hitchens
E-bok, 2013
138 kr
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Irascible and forthright, Christopher Hitchens stood out as a man determined to do just that. In his younger years, a career-minded socialist, he emerged from the smoke of 9/11 a neoconservative "Marxist," an advocate of America''s invasion of Iraq filled with passionate intensity. Throughout his …
Frontman
Bono (In the Name of Power)
Av Harry Browne
E-bok, 2013
131 kr
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Celebrity philanthropy comes in many guises, but no single figure better encapsulates its delusions, pretensions and wrongheadedness than U2''s iconic frontman, Bono-a fact neither sunglasses nor leather pants can hide. More than a mere philanthropist-indeed, he lags behind many of his peers when …
Jeffrey Sachs
The Strange Case of Dr. Shock and Mr. Aid
Av Japhy Wilson
E-bok, 2014
134 kr
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Jeffrey Sachs is a man with many faces. A celebrated economist and special advisor to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, he is also no stranger to the world of celebrity, accompanying Bono, Madonna and Angelina Jolie on high-profile trips to Africa. Once notorious as the progenitor of a brutal form …
Michael Ignatieff
The Lesser Evil?
E-bok, 2014
128 kr
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One of the most influential intellectuals in the English-speaking world, Michael Ignatieff''s story is generally understood to be that of an ambitious, accomplished progressive politician and writer, whose work and thought fit within an enlightened political tradition valuing human rights and …
Impostor
BHL in Wonderland
Av Jade Lindgaard, Xavier de la Porte
E-bok, 2014
130 kr
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How do we explain what Perry Anderson calls "the bizarre prominence of Bernard-Henri L�vy," easily the best-known "thinker" under sixty in France? "It would," he continues, "be difficult to imagine a more extraordinary reversal of national standards of taste and intelligence than the attention …
Impostor
BHL in Wonderland
Av Jade Lindgaard, Xavier de la Porte
Häftad, 2012
423 kr
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How do we explain what Perry Anderson calls "the bizarre prominence of Bernard-Henri Lévy," easily the best-known "thinker" under sixty in France? "It would," he continues, "be difficult to imagine a more extraordinary reversal of national standards of taste and intelligence than the attention …
Imperial Messenger
Thomas Friedman at Work
Häftad, 2011
259 kr
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The Imperial Messenger reveals the true value of this media darling, a risible writer whose success tells us much about the failures of contemporary journalism. Belén Fernández dissects the Friedman corpus with wit and journalistic savvy to expose newsroom practices that favor macho rhetoric over …
Unhitched
The Trial of Christopher Hitchens
Häftad, 2013
208 kr
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Irascible and forthright, Christopher Hitchens stood out as a man determined to do just that. In his younger years, a career-minded socialist, he emerged from the smoke of 9/11 a neoconservative "Marxist," an advocate of America's invasion of Iraq filled with passionate intensity. Throughout his …
