Power Systems by Noam Chomsky - ISBN: 9780241965245
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Chomsky examines today’s urgent crises, inspiring change worldwide.

Power Systems

Conversations with David Barsamian on Global Democratic Uprisings and the New Challenges to U.S. Empire

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  • Paperback

    224 pages

  • Release Date

    28 May 2014

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Summary

A searing collection of new insights from the world’s most celebrated public intellectual and activist

In this new collection of conversations, Noam Chomsky explores the most immediate and urgent concerns: the future of democracy in the Arab world, the implications of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, the ‘class war’ fought by U.S. business interests against working people and the poor, the breakdown of mainstream political institutions and the rise of the far right.

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Book Details

ISBN-13:9780241965245
ISBN-10:0241965241
Author:Noam Chomsky
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Penguin Books Ltd
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:224
Release Date:28 May 2014
Weight:143g
Dimensions:178mm x 129mm x 14mm
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Critics Review

Noam Chomsky is a global phenomenon … he may be the most widely read American voice on foreign policy on the planet today

One of the finest minds of the twentieth century * New Yorker *
Noam Chomsky is a global phenomenon … he may be the most widely read American voice on foreign policy on the planet today * New York Times Book Review *
Will there ever again be a public intellectual who commands the attention of so many across the planet? * New Statesman *
The west’s most prominent critic of US imperialism … the closest thing in the English-speaking world to an intellectual superstar * Guardian *

About The Author

Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky is institute professor emeritus in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and laureate professor in the Agnes Nelms Haury Program in Environment and Social Justice at the University of Arizona. His work is widely credited with having revolutionized the field of modern linguistics, and he is equally renowned for his incisive writings on global affairs and U.S. foreign policy. The single most cited and published living author, winner of numerous international awards, Chomsky has written over one hundred books, including the bestselling political works Hegemony or Survival, Failed States, and Who Rules the World?.

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