The silence in the lecture hall was broken by three screams in rapid succession. These were followed by the muted whimper of hun— dreds ofpeople weeping. Cellphones buzzed. But most ofus stayed in our seats, transfixed by what we were ...
... it added a press campaign, to be coordinated by API's own communications shop, led by Charles Sandler, a veteran lobbyist, and Arthur Wiese, formerly the Houston Post Washington bureau chief and president of the National Press Club.
... již koordinovala s oddělením pro vnější komunikaci , kde měli hlavní slovo zkušený lobbista Charles Sandler a bývalý šéf washingtonské pobočky novin Houston Post a předseda Národního tiskového klubu Arthur Wiese.
In the Ninth Ward, laborers break ground on a gigantic canal that will split the city, a work of staggering human ingenuity intended to restore New Orleans’s faded mercantile glory. The war is ending and a prosperous new age dawns.
Nathaniel Rich signe avec King Zeno une fresque dantesque marquée par le racisme, l'épidémie de grippe espagnole et la violence. Furieusement actuel."--Quatrième de couverture
The most urgent story of our times, brilliantly reframed, beautifully told: how we had the chance to stop climate change, and failed.
When the Louisiana legislature entered session, Jindal announced a new tactic: the passage of a bill to kill the lawsuit before it came to court. The new law would have to operate retroactively, going back in time to forbid the levee ...
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY Adams , Charles F. The Magnificent Rogues of San Francisco : A Gallery of Fakers and Frauds , Rascals and Robber Barons , Scoundrels and Scalawags . Palo Alto , California : Pacific Books , 1998 .
This is the cutting edge of corporate irresponsibility, and business is booming. As Mitchell immerses himself in the mathematics of catastrophe—ecological collapse, global war, natural disasters—he becomes obsessed by a culture's fears.
In this debut novel, hailed by Stephen King as ?terrifying, touching, and wildly funny,? the stories of two strangers, Eugene Brentani and Mr. Schmitz, interweave.
The book carries the story into the present day, wrestling with the long shadow of our past failures and asking crucial questions about how we make sense of our past, our future, and ourselves.
‘Nathaniel Rich’s account starts in Washington in the 1990s and tells the story of how climate change could have been stopped back then, if only the powerful had acted. But...
In the book Losing Earth, Rich is able to provide more of the context for what did – and didn’t – happen in the 1980s and, more important, is able to carry the story fully into the present day and wrestle with what those past failures ...
In the book Losing Earth, Rich is able to provide more of the context for what did - and didn't - happen in the 1980s and, more important, is able to carry the story fully into the present day and wrestle with what those past failures mean ...
King Zeno
King Zeno
... quand la société [cesse] d'en parler.” Ce qui n'était qu'à moitié vrai. Quand un nouveau problème émerge, les ... cochons auront des ailes. Mais leur art, pas plus que la science-fiction, n'était pas une prophétie : il ne pouvait pas l ...
The lives of a traumatized cop, a conflicted Mafia matriarch, and a brilliant trumpeter converge. In Nathaniel Rich's King Zeno, the Crescent City gets the rich, dark, sweeping novel it so deserves.