10 Years That Shook the World: A Timeline of Events from 2001 - Brossura

Napoleoni, Loretta

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ISBN 10: 1609804139 ISBN 13: 9781609804138

Casa editrice: Seven Stories Press, 2012

Riassunto

From 9/11 to the launch of the iPod, from the creation of "Gmail: to the 2004 tsunami, from the Enron Bankruptcy to the killing of Osama bin Laden,10 Years That Shook the World is the story of an extraordinary decade. For each year, Loretta Napoleoni presents events not as a chronology bus as dispatches from the world's collective memory. Topics like politics, economics, celebrities, and the environment intersect and converge to reveal the accelerating pace of globalization and the changes that have affected us all.

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L'autore

A woman of the Left who garners praise from Noam Chomsky and Greg Palast at the same time as she is quoted respectfully inForbes and the Wall Street Journal, LORETTA NAPOLEONI was born in 1955 in Rome. In the mid 1970s she became an active member of the feminist movement in Italy, and later studied as a Fulbright Scholar at Johns Hopkins University’s Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, D.C. She began her career as an economist, and went on to work as London correspondent and columnist forLa Stampa, La Repubblica and La Paîs. Napoleoni is the author of the international bestsellersRogue Economics: Capitalism’s New Reality and Terror Incorporated: Tracing the Money Behind Global Terrorism. She has served as the Chairman of the countering terrorism financing group for the Club de Madrid, and lectures regularly around the world on economics, money laundering and terrorism. Napoleoni lives in London and Montana.

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• Editore: Seven Stories Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1609804139
• ISBN 13: 9781609804138
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 192