The Revolution was “a giant confidence trick” prompted by Mao’s need to restore his authority after the Great Famine of 1959-61
Tom Hodgkinson combines practical advice with laugh-out-loud anecdote to create a refreshingly candid guidebook for all of us who aspire to a greater degree of freedom in our working lives
From a Canadian city that once completely eradicated poverty
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foul-mouthed kid to a suited-and-booted Oxford Union guest speaker
The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World by Maya Jasanoff The Revolution was “a giantA visionary life and times of Joseph Conrad, and of our global world, from one of the best historians writing today. `Enlightening, compassionate, superb' John le Carre `The Dawn Watch will win prizes. If it doesn't, there is something wrong with the prizes' Guardian Migration, terrorism, the tensions between global capitalism and nationalism, the promise and peril of a technological and communications revolution: these forces shaped the life and work