Powers and Prospects: Reflections on Human Nature and the Social Order - Hardcover

Chomsky, Noam

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0745311075 ISBN 13: 9780745311074

Publisher: Pluto Press, 1996

Synopsis

'To guide us all through the three-star disasters of the Bush years I can think of no better pilot.' Alexander Cockburn, CounterPunch

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About the Author

Noam Chomsky is a world renowned linguist and one of our foremost social critics. He is Institute Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at MIT and the author of numerous books for Pluto Press.

From Publishers Weekly

The prolific linguist and political pundit has two new books out this season. In May, Common Courage will bring out Class Warfare, the third in a series of interviews between Chomsky and David Barsamian, director of Alternative Radio. At a time when downsizing, the demise of unions and other factors are leading to an increased income gap between rich and poor, Chomsky analyzes some of the reasons and offers solutions. ($15 ISBN 1-56751-092-2; cloth $29.95 -093-0). Then in June, South End will release a more wide-ranging collection of essays on language, human nature and foreign policy with Power and Prospects: Reflections on Human Nature and the Social Order ($16 ISBN 0-89608-535-X; cloth
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About this edition

• Publisher: Pluto Press
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0745311075
• ISBN 13: 9780745311074
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256