Upside Down: A Primer for the Looking-Glass World
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In a series of mock lesson plans and a "program of study" Galeano provides an eloquent, passionate, funny and shocking exposé of First World privileges and assumptions. From a master class in "The Impunity of Power" to a seminar on "The Sacred Car"―with tips along the way on "How to Resist Useless Vices" and a declaration of the "The Right to Rave"―he surveys a world unevenly divided between abundance and deprivation, carnival and torture, power and helplessness. We have accepted a "reality" we should reject, he writes, one where poverty kills, people are hungry, m
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Manufacturer: Picador
Release date: 5 October 2001
ISBN-10 : 0312420315 | ISBN-13: 9780312420314
Release date: 5 October 2001
ISBN-10 : 0312420315 | ISBN-13: 9780312420314
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