All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and PovertyOpen Road + Grove/Atlantic, 1 дек. 2007 г. - Всего страниц: 340 The #1 New York Times–bestselling author takes an “unfailingly funny” look at global problems and offers his own political perspective (The Washington Times). In this volume, the political humorist and former National Lampoon editor-in-chief attacks fashionable worries—all those terrible problems that are constantly on our minds and in the news, but about which most of us have no real clue—and crisscrosses the globe in search of solutions to today’s most vexing issues, including overpopulation, famine, plague, and multiculturalism. In the process, he produces a hilarious and informative book which ensures that the concept of political correctness will never be the same again. “One of the funniest, most insightful, dead-on-the-money books of the year.” —Los Angeles Times “O’Rourke’s best work since Parliament of Whores.” —The Houston Post “Bottom line: Buy the book.” —The Wall Street Journal |
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... ideas , encourage- ment , and help in my legwork . Nick Eberstadt used his expertise in population studies , economics , and statistics to aid me ( and the reader ) in making some sense of the numbers in this book ( though I am sole ...
... ideas , encourage- ment , and help in my legwork . Nick Eberstadt used his expertise in population studies , economics , and statistics to aid me ( and the reader ) in making some sense of the numbers in this book ( though I am sole ...
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... ideas that have menaced our century - fascism , commu- nism , Ted Kennedy for President - are in retreat . Colonialism has disappeared , and hence the residents of nearly a quarter of the earth's surface are being spared visits from ...
... ideas that have menaced our century - fascism , commu- nism , Ted Kennedy for President - are in retreat . Colonialism has disappeared , and hence the residents of nearly a quarter of the earth's surface are being spared visits from ...
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... idea with no more effect on the people of the 1870s than Deconstructionism has on us . Men customarily wed multiple wives , not by way of philandering but because of deaths in childbirth . The children died , too , sometimes before a ...
... idea with no more effect on the people of the 1870s than Deconstructionism has on us . Men customarily wed multiple wives , not by way of philandering but because of deaths in childbirth . The children died , too , sometimes before a ...
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... idea what the word means . We might just as well say we're suffering from yohimbine or rigadoon or Fibonacci sequence . Are we depressed by lower expectations ? Back in the sixties I expected Permanent Woodstock - a whole lifetime of ...
... idea what the word means . We might just as well say we're suffering from yohimbine or rigadoon or Fibonacci sequence . Are we depressed by lower expectations ? Back in the sixties I expected Permanent Woodstock - a whole lifetime of ...
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... ideas or done any genius deeds ? Something terrible must be holding us back , repressed memories maybe . We forgot we were molested as children by someone we loved . It's coming back now . Milk and cookies weren't all Santa was chewing ...
... ideas or done any genius deeds ? Something terrible must be holding us back , repressed memories maybe . We forgot we were molested as children by someone we loved . It's coming back now . Milk and cookies weren't all Santa was chewing ...
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OVERPOPULATION | 19 |
FAMINE | 65 |
The Outdoors and How It Got There | 97 |
Were All Going to Die | 143 |
Going from Bad to Diverse | 225 |
PLAGUE | 265 |
ECONOMIC JUSTICE | 309 |
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