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Robert Newman

    Robert Newman est un humoriste, auteur et activiste politique britannique, connu pour ses commentaires politiques percutants et ses prises de position satiriques sur les problèmes sociétaux. À travers ses écrits et ses spectacles de stand-up, Newman aborde des thèmes sociaux et politiques complexes avec un mélange unique d'humour et de critique. Son travail remet souvent en question le statu quo, incitant les lecteurs et le public à reconsidérer leurs perspectives sur le monde qui les entoure. Avec une longue carrière à la fois dans les arts et dans le militantisme, Newman s'est taillé la réputation d'une voix qui n'a pas peur d'explorer des vérités inconfortables.

    Sherlock Holmes
    Fatherhood
    Dependence Day
    The Fountain at the Centre of the World
    Toxic Sludge Is Good for You
    • Toxic Sludge Is Good for You

      • 236pages
      • 9 heures de lecture
      4,0(617)Évaluer

      Toxic Sludge is Good for You explains exactly how the magic of modern PR transforms the favoured policies of the rich and the powerful into uncontroversial common sense. It is without doubt the most important book about the methods and objectives of corporate public relations ever published. Reading it will make life for the executives at Hill and Knowlton, Ketchum and Barston-Marstellar a little bit more difficult. And that can only be a good thing.

      Toxic Sludge Is Good for You
    • The Fountain at the Centre of the World

      • 320pages
      • 12 heures de lecture
      3,4(105)Évaluer

      Police and soldiers across Tamaulipas, Mexico's north-eastern state are hunting Chano Salgado. A reclusive young widower and political apostate, Salgado is forced to go on the run after he is persuaded to blow up the pipelines of Ethylclad, a sluicing operation sucking the local groundwater dry. schovat popis

      The Fountain at the Centre of the World
    • A part-autobiographical tale of paranoia, loneliness and sexual obsession, by one of the Newman and Baddiel comedy act. A drug-related murder in a Manchester pub transforms the lives of all the characters, including the angst-ridden hero and his girlfriend, a Romanian highjumper.

      Dependence Day
    • Fatherhood

      An Anthology of New Writing

      • 216pages
      • 8 heures de lecture

      This collection of essays is concerned with fatherhood. It includes disparate viewpoints—funny, poignant, and philisophical, and reflects on the first inklings of male broodiness, the nine months of pregnancy, and the moment of birth and beyond.

      Fatherhood