Upside down
a primer for the looking-glass world
1st American ed.
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Author
Publication
2000 - Henry Holt, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
89,500 words, Guess
Page Count
358 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL22328493M
- ISBN-100805063757
- OCLC Control Number43567590
- OCLC Control Numberupsidedownprimer0000gale
- Library of Congress Control Number00026787
and 2 more
- Goodreads1292836
- LibraryThing6087
Classifications
- DDC361.1
- LCCHN18 .G25 2000
Description
"In a series of lesson plans and a "program of study" about our beleaguered planet, Upside Down, takes us on a wild trip through the global looking glass. 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 Right to Rave," Galeano surveys a world unevenly divided between abundance and deprivation, carnival and torture, power and its lack. We have accepted a "reality" we should reject, he teaches us, one where poverty kills, people are hungry, machines are more precious than humans, and children work from dark to dark. In the north, we are fed on a diet of artificial need and all made the same by the things we own; the south is the galley slave enabling our greed." "A work of fire and charm, Upside Down makes us see our world anew and even glimpse how we might set it right."--BOOK JACKET.
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