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The Machine Stops - E. M. Forster - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Machine Stops - E. M. Forster - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

''"You talk as if a god had made the Machine," cried the other. "I believe that you pray to it when you are unhappy. Men made it, do not forget that."'' E.M. Forster is best known for his exquisite novels, but these two affecting short stories brilliantly combine the fantastical with the allegorical. In ''The Machine Stops'', humanity has isolated itself beneath the ground, enmeshed in automated comforts, and in ''The Celestial Omnibus'' a young boy takes a trip his parents believe impossible.This book contains The Machine Stops and A Celestial Omnibus.

DKK 71.00
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Against the Machine - Paul Kingsnorth - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Against the Machine - Paul Kingsnorth - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

How a force that’s hard to name, but which we all feel, is reshaping what it means to be humanIn Against the Machine, “furiously gifted” (The Washington Post) novelist, poet, and essayist Paul Kingsnorth presents a wholly original—and terrifying—account of the technological-cultural matrix enveloping all of us. With insight into the spiritual and economic roots of techno-capitalism, Kingsnorth reveals how the Machine, in the name of progress, has choked Western civilization, is destroying the Earth itself, and is reshaping us in its image. From the First Industrial Revolution to the rise of artificial intelligence, he shows how the hollowing out of humanity has been a long game—and how your very soul is at stake. It takes effort to remain truly human in the age of the Machine. Here Kingsnorth reminds us what humanity requires: a healthy suspicion of entrenched power; connection to land, nature and heritage; and a deep attention to matters of the spirit. Prophetic and poetic, Against the Machine is a spiritual manual for dissidents in the technological age.

DKK 239.00
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The Soft Machine - William S. Burroughs - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Soft Machine - William S. Burroughs - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

A terrifying, surreal space-age odyssey, The Soft Machine initiated Burroughs'' Cut-Up Trilogy that includes Nova Express and The Ticket That Exploded . The book draws the reader into an unmappable textual space, where nothing is true and everything is permitted, to make a total assault on the colonising powers of planet earth that have turned us all into machines.Edited and introduced by renowned Burroughs scholar Oliver Harris, this new edition clarifies for the first time the extraordinary history of The Soft Machine ''s writing and rewriting, demolishing the myths of Burroughs'' chance-based writing methods and demonstrating for a new generation the significance of his greatest experiment.

DKK 120.00
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The Machine Age - Robert Skidelsky - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Machine Age - Robert Skidelsky - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

A sweeping history of and meditation on humanity''s relationship with machines, showing how we got here and what happens next Faith in technological fixes for our problems is waning. Automation, which promised relief from toil, has reactivated the long-standing fear of job redundancy. Information technology, meant to liberate us from traditional authority, is placing unprecedented powers of surveillance and control in the hands of a purely secular Big Brother. And for the first time, artificial intelligence threatens anthropogenic disaster – disaster caused by our own activities. Scientists join imaginative writers in warning us of the fate of Icarus, whose wings melted because he flew too close to the sun.This book tells the story of our fractured relationship with machines from humanity’s first tools down to the present and into the future. It raises the crucial question of why some parts of the world developed a ‘machine civilisation’ and not others, and traces the interactions between capitalism and technology, and between science and religion, in the making of the modern world.Taking in the peaks of philosophy and triumphs of science, the foundation of economics and speculations of fiction, Robert Skidelsky embarks on a bold intellectual journey through the evolution of our understanding of technology and what this means for our lives and politics. ‘Unless we understand technology as a system of ideas rather than as a necessity,’ he writes, ‘we will be powerless to choose which technology is best suited to our needs and purposes.’

DKK 211.00
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The Machine Age - Robert Skidelsky - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Machine Age - Robert Skidelsky - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

A sweeping history of and meditation on humanity''s relationship with machines, showing how we got here and what happens next Faith in technological fixes for our problems is waning. Automation, which promised relief from toil, has reactivated the long-standing fear of job redundancy. Information technology, meant to liberate us from traditional authority, is placing unprecedented powers of surveillance and control in the hands of a purely secular Big Brother. And for the first time, artificial intelligence threatens anthropogenic disaster – disaster caused by our own activities. Scientists join imaginative writers in warning us of the fate of Icarus, whose wings melted because he flew too close to the sun.This book tells the story of our fractured relationship with machines from humanity’s first tools down to the present and into the future. It raises the crucial question of why some parts of the world developed a ‘machine civilisation’ and not others, and traces the interactions between capitalism and technology, and between science and religion, in the making of the modern world.Taking in the peaks of philosophy and triumphs of science, the foundation of economics and speculations of fiction, Robert Skidelsky embarks on a bold intellectual journey through the evolution of our understanding of technology and what this means for our lives and politics. ‘Unless we understand technology as a system of ideas rather than as a necessity,’ he writes, ‘we will be powerless to choose which technology is best suited to our needs and purposes.’

DKK 127.00
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The Knowledge Machine - Michael Strevens - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Knowledge Machine - Michael Strevens - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Rich with tales of discovery from Galileo to general relativity, a stimulating and timely analysis of how science works and why we need it. ''The best introduction to the scientific enterprise that I know. A wonderful and important book'' David Wootton , author of The Invention of Science It is only in the last three centuries that the formidable knowledge-making machine we call modern science has transformed our way of life and our vision of the universe - two thousand years after the invention of law, philosophy, drama and mathematics. Why did we take so long to invent science? And how has it proved to be so powerful? The Knowledge Machine gives a radical answer, exploring how science calls on its practitioners to do something apparently irrational: strip away all previous knowledge - such as theological, metaphysical or political beliefs - and channel unprecedented energy into observation and experiment. In times of climate extremes, novel diseases and rapidly advancing technology, Strevens contends that we need more than ever to grasp the inner workings of our knowledge machine. ''A stylish and accessible investigation into the nature of the scientific method'' Nigel Warburton, Philosophy Bites ''This elegant book takes us to the heart of the scientific enterprise'' David Papineau, King''s College London, author of Knowing the Score ''This book is a delight to read, richly illustrated with wonderfully told incidents from the history of natural science'' Nancy Cartwright, University of California San Diego

DKK 127.00
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The Law Machine - Marcel Berlins - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Law Machine - Marcel Berlins - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The authors explain and discuss how the justice system evolved, the way it operates - including vivid descriptions of the trial process - and how lawyers work. Revised and updated throughout for this fifth edition, THE LAW MACHINE surveys recent developments in the workings of justice and the outlook for the future. ''Refreshingly free of the patronizing attitude and the humbug with which other books about the legal system are riddled'' - THES

DKK 127.00
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The Candy Machine - Tom Feiling - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Candy Machine - Tom Feiling - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Cutting through the myths about the white market, Tome Feiling''s The Candy Machine is the story of cocaine as it''s never been told before. Gabrielle unwinds at weekends with a line of coke - and also works for a major police force. Juan Pablo is a drugs mule in Bogotá who gets his stash from a sweathouse. Belica started picking coca when she was eleven. Kurt Schmoke, former mayor of Baltimore, thinks legalization''s the only way ... Cocaine is big business. Governments spend millions on an unwinnable war against it, yet it''s now the drug of choice in the West. How did the cocaine economy get so huge? Who keeps it running behind the scenes? In The Candy Machine Tom Feiling travels the trade routes from Colombia via Miami, Kingston and Tijuana to London and New York. He meets Medellín hitmen, US kingpins, British crack users and Brazilian traffickers, and talks to the soldiers and narcotics officers who fight the gangs. ''An important study of the cultivation, usage and suppression of cocaine'' Financial Times '' The Candy Machine is highly addictive'' Metro ''It is hard to decide if Tom Feiling''s future lies as a QC or the new Paul Theroux. A vivid, argumentative, arresting book'' Sunday Telegraph ''I''ve read a few documentary accounts of the rise of cocaine, and this might be the best of them'' Evening Standard Tom Feiling is an award-winning documentary film-maker. He spent a year living and working in Colombia before making Resistencia: Hip-Hop in Colombia, which won numerous awards at film festivals around the world, and was broadcast in four countries. In 2003 he became Campaigns Director for the TUC''s Justice for Colombia campaign, which organizes for human rights in Colombia. His book Short Walks from Bogotá: Journeys in the new Colombia is published by Allen Lane.

DKK 127.00
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How to Speak Machine - John Maeda - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

How to Speak Machine - John Maeda - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

John Maeda is one of the world''s preeminent thinkers on technology and design, and in How to Speak Machine , he offers a set of simple laws that govern not only the computers of today, but the unimaginable machines of the future. Machines are already more powerful than we can comprehend, and getting more powerful at an exponential pace. Once set in motion, algorithms never tire. And when a program''s size, speed and endlessness combine with its ability to learn and transform itself, the outcome can be unpredictable and dangerous. Take the seemingly instant transformation of Microsoft''s chatbot into a hate-spewing racist, or how crime-predicting algorithms reinforce racial bias. How To Speak Machine provides a coherent framework for today''s product designers, business leaders and policymakers to grasp this brave new world. Drawing on his wide-ranging experience from engineering to computer science to design, Maeda shows how businesses and individuals can identify opportunities afforded by technology to make world-changing and inclusive products while avoiding the pitfalls inherent to the medium.

DKK 179.00
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The Time Machine - H. G. Wells - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Time Machine - H. G. Wells - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Penguin English Library Edition of The Time Machine by H. G. Wells ''Great shapes like big machines rose out of the dimness, and cast grotesque black shadows, in which dim spectral Morlocks sheltered from the glare'' Chilling, prophetic and hugely influential, The Time Machine sees a Victorian scientist propel himself into the year 802,701 AD, where he is delighted to find that suffering has been replaced by beauty and contentment in the form of the Eloi, an elfin species descended from man. But he soon realizes that they are simply remnants of a once-great culture - now weak and living in terror of the sinister Morlocks lurking in the deep tunnels, who threaten his very return home. H. G. Wells defined much of modern science fiction with this 1895 tale of time travel, which questions humanity, society, and our place on Earth.The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.

DKK 107.00
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The Time Machine - H. G. Wells - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Time Machine - H. G. Wells - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksThe Time Machine is the great, gleeful anarchist novel of the 1890s. It is both a thrilling adventure story and a satire on religion, evolution and human hopes. With this book, Wells invented an entirely new genre and did it better than any of his imitators. An immediate bestseller, it has delighted and unnerved generations of readers, and will no doubt keep on doing so until some of the events predicted in the book make readers extinct.

DKK 92.00
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The Money Machine - Philip Coggan - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Money Machine - Philip Coggan - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

What happens in the City has never affected us more In this excellent guide, now fully revised and updated, leading financial journalist Philip Coggan cuts through the headlines, the scandals and the jargon to explain the nuts and bolts of the financial system.What causes the pound to rise or interest rates to fall? Which are the institutions that really matter? Why is it we need the Money Machine - and what happens when it crashes? Coggan provides clear and concise answers and shows why we should all be more familiar with a system we so intimately depend upon.

DKK 126.00
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The Machine Stops and Other Stories - E M Forster - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Machine Stops and Other Stories - E M Forster - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

A new selection of E. M. Forster''s exquisite short stories, now in the beautifully designed Penguin English Library Series ''We created the Machine, to do our will, but we cannot make it do our will now. It has robbed us of the sense of space and of the sense of touch, it has blurred every human relation and narrowed down love to a carnal act, it has paralyzed our bodies and our wills, and now it compels us to worship it.'' Like his much-loved novels, E. M. Forster''s short stories are rich in irony and alive with sharp observations on the surprises life holds. Telling tales of violent events, discomforting coincidences, and other disruptive happenings, his sharp and vivid prose has the ability to throw the characters'', and reader''s, perceptions and beliefs off balance.Selected to appeal to a new generation of readers around the world, this new selection of short stories in the Penguin English Library series celebrates E. M. Forster''s unparalleled skill for storytelling, beginning with his masterful work of science fiction, The Machine Stops .

DKK 107.00
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The Time Machine - H. G. Wells - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Time Machine - H. G. Wells - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

''The father of science fiction'' Guardian The Time Machine is the first and greatest modern portrayal of time-travel. It sees a Victorian scientist propel himself into the year 802,701 AD, when he is initially delighted to find that suffering has been replaced by beauty, contentment and peace. Entranced at first by the Eloi, an elfin species descended from humans, he soon realizes that they are simply remnants of a once-great culture - now weak and childishly afraid of the dark. They have every reason to be afraid: in deep tunnels beneath their paradise lurks another race - the sinister Morlocks.Edited by PATRIC K PARRINDER with an Introduction by MARINA WARNER and notes by STEVEN MCLEAN

DKK 107.00
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Six Machine - Chris Gayle - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Six Machine - Chris Gayle - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Chris Gayle is the only man to have ever hit a six off the first ball of a Test match. But then producing the impossible is an everyday act for the West Indies legend: the first man to smash an international T20 century, the first to hit a World Cup 200, the fastest century in the history of the game. Off the pitch he is even more flamboyant: he plays late, parties later, demolishes a king-size pile of pancakes and then strolls out to mangle another hapless bowling attack.But do we really know him? Do we know what took a shy, skinny kid from a cramped tin-roofed shack in the dusty back streets of Kingston to the very top of the cricket world - without losing himself along the way? A story not just of sporting genius but of battling prejudice, this unputdowneable memoir will leave you reeling. Welcome to the world of the Six Machine.

DKK 161.00
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Britain's War Machine - David Edgerton - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Britain's War Machine - David Edgerton - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR The familiar image of the British in the Second World War is that of the plucky underdog taking on German might. David Edgerton''s bold, compelling new history shows the conflict in a new light, with Britain as a very wealthy country, formidable in arms, ruthless in pursuit of its interests and sitting at the heart of a global production system.The British, indeed Churchillian, vision of war and modernity was challenged by repeated defeat by less well equipped enemies. Yet the end result was a vindication of this vision. Like the United States, a powerful Britain won a cheap victory, while others paid a great price. Britain''s War Machine , by putting resources, machines and experts at the heart of a global rather than merely imperial story, demolishes some of the most cherished myths about wartime Britain and gives us a very different and often unsettling picture of a great power in action

DKK 141.00
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The Experience Machine - Andy Clark - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Experience Machine - Andy Clark - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

A grand new vision of cognitive science that explains how our minds build our worlds ‘One of the most important books yet published this century’ Spectator For as long as we''ve studied the mind, we''ve believed that information flowing from our senses determines what our mind perceives. But as our understanding has advanced in the last few decades, a hugely powerful new view has flipped this assumption on its head. The brain is not a passive receiver, but an ever-active predictor.At the forefront of this cognitive revolution is widely acclaimed philosopher and cognitive scientist Andy Clark, who has synthesized his ground-breaking work on the predictive brain to explore its fascinating mechanics and implications. Among the most stunning of these is the realization that experience itself, because it is guided by prior expectation, is a kind of controlled hallucination. We don''t passively take in the world around us; instead our mind is constantly making and refining predictions about what we expect to see. This even applies to our bodies, as the way we experience pain and other states is shaped by our expectations, and this has broader implications for the understanding and treatment of conditions from PTSD to schizophrenia to medically unexplained symptoms. From the most mundane experiences to the most sublime, it is our predictions that sculpt our experience.A landmark study of cognitive science, The Experience Machine lays out the extraordinary explanatory power of the predictive brain for our lives, mental health and society.

DKK 127.00
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The Shame Machine - Cathy O'neil - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Shame Machine - Cathy O'neil - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR Shame is being weaponized by governments and corporations to attack the most vulnerable. It''s time to fight back Shame is a powerful and sometimes useful tool. When we publicly shame corrupt politicians, abusive celebrities, or predatory corporations, we reinforce values of fairness and justice. But as best-selling author Cathy O''Neil argues in this revelatory book, shaming has taken a new and dangerous turn. It is increasingly being weaponized -- used as a way to shift responsibility for social problems from institutions to individuals. Shaming children for not being able to afford school lunches or adults for not being able to find work lets us off the hook as a society. After all, why pay higher taxes to fund programmes for people who are fundamentally unworthy?O''Neil explores the machinery behind all this shame, showing how governments, corporations and the healthcare system capitalize on it. There are damning stories of rehab clinics, reentry programs, drug and diet companies, and social media platforms -- all of which profit from ''punching down'' on the vulnerable. Woven throughout The Shame Machine is the story of O''Neil''s own struggle with body image and her recent weight-loss surgery, which awakened her to the systematic shaming of fat people seeking medical care.With clarity and nuance, O''Neil dissects the relationship between shame and power. Whom does the system serve? How do current incentive structures perpetuate the shaming cycle? And, most important, how can we all fight back?

DKK 141.00
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The Demon in the Machine - Paul Davies - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Demon in the Machine - Paul Davies - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

''A gripping new drama in science ... if you want to understand how the concept of life is changing, read this'' Professor Andrew Briggs, University of OxfordWhen Darwin set out to explain the origin of species, he made no attempt to answer the deeper question: what is life? For generations, scientists have struggled to make sense of this fundamental question. Life really does look like magic: even a humble bacterium accomplishes things so dazzling that no human engineer can match it. And yet, huge advances in molecular biology over the past few decades have served only to deepen the mystery. So can life be explained by known physics and chemistry, or do we need something fundamentally new?In this penetrating and wide-ranging new analysis, world-renowned physicist and science communicator Paul Davies searches for answers in a field so new and fast-moving that it lacks a name, a domain where computing, chemistry, quantum physics and nanotechnology intersect. At the heart of these diverse fields, Davies explains, is the concept of information: a quantity with the power to unify biology with physics, transform technology and medicine, and even to illuminate the age-old question of whether we are alone in the universe. From life''s murky origins to the microscopic engines that run the cells of our bodies, The Demon in the Machine is a breath-taking journey across the landscape of physics, biology, logic and computing. Weaving together cancer and consciousness, two-headed worms and bird navigation, Davies reveals how biological organisms garner and process information to conjure order out of chaos, opening a window on the secret of life itself.

DKK 127.00
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The Master Algorithm - Pedro Domingos - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Master Algorithm - Pedro Domingos - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

''Pedro Domingos demystifies machine learning and shows how wondrous and exciting the future will be'' Walter Isaacson, author of Steve Jobs Society is changing, one learning algorithm at a time, from search engines to online dating, personalized medicine to predicting the stock market. But learning algorithms are not just about Big Data - these algorithms take raw data and make it useful by creating more algorithms. This is something new under the sun: a technology that builds itself. In The Master Algorithm , Pedro Domingos reveals how machine learning is remaking business, politics, science and war. And he takes us on an awe-inspiring quest to find ''The Master Algorithm'' - a universal learner capable of deriving all knowledge from data.

DKK 127.00
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The Sea Detective - Mark Douglas Home - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Sea Detective - Mark Douglas Home - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Discover the chilling first mystery in a truly unique crime series you won''t be able to put down ''There comes a time when a novel raises the bar for a particular genre, and The Sea Detective does just that for Scottish crime fiction'' SCOTSMAN ______ Cal McGill is an Edinburgh-based oceanographer, environmentalist and one-of-a-kind investigator. Using his knowledge of the waves - ocean currents, prevailing winds, shipping records - McGill can track where objects have come from, or where they''ve gone. So when two severed feet wash up miles apart on two different islands off the coast of Scotland, he Most strangely, forensic tests reveal that the feet belong to the same body. As Cal McGill investigates, he unravels a web of corruption, exploitation and violence, which threatens many lives across the globe. Including his own . . . ______ ''Raises the bar for Scottish crime fiction . . . elegantly written and compelling'' The Scotsman ''Excellent'' The Literary Review, ''Top Five Crime Books of the Year'' ''Promises to be a fine series of detective novels'' Sunday Times ''Crime Book of the Month'' ''An unusual, interesting and enthralling read'' Shotsmag ''A compelling protagonist'' The Times Literary Supplement

DKK 127.00
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War Games - Linda Polman - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

War Games - Linda Polman - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

From Rwanda to Afghanistan, from Sudan to Iraq, this devastating expose shows how the humanitarian aid industry, the media and warmongers are locked in a cycle of mutual dependency on battlefields around the world. ''Polman shines a light on the multibillion dollar juggernaut that is today''s humanitarian aid network. A disturbing account that raises profound questions'' Financial Times ''One of the finest reporting journalists of the modern age - Polman is gutsy, intellectually penetrating and far from naive'' Evening Standard ''Cool, brusque, fearless. A marvellous account'' Guardian

DKK 161.00
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