The News : A User's Manual
by De botton, Alai
- Used
- Fine
- Paperback
- Condition
- Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0771027680
- ISBN 13
- 9780771027680
- Seller
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Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
USA: Signal, 2014. A lovely clean fresh copy that appears almost new. According to the author:"The news is everywhere. We can't stop constantly checking it on our computer screens, but what is this doing to our minds? We are never really taught how to make sense of the torrent of news we face every day, writes Alain de Botton, but this has a huge impact on our sense of what matters and of how we should lead our lives. In his dazzling new book, de Botton takes twenty-five archetypal news stories--including an airplane crash, a murder, a celebrity interview and a political scandal--and submits them to unusually intense analysis with a view to helping us navigate our news-soaked age. He raises such questions as: Why are disaster stories often so uplifting? What makes the love lives of celebrities so interesting? Why do we enjoy watching politicians being brought down? Why are upheavals in far-off lands often so boring?". Soft Cover. Fine.
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- Bookseller
- Turtle Creek Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 100951
- Title
- The News : A User's Manual
- Author
- De botton, Alai
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0771027680
- ISBN 13
- 9780771027680
- Publisher
- Signal
- Place of Publication
- USA
- Date Published
- 2014
- Keywords
- News Media
- Bookseller catalogs
- .Entertainment & Film - Show Business; .Social Sciences - Sociology;
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