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Get Real: How to See Through the Hype, Spin and Lies of Modern Life
Eliane Glaser
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Description for Get Real: How to See Through the Hype, Spin and Lies of Modern Life
Paperback. It's time to radically alter the way we perceive the world. It's time to get real. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: JFCA; JPF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 18. Weight in Grams: 198.
It's time to radically alter the way we perceive the world. It's time to get real. Multinational oil corporations trumpet their green credentials. Shadowy billionaires orchestrate `grassroots' political movements. Public-spending cuts target the poor, but supposedly `give power to the people'. To Eliane Glaser, these are all signs of the maddeningly surreal gap between appearance and reality in modern life. We are living in a looking-glass world in which reality is spun and crude vested interests are cloaked in seductive disguises. Get Real is a passionate and entertaining guide to decoding the delusions we ... Read more
It's time to radically alter the way we perceive the world. It's time to get real. Multinational oil corporations trumpet their green credentials. Shadowy billionaires orchestrate `grassroots' political movements. Public-spending cuts target the poor, but supposedly `give power to the people'. To Eliane Glaser, these are all signs of the maddeningly surreal gap between appearance and reality in modern life. We are living in a looking-glass world in which reality is spun and crude vested interests are cloaked in seductive disguises. Get Real is a passionate and entertaining guide to decoding the delusions we ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780007416820
SKU
KCG0000942
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99-1
About Eliane Glaser
Eliane Glaser is a writer, radio producer, and Honorary Research Fellow at Birkbeck, University of London. Her articles have appeared in the Guardian, the Times Literary Supplement, and the London Review of Books.
Reviews for Get Real: How to See Through the Hype, Spin and Lies of Modern Life
`A sharp, lively wake-up call to free ourselves from the illusions that we live by. Crystal clear, elegantly written and inspiring, it is all the more necessary to read Glaser's book at a time when we are increasingly pressured to imbibe phony ideology, phony science and phony ethics' Darian Leader `These are big ideas, laid out with ... Read more