Meek James
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The Heart Broke in
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Canongate
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Автор: Meek James
Издательство: Canongate, 2005
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PDF, 560 страниц, 16.80 МБ
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Bec Shepherd is a malaria researcher struggling to lead a good life. Ritchie, her reprobate brother, is a rock star turned TV producer. When Bec refuses an offer of marriage from a powerful newspaper editor and Ritchie's indiscretions catch up with him, brother and sister are forced to choose between loyalty and betrayal.
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23 августа 2009
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Private Island: Why Britain Now Belongs to Someone Else
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Marston Book Services
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Автор: Meek James
Издательство: Marston Book Services, 2015
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PDF, 240 страниц, 7.20 МБ
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The essential public good that Margaret Thatcher, Tony Blair and now Cameron sell is not power stations, or trains, or hospitals. It's the public itself. it's us. In a little over a generation the bones and sinews of the British economy — rail, energy, water, postal services, municipal housing — have been sold to remote, unaccountable private owners, often from overseas. In a series of brilliant portraits the award-winning novelist and journalist James Meek shows how Britain's common wealth became private, and the impact it has had on us all: from the growing shortage of housing to spiralling energy bills. Meek explores the human stories behind the incremental privatization of the nation over the last three decades. He shows how, as our national assets are sold, ordinary citizens are handed over to private tax-gatherers, and the greatest burden of taxes shifts to the poorest. In the end, it is not only public enterprises that have become private property, but we ourselves. Urgent, powerfully written and deeply moving, this is a passionate anatomy of the state of the nation: of what we have lost and what losing it cost us — the rent we must pay to exist on this private island.
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23 октрября 2018
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