Robert Newman Bücher





Toxic Sludge Is Good for You
- 236 Seiten
- 9 Lesestunden
Toxic Sludge is Good for You explains exactly how the magic of modern PR transforms the favoured policies of the rich and the powerful into uncontroversial common sense. It is without doubt the most important book about the methods and objectives of corporate public relations ever published. Reading it will make life for the executives at Hill and Knowlton, Ketchum and Barston-Marstellar a little bit more difficult. And that can only be a good thing.
The Fountain at the Centre of the World
- 320 Seiten
- 12 Lesestunden
Police and soldiers across Tamaulipas, Mexico's north-eastern state are hunting Chano Salgado. A reclusive young widower and political apostate, Salgado is forced to go on the run after he is persuaded to blow up the pipelines of Ethylclad, a sluicing operation sucking the local groundwater dry. schovat popis
A part-autobiographical tale of paranoia, loneliness and sexual obsession, by one of the Newman and Baddiel comedy act. A drug-related murder in a Manchester pub transforms the lives of all the characters, including the angst-ridden hero and his girlfriend, a Romanian highjumper.
This collection of essays is concerned with fatherhood. It includes disparate viewpoints—funny, poignant, and philisophical, and reflects on the first inklings of male broodiness, the nine months of pregnancy, and the moment of birth and beyond.