What Next? Surviving the Twenty-first Century. First Printing. Signed by the Author

Patten, Chris

ISBN 10: 0713998563 / ISBN 13: 9780713998566

Edité par London. Allen Lane/Penguin Books, 2008

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London. Allen Lane/Penguin Books. 2008. Hard Cover. First Edition/First Printing (1 printed under first published 2008 to copyright page). Medium 8vo. 6.5 x 9.3 . ([16.5cm x 23.5cm] approx. 448 pp and notes to the rear. Black boards with grey titles. Minor bruising at the spine head and slight age toning to the text block. Glossy monochrome and colour photographs in the text. Dust wrapper has very light shelf wear along the top edge; book and jacket are near fine. Flat signed by the author without dedication in blue ink to the title page. Chris Patten draws on his many years at the highest levels of international affairs to tackle the big questions of our time - from financial turmoil to the energy crisis, immigration to the ascendancy of the East - offering a wise, witty and surprisingly optimistic account of the world. The dust jacket will be protected with a new protective mylar sleeve which is removable. Please contact us if you would like any more information or additional images. Postage price quoted outside the UK is for a book up to 1kg using UPS. For books sent within the UK, there will be no extra charge for books up to 2kg which are sent by Royal Mail. Postage quoted in the UK is the actual cost (£3.45). All books are sent in protective packing and custom book box. If your book is intended as a gift, please let us know and we will gift wrap it free of charge with a card and any message.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: What Next? Surviving the Twenty-first Century. First Printing. Signed by the Author
• Éditeur: London. Allen Lane/Penguin Books
• Date de parution: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0713998563
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780713998566
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• État de l'article: Near Fine
• État de la jaquette: Near Fine
• Signé: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

Globalisation, energy, international crime, Weapons of Mass Destruction, nuclear proliferation, small arms proliferation, international drugs trafficking, climate change, water shortage, migration, epidemic disease, the fraying of the nation state: the list of challenges facing our world is itself proliferating rapidly, and nobody seems to have much of a grip on what is going on. Digesting vast amounts of information from a multiplicity of sources, and drawing on his experience at the highest levels of national and international politics, Chris Patten analyses what we know in each of these areas and argues how in each of them we could get somewhere we might want to be. Very little, he says, has turned out as we might have expected twenty years ago, but there is plenty we can still do.

Readers of Patten's previous books will know what a penetrating analyst and engaging writer he is. This is his most ambitious and impressive yet.

À propos de l?auteur

Chris Patten is currently co-Chair of the International Crisis Group and of the Anglo-Indian Round Table, and is Chancellor of Oxford and Newcastle Universities. As a British MP 1979-92 he served as Minister for Overseas Development, Secretary of State for the Environment and Chairman of the Conservative Party, being described afterwards as 'the best Tory Prime Minister we never had' (Observer). In 1998-99 he chaired the Independent Commission for Policing in Northern Ireland, and from 1999-2004 was European Commissioner for External Relations. He is probably best known for being the last Governor of Hong Kong 1992-97, about which he wrote in East and West (1998). Both that and his most recent book, Not Quite the Diplomat: Home Truths about World Affairs (2005), were No 1 international best-sellers. He was made a Companion of Honour in 1998 and a life peer in 2005.