Het Lichaam - Bill Bryson - ebook

Bill Bryson's first travel book, The Lost Continent, was unanimously acclaimed as one of the funniest books in years. In Neither Here nor There he brings his unique brand of humour to bear on Europe as he shoulders his backpack, keeps a tight hold on his wallet, and journeys from Hammerfest, the northernmost town on the continent, to Istanbul on the cusp of Asia. Fluent in, oh, at least one language, he retraces his travels as a student twenty years before. Whether braving the homicidal motorists of Paris, being robbed by gypsies in Florence, attempting not to order tripe and eyeballs in a German restaurant or window-shopping in the sex shops of the Reeperbahn, Bryson takes in the sights, dissects the culture and illuminates each place and person with his hilariously caustic observations. He even goes to Liechtenstein.

Bill Gates is een van de rijkste en machtigste mannen ter wereld. Zijn rol als filantroop wordt echter nooit kritisch bekeken. Tim Schwab laat zien dat extreme rijkdom en politieke macht zich slecht tot elkaar verhouden en onthult de perverse kant van het 'filantrokapitalisme'.