基本信息出版社：Fourth Estate Ltd
页码：336 页
出版日期：2009年10月
ISBN：000731793X
International Standard Book Number：000731793X
条形码：9780007317936
EAN：9780007317936
装帧：精装
正文语种：英语

内容简介 "Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense." Gertrude Stein The world's a complex and bewildering place. Every day we are bombarded with far information than we can possibly hope to absorb. We don't have the time, energy or patience to process it all and select what's important, and sometimes it's tempting to drop the news section straight in the bin and curl up on the sofa with the colour supplements instead. But there are a lot of things happening in the world that we simply can't afford to ignore. What On Earth Is Going On? fills in the background to the key issues of our times -- from Climate Change to the Credit Crunch, Darfur to Devolution -- taking the form of an alphabetical glossary that can be consulted at convenient moments. This is a book for the bedside table, the morning commute or the downstairs loo. A rich hotchpotch of world events, current affairs, historical background and amusing trivia, it is a gentle survival guide for people of all ages who wish they knew a little bit more about what on earth is going on.
作者简介 Tom Baird read English Literature and Music at Durham, worked on the Sunday Times Home News and News Review desks and now works for the Commonwealth Secretariat. Arthur House left Cambridge with two English degrees, worked as a teacher and now lives in New York.
媒体推荐 'Their aim is to provide a short, digestible precis of 62 global issues!there is basic help here for the perplexed.' Times