num_pages: 330
description: Chomsky brings together his thoughts on topics ranging from language and human nature to the Middle East settlement and the place of East Timor in the New World Order. A must read for anyone interested in Chomsky.
language: English
title: Powers and Prospects: Reflections on Human Nature & the Social Order
titlecomplete: Powers and Prospects: Reflections on Human Nature & the Social Order
characters: Hanan Ashrawi, Henry Kissinger, Colin Powell, Saddam Hussein, Arnaud de Borchgrave, Robert Fisk, Thomas Hobbes, Allan Nairn, Alan Clark, Noam Chomsky, George Junus Aditjondro, Thomas Friedman, Yasser Arafat, Manuel Noriega, Bob Hawke, Charles Glass, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Dean Acheson, Robert McNamara, C. Fred Bergsten, Yitzhak Rabin, John Locke, Ronald Reagan, Bertrand Russell, John Quincy Adams, Yitzhak Shamir, Mikhail Bakunin, Anwar Sadat, Yacov Ben Efrat, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Bill Clinton, Leon Trotsky, Israel Shahak, Lyndon B. Johnson, Ahmed Chalabi, John Dewey, José Ramos-Horta, Newt Gingrich, David Hume, Robert Barry, Richard Nixon, Ariel Sharon, Aluf Benn, Gideon Levy, Jimmy Carter, George H.W. Bush, Shimon Peres, Robert Boyle, Alexander Hamilton, Danny Rubinstein, Amy Goodman, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Ali Alatas, Paul Bairoch, Edward S. Herman, John Pilger, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, George Orwell, Alex Carey, Golda Meir, Daniel Dennett, Alexis de Tocqueville, Rudy Giuliani, McGeorge Bundy, René Descartes, Joseph Stalin, Woodrow Wilson, David Lloyd George, Amira Hass, Soekarno, Mark Twain, Suharto, Aristotle (philosopher), Samuel P. Huntington, Gerald Ford, Mario Benedetti, Chaim Weizmann, Benny Morris, John Stuart Mill, Meron Benvenisti, Paul Volcker, William Morris, Alexander Cockburn, Daniel Defoe, John von Neumann, Douglas Hurd, Andrew Jackson, Plato, David Ricardo, Moshe Dayan, Paulo Evaristo Arns, Pete Peterson, Henry Cabot Lodge, John Major, George Ball, Adam Smith, philosopher, Martin Indyk, Theodore Roosevelt, James Baker, Daniel Patrick Moynihan
genres: Social Science, Politics, Political Science, Philosophy, Linguistics, Science, Nonfiction, Psychology, Sociology, History
ratings_count: 338
places: Israel, Gaza, Jerusalem
publisher: South End Press