How to Stand Up to a Dictator: Radio 4 Book of the Week

Author:   Maria Ressa
Publisher:   Ebury Publishing
ISBN:  

9780753559215


Pages:   336
Publication Date:   07 September 2023
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Maria Ressa
Publisher:   Ebury Publishing
Imprint:   W H Allen
Dimensions:   Width: 12.80cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 19.90cm
Weight:   0.231kg
ISBN:  

9780753559215


ISBN 10:   0753559218
Pages:   336
Publication Date:   07 September 2023
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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Absolutely sublime and transformational. [Maria Ressa] lays out the moral paradigm for our time and the consequences of ignoring it and the thrill and reward of embracing it * Shoshana Zuboff, author of the international bestselling Surveillance Capitalism * A personal hero of mine ... she's an important warning for the rest of us * Hillary Clinton * I don't think I've read a more important book this year. * Andrew Marr, LBC * Maria is a key voice... she is so incredible in so many ways. The world needs to listen to what she has to say * Carole Cadwalladr * Maria Ressa is five feet two inches, but she stands taller than most in her pursuit of the truth * Amal Clooney *


Absolutely sublime and transformational. [Maria Ressa] lays out the moral paradigm for our time and the consequences of ignoring it and the thrill and reward of embracing it * Shoshana Zuboff, author of the international bestselling Surveillance Capitalism * Maria is a key voice... she is so incredible in so many ways. The world needs to listen to what she has to say * Carole Cadwalladr * Maria Ressa is five feet two inches, but she stands taller than most in her pursuit of the truth * Amal Clooney * A personal hero of mine ... she's an important warning for the rest of us * Hillary Clinton *


'Absolutely sublime and transformational. [Maria Ressa] lays out the moral paradigm for our time and the consequences of ignoring it and the thrill and reward of embracing it.' * Shoshana Zuboff, author of the international bestselling Surveillance Capitalism *


Absolutely sublime and transformational. [Maria Ressa] lays out the moral paradigm for our time and the consequences of ignoring it and the thrill and reward of embracing it * Shoshana Zuboff, author of the international bestselling Surveillance Capitalism * Maria is a key voice... she is so incredible in so many ways. The world needs to listen to what she has to say * Carole Cadwalladr * Maria Ressa is five feet two inches, but she stands taller than most in her pursuit of the truth * Amal Clooney * A personal hero of mine ... she's an important warning for the rest of us * Hillary Clinton * So how do you stand up to a dictator? One thing is for sure: you cannot do it alone. Ressa needs support from all of us, and she needs it now * Guardian *


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Maria Ressa is CEO, co-founder and President of Rappler, the Philippines's top digital news site. She is the current Nobel Laureate and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize 2021, the first Filipino in history to do so. She grew up in America and studied at Princeton University before working as a journalist in Asia for over 36 years. Maria has endured multiple arrests by the Duterte government, which is the subject of the 2020 Sundance Film Festival documentary, A THOUSAND CUTS. Ressa won the UNESCO World Press Freedom Prize 2021 and was TIME Person of the Year in 2018, and was named by TIME as one of the most inspiring and influential women of the century. She has also featured in Prospect's Top 50 Thinkers, Bloomberg 50, and the BBC's Top 100 Women. She has received countless awards for her work, including the Golden Pen of Freedom Award from the World Association of News Publishers. Before founding Rappler, Maria investigated terrorism in Southeast Asia, opening and running CNN's Manila Bureau and Jakarta Bureaus, before heading the largest news group in the Philippines. She wrote Seeds of Terror in 2003 and From Bin Laden to Facebook in 2012.

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