Lévy, Bernard-Henri
Summary: Over the past fifty years, renowned public intellectual Bernard-Henri Levy has reported extensively on human rights abuses around the world. This new book follows the intrepid Levy into eight international hotspots-in Nigeria; Syrian and Iraqi Kurdistan; Ukraine; Somalia; Bangladesh; Lesbos, Greece; Libya; and Afghanistan-that have escaped global attention or active response. On a deeply...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 190 LEVLévy, Bernard Henri.
Contents: Le voyage en Amérique -- First visions -- Moving west -- The Pacific wall -- Desert vertigo -- Gone with the South -- Eye of the hurricane -- The beautiful and the damned -- Reflections -- What does it mean to be an American? -- American ideology and the question of terrorism (the current state of affairs) -- Has America gone mad? -- Postscript.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 LEVLévy, Bernard-Henri
Summary: "The Empire and the Five Kings is a cri de coeur that draws upon lessons from history and the eternal touchstones of human culture to reveal the stakes facing the West as America retreats from its leadership role, a process that did not begin with Donald Trump's presidency and is not likely to end with him. The crisis is one whose roots can be found as far back as antiquity and whose resolution...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.73 LEVSummary: In June 2023, Russia destroyed the Kakhovka dam in southern Ukraine and committed an unprecedented ecocide. In response, French philosopher and filmmaker Bernard-Henri Lévy returns to Ukraine to capture Ukraine's deep humanity despite the dire conditions and civilian resilience and resistance unlike any other.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024