Politics

Product Description

For the first time, the essential works of Noam Chomsky will be available on CD-ROM. Included are the full texts of Turning the Tide: US Intervention in Central America and the Struggle for Peace; World Orders, Old and New (new edition); The Culture of Terrorism; Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies; Powers and Prospects: Reflections on Human Nature and Social Order; Class Warfare; andThe Fateful Triangle:The United States, Israel and the Palestinians (new edition) .

The CD-ROM format, using Adobe Acrobat software, contains thousands of text links and offers access to sophisticated search facilities. The user will be able to access all of Chomsky’s major writings on themes such as the Middle East, Southeast Asia, Central America, US foreign policy, post Cold War politics, globalisation, democracy and the media. Excellent value, the Chomsky CD-ROM is a third of the price of purchasing all the texts as published books.

There are click-on indexes, making text navigation simple, and the screen can be enlarged by up to 800%, making the text much easier to read. The cd-rom can be viewed on most types of computers, and contains readers for Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT, Apple Macintosh and most Unix platforms.

This CD-ROM is being produced in association with ElecBook Company.

About The Author

Noam Chomsky is a world renowned linguist and one of America's foremost social critics. He is Institute Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at MIT and the author of numerous books for Pluto Press, including Fateful Triangle, The New Military Humanism, Power and Terror and A New Generation Draws the Line.