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MARK CURTIS talk and book presentation

Tuesday, 09 November 2004
7:30 PM - 9:00 PM

Organizer: Word Power Bookshop

MARK CURTIS

- Author of 'Web of Deceit' (one of Word Power's best sellers)
launches his new book 'Unpeople'.

MARK CURTIS launches his new book, 'Unpeople: Britain's Secret Human Rights Abuses', in Edinburgh, Scotland.

MARK CURTIS is a former Research Fellow at the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) and has written extensively on British and US foreign policies. His books include Web of Deceit: Britain's Real Role in the World, 2003; The Ambiguities of Power: British Foreign Policy since 1945 (1995); The Great Deception: Anglo-American Power and World Order (1998); and Trade for Life: Making Trade Work for Poor People (2001). He has worked in the field of international development for the past ten years. His latest book, Unpeople: Britain's Secret Human Rights Abuses, is published in November 2004, and launched by Word Power Books in Edinburgh, Scotland. He is currently Director of the World Development Movement, a campaigning organisation that tackles the root causes of poverty and works alongside people in the developing world who are standing up to injustice.

Location:
THE FOREST CAFE, 3 Bristo Place
http://www.theforest.org.uk/

Cost: free

URL: http://www.word-power.co.uk/