Christopher Booker (1937–2019)

Auteur van The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories

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Christopher Booker was one of the founders of Private Eye and its first editor. He has a weekly column in the Sunday Telegraph and a regular column in The Daily Mail. He has published several books including The Neophiliacs (Harper Collins), The Great Deception, Seven Basic Plots and Scared to toon meer Death (all published by Continuum). toon minder

Bevat de namen: Christoper BOOKER, Christopher Booker

Ontwarringsbericht:

(eng) It does seem odd that one fellow would write on literary criticism and climate denial, and edit a magazine called Private Eye, but there we are, people are complex and odd.

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Werken van Christopher Booker

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The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories (2004) 873 exemplaren

Scared to Death: From BSE to Global Warming: Why Scares are Costing Us the Earth (2008) 81 exemplaren

The Great Deception (2003) 76 exemplaren

The Real Global Warming Disaster: Is the Obsession with "Climate Change" Turning Out to Be the Most Costly Scientific… (2009) 53 exemplaren

The Neophiliacs (1969) 46 exemplaren

Groupthink: A Study in Self Delusion (2020) 22 exemplaren

The Seventies (1980) 20 exemplaren

Goodbye London: An Illustrated Guide to Threatened Buildings (1973) 13 exemplaren

The Mad Officials (1994) 10 exemplaren

Private Eye on London (1962) 9 exemplaren

A looking-glass tragedy : the controversy over the repatriations from Austria in 1945 (1997) 9 exemplaren

The castle of lies : why Britain must get out of Europe (1997) 8 exemplaren

Global Warming: A Case Study in Groupthink: How science can shed new light on the most important 'non-debate' of our… (2018) 6 exemplaren

Private Eye's Romantic England (1963) 5 exemplaren

The Booker Quiz (1976) 4 exemplaren

Games War (1981) 3 exemplaren

Britain and Europe : the culture of deceit 1 exemplaar

Scared To Death: From Bse To Coronavirus (2020) 1 exemplaar

The Neophiliacs. A Study of the English Revolution in the Fifties and Sixties (1970) 1 exemplaar

Skryté dějiny evropské integrace od roku 1918 do současnosti 1 exemplaar

THE SIXTIES. (SOCIO PACK). (1960) 1 exemplaar

Groupthink 1 exemplaar

African-Americans and Presidency A history of broken promises 1 exemplaar

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Geboortedatum: 1937-10-07
Overlijdensdatum: 2019-07-03
Geslacht: male
Nationaliteit: England
Land (voor op de kaart): UK
Opleiding: Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (history)
Organisaties: Private Eye (satirical magazine)
The Sunday Telegraph
Ontwarringsbericht: It does seem odd that one fellow would write on literary criticism and climate denial, and edit a magazine called Private Eye, but there we are, people are complex and odd.

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The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories door Christopher Booker

Doorwrocht en leerzaam boek over hoe verhalen werken. De 7 plots? 1) het monster verslaan 2) van krantenjongen tot miljonair 3) de zoektocht 4) de reis en terugkeer 5) komedie 6) tragedie 7) wedergeboorte.

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