- A catastrophic fire in a super-luxury hotel in Las Vegas - The flood destroys the Renaissance treasure - Mysterious suffocation of all passengers in a crowded train - A deadly heat wave is sweeping America
Original title
The world' s worst disasters of the twentieth century
Nihad Halilbegović's book is a memoir testimony of long-term professional and personal cooperation with Alija Izetbegović, the first president of independent Bosnia and Herzegovina.
What exactly is television? How does it function in a promised land that uses it to produce its own history, and at a rapid pace, in the absence of a tradition of the European or any other ancient type?
In the book, economist Jeffrey Sachs presents an optimistic plan for eliminating extreme poverty by 2025. He argues that this is feasible with political will, because world wealth is growing, and poverty is not fate, but the result of inefficient systems.
The book is supplemented by a DVD with the documentary film "Sicko", directed by Michael Moore, which shows the disastrous consequences of the American, completely privatized and primarily profit-oriented healthcare system.