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AÑO 501 es un nuevo logro imponente de Noam Chomsky. Consiste en un devastador conjunto de información acerca de la función de EE.UU. en el mundo, en el contexto de la dilatada perspectiva histórica de los 500 años que siguieron a los viajes de Colón. El resultado es un excelente trabajo educativo en historia y política mundial en un único tomo. Howard ZInn Este libro presenta una imagen del mundo que nació hace cinco siglos: Un inmenso supermercado, donde el valor viene determinado por las etiquetas. ¿Cuál es el precio de un intelectual? El feroz talento de Chomsky demuestra una vez más que los seres humanos no están condenados a convertirse en bienes de consumo. Eduardo Galeano "La gran labor de sometimiento y conquista" ha cambiado poco a través de los años. Al analizar a Haití, América Latina, Cuba, Indonesia, e incluso algunos reductos del Tercer Mundo que se están desarrollando en Estados Unidos, Noam Chomsky establece paralelismos entre el genocidio de la época colonial y el asesinato y la explotación asociados con el imperialismo de nuestros días.

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Noam Chomsky was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on December 7, 1928. Son of a Russian emigrant who was a Hebrew scholar, Chomsky was exposed at a young age to the study of language and principles of grammar. During the 1940s, he began developing socialist political leanings through his encounters with the New York Jewish intellectual community.

Chomsky received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, where he studied linguistics, mathematics, and philosophy. He conducted much of his research at Harvard University. In 1955, he began teaching at MIT, eventually holding the Ferrari P. Ward Chair of Modern Language and Linguistics.

Today Chomsky is highly regarded as both one of America's most prominent linguists and most notorious social critics and political activists. His academic reputation began with the publication of Syntactic Structures in 1957. Within a decade, he became known as an outspoken intellectual opponent of the Vietnam War.

Chomsky has written many books on the links between language, human creativity, and intelligence, including Language and Mind (1967) and Knowledge of Language: Its Nature, Origin, and Use (1985). He also has written dozens of political analyses, including Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (1988), Chronicles of Dissent (1992), and The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many (1993).

(Bowker Author Biography)