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How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World: A Short History of Modern Delusions by Francis Wheen
$24.95 AUD
Category: Reference | Reading Level: good
An entertaining, impassioned polemic on the retreat of reason in the late 20th century. An intellectual call to arms, Francis Wheen's Sunday Times bestseller is one of 2004's most talked about books. In 1979 two events occurred that would shape the next twenty-five years. In Britain, an era of weary con ...Show more
Karl Marx by Francis Wheen
$25.95 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
A major biography of the man who, more than any other, made the twentieth century. Written by an author of great repute. The history of the 20th century is Marx's legacy. Not since Jesus Christ has an obscure pauper inspired such global devotion - or been so calamitously misinterpreted. The end of the c ...Show more
Strange Days Indeed: The Golden Age of Paranoia by Francis Wheen
$32.99 AUD
Category: History and Politics
Strange Days Indeed tells the story of how the paranoia exemplified by Nixon and Wilson became the defining characteristic of western politics and culture in the 1970s. Francis Wheen will vividly evoke the characters, events and atmosphere of an era in which the truth was far stranger than even the most ...Show more
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