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Karl Marx
Häftad, 2000
176 kr
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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 …
How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World
A Short History of Modern Delusions
Häftad, 2004
148 kr
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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 …
Strange Days Indeed
The Golden Age of Paranoia
Häftad, 2010
135 kr
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‘If the 1960s were a wild weekend and the 1980s a hectic day at the office, the 1970s were a long Sunday evening in winter, with cold leftovers for supper and a power cut expected at any moment.’A jaw-droppingly brilliant account of how the seventies was defined by mass paranoia told with Francis …
How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World
A Short History of Modern Delusions
E-bok, 2012
106 kr
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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 …
Karl Marx
E-bok, 2012
120 kr
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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 …
Strange Days Indeed
The Golden Age of Paranoia
E-bok, 2012
88 kr
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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 …
Karl Marx
Häftad, 2001
371 kr
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"A brilliant book, by a superb author, about a necessary man."-Christopher Hitchens
How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World: A Short History of Modern Delusions
Häftad, 2005
296 kr
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Soul of Indiscretion
Tom Driberg, Poet, Philanderer, Legislator and Outlaw – His Life and Indiscretions
Häftad, 2001
201 kr
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Francis Wheen’s brilliantly comic portrait of one of the 20th-century’s great characters, Tom Driberg: wit, parliamentarian, serial cottager, alleged communist spy and friend to the Kray brothers.There are few people for whom marriage was so ill-suited yet well attended: at Tom Driberg’s were …
Marx's Das Kapital
A Biography (A Book that Shook the World)
Häftad, 2007
98 kr
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'The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it,' wrote Karl Marx in 1845. This is the essence of Das Kapital, a blazing expose of the new capitalist world of the Victorian era, whose ideas would affect the lives of millions, and alter the course of …
Lord Gnome's Literary Companion
Häftad, 1996
163 kr
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His review has got to be 'in' by mid-day tomorrow ... at about 9 pm his mind will grow relatively clear, and until the small hours he will sit ... skipping expertly through one book after another and laying each one down with the comment, 'God, what tripe!' ... Then suddenly he will snap into it. …
