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How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World: A Short History of Modern Delusions by Francis Wheen
Category: History
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
Category: History
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
Karl Marx's Das Kapital by Wheen Francis
Category: History | Series: Ten Books That Changed the World S.
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 expos of the new capitalist world of the Victorian era, whose ideas would affect the lives of millions and alter the course of world histo ...Show more
Strange Days Indeed: The Golden Age of Paranoia by Francis Wheen
Category: History
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
Strange Days Indeed: The Golden age of paranoia by Francis Wheen
Category: History
'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.
The Irresistible Con: The Bizarre Life of a Fraudulent Genius by Francis Wheen
Category: Art Books
No-one suspected a thing when a new figure appeared on the London academic scene. Charlotte Bach was a former lecturer at the University of Budapest, and had a new theory of sex and evolution which was soon being heralded as one of the greatest intellectual advances of the 20th century.
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