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  • Karl Marx

    by Francis Wheen ...
    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 century is a good moment to strip away the mythology and try to rediscover Marx the man. There ... Read more

    $11.49 USD

  • How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World

    A Short History of Modern Delusions

    by Francis Wheen ...
    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 consensualist politics was displaced by the arrival of Margaret Thatcher, whose ambition was to ... Read more

    $8.49 USD

  • How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World

    A Short History of Modern Delusions

    by Francis Wheen ...
    What characterizes our era? Cults, quacks, gurus, irrational panics, moral confusion and an epidemic of mumbo-jumbo, that's what. In How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World, Francis Wheen brilliantly laments the extraordinary rise of superstition, relativism and emotional hysteria. From Middle Eastern fundamentalism to the rise of lotteries, astrology to mysticism, poststructuralism to the Third Way, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • A Modern Utopia

    by H. G. Wells ...
    While walking in the Swiss Alps, two English travellers fall into a space-warp, and suddenly find themselves in another world. In many ways the same as our own - even down to the characters that inhabit it - this new planet is still somehow radically different, for the two walkers are now upon a Utopian Earth controlled by a single World Government. Here, as they soon learn, all share a common ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

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    Who Goes There?

    Selected episodes from the classic BBC Radio 4 quiz show

    by Martin Young ...
    Narrated by Martin Young, Francis Wheen, Fred Housego, Gyles Brandreth, Claire Rayner, Geoffrey Durham, David Aaronovitch, Lynne Truss, Jenny T Colgan ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 36 min

    The buzzworthy 'famous people' quiz about noteworthy and notorious figures from fact and fictionWho Goes There? is the classic stardom panel quiz chaired by Martin Young. Proving that it's not what you know but who you know, each breezy episode features two celebrity teams battling to answer questions on famous figures from history, fiction, sport, and the gossip pages. Martin Young challenges the ... Read more

    $21.84 USD

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    Marx's Das Kapital

    A Biography

    by Francis Wheen ...
    Narrated by Simon Vance ...
    Series series Books That Changed the World

    Unabridged

    3 hours 16 min

    In this brilliant book, Francis Wheen, the author of the most successful biography of Karl Marx, tells the story of Das Kapital and Marx's twenty-year struggle to complete his unfinished masterpiece. Born in a two-room flat in London's Soho amid political squabbles and personal tragedy, the first volume of Das Kapital was published in 1867 to muted praise. But after Marx's death, the book went on ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life

    A Nineteenth-Century Life

    by Jonathan Sperber ...
    Karl Marx is a magisterial and defining biography that vividly explores not only the man himself but also the revolutionary times in which he lived.Between his birth in 1818 and his death sixty-five years later, Karl Marx became one of Western civilization’s most influential political philosophers. Two centuries on, he is still revered as a prophet of the modern world, yet he is also blamed for ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • You Can’t Read This Book

    Censorship in an Age of Freedom

    by Nick Cohen ...
    The uncompromising Nick Cohen exposes the reality behind the freedoms we enjoy in the book that won Polemic of the Year at the 2013 Political Book Awards.After the fall of the Berlin Wall, the collapse of Communism, and the advent of the Web which allowed for even the smallest voice to be heard, everywhere you turned you were told that we were living in an age of unparalleled freedom.‘You Can't ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • The God Delusion

    by Richard Dawkins ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERINTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERIn this seminal text on atheism and the contentious debate over science and religion, renowned scientist Richard Dawkins examines the irrationality of believing in God and the grievous harm religion has inflicted on society.From the sex-obsessed tyrant in the Old Testament to the more benign Celestial Watchmaker favored by some Enlightenment ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • H.G. Wells: 13 books on Social, Religious, and Political Questions

    by H. G. Wells ...
    This file includes the full text of 12 books: Anticipations,Certain Personal Matters, An Englishman Looks at the World, First and Last Things, God the Invisible King, In the Fourth Year, Mankind in the Making, A Modern Utopia, New Worlds for Old, Select Conversations with an Uncle, War and the Future, and What is Coming? According to Wikipedia: "Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 13 August ... Read more

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  • Mortals and Others

    by Bertrand Russell ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    Between 1931 and 1935, Bertrand Russell contributed some 156 essays to the literary pages of the American newspaper New York American. These were often fun, humorous observations on the very real issues of the day, such as the Depression, the rise of Nazism and Prohibition, to more perennial themes such as love, parenthood, education and friendship. Available for the first time in the Routledge ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Outline of Sanity

    by G. K. Chesterton ...
    As an advocate of Distributism, an early 20th-century school of social thought developed by the author and his colleagues, Chesterton addresses the topics of concentration of wealth, poverty, work, agriculture, machinery, and capital in this famous work. He favored distribution of wealth while being antisocialist; he advocated ownership of private property while being anticapitalist. He argues ... Read more

    $17.09 USD