A major biography of the man who, more than any other, made the twentieth century. Written by an author of great repute.PRIZES:Shortlisted for Political Book of the Year 1999.Shortlisted for WH Smith ...
Se mere om bogen
'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 j...
Se mere om bogen
While walking in the Swiss Alps, two English travellers fall into a space-warp, and suddenly find themselves in another world....
Se mere om bogen
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....
Se mere om bogen
"The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it," wrote Karl Marx in 1845. This book tells the story of Marx's twenty-year fight to complete his unfinishe...
Se mere om bogen
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. 8 b...
Se mere om bogen
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 wa...
Se mere om bogen