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Synopsis
This book aims to make the wider issues and principal ideas of our age understandable to all. The book refers to all spheres - culture, philosophy and politics - and is split into five sections: facts, analysis, connections, perceptions and thesis, and begins with an analysis of the growth of science. Bryan Appleyard is the author of "The Culture Club: Crisis in the Arts" and in 1986 he was General Feature Writer in the British Press Awards.
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Review
This may be the most important book of a new era...and is required reading for anyone who wants to understand fully the meaning of the late 20th Century. -- Peter Ackroyd
If ever a serious book deserved to become a bestseller, it is this. At last here is something, you think when you've finished it, that tells you what is going on in our minds and in the world. -- George Walden
About the Author
Bryan Appleyard is a special features writer for 'The Sunday Times'. He has twice won Feature Writer of the Year.
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