Black mass: (Record no. 226038)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780141025988
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Transcribing agency AL
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Language code of text/sound track or separate title eng
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Edition number 23
Classification number 321.07
Item number GRAB
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Personal name John Gray
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245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Black mass:
Remainder of title Apocalyptic religion and the death of Utopia
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. London
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Penguin Books
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2008
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent ix,342p.
Other physical details PB
Dimensions 19x13cm.
365 ## - TRADE PRICE
Source of price type code Political Scienc
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. A prophetic warning against the foolishness of crusades, John Gray's "Black Mass" challenges our belief in human progress. Our conventional view of history is wrong. It is founded on a pernicious myth of an achievable utopia that in the last century alone caused the murder of tens of millions. In "Black Mass" John Gray tears down the religious, political and secular beliefs that we insist are fundamental to the human project, examines the interaction of terrorism, declining world resources, environmental change, human myths of redemption and a flawed belief in Western democracy and shows us how a misplaced faith in our ability to improve the world has actually made it far worse. "Brilliant, frightening, devastating". (John Banville, "Guardian"). "A brilliant polemic...Gray's most powerful argument yet". (J.G. Ballard, "Guardian", Books of the Year). "Causes vertigo when it does not cause outrage". ("Sunday Times"). "Exhilarating, invigorating". ("Literary Review"). "Savage. Gray raises profound and valid doubts about the conventional "plot" of modern history". ("Financial Times"). "A load of bollocks ...could hardly be more bonkers if it was crawling with lizards".("Sunday Telegraph"). John Gray has been Professor of Politics at Oxford University, Visiting Professor at Harvard and Yale and Professor of European Thought at the London School of Economics. His books include "False Dawn: The Delusions of Global Capitalism", "Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals" and "The Immortalization Commission: The Strange Quest to Cheat Death". His selected writings, "Gray's Anatomy", was published in 2009.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Terror in the Twentieth Century
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Utopia Enters the Mainstream
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Armed Missionaries
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Americanization of the Apocalypse
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Personal name GRAY (John)
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     Political Science St Aloysius Library St Aloysius Library 12/01/2014   321.07 GRAB D05391 12/22/2022 12/22/2022 Donated Books Donated by V. T. Rajshekar