Book
10 Books That Screwed Up the World (And 5 Others That Didn't Help)
- Published
- 2008
- Genre
- Science/Math
- Pages
- 260
- URL
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2583623-10-books-that-screwed-up-the-world?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_66
Reading measures
- Suggested reading age
- ages 17–18
- Ambleside year
- Year 12 onwards · ages 17–20
An Ambleside year is a year of the Ambleside Online programme, not a reader's age. Year 0 is its first year, and a book used over several years shows the span. The ages beside it are that band offered two grades up and none down, which is how we offer a band; they are a placement, not a reading measure.
From Machiavelli's The Prince to Alfred Kinsey’s Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, from Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto to Margaret Mead’s Coming of Age in Samoa, these "influential" books have led to war, genocide, totalitarian oppression, the breakdown of the family, and disastrous social experiments. And yet the toxic ideas peddled in these books are more popular and pervasive than ever. In fact, they might influence your own thinking without your realizing it.
Tags
HistoryScience-PhilosophyTheology