Download or read book Dreams Of The Millennium written by Mark Kingwell and published by Penguin Canada. This book was released on 1999-04-06 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this brilliantly conceived exploration of doomsaying and revelation, Mark Kingwell argues that the brink tendencies manifested by contemporary popular culture—the popularity of body piercing, for example, or the proliferation of miracles—are, in fact, inextricably linked to the impending fin de siècle. One of Maclean's top ten non-fiction books of 1996