 The book was " highly commended " and runner @-@ up in the 2005 Times Higher Education Supplement Young Academic Author Award , and was shortlisted for the 2005 MIND " Book of the Year Award " . It received positive reviews in The Guardian and Skeptical Inquirer , critical reviews in The Daily Telegraph and Financial Times , and has been used as a resource in books including Marketing Dictatorship and Democracy , Lifelong Learning and the Learning Society . 
