| Search | About | Preferences | Interact | Help | |
| 150 million books. 1 search engine. | ||
books tagged “Capitalism”
books tagged “Capitalism”
›› Find signed collectible books by ''
English
-
An American Tragedyby Theodore Dreiser, Thomas P. RiggioISBN 1931082316 (1-931082-31-6)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'An American Tragedy'Book summary:A tremendous bestseller when it was published in 1925, An American Tragedy is the culmination of Theodore Dreiser's elementally powerful fictional art. Taking as his point of departure a notorious murder case of 1910, Dreiser immersed himself in the social background of the crime to produce a book that is both a remarkable work of reportage and a monumental study of character. Few novels have undertaken to track so relentlessly the process by which an ordinary young man becomes capable of committing a ruthless murder, and the further process by which social and political forces come into play after his arrest.
In Clyde Griffiths, the impoverished, restless offspring of a family of street preachers, Dreiser created an unforgettable portrait of a man whose circumstances and dreams of self-betterment conspire to pull him toward an act of unforgivable violence. Around Clyde, Dreiser builds an extraordinarily detailed fictional portrait of early twentieth-century America, its religious and sexual hypocrisies, its economic pressures, its political corruption. The sheer prophetic amplitude of his bitter truth-telling, in idiosyncratic prose of uncanny expressive power, continues to mark Dreiser as a crucially important American writer. An American Tragedy, the great achievement of his later years, is a work of mythic force, at once brutal and heartbreaking. [via]More editions of An American Tragedy:
Anti-capitalism: A Beginner's Guideby Simon TormeyISBN 1851683429 (1-85168-342-9)
Softcover, Oneworld Pubns Ltd
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Anti-capitalism: A Beginner's Guide'More editions of Anti-capitalism: A Beginner's Guide:
Asbestos House: The Secret History of James Hardie Industriesby Gideon HaighISBN 1920769625 (1-920769-62-5)
Softcover, Scribe Pubns Pty Ltd
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Asbestos House: The Secret History of James Hardie Industries'More editions of Asbestos House: The Secret History of James Hardie Industries:
-
The Baffler: Number 10by Matt Weiland, Diamonds MulcaheyISBN 1888984090 (1-888984-09-0)
Softcover, Distributed Art Pub Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Baffler: Number 10'More editions of The Baffler: Number 10:
Big Business, Poor Peoples: The Impact of Transnational Corporations in the World's Poorby John MadeleyISBN 1856496724 (1-85649-672-4)
Softcover, Zed Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Big Business, Poor Peoples: The Impact of Transnational Corporations in the World's Poor'More editions of Big Business, Poor Peoples: The Impact of Transnational Corporations in the World's Poor:
The Bill of Rights: What It Is, What It Means, and How It's Been Misusedby Shannon Leigh FallonISBN 1880741253 (1-880741-25-3)
Hardcover, Dickens Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bill of Rights: What It Is, What It Means, and How It's Been Misused'More editions of The Bill of Rights: What It Is, What It Means, and How It's Been Misused:
-
Billy Budd & Other Storiesby Herman MelvilleISBN 185326749X (1-85326-749-X)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Billy Budd & Other Stories'Book summary:Melville's short stories are masterpieces. The best are to be appreciated on more than one level and those presented here are rich with symbolism and spiritual depth. Set in 1797, Billy Budd, Foretopman exploits the tension of this period during the war between England and France to create a tale of satanic treachery, tragedy and great pathos that explores human relationships and the inherently ambiguous nature of man-made justice. Tales such as Bartleby, Benito Cereno, The Lightning Rod Man, The Tartarus of Maids or I and My Chimney, show the timeless poetic power of Melville's writing as he consciously uses the disguise of allegory in various ways and to various ends. [via]
More editions of Billy Budd & Other Stories:
The Bold Riders: Behind Australia's Corporate Collapsesby Trevor SykesISBN 1864481846 (1-86448-184-6)
Hardcover, Allen & Unwin
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bold Riders: Behind Australia's Corporate Collapses'More editions of The Bold Riders: Behind Australia's Corporate Collapses:
-
The Boom and the Bubble: The Us in the World Economyby Robert BrennerISBN 1859844839 (1-85984-483-9)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Boom and the Bubble: The Us in the World Economy'Book summary:Brenner demonstrates that the new economy was always a fragile phenomenon.
A sustained period of significant growth in the US, however, seemed to save the day against all the odds. So impressive was the surface appearance of this rescue mission that all manner of commentators proclaimedonce againthat a 'new economy' or 'new paradigm' of unlimited and harmonious growth had been forged.
Today, as recession looms, the babble about Internet start-ups is exposed as vapid. Yet the pundits are no nearer an understanding of how or why the boom turned into a bubble, or why the bubble has burst. In this crisp and forensic book, Robert Brenner demonstrates that the boom was always a fragile phenomenonbuoyed up by absurd levels of debt and stock-market overvaluationwhich never broke free from the fundamental malady of overcapacity and overproduction which continues to afflict the global economy.
Carefully dismantling the myths and hype that surround the US boom in terms of profitability, investment, and productivity, Brenner restores the properly international context to the process. He portrays the 'zero-sum' character of the American success, which presupposed the relative weakness of its main German and Japanese competitors: a strategy that has laid huge obstacles in the path of a 'soft landing' to end the current phase of growth.
A substantial new Postscript provides and up-to-date analysis of the Bush economic debacle the crisis of manufacturing, the telecom bust, the record twin deficits, plummeting employment, and the real estate bubble. [via]More editions of The Boom and the Bubble: The Us in the World Economy:
Capitalism in a Mature Economy: Financial Institutions, Capital Exports, and British Industry, 1870-1939by J.J. Van Helten, Y. CassisISBN 1852783184 (1-85278-318-4)
Hardcover, Edward Elgar Pub
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Capitalism in a Mature Economy: Financial Institutions, Capital Exports, and British Industry, 1870-1939'More editions of Capitalism in a Mature Economy: Financial Institutions, Capital Exports, and British Industry, 1870-1939:
-
Charles Dickens' a Christmas Carolby Charles Dickens, Gustave DoreISBN 188895700X (1-888957-00-X)
Hardcover, McE Pub
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Charles Dickens' a Christmas Carol'Book summary:Dust jacket notes: "This is the first book edition of a remarkable set of 45 lost wood engravings from 1861 by Gustave Dore, the great French illustrator. Recently discovered in an obscure old French magazine, they somehow eluded the grasp of scholars for the last 135 years. Apparently, even Charles Dickens did not know of their existence. They are by far the largest set of Victorian engravings for the story, and they include the first drawing ever made of Tiny Tim! But this beautiful Christmas gift book is much more than that. It also contains the full text of A Christmas Carol, plus all the other early sets of illustrations for the story (by Leech, Phiz, Abbey, Barnard, etc.) making a total of nearly 200 Victorian engravings! The dust jacket front cover features several of the lost engravings, colorized by artist Mike Nicastre. A scholarly introduction by Dan Malan, who discovered this set of lost engravings while writing a major reference work on Dore, explores the significance of the lost engravings and the relationship between Dickens and Dore, with lists of their illustrated editions...." [via]
More editions of Charles Dickens' a Christmas Carol:
-
A Christmas Carolby Charles DickensISBN 1853261211 (1-85326-121-1)
Softcover, Wordsworth Editions, Limited
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'A Christmas Carol'Book summary:[via]Few readers need introduction to Charles Dickens's great Christmas classic of Ebenezer Scrooge, his dastardly treatment of his employees and family, and his "ba-humbug" attitude towards Christmasall changed by a nightmarish sleep of visions of past, present, and future.
Although numerous other editions of this book are in print, few are as lovely as the Green Integer edition, edited from the original 1843 edition and corrected by Douglas Messerli. The book will be available for Christmas 2001.
-
Crime and Punishmentby Fyodor DostoevskyISBN 1853262005 (1-85326-200-5)
Softcover, Wordsworth Edition
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Crime and Punishment'Book summary:Crime and Punishment (1866) is the story of a murder committed on principle, of a killer who wishes by his action to set himself outside and above society. A novel of great physical and psychological tension, pervaded by Dostoevsky's sinister evocation of St Petersburg, it also has moments of wild humour. Dostoevsky's own harrowing experiences mark the novel. He had himself undergone interrogation and trial, and was condemned to death, a sentence commuted at the last moment to penal servitude. In prison he was particularly impressed by one hardened murderer who seemed to have attained a spiritual equilibrium beyond good and evil: yet witnessing the misery of other convicts also engendered in Dostoevsky a belief in the Christian idea of salvation through suffering. [via]
More editions of Crime and Punishment:
The Culture of Make Believeby Derrick JensenISBN 1931498571 (1-931498-57-1)
Softcover, Chelsea Green Pub Co
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Culture of Make Believe'Book summary:In the Culture of Make Believe, Derrick Jensen sets the bar as high as possible, examining the atrocities that characterize so much of our culture-from lynchings in early 20th-century America, modern slavery and corporate misdeeds to manufacturing disasters, death squads in developing nations and the destruction of the natural world.
Interweaving political, historical, philosophical and deeply personal perspectives, Jensen argues that only by understanding past horrors can we hope to prevent future ones. Impeccably researched, The Culture of Make Believe arrives at some shocking and thought-provoking conclusions. As readers of A Language Older than Words can attest, Jensen is a public intellectual of rare abilities. [via]
More editions of The Culture of Make Believe:
Debating Empireby Gopal Balakrishnan, Stanley AronowitzISBN 1859844529 (1-85984-452-9)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Debating Empire'More editions of Debating Empire:
The Devil's Dictionaries: The Best of the Devils Dictionary and the American Heretics Dictionaryby Ambrose Bierce, Chaz Bufe, SwansonISBN 188436506X (1-884365-06-X)
Softcover, See Sharp Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Devil's Dictionaries: The Best of the Devils Dictionary and the American Heretics Dictionary'More editions of The Devil's Dictionaries: The Best of the Devils Dictionary and the American Heretics Dictionary:
- The Devil's Dictionaries: The Best of the Devils Dictionary and the American Heretics Dictionary: ISBN 1884365353 (1-884365-35-3)
Softcover, See Sharp Pr - The Devil's Dictionaries: The Best of the Devils Dictionary and the American Heretics Dictionary: ISBN 188436506X (1-884365-06-X)
Softcover, See Sharp Pr
- The Devil's Dictionaries: The Best of the Devils Dictionary and the American Heretics Dictionary: ISBN 1884365353 (1-884365-35-3)
Empire Of Capitalby Ellen Meiksins WoodISBN 1844675181 (1-84467-518-1)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Empire Of Capital'
Employer Associations and Industrial Relations Change: Catalysts or Captivesby Peter Sheldon, Louise ThornthwaiteISBN 1864487488 (1-86448-748-8)
Hardcover, Allen & Unwin
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Employer Associations and Industrial Relations Change: Catalysts or Captives'More editions of Employer Associations and Industrial Relations Change: Catalysts or Captives:
Fair Trade: Reforming the International Trading Systemby Michael B. BrownISBN 1856490742 (1-85649-074-2)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Fair Trade: Reforming the International Trading System'More editions of Fair Trade: Reforming the International Trading System:
For Marxby Louis Althusser, Ben BrewsterISBN 1859841465 (1-85984-146-5)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'For Marx'More editions of For Marx:
-
Fortress America: The American Military and the Consequences of Peaceby William GreiderISBN 1891620452 (1-891620-45-2)
Softcover, Public Affairs
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Fortress America: The American Military and the Consequences of Peace'Book summary:"The U.S. military-industrial complex, as we have known it, is in the process of devouring itself, literally and tangibly. The awesome interlocking structure of armed forces, industrial interests, and political alliances that has sprawled across American public life and purpose for two generations cannot endure for long," writes Rolling Stone correspondent William Greider in the introduction to Fortress America. Although shorter than his previous books on the Federal Reserve and the global economy, Fortress America is vintage Greider: strong reporting and sharp analysis on a topic of current and compelling interest. Greider doesn't address U.S. defense strategy so much as the perverse economics underlying the American military establishment. Costs and commitments forever escalate as basic military readiness deteriorates. The Pentagon continues to request next-generation fighter aircraft and Congress agrees to fund them even as fundamental training exercises go wanting. The problem isn't that the United States will lose its next war, but that massive waste and incredible redundancy make national defense a pricey behemoth. Greider calls for a fundamental reordering of priorities; this is an argument Washington--and, increasingly, the public--cannot ignore. --John J. Miller [via]
More editions of Fortress America: The American Military and the Consequences of Peace:
The Free Trade Adventure: The Wto, the Uruguay Round and Globalism-A Critiqueby Graham DunkleyISBN 1856497690 (1-85649-769-0)
Softcover, Zed Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Free Trade Adventure: The Wto, the Uruguay Round and Globalism-A Critique'More editions of The Free Trade Adventure: The Wto, the Uruguay Round and Globalism-A Critique:
Future of Capitalism How Today's Economic Forces Shape Tomorrow's Worldby Thurow, Lester (Professor of Economics, Massachuseetts Institute of TeISBN 1857881362 (1-85788-136-2)
Softcover, Nicholas Brealey
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Future of Capitalism How Today's Economic Forces Shape Tomorrow's World'More editions of Future of Capitalism How Today's Economic Forces Shape Tomorrow's World:
-
The Global Economy in Australia: Global Integration and National Economic Policyby Dick Bryan, Michael RaffertyISBN 1864487453 (1-86448-745-3)
Softcover, Allen & Unwin
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Global Economy in Australia: Global Integration and National Economic Policy'More editions of The Global Economy in Australia: Global Integration and National Economic Policy:
The Global Trap: Globalization and the Assault on Prosperity and Democracyby Hans-Peter Martin, Harald Schumann, Patrick CamillerISBN 1856495302 (1-85649-530-2)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Global Trap: Globalization and the Assault on Prosperity and Democracy'More editions of The Global Trap: Globalization and the Assault on Prosperity and Democracy:
-
Going Postal: Rage, Murder, And Rebellion, From Reagan's Workplaces To Clinton's Columbine And Beyondby Mark AmesISBN 1932360824 (1-932360-82-4)
Softcover, Soft Skull Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Going Postal: Rage, Murder, And Rebellion, From Reagan's Workplaces To Clinton's Columbine And Beyond'Book summary:An eye-opening look at the phenomenon of school and workplace shootings in America, Going Postal explores the rage-murder phenomenon that has plagued and baffled America for the last three decades, and offers some provocative answers to the oft-asked question, "Why?" By juxtaposing the historical place of rage in America with the social climate that has existed since the 1980s when Reaganomics began to widen the gap between executive and average-worker earnings the author crafts a convincing argument that these schoolyard and office massacres can be seen as modern-day slave rebellions. He presents many fascinating and unexpected cases in detail. Like slave rebellions, these massacres are doomed, gory, sometimes even inadvertently comic, and grossly misunderstood. Taking up where Bowling for Columbine left off, this book seeks to set these murders in their proper context and thereby reveal their meaning.[via]More editions of Going Postal: Rage, Murder, And Rebellion, From Reagan's Workplaces To Clinton's Columbine And Beyond:
-
Great Expectationsby Charles DickensISBN 1853260045 (1-85326-004-5)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Great Expectations'Book summary:Considered by many to be Dickens' finest novel, Great Expectations traces the growth of the book's narrator, Philip Pirrip (Pip), from a boy of shallow dreams to a man with depth of character. From its famous dramatic opening on the bleak Kentish marshes, the story abounds with some of Dickens' most memorable characters. Among them are the kindly blacksmith Joe Gargery, the mysterious convict Abel Magwitch, the eccentric Miss Haversham and her beautiful ward Estella, Pip's good-hearted room-mate Herbert Pocket and the pompous Pumblechook. As Pip unravels the truth behind his own 'great expectations' in his quest to become a gentleman, the mysteries of the past and the convolutions of fate through a series of thrilling adventures serve to steer him towards maturity and his most important discovery of all - the truth about himself. [via]
More editions of Great Expectations:
-
Hard Timesby Charles DickensISBN 1853262323 (1-85326-232-3)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Hard Times'Book summary:Introduction and Notes by Dinny Thorold, University of Westminster Illustrated by F. Walker and Maurice Greiffenhagen Unusually for Dickens, Hard Times is set, not in London, but in the imaginary mid-Victorian Northern industrial town of Coketown with its blackened factories, downtrodden workers and polluted environment. This is the soulless domain of the strict utilitarian Thomas Gradgrind and the heartless factory owner Josiah Bounderby. However human joy is not excluded thanks to 'Mr Sleary's Horse-Riding' circus, a gin-soaked and hilarious troupe of open-hearted and affectionate people who act as an antidote to all the drudgery and misery endured by the ordinary citizens of Coketown. [via]
More editions of Hard Times:
Hegemony and Socialist Strategy: Towards a Radical Democratic Politicsby Chantal Mouffe, Ernesto LaclauISBN 1859843301 (1-85984-330-1)
Softcover, Verso Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Hegemony and Socialist Strategy: Towards a Radical Democratic Politics'More editions of Hegemony and Socialist Strategy: Towards a Radical Democratic Politics:
Historical Capitalism With Capitalist Civilizationby Immanuel WallersteinISBN 1859841058 (1-85984-105-8)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Historical Capitalism With Capitalist Civilization'More editions of Historical Capitalism With Capitalist Civilization:
Hoaxers & Hustlersby Thomas StreissguthISBN 1881508137 (1-881508-13-7)
Hardcover, Oliver Pr Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Hoaxers & Hustlers'More editions of Hoaxers & Hustlers:
The House of Packerby Bridget Griffen FoleyISBN 1865084107 (1-86508-410-7)
Softcover, Allen & Unwin
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The House of Packer'More editions of The House of Packer:
How Big Business Performs: Private Performance and Public Policy Analysing the Profits of Australia's Largest Enterproses Drawing on the Unique Data of Ibis Business Informatby Stephen King, Michael Harris, Peter DawkinsISBN 1864488670 (1-86448-867-0)
Softcover, Allen & Unwin
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'How Big Business Performs: Private Performance and Public Policy Analysing the Profits of Australia's Largest Enterproses Drawing on the Unique Data of Ibis Business Informat'More editions of How Big Business Performs: Private Performance and Public Policy Analysing the Profits of Australia's Largest Enterproses Drawing on the Unique Data of Ibis Business Informat:
Hungry for Trade: How the Poor Pay for Free Tradeby John MadeleyISBN 1864031301 (1-86403-130-1)
Hardcover, Pluto Pr Australia
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Hungry for Trade: How the Poor Pay for Free Trade'Book summary:John Madeley shows that the food imports of many developing countries are rising sharply while their food exports are not. He argues there is a contradiction between Western governments' rhetoric on reducing world poverty and their pursuit of more trade liberalization--against the wishes of most of the world. Food security affects us all. There is no more important issue.[via]More editions of Hungry for Trade: How the Poor Pay for Free Trade:
- Hungry for Trade: How the Poor Pay for Free Trade: ISBN 1856498654 (1-85649-865-4)
Softcover, Zed Books - Hungry for Trade: How the Poor Pay for Free Trade: ISBN 1856498646 (1-85649-864-6)
Hardcover, Zed Books - Hungry for Trade: How the Poor Pay for Free Trade: ISBN 1864031301 (1-86403-130-1)
Hardcover, Pluto Pr Australia
- Hungry for Trade: How the Poor Pay for Free Trade: ISBN 1856498654 (1-85649-865-4)
The Ideas That Conquered The Worldby Michael MandelbaumISBN 1903985447 (1-903985-44-7)
Hardcover, Public Affairs
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ideas That Conquered The World'More editions of The Ideas That Conquered The World:
-
King Solomon's Minesby Henry Rider HaggardISBN 185326105X (1-85326-105-X)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'King Solomon's Mines'Book summary:King Solomon's Mines tells of the search by Sir Henry Curtis, Captain John Good and the narrator, Allan Quatermain, for Sir Henry's younger brother George. He has been lost in the interior of Africa for two years in the quest for King Solomon's Mines, the legendary source of the biblical King's enormous riches. The three companions encounter fearful hardships, fierce warriors, mortal danger and the sinister and deadly witch Gagool. In one of the finest adventure stories of its age, Quatermain, with touches of humour and great excitement, tells the tale of their struggle through unmapped Africa in pursuit of unimaginable wealth. [via]
More editions of King Solomon's Mines:
-
Language and Politicsby Noam Chomsky, Carlos P. OteroISBN 1902593820 (1-902593-82-0)
Softcover, A K Pr Distribution
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Language and Politics'Book summary:[via]An enormous chronological collection of over fifty interviews conducted with Chomsky from 1968 to present day. Many of the pieces have never appeared in any other collection, some have never appeared in English, and more than one has been suppressed. This expanded edition contains fifty pages of brand new interviews.
The interviews add a personal dimension to the full breadth of Chomskys impressive written canonequally covering his analysis in linguistics, philosophy, and politics. This updated, annotated, fully indexed new edition contains an extensive bibliography, as well as an intro-duction by editor Carlos Otero on the relationship between Chomskys language and politics.
Praise for previous edition:
"For those who know [Chomsky] only as media analyst and critic of foreign policy, this wide-ranging book offers glimpses of his studies on language, anarchist theory, and critiques of radical politics."NACLA
Noam Chomsky is a renowned scholar, the founder of the modern science of linguistics, a philosopher, a poli-tical and social analyst, a media critic, and author of more than one hundred books. Recipient of numerous prizes and awards, Chomsky ranks with Marx, Shakespeare and the Bible as one of the ten most quoted sources in the -humanities. His previous works include the best selling 9-11, and the critically acclaimed AK Audio Collection.
Carlos Otero, who also edited Radical Priorities by Noam Chomsky, teaches linguistics at the University of California at Los Angeles.
More editions of Language and Politics:
The Little Money Bookby David BoyleISBN 1932857265 (1-932857-26-5)
Softcover, Disinformation Co
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Little Money Book'More editions of The Little Money Book:
Magic for Beginnersby Shelley Jackson, Kelly LinkISBN 1931520151 (1-931520-15-1)
Hardcover, Small Beer Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Magic for Beginners'Book summary:[via]Best of the Decade: Salon, The A.V. Club
"If I had to pick the most powerfully original voice in fantasy today, it would be Kelly Link. Her stories begin in a world very much like our own, but then, following some mysterious alien geometry, they twist themselves into something fantastic and, frequently, horrific. You wont come out the same person you went in."Lev Grossman, The Week
"Highly original."Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"Dazzling."Entertainment Weekly (grade: A, Editors Choice)
"Darkly playful."Michael Chabon
Best of the Year: Time Magazine, Salon, Boldtype, PopMatters.
Kelly Links engaging and funny stories riff on haunted convenience stores, husbands and wives, rabbits, zombies, weekly apocalyptic poker parties, witches, and cannons. Includes Hugo, Nebula, and Locus award winners. A Best of the Year pick from TIME, Salon.com, and Book Sense. Illustrated by Shelley Jackson.
Kelly Link is the author of three collections of short fiction Stranger Things Happen, Magic for Beginners, and Pretty Monsters. Her short stories have won three Nebula, a Hugo, and a World Fantasy Award. She was born in Miami, Florida, and once won a free trip around the world by answering the question Why do you want to go through the world? ( Because you cant go through it. )
Link lives in Northampton, Massachusetts, where she and her husband, Gavin J. Grant, run Small Beer Press, co-edit the fantasy half of The Years Best Fantasy and Horror, and play ping-pong. In 1996 they started the occasional zine Lady Churchills Rosebud Wristlet.
More editions of Magic for Beginners:
Making Capitalism Without Capitalists: Class Formation and Elite Struggles in Post-Communist Central Europeby Ivan Szelenyi, Gil Eyal, Eleanor R. TownsleyISBN 1859843123 (1-85984-312-3)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Making Capitalism Without Capitalists: Class Formation and Elite Struggles in Post-Communist Central Europe'More editions of Making Capitalism Without Capitalists: Class Formation and Elite Struggles in Post-Communist Central Europe:
-
The Making of New World Slavery: From the Baroque to the Modern 1492-1800by Robin BlackburnISBN 1859841953 (1-85984-195-3)
Softcover, Verso Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Making of New World Slavery: From the Baroque to the Modern 1492-1800'Book summary:At the time when European powers colonized the Americas, the institution of slavery had almost disappeared from Europe itself. Having overcome an institution widely regarded as oppressive, why did they sponsor the construction of racial slavery in their new colonies? Robin Blackburn traces European doctrines of race and slavery from medieval times to the early modern epoch, and finds that the stigmatization of the ethno-religious Other was given a callous twist by a new culture of consumption, freed from an earlier moral economy. The Making of New World Slavery argues that independent commerce, geared to burgeoning consumer markets, was the driving force behind the rise of plantation slavery. The baroque state sought - successfully - to batten on this commerce, and - unsuccessfully - to regulate slavery and race. Successive chapters of the book consider the deployment of slaves in the colonial possessions of the Portuguese, the Spanish, the Dutch, the English and the French. Each are shown to have contributed something to the eventual consolidation of racial slavery and to the plantation revolution of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It is shown that plantation slavery emerged from the impulses of civil society rather than from the strategies of the individual states. Robin Blackburn argues that the organization of slave plantations placed the West on a destructive path to modernity and that greatly preferable alternatives were both proposed and rejected. Finally he shows that the surge of Atlantic trade, premised on the killing toil of the plantations, made a decisive contribution to both the Industrial Revolution and the rise of the West. [via]
More editions of The Making of New World Slavery: From the Baroque to the Modern 1492-1800:
Managing Without Management: A Post-Management Manifesto for Business Simplicityby Richard Koch, Ian Godden, Ian GolddenISBN 1857881656 (1-85788-165-6)
Hardcover, Nicholas Brealey Intl
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Managing Without Management: A Post-Management Manifesto for Business Simplicity'More editions of Managing Without Management: A Post-Management Manifesto for Business Simplicity:
-
Marx's Revenge: The Resurgence of Capitalism and the Death of Statist Socialismby Meghnad DesaiISBN 1859844294 (1-85984-429-4)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Marx's Revenge: The Resurgence of Capitalism and the Death of Statist Socialism'Book summary:Meghnad Desai argues that capitalism's recent efflorescence is something Karl Marx anticipated and indeed, in a certain sense, would have welcomed.
In this provocative and enthusiastically revisionist book, the distinguished economist Meghnad Desai argues that capitalism's recent efflorescence is something Karl Marx anticipated and indeed would, in a certain sense, have welcomed. Capitalism, as Marx understood it, would only reach its limits when it was no longer capable of progress. Desai argues that globalization, in bringing the possibility of open competition on world markets to producers in the Third World, has proved that capitalism is still capable of moving forwards. Marx's Revenge opens with a consideration of the ideas of Adam Smith and Hegel. It proceeds to look at the nuances in the work of Marx himself, and concludes with a survey of more recent economists who studied capitalism and attempted to unravel its secrets, including Joseph Schumpeter, John Maynard Keynes and Friedrich Hayek. [via]More editions of Marx's Revenge: The Resurgence of Capitalism and the Death of Statist Socialism:
Masses, Classes and the Public Sphereby Mike Hill, Warren MontagISBN 1859847773 (1-85984-777-3)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Masses, Classes and the Public Sphere'More editions of Masses, Classes and the Public Sphere:
-
Moll Flandersby Daniel DefoeISBN 1853260738 (1-85326-073-8)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Moll Flanders'Book summary:The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders &c. (1722) by Daniel Defoe is a picaresque adventure-filled life story of a tenacious, smart, beautiful, and charismatic woman who aspires to be a lady but who begins her life as the daughter of a convict in Newgate prison.
At various points engaging in prostitution, incest, theft, cons and machinations, and ultimately finding penitence, security, and true love, is Moll Flanders an amoral criminal or a sympathetic woman trying to survive harsh circumstances and better her life? [via]
Myth of the Market: Promises and Illusionsby Jeremy SeabrookISBN 1870098366 (1-870098-36-6)
Softcover, Green Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Myth of the Market: Promises and Illusions'More editions of Myth of the Market: Promises and Illusions:
-
Naked Among Cannibals: What Really Happens Inside Australian Banksby Graham HandISBN 186508431X (1-86508-431-X)
Softcover, Allen & Unwin
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Naked Among Cannibals: What Really Happens Inside Australian Banks'Book summary:This insiders story explores how Australian banks have lost the trust and respect of their customers by relentlessly pursuing profits. It describes the various new devices implemented by the State Bank and adopted by other banks to increase their revenues to the detriment of their staff and customers.[via]More editions of Naked Among Cannibals: What Really Happens Inside Australian Banks:
Neo-Liberalism or Democracy?: Economic Strategy, Markets, and Alternatives for the 21st Centuryby Arthur MacEwanISBN 1856497259 (1-85649-725-9)
Softcover, Zed Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Neo-Liberalism or Democracy?: Economic Strategy, Markets, and Alternatives for the 21st Century'More editions of Neo-Liberalism or Democracy?: Economic Strategy, Markets, and Alternatives for the 21st Century:
Neotopia #3: The Kingdoms Beyondby Rod EspinosaISBN 193245375X (1-932453-75-X)
Softcover, Antarctic Press Incorporated
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Neotopia #3: The Kingdoms Beyond'More editions of Neotopia #3: The Kingdoms Beyond:
Neotopia Color Mangaby Rod EspinosaISBN 1932453571 (1-932453-57-1)
Softcover, Antarctic Press Incorporated
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Neotopia Color Manga'More editions of Neotopia Color Manga:
Neotopia Vol. 2: The Perilous Winds of Athanonby Rod EspinosaISBN 193245358X (1-932453-58-X)
Softcover, Antarctic Press Incorporated
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Neotopia Vol. 2: The Perilous Winds of Athanon'More editions of Neotopia Vol. 2: The Perilous Winds of Athanon:
-
The New Spirit of Capitalismby Luc Boltanski, Eve Chiapello, Gregory ElliottISBN 1859845541 (1-85984-554-1)
Hardcover, Verso Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The New Spirit of Capitalism'Book summary:A century after the publication of Max Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the "Spirit" of Capitalism, a major new work examines network-based organization, employee autonomy and post-Fordist horizontal work structures.
In this major work, the sociologists Eve Chiapello and Luc Boltanski go to the heart of the changes in contemporary business culture.
Via an unprecedented analysis of the latest management texts that have formed the thinking of employers in their organization of business, the authors trace the contours of a new spirit of capitalism. They argue that from the middle of the 1970s onwards, capitalism abandoned the hierarchical Fordist work structure and developed a new network-based form of organization which was founded on employee initiative and autonomy in the workplace a 'freedom' that came at the cost of material and psychological security.
The authors connect this new spirit with the children of the libertarian and romantic currents of the late 1960s (as epitomised by dressed-down. cool capitalists such as Bill Gates and 'Ben and Jerry') arguing that they practice a more successful and subtle form of exploitation.
In a work that is already a classic in Europe, Boltanski and Chiapello show how the new spirit triumphed thanks to a remarkable recuperation of the Left's critique of the alienation of everyday life a recuperation that simultaneously undermined the power of its social critique.
[via]More editions of The New Spirit of Capitalism:
The No-Nonsense Guide to Globalizationby Wayne EllwoodISBN 1904456448 (1-904456-44-8)
Softcover, New Internationalist Pubns Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The No-Nonsense Guide to Globalization'Book summary:Commercial culture and the Western consumer model have seeped into every corner of the globe while gaps in wealth, food security and social provision continue to grow. This "No Nonsense Guide to Globalisation" acknowledges the seductive and powerful promise of a 'borderless' world but probes deeper to find a money-mad juggernaut, spinning wildly out of control, threatening both cultural and biological diversity. This is a stinging critique of the orthodoxy of economic growth in a world of finite natural resources and a blueprint for a new economic architecture. [via]
More editions of The No-Nonsense Guide to Globalization:
-
A Numberby Caryl ChurchillISBN 1854597094 (1-85459-709-4)
Hardcover, Nick Hern Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'A Number'More editions of A Number:
-
Oliver Twistby Charles DickensISBN 1853260126 (1-85326-012-6)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Oliver Twist'Book summary:Introduction and Notes by Dr Ella Westland, University of Exeter Dickens had already achieved renown with The Pickwick Papers. With Oliver Twist his reputation was enhanced and strengthened. The novel contains many classic Dickensian themes - grinding poverty, desperation, fear, temptation and the eventual triumph of good in the face of great adversity. Oliver Twist features some of the author's most enduring characters, such as Oliver himself (Who dares to ask for more), the tyrannical Bumble, the diabolical Fagin, the menacing Bill Sykes, Nancy and 'the Artful Dodger'. [via]
More editions of Oliver Twist:
-
On Warby Karl Von ClausewitzISBN 1853264822 (1-85326-482-2)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'On War'Book summary:On War is perhaps the greatest book ever written about war. Carl von Clausewitz, a Prussian soldier, had witnessed at first hand the immense destructive power of the French Revolutionary armies which swept across Europe between 1792 and 1815. His response was to write a comprehensive text covering every aspect of warfare. On War is both a philosophical and practical work in which Clausewitz defines the essential nature of war, debates the qualities of the great commander, assesses the relative strengths of defensive and offensive warfare, and - in highly controversial passages - considers the relationship between war and politics. His arguments are illustrated with vivid examples drawn from the campaigns of Frederick the Great and Napoleon Bonaparte. For the student of society as well as the military historian, On War remains a compelling and indispensable source. [via]
More editions of On War:
-
One of a Kind: The Story of Bankers Trust Australia, 1969-99by Gideon HaighISBN 1876485124 (1-876485-12-4)
Hardcover, Text Publishing
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'One of a Kind: The Story of Bankers Trust Australia, 1969-99'More editions of One of a Kind: The Story of Bankers Trust Australia, 1969-99:
The Origins of Postmodernityby Perry AndersonISBN 1859842224 (1-85984-222-4)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Origins of Postmodernity'More editions of The Origins of Postmodernity:
-
Passages from Antiquity to Feudalismby Perry AndersonISBN 1859841074 (1-85984-107-4)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism'Book summary:The rise of the modern absolutist monarchies in Europe constitutes in many ways the birth of the modern historical epoch. Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism, the companion volume to Perry Anderson's highly acclaimed and influential Lineages of the Absolutist State, is a sustained exercise in historical sociology to root the development of absolutism in the diverse routes taken from the slave-based societies of Ancient Greece and Rome to fully-fledged feudalism. In the course of this study Anderson vindicates and refines the explanatory power of a Marxist conception of history, whilst casting a fascinating light on Greece, Rome, the Germanic invasions, nomadic society, and the different patterns of the evolution of feudalism in Northern, Mediterranean, Eastern and Western Europe. [via]
More editions of Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism:
-
Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale: Women in the International Division of Labourby Maria MiesISBN 1856497356 (1-85649-735-6)
Softcover, Zed Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale: Women in the International Division of Labour'Book summary:This now classic book traces the social origins of the sexual division of labor. It gives a history of the related processes of colonization and "housewifization" and extends this analysis to the contemporary new international division of labor and the role that women have to play as the cheapest producers and consumers. First published in 1986, it was hailed as a major paradigm shift for feminist theory. Eleven years on, Maria Mies' theory of capitalist patriarchy has become even more relevant; this new edition includes a substantial new introduction in which she both applies her theory to the new globalized world and answers her critics.[via]More editions of Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale: Women in the International Division of Labour:
- Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale : Women in the International Division of Labour: ISBN 1856497348 (1-85649-734-8)
Hardcover, Zed Books, Limited - Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale: Women in the International Division of Labour: ISBN 1856497356 (1-85649-735-6)
Softcover, Zed Books
- Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale : Women in the International Division of Labour: ISBN 1856497348 (1-85649-734-8)
Pig and the Skyscraper : Chicago a History of Our Futureby Marco D'EramoISBN 1859844987 (1-85984-498-7)
Softcover, Verso Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Pig and the Skyscraper : Chicago a History of Our Future'Book summary:D'Eramo presents an invigorating history that transforms the way we think about the city and the development of American capitalism.
Like a cross between Philip Marlowe and Walter Benjamin, Marco dEramo stalks the streets of Chicago, leaving no myth unturned. Maintaining a Europeans detached gaze, he slowly comes to recognize the familiar stink of modernity that blows across the Windy City, the origins of whose greatness (the slaughterhouses, the railroads, the lumber and cereal-crop trades) are by now ancient history, and where what rears its head today is already scheduled for tomorrows chopping block.
Chicago has been the stage for some of modernitys key episodes: the birth of the skyscraper, the rise of urban sociology, the worlds first atomic reactor, the hard-nosed monetarism of the Chicago School. Here in this postmodern Babel, where the contradictions of American society are writ large, dEramo bears witness to the revolutionary, subversive power of capitalism at its purest.
[via]More editions of Pig and the Skyscraper : Chicago a History of Our Future:
-
Reading Capitalby Louis AlthusserISBN 1859841643 (1-85984-164-3)
Softcover, Verso Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Reading Capital'Book summary:Together with Louis Althusser's book For Marx, Reading Capital represents one of the foundational texts of the school of "structuralist Marxism" which transformed the face of modern philosophy and social theory. Presided over by the magnetic and intellectually coruscating figure of Althusser, the structuralist Marxists attempted no less than an intellectual revolution against dominant interpretations of Marx. Seeking to cleanse Marx of all Hegelian impurities and recast his thought on a rigorously scientific basis, in this work Althusser and one of his most brilliant students and colleagues, Etienne Balibar, subjected Marx's method in Capital, his critique of classical political economy, and the fundamental terms of historical materialism, to searching textual analysis and challenging conceptual reconstruction. Inaugurating a new way of reading Marx that was to prove both intensely stimulating and capable of generating fierce controversy, Reading Capital is a work that cannot be bypassed by anyone interested in Marxism, and in theory more generally, in this century. [via]
More editions of Reading Capital:
Redistribution or Recognition: A Philosophical Exchangeby Nancy Fraser, Axel Honneth, Joel Golb, Christiane Wilke, James IngramISBN 1859844928 (1-85984-492-8)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Redistribution or Recognition: A Philosophical Exchange'More editions of Redistribution or Recognition: A Philosophical Exchange:
Rethinking Liberalismby Richard BellamyISBN 1855674858 (1-85567-485-8)
Softcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Rethinking Liberalism'More editions of Rethinking Liberalism:
The Retreat from Class: The New 'True' Socialismby Ellen Meiksins WoodISBN 1859842704 (1-85984-270-4)
Softcover, Verso Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Retreat from Class: The New 'True' Socialism'More editions of The Retreat from Class: The New 'True' Socialism:
-
Robinson Crusoeby Daniel DefoeISBN 1853260452 (1-85326-045-2)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Robinson Crusoe'Book summary:With an Introduction and Notes by Doreen Roberts, Rutherford College, University of Kent at Canterbury From its first publication in 1719, Robinson Crusoe has been printed in over 700 editions. It has inspired almost every conceivable kind of imitation and variation, and been the subject of plays, opera, cartoons, and computer games. The character of Crusoe has entered the consciousness of each succeeding generation as readers add their own interpretation to the adventures so thrillingly 'recorded' by Defoe. Praised by eminent figures such as Coleridge, Rousseau and Wordsworth, this perennially popular book was cited by Karl Marx in Das Kapital to illustrate economic theory. However it is readers of all ages over the last 280 years who have given Robinson Crusoe its abiding position as a classic tale of adventure. [via]
More editions of Robinson Crusoe:
-
A Shop Full of Dreams: Ethnic Small Business in Australiaby Jock CollinsISBN 1864030070 (1-86403-007-0)
Hardcover, Pluto Press Australia
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'A Shop Full of Dreams: Ethnic Small Business in Australia'More editions of A Shop Full of Dreams: Ethnic Small Business in Australia:
Spaces of Global Capitalismby David HarveyISBN 1844675505 (1-84467-550-5)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Spaces of Global Capitalism'More editions of Spaces of Global Capitalism:
State, Power, Socialismby N. PoulantzasISBN 1859842747 (1-85984-274-7)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'State, Power, Socialism'More editions of State, Power, Socialism:
-
The System of Objectsby Jean Baudrillard, James BenedictISBN 185984068X (1-85984-068-X)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The System of Objects'Book summary:Published for the first time in English, this is Jean Baudrillard's earliest book, written in 1968, at a time when (as the author would put it later), "The society of the spectacle and its denunciation were still the focal point of semiological, psychoanalytical and sociological arguments". Pressing Freudian and Saussurean categories into the service of a basically Marxist perspective, this book offers a cultural critique of the commodity in consumer society. Baudrillard classifies the everyday objects of the "new technical order" as functional, non-functional and metafunctional. He contrasts "modern" and "traditional" functional objects, subjecting home furnishing and interior design to a celebrated semiological analysis. His treatment of non-functional or "marginal" objects focuses on antiques and the psychology of collecting, while the metafunctional category extends to the useless, the aberrant and even the "schizofunctional". Finally, Baudrillard deals at length with the implications of credit and advertising for the commodification of everyday life. This book is an in-depth study of the materialist semiotics of the early Baudrillard, who emerges in retrospect as something of a lightning rod for the live ideas of the day: Bataille's political economy of "expenditure" and Mauss's theory of the gift; Reisman's "lonely crowd" and the "technological society" of Jacques Ellul; the struturalism of Roland Barthes in "The System of Fashion"; Henri Lefebvre's work on the social construction of space; and Guy Debord's situationist critique of the spectacle. [via]
More editions of The System of Objects:
Things Fall Apart: A History of the State Bank of South Australiaby Greg McCarthyISBN 1875606963 (1-875606-96-3)
Hardcover, Australian Scholarly Publishing
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Things Fall Apart: A History of the State Bank of South Australia'More editions of Things Fall Apart: A History of the State Bank of South Australia:
The Third Wave: Australia and Asian Capitalismby E. L. Wheelwright, Abe David, Left Book Club Co-operativeISBN 1875285008 (1-875285-00-8)
Hardcover, Left Book Club Co-operative Ltd
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Third Wave: Australia and Asian Capitalism'More editions of The Third Wave: Australia and Asian Capitalism:
-
The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Classby David R. RoedigerISBN 1859842402 (1-85984-240-2)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class'Book summary:Combining classical Marxism, psychoanalysis, and the new labor history pioneered by E. P. Thompson and Herbert Gutman, David Roedigers widely acclaimed book provides an original study of the formative years of working-class racism in the United States. This, he argues, cannot be explained simply with reference to economic advantage; rather, white working-class racism is underpinned by a complex series of psychological and ideological mechanisms that reinforce racial stereotypes, and thus help to forge the identities of white workers in opposition to Blacks.
In an afterword to this new edition, Roediger discusses recent studies of whiteness and the changing face of labor itself. He surveys criticism of his work, accepting many objections whilst challenging others, especially the view that the study of working class racism implies a rejection of Marxism and radical politics. [via]More editions of The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class:
-
Walt Disney's the Life and Times of Scrooge Mcduck Companionby Don RosaISBN 1888472405 (1-888472-40-5)
Softcover, Gemstone Pub
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Walt Disney's the Life and Times of Scrooge Mcduck Companion'Book summary:Want more of Don Rosa's monumental The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck? The Life of Scrooge McDuck Companion is it, six new chapters that weave through the original 12 that have the pre-miser Scrooge encountering Magica De Spell, the Beagle Boys, Annie Oakley and other Western icons, and Teddy Roosevelt at the Panama Canal. Even better, "The Prisoner of White Agony Creek" and "Hearts of the Yukon" reveal Scrooge's (gasp) romantic side in his brief but intense relationship with Glittering Goldie. Filling out the volume are an excerpt from another Rosa tale of the early Scrooge, "Last Sled to Dawson," and "The Dream of a Lifetime," which puts an amusing time-travel spin on a number of the Life and Times chapters. If you haven't already read the complete "Last Sled to Dawson," however, you'll have to pick it up elsewhere, like in the Uncle Scrooge & Donald Duck: Don Rosa Special or Uncle Scrooge #350. --David Horiuchi [via]
More editions of Walt Disney's the Life and Times of Scrooge Mcduck Companion:
Wasted: Counting the Costs of Global Consumptionby Michael RedcliftISBN 185383355X (1-85383-355-X)
Softcover, Stylus Pub Llc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Wasted: Counting the Costs of Global Consumption'More editions of Wasted: Counting the Costs of Global Consumption:
-
Watching China Change, 1976-1999by Robert C. CosbeyISBN 1896357431 (1-896357-43-1)
Softcover, Between the Lines
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Watching China Change, 1976-1999'Book summary:Between May, 1976, while Mao was still alive, and 1997, when Deng Xioaping died, was a time of tremendous change in China: from the "Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution" to the affluent eighties and nineties, from socialism to what looks like unrestrained capitalism, and from a mysterious country wrapped in isolation to one of the key players in modern international affairs. It's a dramatic story that involves a fifth of the human race and impinges on the rest.
"I am moved to get down on paper my memories and observations about my twenty-five year experience with China. Neither a eulogy nor an exposé, just as honest an account as I can make it of the China I saw and experienced." [via]More editions of Watching China Change, 1976-1999:
What Uncle Sam Really Wantsby Noam ChomskyISBN 1878825011 (1-878825-01-1)
Softcover, Odonian Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'What Uncle Sam Really Wants'More editions of What Uncle Sam Really Wants:
French
-
LA Constance Du Jardinierby John Le CarreISBN 2020557215 (2-02-055721-5)
Hardcover, Distribooks Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'LA Constance Du Jardinier'Book summary:Le diplomate Justin Quayle est affecté à Nairobi, Kenya, au haut commissariat britannique qu'il représente au C.E.D.A.O., un organisme chargé de contrôler l'action humanitaire en Afrique. Sa séduisante épouse, la jeune avocate Tessa, scandalisée par la misère qu'elle découvre dans ce pays, milite aux côtés de membres d'O.N.G. et dénonce divers scandales dans une série de documents qu'elle adresse au ministère britannique. Alors qu'elle était partie en mission dans le nord du pays, on la retrouve assassinée dans sa Jeep près du lac Turkana. Le médecin africain Arnold Bluhm qui l'accompagnait, et que la rumeur considère comme son amant, est porté disparu. Deux policiers venus de Londres interrogent Justin Quayle. Ils le soupçonnent d'avoir fait exécuter sa femme par jalousie. Finalement disculpé, il rentre à Londres en ayant soustrait aux autorités une partie des documents de Tessa. Sous une fausse identité, il décide de se lancer à la recherche des assassins.
Parfaitement construit avec une série de retours en arrière judicieusement imbriqués, La Constance du jardinier raconte comment, par amour pour son épouse disparue, Justin va brusquement prendre conscience de la grande misère des Africains et de l'exploitation qu'ils continuent de subir à cause des multinationales et de la complicité des gouvernements de pays industrialisés. Un admirable récit à la John Le Carré. --Claude Mesplède [via]
More editions of LA Constance Du Jardinier:
Contre-Feux 2: Pour Un Mouvement Social Europeenby Pierre BourdieuISBN 291210713X (2-912107-13-X)
Hardcover, Raisons d'agir
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Contre-Feux 2: Pour Un Mouvement Social Europeen'More editions of Contre-Feux 2: Pour Un Mouvement Social Europeen:
-
Les Damnes De La Terreby Frantz FanonISBN 2707115142 (2-7071-1514-2)
Hardcover, Editions La Decouverte
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Les Damnes De La Terre'More editions of Les Damnes De La Terre:
-
Le Meilleur Des Mondesby Aldous HuxleyISBN 2266113135 (2-266-11313-5)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Le Meilleur Des Mondes'Book summary:16,8x10,8x1,8cm. Poche. [via]
More editions of Le Meilleur Des Mondes:
-
Plateformeby HoullebeqcISBN 2290321230 (2-290-32123-0)
Softcover, Librio
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Plateforme'Book summary:De l'exotisme et du pittoresque, du sexe et du fanatisme, tels sont les ingrédients (torrides et subversifs) de Plateforme, dernier roman de Michel Houellebecq, probablement l'écrivain le plus controversé aujourd'hui& Michel est un employé du ministère de la Culture. Il vit simplement, au rythme des feuilletons et des jeux télé, des peep shows au sortir du boulot, des purées Mousline dégluties machinalement& À la mort de son père, "un vieux con", il se décide pour un séjour en Thaïlande, en "voyage organisé" sous la houlette de Nouvelles Frontières. Accompagné par une galerie de "beaufs", armés du Guide du routard, le narrateur visite les sites touristiques de Bangkok à Surat Thani, de Patong Beach à Koh Phi Phi, se livre au plaisir du body massage, quête les bars à putes, se lie avec Valérie. Ensemble, ils voyageront à Cuba, multipliant les expériences sexuelles, ici et là&
Cinglant et drôle, rarement avare d'outrances (sexuelles), observateur attentif, sarcastique même, l'écrivain ne rate rien de son époque. Fable sur les voyages organisés, regard sur le tourisme sexuel et le "déploiement du monde", Plateforme aurait pu n'être qu'un exercice littéraire de dénonciation mise en scène par une sensibilité exacerbée. Si le texte connaît des longueurs, c'est aussi le juste portrait d'une société moyenne, peuplée d'individus moyens, parfois médiocres, avec ses paradis et ses enfers. --Céline Darner [via]
More editions of Plateforme:
-
Spectres De Marx: L'etat De La Dette, Le Travail Du Deuil Et La Nouvelle Internationaleby Jacques DerridaISBN 2718604298 (2-7186-0429-8)
Hardcover, Editions Galilee
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Spectres De Marx: L'etat De La Dette, Le Travail Du Deuil Et La Nouvelle Internationale'Book summary:- Galilée, Paris _1993, 15x24cm, broché, broché. - Edition originale dont il n'a pas été tiré de grands papiers. §Envoi autographe signé de l'auteur à un proche ami. §Dos très légèrement insolé, agréable exemplaire. [via]
More editions of Spectres De Marx: L'etat De La Dette, Le Travail Du Deuil Et La Nouvelle Internationale:
German
Faserland: Romanby Christian KrachtISBN 3462024078 (3-462-02407-8)
Hardcover, Kiepenheuer & Witsch
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Faserland: Roman'More editions of Faserland: Roman:
-
McKinsey Kommt. Molieres Tartuffe: Zwei Theaterstuckeby Moliere, Rolf HochhuthISBN 3423131349 (3-423-13134-9)
Softcover, Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'McKinsey Kommt. Molieres Tartuffe: Zwei Theaterstucke'More editions of McKinsey Kommt. Molieres Tartuffe: Zwei Theaterstucke:
![[powered by Muze Inc.]](http://i.bookfinder.com/images/site/muze/powered_by_muze.gif){kind=small}