"The Condition of Postmodernity is David Harvey's seminal history of our most equivocal of eras. What does postmodernism mean? Where did it come from? Harvey, a professor of geography and a key mover behind extending the scope and influence of the discipline of geography itself, does a thorough job here delineating the passage through to postmodernity and the economic, social, and political changes that underscored and accompanied it. As ..."
Red Letter Ser. The Anti-Capitalist Chronicles by DavidHarvey Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2020 by Pluto Press, United Kingdom ISBN-13: 978-0-7453-4209-2, ISBN: 0-7453-4209-4
"A new book from one of the most cited authors in the humanities andsocial sciences."
Birmingham in the Age of the Tram The Eastern and Western Routes (Road Transport Heritage) by DavidHarvey Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2003 by Silver Link Pub Ltd ISBN-13: 978-1-85794-183-8, ISBN: 1-85794-183-7
"During 1990-94, many locomotive classes became extinct, but new builds helped to redress the balance. Speedlink ended, but the first Eurostars appeared. In the final year, 1994, the Channel Tunnel opened. All these developments and more are chronicled here, using superb pictures by some of the country's leading photographers to record the end of an important railway era."
Spaces of Global Capitalism(Reprint) A Theory of Uneven Geographical Development by DavidHarvey Paperback, 154 Pages, Published 2019 by Verso ISBN-13: 978-1-78873-465-3, ISBN: 1-78873-465-3
"Fiscal crises have cascaded across much of the developing world with devastating results, from Mexico to Indonesia, Russia and Argentina. The extreme volatility in contemporary political economic fortunes seems to mock our best efforts to understand the forces that drive development in the world economy.David Harvey is the single most important geographer writing today and a leading social theorist of our age, offering a comprehensive c ..."
Rebel Cities(Reprint) From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution by DavidHarvey Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2019 by Verso ISBN-13: 978-1-78873-492-9, ISBN: 1-78873-492-0
"Long before Occupy, cities were the subject of much utopian thinking. They are the centers of capital accumulation as well as of revolutionary politics, where deeper currents of social and political change rise to the surface. Do the financiers and developers control access to urban resources or do the people? Who dictates the quality and organization of daily life?Rebel Cities places the city at the heart of both capital and class stru ..."
"The radical geographer guides us through the classic text of political economy."My aim is to get you to read a book by Karl Marx called Capital, Volume 1, and to read it on Marx's own terms..." The biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression has generated a surge of interest in Marx's work in the effort to understand the origins of our current predicament. For nearly forty years, David Harvey has written and lectured on Capital, ..."
The Limits to Capital(Reprint) by DavidHarvey Paperback, 512 Pages, Published 2018 by Verso ISBN-13: 978-1-78873-101-0, ISBN: 1-78873-101-8
"A major rereading of Marx’s critique of political economy Now a classic of Marxian economics, The Limits to Capital provides one of the best theoretical guides to the history and geography of capitalist development. In this edition, Harvey updates his seminal text with a substantial discussion of the turmoil in world markets today. Delving into concepts such as “fictitious capital” and “uneven geographical development,” Harvey takes the ..."
Enigma of Capital How Capitalism Dominates the World and How We Can Master Its Mood Swings by DavidHarvey Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2011 by Profile Books(Gb) ISBN-13: 978-1-84668-309-1, ISBN: 1-84668-309-2
"In this title, radical sociologist David Harvey explains how capitalism came to dominate the world, why it resulted in the current financial crisis - and why it's time for a change. For three centuries the capitalist system has shaped western society, informed its rulers, and conditioned the lives of its people. Has the time come to move beyond it? Using his unrivalled knowledge of the subject, Harvey lays bare the follies of the intern ..."
The Enigma of Capital(2nd Edition) And the Crises of Capitalism by DavidHarvey Hardcover, 304 Pages, Published 2010 by Oxford University Press, Usa ISBN-13: 978-0-19-975871-5, ISBN: 0-19-975871-9
"For over forty years, David Harvey has been one of the world's most trenchant and critical analysts of capitalist development. In The Enigma of Capital, he delivers an impassioned account of how unchecked neoliberalism produced the system-wide crisis that now engulfs the world. Beginning in the 1970s, profitability pressures led the capitalist class in advanced countries to shift away from investment in industrial production at home to ..."
"A quiz book of commonly encountered conditions in neonatology, giving practice in visual recognition. The high quality colour pictures provide a wider range of conditions that would normally be seen in short clinical attachment, and the associated questions/answers make the book ideal for learning, self testing, and exam revision. This book complements the Colour Guide volumes NEONATOLOGY and PAEDIATRICS and is by the same authors."
"This book engages with the politics of social and environmental justice, and seeks new ways to think about the future of urbanization in the twenty-first century. It establishes foundational concepts for understanding how space, time, place and nature - the material frames of daily life - are constituted and represented through social practices, not as separate elements but in relation to each other. It describes how geographical differ ..."
The Ways of the World (Hardback) by DavidHarvey Hardcover, 368 Pages, Published 2016 by Profile Books ISBN-13: 978-1-78125-531-5, ISBN: 1-78125-531-8
"This book presents a sequence of landmark works in David Harvey's intellectual journey over five decades. It shows how experiencing the riots, despair and injustice of 1970s Baltimore led him to seek an explanation of capitalist inequalities via Marx and to a sustained intellectual engagement that has made him the world's leading exponent of Marx's work. The book takes the reader through the development of his unique synthesis of Marxis ..."
""What I am seeking here is a better understanding of the contradictions of capital, not of capitalism. I want to know how the economic engine of capitalism works the way it does, and why it might stutter and stall and sometimes appear to be on the verge of collapse. I also want to show why this economic engine should be replaced, and with what." --from the IntroductionTo modern Western society, capitalism is the air we breathe, and most ..."
The Enigma of Capital(2nd Edition) and the Crises of Capitalism by DavidHarvey Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2011 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-983684-0, ISBN: 0-19-983684-1
"For over forty years, David Harvey has been one of the world's most trenchant and critical analysts of capitalist development. In The Enigma of Capital, he delivers an impassioned account of how unchecked neoliberalism produced the system-wide crisis that now engulfs the world. Beginning in the 1970s, profitability pressures led the capitalist class in advanced countries to shift away from investment in industrial production at h ..."
Grape Britain(1st Edition) A Tour of Britain's Vineyards by DavidHarvey Paperback, 246 Pages, Published 2008 by Neil Wilson Pub Ltd ISBN-13: 978-1-903238-45-5, ISBN: 1-903238-45-5
"In 2006, a British sparkling wine was voted best in the world. Sound too good to be true? It isn't. At the time of the compilation of the "Domesday Book" in the late 11th century, vineyards were recorded in 46 places in southern England, from East Anglia through to modern-day Somerset. By the time Henry VIII ascended the throne there were 139 sizable vineyards in England and Wales - 11 of them owned by the Crown, 67 by noble families an ..."
Hidden Gems of the Black Country An Appreciation of Britain's Heritage Treasures (Heritage of Britain) by DavidHarvey, Eric Richardson Paperback, 128 Pages, Published 2007 by Silver Link Publishing Ltd ISBN-13: 978-1-85794-261-3, ISBN: 1-85794-261-2
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Crossing Frontiers(1st Edition) Gerontology Emerges as a Science by DavidHarvey, W. Andrew Achenbaum Paperback, 254 Pages, Published 2007 by Oxford University Press, Usa ISBN-13: 978-0-19-928327-9, ISBN: 0-19-928327-3
"Neoliberalism - the doctrine that market exchange is an ethic in itself, capable of acting as a guide for all human action - has become dominant in both thought and practice throughout much of the world since 1970 or so. Its spread has depended upon a reconstitution of state powers such that privatization, finance, and market processes are emphasized. State interventions in the economy are minimized, while the obligations of the state t ..."
The Limits to Capital(Updated) by DavidHarvey Paperback, 478 Pages, Published 2007 by Verso ISBN-13: 978-1-84467-095-6, ISBN: 1-84467-095-3
"A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.\n\nOn its first appearance in 1982, David Harvey's Limits to Capital was described in Monthly Review as 'a unique and insightful theory of capital', and praised in Environment and Planning as 'a magnificent achievement, [one of] the most complete, readable, lucid and least partisan exegesis, cr ..."
Spaces of Global Capitalism(1st Edition) A Theory of Uneven Geographical Development by DavidHarvey Paperback, 154 Pages, Published 2006 by Verso ISBN-13: 978-1-84467-550-0, ISBN: 1-84467-550-5
"An essential introduction to the field of historical geography, which offers a radical new way of understanding global capitalism. Fiscal crises have cascaded across much of the developing world with devastating results, from Mexico to Indonesia, Russia and Argentina. The extreme volatility in contemporary political economic fortunes seems to mock our best efforts to understand the forces that drive development in the world econom ..."
Paris, Capital of Modernity(1st Edition) by DavidHarvey Paperback, 384 Pages, Published 2005 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-415-95220-0, ISBN: 0-415-95220-4
"Collecting David Harvey's finest work on Paris during the second empire, Paris, Capital of Modernity offers brilliant insights ranging from the birth of consumerist spectacle on the Parisian boulevards, the creative visions of Balzac, Baudelaire and Zola, and the reactionary cultural politics of the bombastic Sacre Couer. The book is heavily illustrated and includes a number drawings, portraits and cartoons by Daumier, one of the greate ..."