' The most important book about our economy & society to be published in my lifetime' Irvine Welsh From Paul Mason the award-winning Channel 4 presenter Postcapitalism is a guide to our era of seismic economic change & how we can build a more equal society Over the past two centuries or so capitalism has undergone continual change
- economic cycles that lurch from boom to bust
- & has always emerged transformed & strengthened Surveying this turbulent history Paul Mason wonders whether today we are on the brink of a change so big so profound that this time capitalism itself the immensely complex system by which entire societies function has reached its limits & is changing into something wholly new At the heart of this change is information technology a revolution that as Mason shows has the potential to reshape utterly our familiar notions of work production & value; & to destroy an economy based on markets & private ownership
- in fact he contends it is already doing so In this groundbreaking Sunday Times top ten book Mason shows how from the ashes of the recent financial crisis we have the chance to create a more socially just & sustainable global economy


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This is story of Loyal Blood a man who spends a lifetime on the run from a crime so terrible that it renders him forever incapable of touching a woman The odyssey begins on a freezing Vermont hillside in 1944 & propels Blood across the American West for forty years Denied love & unable to settle he lives a hundred different lives mining gold growing beans hunting fossils trapping prospecting for uranium & ranching His only contact with his past is through a series of postcards he sends home
- not realising that in his absence disaster has befallen his family & their deep-rooted connection with the land has been severed with devastating consequences Postcards' was Annie Proulx's first novel which received huge acclaim & marked the launch of an outstanding literary career Her works include short story collections Bad Dirt' Close Range' (featuring Brokeback Mountain') & novels such as The Shipping News' & Accordion Crimes'
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A collection of 100 postcards each featuring a different & iconic Penguin book jacket From classics to crime here are over seventy years of quintessentially British design in one box In 1935 Allen Lane stood on a platform at Exeter railway station looking for a good book for the journey to London His disappointment at the poor range of paperbacks on offer led him to found Penguin Books The quality paperback had arrived Declaring that &good design is no more expensive than bad& Lane was adamant that his Penguin paperbacks should cost no more than a packet of cigarettes but that they should always look distinctive Ever since then from their original
- now world-famous
- look featuring three bold horizontal stripes through many different stylish inventive & iconic cover designs Penguin&s paperback jackets have been a constantly evolving part of Britain&s culture & whether they&re for classics crime reference or prize-winning novels they still follow Allen Lane&s original design mantra Sometimes you definitely should judge a book by its cover

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A unique collection of 100 postcards each featuring a different & iconic Puffin book cover From picture books to paperbacks teen fiction to Puffin Classics this is a selection from seventy years of outstanding British design & illustration in one sturdy little box ...

Have you ever wanted to receive a personal message from the Other Side? Now you can! Imagine travelling to a sacred place where you are able to receive communication from your loved ones who have passed on your ancestors your spirit guides or even your guardian angels What if they knew what you needed to know about every aspect of your life's journey? What if when you asked for advice or a sign about your direction you could receive it in the form of a postcard from Spirit? Colette Baron-Reid has created this original & unique oracle card system to open a portal to the 'other side' of the veil Through a compassionate & sometimes playful chorus of voices it's as if you were receiving a postcard just for you from another dimension
- a message that carries profound meaning as well as practical advice Ask your loved ones spirit guides or guardian angels to help guide you in all of life's issues Pose a question & a postcard from Spirit will show up with just the right answer!
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play A film by Mike Nichols of Carrie Fisher's semi-autobiographical novel Postcards from the Edge is an intermittently hilarious occasionally tear-stained account of an actress' struggle with addiction & with her competitive star mother Meryl Streep turns in yet another flawlessly perfect performance as Suzanne who is coping with cleaning up while making yet another idiot cop film Shirley Maclaine is effective & overpowering as her hard-drinking Old Hollywood star mother perpetually trying to remould her daughter singing Sondheim songs at parties showing off her still-perfect legs & occasionally driving into trees Among the many guest stars Dennis Quaid is self-effacingly unpleasant as an unreliable boyfriend Gene Hackman charismatic as a fatherly director & Annette Benning impressive in a cameo as a starlet rival Nichols' standard slickness is very much on display here; this is perhaps too obviously manipulative a film in which the emotional detail is never quite as impressive as the central performances & script deserve Actors Meryl Streep Shirley Mac Laine Dennis Quaid Gene Hackman Richard Dreyfuss Directors Mike Nichols Writers Carrie Fisher Producers Mike Nichols John Calley Neil A Machlis Robert Greenhut Susan Mac Nair Format PALLanguage English Region Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe Read more about DVD formats) Number of discs 1 ...

The New Yorker was launched in 1925 & offers reporting criticism essays fiction poetry humour & cartoons From the very outset the founders Harold Ross & Jane Grant declared that their sophisticated magazine was 'not edited for the old lady in Dubuque' The New Yorker has also offered great literature in short stories from such acclaimed writers as John Cheever Roald Dahl Alice Munro Haruki Murakami Vladimir Nabokov J D Salinger & Shirley Jackson From the very first issue the now iconic monocled dandy Eustace Tilley made The New Yorker's covers unique & pointed These signature traits have continued right up to the present day in the striking & sometimes controversial covers from such artists as Peter Arno William Steig Saul Steinberg Jean-Jacques Sempe & Art Spiegelman Selected by Francoise Mouly ...

A collection of 100 postcards each featuring a striking cover from American Vogue From early aspirational illustrations to modern celebrity photography this is a stunning selection of Vogue's most dazzling images Since its launch in 1892 Vogue has brought sophistication to its readers around the world Early illustrations from artists including George Wolfe Plank Olive Tilton Pierre Brissaud & Eduardo Garcia Benito saw ethereal figures of fantasy develop into red-lipped flappers & as colour photographs began to appear the women transformed again from Surrealist images by Horst P Horst to 'women in the life of the moment' captured by Irving Penn From the fifties onwards Vogue women became more accessible still as models & stars like Elizabeth Taylor Goldie Hawn Cindy Crawford & Cher with their own distinct personalities appeared through the lenses of Richard Avedon & Snowdon Vogue covers now are the epitome of style & beauty with such illustrious photographers as Mario Testino Annie Leibovitz Steven Klein & Patrick Demarchelier photographing stars like Lady Gaga Kirsten Dunst & Kate Moss celebrating female icons across modern culture ...

This innovative & lively book is quite unlike any other introduction to postcolonialism Robert Young examines the political social & cultural after-effects of decolonization by presenting situations experiences & testimony rather than going through the theory at an abstract level He situates the debate in a wide cultural context discussing its importance as an historical condition with examples such as the status of aboriginal people of those dispossessed from their land Algerian rai music postcolonial feminism & global social & ecological movements Above all Young argues postcolonialism offers a political philosophy of activism that contests the current situation of global inequality & so in a new way continues the anti-colonial struggles of the past ABOUT THE SERIES The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject ...

Thinking of migrating to Postgre SQL? This clear fast-paced introduction helps you understand & use this open source database system Not only will you learn about the enterprise class features in versions 95 to 10 you'll also discover that Postge SQL is more than a database system-it's an impressive application platform as well With examples throughout this book shows you how to achieve tasks that are difficult or impossible in other databases This third edition covers new features such as ANSI-SQL constructs found only in proprietary databases until now foreign data wrapper (FDW) enhancements; new full text functions & operator syntax introduced in version 96; XML constructs new in version 10; query parallelization features introduced in 96 & enhanced in 10; built-in logical replication introduced in Version 10e If you're a current Postgre SQL user you'll pick up gems you may have missed before Learn basic administration tasks such as role management database creation backup & restore Apply the psql comm&-line utility & the pg Admin graphical administration tool Explore Postgre SQL tables constraints & indexes Learn powerful SQL constructs not generally found in other databases Use several different languages to write database functions Tune your queries to run as fast as your hardware will allow Query external & variegated data sources with foreign data wrappers Learn how to use built-in replication to replicate data ...