Wear proudly the skull emblem of Captain Harlock & fight the Mazone on board of the Arcadia with this great t-shirt ABYstyle!
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Howdy partners & welcome to Capital City! In this fast-playing card game you&ve got one year to help build the most famous town in all the West! Each season the train brings in city slickers & kinfolk from the east to help you run your new businesses on Main Street Hire your workers carefully keeping in mind that members of the same family help each other reach success faster! Dollars are useful but victory points (VPs) are like pure gold! At the end of the year the player with the most VPs wins the game & becomes the new Mayor of Capital City! Bring home a little piece of the wild west today! In more detail players have four rounds represented by the seasons of the year to expand their Wild West town! First they bid for player priority order for the current season Next they choose character cards from the train to put to work then purchase building cards to form Main Street Then players attach character cards to the building cards to earn dollars or VPs! Attached characters are workers that provide bonuses to the current player & other players with characters from the same family! At the end of four seasons the player with the most VPs wins! Yee-haw! Contents 36 Building cards 54 Character cards 4 Season cards 6 Priority cards 60 Dollar tokens (1 2 or 5 denominations) 60 Victory Point tokens (1 2 or 5 denominations) 1 Rulebook ...

With its fascinating mix of people
- rich & poor British & foreign worthy & suspicious
- London is a city where anything can

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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Capital is a witty colourful & sharply observed drama about the interconnected lives of a diverse group of characters linked to a fictional street Adapted by Bafta-winner Peter Bowker from the bestselling novel by John Lanchesterthe series cleverly interweaves a vivid & unforgettable ensemble cast of urban characters in a story bursting with unfailingly piercing & funny observations on modern life & existence One day the street’s residents all receive an anonymous postcard through their front doors bearing a simple message “ We want what you have” Who is behind the anonymous hate campaign? & what do they want? As the mystery of the postcards deepens interweaving stories reveal lives filled with love & loss fear & greedfortune & envy & at its heart family & home ...

The residents of Pepys Road London
- a banker & his shopaholic wife an elderly woman dying of a brain tumour the Pakistani family
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How do the one percent keep getting richer despite financial crises & the myriad of taxes on income capital gains & inheritance? Brooke Harrington interviewed professionals who specialize in protecting the fortunes of the world's richest people wealth managers To gain access to their tactics & mentality she trained to become one of them ...

A landmark work in the understanding of capitalism bourgeois society & the economics of class conflict Karl Marx's Capital is translated by Ben Fowkes with an introduction by Ernest Mandel in Penguin Classics One of the most notorious works of modern times as well as one of the most influential Capital is an incisive critique of private property & the social relations it generates Living in exile in England where this work was largely written Marx drew on a wide-ranging knowledge of its society to support his analysis & generate fresh insights Arguing that capitalism would create an ever-increasing division in wealth & welfare he predicted its abolition & replacement by a system with common ownership of the means of production Capital rapidly acquired readership among the leaders of social democratic parties particularly in Russia & Germany & ultimately throughout the world to become a work described by Marx's friend & collaborator Friedrich Engels as 'the Bible of the Working Class' In his introduction Ernest Mandel illuminates a revolutionary theory whose impact on the turbulent events of the twentieth century has become ever more apparent Karl Marx (1818-1883) was born in Trier Germany & studied law at Bonn & Berlin In 1848 with Freidrich Engels he finalized the Communist Manifesto He settled in London where he studied economics & wrote the first volume of his major work Das Kapital (1867 with two further volumes in 1884 & 1894) He is buried in Highgate Cemetery London If you enjoyed Capital you might like Marx & Engels' The Communist Manifesto also available in Penguin Classics ...

A classic of early modernism Capital combines vivid historical detail with economic analysis to produce a bitter denunciation of mid-Victorian capitalist society It has also proved to be the most influential work in social science in the twentieth century; Marx did for social science what Darwin had done for biology Millions of readers this century have treated Capital as a sacred text subjecting it to as many different interpretations as the bible itself No mere work of dry economics Marx's great work depicts the unfolding of industrial capitalism as a tragic drama
- with a message which has lost none of its relevance today This is the only abridged edition to take account of the whole of Capital It offers virtually all of Volume 1 which Marx himself published in 1867 excerpts from a new translation of ' The Result of the Immediate Process of Production' & a selection of key chapters from Volume 3 which Engels published in 1895 ABOUT THE SERIES For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study & much more
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Few writers have had a more demonstrable impact on the development of the modern world than has Karl Marx (1818-1883) Born in Trier into a middle-class Jewish family in 1818 by the time of his death in London in 1883 Marx claimed a growing international reputation Of central importance then & later was his book Das Kapital or as it is known to English readers simply Capital Volume One of Capital was published in Paris in 1867 This was the only volume published during Marx's lifetime & the only to have come directly from his pen Volume Two published in 1884 was based on notes Marx left but written by his friend & collaborator Friedrich Engels (1820-1895) Readers from the nineteenth century to the present have been captivated by the unmistakable power & urgency of this classic of world literature Marx's critique of the capitalist system is rife with big themes his theory of 'surplus value' his discussion of the exploitation of the working class & his forecast of class conflict on a grand scale Marx wrote with purpose As he famously put it ' Philosophers have previously tried to explain the world our task is to change it' ...

Capitalism has lifted millions out of poverty Under its guiding hand living standards throughout the Western world have been transformed Further afield the trail blazed by Japan is being followed by other emerging market countries across the globe creating prosperity on a breathtaking scale And yet capitalism is unloved From its discontents to its outright enemies voices compete to point out the flaws in the system that allow increasingly powerful elites to grab an ever larger share of our collective wealth In this incisive clear-sighted guide award winning Financial Times journalist John Plender explores the paradoxes & pitfalls inherent in this extraordinarily dynamic mechanism
- & in our attitudes to it Taking us on a journey from the Venetian merchants of the Rennaissance to the gleaming temples of commerce in 21st-century Canary Wharf via the South Sea Bubble Dutch tulip mania & manic-depressive gambling addicts Plender shows us our economic creation through the eyes of philosophers novelists poets artists & the divines Along the way he delves into the ethics of debt; reveals the truth about the unashamedly materialistic artistic giants who pioneered copyrighting; & traces the path of our instinctive conviction that entrepreneurs are greedy unethical opportunists hell-bent on capital accumulation while manufacturing is innately virtuous Thoughtful eloquent & above all compelling Capitalism is a remarkable contribution to the enduring debate
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