Often called the greatest middleweight boxer of all time, Marvelous Marvin Hagler held the world title for 12 defences, his bouts with Sugar Ray Leonard, Thomas Hearns & Roberto Duran entering fistic folklore. Marvelous tells Hagler's extraordinary life story for the first time, & gets right to the heart of a complex & charismatic man. ...

The illustrated story begins in 1766 with Billy Marvel, the lone survivor of a shipwreck, & charts the adventures of his family of actors over five generations. The prose story opens in 1990 & follows Joseph, who has run away from school to an estranged uncle's puzzling house in London, where he must piece together many mysteries... ...

The Marx Brothers' second film is an adaptation of their Broadway hit. Mrs Rittenhouse (Margaret Dumont) is throwing a high society party, at which African explorer Jeffrey T. Spaulding (Groucho Marx) is the guest of honour. When a valuable painting is st ...

The Marx Brothers' fifth feature is a zany political satire, which so offended Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini that the film was banned in Italy. Appointed president of Freedonia under the patronage of the wealthy Mrs Teasdale (Margaret Dumont), Rufus T ...

The Marx Brothers' fourth film sees them creating havoc on campus in a high school college comedy. The new president of Huxley college, Professor Quincy Adams Wagstaff (Groucho) soon sets about attending to important school business; namely, winning the s ...

Presents a defense of the relevance of Marx's thought for understanding global political economy. This title shows that Marx's 'critique of political economy' encompassed three great critiques of the scientific & political canons of its age
- historical reason, sociological rationality & scientific positivism.
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Was Marx himself a Marxist? Was his visionary promise of socialism betrayed by Marxist dictatorship? Is Marxism inevitably totalitarian? What did Marx really say?

Introducing Marxism provides a fundamental account of Karl Marxs original philosophy, its roots in 19th century European ideology, his radical economic & social criticism of capitalism that inspired vast 20th century revolutions.

It assesses Marxisms Russian disciples, Lenin, Trotsky & Stalin who forged a ruthless dogmatic Communism. The book examines the alternative Marxist approaches of Gramsci, the Frankfurt School of critical theory & the structuralist Marxism of Althusser in the 1960s.

It marshals postmodern interpretations of Marxism & raises the spectre of post-Marxism in Derridas confrontation with Fukuyamas end of history doctrine.

Product Information:
• ISBN: 9781848310582
• Format: Paperback
• Author: Rupert Woodfin & Oscar Zarate
• Publisher: Icon Books
• Pages: 176
• Dimensions: 17 x 12 x 1.5cm















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Includes: stories that combine passion with forceful feminist argument. In Mary Wollstonecraft's Mary, the heroine flees
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Opens with a seventeen-year-old Mary Ann struggling with the painful business of growing up as her first love, Corny Boyle, leaves for America. This work follows her through her eventual marriage to Corny, & the joys & trials of being a wife, & a mother to six-year-old twins, Rose Mary & David. ...

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In this br&-new, official tie-in to Mary’s much anticipated series, the nation’s best-loved home cook

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