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Pepys Road: an ordinary street in the Capital. Each house has seen its fair share of first steps & last breaths & plenty of laughter in between. Today through each letterbox along this ordinary street drops a card with a simple message: We Want What You Have. At forty Roger Yount is blessed with an expensively groomed wife two small sons & a powerful job in the City. An annual bonus of a million might seem excessive but with second homes & nannies to maintain hes not sure he can get by without it. Elsewhere in the Capital Zbigniew has come from Warsaw to indulge the super-rich in their interior decoration whims. Freddy Kano teenage football sensation has left a two-room shack in Senegal to follow his dream. Traffic warden Quentina has exchanged the violence of the police in Zimbabwe for the violence of the enraged middle classes. For them all this city offers the chance of a different kind of life. Capital" is a post-crash state-of-the nation novel told with compassion & humour featuring a cast of characters that you will be sad to leave behind." ...

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 Marxs 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 Worlds Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxfords 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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The residents of Pepys Road London
- a banker & his shopaholic wife an old woman dying of a brain tumour a family of Pakistani
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Meet Charles Boxer
- ex-army ex-police & now a high-stakes kidnap recovery specialist he knows only too well how the dark forces
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It is a rare professor who greatly alters the thinking of his professional colleagues. Its an even rarer one who helps transform the world. Friedman has done both.
- Stephen Chapman Chicago Tribune How can we benefit from the promise of government while avoiding the threat it poses to individual freedom? In his classic book Capitalism & Freedom Milton Friedman presents his view of the proper role of competitive capitalism
- the organization of the bulk of economic activity through private enterprise operating in a free market
- as both a device for achieving economic freedom & a necessary condition for political freedom. He also outlines the role that government should play in a society dedicated to freedom & relying primarily on the market to organize economic activity. Friedman begins with a discussion of the principles of a truly liberal society. He then applies those principles to a range of pressing problems including monetary policy discrimination education income distribution welfare & poverty. The result is a book that has sold well over half a million copies in English has been translated into eighteen languages & has become increasingly influential in recent years as more & more governments have moved from highly planned economies to embrace free market economics."


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Giddenss analysis of the writings of Marx Durkheim & Weber has become the classic text for any student seeking to understand the three thinkers who established the basic framework of contemporary sociology. The first three sections of the book based on close textual examination of the original sources contain separate treatments of each writer. The author demonstrates the internal coherence of their respective contributions to social theory. The concluding section discusses the principal ways in which Marx can be compared with the other two authors & discusses misconceptions of some conventional views on the subject. ...

For over forty years in more than sixty countries Raymond Baker has witnessed the free-market system operating illicitly & corruptly with devastating consequences. In Capitalisms Achilles Heel" Baker takes readers on a fascinating journey through the global free-market system & reveals how dirty money poverty & inequality are inextricably intertwined. Readers will discover how small illicit transactions lead to massive illegalities & how staggering global income disparities are worsened by the illegalities that permeate international capitalism. Drawing on his experiences Baker shows how Western banks & businesses use secret transactions & ignore laws while handling some $1 trillion in illicit proceeds each year. He also illustrates how businesspeople criminals & kleptocrats perfect the same techniques to shift funds & how these tactics negatively affect individuals institutions & countries." ...

With his trademark blend of knowledge insight & wit Dadhichi shares his predictions for the new year. 2013 is your year for introspection Capricorn. You will unlock new information & insights into yourself which will have an effect on all of your relationships both personal & professional. If you embrace this self-knowledge & its consequences the new year will be a fulfilling one. In Dadhichis horoscope for Capricorn you will discover which star signs can meet your romantic ideal how to harness your motivation & independence in the workplace & what 2013 has in store for you. YOUR STARS WILL REVEAL Monthly & daily predictions for 2013 Insights into the Capricorn woman man & child Which star signs you are best matched with as well as who to avoid in the areas of love friendship & the workplace ...

A young boy Victor is collected from school by a stranger in a bowler hat
- the stranger says he has won Victor in a game of backgammon
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