Amidst waves of economic crises, health crises, class struggle and neo-fascist reaction, few possess the clarity and foresight of world-renowned theorist, David Harvey. Since the publication of his bestselling A Brief History of Neoliberalism, Harvey has been tracking the evolution of the capitalist system as well as tides of radical opposition rising against it. In The Anti-Capitalist Chronicles, Harvey introduces new ways of understanding the crisis of global capitalism...

To some village folk, he was the Dragon Slayer. To the King of Zorgonia, he was their Guardian. To Liam himself, it was a mystery. He'd grown up with the dragons and he loved them.King Garrin loves his prosperous country, and all its people. It is surrounded on three sides by high, jagged snow-capped mountains, but its way of life and prosperity has always made it a target for brigands and armies of thieves.When Zorgonia is threatened again by a large army preparing to inva...

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 to provide for the welfare of its citizens are diminish...

The world's leading Marxist geographer and economist guides general readers through major concepts in capitalism and Marx's masterworkFor decades, David Harvey has been teaching Marx's work, particularly Capital, to great acclaim. He has analysed chapter by chapter - sometimes line-by-line - Marx's three volumes and the Grundrisse. This new book opens up the mental universe of that work for a general reader.In The Story of Capital...

A New York Times BestsellerFrank Sinatra desperately wanted to be part of John F. Kennedy, Jr.’s gang. He had his own famed Rat Pack,” made up of hard drinking, womanizing individuals like himself-guys like Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., and Peter Lawford-but the guy Ol’ Blue Eyes” really wanted to hang with was Lawford’s brother-in-law, the real chairman of the board, John F. Kennedy.In Sinatra and the Jack Pack, Michael Sheridan delves...

Alexander Jack Lightfoot and Ethan Hunter experienced all kinds of hell in Afghanistan.When they became targets of a drug syndicate based in Cape Town, South Africa, they resorted to the only thing they knew. Meet force with greater force.First came the extortion.Then the harassment.Then it became personal.Which was a serious mistake.Because that's how retribution started.

David Harvey is the most influential geographer of our era, possessing a reputation that extends across the social sciences and humanities. Spaces of Capital, a collection of seminal articles and new essays spanning three decades, demonstrates why his work has had-and continues to have-such a major impact. The book gathers together some of Harvey's best work on two of his central concerns: the relationship between geographical thought and political power as well as the capitalist ...

"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 Introduction To modern Western society, capitalism is the air we breathe, and most people rarely think to question it, for goo...

Cesar Quevedo's life revolves around revenge. The Cape Town winter rains are starting when heads will be down and buried under umbrellas. That will be his time to strike.Dimitri Alfieri also wants revenge but understands the value of waiting. In the meantime, he can't stop niggling away at the Hout Bay family, despite being warned off.With drug money missing, two psychopathic killers with a reputation for brutality are sent from Bogota to Cape Town to find it.Needin...

When Dimitri Alfieri was ambushed, he was shot twice as a lesson. The money he was carrying to be laundered, was stolen.He never saw who it was, he can't prove anything but he believes the Hout Bay family need the money, they have the military experience so they had to be behind it.When a significant portion of the money is subsequently dumped in a public park, he becomes increasingly unravelled.Cesar Quevedo, the abalone poacher, his ally and only friend, is no str...

"These are not good people. They are psychopathic murderers and drug dealers."A story of crime, punishment and retribution.Alfieri controls the Western Cape cocaine market, the Cape Town nightclub world and the bulk of all racketeering, money laundering and poached abalone markets.Life, notwithstanding what he sees as a few complications, is all about more money.While Alfieri plans expansion, corrupt politicians and police provide his protection and violence...

In 2011 Columbian authorities closed down the Alfieri brothers drug empire, jailed Guido Alfieri for life and deported his brother Benito and Guido's son Dimitri.With Guido's help from behind bars, they washed up on the shores of Cape Town, South Africa and promptly set up shop. Helped by the fact that they were now living in one of the most dangerous cities in the world, Benito Alfieri quickly grasped existing crime syndicates by the throat and re-built the Alfieri drug empire.