“My aim is to get you to read a book by Karl Marx called Capital, Volume 1, and to read it on Marx’s own terms…” The biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression has generated a surge of interest in Marx’s work in the effort to understand the origins of our current predicament. For nearly forty years, David Harvey has written and lectured on Capital, becoming one of the world’s most foremost Marx scholars.
If any writer can be said to have invented the modern short story, it is Anton Chekhov. It is not just that Chekhov democratized this art form; more than that, he changed the thrust of short fiction from relating to revealing. And what marvelous and unbearable things are revealed in these Forty Stories.
The hell called Yuma Prison can destroy the soul of any man. And it's worse for those whose damning crime is the color of their skin. The law says Chiricahua Apache Raymond San Carlos and black-as-night former soldier Harold Jackson are murderers, and they'll stay behind bars until they're dead and rotting. But even in the worst place on Earth, there's hope. And for two hard and hated inmates first enemies, then allies by necessity it waits at the end of a mad and violent contest ... on a bloody trail that winds toward Arizona's five most dangerous men.
When four teenagers go missing in the small northern town of Algonquin Bay, the extensive police investigation comes up empty. Everyone is ready to give up except Detective John Cardinal, an all-too-human loner whose persistence only serves to get him removed from homicide. Haunted by a criminal secret in his own past and hounded by a special investigation into corruption on the force (conducted, he suspects, by his own partner), Cardinal is on the brink of losing his career - and his family.
Why fear Middle Age? It is for the majority the time of success, the period of pleasant accomphshment, the age of fruition. At forty a man is in the Prime of Life, and at fifty he is still well within the age of vitality and splendid endeavour. For women Middle Age brings some ill-health certainly, but that should only be in passing, and for them the years past forty need have no terrors. Girlhood and youth lack many sweet gifts brought by the Fairy of Middle Age: experience brings contentment and added powers of enjoyment The Book was published in 1922.
