Reviews matching “9781553652496”
 Marx's Das Kapital“Several years ago, “aliteracy” became a bit of a buzz word to describe a new social trend. The aliterate were people who were able to read, but who simply chose not to. Reading took too much time, or was otherwise not worth the effort. …Edited versions or samplers of long works… might stimulate readers to look for more. And a lot of books, especially modern academic biographies, could stand to be put on a diet. …In the same vein, a series of Books That Shook the World was recently launched… to provide primer-style introductions or “biographies” of some of the landmarks in world literature…” Kingston-Waterloo Record, Jun 9, 2007 Read more >> |
Marx's Das Kapital“This reading makes good sense of Das Kapital’s extended, often funny, dissections of commodity fetishism’s magical weirdness.” Globe and Mail, Mar 17, 2007 Read more >> |