* This book provides a systematic overview of suicide and suicide trends in contemporary societies. * It is the most comparative and up-to-date account of suicide currently available. * Suicide has been a core issue in sociology ever since Durkheim wrote his famous book on suicide.

A classic work of Marxist analysis, available unabridged for the first time

Originally published in 1965, Reading Capital is a landmark of French thought and radical theory, reconstructing Western Marxism from its foundations. Louis Althusser, the French Marxist philosopher, maintained that Marx's project could only be revived if its scientific and revolutionary novelty was thoroughly divested of all traces of humanism, idealism, Hegelianism and historicism. In order to complete this critical rereading, Althusser and his students at the Ecole normale superieure ran a seminar...