This work brings together seminal articles by geographer David Harvey, published over three decades, on the tensions between geographical knowledge and political power and on the capitalist production of space. It reprints classic essays such as On the history and present condition of geography, The geography of capitalist accumulation and the spatial fix: Hegel, von thunen, and Marx. Two additional chapters represent the author's most recent thinking on cartographic identities and social movements.

Laying bare the follies of the international financial system, eminent academic David Harvey looks at the nature of capitalism, how it works and why it sometimes doesn't.

Part of the "Recollections Series", this title takes us back to the year 1959. Through the archive pictures of Midland Red buses, selected to show the buses in their everyday role, it presents street scenes of the period throughout the British Midlands.

You thought capitalism was permanent? Think again. David Harvey unravels the contradictions at the heart of capitalism - its drive, for example, to accumulate capital beyond the means of investing it, its imperative to use the cheapest methods of production that leads to consumers with no means of consumption, and its compulsion to exploit nature to the point of extinction. These are the tensions which underpin the persistence of mass unemployment, the downward spirals of Europe and Japan, and the unstable lurches forward of China and India. Not that the contradictions of capital are all...

Available for the first time in paperback, this is the pre-eminent critical study, and exploration, of how myth and legend played such a significant role in the works of J.R.R. Tolkien.

Previously published in two volumes, in 2010 and 2013.

Marx's Capital is one of the most important texts of the modern era. The three volumes, published between 1867 and 1883, changed the destiny of countries, politics and people across the world - and continue to resonate today. In this book, David Harvey lays out their key arguments. In clear and concise language, Harvey describes the architecture of capital according to Marx, placing his observations in the context of capitalism in the second half of the nineteenth century. He considers the degree to which technological, economic and industrial change during the last 150 years means Marx's...