Capitalism stands unrivalled as the most enduring economic system of our times. Since the collapse of the Soviet bloc the world has become a new stage for capital, and yet despite this dominance capitalism is still not widely understood. It remains a subject of enduring interest that is discovered and rediscovered over time by each successive generation of students. Exploring the life of this world-shaping system and the writings of leading thinkers, this study also now takes into account recent developments, including the impact of the Global Financial Crisis and the complexities of China’s political economy. Paul Bowles addresses these key questions:   -         what are the central, unchanging features of capitalism? -         how does capitalism vary from place to place and over time? -         does capitalism improve our lives? -         is capitalism a system which is ‘natural’ and ‘free’? Or is it unjust and unstable? -         what about today’s global capitalism? -         will capitalism destroy or liberate us?   This updated edition of a classic text is now supported by a comprehensive documents section, chronology and who’s who, as well as a new colour plate section. It offers a concise, lucid and thought-provoking introduction for undergraduate students or anyone with an interest in this most pervasive, long lasting and adaptable yet crisis-ridden of economic systems.

Three Americans drifting through post-war North Africa encounter the limits of human existence in the form of a land and a people utterly alien to them.

Product Description: Globalization and money – two concepts inextricably linked. In many ways the speed with which financial resources traverse the globe, the opportunities which this provides for the efficient allocation of resources, the possibilities which this creates for financial crises and traders who act as agents removed from the concerns of national citizens have come to symbolize the phenomenon, hopes and fears of ‘globalization’...read more

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Product Description: "As I read Choukri's notes, I saw and heard Jean Genet as clearly as if I had been watching a film of him. To achieve such precision simply by reporting what happened and what was said, one must have a rare clarity of vision."—William Burroughs, from the introduction to Genet in TangierTangier, "the most extraordinary and mysterious city in the world," according to Mohamed Choukri, was a haven for many Western writers in the early twentieth century...read more

"Bowles, one of the four or five best writers in English in the second half of the twentieth century, embraced the desert as a Christian saint embraces his martyrdom. His self-abnegation and his love of traditional culture made him one of the keenest observers of other civilizations we have ever had in America. Unlike his countrymen he did not brashly set out to improve the rest of the world. For Bowles, Americanization was the problem, not the solution. As these startling, sober travel pieces show, Bowles, because of his powers of negative capability, was able to enter into the inner truth of even the most remote places and peoples." -- from the Introduction by Edmund White

A collection of stories by the late American writer and longtime expatriate residing in Morocco covers the breadth of his literary career.

Product Description: Isabelle Eberhardt's life was one of the most extraordinary of any writer's of the last 150 years. Daughter of a Russian Nihilist who forbade her any contact with society, dressed her as a man, and insisted that her education consist of hard physical labor, she, perhaps unsurprisingly, ran away to North Africa in 1897, aged 20...read more

Product Description: Letters written 1979-1986. Biographical information and stories. Henry Miller wrote to Mrabet: "The fact that you can not read has perhaps made you a better writer than most who do read." Paul Bowles said: "I've been corresponding with Irving Stettner for several years...read more

Product Description: These captivating stories and journal notes are the work of an extraordinary young Arabic scholar and Sufi mystic of the late nineteenth century. A journalist for French-language newspapers, Isabelle Eberhardt dressed as a man to travel throughout Islamic North Africa...read more

Product Description: International trade must be analysed within the historical context within which it occurs. Behind the statistics on trade flows lie power structures, class interests and international hierarchies. These change over time and how countries respond to them has critical implications for their citizen’s well-being...read more

In a brilliantly paced tale of a couple traveling into the Sahara, independent travelers, who appear to be smart, are ill equipped to deal with the shocking circumstances that befall them.

Product Description: The authors provide new perspectives on how we should think about globalization, its impacts and forms of resistance and response. Twelve regional chapters, encompassing all of the major regions of the world, provide a global dialogue and reveal the varied meanings and effects of globalization...read more

Driven by famine from their home in the Rif, Mohamed's family walks to Tangiers in search of a better life. But things are no better there. Eight of his siblings die of malnutrition and neglect, and one is killed by his father in a fit of rage. This is a memoir of a young Moroccan boy's coming of age in a time of extreme poverty and degradation.

A collection of translated works by French Surrealists and Latin American authors features Paul Magritte, Bertrand Flornoy, Ramon Sender, Giorgio de Chirico, Denise Moran, and many others, all translated by acclaimed author Paul Bowles. Original.

Includes the full text of 'The Sheltering Sky,' a new novella, an assortment of his best short stories, excerpts from three novels, an array of poems, and a selection of unpublished letters