New Releases by David HArvey

A produção capitalista do espaço agrupa sete textos, escritos entre 1975 e 2001, de índole essencialmente metodológica, que buscam explicar os fundamentos teóricos e conceituais com que opera David Harvey em sua singular ́geografia ́. As concepções marxistas do Estado, das classes sociais, da acumulação, da urbanização e da renda, entre outras, são discutidas neste volume, que também apresenta uma entrevista com o autor publicada pela New Left Review no ano de 2000.

Num mundo de mudanças constantes e aceleradas, confusão e preocupação compõem um quadro sempre presente. Percorrendo com facilidade a história, a economia, a geografia e a política, David Harvey responde a algumas interrogações de maneira convincente e original, aliando uma sólida argumentação a uma linguagem proporcionalmente clara. O que faz de O novo imperialismo uma obra indispensável à compreensão dos dramáticos eventos que têm abalado o mundo nos últimos anos, bem como do rumo que podem ou não vir a tomar.

Collecting David Harvey's finest writings on 19th century Paris, this title offers insights ranging from the birth of consumerist spectacle on the Parisian boulevards, the creative visions of Balzac, Baudelaire and Zola, and the reactionary cultural politics of the bombastic Sacre Coeur.

People around the world are confused and concerned. Is it a sign of strength of or of weakness that the US has suddenly shifted from a politics of consensus to one of coercion on the world stage? What was really at stake in the war on Iraq? Was it all about oil and, if not, what else was involved? What role has a sagging economy played in pushing the US into foreign adventurism and what difference does it make that neo-conservatives rather than neo-liberals are now in power? What exactly is the relationship between US militarism abroad and domestic politics? These are the questions taken up in this compelling and original book. Closely argued but clearly written, David Harvey, a leading social theorist of his generation, builds a conceputal framework to expose the underlying forces at work behind these momentous shifts in US policies and politics. The compulsions behind the projection of US power on the world as a 'new imperialism' are here, for the first time, laid bare for all to see. 'David Harvey has written a profound, and profoundly disturbing, book. For thirty years his writings have taken aim at the complacent conviction that what exists works. Harvey is a scholarly radical.

"There is no question that David Harvey's work has been one of the most important, influential, and imaginative contributions to the development of human geography since the Second World War. . . . His readings of Marx are arresting and original--a remarkably fresh return to the foundational texts of historical materialism."--Derek Gregory, author of Geographical Imaginations

This introductory text covers both traditional as well as modern-day topics relevant to analytical chemistry. Its flexible approach allows instructors to choose their favourite topics of discussion from additional coverage of subjects such as sampling, kinetic method, and quality assurance.

This book engages with the politics of social and environmental justice, and seeks new ways to think about the future of urbanization in the twenty-first century. It establishes foundational concepts for understanding how space, time, place and nature - the material frames of daily life - are constituted and represented through social practices, not as separate elements but in relation to each other. It describes how geographical differences are produced, and shows how they then become fundamental to the exploration of political, economic and ecological alternatives to contemporary life. The book is divided into four parts. Part I describes the problematic nature of action and analysis at different scales of time and space, and introduces the reader to the modes of dialectical thinking and discourse which are used throughout the remainder of the work. Part II examines how "nature" and "environment" have been understood and valued in relation to processes of social change and seeks, from this basis, to make sense of contemporary environmental issues. Part III, is a wide-ranging discussion of history, geography and culture, explores the meaning of the social "production" of space and time, and clarifies problems related to "otherness" and "difference". The final part of the book deploys the foundational arguments the author has established to consider contemporary problems of social justice that have resulted from recent changes in geographical divisions of labor, in the environment, and in the pace and quality of urbanization. Justice, Nature and the Geography of Difference speaks to a wide readership of students of social, cultural and spatial theory and of the dynamics of contemporary life. It is a convincing demonstration that it is both possible and necessary to value difference and to seek a just social order.

Já definido pelo Financial Times como um dos melhores livros já escritos sobre a relação entre transformações econômicas e culturais de nosso tempo, a obra de Harvey define os contornos culturais da "condição" pós-moderna, em seus aspectos estéticos, sociais, literários e filosóficos. Fazendo das mudanças que ocorreram na experiência do espaço e do tempo o centro de sua tese, o autor vê a "condição" pós-moderna como uma conseqüência da atual crise do capitalismo e não como um sintoma do surgimento de uma sociedade pós-capitalista ou pós-industrial. Um estudo sumamente oportuno por sua abrangência e clareza.

Largely concerned with 19th century Paris.