While the depth and sophistication of South Africa’s financial and capital markets are lauded by indices the world over, South Africa is also considered to be the most unequal society in the world. The Economy On Your Doorstep probes the reasons for this tragic paradox of South African life and tries to go through and beyond the graphs, margin calls, trading updates, indices and earnings reports to explain how economic ‘actions’ frame the lives of South Africans in a transitional society faced with the challenges of unemployment, poverty and inequality.

The economy is and always has been primarily about ‘people’. How they live, what they produce, under what conditions and what social, political and environmental factors influence decisions of consumption, investment and distribution – and how they act under conditions of uncertainty, scarcity, need and crisis. After all, economies are about people coming together to produce, exchange, distribute and consume goods and services that emerge from their communities and those of others. How and under what conditions can we ensure the expansion of our productive forces, while expanding access to the base of assets, services and support that allow for the social reproduction of our entire society and workforce?

Ayabonga Cawe outlines some key areas that can and should define a policy agenda towards a ‘people’s economy’ in South Africa and the long-term objectives of such a policy programme, and engages with the political economy of 21st century South Africa through an analysis of a few selected areas of the economy and the implications of this for policy action. This is what this book is about – an exposition of what we see around us and an explanation and discussion of possible ways beyond it.

In this well-researched book, Ayabonga Cawe, a development economist, columnist and broadcaster, makes sense of the post-apartheid political economy through the lives of the many people who live and survive in it every day.

This book is available either individually, or as part of the specially-priced Arguments of the Philosphers Collection.

Dorothy Eisner (1906-1984) was an American painter whose career spanned more than seven decades. She studied at the Art Students League from 1925-29 with Boardman Robinson, Kenneth Hayes Miller and Thomas Hart Benton. She worked constantly on her own track, with occasional explorations of fields or 'schools' of art through most of the twentieth century, in her studio in Greenwich Village, in the mountains of North Carolina, the valleys and rivers of Montana, and the coast of Maine. Her paintings reflect both her own past and her passionate interest in all art. Dorothy Eisner was born in 1906 and became dedicated to drawing and painting for life at the outset of the 1920s. By the l930s, a period when women artists found it difficult to achieve recognition, she exhibited frequently and was an active participant in the New York art community. Her close circle of friends included Walker Evans who she painted in the forties, as he photographed her work in the sixties.In 1937, she travelled to Coyoacan, Mexico, with a number of American intellectuals on the anti-Stalinist left, to participate in the American philosopher John Dewey's Commission of Inquiry into the charges made against Trotsky in the Moscow Trials. She painted two portraits of Trotsky as well as a painting of the entire Commission - including Trotsky and the celebrated Mexican muralist Diego Rivera. She wrote that she was never a 'social realist,' but 'did still lifes and lifes not so still'. After the War, she worked with Jack Tworkov and experimented with abstract expressionism. She found her vision as an artist in the 1970s and 1980s with boldly expressed and brilliantly colourful works. This book is a beautiful exploration of her life and work.

Originally published in 1990, Women of Bloomsbury takes a fresh look at the lives of Virginia Woolf, her sister Vanessa Bell, and Dora Carrington. Connected by more than bonds of friendship and artistic endeavour, the three women faced similar struggles. Juxtaposing their personal lives and their work, Mary Ann Caws shows us with feeling and clarity the pain women suffer in being artists and in finding - or creating - their sense of self. Relying on unpublished letters and diaries, as well as familiar texts, Caws give us a portrait of the female self in the act of creation.

Originally published in 1990, Women of Bloomsbury takes a fresh look at the lives of Virginia Woolf, her sister Vanessa Bell, and Dora Carrington. Connected by more than bonds of friendship and artistic endeavour, the three women faced similar struggles. Juxtaposing their personal lives and their work, Mary Ann Caws shows us with feeling and clarity the pain women suffer in being artists and in finding - or creating - their sense of self. Relying on unpublished letters and diaries, as well as familiar texts, Caws give us a portrait of the female self in the act of creation.

The first comprehensive guide to the prose poem, this book covers the history of the genre from Aloyisius Bertrand's Gaspard de la nuit and Baudelaire's Paris Spleen to its most important modern and contemporary practitioners. It gives special attention to the genre's hybridity as well as to its propensity to engage in a dialogue with other genres, discourses and artistic forms. Written by prominent scholars of modern and contemporary poetry and poetics, The Edinburgh Companion to the Prose Poem offers analytical and historically informed narratives of the genre's transformations and variations across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and into the next.

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

First Published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This collection of essays offers glimpses of "the city", both material and mental, as it appears in films, novels, photographs, poems, architecture, essays, stagings and journals. Created by man, the city magnifies man's imperfections and reflects humanity's hopes, fears, dreams and despairs. The book moves from historical and concrete perspectives of New York, Paris, London and Chicago to the abstract city of the mind. The works of Woolf, Blake, James, Wordsworth and Baudelaire, among others, are analyzed for their characterization of the city in their writings. The book is intended for professors and students of comparative literature, English, sociology, and film and art history.

The Selected Poems of Rene Char is a comprehensive, bilingual overview reflecting the poet s wide stylistic and philosophical range, from aphorism to dramatic lyricism. In making their selections, the editors have chosen the voices of seventeen poets and translators (Paul Auster, Samuel Beckett, Cid Corman, Eugene Jolas, W.S. Merwin, William Carlos Williams, and James Wright, to name a few), in homage to a writer long held in highest esteem by the literary avant-garde.

Ian Caws was for 25 years a social worker in West Sussex and ran the county's service for deaf people. The title poem examines the night admission of a man to psychiatric hospital.Life on the Sussex Downs and by the English Channel are portrayed with discernment and insight. A former recipient of the Eric Gregory Award, Ian Caws has published 12 collections, one of which, The Ragman Totts, was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation.

"Mad Love" has been acknowledged an undisputed classic of the surrealist movement since its first publication in France in 1937. Its adulation of love as both mystery and revelation places it in the most abiding of literary traditions, but its stormy history and technical difficulty have prevented it from being translated into English until now.

"There has never been any forbidden fruit. Only temptation is divine," writes Andre Breton, leader of the surrealists in Paris in the 1920s and '30s. "Mad Love" is dedicated to defying "the widespread opinion that love wears out, like the diamond, in its own dust." Celebrating breton's own love and lover, the book unveils the marvelous in everyday encounters and the hidden depths of ordinary things.

A revealing investigation into Picasso's career-long fascination with the written word Throughout his life, Pablo Picasso had close friendships with writers and an abiding interest in the written word. This groundbreaking book, which draws on the collections of Yale University, traces the relationship that Picasso had with literature and writing in his life and work. Beginning with the artist's early associations with such writers as Gertrude Stein, Guillaume Apollinaire, Max Jacob, and Pierre Reverdy, the book continues until the postwar period, by which time Picasso had become a worldwide celebrity. Distinguished authorities in art and literature explore the theme of Picasso and language from historical, linguistic, and visual perspectives and contextualize Picasso's work within a rich literary framework. Presenting fascinating archival materials and written in an accessible style, Picasso and the Allure of Language is essential reading for anyone interested in this great artist and the history of modernism. Published in association with the Yale University Art Gallery Exhibition Schedule: Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven (January 27 - May 24, 2009) Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham (August 20, 2009 - January 3, 2010)

'300 Questions and Answers in Diagnostic Aids' has been published in response to repeated requests for self-test material in this subject - one of the areas that cause most difficulty in examination. This collection of multiple choice questions gives students the opportunity to concentrate on specific areas of weakness with a focussed and comprehensive review programme in the subject of their choice. Compiled by a leading training centre, these questions are representative of the type of question likely to appear in the examination paper. By using this revision guide you will not only increase your understanding of the subject but also increase your chances of achieving success in the examination. * Another new Butterworth-Heinemann study aid specifically tailored to the needs of the Veterinary Nurse student * '300 Questions and Answers in.....' provides the student with a collection of new questions and answers in individual subject areas so thatthe student can concentrate on specific areas of weakness * This new Series of Multiple Choice Questions provides the veterinary nurse student with additional opportunities for both self-assessment and examination practice

The French poet Saint-John Perse (1887-1975) succeeded, according to critic Roger Caillois, "in giving as a scene for his wholly spiritual chronicles a kind of supreme civilization, composed of the essence of those which history records and going beyond them in grandeur and majesty." In this bilingual edition of the Selected Poems, editor Mary Ann Caws has assembled extracts from all his major works--Anabasis, Praises, Exile, Rains, Snows, Winds, Seamarks, Chronique, Birds, and Song for an Equinox, in translations by T. S. Eliot, Louise Varse, Denis Devlin, Hugh Chisholm, Wallace Fowlie, Robert Fitzgerald, and Richard Howard

Mina Loy was born in London in 1882, became American, and lived variously in New York, Europe, and finally, Aspen, Colorado until she died in 1966. Flamboyant and unapologetically avant-garde, she was a painter, poet, novelist, essayist, manifesto-writer, actress, and dress and lampshade designer. Her life involved an impossible abundance of artistic friends, performance and spectacular adventures in the worlds of Futurism, Christian Science, Feminism, Fashion, and everything modern and modernist. This new account by Mary Ann Caws explores Mina Loy's exceptional life, and features many rare images of Loy and her husband, the swiss writer, poet, artist, boxer and provocateur Arthur Cravan, who disappeared without trace in 1918.

'300 Questions and Answers in Medical and General Nursing' has been published in response to repeated requests for self-test material in this subject - one of the areas that cause most difficulty in examination. This collection of multiple choice questions gives the student the opportunity to concentrate on specific areas of weakness with a focussed and comprehensive review programme in the subject of their choice. Compiled by a leading training centre, these questions are representative of the type of question likely to appear in the examination paper. By using this revision guide you will not only increase your understanding of the subject but also increase your chances of achieving success in the examination. * *Another new Butterworth-Heinemann study aid specifically tailored to the needs of the Veterinary Nurse student. * * '300 Questions and Answers in Medical and General Nursing' provides the student with a collection of new questions and answers in individual subject areas so that the student can concentrate on specific areas of weakness. * *This new Series of Multiple Choice Questions provides the veterinary nurse student with additional opportunities for both self-assessment and examination practice.

'300 Questions and Answers in Exotics & Wildlife' has been published in response to repeated requests for self-test material in this subject - one of the areas that cause most difficulty in examination. This collection of multiple choice questions gives students the opportunity to concentrate on specific areas of weakness with a focussed and comprehensive review programme in the subject of their choice. Compiled by a leading training centre, these questions are representative of the type of question likely to appear in the examination paper. By using this revision guide you will not only increase your understanding of the subject but also increase your chances of achieving success in the examination. * Another new Butterworth-Heinemann study aid specifically tailored to the needs of the Veterinary Nurse student * '300 Questions and Answers in.....' provides the student with a collection of new questions and answers in individual subject areas so thatthe student can concentrate on specific areas of weakness * This new Series of Multiple Choice Questions provides the veterinary nurse student with additional opportunities for both self-assessment and examination practice

'300 Questions and Answers in Surgical Nursing & Anaesthesia' has been published in response to repeated requests for self-test material in this subject - one of the areas that cause most difficulty in examination. This collection of multiple choice questions gives students the opportunity to concentrate on specific areas of weakness with a focussed and comprehensive review programme in the subject of their choice. Compiled by a leading training centre, these questions are representative of the type of question likely to appear in the examination paper. By using this revision guide you will not only increase your understanding of the subject but also increase your chances of achieving success in the examination. * Another new Butterworth-Heinemann study aid specifically tailored to the needs of the Veterinary Nurse student * '300 Questions and Answers in.....' provides the student with a collection of new questions and answers in individual subject areas so thatthe student can concentrate on specific areas of weakness * This new Series of Multiple Choice Questions provides the veterinary nurse student with additional opportunities for both self-assessment and examination practice

'300 Questions and Answers in Small Animal Radiography & Fluid Therapy' has been published in response to repeated requests for self-test material in this subject - one of the areas that cause most difficulty in examination. This collection of multiple choice questions gives the student the opportunity to concentrate on specific areas of weakness with a focussed and comprehensive review programme in the subject of their choice. Compiled by a leading training centre, these questions are representative ofthe type of question likely to appear in the examination paper. By using this revision guide you will not only increase your understanding of the subject but also increase your chances of achieving success in the examination. * *Another new Butterworth-Heinemann study aid specifically tailored to the needs of the Veterinary Nurse student. * * '300 Questions and Answers in Small Animal Radiography and Fluid Therapy' provides the student with a collection of new questions and answers in individual subject areas so that the student can concentrate on specific areas of weakness. * *This new Series of Multiple Choice Questions provides the veterinary nurse student with additional opportunities for both self-assessment and examination practice.