Books by J. King

LET ME SHOW YOU HOW TO SAVE YOURSELF RICH THROUGH PROPERTY INVESTING ... and to SAVE yourself FROM ... ¿ Relying on a pension that may not exist and deciding between buying a tin of soup or heating your home aged 77! ¿ The dreaded rat race and working for someone else! ¿ Wave goodbye to being a slave to a stupid rota or some other type of really annoying schedule! ¿ Working HARDER and LONGER for LESS and LESS! This is just plain nuts!¿ Missing precious family time! Your children are growing up without you while you sit at work all day trying to dodge your boss's stale coffee breath! ¿ A life-time paying the Taxman (or as he's better known in this book, old Scar Face!) far too many of your Lucky Pennies!

In this book, the Mexican magazine Plural (1971-1976) provides a privileged vantage point from which to assess the developments that transformed Mexican and Latin American literary and political culture in the 1970s.

The Victorian Woman Question in Contemporary Feminist Fiction explores the representation of Victorian womanhood in the work of some of today's most important British and North American novelists including A.S.

This second volume of the highly successful, A History of Marxian Economics, covers the period from 1929 to the present. As with the first volume Michael Howard and John King have written an authoritative and stimulating account of the history of Marxian Economics over this period.

This book offers a new account of David Ricardo's political economy that is both scholarly and accessible. It provides a detailed overview of the secondary literature on Ricardo down to 2012, and discusses alternative perspectives on his work, including those of Marxians, neoclassicals and Sraffians.

Why are second language learners in Japan's universities so silent? This book investigates the perplexing but intriguing phenomenon of classroom silence and draws on ideas from psychology, sociolinguistics and anthropology to offer a unique insight into the reasons why some learners are either unable or unwilling to speak in a foreign language.

This book explores the way older women are represented in society. Through close readings of novels by major 20th century novelists, compared with the more dominant representations of female ageing to be found in popular culture it suggests that they offer a feminist understanding of the 'invisible' woman sometimes lacking in feminism itself.

The Victorian Woman Question in Contemporary Feminist Fiction explores the representation of Victorian womanhood in the work of some of today's most important British and North American novelists including A.S.

In this book, the Mexican magazine Plural (1971-1976) provides a privileged vantage point from which to assess the developments that transformed Mexican and Latin American literary and political culture in the 1970s.

This book explores the life and work of Nicholas Kaldor, examining the influences that shaped and inspired his writings, and looks in detail at the crucial part he played in twentieth-century economics. Offering a comprehensive intellectual portrait of Kaldor, this book explains this great economist's importance in his own time and in ours.

Women and the Word examines why, in today's secular society, so many of the finest British and American women novelists seem preoccupied with Biblical themes and stories.

...Howard and King have done an excellent job...scholarly without being partisan or polemical.' Meghnad Desai, The Times Higher Education Supplement