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The intelligent woman's guide to socialism and capitalism 1928 [Leather Bound] Leather Bound – January 1, 2022

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Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden Leaf Printing on round Spine (extra customization on request like complete leather, Golden Screen printing in Front, Color Leather, Colored book etc.) Reprinted in 2022 with the help of original edition published long back [1928]. This book is printed in black & white, sewing binding for longer life, Printed on high quality Paper, re-sized as per Current standards, professionally processed without changing its contents. As these are old books, we processed each page manually and make them readable but in some cases some pages which are blur or missing or black spots. If it is multi volume set, then it is only single volume, if you wish to order a specific or all the volumes you may contact us. We expect that you will understand our compulsion in these books. We found this book important for the readers who want to know more about our old treasure so we brought it back to the shelves. Hope you will like it and give your comments and suggestions. - English, Pages 554. EXTRA 10 DAYS APART FROM THE NORMAL SHIPPING PERIOD WILL BE REQUIRED FOR LEATHER BOUND BOOKS. COMPLETE LEATHER WILL COST YOU EXTRA US$ 25 APART FROM THE LEATHER BOUND BOOKS. {FOLIO EDITION IS ALSO AVAILABLE.} Complete The intelligent woman's guide to socialism and capitalism 1928 Shaw, Bernard, -
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Generic (January 1, 2022)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Leather Bound ‏ : ‎ 554 pages
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Guy Andrew
5.0 out of 5 stars Shaw's brand of socialism all in place set out with clarity and wit.
Reviewed in the United States on August 19, 2021
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My lack of knowledge of Shaw's socialism sent me trawling through the Delphi collected works looking for something from the horse's mouth without any luck. His Intelligent Woman's Guide is apparently still in copyright and was, in any case, left out of that collection. If your purpose is to find out what the man thought, rather than make up your mind if you're going to be a socialist, although the book cannot not assist in reaching the latter goal, then this appears to be his more-or-less definitive statement of his position. He is clear, concise and witty. A fun read. Don't be put off by the title. Fairly late in his life his sister-in-law asked him to write her something explaining what socialism was about. I suspect she expected (say) 20 pages and would have been surprised to receive a full sized book! For feminists out there, Shaw believed that in women lay our hope for the future...
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5.0 out of 5 stars STEP RIGHT UP FOR YOUR MBA !
Reviewed in the United States on January 19, 2010
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This book, published in 1927, is the solution to rising college tuition fees. For a complete liberal arts education, look no further than this 500 page treatise in economics, political science, history, sociology, ethics; in short all of what constitutes a basic college education. It is all delivered to you with engaging Shavian wit and makes your college experience brief, economical, and utterly painless. For your diploma you can simply print out and post your Amazon review of this awesome work on the www for all to see and then mail out copies of your resume with the absolute confidence that you'll ace every job interview with erudition and grace. Your problem will only be which offers to turn down. Shaw himself purportedly spent 5 years in an effort to analyze the society we live in, what has kept it moving along, and how to live within it to our advantage and even change it for the better. It is an astonishing, timeless literary achievement, quite accessible to intelligent gentlemen as well as to the intelligent ladies to whom it is affectionately addressed. High school grads! Forget about years of loan payments, midnight oil, and eight-o'clocks. Just read this book, and apply for those jobs miles ahead of your plodding and soon-to-be impoverished peers.
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Anthony L. Linhardt
4.0 out of 5 stars G. B. Shaw: Intelligent Women's Guide .......
Reviewed in the United States on September 6, 2010
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It was written in the 20-s related to Engeland, but it is still actual and fresh for today.
Easy to read and most educational.
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John Steuerwald
5.0 out of 5 stars True Art
Reviewed in the United States on April 14, 2014
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Like all true art, Bernard Shaw's, The Intelligent Woman's Guide still rings true.
His clean writing style is a pleasure to read.
His constant admonishments to "think for yourself", are a breath of fresh air.
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Rebecca Fox
5.0 out of 5 stars Item as described
Reviewed in the United States on October 12, 2019
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hank
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on July 26, 2016
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It is both amusing and informative, but then what else would one expect from GBS.
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David Clouston
5.0 out of 5 stars one of the twentieth century's greatest...
Reviewed in the United States on March 8, 2004
"The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism" was published in 1927, when George Bernard Shaw was at the very pinnacle of his success as a playwright. (He had been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for "St Joan" two years earlier.)
It purported to be a political primer for the "intelligent woman" who knew little or nothing of politics. This literary device of addressing an imaginary, ignorant audience allowed Shaw to start from the beginning. Clear your mind of all preconceptions, he said, and let us first look at the facts. What are the conditions under which the mass of mankind lives in the industrialized world? What is "politics"? What is the real meaning of the words "capitalism" and "socialism" and "communism"? What is the present state of society if examined without any of these labels? Why is it like this?
Having cleared the ground, Shaw then addressed that most fundamental of all social questions, the question to which his entire adult life had been devoted. How is the wealth of the world to be divided up?
Shaw was (to put it mildly) a committed socialist. And The Guide pulled no punches in asserting that socialism is the only sane answer to that question. However, he played scrupulously fair in his presentation of the facts. He described with absolute clarity the causes, conditions and present (1927) state of private property, political parties, banking, revolutions, facism, the stock market, credit, the national debt, universal adult suffrage, investment, strikes and poverty.
In short, the primary value of this extraordinary work was its conceptual clarity. Whether or not readers shared Shaw's opinions, merely by reading the book they could not help but greatly - and usefully - increase their understanding of their world.
The question for modern readers, seventy-five years later, is whether The Guide can help us to understand the modern world.
The answer is Yes.
As a test, borrow a copy of the book and read the chapter entitled "Banking". Just that one chapter. If you do not understand at least twice as much about what a bank is, and does, than you did before, then you need not bother with anything else in the book and you can return it with thanks. Otherwise, as a clincher, read the chapter entitled "Revolutions". I will be very surprised if you do not then buy your own copy.
That said, there are a couple of traps. Firstly, Shaw's English is now somewhat dated. He often uses very much longer sentences, with more subordinate clauses, than we commonly do today. This is ultimately helpful in conveying his meaning, but not immediately so to the modern reader. The Guide is therefore somewhat wearing to read for any length of time. It is not an easy book to skim.
Secondly, since Shaw does have a definite polemical intention (he wants us to become socialists), and since few writers have ever been more skilful at delivering a message while appearing not to, the reader has to be permanently on guard against taking Shaw's statements as facts. He is expert at the art of covertly leading readers to his own conclusions. The effort required to resist all this is also rather exhausting.
These shortcomings aside, and they are significant, The Guide stands as one of the great literary political works of the twentieth century. It is also one of the few genuinely hopeful contributions to the discipline we now call sociology. This reflects neither an earlier, cheerier worldview (in 1927 in England there was every reason to despair), nor a utopian naïveté (Shaw had a clearer sense than most of the horrors of which mankind is capable). No, the sense of hope that suffuses The Guide derives from Shaw's own inextinguishable, strangely realistic generosity of spirit.
In comparing Shaw with his famous fellow-socialist author H.G.Wells, C.P.Snow commented that "Shaw was a kinder, but colder man". He was. And both his kindness and his coldness inform The Guide: matchless detachment, combined with the utmost charity and reasonableness.
"The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism" was George Bernard Shaw's political magnum opus. He had spent much of the previous forty years writing about politics and society, often in the guise of drama, musical criticism or "prefaces" to his published plays. And he continued to do so for the remainder of his life, the last major political work appearing only a few years before his death in 1950.
But this book is It. "The Intelligent Woman's Guide" summarizes all his thinking, all his reading, all his public speaking, all his experience, all his hopes and all his fears for the future. It is the culmination of a lifetime dedicated to the betterment of mankind by political means. In his twenty more years of work - including "The Apple Cart", "Too True to be Good", and "Everybody's Political What's What" - Shaw never wrote anything as good again. There was nothing more he needed to say.
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Patrick Pulles
2.0 out of 5 stars Mixed feelings
Reviewed in the United States on December 31, 2020
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I came to this book with the hope of seeing socialism in a different and more favorable light, one that would maybe inspire me, having been a person raised to believe in the ultimate triumph of capitalism over socialism. Shaw's haughtiness is offensive, and his approach in explaining concepts is indirect and long-winded. Bertrand Russell probably would have been the better popular authority to write this book. Shaw was helpful in clarifying that it is impossible for society to stay the same and therefore those politicians who want to keep all things as they are, are wishing for something utterly impossible. He was also helpful in clarifying that even in those communities which champion capitalism, the degree of interference of the state in business and daily lives is immense, such that the so-called liberty that capitalists cherish and see as distinct from socialist society is largely an illusion.
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Oldprof
5.0 out of 5 stars Read it and learn
Reviewed in Canada on July 9, 2021
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This book has aged somewhat because of its dated and demeaning attitude towards women, but it only reflects the social attitudes of 100 years ago and thus should no longer signify. However as a textbook for a thorough and constructive criticism of capitalism and its failings, it is still an unbeatable text and should be required reading for all in this profoundly selfish era. It is useful to note how many or how few of his recommendations for a better society have been adopted. I recall that had FDR served a fourth term as president he would have tried to introduce universal health care into the USA. A mere 70+ years have resulted in nothing being done. So get reading.
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Rosh
4.0 out of 5 stars good read
Reviewed in India on January 11, 2017
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Good read for people who want to understand these subjects
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Alex
5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant book. Amazingly relevant
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 8, 2014
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Brilliant book. Amazingly relevant, despite being published in the 20s, and a good introduction to various aspects of economics and politics if this is something that, as I was, you are currently somewhat unfamiliar with.
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Jane
5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 16, 2013
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A must read. Not emotely patronising - a dash of humour. Good to relate a writing of it's time to what has transpired since. Wish I had read it 40 years ago!
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Life
4.0 out of 5 stars Weird
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 4, 2014
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I ran across this book purely by accident and the title made me laugh. So I bought it. Not what I'd call one of his best but for the time it was pretty meaningful. Worth the read.
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