Gallop to Freedom : Training Horses with the Founding Stars of Cavalia - Frederic Pignon , Magali Delgado, David Walser
R220,00
In a delightful series of conversations, this copiously illustrated handbook demonstrates how to read horse behavior as well as how to develop a better partnership with horses. Balancing friendship and leadership, this guidebook presents the tools to appreciate horses in either a casual or performance environment. Written by two of the equine artists from Cavalia, an equestrian-themed show, this dynamic book features the author's own horses as well as other strikingly beautiful horses with whom they have performed. A visual and educational treat for equine lovers, this resource opens the gates of communication between horses and their owners.
Product code: 9781570764202
Christina Queen of Sweden : The Restless Life of a European Eccentric - Veronica Buckley
R450,00
The groundbreaking new biography of one of the most progressive, influential and entertaining women of the seventeenth century, Christina Alexandra, Queen of Sweden. In 1654, to the astonishment and dismay of her court, Christina Alexandra announced her abdication in favour of her cousin, Charles. Instrumental in bringing the Thirty Years War to a close at the age of 22, Christina had become one of the most powerful monarchs in Europe. She had also become notorious for her extravagant lifestyle. Leaving the narrow confines of her homeland behind her, Christina cut a remarkable path across Europe. She acted as mediator in the Franco-Spanish War and, in return for financial support, was received into the Roman Catholic Church despite the fierce condemnation of her protestant countrymen. Christina settled in Rome at the luxurious Palazzo Farnese where she established a lavish salon for Rome's artists and intellectuals. More than once she was forced to leave Rome while one scandal or another died down; she was painted a lesbian, a prostitute and even a hermaphrodite. Her most impassioned affair was with a well-connected Cardinal. Later, when financial support from the Pope and the Spanish crown dried up, Christina began to court French favour, eventually even plotting with them to overthrow the Spanish at Naples, where she hoped to be installed as queen. Despite her political vacillations and a lifelong refusal to restrain her appetites, Christina ended her days in Rome relatively free from disfavour and financial strife.
Product code: 9781841157047
Maritimea : Above and Beneath the Waves - Ed Charles F. Gritzner , Frwd Philippe Cousteau
R200,00
This is a bold and exhilarating account of the oceans and ocean exploration. With authoritative text by geographers, oceanographers, historians and marine experts, it features over 600 superb photographs and illustrations plus detailed mapping throughout. Special features covering topics from boat building through the ages, navigational advances, piracy on the high seas, the story of diving, the undersea cables, to the hottest topical issues like whales and whaling and the territorial disputes over underwater resources, make Maritimea a completely comprehensive and accessible reference that captures the drama and excitement of the maritime world, above and beneath the waves.
Product code: 9781921209628
Syferfontein - Cas Wepener
R220,00
Dekades lank het Peet van Jaarsveld sy bokplaas Syferfontein in die Karoo met ’n ysterhand bestuur. Ná die afsterwe van sy eggenoot leef hy in toenemende isolasie van sy kinders en die gemeenskap en probeer homself probeer oortuig dat sy dade en ongenaakbare houding teenoor ander verantwoord is. Tydens Geloftenaweek in 1960 gebeur daar enkele dinge op sy plaas wat sy ouderdom, eiesinnigheid en verval onder die vergrootglas plaas.
Product code: 9781485306887
Dink Jouself Gelukkig - Pieter van Jaarsveld
R265,00Romeine 12: 2 “...maar laat God julle verander deur julle denke te vernuwe...”
Wêreldbekende spreker Pieter van Jaarsveld wys hoe jy jou lewe kan omkeer. Dié inspirerende boek:- Ontbloot ondermynende mites oor geluk
- Verduidelik dat vreugde vir alle mense beskore is
- Wys hoe jy jou brein kan herbedraad
- Inspireer jou tot ’n positiwe ingesteldheid
- Bevat die nuutste navorsing en tegnieke.Jy kán floreer – hierdie praktiese gids plaas ’n lewe van geluk binne elkeen se bereik.
Product code: 9780796318053
R265,00
Fearless : Imagine Your Life without Fear - Max Lucado
R99,00
Each sunrise seems to bring fresh reasons for fear. They're talking layoffs at work, slowdowns in the economy, flare-ups in the Middle East, turnovers at headquarters, downturns in the housing market, upswings in global warming. The plague of our day, terrorism, begins with the word "terror." Fear, it seems, has taken up a hundred-year lease on the building next door and set up shop. Oversized and rude, fear herds us into a prison of unlocked doors. Wouldn't it be great to walk out? Imagine your life, wholly untouched by angst. What if faith, not fear, was your default reaction to threats? If you could hover a fear magnet over your heart and extract every last shaving of dread, insecurity, or doubt, what would remain? Envision a day, just one day, where you could trust more and fear less.
Product code: 9780849946585
Rich Dad Poor Dad - Robert T. Kiyosaki
R75,00
Rich Dad Poor Dad, the #1 Personal Finance book of all time, tells the story of Robert Kiyosaki and his two dads--his real father and the father of his best friend, his rich dad--and the ways in which both men shaped his thoughts about money and investing. The book explodes the myth that you need to earn a high income to be rich and explains the difference between working for money and having your money work for you.
Product code: 9780446611091
Life Overflowing: 6 in 1 : 6 Pillars for Abundant Living - T. D. Jakes
R120,00
T.D. Jakes takes readers through the book of Ephesians chapter by chapter, teaching what it means for the Christian to have a life overflowing and how to "walk worthy of the calling [they] have received." Beginning with the incredible love God has for his children and the plans he has for believers beyond their wildest dreams, Bishop Jakes goes on to explore true intimacy with God, the marriage relationship, and spiritual warfare. Here is Bishop Jakes's best teaching on Ephesians, conveniently packaged in one volume and now available in trade paper.
Product code: 9780764207983
Switch on Your Brain : The Key to Peak Happiness, Thinking, and Health - Dr Caroline Leaf
R195,00
According to researchers, the vast majority--a whopping 75-98 percent--of the illnesses that plague us today are a direct result of our thought life. What we think about truly affects us both physically and emotionally. In fact, fear alone triggers more than 1,400 known physical and chemical responses in our bodies, activating more than thirty different hormones! Today our culture is undergoing an epidemic of toxic thoughts that, left unchecked, create ideal conditions for illnesses. Supported by current scientific and medical research, Dr. Caroline Leaf gives readers a prescription for better health and wholeness through correct thinking patterns, declaring that we are not victims of our biology. She shares with readers the "switch" in our brains that enables us to live happier, healthier, more enjoyable lives where we achieve our goals, maintain our weight, and even become more intelligent. She shows us how to choose life, get our minds under control, and reap the benefits of a detoxed thought life
Product code: 9780801018398
Lenteliefde - Kristel Loots
R45,00
Na haar egskeiding moet Aloma Viljoen toesien hoe haar seun na matriek onder die dinamiese Kobus Erlank se invloed Londen toe verkas. Aloma het haar voorgeneem sy sal nie soos ander vroue aan Kobus se voete gaan le nie, al is sy hoe eensaam. Maar sy sjarme is so onweerstaanbaar dat sy verbete daarteen moet veg. Kan sy die man vertrou?
Product code: 9780799333961
Kaburu - Deon Opperman
R95,00
In hierdie drama word die leser/gehoor gekonfronteer met die gevolge van keuses waarmee bykans alle Suid-Afrikaners kan identifiseer: kwessies soos emigrasie, die behoud van bande met die geboorteland, nagevolge van die Angolese bosoorlog, moorde op bejaardes en sosiale onsekerhede as gevolg van kriminele geweld. Hiermee gee Opperman dramaties gestalte aan die gedagte dat die persoonlike dikwels ’n politieke strekking het. Ook ander verwysingsraamwerke tree na vore, waaronder die invloed van die geskiedenis en die soeke na identiteit.
Product code: 9781869192532
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
R99,00
Ebenezer Scrooge is a miserly and mean-spirited old man. He treats family, coworkers, and strangers alike with distaste. But on Christmas Eve he receives a visit from the ghost of his dead business partner, Jacob Marley. Marley warns Scrooge that unless he learns to be less greedy and self-serving that Scrooge will be condemned to wander Earth weighed down with heavy chains, as Marley has been. Marley tells Scrooge that three spirits will visit him. First, the Ghost of Christmas Past visits and shows Scrooge his own Christmases past, including the Christmas when his fiance left him for being obsessed with money. Second, the Ghost of Christmas Present shows Scrooge all the happiness occurring at the various Christmas festivities around the city. Finally, The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come shows Scrooge what will happen after his own death, and Scrooge is horrified to find that everyone will celebrate it. Distraught, Scrooge begs for another chance, and suddenly wakes in his own bed. Forever after he honours the spirit of Christmas with kindness, generosity and warmth.
Product code: 9781407143644
The Darkest Secret : The Dark, Twisty Suspense Thriller Where Nothing is as it Seems - Alex Marwood
R220,00
Apologies for the general email, but I desperately need your help. My goddaughter, Coco Jackson, disappeared from her family's holiday home in Bournemouth on the night of Sunday/Monday August 29/30th, the bank holiday weekend just gone. Coco is three years old. When identical twin Coco goes missing during a family celebration, there is a media frenzy. Her parents are rich and influential, as are the friends they were with at their holiday home by the sea. But what really happened to Coco? Over two intense weekends - the first when Coco goes missing and the second twelve years later at the funeral of her father - the darkest of secrets will gradually be revealed...Taut, emotive and utterly compelling, an unputdownable 'ripped from the headlines' novel that you will want to talk about with everyone you know.
Product code: 9780751550702
Succession - Livi Michael
R250,00
"In Succession Livi Michael engages meticulously with the diverse historical accounts of the Wars of the Roses, but she also invests intimate and poignant humanity into the personal tragedies of an era wrought with conflict and terror". (Elizabeth Fremantle, author of Queen's Gambit). Behind the bloody battle scenes of the Wars of the Roses lie the sinewy political skills of a remarkable pair of women. Margaret of Anjou, French, beautiful, unpopular; her marriage in 1444 to a young Henry VI causes national uproar. As English rule in France collapses, Henry goes insane, civil war erupts, and families are pitted against each other. With Henry VI incapacitated, Margaret Anjou is left to fight alone for her son's position as rightful heir. Meanwhile Margaret Beaufort, nobly born but far more distant from the throne, becomes a great heiress while only an infant. Her childhood is lived in echoing remote castles and she is lonely and vulnerable: everyone at Henry's court competes to be her guardian and to engineer an advantageous alliance through marriage to her. By the age of thirteen, she has married twice and given birth to her only son - the future King of England. But then she is separated from him ...and her fight really begins Succession is the intense and powerful story of the women who gave birth to the Tudor dynasty
Product code: 9780241146248
First One Missing : Whose Child is Next? - Tammy Cohen
R220,00
This is a page-turning pyschological thriller with the gripping plot of Girl On A Train and the chilling suspense of Before I Go To Sleep...There are three things no-one can prepare you for when your daughter is murdered: - You are haunted by her memory day and night - Your friends and family fear you are going mad - Only in a group with mothers of other victims can you find real comfort. Welcome to the club no one wants to join. "A taut, psychologically gripping, gut-wrenching thriller from one of my favourite writers." (Lisa Jewell).
Product code: 9780857522788
Meetsnoer, boek 4
R130,00
Toe Raine Quinn Fluisterbos koop, weet sy nie sy ry die profeet Sias van die Meetsnoer Tempel se heilige taak in die wiele nie, ook nie dat Fluisterbos die nuwe Eden is nie. En nog minder van Flint Fletcher se obsessie oor dié klein stukkie oerbos. Sy kon ook nie voorsien dat een van die Meetsnoer-lidmate die nag van haar aankoms op Fluisterbos vermoor sal word nie. Raine twyfel of die aarde se einde werklik in sig is, maar vermoed spoedig haar eie is dalk wel.
Product code: 9780799347234
Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel
R220,00
Shortlisted for the 2014 National Book Awards Observer Thriller of the Month DAY ONE The Georgia Flu explodes over the surface of the earth like a neutron bomb. News reports put the mortality rate at over 99%. WEEK TWO Civilization has crumbled. YEAR TWENTY A band of actors and musicians called the Travelling Symphony move through their territories performing concerts and Shakespeare to the settlements that have grown up there. Twenty years after the pandemic, life feels relatively safe. But now a new danger looms, and he threatens the hopeful world every survivor has tried to rebuild. STATION ELEVEN Moving backwards and forwards in time, from the glittering years just before the collapse to the strange and altered world that exists twenty years after, Station Eleven charts the unexpected twists of fate that connect six people: famous actor Arthur Leander; Jeevan - warned about the flu just in time; Arthur's first wife Miranda; Arthur's oldest friend Clark; Kirsten, a young actress with the Travelling Symphony; and the mysterious and self-proclaimed 'prophet'. Thrilling, unique and deeply moving,
Product code: 9781447268987
Dancing in the Dark : Knausgaard - Translated by Don Bartlett
R220,00
18 years old and fresh out of high school, Karl Ove Knausgaard moves to a tiny fisherman's village far north of the polar circle to work as a school teacher. He has no interest in the job itself - or in any other job for that matter. His intention is to save up enough money to travel while finding the space and time to start his writing career. Initially everything looks fine: He writes his first few short stories, finds himself accepted by the hospitable locals and receives flattering attention from several beautiful local girls. But then, as the darkness of the long polar nights start to cover the beautiful landscape, Karl Ove's life also takes a darker turn. The stories he writes tend to repeat themselves, his drinking escalates and causes some disturbing blackouts, his repeated attempts at losing his virginity end in humiliation and shame, and to his own distress he also develops romantic feelings towards one of his 13-year-old students. Along the way, there are flashbacks to his high school years and the roots of his current problems.
Product code: 9781846557255
Kit - Marina Fiorato
R220,00
An unforgettable historical romance based on an astonishing true story from international bestseller Mariano Fiorato - perfect for fans of Poldark and The Scandalous Lady W. Dublin 1702. Irish beauty Kit Kavanagh has everything she could want in life. Newly married, she runs a successful alehouse with her beloved husband Richard. The wars that rage in Europe over the Spanish throne seem a world away. But everything changes on the night that Richard simply disappears. Finding the Queen's shilling at the bottom of Richard's tankard, Kit realizes that her husband has been taken for a soldier. Kit follows Richard's trail across the battlefields of Italy in the Duke of Marlborough's regiment. Living as a man, risking her life in battle, she forms a close bond with her wry and handsome commanding officer Captain Ross. When she is forced to flee the regiment following a duel, she evades capture by dressing once more as a woman. But the war is not over for Kit. Her beauty catches the eye of the scheming Duke of Ormonde, who recruits her to spy upon the French. In her finery she meets Captain Ross once again, who seems just as drawn to the woman as he was to the soldier. Torn between Captain Ross and her loyalty to her husband, and under the orders of the English Crown, Kit finds that her life is in more danger now than on the battlefield.
Product code: 9781473610460
World Cup Wishes - Eshkol Nevo
R199,00
Four friends get together to watch the 1998 World Cup final. One of them has an idea: let's write down our wishes for the next few years, put them away, and during the next final - four years from now - we'll get them out and see how many we've achieved. This is how "World Cup Wishes" opens, and from here we watch what happens to their wishes and their friendships as life marches on. The four men's bond is deep and solid, but tested by betrayal, death, and distance their alliance comes under pressure. Each friend offers a different perspective, though not necessarily a reliable one...and as they and the world around them change, so do their ideas of friendship and happiness. By the end they are forced to ask whether wishes can really be fulfilled. Or will their story turn out to be a requiem - for a generation, for friendship, or even for one of the four young men? Once again, Eshkol Nevo has produced a novel suffused with charm, warmth and an astonishing wisdom
Product code: 9780701184421
The Signature of All Things - Elizabeth Gilbert
5 January 1800. At the beginning of a new century, Alma Whittaker is born into a perfect Philadelphia winter. Her father, Henry Whittaker, is a bold and charismatic botanical explorer whose vast fortune belies his lowly beginnings as a vagrant in Sir Joseph Banks's Kew Gardens and as a deck hand on Captain Cook's HMS Resolution. Alma's mother, a strict woman from an esteemed Dutch family, has a knowledge of botany equal to any man's. It is not long before Alma, an independent girl with a thirst for knowledge, comes into her own within the world of plants and science. But as her careful studies of moss take her deeper into the mysteries of evolution, the man she comes to love draws her in the opposite direction. The Signature of All Things is a big novel, about a big century. It soars across the globe from London, to Peru, to Philadelphia, to Tahiti, to Amsterdam. Peopled with extraordinary characters - missionaries, abolitionists, adventurers, astronomers, sea captains, geniuses and the quite mad - above all it has an unforgettable heroine in Alma Whittaker, a woman of the Enlightened Age who stands defiantly on the cusp of the modern
Product code: 9781408841907
Die Boodskap - Die Bybel in Hedendaagse Afrikaans (Afrikaans, Hardcover)
R130,00Product code: 9781868298884
Offerande
R275,00
Is Caz Colijn se pa Elia, die sagsinnige man wat voor haar geboorte koelbloedig vermoor is, of dra sy Cesar, die moordenaar, se gene? Die kwellende vraag kan Caz eers probeer beantwoord as sy van die reusediamante in haar besit ontslae raak en so die Kongolese wat haar tot in Suid-Afrika gevolg het, van haar spoor af kry. Antwerpen kan die antwoord op hierdie missie wees, maar hoe kry sy die diamante daar? En as sy eers daar is, waarheen neem sy dit? Kommissaris De Brabander is 'n opsie tot Caz besef sy staan van voor af weer eerste op sy lys van verdagtes – die keer vir die moord op een van haar agtervolgers. Boonop daag Caz se eksman by haar op en dring aan om sy dogter te ontmoet. Caz besluit om die keuse aan Lilah oor te laat, maar toe die uit Belgie aankom, is sy nie die lieflike kind wat Caz ken en grootgemaak het nie. Caz se probleme neem rampspoedige afmetings aan toe sy besef die offerlam sal die offerande moet word as sy Lilah van haarself en van die dood wil red.
Product code: 9780799381320
Die Dood Van 'n Goeie Vrou - Chris Karsten
R260,00
Ella Neser, befaamde speurder uit die Abel-trilogie en Die verdwyning van Billy Katz, is weer op die spoor van ’n raaiselagtige moord. In ’n voorstad van Johannesburg word Clara Heyns, voorbeeldige moeder van twee, dood gevind met engelvlerke aan. Te midde van kantoorpolitiek probeer Ella die leidrade naspeur, maar dan draai haar wereld inmekaar: wie is die rooikop wat by haar geliefde Lou uithang? Die storie is briljant aanmekaargesit, met ’n plot wat die slimste leser sal fnuik.
Product code: 9780798174183
For Friends & Family - Nicky Stubbs
R385,00
For Friends & Family is a love song - to the family and friends who have fed us, taught us to cook, and have eaten with us. Who have eaten simple meals at our dining room table. Because these meals were a reason for gathering and celebration. In For Friends & Family you will find all the necessary recipes you are looking for, ranging from breakfast, starters and mains to baking and pudding. So cook something and invite your friends and family over. It's time for creating new memories.
Product code: 9780798171250
A House Without Windows : A Novel - Nadia Hashimi
R290,00
A vivid, unforgettable story of an unlikely sisterhood-an emotionally powerful and haunting tale of friendship that illuminates the plight of women in a traditional culture-from the author of the bestselling The Pearl That Broke Its Shell and When the Moon Is Low. For two decades, Zeba was a loving wife, a patient mother, and a peaceful villager. But her quiet life is shattered when her husband, Kamal, is found brutally murdered with a hatchet in the courtyard of their home. Nearly catatonic with shock, Zeba is unable to account for her whereabouts at the time of his death. Her children swear their mother could not have committed such a heinous act. Kamal's family is sure she did, and demands justice. Barely escaping a vengeful mob, Zeba is arrested and jailed. As Zeba awaits trial, she meets a group of women whose own misfortunes have also led them to these bleak cells: thirty-year-old Nafisa, imprisoned to protect her from an honor killing; twenty-five-year-old Latifa, who ran away from home with her teenage sister but now stays in the prison because it is safe shelter; and nineteen-year-old Mezhgan, pregnant and unmarried, waiting for her lover's family to ask for her hand in marriage. Is Zeba a cold-blooded killer, these young women wonder, or has she been imprisoned, as they have been, for breaking some social rule?
Product code: 9780062477842
Home - Harlan Coben
R295,00
By the international number one bestselling author of Tell No One and Fool Me Once, soon to be a major movie starring Julia Roberts. The boy who had been missing for ten years was right in front of him...A decade ago, kidnappers grabbed two boys from wealthy families and demanded ransom, then went silent. No trace of the boys ever surfaced. For ten years their families have been left with nothing but painful memories and a quiet desperation for the day that has finally, miraculously arrived: Myron Bolitar and his friend Win believe they have located one of the boys, now a teenager. Where has he been for ten years, and what does he know about the day, more than half a life ago, when he was taken? And most critically: what can he tell Myron and Win about the fate of his missing friend?
Product code: 9781780894225
The Kept Woman - Karin Slaughter
R305,00
The latest novel in the Will Trent series from No. 1 bestelling author, Karin Slaughter. A body is discovered in an empty Atlanta warehouse. It's the body of an ex-cop, and from the moment Special Agent Will Trent walks in he knows this could be the most devastating case of his career. Bloody footprints leading away from the scene reveal that another victim - a woman - has left the scene and vanished into thin air. And, worst of all, the warehouse belongs to the city's biggest, most politically-connected, most high-profile athlete - a local hero protected by the world's most expensive lawyers. A local hero Will has spent the last six months investigating on a brutal rape charge. But for Will - and also for Dr Sara Linton, the GBI's newest medical examiner - the case is about to get even worse. Because an unexpected discovery at the scene reveals a personal link to Will's troubled past. The consequences will wreak havoc on his life and the lives of those he loves, those he works with, and those he pursues.
Product code: 9781780893587
Alone : The Search for Brett Archibald
R150,00
In April 2013 a global breaking-news story surfaced on social media and in the world press, and rapidly gathered momentum. A South African man had fallen overboard in the night during a storm in remote Indonesian waters, without anyone else on board realising. Eight hours later a frantic search was underway. The incident caught the worlds attention as readers were instantly transported into the terror of the moment ? imagine being left alone, 100 kilometres out to sea in the middle of a storm, watching your friends sail into the distance? Had he been dealt a fraction more bad luck, Brett would have died immediately. According to the experts, he should have died within 10 to 14 hours. But he chose not to die. Instead for 28-and-a-half hours Brett Archibald endured ? the ocean, the elements, the creatures of the deep, and his own inner demons. Alone: The Search For Brett Archibald is the incredible but true story of what it takes to defy needle-in-a-haystack odds and survive what should have been certain death. Outdoor savvy, astonishing imagination, mental toughness, a refusal to give up hope and a canny rescuer with an unbelievable background ultimately saw him through. Most of all this is a story of the power of the human spirit that defies rational explanation
Product code: 9781928230304
The Girl on the Train (Film Tie In) - Paula Hawkins
R180,00
Rachel catches the same commuter train every morning. She knows it will wait at the same signal each time, overlooking a row of back gardens. She's even started to feel like she knows the people who live in one of the houses. 'Jess and Jason', she calls them. Their life - as she sees it - is perfect. If only Rachel could be that happy. And then she sees something shocking. It's only a minute until the train moves on, but it's enough. Now everything's changed. Now Rachel has a chance to become a part of the lives she's only watched from afar. Now they'll see; she's much more than just the girl on the train...
Product code: 9781784161750
My Own Liberator - Dikgang Moseneke
R295,00
In this memoir, the first of two, Dikgang Moseneke pays homage to the many people and places that have helped to define and shape him. These influences include his ancestry; his parents; his immediate and extended family; and his education both in school and on Robben Island as a 15-year-old prisoner. These people and places played a significant role in forming his principled stance in life and his proud defiance of all forms of injustice. Robben Island became a school not only in politics but an opportunity for dedicated studies towards a law degree that would provide the bedrock for a long and fruitful career. The book charts Moseneke’ s rise as one of the country’s top legal minds, who not only helped to draft the Constitution, but for 15 years acted as a guardian of it for all South Africans. Not only did Moseneke assist in shaping our new Constitution, he has helped to make it a living document for many South Africans over the past 15 years.
Product code: 9781770105089
Hoe Verklaar Jy Dit? RSG - Danny Fourie
R250,00
Ons weet dat die maan iets met die getye te doen het, maar het jy geweet dat jy met volmaan altyd dieselfde kant van die maan sien? Of dat weerligstrale vol vernietigende elektrisiteit is, maar dat 'n elektriese paling 'n lading van tot 600 volt kan vrystel? Hierdie feite is deel van 'n magdom kennis oor die natuur, fisiese wetenskap en die ruimte wat die RSG-program Hoe verklaar jy dit? reeds jare lank beantwoord. Hierdie publikasie bevat 'n keur uit die honderde vrae van nuuskierige luisteraars wat deur kundiges verduidelik is om die wereld minder vreemd te maak, want nie alle kennis van die wereld om ons is voor die hand liggend nie. Daar is honderde verskynsels in die natuur en ruimte wat vra om verklaar te word. Dan praat ons nie eens van die mensgemaakte uitvindings soos die internet, persoonlike rekenaars, globale posisioneringstelsels, selfone, radiogolwe, teorie van evolusie, relatiwiteitsteorie, narkose en mense in die ruimte nie. Agter die alledaagse skuil die fassinerende werking van kragte en wette en die wetenskap in werking: Wat bepaal dat 'n mens se hart aan die linkerkant van die liggaam sit? Hoekom vries water in 'n dam van bo en nie van onder af nie? Kan gene deur omstandighede gemodifiseer word? Hoe verklaar jy dit? is 'n boek wat jou belangstelling in die wereld om jou sal prikkel. Dit is 'n boek wat op sy eie gelees kan word, wat op die koffietafel kan le en wat saam kan gaan kamp om wonderlike gesprekke om die braaivleisvuur uit te lok
Product code: 9781776090495
Verbode Drif - Irma Joubert
R260,00
Sy's 'n Boeremeisie, hy's 'n Jood. 'n Boerejood, ja, maar nogtans 'n Jood. Vir hulle liefde is daar geen toekoms nie. Die Jode, weet Elizabeth, is 'n ander dam se eende. Terwyl hulle jonk is, dink hulle nie aan die toekoms nie, leef hulle vir die nou, glo hulle die verskille kan oorkom word. En Izak Katz, weet Elizabeth, maak altyd 'n plan.
Product code: 9780799343120
Tolbos - Irma Joubert
R350,00
Katrien is ’n student tydens die politieke woelinge en die Voëlvry-toer wat Suid-Afrika in die tagtigerjare tref. En in die verre Pole het ’n jong man pas duur betaal vir sy sin vir geregtigheid.
Product code: 9780799364033
Boheem - Chanette Paul
R230,00
Katrien Bresselaar is voor die reg vrygespreek van die moord op haar man, maar nié onskuldig bevind nie.
Drie jaar later beland sy, nou bekend as Kayla Cilliers, op Bohemia, ’n kunstenaarskolonie waar Rose-Anne Lockwood ’n prutpot geskep het wat een of ander tyd moet oorkook.
Onder die kreatiewe oppervlak sied dit – Judy wat stemme van die Anderkant hoor; Lente opgevreet deur jaloesie; Seth en sy Gesie, wat gesigte sien; Alwyn, sy muse kwyt; Hendrik en Leen, Justin en snobistiese Bonnie ... en Mitch Lockwood, wat alles bymekaar moet hou.
Dis hier waar Kayla vir die tweede keer in haar lewe op ’n lyk afkom en haar vingerafdruk is op die moordwapen ...Boheem is die derde spanningsroman wat in die Niemandsdorp-omgewing afspeel. Gys Niemand en Faantjie Fortuin doen weer die speurwerk, alhoewel daar heelwat komplikasies is. Meetsnoer volg hierop en Dryfhout sluit die reeks af. Springgety en Fortuin is die eerste twee boeke in die reeks.
Product code: 9780799351484
Slim Leuens - Lien Roux-de Jager
R145,00
Die briljante poligrafis Kalli Krynauw is deel van Special Intelligence Services se span. Hulle is op die spoor van ’n reeksmoordenaar wat tot die uiterste gaan om sy slagoffers te skend voor hy hulle om die lewe bring. Kalli het goeie rede om te vermoed die reeksmoordenaar is deel van SIS se ondersoekspan want hy stuur selfs e-posse om hulle in kennis te stel dat hy op die hoogte van elke beweging van SIS is. Maar wie in die span kan dit wees? Daar is ten minste drie moontlikhede.En, net so erg, die skisofreen wat ’n obsessie gehad het om Kalli dood te maak, bevind hom glad nie meer permanent in ’n Kaapse inrigting soos sy destyds ingelig is nie. Trouens, hy woon nou in ’n nabygeleë buurt.Intussen word dit tyd vir Kalli en haar Brink se troue wat nou al hoe lank uitgestel word. Op wat hulle troudag sou wees, het hulle egter allesbehalwe ’n huwelik om te vier ...
Product code: 9780799369762
Friends Forever - Danielle Steel
R75,00
Five children meet on their first day of school, one bright September morning. Drawn by that magical spark of connection that happens to the young, Gabby, Billy, Izzie, Andy and Sean - each bursting with their own personality, all with strikingly different looks and diverse talents - soon become an inseparable group, known to everyone else as the Big Five. As they grow up, their seemingly perfect lives are altered by families falling apart, unfortunate mistakes, and losses and victories great and small. Throughout their adolescence, the five are able to turn back to their trusted group to regain their footing and steady their course. But as they emerge from school, their futures seem neither safe nor clear. As their lives separate, the challenges and risks they face become greater, the losses sharper, and it becomes much harder to know the right path to choose. But despite life's ups and downs, together they are able to face up to challenges with the help of the important bonds forged all those years ago. And the five realise just how lucky they are to treasure valuable friendships that last a lifetime.
Product code: 9780593056844
Granny Dan - Danielle Steel
R95,00
In my eyes she had always been old, always been mine, always been Granny Dan. But in another time, another place, there had been dancing, people, laughter, love. . . . She had had another life before she came to us, long before she came to me. . . . She was the cherished grandmother who sang songs in Russian, loved to roller-skate, and spoke little of her past. But when Granny Dan died, all that remained was a box wrapped in brown paper, tied with string. Inside, an old pair of satin toe shoes, a gold locket, and a stack of letters tied with ribbon. It was her legacy, her secret past, waiting to be discovered by the granddaughter who loved her but never really knew her. It was a story waiting to be told. . . . The year was 1902. A new century was dawning as a motherless young girl arrived at a ballet school in St. Petersburg, Russia, at the age of seven. By age seventeen, Danina Petroskova had become a great ballerina, a favorite of the Czar and Czarina, who welcomed her into the heart of the Imperial family. But events both near and far away shook the ground upon which she danced. A war, an extraordinary man, and a devastating illness altered the course of her life. And when revolution shattered Russia, Danina Petroskova was forced to make a heartbreaking choice--as the world around her was about to change forever.
Product code: 9780385317092
Echoes - Danielle Steel
R45,00
The summer of 1915 was a time of prosperity and unease for the Wittgenstein family, and for their eldest daughter Beata it was also a time of awakening. By the glimmering waters of Lake Geneva, the quiet Jewish beauty met a young French officer and fell in love. Knowing that her parents would never accept her marriage to a Catholic, Beata followed her heart - and as the two built a new life together, Beata's past would stay with her in ways she could never have predicted. As the years pass, Beata must watch in horror as Europe is once again engulfed in war, threatening her life and family - even her daughter Amadea, who has taken the vows of a Carmelite nun. But Amadea is forced into hiding and as family and friends are swept away without a trace, she begins a harrowing journey of survival. Taking on daring missions behind enemy lines, she finds a man who will help her discover her place in an unbreakable chain between generations...between her lost family and her future. An intricate tapestry of a mother's love, a daughter's courage, and the unwavering faith that sustained them - even in history's darkest hour.
Product code: 9780552149945
The English Spy - Daniel Silva
R120,00
No. 1 New York Times bestselling author Daniel Silva delivers another stunning thriller in his latest action-packed tale of high stakes international intrigue featuring the inimitable Gabriel Allon. She is an iconic member of the British Royal Family, beloved for her beauty and charitable works, resented by her former husband and his mother, the Queen of England. When a bomb explodes aboard her holiday yacht, British intelligence turns to one man to track down herkiller: legendary spy and assassin Gabriel Allon. Gabriel's target is Eamon Quinn, a master bomb maker and mercenary of death who sells his services to the highest bidder. Fortunately Gabriel does not pursue him alone; at his side is Christopher Keller, a British commando turned professional assassin who knows Quinn's murderous handiwork all too well. And though Gabriel does not realize it, he is stalking an old enemy-a cabal of evil that wants nothing more than to see him dead. Gabriel will find it necessary to oblige them, for when a man is out for vengeance, death has its distinct advantages..
Product code: 9780007552313
Head Over Heels - Holly Smale
R95,00
"My name is Harriet Manners, and I will always be a geek." The fifth book in the bestselling, award-winning GEEK GIRL series. Harriet Manners knows almost every fact there is. She knows duck-billed platypuses don't have stomachs. She knows that fourteen squirrels were once detained as spies. She knows that both chess and snakes and ladders were invented in the same country. And for once, Harriet knows exactly how her life should go. She's got it ALL planned out. So her friends seem less than happy, Harriet is determined to Make Things Happen! If only everyone else would stick to the script...But is following the rules going to break hearts for GEEK GIRL?
Product code: 9780007574636
Shadows on the Snow - Madge Swindells
R95,00
Set during the winter Olympics in Sarajevo, this is the story of Megan Carroll, an American who is working for a sports agency in London. She loves her work but finds herself in a head-on collision course with Ian McLaren, who overthrows her conceptions about herself and her values.
Product code: 9780751507072
The Nearest Exit - Olen Steinhauer
R95,00
The Department of Tourism is an ultra-secret black-ops branch rumoured to carry out the CIA's dirtiest and deadliest work. Most agents don't even believe it exists. Milo Weaver knows otherwise.
Product code: 9781848876002
32 Battalion - Piet Nortje
R250,00
Originally formed in order to lend support to the FNLA and UNITA in the Angolan war, 32 Battalion quickly gained the reputation of being an unconventional, secretive, yet highly effective group. Written by a man who was intimately involved with the unit and served as its Regimental Sergeant Major for two years, the book aims to explode the myths surrounding the legendary 32 and set the record straight. It records how and why 32 Battalion was formed, explores its unique identity forged by the men who fought in it, details the many operations in which they participated, and concludes with its eventual disbandment at the dawn of a new South Africa. What they did, and how they did it, would earn this controversial group official recognition as the best fighting unit in the South African Army since World War II. This book s unembellished, factual reporting will fill a big gap in the highly popular military genre.REVIEWS This South African Defence Force unit called 32nd Battalion was formed in 1975 to combat Marxist MPLA and Cuban troops. Those had turned the Angloan civil war into one of the many proxy wars between east and west during the Cold War era. Author Piet Nortje served with this elite unit for ten years, rising through the ranks to eventually become Regimental Sergeant Major.
Product code: 9781868729142
If I Stay - Gayle Forman
R180,00
Now a major film starring Chloe Grace Moretz. 'Just listen,' Adam says with a voice that sounds like shrapnel.' I open my eyes wide now. I sit up as much as I can. And I listen. 'Stay,' he says. Everybody has to make choices. Some might break you. For seventeen-year-old Mia, surrounded by a wonderful family, friends and a gorgeous boyfriend decisions might seem tough, but they're all about a future full of music and love, a future that's brimming with hope. But life can change in an instant. A cold February morning ...a snowy road ...and suddenly all of Mia's choices are gone. Except one. As alone as she'll ever be, Mia must make the most difficult choice of all. Haunting, heartrending and ultimately life-affirming, If I Stay will make you appreciate all that you have, all that you've lost - and all that might be. It includes interviews with the stars of the film, Chloe Moretz and Jamie Blackley.
Product code: 9781909531239
We Need New Names - Noviolet Bulawayo
R220,00
This book is Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2013. US National Book Award 5 Under 35. Winner of the Etisalat Prize 2014. Winner of the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award 2014. Winner of a Betty Trask Award 2014. 'To play the country-game, we have to choose a country. Everybody wants to be the USA and Britain and Canada and Australia and Switzerland and them. Nobody wants to be rags of countries like Congo, like Somalia, like Iraq, like Sudan, like Haiti and not even this one we live in - who wants to be a terrible place of hunger and things falling apart?' Darling and her friends live in a shanty called Paradise, which of course is no such thing. It isn't all bad, though. There's mischief and adventure, games of Find bin Laden, stealing guavas, singing Lady Gaga at the tops of their voices. They dream of the paradises of America, Dubai, Europe, where Madonna and Barack Obama and David Beckham live. For Darling, that dream will come true. But, like the thousands of people all over the world trying to forge new lives far from home, Darling finds this new paradise brings its own set of challenges - for her and also for those she's left behind.
Product code: 9780099581888
The New Confessions of an Economic Hitman - John Perkins
R320,00
False economics. Threats, bribes, extortion. Debt, deception, coups, assassinations and unbridled military power. These are the tools used by the 'corporatocracy' - a vast network of corporations, banks, colluding governments and rich and powerful individuals - to ensure that they retain and expand their wealth and influence, growing richer and richer as the poor become poorer. In his original, post 9/11 book, John Perkins revealed how he was recruited as an economic hit man in the 1970s, and exposed the corrupt methods American corporations use to spread their influence in the developing world, cheating countries out of trillions of dollars. In this new, extensively updated edition he lays bare the latest, terrifying evolution of the economic hit man, and how the system has become even more entrenched and powerful than ever before. In New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, John Perkins provides fresh and chilling evidence of how the corporatocracy has grown its influence to every corner of the globe, making us all unwitting slaves to their regime. But he also provides advice on how we can end our unconscious support of the system and its self-serving, lethal economy
Product code: 9781785033841
Anderkant Cuito : 'n Reisverhaal Van Die Grensoorlog - Louis J. Bothma
R185,00Product code: 9780620500142
Competing Against Luck : The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice
R590,00
The foremost authority on innovation and growth presents a path-breaking book every company needs to transform innovation from a game of chance to one in which they develop products and services customers not only want to buy, but are willing to pay premium prices for. How do companies know how to grow? How can they create products that they are sure customers want to buy? Can innovation be more than a game of hit and miss? Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen has the answer. A generation ago, Christensen revolutionized business with his groundbreaking theory of disruptive innovation. Now, he goes further, offering powerful new insights. After years of research, Christensen has come to one critical conclusion: our long held maxim that understanding the customer is the crux of innovation is wrong. Customers don t buy products or services; they "hire" them to do a job. Understanding customers does not drive innovation success, he argues. Understanding customer jobs does. The "Jobs to Be Done" approach can be seen in some of the world s most respected companies and fast-growing startups, including Amazon, Intuit, Uber, Airbnb, and Chobani yogurt, to name just a few. But this book is not about celebrating these successes it s about predicting new ones.
Product code: 9780062435613
The Protector - Jodi Ellen Malpas
R185,00
A new standalone novel from Jodi Ellen Malpas, the bestselling author of the THIS MAN and ONE NIGHT trilogies People think they have Camille Logan nailed: daddy's girl, beautiful, spoiled young woman with her father's bank balance to fund her lifestyle. But Camille is determined to have a life free from his strings. Now, after fighting so hard to be independent and happy, she finds her life threatened as a result of her father's ruthless business dealings. Caught between resentment and fear, Camille prepares herself for the measures her father will take to protect her. But nothing could prepare her for the ex-SAS sniper who crashes into her life. Jake Sharp resides in his own personal hell. He was distracted from duty once before, and the consequences were devastating - both personally and professionally. Accepting the job of bodyguard to Camille Logan isn't the kind of distraction from his demons he should take. Women and Jake don't mix well, yet protecting the heiress seems the lesser of two evils. But Jake soon discovers that she isn't the woman she's perceived to be. She's warm, compassionate, her presence settling, and his duty to protect her soon goes deeper than a well-paid job, no matter how hard he fights it. He needs absolution. He comes to need Camille. But he knows he can't have both.
Product code: 9781409166405
Simple : Effortless Food, Big Flavours - Diana Henry
R325,00
'This is everything I want from a cookbook: inspiration, intelligent company, great good-mood food, and beautiful writing.' Nigella Lawson No-one is better than Diana Henry at turning the everyday into something special. Here is a superb collection of recipes that you can rustle up with absolutely no fuss, but which will knock your socks off with their flavour. Peppered throughout the book are ingenious ideas such as no-hassle starters and sauces that will lift any dish. From Turkish Pasta with Caramelized Onions, Yoghurt and Dill and Paprika-baked Pork Chops with Beetroot, Caraway and Sour Cream to Parmesan-roasted Cauliflower with Garlic and Thyme, Diana takes the kind of ingredients we are most likely to find in our cupboard and fridge - or be able to pick up on the way home from work - and provides recipes that will become your friends for life.
Product code: 978184533897
The Weekends of You and Me - Fiona Walker
R185,00
'definite shades of One Day...emotionally intelligent and beautifully written' - Daily Mail Can your final fling become your Happy Ever After? When Jo Coulson finds herself single again in her late thirties, she finally resigns her membership to Last of the Hopeless Romantics, fully intending to tackle midlife and motherhood alone. First, she plans one legendary last fling...In walks Harry Inchbold, and the connection is electric. Passionate, unpredictable and messily divorced, Harry is the perfect antidote to cosy coupledom. Known as The Sinner, drama follows him around with a clapper board. Harry's favourite holiday hideaway in the wilds of South Shropshire puts the mud and fun into the perfect dirty weekend. But at the cottage Harry reveals a very different side, melting Jo's resolve. What better combination to face an uncertain future than two cynics who have learned from their mistakes?Together they make a pact; 'same time next year'; they can promise no more than that. Through life's most stressful decade, Harry and Jo return to the Shropshire hills for one weekend each year to rediscover passion and make peace. As career, family and home crises all threaten to bring them unstuck, the cottage is their glue. Here, different rules apply: the day to day world is not allowed to intrude.With Harry and Jo, however, it's only a matter of time before rules get broken. As real life gets increasingly complicated, can they keep renewing their promise?
Product code: 9780751556148
The Rise of Napoleon Bonaparte - Robert B. Asprey
R350,00
Robert Asprey charts Napoleon's thrilling, reckless rise to power in this fast-paced first volume of the definitive biography of the fascinating, enigmatic, and still mysterious tragic conqueror.. Ever since 1821, when he died at age fifty-one on the forlorn and windswept island of St. Helena, Napoleon Bonaparte has been remembered as either demi-god or devil incarnate. In The Rise of Napoleon Bonaparte, the first volume of a two-volume cradle-to-grave biography, Robert Asprey instead treats him as a human being. Asprey tells this fascinating, tragic tale in lush narrative detail. The Rise of Napoleon Bonaparte is an exciting, reckless thrill ride as Asprey charts Napoleon's vertiginous ascent to fame and the height of power. Here is Napoleon as he was-not saint, not sinner, but a man dedicated to and ultimately devoured by his vision of himself, his empire, and his world.
Product code: 9780465048816
Big Five of Africa - Gerald Hinde
R250,00
Here s a superb collection of in-your-face images of Africa s magnificent Big Five lion, leopard, rhino, buffalo and elephant. Award-winning wildlife photographer Gerald Hinde has long been enthralled by these magnificent animals and has spent countless hours in the field, experiencing them in all their different moods and behaviors. Big Five of Africa beautifully reproduces some of the more remarkable moments he has captured on film during his visits to the wildlife sanctuaries of southern and East Africa. Brief but informative text introduces each animal in turn, providing interesting insights into the nature of these formidable, yet compelling, creatures."
Product code: 9781770071575