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
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 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
How to Stop Worrying and Start Living - Dale Carnegie
R95,00
Worry effects everyone and descends with ease upon work, money, family life and relationships. This book offers practical strategies for breaking out of this destructive habit, before it breaks you. Dale Carnegie shows how worry has been conquered by thousands, some famous, but most just ordinary people, and offers practical suggestions for leading a more positive and enjoyable life. Worry-free tips include: * Fundamental facts you should know about worry. * A magic formula for solving worry situations. * How to eliminate fifty per cent of your business worries. * Seven ways to cultivate a mental attitude that will bring you peace and happiness. * How to keep from worrying about criticism. * Six ways to prevent fatigue and worry. * Personal tips from those who have conquered worry. Try his methods today and this book could change the way of your future.
Product code: 9780749307233
Blood on their hands - General Johan Booysen
R285,00
When Johan Booysen hears that the new Provincial Police Chief
takes backhanders from a Durban businessman, he decides to give her the benefit of the doubt. But the evidence becomes impossible to ignore and he soon gets dragged down the corridors of power and politics into a web of intrigue, deceit and betrayal that, at times, he has trouble making sense of. Only when he is arrested, handcuffed and tossed into a cell does Booysen realise just how ruthless those opposed to him are – an opposition he comes to call the ‘cabal’ – and whom he believes have more blood on their hands than the so-called Cato Manor Death Squad with which he is closely associated.
Product code: 9781770104778
For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway
R200,00
High in the pine forests of the Spanish Sierra, a guerrilla band prepares to blow up a vital bridge. Robert Jordan, a young American volunteer, has been sent to handle the dynamiting. There, in the mountains, he finds the dangers and the intense comradeship of war. And there he discovers Maria, a young woman who has escaped from Franco's rebels...
Product code: 9780099289821
Simply Baking
R120,00
Embrace your inner baking god or goddess with this collection of mouth-watering home-baked treats. Whether you are baking for a special occasion, such as a children's party, or just whipping up something for friends, these fuss-free recipes make baking as easy as pie. Try delicious Lemon Butterfly Cupcakes or delectable Victoria Sponge Cake. Simply Baking is part of an exciting series of cookbooks for the modern home cook. Each book is packed with 100 recipes for everyday eating and offers fantastic value and choice. If you're running short of culinary inspiration, each easy-to-follow recipe is accompanied by a photograph of the finished dish to set your taste buds tingling. Cooking has never been simpler - or more delicious.
Product code: 9781474850537
Simply Vegetarian -
R85,00
Vegetarian cuisine focuses on simply cooked, fresh ingredients using nutritional superfoods that are rich in vitamins, minerals, and fibre. Bursting with bold flavours, the humble vegetable can easily be transformed into hearty and delicious dishes with a minimum of fuss. Try a delicious Creamy Tomato & Basil Soup or a Spicy Pak Choi with Sesame Sauce. Simply Vegetarian is part of an exciting series of cookbooks for the modern home cook. Each book is packed with 100 recipes for everyday eating and offers fantastic value and choice. If you're running short of culinary inspiration, each easy-to-follow recipe is accompanied by a photograph of the finished dish to set your taste buds tingling. Cooking has never been simpler - or more delicious.
Product code: 9781474850568
Around Africa on My Bicycle - Riaan Manser
R195,00
Cycling an average of 90km a day, often in extreme conditions, being thrown into jail in Equatorial Guinea by aggressive and drunken border police, and facing possible death when taken hostage by drugged Liberian teenage rebels may not be a conventional idea of truly living, but, in September 2003, Riaan Manser rode out of Cape Town, determined to become the first person to circumnavigate Africa by bicycle. He thought it would take him a year it took him over two.At the end of 2005, he cycled back into Cape Town, 14kg lighter, having covered 36 500 km through 34 countries. Intending to use his journey to generate local and international awareness of the often appalling standard of living in Africa, Riaan was also propelled by a strong desire for African adventure, a desire that was inevitably fulfilled.In Around Africa on my Bicycle, Riaan allows the reader to relive the toil, excitement and occasional terror of his journey - negotiating the Sahara and Libyan deserts, learning French, Portuguese and Arabic, eating monkey, rat and bat, standing in front of the pyramids, being awarded the freedom of the Red Sea in Egypt, feeding hyenas mouth to mouth, and standing on the highest, as well as at the lowest, points in Africa.
Product code: 9781868422470
Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man - Steve Harvey
R395,00
The #1 New York Times bestseller in a newly revised, expanded edition. With over two million copies sold, ACT LIKE A LADY, THINK LIKE A MAN has become a bestseller around the world. In this this exciting expanded edition, Steve shares even more relationship wisdom for any problem you might face. Is your guy a mummy's boy who prefers spending time with her over you? What should you know about being a wife, before you say I DO? Steve provides the answers for all these questions, and more. New material also includes: How to maintain spice in your relationship; 8 sure-fire ways to keep your cool when his ex shows up; A test for you and your partner, to determine if you are actually ready for marriage; A 90-day abstinence calendar, along with advice for making it through this important trial period.
Product code: 9780062359971
When Zuma goes - Ralph Mathekga
R250,00
When Jacob Zuma retires to Nkandla, what will be left behind?South Africa has been in the grip of the “Zunami” since May 2009: Scandal, corruption and allegations of state capture have become synonymous with the Zuma era, leaving the country and its people disheartened.But Jacob Zuma’s time is running out. Whether he leaves the presidency after the ANC’s national conference in 2017, stays on until 2019, or is forced to retire much sooner, the question is: what impact will his departure have on South Africa, its people and on the ruling party? Can we fix the damage, and how?Ralph Mathekga answers these questions and more as he puts Zumaʼs leadership, and what will come after, in the spotlight.
Product code: 9780624080671
Not without a Fight - Helen Zille
R369,00
Helen Zille’s long-awaited autobiography is one of the most fascinating political stories of our time.Zille takes the reader back to her humble family origins, her struggle with anorexia as a young woman, her early career as a journalist for the Rand Daily Mail, and her involvement with the End Conscription Campaign and the Black Sash. She documents her early days in the Democratic Party and the Democratic Alliance, at a time when the party was locked in a no-holds-barred factional conflict.This is a story about political intrigue and treachery, floor-crossing and unlikely coalitions, phone tapping and intimidation, false criminal charges and judicial commissions.
Product code: 9781776090426
Man's Search for Ultimate Meaning - Victor E Frankl
R350,00
Viktor Frankl is known to millions as the author of "Man's Search for Meaning", his harrowing Holocaust memoir. In this book, he goes more deeply into the ways of thinking that enabled him to survive imprisonment in a concentration camp and to find meaning in life in spite of all the odds. Here, he expands upon his groundbreaking ideas and searches for answers about life, death, faith and suffering. Believing that there is much more to our existence than meets the eye, he says: 'No one will be able to make us believe that man is a sublimated animal once we can show that within him there is a repressed angel.' In "Man's Search for Ultimate Meaning", Frankl explores our sometimes unconscious desire for inspiration or revelation. He explains how we can create meaning for ourselves and, ultimately, he reveals how life has more to offer us than we could ever imagine.
Product code: 9781846043062
R350,00
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens and The Christmas Angel by Abbie Farwell Brown
R190,00
A Christmas Carol: When the miserly Scrooge retires for the day on Christmas Eve, he is visited by the ghost of his long-dead partner, Jacob Marley, who warns him of what surely will be if he doesn't change his stingy ways, namely the untimely death of Tiny Tim. Highlighting the virtues of Christian love, hope, and generosity,The Christmas Angel: Once Miss Terry believed in the Christmas Spirit, but too many disappointments have taken their toll and she is determined to prove that there is no Christmas Spirit by throwing her toys out onto the sidewalk in front of her house. Miss Terry tosses each toy one by one to the snowy sidewalk in front of her house. But her heart is moved when she sees the Christmas Angel kicked aside. Remembering all the years it graced her family mantel, she rushes to rescue it. Back inside, the Christmas Angel comes to life, and reveals the actual destiny for each toy, and for Miss Terry, that she could have never imagined.
Product code: 9781404186026
Swart Pelgrim - F A Venter
R150,00
Die Hertzogprys vir prosa is in 1976 aan Venter toegeken vir sy werke Swart pelgrim en Geknelde land. Vir Kambro-kind het hy in 1982 die Ruitertrofee van die Suid-Afrikaanse Federasie van Rapportryerskorpse ontvang. In 1981 het die Universiteit van Port Elizabeth die eregraad D. Litt aan hom toegeken as erkenning vir sy skryfwerk. In 1996 word die Andrew Murray Prys vir Literatuur aan Venter toegeken. Hy was ook lid van die Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde.F.A. Venter is oorlede in 1997.
Product code: Lit0014
Givers, Takers and Other Kinds of Lovers - Josh McDowell & Paul Lewis
R65,00
Looking for some honest, realistic advice on sex, dating and relationships? McDowell and Lewis don't beat around the bush, but look at the root of attraction. They ask the questions "What kind of love do you want?" and "Is sex the secret of loving?" Pointing toward unconditional love as the best love, they give advice to help get your head in the right place, then your heart should follow. 96 pages, softcover from Christian Focus Public.
Product code: 9781845502546
How to Really Love Your Adult Child : Building a Healthy Relationship in a Changing World - Ross Cambell & Gary Chapman
R95,00
More than 10 years after "Parenting Your Adult Child" was published, much has changed including young adults themselves, and even their parents. Economic upheavals, challenges to traditional values and beliefs, and the phenomenon of over-involved "helicopter parenting," all make relating to grown children more difficult than ever.Yet at the same time, being a parent of an adult child can bring great rewards. This revised and updated version of Dr. Gary Chapman's and Dr. Ross Campbell's message will help today's parents explore how to really love their adult child in today's changing world. The book includes brief sidebars from parents of adult children and adult children themselves with their own stories.
Product code: 9780802468512
'n Nuwe Man Teen Vrydag - Kevin Lehman Dr
R75,00| Wonder jy wat geword het van die Prince Charming met wie jy getrou het? Hy ignoreer jou, help jou met niks en sit permanent vasgenael voor die TV. Internasionaal bekende sielkundige en topverkoper-outeur dr. Kevin Leman het raad! Hy kan jou met 'N NUWE MAN TEEN VRYDAG help om die sensitiewe, romantiese en behulpsame man te kry waarvan jy nog altyd gedroom het - binne vyf dae. | |
| Die vyfdag-plan wat julle lewe radikaal kan verander in 'n neutedop:•Maandag: Werk saam ten spyte van julle verskille. •Dinsdag: Ontdek wie jou man regtig is, en leer hoe om te kommunikeer sodat hy jou behoeftes raaksien. •Woensdag: Vind uit hoe om te praat sodat jou man regtig sal luister, en hoe om te luister sodat jou man regtig sal praat. •Donderdag: Wat laat jou man geliefd voel? •Vrydag: Ontdek hoe om jou man se hart oop te sluit en jou liefdeslewe radikaal te verander. Dié boek bevat ook 'n kort opsomming van die hoofpunte, 'n vraelys en 'n bonusafdeling vir ernstiger huweliksprobleme. | |
Product code: 9781770009066
The Oxford Shakespeare: Hamlet
R120,00
Hamlet's combination of violence and introspection is unusual among Shakespeare's tragedies. It is also full of curious riddles and fascinating paradoxes, making it one of his most widely discussed plays. Professor Hibbard's illuminating and original introduction explains the process by which variant texts were fused in the eighteenth century to create the most commonly used text of today. Drawing on both critical and theatrical history, he shows how this gusion makes Hamlet seem a much more 'problematic' play than it was when it originally appeared in the First Folio of 1623. The Oxford Shakespeare edition presents a radically new text, based on that First Folio, which printed Shakespeare's own revision of an earlier version. The result is a 'theatrical' and highly practical edition for students and actors alike.
Product code: 9780192834164
'I Have a Dream' : Inspiring Words and Thoughts from History's Greatest Leaders - 'I Have a Dream' : Inspiring Words and Thoughts from History's Greatest Leaders - Terry Breverton
R195,00
'I Have a Dream' is an anthology of history's most inspiring words and thoughts from history's greatest leaders from all ages and nations. Each of the 370 quotations is accompanied by an extended annotation that tells the story of the speaker or explains the circumstances that gave rise to the quotation. Includes: 'Heroes have the whole earth for their tomb' - Pericles (431 BCE); 'I am confident in the justice of my cause' - Socrates (399 BCE); 'I stand here and can say no more. God help me. Amen' - Martin Luther (1520); 'I have the heart of a king, and a king of England, too' - Queen Elizabeth I (1588); 'Give me liberty or give me death!' - Patrick Henry (1775); 'We hold these truths to be self-evident' - Gen John Nixon (1776); 'This nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom' - Abraham Lincoln (1863); 'Non-violence is the first article of my faith' - Mohandas Gandhi (1922); 'Blood, tears, toil and sweat' - Winston Churchill (1940); 'No easy walk to freedom' - Nelson Mandela (1953); 'Ask not what your country can do for you' - John F. Kennedy (1961); 'I have a dream' - Martin Luther King (1963); 'Yes we can!' - Barack Obama (2008).
Product code: 9780857386205
For Esme - with Love and Squalor : and Other Stories - J D Salinger
R175,00
A collection of nine exceptional stories from the much-loved author of The Catcher in the Rye An American soldier has a strange encounter with an orphaned English teenager the night before he leaves for war. A four-year-old boy runs away in a dinghy; a missionary's child is kidnapped by Chinese bandits. A honeymoon in Florida goes awry with tragic consequences. Including the first stories to feature Salinger's beloved Glass family characters, this brilliantly varied collection offers a vivid introduction to the work of one of the most admired and widely read American novelists of the twentieth century. Witty, urbane and frequently affecting, For Esme - with Love and Squalor sits alongside Salinger's very best work - a gem that will be passed down for many generations to come.
Product code: 9780241950456
The Catcher in the Rye - J D Salinger
R180,00
"The Catcher in the Rye" is J . D. Salinger's world-famous novel of disaffected youth. Holden Caulfield is a seventeen- year-old dropout who has just been kicked out of his fourth school. Navigating his way through the challenges of growing up, Holden dissects the 'phony' aspects of society, and the 'phonies' themselves: the headmaster whose affability depends on the wealth of the parents, his roommate who scores with girls using sickly-sweet affection. Written with the clarity of a boy leaving childhood behind, "The Catcher in the Rye" explores the world with disarming frankness and a warm, affecting charisma which has made this novel a universally loved classic of twentieth-century literature. J. D. Salinger was born in 1919 and died in January 2010. He grew up in New York City, and wrote short stories from an early age, but his breakthrough came in 1948 with the publication in The New Yorker of "A Perfect Day for Bananafish". "The Catcher in the Rye" was his first and only novel, published in 1951. It remains one of the most translated, taught and reprinted texts, and has sold some 65 million copies. His other works include the novellas "Franny and Zooey", "For Esme with Love and Squalor", and "Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters, published with Seymour - An Introduction".
Product code: 9780241950432
The Road to Mecca - Athol Fugard
R60,00
This book features a South African pastor and a young teacher from Cape Town battle over the fate of an eccentric elderly widow. The play won the 1988 New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Foreign Play.
Product code: 9780571136919
Think and Grow Rich - Napoleon Hill
R275,00
Napoleon Hill, America's most beloved motivational author, devoted 25 years to finding out how the wealthy became that way. After interviewing over 500 of the most affluent men and women of his time, he uncovered the secret to great wealth based on the notion that if we can learn to think like the rich, we can start to behave like them. By understanding and applying the thirteen simple steps that constitute Hill's formula, you can achieve your goals, change your life and join the ranks of the rich and successful. In this updated edition, Dr. Arthur R. Pell provides examples of men and women who, in recent times, exemplify the principles that Hill promulgated. With the success stories of top achievers such as Bill Gates and Steven Spielberg, he proves that Hill's philosophies are as valid today as they were then. If you're looking to become the next Bill Gates, this is the book for you.
Product code: 9781585424337
Jock of the Bushveld - Sir Percy Fitzpatrick
R350,00
Jock of the Bushveld by Percy Fitzpatrick is a story set in the rough bushveld of South Africa's gold mining era. Jock is the faithful dog and companion of a transport rider. Through their adventures we catch a glimpse of those heady gold rush days. Jock, the runt of the litter turns out to be a faithful companion to the end.
Product code: 0582161231
Riding the Edge - Dave Barr
R300,00
Dave Barr is a rugged, extraordinary adventurer who rode a 1972 Harley Davidson around the world... despite the loss of both his legs from an antitank mine explosion in Angola in 1981. His trip from September 1990 to May 1994 covered six continents and over 83,000 miles. He’s the first person with major disability to circle the world both north-south and east-west.. on a motorcycle.
Product code: 9781879854116
I Ching or Book of Changes - Richard Wilhelm , Trans: Cary F. Baynes ,
R385,00
At least 5000 years old, the "I Ching" is a book of oracles containing the whole of human experience. Used for divination, it is a method of exploring the unconscious; through the symbolism of its hexagrams we are guided towards the solution of difficult problems and life situations. It can also be read as a book of wisdom revealing the laws of life to which we must all attune ourselves if we are to live in peace and harmony.
Product code: 9780140192070
Verlore Onskuld : Suid-Afrikaanse Kinders Wat Moor En Roof - Chris Karsten
R195,00
Tien verhale oor Suid-Afrikaners op die drempel van hul lewe, wat hulle skuldig maak aan ernstige misdaad en moord. Dis stories van onverklaarbare geweld en ontsporing - van jongmense wat roof om die guns van ander te wen, van leerders uit vooraanstaande gesinne wat 'n hawelose man wreed om die lewe bring, van sestienjariges wat hul eie ouers en gesinslede koelbloedig vermoor. Daar word ook vertel van heldemoed en hoop klein Angeline Taljaard sing dapper in 'n musiekblyspel nadat haar gesin die vorige aand deur twee seuns, jonger as syself, vermoor en vermink is. Polities opgesweepte jeugdiges vermoor die Amerikaner Amy Biehl en baie Suid-Afrikaners en ook Amerikaners trek steeds voordeel uit haar nalatenskap.
Product code: 9780798148993
Beste van eet vir volgehoue energie - Gabi Steenkamp , Liesbet Delport
R320,00Die nuutste toevoeging tot Suid-Afrika se topverkoper GI-kookreeks. Al hoe meer mense ontdek deesdae die voordele van ’n lae-GI-, laevet eetpatroon. Hierdie manier van eet verseker jou nie net van volgehoue energie, verbeterde konsentrasie en verhoogde stamina nie, maar hou ook die volgende spesifieke gesondheidsvoordele in:
• Verlaagde en bestendige bloedglukosevlakke by diabete
• Makliker permanente gewigsverlies
• Verbeterde konsentrasie by kinders met aandaggebreksindroom (AGS)
• Beter prestasie onder sportmanne en –vroue
• Verlaagde cholesterol en bloeddruk
Gabi en Liesbet het die beste en gewildste resepte uit die Eet vir Volgehoue Energie reeks wat 4 titels insluit saamgestel vir elke dag se lekker eet. Dié gesinsvriendelike resepte sluit lae-GI-weergawes in van gewilde geregte soos Lamsbrijani, ontbytmuffins en selfs kaaskoek – en bewys dat gesonde kos ook smulkos kan wees.
Die volledige inleiding verduidelik presies hoe die Glukemiese Indeks werk en verskaf praktiese riglyne vir lae-GI-, laevet-eetgewoontes vir spesifieke mediese toestande. Die nuttige GI-produklyste is ’n onontbeerlike hulpmiddel om geskikte voedselsoorte en –produkte te identifiseer.
Ook verkrygbaar in Engels as Best of Eating for Sustained Energy.
Product code: 9780624071457
Omega, oor en uit - Francois Verster
R200,00
From his first day as a national serviceman, Francois Verster’s rebellious streak landed him in trouble. His descriptions of basic training and life on Omega, where he was sent to teach, are hilarious. A second, more serious storyline tells of his experiences in the present as an archivist who has to deal with affirmative action.
Product code: 9780624072614
Heart to Heart Stories for Sisters - Joe L Wheeler
R150,00
Sisters who wish it can choose to journey toward a friendship and closeness they never thought possible.
Product code: 9780842353786
Heart to Heart: Stories of Friendship - Joe L Wheeler
R100,00
Friends come in all shapes and sizes, but one thing remains the same - they touch our hearts and we are never the same again.
Product code: 9780842305860
Heart to Heart Stories of Love - Joe L Wheeler
R150,00
Various novelists, some contemporary, contribute to this collection of love stories, including the story of a teenager's first love and a married couple of 27 years who fall in love all over again.
Product code: 9780842318334
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
R100,00
It's about imagination - not just the kind you need for childhood games. Because you never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them. Vintage Children's Classics is a twenty-first century classics list aimed at 8-12 year olds and the adults in their lives. Discover timeless favourites from The Jungle Book and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to modern classics such as The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.
Product code: 9780878919468
I am David - Anne Holm
'You must get away tonight,' the man had told him. David escapes from the concentration camp where he has spent his entire life and flees across Europe. He is utterly alone - who can he trust? What will await him? And all the while, how can he be sure that they won't catch up with him ...This is the remarkable story of David's introduction to the world: sea, mountains and flowers, the colours of Italy, the taste of fruit, people laughing and smiling, all are new to David. David learns that his polite manner, his haunted eyes and his thin features are strange to other people. He must learn to fend for himself in this strange new world. This is The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas meets Jonathan Safran Foer for children. An incredible story of survival against all odds and self discovery.
Product code: 9780749701369
The Sound of Music Story - Tom Santopietro
R300,00
In March 1965 the film of The Sound of Music was released - and the love affair between moviegoers and the classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical began. Rarely has a film so captured the love and imagination of the public, blending history, music, Austrian location filming, heartfelt emotion and the yodelling of Julie Andrews into a monster hit. Now, Tom Santopietro has written the ultimate "Sound of Music" fan book with all the inside information - the real-life story of the Von Trapps, the behind the dramas of the casting - we all know that Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer played Maria and Captain Von Trapp, but who else had been considered? - and the many hazards of shooting the film on location. We learn how some of the iconic songs came into being and what the actors really thought of it. Tom Santopietro knows all and will tell all. The Sound of Music Story is a book for everyone who cherishes this classic musical.
Product code: 9780593075562
Lawrence in Arabia : War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East - Scott Anderson
The Arab Revolt against the Turks in World War One was, in the words of T.E. Lawrence, 'a sideshow of a sideshow'. Amidst the slaughter in European trenches, the Western combatants paid scant attention to the Middle Eastern theatre. As a result, the conflict was shaped to a remarkable degree by a small handful of adventurers and low-level officers far removed from the corridors of power. At the centre of it all was Lawrence. In early 1914 he was an archaeologist excavating ruins in the sands of Syria; by 1917 he was battling both the enemy and his own government to bring about the vision he had for the Arab people. Operating in the Middle East at the same time, but to wildly different ends, were three other important players: a German attache, an American oilman and a committed Zionist. The intertwined paths of these four young men - the schemes they put in place, the battles they fought, the betrayals they endured and committed - mirror the grandeur, intrigue and tragedy of the war in the desert
Product code: 9781782392026
Annexed - Sharon Dogar
R250,00
Everyone knows about Anne Frank, and her life hidden in the secret annexe - or do they? Peter van Pels and his family are locked away with the Franks too, and Peter sees it all differently. What is it like to be forced into hiding with Anne Frank, to hate her and then find yourself falling in love with her? To know you're being written about in her diary, day after day? And, what's it like to sit and wait and watch whilst others die, and you wish you were fighting? Anne's diary ends on August 4 1944, but Peter's story takes us on, beyond their betrayal and into the Nazi death camps. He details with accuracy, clarity and compassion, the reality of day to day survival in Auschwitz - and the terrible conclusion.
Product code: 9781849391245
Start with Why : How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action - Simon Sinek
R250,00
Why are some people and organisations more inventive, pioneering and successful than others? And why are they able to repeat their success again and again? In business, it doesn't matter what you do, it matters why you do it. "Start with Why" analyses leaders like Martin Luther King Jr and Steve Jobs and discovers that they all think in the same way - they all started with why. Simon Sinek explains the framework needed for businesses to move past knowing what they do to how they do it, and then to ask the more important question - Why? Why do we do what we do? Why do we exist? Learning to ask these questions can unlock the secret to inspirational business. Sinek explains what it truly takes to lead and inspire and how anyone can learn how to do it.
Product code: 9780241958223
Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
R150,00
Becky Sharp is a poor orphan when she first makes friends with the lovely Amelia Sedley at Miss Pinkerton's Academy for Young Ladies. She may not have the natural advantages of her companion but she more than makes up for it with her wit, charm, deviousness and determination to make a success of herself whatever the cost.
Product code: 9781848376113
R150,00
Mr Wrong - Mark Barrowcliffe
R150,00
How many partners should it take to find The One? Meet a man with a commitment problem. Women wouldn't commit to him. Mark Barrowcliffe has had around forty girlfriends in all, depending on what your definition of a girlfriend is. He's now happily married, but why couldn't he hold on to any of the others? From first kisses to commitment, whirlwind affairs and heartbreak, Mr Wrong is a very funny, sometines uncomfortable, true account of every girl Mark has ever been out with. But does his story constitute the rakish diaries of a dedicated ladies' man, or twenty-five years of abject failiure with women?
Product code: 9780230709690
The Collected Works of A. J. Fikry - Gabrielle Levin
R195,00
AJ Fikry owns a failing bookshop. His wife has just died, in tragic circumstances. His rare and valuable first edition has been stolen. His life is a wreck. Amelia is a book rep, with a big heart, and a lonely life. Maya is the baby who ends up on AJ's bookshop floor with a note. What happens in the bookshop that changes the lives of these seemingly normal but extraordinary characters? This is the story of how unexpected love can rescue you and bring you back to real life, in a world that you won't want to leave, with characters that you will come to love.
Product code: 9781408704615
Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe
R195,00
"One of the greatest productions of the human mind". (Leo Tolstoy). When a Kentucky farmer faces financial ruin, he reluctantly sells his slaves, and Uncle Tom finds himself the property of a cruel plantation owner, fighting for his freedom and ultimately, for his right to live. With a rich narrative and wonderfully realised characters, this is a panoramic, incredibly accomplished work. Originally published to much acclaim in 1852, it quickly established Harriet Beecher Stowe as one of America's most influential female novelists and was crucial in helping to secure the abolition of slavery. .
Product code: 9780099595830
The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher - Hilary Mantel
R250,00
A brilliant - and rather transgressive - collection of short stories from the double Man Booker Prize-winning author of 'Wolf Hall' and 'Bring Up the Bodies'. Hilary Mantel is one of Britain's most accomplished and acclaimed writers. In these ten bracingly subversive tales, all her gifts of characterisation and observation are fully engaged, summoning forth the horrors so often concealed behind everyday facades. Childhood cruelty is played out behind the bushes in 'Comma'; nurses clash in 'Harley Street' over something more than professional differences; and in the title story, staying in for the plumber turns into an ambiguous and potentially deadly waiting game. Whether set in a claustrophobic Saudi Arabian flat or on a precarious mountain road in Greece, these stories share an insight into the darkest recesses of the spirit.
Product code: 9780007580972
Animal Farm - George Orwell
R150,00
'All animals are equal - but some are more equal than others'. When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master Mr Jones and take over the farm themselves, they imagine it is the beginning of a life of freedom and equality. But gradually a cunning, ruthless elite among them, masterminded by the pigs Napoleon and Snowball, starts to take control. Soon the other animals discover that they are not all as equal as they thought, and find themselves hopelessly ensnared as one form of tyranny is replaced with another. 'It is the history of a revolution that went wrong - and of the excellent excuses that were forthcoming at every step for the perversion of the original doctrine,' wrote Orwell for the first edition of Animal Farm in 1945. Orwell wrote the novel at the end of 1943, but it almost remained unpublished; its savage attack on Stalin, at that time Britain's ally, led to the book being refused by publisher after publisher. Orwell's simple, tragic fable has since become a world-famous classic.
Product code: 9780141393056
A Passage to India - E M Forster
R160,00
What did happen to Miss Quested in the Marabar Caves? This tantalizing question provides the intense drama of racial tension at the centre of Forster's last and greatest novel. After a mysterious incident during their visit to the caves, the charming Dr Aziz is accused of assaulting Adela Quested, a naive young Englishwoman new to India. As he is brought to trial, the fragile structure of Anglo-Indian relations collapses and the racism inherent in colonialism is exposed in all its ugliness - a theme which still has powerful, dangerous realities today.
Product code: 9780140274233
R160,00
Hiroshima - John Hersey
2015 is the 70th anniversary of Hiroshima, when, at 8.15am, an atomic bomb was dropped over the Japanese city, killing one hundred thousand men, women and children in its white fury. John Hersey's spare, devastating report on the attack was first published in the New Yorker in 1946. Written in the immediate aftermath of the disaster, it chronicles what happened through the eyes of six civilians who survived against the odds. It is a classic piece of journalism, and a defining moment of the nuclear age. 'One of the most powerful writers of modern times' Washington Post
Product code: 9780141982243
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
R160,00
Huckleberry Finn had a tough life with his drunk father until an adventure with Tom Sawyer changed everything. But when Huck's dad returns and kidnaps him, he must escape down the Mississippi river with runaway slave, Jim. They encounter trouble at every turn, from floods and gunfights to armed bandits and the long arm of the law. Through it all the friends stick together - but can Huck and Tom free Jim from slavery once and for all? With an inspirational introduction by Darren Shan, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is one of the twenty wonderful classic stories being relaunched in Puffin Classics in March 2015.
Product code: 9780141321097
The Complete Novels of Jane Austen
R300,00
This beautiful volume covers the literary career of one of England's finest prose stylists of any century. Jane Austen (1775-1817) was famously modest about her own genius but has become one of English literature's most revered writers. Austen began writing at a young age, embarking on what is possibly her best-known work, Pride and Prejudice, at the age of 22. She was the author of Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Persuasion, Mansfield Park and Northanger Abbey.
Product code: 9780141030173
A Room with a View - E M Forster
R150,00
This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "A Room with a View" by E. M. Forster '"But you do," he went on, not waiting for contradiction. "You love the boy body and soul, plainly, directly, as he loves you, and no other word expresses it..." Lucy has her rigid, middle-class life mapped out for her until she visits Florence with her uptight cousin Charlotte, and finds her neatly ordered existence thrown off balance. Her eyes are opened by the unconventional characters she meets at the Pension Bertolini: flamboyant romantic novelist Eleanor Lavish, the Cockney Signora, curious Mr Emerson and, most of all, his passionate son George. Lucy finds herself torn between the intensity of life in Italy and the repressed morals of Edwardian England, personified in her terminally dull fiance Cecil Vyse. Will she ever learn to follow her own heart?
Product code: 9780141199825