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The Mission – A Life for Freedom in South Africa by Denis Goldberg (Paperback)
Condition: New
Nelson Mandela’s comrade in the struggle, Denis Goldberg, spent 22 years in an Apartheid South African political prison from 1963 to 1985. In this memoir, Denis, the perennial optimist, writes about the human side of the often painful road to freedom; about the joy of love and death, human dignity, political passion, comradeship, conflict between comrades…and a very long imprisonment. These memoirs offer the reader an insight into an important chapter in the history of our struggle from a different viewpoint because the racist dogmas of apartheid dictated that he would be incarcerated apart from his Black comrades and colleagues. That segregation denied him both the companionship and the counsel of his fellow accused. His was consequently an exceedingly lonely sojourn. But, true to himself and the cause he had espoused from his youth, he bore it with courage and immense dignity.
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Magritte by Alexander Adams (Paperback)
Condition: As new
Throughout his career, Magritte subverted expectations about artists in the world by disguising himself as an unremarkable member of the bourgeoisie. While the public mined his work for symbolism and deep meaning, the truth is, that with Magritte, what you see is what you get. What readers will get with this gorgeous volume is a deeply engaging overview of Magritte’s entire career, and an eloquent argument that his Surrealist masterpieces were simply an extension of the Romantic tradition. Chronologically arranged, this volume features full- page reproductions of thirty-five works, each paired with a concise text that highlights its significance in Magritte’s catalog.
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The Year 1000 by Valerie Hansen (Hardback)
Valerie Hansen takes us on an informative and entertaining romp around the world of a thousand years ago, on everything from Viking longboats to camel caravans in Central Asia. Anyone who thinks that globalization is something new in life needs to read this book.
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Goliath: Why the West Doesn’t Win Wars. And What We Need to Do About It by Sean McFate (Hardback)
Everything you think you know about war is wrong.War is timeless. Some things change – weapons, tactics, leadership – but our desire to go into battle does not. We are in the midst of an age of conflict: global terrorism, Russia’s resurgence and China’s rise, international criminal empires, climate change and dwindling natural resources.
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The Penguin Book of Modern Speeches edited by Brian MacArthur (Paperback)
Condition: Very good (Some water damage, first few pages)
This definitive collection gathers the most significant speeches of the modern era, from Theodore Roosevelt and Martin Luther King Jr. to Ronald Reagan and Michelle Obama
Defined by waves of idealism and doubt, progress and destruction, the twentieth century and the first decades of the twenty-first have seen the best and worst of humanity in measures previously unimaginable. Underpinning the rise of radio, television, and the internet, the spoken word has proven ever more crucial in stirring the hearts and minds of millions around the world.
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Glossy – The Inside Story Of Vogue Nina-Sophia Miralles (Paperback)
Condition: Very good
Glossy is a story of more than a magazine. It is a story of passion and power, dizzying fortune and out-of-this-world fashion, of ingenuity and opportunism, frivolity and malice. This is the definitive story of Vogue.
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The Address Book by Deirdre Mask (Hardback)
Condition: As new
An exuberant work of popular history: why something as seemingly mundane as an address can save lives or serve the powerful.
Starting with a simple question, ‘what do street addresses do?’, Deirdre Mask travels the world and back in time to work out how we describe where we live and what that says about us. From the chronological numbers of Tokyo to the naming of Bobby Sands Street in Iran, she explores how our address – or lack of one – expresses our politics, culture and technology. It affects our health and wealth, and it can even affect the working of our brains. -
Peonies and Pomegranates: Botanic Illustrations from Asia by Celia Fisher (Hardback)
Condition: Interior As new/slight wear on dust jacket
Many of the flowers and fruits growing in our gardens and greenhouses today were brought to the West by collectors or traders. This book describes the origins of these plants, with quotations from the people of Asia who first appreciated, cultivated and wrote about them. Almost all the illustrations are by Asian and Middle Eastern artists, some of them hired by European collectors. Celia Fisher begins with an account of the long history of gardens in the East, and of how Eastern plants and botanical knowledge came to be transmitted to Europe. This is followed by seventy-four alphabetical plant entries, ranging from acacia to wisteria, each illustrated with wonderful pictures from a range of books, manuscripts, paintings and drawings. A must-have for every gardener and appreciator of beautiful artwork, this sumptuously illustrated handbook describes over seventy plants that originated in Asia and the Middle East.
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The History of Western Art (Art Essentials) by Janetta Rebold Benton (Paperback)
Condition: As new
A concise, reader-friendly illustrated survey of Western art and architecture from prehistory to the present day. Acknowledging how architecture, painting, sculpture and the decorative arts reflect the culture and society of their time, this latest addition to the Art Essentials series invites the reader to experience and appreciate the entirety of Western art from prehistory to today. Focusing on the ‘history’ in art history, each of the twelve chapters opens with a question to ponder, followed by a summary of the major historical developments of the period, touching on social structure, political organization, migration, race, religious beliefs, scientific advances and customs.
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Nazi Billionaires – The Dark History of Germany’s Wealthiest Dynasties by David De Jong (Hardback)
Condition: As new
A ground-breaking investigation of how the Nazis helped German tycoons make billions from the horrors of the Third Reich and World War II – and how the world allowed them to get away with it.
In 1946, Günther Quandt – patriarch of Germany’s most iconic industrial empire, a dynasty that today controls BMW – was arrested for suspected Nazi collaboration. Quandt claimed that he had been forced to join the party by his arch-rival, propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, and the courts acquitted him. But Quandt lied. And his heirs, and those of other Nazi billionaires, have only grown wealthier in the generations since, while their reckoning with this dark past remains incomplete at best. Many of them continue to control swaths of the world economy, owning iconic brands whose products blanket the globe. The brutal legacy of the dynasties that dominated Daimler-Benz, cofounded Allianz and still control Porsche, Volkswagen and BMW has remained hidden in plain sight – until now.
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Shakespeare – The Illustrated Edition by Bill Bryson (Hardback)
Condition: Good – includes CD
Bill Bryson’s Shakespeare pairs one of history’s most celebrated writers with one of the most popular writers in the English language today. In this elegant, updated, illustrated edition, the superstitions, academic discoveries and myths surrounding the life of one of the world’s greatest poets are evoked through a series of full-color paintings, drawings, portraits, documents and photographs. Bryson also discusses the recent discoveries of the Cobbe portrait and the remains of Shakespeare’s first theatre in Shoreditch.
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Explaining Hitler : The Search for the Origins of His Evil by Ron Rosenbaum (paperback)
Rosenbaum explores the mind of Hitler’s explainers and, through them, the mind of Hitler himself. He gives details of his encounters over a ten-year period with such figures as Hugh Trevor Roper, Alan Bullock, Claude Lanzmann and Emile Fackenheim. He reveals both new and forgotten material which help explain one of history’s greatest enigmas.
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The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East by Robert Fisk (Paperback)
Robert Fisk’s bestselling eyewitness account of the events that have shaped the Middle East is alive with vivid reporting and incisive historical analysis. The history of the Middle East is an epic story of tragedy, betrayal and world-shaking events. It is a story that Robert Fisk has been reporting for over thirty years. His masterful narrative spans the most volatile regions of the Middle East, chronicling with both rage and compassion the death by deceit of tens of thousands of Muslims, Christians and Jews. Robert Fisk’s remarkable history is also the tale of a journalist at war – learning of the 9/11 attacks while aboard a passenger jet, reporting from a bombed-out Baghdad, interviewing Osama bin Laden – and of the courage and frustration of a life spent writing the first draft of history.
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The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the cold war by Ben MacIntyre (hardback)
‘THE BEST TRUE SPY STORY I HAVE EVER READ’ JOHN LE CARRÉ A thrilling Cold War story about a KGB double agent, by one of Britain’s greatest historians On a warm July evening in 1985, a middle-aged man stood on the pavement of a busy avenue in the heart of Moscow, holding a plastic carrier bag. In his grey suit and tie, he looked like any other Soviet citizen. The bag alone was mildly conspicuous, printed with the red logo of Safeway, the British supermarket. The man was a spy. A senior KGB officer, for more than a decade he had supplied his British spymasters with a stream of priceless secrets from deep within the Soviet intelligence machine. No spy had done more to damage the KGB. The Safeway bag was a signal: to activate his escape plan to be smuggled out of Soviet Russia. So began one of the boldest and most extraordinary episodes in the history of spying. Ben Macintyre reveals a tale of espionage, betrayal and raw courage that changed the course of the Cold War forever…
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20 South African Schools – A Pictorial History Don Nelson Publishers (Hardback)
Condition: As new.
This book is a wonderful review of pictures and text which captures the history of 20 South African Schools. Schools form the foundation of society and in South Africa. We are blessed with excellent schools, many of which were founded well over 100 years ago.
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Life at the Cape: A hundred years ago by A Lady (Hardback)
Condition: 119 pages (complete). The dustjacket is worn and scuffed and marked but the book is well secure.
The book was compiled from a series of articles published in the Cape newspapers at the turn of the century (1890 – 1910) all written by a “Lady” whose ability to describe her travels and the sights she took in, is invaluable to the interested reader. She describes the wonders of the natural beauty of the Cape, causing the imagination to look beneath the City of Cape Town that has grown to accommodate 3 million people in 2010.
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Avenge Tobruk by E.P. Hartshorn (Hardcover)
No dust jacket, Tightly bound,no hight lighted pages .
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Cape Wine Homesteads by Cor Pama paintings by Ted Hoefsllot (Hardcover)
Condition: Good. Dust jacket is shelf worn
A short history of wine farming and a tour of the historic homesteads that grace the well-known estates.
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Reader’s Digest Illustrated History of South Africa: The Real Story (Hardback)
Surveys the history of South Africa from its early civilizations to significant twentieth-century events
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Classical Legends by A.R. Hope Moncrieff (Paperback)
Drawn from classical authors and retold in accessible prose, this volume contains a selection of stories based on the legends and myths of Ancient Greece, featuring a cast of memorable figures ranging from the gods of Olympus to legendary heroes such as Odysseus and Theseus, and also includes extracts of verse by great English poets inspired by Greek mythology.