• The Last Sanctuary in Aleppo - A remarkable true story of courage, survival and hope

    The Last Sanctuary in Aleppo – A remarkable true story of courage, survival and hope

    R285

    From Diana Darke, the acclaimed author of My House in Damascus and The Merchant of Syria, comes the extraordinary true story of a heroic ambulance driver who created a cat sanctuary in the midst of war-torn Aleppo. “I’ll stay with them no matter what happens. Someone who has mercy in his heart for humans has mercy for every living thing.” When war came to Alaa Aljaleel’s hometown, he made a remarkable decision to stay behind, caring for the people and animals caught in the crossfire.

  • The PrintmakerOut of stock

    The Printmaker

    R300

    When a reclusive printmaker dies, his friend inherits the thousands of etchings and drawings he has stored in his house over the years. Overwhelmed by the task of sorting and exhibiting this work, she seeks the advice of a curator.

     

  • The Trust ManifestoOut of stock

    The Trust Manifesto

    R450

    We’re living in an extraordinary age: the age of trust. We trust the language of algorithms and the intentions of tech giants. The Trust Manifesto is for anyone how has started to question that trust; who worry where it might end, who fear ‘The Black Mirror Effect’. It is for those who wonder what an alternative internet would look like, built on trust, that works for all of us

  • The Whole PictureOut of stock

    The Whole Picture

    R250

    From the stolen Wakandan art in Black Panther, to Emmanuel Macron’s recent commitment to art restitution, and Beyoncé and Jay Z’s provocative music video filmed in the Louvre, the question of decolonising our relationship with the art around us is quickly gaining traction. People are waking up to the seedy history of the world’s art collections, and are starting to ask difficult questions about what the future of museums should look like.

    In The Whole Picture, art historian and Uncomfortable Art Tour guide Alice Procter provides a manual for deconstructing everything you thought you knew about art, and fills in the blanks with the stories that have been left out of the art history canon for centuries.

  • This Is Shakespeare : How to Read the World's Greatest Playwright

    This Is Shakespeare : How to Read the World’s Greatest Playwright

    R230

    This electrifying new book thrives on revealing, not resolving, the ambiguities of Shakespeare’s plays and their changing topicality. It introduces an intellectually, theatrically and ethically exciting writer who engages with intersectionality as much as with Ovid, with economics as much as poetry: who writes in strikingly modern ways about individual agency, privacy, politics, celebrity and sex.

  • Twenty ParachutesOut of stock

    Twenty Parachutes

    R420

    Nazraeli Press is a publisher of books of photography. It was founded in 1989, in Munich, Germany, by Chris Pichler and has been based in the USA since 1996.  ‘Twenty Parachutes’ is a unique book showcasing the photographs of late Margaret Bourke-White. Writer and curator, Trudy Wilner Stack, wrote the following in the introduction of ‘Twenty Parachutes’: “Few careers with a camera have been as narrated and celebrated as that of Margaret Bourke-White. With legendary fortitude and energy, Bourke-White time and again nailed the assignments she was given with formal brilliance and incisive descriptive power. In this series of images, we feel a relaxing of her precision as she recorded an emblematic struggle between natural force and human ingenuity, between our limitations and the grand devices we create to defy them.”

  • Uncertain Curature

    Uncertain Curature

    R300

    Uncertain curature is a volume of bold and original explorations of the archive – the past, our material inheritance – and the ways it is displayed, interpreted and given meaning in the postcolonial world of South Africa. This operation on the past – what the authors have called ‘curature’ – can be seen as the postcolony’s way of rescripting its own history, which is both a trauma to be dealt with and a resource for the future.

  • Vuyo's: From A Big Big Dreamer To Living The Dream

    Vuyo’s: From A Big Big Dreamer To Living The Dream

    R150

    Many people became familiar with the phrase, ‘Ooh Vuyo – he’s such a big big dreamer’ from the TV beer commercial that told a rags-to-riches story about an entrepreneur who starts a business selling boerewors rolls and grows it into a successful multinational business.
    Wondering whether it was a true tale, Miles Kubheka did some research. When he discovered that Vuyo was a fictitious character, he saw a gap in the market for developing an exciting business model.

  • Ways of CuratingOut of stock

    Ways of Curating

    R270

    Drawing on his own experiences and inspirations Hans Ulrich Obrist looks to inspire all those engaged in the creation of culture.

  • Wolfgang Ullrich: Die Geschichte der Unschärfe

    Wolfgang Ullrich: Die Geschichte der Unschärfe

    R300

    Warum sind Bilder populär, auf denen kaum etwas zu erkennen ist? Der Kulturwissenschaftler Wolfgang Ullrich geht in seinem hochinteressanten Buch zurück bis ins 19. Jahrhundert, wo die Unschärfe als Stilmittel erstmals auftaucht.

  • Wolves

    Wolves

    R270

    With full captions explaining how wolf species hunt and feed, rear their young, and migrate, Wolves is a brilliant examination in outstanding color photographs of these fascinating animals.

  • #HelpHope 7Quantum Humanomics

    #HelpHope 7Quantum Humanomics

    R140

    Africa is at the turning point of the thought-leader revolution. The 7 Humanomics lead the reader to a new hope for our future, for connecting with each other to form an unbreakable net of HOPE. Our personal stories need to be shared to bring about shared experiences: a sharing that will form a collective shield again forces intent on destroying our humanity

  • An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It

    An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It

    R220

    The truth about the climate crisis is an inconvenient one that means we are going to have to change the way we live our lives. Our climate crisis may at times appear to be happening slowly, but in fact it is happening very quickly – and has become a true planetary emergency. The Chinese expression for crisis consists of two characters. The first is a symbol for danger; the second is a symbol for opportunity. In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and move through it, we first have to recognize that we are facing a crisis.

  • Archaeology: Theories, Methods and Practice

    Archaeology: Theories, Methods and Practice

    R675

    This is the sixth edition of the best selling introduction to archaeology, printed in full colour for the first time, with hundreds of photographs and diagrams. It has been given the most thorough updating and reorganization since it was first published, providing coverage of all the major developments in archaeological method, science, technology and theory.

  • Art of Change - New Directions From China

    Art of Change – New Directions From China

    R390

    Amongst a host of exhibitions and books surveying ‘New Art from China’, this title stands out as a uniquely focused investigation of Chinese sculpture and installation. Exploring the work of a small number of artists, Liang Shaoji, Wang Jianwei, Xu Zhen/MadeIn Company, Gu Dexin, Sun Yuan & Peng Yu, Chen Zhen, Yingmei Duan  and illustrating their most powerful and engaging works, this book traces a very particular seam of performative Chinese art from the late 1980s to the present.

  • Sale! Beautiful Users: Designing for People

    Beautiful Users: Designing for People

    Original price was: R330.Current price is: R150.

    In the mid-twentieth century, Henry Dreyfuss—widely considered the father of industrial design—pioneered a user-centered approach to design that focuses on studying people’s behaviors and attitudes as a key first step in developing successful products.