The Big Picture – An Art-O-Biography
R400The Big Picture is Natalie Knight’s an Art-O-Biography-part memoir, part art history -filled with beautiful art images, society photos of the time and the stories behind many of the pieces she sold.
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The Breaking Point
R90In this stunning historical narrative, written with a novelists eye for detail, acclaimed writer Stephen Koch explores the relationship between the two men – set against the grippingly dramatic backdrop of the Spanish Civil War – and how their split changed them both as men and as writers.
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The Cape Whale Coast: Gateway to the Overberg Region of South Africa
R200Describes guesthouses and hotels, vineyards and vintners, restaurants and recipes; artists of the Overberg region of Western Cape Province; and its marine life.
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The Class Of ’79 – Three Students Who Risked Their Lives To Destroy Apartheid
R250When did this story begin?… It began when three Rhodes University students realised that what was happening in South Africa’s so-called ‘separate development’ was wrong. And that they simply couldn’t tolerate it.
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The Color Revolution
R630When the fashion industry declares that lime green is the new black, or instructs us to “think pink!,” it is not the result of a backroom deal forged by a secretive cabal of fashion journalists, designers, manufacturers, and the editor of Vogue. It is the latest development of a color revolution that has been unfolding…
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The French Century :An Illustrated History of Modern France
R300Sixteen chapters cover the history of France from the end of the 19th century to the present day, encapsulating everything from political events and scientific discoveries to cultural achievements and sporting triumphs.
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The Geckos of Bellapais:Memories of Cyprus
R230The history of Cyprus offers a reflection of larger world history. Coveted by a succession of foreign powers, it has been repeatedly occupied: the Phoenicians, Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, crusaders, Venetians, Genoese, Ottomans, and British have all left their mark on this Mediterranean island.
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The Genius – Elijah of Vilna and the Making of Modern Judaism
R360Elijah ben Solomon, the “Genius of Vilna” was perhaps the best-known and most understudied figure in modern Jewish history. This book offers a new narrative of Jewish modernity based on Elijah’s life and influence.
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The Good Value Guru
R30Take two adventurous wine-lovers, a few thousand kilometres through ten South African wine regions and enough newly-discovered vinous gems to fill a transport truck, and the Good Value Guru has what he would call “a pleasant sort of journey”.
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The Grand Tour
R250Travelling the world with an architect’s eye Architect Harry Seidler spent more than 50 years traveling the globe, extensively photographing the peak achievements in architecture from 3000 B.C. to the present day. Thanks to sound advice given to him early on by his photographer brother Marcell (“Only use Leica cameras and Kodachrome film, which is archival”), Seidler’s hobby quickly developed into a passion and, finally, an impressive archive of world architecture.
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The Human Past: World Prehistory & the Development of Human Societies
R360Truly global coverage spanning the past three million years, from human origins in Africa and the spread of modern humans around the world to the great civilizations of Egypt and Africa, the Mediterranean, Europe, South and East Asia, and the Americas.
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The Impossible Five: In Search of South Africa’s Most Elusive Mammals
R220In a humorous, original, off-beat adventure story, Justin travels around Africa in search of these forgotten animals. Along the way he meets some very weird characters, and other absurd mammals.
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The Incas: Empire of Blood and Gold
R120When Pizarro arrived in Peru in 1532 he found a vast empire rich in gold and silver. Ruled by monarchs claiming descent from the sun, its people built roads, bridges and fields through the Andes. But within months the empire had been conquered and its subjects killed or enslaved.
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The Kebble Collusion
R240This is the story of the world’s biggest unprosecuted fraud. A fraud that in today’s terms amounts to R26 billion. The cast is stellar: top financial institutions, leading bankers, a world where every other player is a lawyer, a world where Brett Kebble was king.
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The Kelly Khumalo Story
R150“The talent that God gave me is bigger than the scandals, the drugs and the mistakes I made with men.” – Kelly Khumalo
