Complete Guide to Snakes of South Africa (New Edition)
R520This long-awaited third edition of A Complete Guide to the Snakes of Southern Africa has been updated, revised and expanded.
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Confluence: beyond the river with Siseko Ntondini
R275Confluence tells the uplifting non-fiction story of the Duzi canoe marathon partnership of Piers Cruickshanks, a seasoned paddler who had won multiple gold medals in the Duzi, with Siseko Ntondini, a paddler who had come up through the ranks of the Soweto Canoe Club, whose dream was to win a gold medal in the Duzi.
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Conscience of the Human Spirit: The Life of Nelson Mandela: Tributes by Quilt Artists from South Africa and the United States
R300In 2013 the world mourned the passing of Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, one of its most revered champions of human rights. Mandela provided a moral compass for how we treat each other, how we lead our own lives, and how we need to continue to strive for a just, fair, nonracial, and democratic society. Artists around the world have long made quilts in tribute to Mandela and in support of and advocacy for the principles to which he was devoted. But it is for South Africans and African Americans that making quilts in tribute to Mandela has had special meaning. Conscience of the Human Spirit, which accompanies an exhibition by the same name, features quilts made after Mandela’s death?diverse and powerful pieces reflect the ways in which this remarkable man touched individual lives, changed a nation, and served as the conscience of the human spirit for individuals around the world.
This book is a collaborative project of the Michigan State University Museum, Women of Color Quilters Network, and South African quilt artists.
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Contact Zones NRB 10: Six and the City – 6 Short Plays on Nairobi
R200Nairobi is a vibrant, excentric, extreme, and elusive city. The theater project Six and the City is dedicated to contemporary Nairobi.
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Contemporary African Art
R200Contemporary African art has grown out of the diverse histories and cultural heritage of the African continent and its diaspora. It is not characterized by any particular style, technique or theme, but by a bricolage-like attitude towards art-making, incorporating and building upon the structures from which older, precolonial and colonial genres were made. In this revised and updated edition of Contemporary African Art, Sidney Littlefield Kasfir examines the major themes, developments and accomplishments in African art of the 20th and 21st centuries.
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Contemporary Art – World Currents
Contemporary Art: World Currents argues that, in recent decades, a worldwide shift from modern to contemporary art has occurred. Artists everywhere have embraced the contemporary world’s teeming multiplicity, its proliferating differences and its challenging complexities. This book shows how contemporary art achieved definitive force in the markets and museums of the major art centres during the 1980s.
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Contemporary Design Africa
R690Contemporary Design Africa offers a refreshing challenge to rigid perceptions of what African design looks like. Focusing primarily on interior decoration, the book presents fifty designers, artisans, and cooperatives based on the continent or part of the diaspora who are creating sophisticated and innovative products and interiors.
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Conversation with my elders
R300This book is an important account and history of one of the oldest tribes in Southern Africa. A tribe that has been credited for giving the rise to great Kings such as Kgosi Mogopa, Sechele of Bakwena in Botswana and Moshoeshoe of the Bakwena in Lesotho.
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Conversations About Harming Animals (Conversations about philosophy [Signed Copy])
R200Do animal lives matter?
In this delicious conversation, leading thinkers Bob Fischer and Dustin Crummett discuss the problems of eating meat and caging animals.
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Conversations About Lockdown (Conversations about Philosophy [Signed Copy]).
R200You’re standing beside a train track, and feel the vibration of an oncoming train. Ahead of you, five innocent people are tied to the rails, screaming for your help.
You can save them. But there’s a catch…
Pull a nearby lever, and the oncoming train will be diverted. But there’s a woman tied to the other track. Are you willing to kill her to save the others?
Government locked down to save vulnerable lives, while forcing businesses to close their doors.
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Conversations about the meaning of life (Conversations about Philosophy [Signed Copy])
R200What do Mother Theresa, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and the exploration of Mars teach us about the meaning of life?
World-renowned experts, David Benatar and Thaddeus Metz, give you their answers to life’s biggest question.
Spoiler alert: it isn’t 42.
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Conversations about the Philosophy of Love and Desire (Conversations About Philosophy [Signed Copy])
R200Is love bad for you?
In this engrossing conversation, leading thinker Raja Halwani enters the difficult and daring territory of love and sex.
If your lover lost their looks, their mind, and their wit, would you still love them?
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Conversations about Time Travel and Teleporters (Conversations about Philosophy [Signed Copy]).
R200Is time travel possible?
If you stepped into a teleporter, would it be the same you who stepped out?In this mind-bending conversation, philosopher and science fiction novelist Jason Werbeloff explores the hidden ideas behind popular sci-fi films and series.
Can you go back in time to kill your grandfather, and prevent yourself from being born?
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Cooked in South Africa
Cooked in South Africa is an initiative of Wish Upon a Star, a non-profit fund-raising charity, and all proceeds from the sales of this book will be donated to children living with disability.
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Covid Moons
R309“A thought-provoking and tender reflection on a period we are still living through with all its fears and uncertainties – but also … its potential for connection.” Karen Rutter, Weekend Special
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Crashed – How Trashing A Ferrari Saved My Life
R230To celebrate her 14-year clean and sober birthday, Ferguson organises to take a R3.2 million Ferrari California out on a test drive for the day. Twenty minutes before she returns the car, she is involved in a spectacular car crash, during which she experiences a near-death collision.
