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Running From the Shadows - A true story of how one woman faced her past and ran towards her future (Paperback): Stephanie Hickey Running From the Shadows - A true story of how one woman faced her past and ran towards her future (Paperback)
Stephanie Hickey
R434 Discovery Miles 4 340 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In Running from the Shadows Stephanie Hickey tells, in her own words, how she survived abuse at the hands of a trusted family member and of how running, a simple physical activity helped her achieve mindfulness, but also to rediscover love and faith in her body - to reclaim it. Charting her life growing up in the rolling countryside of Waterford in the safety of her beloved family to the moment her childhood was shattered, to the court case where she waived her anonymity, to how she was able to reclaim a sense of herself through the sport which became like a therapy, Running from the Shadows is told with humour, strength and incredible courage -- a book that reveals how, even when things seem at their bleakest, a run through the Irish countryside, can bring you back into the light.

Italians of Brooklyn (Paperback): Marianna Biazzo Randazzo Italians of Brooklyn (Paperback)
Marianna Biazzo Randazzo
R605 R548 Discovery Miles 5 480 Save R57 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Frantz Fanon - Combat Breathing (Paperback): Nigel C. Gibson Frantz Fanon - Combat Breathing (Paperback)
Nigel C. Gibson
R395 R356 Discovery Miles 3 560 Save R39 (10%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

An essential introduction to Fanon’s remarkable life and philosophy. Connecting his writing, psychiatric practice and lived experience in the Caribbean, France and Africa, Gibson highlights Fanon’s philosophical commitments and the vision of revolution that he stood for. Fanon’s oeuvre is essential to thinking about race today.

Revolutionary humanist and radical psychiatrist Frantz Fanon was one of the greatest Black thinkers of the twentieth century. Born in Martinique and known for his involvement in the Algerian liberation movement, his seminal books Black Skin, White Masks and The Wretched of the Earth are widely considered to be cornerstones of anti-colonial and anti-racist thought.

In this essential introduction to Fanon’s remarkable life and philosophy, Nigel C. Gibson argues that Fanon’s oeuvre is essential to thinking about race today. Connecting Fanon’s writing, psychiatric practice and lived experience in the Caribbean, France and Africa, Gibson highlights Fanon’s his philosophical commitments and the vision of revolution that he stood for. Despite his untimely death, the revolutionary pulse of Fanon’s ideas has continued to beat ever more strongly in the consciousness of successive revolutionary generations, from the Black Panthers and Black power to the Black Lives Matter and Fallist student movements, as well as to grassroots resistance movements working to improve the lives of Black and indigenous people who are continuously oppressed by systems of capitalism, imperialism and colonialism.

As Fanon’s thought comes alive to new activists thinking about their mission to ‘humanise the world,’ Gibson reminds us that Fanon’s revolutionary humanism is fundamental to all forms of anti-colonial struggle across the world.

Journal of the Australian Catholic Historical Society - Volume39 (Hardcover): ATF Press Journal of the Australian Catholic Historical Society - Volume39 (Hardcover)
ATF Press
R623 Discovery Miles 6 230 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This volume focuses on Catholic Church history in Australia by lookimg at certain figures (Archdeacon John McEencroe, Lwesi Harding, Bishop Chalres Henry Davis, Cardonal Gilroy) as well as themes: Catholc Social Justice and parliamentary politics, humanae vitae and Tridentine clericalism, and the emergence of Catholic education offices.

Ready to Be Heard - How I Lost My Hearing and Found My Voice (Paperback): Amanda McDonough Ready to Be Heard - How I Lost My Hearing and Found My Voice (Paperback)
Amanda McDonough
R456 R429 Discovery Miles 4 290 Save R27 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
9 Sisters Cursed Since Birth - A Corrupt Family Drowning in Their Deadly Sins (Paperback): Na 'Veah Rose 9 Sisters Cursed Since Birth - A Corrupt Family Drowning in Their Deadly Sins (Paperback)
Na 'Veah Rose
R716 R649 Discovery Miles 6 490 Save R67 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Baseball in Alabama - Tales of Hardball in the Heart of Dixie (Paperback): Doug Wedge Baseball in Alabama - Tales of Hardball in the Heart of Dixie (Paperback)
Doug Wedge; Foreword by Hal Baird Head Baseball Coach Auburn University 1985-2000
R649 R593 Discovery Miles 5 930 Save R56 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Breaking Glass - Broken Barriers - Voyage of an Entrepreneurial Spirit (Hardcover): Joyce Verplank Hatton Breaking Glass - Broken Barriers - Voyage of an Entrepreneurial Spirit (Hardcover)
Joyce Verplank Hatton
R1,157 R992 Discovery Miles 9 920 Save R165 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
All The Beauty In The World - The Metropolitan Museum Of Art And Me (Paperback): Patrick Bringley All The Beauty In The World - The Metropolitan Museum Of Art And Me (Paperback)
Patrick Bringley
R461 R392 Discovery Miles 3 920 Save R69 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

An “exquisite” (The Washington Post) “hauntingly beautiful” (Associated Press) portrait of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and its treasures by a former New Yorker staffer who spent a decade as a museum guard.

Millions of people climb the grand marble staircase to visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art every year. But only a select few have unrestricted access to every nook and cranny. They’re the guards who roam unobtrusively in dark blue suits, keeping a watchful eye on the two million square foot treasure house. Caught up in his glamourous fledgling career at The New Yorker, Patrick Bringley never thought that he’d be one of them. Then his older brother was diagnosed with fatal cancer and he found himself needing to escape the mundane clamor of daily life. So he quit The New Yorker and sought solace in the most beautiful place he knew.

To his surprise and your delight, this temporary refuge becomes Bringley’s home away from home for a decade. We follow him as he guards delicate treasures from Egypt to Rome, strolls the labyrinths beneath the galleries, wears out nine pairs of company shoes, and marvels at the beautiful works in his care. Bringley enters the museum as a ghost, silent and almost invisible, but soon finds his voice and his tribe: the artworks and their creators and the lively subculture of museum guards—a gorgeous mosaic of artists, musicians, blue-collar stalwarts, immigrants, cutups, and dreamers. As his bonds with his colleagues and the art grow, he comes to understand how fortunate he is to be walled off in this little world, and how much it resembles the best aspects of the larger world to which he gradually, gratefully returns.

In the tradition of classic workplace memoirs like Lab Girl and Working Stiff, All the Beauty in the World is an “empathic” (The New York Times Book Review), “moving” (NPR), “consoling, and beautiful” (The Guardian) portrait of a great museum, its hidden treasures, and the people who make it tick, by one of its most intimate observers.

Breaking Glass - Broken Barriers - Voyage of an Entrepreneurial Spirit (Paperback): Joyce Verplank Hatton Breaking Glass - Broken Barriers - Voyage of an Entrepreneurial Spirit (Paperback)
Joyce Verplank Hatton
R888 R782 Discovery Miles 7 820 Save R106 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Writings of Theobald Wolfe Tone 1763-98, Volume 3 - France, the Rhine, Lough Swilly and Death of Tone (January 1797 to... The Writings of Theobald Wolfe Tone 1763-98, Volume 3 - France, the Rhine, Lough Swilly and Death of Tone (January 1797 to November 1798) (Hardcover, New)
T.W. Moody, R.B. McDowell, C. J. Woods
R1,554 Discovery Miles 15 540 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This edition of the writings of Theobald Wolfe Tone (1763-98), barrister, United Irishman, agent of the Catholic Committee and later an officer in the French revolutionary army, is intended to comprehend all his writings and largely to supersede the two-volume Life of Theobald Wolfe Tone. ..written by himself that was edited by his son William, and published at Washington in 1826. It consists mainly of Tone's correspondence, diaries, autobiography, pamphlets, public addresses, and miscellaneous memoranda (both personal and public); it is based on the original MSS if extant or the most reliable printed sources.
Tone's participation in Irish politics in the early 1790s and his presence on the periphery of the ruling circle in revolutionary France from February 1796 to September 1798 would be sufficient to make his writings a major historical source. The literary quality of his writings, diaries, and autobiography enhances their importance. The unique quality of Tone's writings is that they are the production of a gifted and convivial young Irishman who moved widely in intellectual and political circles.
This volume - France, the Rhine, Lough Swilly, and the Death of Tone - completes the edition, following the last part of Tone's life, until his death following the abortive Irish uprising of 1798. It includes addenda, corrigenda, an iconography, a bibliography, and a complete index to all three volumes.

I was no. 20832 at Auschwitz (Paperback): Eva Tichauer, Nicki Rensten, Colette Levy I was no. 20832 at Auschwitz (Paperback)
Eva Tichauer, Nicki Rensten, Colette Levy
R525 Discovery Miles 5 250 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Eva Tichauer was born in Berlin at the end of the First World War into a socialist Jewish family. After a happy childhood in a well-off intellectual milieu, the destiny of her family was turned upside-down by the rise of Hitler in 1933. They emigrated to Paris in July of that year, and life started to become difficult. Eva was in her second year of medical studies in 1939 when war was declared, with fatal consequences for her and her family: they sere forced to the Spanish frontier, then returned to Paris to a flat which had been searched by the Gestapo. Eva was then compelled to break off her studies due to a quota system being imposed on Jewish students.

Shudu u wana Vhutolo Hawe (Venda, Paperback): Shudufhadzo Musida Shudu u wana Vhutolo Hawe (Venda, Paperback)
Shudufhadzo Musida; Illustrated by Chantelle & Burgen Thorne
R160 R144 Discovery Miles 1 440 Save R16 (10%) In Stock

Kha bugu iyi yavhudi i neaho mafulufulu, Mufumakadzana wa lunako wa Afrika Tshipembe, Shudufhadzo Musida, u ri anetshela tshiori tsha he a thoma hone; tsha u imba na u tshina na musidzana a ambesaho a bvaho kusini ku vhidzwaho nga la Ha Vhangani, o tangwaho nga lufuno nahone zwihulusa nga mme awe na makhulu wawe.

Zwithu zwo khakhea kha Shudu musi a tshi pfulutshela doroboni ntswa he a do tambudzwa nga vhane a dzhena navho kilasini.

Vhalani uri Shudu o kunda hani matungu awe na dzikhaedu, na uri a vha musidzana, mualuwa, we a guda u difuna ene mune!

Hope - The Autobiography (Paperback): Pope Francis, Jorge Mario Bergoglio Hope - The Autobiography (Paperback)
Pope Francis, Jorge Mario Bergoglio; Translated by Richard Dixon, Carlo Musso
R495 R446 Discovery Miles 4 460 Save R49 (10%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

The groundbreaking, intimate and inspiring memoir from Pope Francis.

Pope Francis originally intended this exceptional book to appear only after his death, but the needs of our times and the 2025 Jubilee Year of Hope have moved him to make this precious legacy available now.

HOPE is the first autobiography in history ever to be published by a Pope. Written over six years, this complete autobiography starts in the early years of the twentieth century, with Pope Francis’s Italian roots and his ancestors’ courageous migration to Latin America, continuing through his childhood, the enthusiasms and preoccupations of his youth, his vocation, adult life, and the whole of his papacy up to the present day.

In recounting his memories with intimate narrative force (not forgetting his own personal passions), Pope Francis deals unsparingly with some of the crucial moments of his papacy and writes candidly, fearlessly and prophetically about some of the most important and controversial questions of our present times: war and peace (including the conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East), migration, environmental crisis, social policy, the position of women, sexuality, technological developments, the future of the Church and of religion in general.

HOPE includes a wealth of revelations, anecdotes and illuminating thoughts. It is a thrilling and very human memoir, moving and sometimes funny, which represents the ‘story of a life’ and, at the same time, a touching moral and spiritual testament that will fascinate readers throughout the world and will be Pope Francis’s legacy of hope for future generations.

Through the Fire - Traveling the Broken Road to Hope and Healing (Hardcover): Lucy Dickens Through the Fire - Traveling the Broken Road to Hope and Healing (Hardcover)
Lucy Dickens
R748 R664 Discovery Miles 6 640 Save R84 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Imagine what it would be like to walk in freedom, to break through past pain and trauma, to become whole and healed? What if your broken marriage could find strength for tomorrow, hope and healing like never before?

Lucy shares her own broken journey, traveling through the pain and trauma of some of life's most difficult trials - persevering through sexual and verbal abuse, bullying, chronic illness and pain, a marriage torn apart, a life and death diagnosis, and even terrifying natural disasters. This book was written for those who are seeking to become whole again, longing for restoration and clarity, ready to break free and find healing. Is this you? What do you do with your broken heart? Through Lucy's story, you will discover hope and witness the healing power of God's love through Jesus that she experienced exploring her own broken road and path to restoration.

Lucy set out to write her story, isolated in the woods at her cabin, when a forest fire broke out. The fire raged closer and closer as she alternated between fire updates and her writing. Who knew this was supposed to be about the past and the here and now? God knew...he had a plan. After a terrifying night with the wind howling and shaking the windows, the smell of smoke filling the house, she was evacuated with the fire just a half mile away. The title to the book emerged; Through the Fire, Traveling the Broken Road to Hope and Healing.

Let Lucy's inspiring story open your heart and eyes to the healing power of grace and redemption through walking hand in hand with Christ. Rejoice with Lucy at the healing and wholeness found in Him alone. In Him all is made new, in Him nothing is impossible, in Him we find healing and wholeness.

It Is Possible - An African Woman's Reflections on a Life-Long Political Journey (Paperback): Phoebe Muga Asiyo It Is Possible - An African Woman's Reflections on a Life-Long Political Journey (Paperback)
Phoebe Muga Asiyo
R544 R515 Discovery Miles 5 150 Save R29 (5%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Short Hair Detention - Memoir of a Thirteen-Year-Old Girl Surviving the Cambodian Genocide (Hardcover): Channy Chhi Laux Short Hair Detention - Memoir of a Thirteen-Year-Old Girl Surviving the Cambodian Genocide (Hardcover)
Channy Chhi Laux
R918 R807 Discovery Miles 8 070 Save R111 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Queen of Denver - Louise Sneed Hill and the Emergence of Modern High Society (Paperback): Shelby Carr The Queen of Denver - Louise Sneed Hill and the Emergence of Modern High Society (Paperback)
Shelby Carr; Foreword by Thomas J Dr Colorado Noel
R548 R508 Discovery Miles 5 080 Save R40 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Also a Poet - Frank O'Hara, My Father, and Me (Paperback): Ada Calhoun Also a Poet - Frank O'Hara, My Father, and Me (Paperback)
Ada Calhoun
R417 R382 Discovery Miles 3 820 Save R35 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A staggering memoir from New York Times-bestselling author Ada Calhoun tracing her fraught relationship with her father and their shared obsession with a great poetWhen Ada Calhoun stumbled upon old cassette tapes of interviews her father, celebrated art critic Peter Schjeldahl, had conducted for his never-completed biography of poet Frank O'Hara, she set out to finish the book her father had started forty years earlier. As a lifelong O'Hara fan who grew up amid his bohemian cohort in the East Village, Calhoun thought the project would be easy, even fun, but the deeper she dove, the more she had to face not just O'Hara's past, but also her father's, and her own. The result is a groundbreaking and kaleidoscopic memoir that weaves compelling literary history with a moving, honest, and tender story of a complicated father-daughter bond. Also a Poet explores what happens when we want to do better than our parents, yet fear what that might cost us; when we seek their approval, yet mistrust it. In reckoning with her unique heritage, as well as providing new insights into the life of one of our most important poets, Calhoun offers a brave and hopeful meditation on parents and children, artistic ambition, and the complexities of what we leave behind.

Something of Myself - For My Friends Known and Unknown (Hardcover): Rudyard Kipling Something of Myself - For My Friends Known and Unknown (Hardcover)
Rudyard Kipling
R807 Discovery Miles 8 070 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Kipling was one of the most popular writers in English, both prose and verse, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Henry James famously said of him: "Kipling strikes me personally as the most complete man of genius (as distinct from fine intelligence) that I have ever known." In 1907, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Jimmy Anderson: Finding the Edge - The Autobiography (Hardcover): Jimmy Anderson, Felix White Jimmy Anderson: Finding the Edge - The Autobiography (Hardcover)
Jimmy Anderson, Felix White
R677 R602 Discovery Miles 6 020 Save R75 (11%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

21 years, 188 Test Matches, 704 Test Wickets.

This is Jimmy's story: an intimate, honest reflection told with his trademark humility and dry humour. From growing up in. Burnley as an outsider, isolated at school, bunking off, dreaming of being somewhere - anywhere - else, to dominating the 22 yards of the wicket as part of the deadliest England attack ever assembled.

Jimmy takes us inside the dressing room, to those unforgettable moments: his debut under Nasser Hussain, facing off the Aussies with Monty Panesar, Kevin Pietersen's 'textgate' and that Mitchell Johnson incident. He reflects on the intense rivalries with Michael Clarke and Sachin Tendulkar and the burgeoning friendships with Alastair Cook and Stuart Broad. Delving behind the cricket, Jimmy reveals his experiences of personal loss alongside the pain of professional injury, and the strength he found from his marriage and the arrival of his two children.

Finding the Edge is a front-row seat at the greatest games of the last two decades as England journey from perennial losers to world number one. But, above all, it is a coming-of-age story that reveals the real Jimmy Anderson: vulnerable, introspective, relentlessly determined, constantly evolving - a bowler unequalled, a career like no other.

Don't Waste This Storm - Hope-Filled Thriving, Not Just Barely Surviving, in the Storms of Life (Paperback): Rod Knoerr Don't Waste This Storm - Hope-Filled Thriving, Not Just Barely Surviving, in the Storms of Life (Paperback)
Rod Knoerr
R452 R424 Discovery Miles 4 240 Save R28 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Nine - The True Story of a Band of Women Who Survived the Worst of Nazi Germany (Paperback): Gwen Strauss The Nine - The True Story of a Band of Women Who Survived the Worst of Nazi Germany (Paperback)
Gwen Strauss
R492 R459 Discovery Miles 4 590 Save R33 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Wicked Women of Missouri (Paperback): Larry Wood Wicked Women of Missouri (Paperback)
Larry Wood
R587 R536 Discovery Miles 5 360 Save R51 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Wild Women of Maryland - Grit & Gumption in the Free State (Paperback): Lauren R. Silberman Wild Women of Maryland - Grit & Gumption in the Free State (Paperback)
Lauren R. Silberman; Foreword by Diana M. Bailey
R596 R545 Discovery Miles 5 450 Save R51 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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