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Too Much and Never Enough - How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man (Paperback): Mary L. Trump Too Much and Never Enough - How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man (Paperback)
Mary L. Trump
R416 R382 Discovery Miles 3 820 Save R34 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Random Commentary (Paperback): Dorothy Whipple Random Commentary (Paperback)
Dorothy Whipple
R570 Discovery Miles 5 700 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Confessions (Hardcover): Catherine Airey Confessions (Hardcover)
Catherine Airey
R540 R494 Discovery Miles 4 940 Save R46 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

'I was at a time in my life where I got to thinking more about people's choices – how everything would be different if just the slightest decision changed...'

It is late September in 2001 and the walls of New York are papered over with photos of the missing. Cora Brady’s father is there, the poster she made taped to columns and bridges. Her mother died long ago and now, orphaned on the cusp of adulthood, Cora is adrift and alone. Soon, a letter will arrive with the offer of a new life: far out on the ragged edge of Ireland, in the town where her parents were young, an estranged aunt can provide a home and fulfil a long-forgotten promise. There the story of Cora's family is hidden, and in her presence will begin to unspool…

An essential, immersive debut from an astonishing new voice, Confessions traces the arc of three generations of women as they experience in their own time the irresistible gravity of the past: its love and tragedy, its mystery and redemption, and, in all things intended and accidental, the beauty and terrible shade of the things we do.

Blurry Daydream - When Faith Feels Like Make Believe (Paperback): Anthony J. Does Blurry Daydream - When Faith Feels Like Make Believe (Paperback)
Anthony J. Does
R509 R479 Discovery Miles 4 790 Save R30 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
You Slept Where? - Calamities of a Clumsy Businesswoman (Hardcover): Brenda Prater Sellers You Slept Where? - Calamities of a Clumsy Businesswoman (Hardcover)
Brenda Prater Sellers
R793 R714 Discovery Miles 7 140 Save R79 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Acts of the Pagan Martyrs, Volume I - ACTA ALEXANDRINORUM (Hardcover): Herbert A. Musurillo The Acts of the Pagan Martyrs, Volume I - ACTA ALEXANDRINORUM (Hardcover)
Herbert A. Musurillo
R3,748 Discovery Miles 37 480 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Volume I of Herbert Musurillo's critical editions, with translations and commentaries, of ancient martyr literature, surveys the development of the genre, discussing the political and historical background which produced it. These texts were written in the form of court records reporting the trials of Alexandrian heroes punished by the Roman authorities. Anti-Roman and often violently propagandist in tone, they reflect the political tensions experienced by the Greeks under German rule.

Carson - The Magnificent (Hardcover): Bill Zehme, Mike Thomas Carson - The Magnificent (Hardcover)
Bill Zehme, Mike Thomas
R614 R546 Discovery Miles 5 460 Save R68 (11%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

A much-anticipated biography—twenty years in the making—of the entertainer who redefined late-night television and reshaped American culture.

In 2002, Bill Zehme landed one of the most coveted assignments for a magazine writer: an interview with Johnny Carson—the only one he’d granted since retiring from hosting The Tonight Show a decade earlier. Zehme was tapped for the Esquire feature story thanks to his years of legendary celebrity profiles, and the resulting piece portrayed Carson as more human being than showbiz legend. Shortly after Carson’s death in 2005 and urged on by many of those closest to Carson, Zehme signed a contract to do an expansive biography. He toiled on the book for nearly a decade—interviewing dozens of Carson’s colleagues and friends and filling up a storage locker with his voluminous research—before a cancer diagnosis and ongoing treatments halted his progress. When he died in 2023 his obituaries mentioned the Carson book, with New York Times comedy critic Jason Zinoman calling it “one of the great unfinished biographies.”

Yet the hundreds of pages Zehme managed to complete are astounding both for the caliber of their writing and how they illuminate one of the most inscrutable figures in entertainment history: A man who brought so much joy and laughter to so many millions but was himself exceedingly shy and private. Zehme traces Carson’s rise from a magic-obsessed Nebraska boy to a Navy ensign in World War II to a burgeoning radio and TV personality to, eventually, host of The Tonight Show—which he transformed, along with the entirety of American popular culture, over the next three decades. Without Carson, there would be no late-night television as we know it. On a much more intimate level, Zehme also captures the turmoil and anguish that accompanied the success: four marriages, troubles with alcohol, and the devastating loss of a child.

In one passage, Zehme notes that when asked by an interviewer in the mid-80s for the secret to his success, Carson replied simply, “Be yourself and tell the truth.” Completed with help from journalist and Zehme’s former research assistant Mike Thomas, Carson the Magnificent offers just that: an honest assessment of who Johnny Carson really was.

The Letters and Diaries of John Henry Newman: Volume XX: Standing Firm Amid Trials, July 1861 to December 1863 (Hardcover):... The Letters and Diaries of John Henry Newman: Volume XX: Standing Firm Amid Trials, July 1861 to December 1863 (Hardcover)
John Henry Newman; Edited by Charles Stephen Dessain
R4,603 Discovery Miles 46 030 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Letters and Diaries of John Henry Newman: Volume XIX: Consulting the Laity, January 1859 to June 1861 (Hardcover): John... The Letters and Diaries of John Henry Newman: Volume XIX: Consulting the Laity, January 1859 to June 1861 (Hardcover)
John Henry Newman; Edited by Charles Stephen Dessain
R4,563 Discovery Miles 45 630 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Kaufmann's - The Big Store in Pittsburgh (Paperback): Letitia Stuart Savage Kaufmann's - The Big Store in Pittsburgh (Paperback)
Letitia Stuart Savage
R544 R503 Discovery Miles 5 030 Save R41 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Acts of the Christian Martyrs, Volume II (Hardcover): Herbert A. Musurillo The Acts of the Christian Martyrs, Volume II (Hardcover)
Herbert A. Musurillo
R3,799 Discovery Miles 37 990 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Volume II of Herbert Musurillo's critical editions, with translations and commentaries, of ancient martyr literature, surveys the development of the genre, discussing the political and historical background which produced it. These texts were written in the form of court records reporting the trials of Alexandrian heroes punished by the Roman authorities. Anti-Roman and often violently propagandist in tone, they reflect the political tensions experienced by the Greeks under German rule.

Big Friendship - How We Keep Each Other Close (Paperback): Aminatou Sow, Ann Friedman Big Friendship - How We Keep Each Other Close (Paperback)
Aminatou Sow, Ann Friedman
R416 R387 Discovery Miles 3 870 Save R29 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
William Robert Grove - The Lawyer Who Invented the Fuel Cell (Hardcover): John Wilson, William Wilson, James M. Wilson William Robert Grove - The Lawyer Who Invented the Fuel Cell (Hardcover)
John Wilson, William Wilson, James M. Wilson
R625 Discovery Miles 6 250 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
To Hell With Poverty - A Class Act: Inside The Gang Of Four (Hardcover): Jon King To Hell With Poverty - A Class Act: Inside The Gang Of Four (Hardcover)
Jon King
R753 R653 Discovery Miles 6 530 Save R100 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

From Jon King, legendary front man of iconic post-punk band Gang of Four, comes a memoir to remember.

TO HELL WITH POVERTY! documents King’s story from a south London slum and working-class background to international success as core musician, lyricist, writer, and producer in the legendary post-punk/funk band Gang of Four. King’s memoir takes the reader on an episodic journey full of raucous adventures from his childhood and teenage years, to the height of Gang of Four’s success in the seventies and eighties.

Thrown off Top of the Pops, truncheoned by police at an anti-Nazi rally, coming of age in the heart of the Leeds music scene and the UK post-punk movement, mingling with Hells Angels and other undesirables, supported by bands like R.E.M. and playing with the likes of the Police, Iggy Pop, and the Buzzcocks―King’s time with Gang of Four is rich with jaw-dropping stories. Evocative, fast-paced, and witty, To Hell with Poverty! is a music memoir for the ages.

Gang of Four’s Entertainment! LP is consistently ranked as one of the greatest debut albums of all time and continues to inspire new generations of musicians today. The band has influenced many artists, from the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nirvana, and INXS, to 2025-era Frank Ocean, the Idles, and hip-hop giants Run the Jewels. Gang of Four have been championed by the likes of Flea, Sofia Coppola, Massive Attack, Damien Hirst, Greil Marcus, and many more.

Rossini - His Life and Works (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition): Richard Osborne Rossini - His Life and Works (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition)
Richard Osborne
R1,733 Discovery Miles 17 330 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Gioachino Rossini was one of the most influential, as well as one of the most industrious and emotionally complex of the great nineteenth-century composers. Between 1810 and 1829, he wrote 39 operas, a body of work, comic and serious, which transformed Italian opera and radically altered the course of opera in France. His retirement from operatic composition in 1829, at the age of 37, was widely assumed to be the act of a talented but lazy man. In reality, political events and a series of debilitating illnesses were the determining factors. After drafting the Stabat Mater in 1832, Rossini wrote no music of consequence for the best part of twenty-five years, before the clouds lifted and he began composing again in Paris in the late 1850s. During this glorious Indian summer of his career, he wrote 150 songs and solo piano pieces his 'Sins of Old Age' and his final masterpiece, the Petite Messe solennelle. The image of Rossini as a gifted but feckless amateur-the witty, high-spirited bon vivant who dashed off The Barber of Seville in a mere thirteen days-persisted down the years, until the centenary of his death in 1968 inaugurated a process of re-evaluation by scholars, performers, and writers. The original 1985 edition of Richard Osborne's pioneering and widely acclaimed Rossini redefined the life and provided detailed analyses of the complete Rossini oeuvre. Twenty years on, all Rossini's operas have been staged and recorded, a Critical Edition of his works is well advanced, and a scholarly edition of his correspondence, including 250 previously unknown letters from Rossini to his parents, is in progress. Drawing on these past two decades of scholarship and performance, this new edition of Rossini provides the most detailed portrait we have yet had of one of the worlds best-loved and most enigmatic composers.

The Many Worlds of Hugh Everett III - Multiple Universes, Mutual Assured Destruction, and the Meltdown of a Nuclear Family... The Many Worlds of Hugh Everett III - Multiple Universes, Mutual Assured Destruction, and the Meltdown of a Nuclear Family (Hardcover, New)
Peter Byrne
R1,985 Discovery Miles 19 850 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Peter Byrne tells the story of Hugh Everett III (1930-1982), whose "many worlds" theory of multiple universes has had a profound impact on physics and philosophy. Using Everett's unpublished papers (recently discovered in his son's basement) and dozens of interviews with his friends, colleagues, and surviving family members, Byrne paints, for the general reader, a detailed portrait of the genius who invented an astonishing way of describing our complex universe from the inside. Everett's mathematical model (called the "universal wave function") treats all possible events as "equally real," and concludes that countless copies of every person and thing exist in all possible configurations spread over an infinity of universes: many worlds.
Afflicted by depression and addictions, Everett strove to bring rational order to the professional realms in which he played historically significant roles. In addition to his famous interpretation of quantum mechanics, Everett wrote a classic paper in game theory; created computer algorithms that revolutionized military operations research; and performed pioneering work in artificial intelligence for top secret government projects. He wrote the original software for targeting cities in a nuclear hot war; and he was one of the first scientists to recognize the danger of nuclear winter. As a Cold Warrior, he designed logical systems that modeled "rational" human and machine behaviors, and yet he was largely oblivious to the emotional damage his irrational personal behavior inflicted upon his family, lovers, and business partners.
He died young, but left behind a fascinating record of his life, including correspondence with such philosophically inclined physicists as Niels Bohr, Norbert Wiener, and John Wheeler. These remarkable letters illuminate the long and often bitter struggle to explain the paradox of measurement at the heart of quantum physics. In recent years, Everett's solution to this mysterious problem-the existence of a universe of universes-has gained considerable traction in scientific circles, not as science fiction, but as an explanation of physical reality.

The Syndicate of 22 Natives - The Stan Sangweni Story (Paperback): Lindiwe Sangweni-Siddo The Syndicate of 22 Natives - The Stan Sangweni Story (Paperback)
Lindiwe Sangweni-Siddo
R350 R316 Discovery Miles 3 160 Save R34 (10%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

In The Syndicate of Twenty-two Natives Lindiwe Sangweni-Siddo offers an elegy to her father, the late Professor Stan Sangweni, which explores the personal saga of a family’s lineage rooted in eZuka on Suspence Farm, Newcastle, in what is now northern KwaZulu-Natal.

In turn, Prof Sangweni opens a window into a past where his grandfather, with foresight and ingenuity, became part of The Syndicate of Twenty-two Natives, a group that secured land for their families, including his family of seven wives, and for succeeding generations at a time when Black people in South Africa were being systematically dispossessed of their land.

While packing up her father’s study as her parents prepare to move from their home after 27 years, Lindiwe and her father uncover his lifelong collection of documents and pictures that detail the intricacies of his life as a devoted family man, an ANC veteran and anti-apartheid activist, a pioneer of public service excellence in post-apartheid South Africa and an inveterate stickler for detail in every aspect of his life. Inspiring, often humorous, occasionally cataclysmically disruptive and generally victorious, this memoir is a tribute and a testament to the enduring legacy of those who pave the way amidst the trials of history for future generations.

Madame Ph.D. - Growing Up Black in DC and Beating the Odds: Nettie's DC Story of Perseverance, Hope, and Determination... Madame Ph.D. - Growing Up Black in DC and Beating the Odds: Nettie's DC Story of Perseverance, Hope, and Determination (Phd) (Paperback)
Gwynette Ford Lacy Ph D Mba
R854 R748 Discovery Miles 7 480 Save R106 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Tiny Beautiful Things (10th Anniversary Edition) - Advice from Dear Sugar (Paperback): Cheryl Strayed Tiny Beautiful Things (10th Anniversary Edition) - Advice from Dear Sugar (Paperback)
Cheryl Strayed
R457 R326 Discovery Miles 3 260 Save R131 (29%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Everything I Know About Love - Now a Major BBC One Series (Paperback): Dolly Alderton Everything I Know About Love - Now a Major BBC One Series (Paperback)
Dolly Alderton 1
R295 R266 Discovery Miles 2 660 Save R29 (10%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

When it comes to the trials and triumphs of becoming a grown up, journalist Dolly Alderton has seen and tried it all. In her memoir, she vividly recounts falling in love, wrestling with self-sabotage, finding a job, throwing a socially disastrous Rod-Stewart themed house party, getting drunk, getting dumped, realising that Ivan from the corner shop is the only man you've ever been able to rely on, and finding that that your mates are always there at the end of every messy night out. Glittering, with wit and insight, heart and humour, this is a book about the struggles of early adulthood in all its grubby, hopeful uncertainty.

Allies on the Rhine, 1945-1950 (Hardcover): Elena Skrjabina Allies on the Rhine, 1945-1950 (Hardcover)
Elena Skrjabina
R4,464 Discovery Miles 44 640 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In The Allies on the Rhine Skrjabina describes the coming of the Allies to the Rhineland, the occupation, and the first clear signs of the recovery of war-shattered Germany. She describes what occurred and how it was interpreted at the time by a keen observer who had lived under Soviet, Nazi, American, and French rule. She describes the first chaotic days of the occupation when instead of the calm and peace expected as a remit of the American advance, there was fearful chaos. She shows clearly that as the main allied forces moved on there was no real law and order and that she and the frightened populace were often terrorized by marauding youthful former work camp inmates over whom there was no effective control.

The Deviant's War - The Homosexual vs. the United States of America (Paperback): Eric Cervini The Deviant's War - The Homosexual vs. the United States of America (Paperback)
Eric Cervini
R576 R530 Discovery Miles 5 300 Save R46 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
This I Believe: - Philadelphia (Paperback): Dan Gediman, Mary Jo Gediman This I Believe: - Philadelphia (Paperback)
Dan Gediman, Mary Jo Gediman
R574 R522 Discovery Miles 5 220 Save R52 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Building a Life Worth Living - A Memoir (Paperback): Marsha M Linehan Building a Life Worth Living - A Memoir (Paperback)
Marsha M Linehan
R515 R480 Discovery Miles 4 800 Save R35 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Eccentric Wealth - The Bulloughs of Rum (Paperback): Alastair Scott Eccentric Wealth - The Bulloughs of Rum (Paperback)
Alastair Scott
R465 Discovery Miles 4 650 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In Eccentric Wealth, Alastair Scott traces the life of Lancashire industrialist Sir George Bullough in this absorbing biography which explores his family's connection with the Hebridean island of Rum, particularly the building of Kinloch Castle, the most intact preserve of Edwardian highliving to be found in Britain. Based on new information, the book offers a fascinating insight into the life and times of one of the great eccentrics of his age, including the Bullough myths and scandals which continue to make extraordinary reading more than a hundred years later.

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