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The Gold - The real story behind Brink?s-Mat: Britain?s biggest heist (Paperback): Neil Forsyth, Thomas Turner The Gold - The real story behind Brink’s-Mat: Britain’s biggest heist (Paperback)
Neil Forsyth, Thomas Turner
R324 R291 Discovery Miles 2 910 Save R33 (10%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

The real story that inspired the BBC drama, The Gold

On Saturday, 26 November 1983, an armed gang stole gold bullion worth almost £26 million from the Brink's-Mat security depot near London's Heathrow Airport. It was the largest robbery in world history, and only the start of an extraordinary story. For forty years, myths and legends have grown around the Brink's-Mat heist and the events that followed.

The heist led to a wave of international money laundering, provided dirty money that helped fuel the London Docklands property boom, caused seismic changes in both British crime and policing, and has been linked to a series of deaths that continued until 2015.

The Gold is the conclusion of extensive research and includes exclusive testimony from one of the original robbers who gives his version of events for the first time. The result is the astonishing true story of the robbery of the century.

A Life of Ernest Starling (Hardcover): John Henderson A Life of Ernest Starling (Hardcover)
John Henderson
R1,127 Discovery Miles 11 270 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Ernest Starling (1866-1927) was pre-eminent in the golden age of British Physiology. His name is usually associated with his ???Law of the Heart, ??? but his discovery of secretin (the first hormone whose mode of action was explained) and his work on capillaries were more important contributions. He coined the word 'hormone' one hundred years ago. His analysis of capillary function demonstrated that equal and opposite forces move across the capillary wall--an outward (hydrostatic) force and an inward (osmotic) force derived from plasma proteins.
Starling??'s contributions include:
*Developing the "Frank-Starling Law of the Heart," presented in 1915 and modified in 1919.
*The Starling equation, describing fluid shifts in the body (1896)
*The discovery of secretin, the first hormone, with Bayliss (1902) and the introduction of the concept of hormones (1905).

Creative Leadership - How to Design the 21st-century Organisation (Paperback): Rama Gheerawo Creative Leadership - How to Design the 21st-century Organisation (Paperback)
Rama Gheerawo
R295 R255 Discovery Miles 2 550 Save R40 (14%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

The old, top-down approach to leadership doesn't work any more. What we need is a more flexible, creative approach – one that empowers people to do their best work, rather than tells them to do so.

In Creative Leadership, Rama Gheerawo applies the mind of a design expert to the twenty-first-century organisation. In particular, his book shows how success in the future will increasingly be dependent on a mastery of three basic principles: creativity, clarity and empathy. Drawing on his own experience in leading over 100 design projects with government, business and the third sector, it sets out a blueprint for engagement and success that applies to everything from small enterprises, to large multinationals.

Silent Scream - A Memoir (Paperback): Damian Kirsten, Laura Kirsten Silent Scream - A Memoir (Paperback)
Damian Kirsten, Laura Kirsten
R350 R323 Discovery Miles 3 230 Save R27 (8%) In Stock

Gender based violence is widely prevalent in South African society, but male rape is often a neglected area. According to The Conversation, in an article by Prof Louise Du Toit, men make up around 10% of victims of sexual violence.

The group South African Male Survivors of Sexual Abuse says one in six adult males in the country have been victims of sexual offences in their lifetimes and, in 2012, almost 20% of all sexual abuse victims were male. But men are up to 10 times less likely than women to report sexual violence against them. Frequently men who report sexual assault are accused of being gay. In addition, according to Prof Du Toit, “Some feminist activists are reluctant to focus on the male victims because they think it will undermine long-fought-for attention for female victims.”

Silent Scream is a refreshing acknowledgement of this disturbing picture, told firsthand by a survivor of multiple instances of sexual violence, including gang rape and other forms of physical and sexual violence.

The author is a man in his fifties, intelligent and multifaceted, who carried the weight of the ages on his tattooed shoulders. Following a childhood marred by distant parents, he was assaulted in his late teens.

This is a book filled with hurt, with anger, with events that should never occur, but that the author has been able to rise above. It’s also a book about recovery, redemption, and the power of healing. No punches are pulled. It’s a very necessary book for our country and our time.

Tiger, Tiger - An In-Depth Portrait Of An American Sporting Superstar (Paperback): James Patterson Tiger, Tiger - An In-Depth Portrait Of An American Sporting Superstar (Paperback)
James Patterson
R275 R246 Discovery Miles 2 460 Save R29 (11%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

A new biography uncovering the life of golf superstar, Tiger Woods, featuring original interviews and reporting.

What makes Tiger tick? How did Tiger Woods become the greatest of all time? And how did he fall so spectacularly?

Before the age of twenty-five, Tiger Woods had risen to phenomenon status: twice named Sportsman of the Year by Sports Illustrated, champion of more than thirty professional tournaments and the youngest player to win all four Grand Slam tournaments.

In vivid, dramatic scenes, Tiger, Tiger taps into the transformative moments of Wood's life, both on and off the course.

Short Hair Detention - Memoir of a Thirteen-Year-Old Girl Surviving the Cambodian Genocide (Paperback): Channy Chhi Laux Short Hair Detention - Memoir of a Thirteen-Year-Old Girl Surviving the Cambodian Genocide (Paperback)
Channy Chhi Laux
R588 R553 Discovery Miles 5 530 Save R35 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Spare (Paperback): Prince Harry The Duke Of Sussex Spare (Paperback)
Prince Harry The Duke Of Sussex
R295 R263 Discovery Miles 2 630 Save R32 (11%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

It was one of the images of the twentieth century: two boys, walking behind the coffin of their mother, Princess Diana. Billions wondered what the princes must be feeling - and how their lives would play out from that point on.

For Harry, this is that story at last.

Before then, Prince Harry was known as the happy-go-lucky Spare to the more serious Heir. But grief changed everything.

At twenty-one, he joined the Army but was soon more lost than ever, suffering from post-traumatic stress and crippling panic attacks. Above all, he couldn't find true love.

Then he met Meghan. The world was swept away by the couple's romance and wedding. But in the face of sustained press intrusion, Harry saw no other way to protect his wife and children than to flee his mother country. Over the centuries, leaving the Royal Family was an act few had dared. The last to try had been his mother. . .

Written with raw, unflinching honesty, Spare is full of insight, revelation and hard-won wisdom about the eternal power of love over grief.

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.

Troep (Afrikaans, Paperback): Bun Booyens Troep (Afrikaans, Paperback)
Bun Booyens
R320 R286 Discovery Miles 2 860 Save R34 (11%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

In Troep! vertel meer as ’n honderd oud-troepe wat hulle onthou van diensplig: om op skool opgeroep te word, te gaan oorlog maak en twee jaar later weer huis toe te kom. Tussenin lê stories van varkpanne, tiekiebokse, twee-komma-viers, boeliebief, die DB, ryloop, pakkies, bosbussies, naweekpas, ratpacks, stof, Buffels, landmyne en skrapnel – en ook herinneringe van vriende, seuns en broers wat nie teruggekom het nie.

Bun Booyens voeg al hierdie stemme saam tot die verhaal van die uitsonderlike dinge wat duisende gewone seuns beleef het. Hierdie stories sal ’n snaar by veterane roer, en hul naastes help om te verstaan watter dinge hierdie mense vandag steeds met hulle saamdra – dit wat hulle onthou, maar ook dit wat hulle nie kan vergeet nie.

Diddly Squat (Paperback): Jeremy Clarkson Diddly Squat (Paperback)
Jeremy Clarkson
R295 R255 Discovery Miles 2 550 Save R40 (14%) Pre-order

Welcome back to Clarkson’s Farm.

So, that went well . . .

The spring barley crop failed.
Just like the oil seed rape.
And the durum wheat.
Then the oats turned the colour of a hearing aid and the mushrooms went mouldy.
Farming sheep, pigs and cows was hardly more lucrative. Jeremy would be better off trying to breed ostriches.

But in the face of uncooperative weather, the relentless realities of the agricultural economy, bureaucracy, a truculent local planning department and the world’s persistent refusal to recognise his ingenuity and genius, our hero’s not beaten yet. Not while the farm shop’s still doing a roaring trade in candles that smell like his knacker hammock, he isn’t.

On the face of it, the challenges of making a success of Diddly Squat are enough to have you weeping into your (Hawkstone) beer, but misery loves company and in girlfriend Lisa, Farm Manager Kaleb, Cheerful Charlie and Gerald his Head of Security Jeremy knows he’s got the best. And it’s hard for a chap to feel too gloomy about things when there’s a JCB telehandler, a crop-spraying hovercraft and a digger in the barn.

Because as a wise man* once said, ‘there’s no man alive who wouldn’t have fun with a digger . . .’

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
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
Jane Austen (Hardcover): Henrietta Heald Jane Austen (Hardcover)
Henrietta Heald 1
R306 R229 Discovery Miles 2 290 Save R77 (25%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Jane Austen is one of the most extensively read writers in English literature, renowned around the world for her much-loved romantic novels. Little is often known about this brilliant author, yet in this absorbing collection of stories and trivia readers will find answers to the amazing and extraordinary aspects of Austen's life, work and legacy. From her development as a world-class author from unassuming origins and the secrets of her own life and loves, through insights into her novels and their characters along with the changing reception to them over the years, to intriguing stories behind the screen and stage adaptations of her works and her continued legacy, there is something for every enthusiast to relish. This authoritative and absorbing book is published to coincide with the 200th Anniversary of Austen's death in 2017.

Frantz Fanon - Combat Breathing (Paperback): Nigel C. Gibson Frantz Fanon - Combat Breathing (Paperback)
Nigel C. Gibson
R395 R365 Discovery Miles 3 650 Save R30 (8%) 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.

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
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.

The Racket (Paperback): Conor Niland The Racket (Paperback)
Conor Niland
R334 R303 Discovery Miles 3 030 Save R31 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

When Conor Niland was 16, he was chosen to hit with Serena Williams at Nick Bollettieri's famed tennis academy. Conor, the Irish junior number one, was feeling a bit homesick. Serena, also 16, already owned her own house beside the academy.

Conor Niland knows what it's like when Roger Federer walks into the dressing room ('Ciao, bonjour, hello!'), and he has had the exquisitely terrible experience of facing Novak Djokovic in the world's biggest tennis stadium - while suffering from food poisoning. But he never reached the very top.

The Racket is the story of pro tennis's 99%: the players who roam the globe in hope of climbing the rankings and squeaking into the Grand Slam tournaments. It brings us into a world where a few dozen super-rich players - travelling with coaches and physios - share a stage with lonely touring pros whose earnings barely cover their expenses. Painting a vivid picture of the social dynamics on tour, the economics of the game, and the shadows cast by gambling and doping, The Racket is a witty and revealing underdog's memoir and a unique look inside a fascinating hidden world.

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.

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.

Shudu u wana Vhutolo Hawe (Venda, Paperback): Shudufhadzo Musida Shudu u wana Vhutolo Hawe (Venda, Paperback)
Shudufhadzo Musida; Illustrated by Chantelle & Burgen Thorne
R160 R148 Discovery Miles 1 480 Save R12 (7%) 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!

Becoming Bulletproof - Life Lessons from a Secret Service Agent (Paperback): Evy Poumpouras Becoming Bulletproof - Life Lessons from a Secret Service Agent (Paperback)
Evy Poumpouras
R504 R451 Discovery Miles 4 510 Save R53 (11%) In Stock

Former Secret Service Special Agent Evy Poumpouras shares the insights and skills from one of the oldest elite security forces in the world - to help you prepare for stressful situations, instantly read people, influence how you're perceived, and live a more fearless life.

From gruelling training to clandestine interrogation rooms, to protecting the President of the United States of America, Evy shares rare behind-the-scenes glimpses while also exploring the psychology of human behaviour and the strategies used by the best negotiators. Evy demonstrates how we can learn from these experiences to heighten our own natural instincts to detect BS, develop grit and become the most resilient and powerful version of ourselves.

Becoming Bulletproof is a timely guide to empowerment, mental strength, and overcoming fear and abuse - a guide to becoming bulletproof.

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