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Uganda for a Holiday (Hardcover): Frederick Treves Uganda for a Holiday (Hardcover)
Frederick Treves
R939 Discovery Miles 9 390 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Book of Travels of a Doctor of Physic - Containing His Observations Made in Certain Portions of the Two Continents... The Book of Travels of a Doctor of Physic - Containing His Observations Made in Certain Portions of the Two Continents (Hardcover)
William Henry 1835-1917 Taylor
R977 Discovery Miles 9 770 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Letters From Aix-en-Provence 1960-61 - A Young Fulbright Scholar's Adventures in France & Abroad (Hardcover): Warren Zitlau Letters From Aix-en-Provence 1960-61 - A Young Fulbright Scholar's Adventures in France & Abroad (Hardcover)
Warren Zitlau
R724 Discovery Miles 7 240 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
A Short History of Russia (Hardcover): Mary Platt Parmele A Short History of Russia (Hardcover)
Mary Platt Parmele
R865 Discovery Miles 8 650 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Legends of Switzerland (Hardcover): H. a. (Helene Adeline) D. 19 Guerber Legends of Switzerland (Hardcover)
H. a. (Helene Adeline) D. 19 Guerber
R972 Discovery Miles 9 720 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Nervous Fictions - Literary Form and the Enlightenment Origins of Neuroscience (Hardcover): Jess Keiser Nervous Fictions - Literary Form and the Enlightenment Origins of Neuroscience (Hardcover)
Jess Keiser
R2,630 Discovery Miles 26 300 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In the late seventeenth century, a team of scientists managed to free, for the first time, the soft tissues of the brain and nerves from the hard casing of the skull. In doing so, they not only engendered modern neuroscience, and with it the promise of knowing the mind through empirical study of the brain; they also unleashed a host of questions, problems, paradoxes, and--strangest of all--literary forms that are still with us today. Nervous Fictions is the first account of early neuroscience and of the peculiar literary forms it produced. Challenging the divide between science and literature, philosophy and fiction, Jess Keiser draws attention to a distinctive, but so far unacknowledged, mode of writing evident in a host of late seventeenth and eighteenth-century texts: the nervous fiction. Apparent not just in scientific work, but also in poetry (Barker, Blackmore, Thomson), narrative (Sterne, Smollett, ""it-narratives""), philosophy (Hobbes, Cavendish, Locke), satire (Swift, Pope, Arbuthnot), and medicine (Mandeville, Boswell), nervous fictions dissect the brain through metaphor, personification, and other figurative language. Nervous fictions stage a central Enlightenment problematic: the clash between mind and body, between our introspective sense of self as beings endowed with thinking, sensing, believing, willing minds and the scientific study of our brains as simply complex physical systems.

The Lives of Pope Alexander VI and His Son Caesar Borgia - Comprehending the Wars in the Reigns of Charles VIII and Lewis XII,... The Lives of Pope Alexander VI and His Son Caesar Borgia - Comprehending the Wars in the Reigns of Charles VIII and Lewis XII, Kings of France; and the Chief Transactions and Revolutions in Italy, From the Year 1492 to the Year 1506. With an Appendix... (Hardcover)
Alexander 1692?-1754? Gordon, John 1735-1826 Adams, Boston Public Library) John Adams Lib
R1,143 Discovery Miles 11 430 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Jews of Czestochowa (Czestochowa, Poland) - Translation of Tshenstokhover Yidn (Hardcover): Raphael Mahler The Jews of Czestochowa (Czestochowa, Poland) - Translation of Tshenstokhover Yidn (Hardcover)
Raphael Mahler; Translated by Gloria Berkenstat Freund; Cover design or artwork by Rachel Kolokoff Hopper
R1,617 Discovery Miles 16 170 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Story of the Greek People - An Elementary History of Greece (Hardcover): Eva March Tappan The Story of the Greek People - An Elementary History of Greece (Hardcover)
Eva March Tappan
R933 Discovery Miles 9 330 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Smorgonie, District Vilna; Memorial Book and Testimony (Smarhon, Belarus) - Translation of Smorgon mehoz Vilno; sefer edut... Smorgonie, District Vilna; Memorial Book and Testimony (Smarhon, Belarus) - Translation of Smorgon mehoz Vilno; sefer edut ve-zikaron (Hardcover)
Abba Gordin, Honoch Levin, Marc D Hodies
R1,585 Discovery Miles 15 850 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Andersonville - A Story of Rebel Military Prisons - Vol. I (Hardcover): John McElroy Andersonville - A Story of Rebel Military Prisons - Vol. I (Hardcover)
John McElroy
R808 Discovery Miles 8 080 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Last Train to Auschwitz - The French National Railways and the Journey to Accountability (Hardcover): Sarah Federman Last Train to Auschwitz - The French National Railways and the Journey to Accountability (Hardcover)
Sarah Federman
R2,376 Discovery Miles 23 760 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In the immediate decades after World War II, the French National Railways (SNCF) was celebrated for its acts of wartime heroism. However, recent debates and litigation have revealed the ways the SNCF worked as an accomplice to the Third Reich and was actively complicit in the deportation of 75,000 Jews and other civilians to death camps. Sarah Federman delves into the interconnected roles-perpetrator, victim, and hero-the company took on during the harrowing years of the Holocaust. Grounded in history and case law, Last Train to Auschwitz traces the SNCF's journey toward accountability in France and the United States, culminating in a multimillion-dollar settlement paid by the French government on behalf of the railways.The poignant and informative testimonies of survivors illuminate the long-term effects of the railroad's impact on individuals, leading the company to make overdue amends. In a time when corporations are increasingly granted the same rights as people, Federman's detailed account demonstrates the obligations businesses have to atone for aiding and abetting governments in committing atrocities. This volume highlights the necessity of corporate integrity and will be essential reading for those called to engage in the difficult work of responding to past harms.

The Spanish Brothers - A Tale of the Sixteenth Century (Hardcover): Deborah Alcock The Spanish Brothers - A Tale of the Sixteenth Century (Hardcover)
Deborah Alcock; Foreword by Steven R Martins
R1,037 R898 Discovery Miles 8 980 Save R139 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The March to Hougoumont - Lord Saltoun & the First Guards from Sicily, Walcheren and the Peninsular War to Waterloo... The March to Hougoumont - Lord Saltoun & the First Guards from Sicily, Walcheren and the Peninsular War to Waterloo (Hardcover)
John H Lewis
R1,120 Discovery Miles 11 200 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Lying About Hitler (Paperback): Richard Evans Lying About Hitler (Paperback)
Richard Evans
R505 R475 Discovery Miles 4 750 Save R30 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In ruling against the controversial historian David Irving, whose libel suit against the American historian Deborah Lipstadt was tried in April 2000, the High Court in London labeled Irving a falsifier of history. No objective historian, declared the judge, would manipulate the documentary record in the way that Irving did. Richard J. Evans, a Cambridge historian and the chief adviser for the defense, uses this famous trial as a lens for exploring a range of difficult questions about the nature of the historian's enterprise.

The Life & Times of Alexander Hamilton - Two Apples that Fell from the Same Tree (Hardcover): Robert Gary Dodds The Life & Times of Alexander Hamilton - Two Apples that Fell from the Same Tree (Hardcover)
Robert Gary Dodds
R1,279 R1,080 Discovery Miles 10 800 Save R199 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Heart Songs - A Holocaust Memoir (Hardcover): Barbara Gilford Heart Songs - A Holocaust Memoir (Hardcover)
Barbara Gilford
R890 Discovery Miles 8 900 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Henderson's Hand-Book of the Grasses of Great Britain and America (Hardcover): John Henderson Henderson's Hand-Book of the Grasses of Great Britain and America (Hardcover)
John Henderson
R899 Discovery Miles 8 990 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
A Nervous Splendor: Vienna 1888-1889 (Paperback, New ed): Frederic Morton A Nervous Splendor: Vienna 1888-1889 (Paperback, New ed)
Frederic Morton 1
R446 R417 Discovery Miles 4 170 Save R29 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

On January 30, 1889, at the champagne-splashed hight of the Viennese Carnival, the handsome and charming Crown Prince Rudolf fired a revolver at his teenaged mistress and then himself. The two shots that rang out at Mayerling in the Vienna Woods echo still.

Frederic Morton, author of the bestselling Rothschilds, deftly tells the haunting story of the Prince and his city, where, in the span of only ten months, "the Western dream started to go wrong." In Rudolf's Vienna moved other young men with striking intellectual and artistic talents--and all as frustrated as the Prince. Among them were: young Sigmund Freud, Gustav Mahler, Theodor Herzl, Gustav Klimt, and the playwright Arthur Schnitzler, whose La Ronde was the great erotic drama of the fin de siecle. Morton studies these and other gifted young men, interweaving their fates with that of the doomed Prince and the entire city through to the eve of Easter, just after Rudolf's body is lowered into its permanent sarcophagus and a son named Adolf Hitler is born to Frau Klara Hitler.

The Roman Legacy Lessons from Roman Art to Law Books about Rome Social Studies 6th Grade Children's Geography & Cultures... The Roman Legacy Lessons from Roman Art to Law Books about Rome Social Studies 6th Grade Children's Geography & Cultures Books (Hardcover)
Baby Professor
R750 R660 Discovery Miles 6 600 Save R90 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
A Genealogical And Heraldic History Of The Landed Gentry Of Great Britain & Ireland; Volume 2 (Hardcover): Bernard Burke A Genealogical And Heraldic History Of The Landed Gentry Of Great Britain & Ireland; Volume 2 (Hardcover)
Bernard Burke
R1,393 Discovery Miles 13 930 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Revolt of the Potemkin - the Naval Revolt of 1905 Which Heralded the Russian Revolution (Hardcover): Constantine Feldmann The Revolt of the Potemkin - the Naval Revolt of 1905 Which Heralded the Russian Revolution (Hardcover)
Constantine Feldmann
R817 Discovery Miles 8 170 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
History of the German people at the close of the Middle Ages (Volume I) (Hardcover): Johannes Janssen, M.A. Mitchell History of the German people at the close of the Middle Ages (Volume I) (Hardcover)
Johannes Janssen, M.A. Mitchell
R997 R906 Discovery Miles 9 060 Save R91 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Return from Exile (Hardcover): Marie Laure Return from Exile (Hardcover)
Marie Laure
R850 R734 Discovery Miles 7 340 Save R116 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Development Of Modern Europe; An Introduction To The Study Of Current History (Volume Ii) (Hardcover): James Harvey... The Development Of Modern Europe; An Introduction To The Study Of Current History (Volume Ii) (Hardcover)
James Harvey Robinson, Charles Austin Beard
R1,158 R1,043 Discovery Miles 10 430 Save R115 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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