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No Is Not Enough - Defeating the New Shock Politics (Paperback): Naomi Klein No Is Not Enough - Defeating the New Shock Politics (Paperback)
Naomi Klein 1
R304 R248 Discovery Miles 2 480 Save R56 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

**The New York Times and Sunday Times Bestseller** 'An ordinary person's guide to hope. Read this book' Arundhati Roy 'As accessible as it is brilliant' Owen Jones 'A genuine page turner' Michelle Alexander Naomi Klein - award-winning journalist, bestselling author of No Logo, The Shock Doctrine and This Changes Everything, scourge of brand bullies and corporate liars - gives us the toolkit we need to survive our surreal, shocking age. 'This is a look at how we arrived at this surreal political moment, how to keep it from getting a lot worse, and how, if we keep our heads, we can flip the script.' Remember when love was supposed to Trump hate? Remember when the oil companies and bankers seemed to be running scared? What the hell happened? And what can we do about it? Naomi Klein shows us how we got here, and how we can make things better. No Is Not Enough reveals, among other things, that the disorientation we're feeling is deliberate. That around the world, shock political tactics are being used to generate crisis after crisis, designed to force through policies that will destroy people, the environment, the economy and our security. That extremism isn't a freak event - it's a toxic cocktail of our times. From how to trash the Trump megabrand to the art of reclaiming the populist argument, Naomi Klein shows all of us how we can break the spell and win the world we need. Don't let them get away with it. 'Who better than Naomi to make sense of this madness, and help us find a way out? A top-of-the-stack must read' Michael Stipe 'Naomi Klein's new book incites us brilliantly to interweave our No with a programmatic Yes. A manual for emancipation' Yanis Varoufakis 'Magnificent ... a courageous coruscating counterspell' Junot Diaz

More Than a Menu - Food and its meaning in Asian cultures across the U.S. (Paperback): Michael Longinow, Tamara J. Welter More Than a Menu - Food and its meaning in Asian cultures across the U.S. (Paperback)
Michael Longinow, Tamara J. Welter
R826 Discovery Miles 8 260 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Dream - Practical Advice For The Everyday Dreamer (Paperback): Jeremy Taylor Dream - Practical Advice For The Everyday Dreamer (Paperback)
Jeremy Taylor
R375 R307 Discovery Miles 3 070 Save R68 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Sorrows of Mexico (Paperback): Lydia Cacho, Anabel Hernandez, Juan Villoro, Diego Enrique Osorno, Sergio Gonzalez... The Sorrows of Mexico (Paperback)
Lydia Cacho, Anabel Hernandez, Juan Villoro, Diego Enrique Osorno, Sergio Gonzalez Rodriguez, … 1
R396 R322 Discovery Miles 3 220 Save R74 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

With contributions from seven of Mexico's finest journalists, this is reportage at its bravest and most necessary - it has the power to change the world's view of their country, and by the force of its truth, to start to heal the country's many sorrows. Supported the Arts Council Grant's for the Arts Programme and by PEN Promotes Veering between carnival and apocalypse, Mexico has in the last ten years become the epicentre of the international drug trade. The so-called "war on drugs" has been a brutal and chaotic failure (more than 160,000 lives have been lost). The drug cartels and the forces of law and order are often in collusion, corruption is everywhere. Life is cheap and inconvenient people - the poor, the unlucky, the honest or the inquisitive - can be "disappeared" leaving not a trace behind (in September 2015, more than 26,798 were officially registered as "not located"). Yet people in all walks of life have refused to give up. Diego Enrique Osorno and Juan Villoro tell stories of teenage prostitution and Mexico's street children. Anabel Hernandez and Emiliano Ruiz Parra give chilling accounts of the "disappearance" of forty-three students and the murder of a self-educated land lawyer. Sergio Gonzalez Rodriguez and Marcela Turati dissect the impact of the violence on the victims and those left behind, while Lydia Cacho contributes a journal of what it is like to live every day of your life under threat of death. Reading these accounts we begin to understand the true nature of the meltdown of democracy, obscured by lurid headlines, and the sheer physical and intellectual courage needed to oppose it.

The Hidden Lives of Taxi Drivers - A question of knowledge (Paperback): Ruth H Finnegan The Hidden Lives of Taxi Drivers - A question of knowledge (Paperback)
Ruth H Finnegan
R439 Discovery Miles 4 390 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
My Encounters in India (Paperback): Dietmar Rothurmund My Encounters in India (Paperback)
Dietmar Rothurmund
R1,305 Discovery Miles 13 050 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Soweto to Beirut (Paperback): Jedidiah Ramalapa Soweto to Beirut (Paperback)
Jedidiah Ramalapa
R449 Discovery Miles 4 490 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
They Can't Kill Us All - The Story of Black Lives Matter (Paperback): Wesley Lowery They Can't Kill Us All - The Story of Black Lives Matter (Paperback)
Wesley Lowery 1
R303 R246 Discovery Miles 2 460 Save R57 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

**Winner of the Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose** 'A devastating front-line account of the police killings and the young activism that sparked one of the most significant racial justice movements since the 1960s: Black Lives Matter ... Lowery more or less pulls the sheet off America ... essential reading' Junot Diaz, The New York Times, Books of 2016 'Electric ... so well reported, so plainly told and so evidently the work of a man who has not grown a callus on his heart' Dwight Garner, The New York Times, 'A Top Ten Book of 2016' 'I'd recommend everyone to read this book ... it's not just statistics, it's not just the information, but it's the connective tissue that shows the human story behind it. I really enjoyed it' Trevor Noah, host of Comedy Central's 'The Daily Show' A deeply reported book on the birth of the Black Lives Matter movement, offering unparalleled insight into the reality of police violence in America, and an intimate, moving portrait of those working to end it In over a year of on-the-ground reportage, Washington Post writer Wesley Lowery traveled across the US to uncover life inside the most heavily policed, if otherwise neglected, corners of America today. In an effort to grasp the scale of the response to Michael Brown's death and understand the magnitude of the problem police violence represents, Lowery conducted hundreds of interviews with the families of victims of police brutality, as well as with local activists working to stop it. Lowery investigates the cumulative effect of decades of racially biased policing in segregated neighborhoods with constant discrimination, failing schools, crumbling infrastructure and too few jobs. Offering a historically informed look at the standoff between the police and those they are sworn to protect, They Can't Kill Us All demonstrates that civil unrest is just one tool of resistance in the broader struggle for justice. And at the end of President Obama's tenure, it grapples with a worrying and largely unexamined aspect of his legacy: the failure to deliver tangible security and opportunity to the marginalised Americans most in need of it.

Science, Being, & Becoming - The Spiritual Lives of Scientists (Paperback): Paul J. Mills Science, Being, & Becoming - The Spiritual Lives of Scientists (Paperback)
Paul J. Mills; Foreword by Deepak Chopra; Commentary by Ken Wilber
R585 Discovery Miles 5 850 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Profiles in Gay Courage - Leatherfolk, Arts, and Ideas (Paperback): Jack Fritscher Profiles in Gay Courage - Leatherfolk, Arts, and Ideas (Paperback)
Jack Fritscher; Edited by Mark Hemry
R649 R538 Discovery Miles 5 380 Save R111 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Strategies for Media Reform - International Perspectives (Paperback): Des Freedman Strategies for Media Reform - International Perspectives (Paperback)
Des Freedman; Jonathan A. Obar, Cheryl Martens, Robert W. McChesney
R965 Discovery Miles 9 650 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Media reform plays an increasingly important role in the struggle for social justice. As battles are fought over the future of investigative journalism, media ownership, spectrum management, speech rights, broadband access, network neutrality, the surveillance apparatus, and digital literacy, what effective strategies can be used in the pursuit of effective media reform? Prepared by thirty-three scholars and activists from more than twenty-five countries, Strategies for Media Reform focuses on theorizing media democratization and evaluating specific projects for media reform. This edited collection of articles offers readers the opportunity to reflect on the prospects for and challenges facing campaigns for media reform and gathers significant examples of theory, advocacy, and activism from multinational perspectives.

A Storied Kingdom - Sports, culture, history, and  human-interest  stories from County Kerry (Paperback): Tadhg Evans A Storied Kingdom - Sports, culture, history, and human-interest stories from County Kerry (Paperback)
Tadhg Evans
R732 Discovery Miles 7 320 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
My Name is Frank - A merchant seaman talks (Paperback): Frank Laskier My Name is Frank - A merchant seaman talks (Paperback)
Frank Laskier
R191 Discovery Miles 1 910 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Frank Laskier was born 1912 and lived his early years in the suburbs of Liverpool. As a teenager, Frank was an avid reader of Conrad and Masefield and had a romantic view of the "call of the sea". One day he decided to lie about his age and run away from home aboard a ship destined for Australia. Laskier worked on many ships in the merchant navy and it was his experiences during the Second World War that brought him to the attention of the BBC. Frank was asked to broadcast a number of talks on his experiences. This book is a transcript of those radio talks first published in 1941. Through this authentic voice of an ordinary man - not a historian, or a politician, or a great admiral - but an ordinary man, we can be reminded of the importance, bravery and sacrifice of the merchant navy in keeping Britain supplied during the Second World War. From the 1941 cover: 'We are proud to announce this book by Frank Laskier, "a sailor, an Englishman," the merchant seaman who gave the ever-memorable postscript after the BBC news on the first Sunday in October. The millions of listeners who heard that deeply moving voice will welcome an opportunity to read many more stories of the war at sea, which Laskier tells with the incomparable vividness of simple truth, and which made him a great broadcast speaker overnight. Laskier sounds, too, the note of victory that will bring a universal response-"Remember what we have been through; remember what we're going through; and fight and fight, and never, never, never, give in!" ' The publisher of this new edition has included an introduction and explanatory footnotes, as well as an appendix listing the ships mentioned in the book along with their descriptions.

The Times 50 Greatest Football Matches (Hardcover): Richard Whitehead The Times 50 Greatest Football Matches (Hardcover)
Richard Whitehead 1
R614 R504 Discovery Miles 5 040 Save R110 (18%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

From the earliest FA Cup finals in the 1870s played between teams of former public schoolboys, to twenty-first-century Champions League matches contested by teams of billionaires - with stops along the way for Leicester City's extraordinary Premier League triumph, the Hand of God, and the 1966 World Cup - this is football history as it happened, straight from the pages of The Times. 'The players came off arm in arm. They knew they had finally fashioned something of which to be proud.'

Bumbling Through the Hindu Kush - A Memoir of Fear and Kindness in Afghanistan (Paperback): Chris Woolf Bumbling Through the Hindu Kush - A Memoir of Fear and Kindness in Afghanistan (Paperback)
Chris Woolf
R492 R414 Discovery Miles 4 140 Save R78 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

What happens when a regular person accidentally finds themselves lost in the middle of a war? In 1991, BBC journalist Chris Woolf travelled to Afghanistan. The government in Kabul was fighting for survival, after the withdrawal of the Soviet Union. The parallels to today are extraordinary. Woolf was visiting a colleague to see if he'd like the life of a foreign correspondent. They hitched a ride with an aid convoy and bumbled straight into the war. They kept going, despite the horror and terror. There was no choice. Amid the darkness, Woolf discovered the generosity and hospitality of ordinary Afghans. They became the first journalists to pass through the battle lines to meet with legendary warlord Ahmed Shah Massoud, and carried home a vital message for the peace process. They met with Soviet POW/MIAs and recorded messages for loved ones. Unlike a conventional war story, Woolf shares an intimate portrait of first encounters with death and real fear. He explores the lingering effects of trauma, and explains how he put his experience to good use. The author introduces readers to just enough of Afghanistan's history, geography, culture and politics for readers to understand what's going on around him. What people are saying: "Bumbling Through the Hindu Kush is at once gripping, informative, suspenseful, and at times it reads like a thriller." - Qais Akbar Omar, author of "A Fort of Nine Towers: An Afghan Family Story." "Chris Woolf has written a truly personal tale that is both gripping and historically significant for the war between the Soviet-backed government and Mujahidin in Afghanistan. His mix of personal, cultural, and wartime reflections make this a story well worth the time of Afghanistan aficionados and casual readers alike." - Dr Jonathan Schroden, former strategic adviser to the US military's Central Command, and to the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan "Combat can feel like the ant on an elephant's tail: overwhelmed and along for the ride. Chris Woolf's memoir of his ten days in late 1991 "bumbling" into the war in Afghanistan is just such an up-and-down tale, with the momentary highs and gut-crushing lows common to combat. When the teenage goat herder fires his AK-47 in the first few pages - you'll know how that ant feels, just holding on, exhilarated, terrified, never really knowing what comes next." - Lt-Col ML Cavanaugh, US Army; Senior Fellow, Modern War Institute at West Point; lead writer and co-editor, "Strategy Strikes Back: How Star Wars Explains Modern Military Conflict." The perfect Christmas gift for all those who like military history and think they understand war. The author believes in giving back, so a portion of the proceeds is donated towards helping Afghan kids with disabilities (enabledchildren.org), and towards clearing landmines in Afghanistan and around the world (HALOTrust.org).

More Modern Mythmakers - 25 Interviews with Horror and Science Fiction Writers and Filmmakers (Paperback): Michael McCarty More Modern Mythmakers - 25 Interviews with Horror and Science Fiction Writers and Filmmakers (Paperback)
Michael McCarty
R392 Discovery Miles 3 920 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Terrorized, The Collected Interviews, Volume One (Paperback): Ian Glasper Terrorized, The Collected Interviews, Volume One (Paperback)
Ian Glasper
R1,147 Discovery Miles 11 470 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
These Are Not Gentle People - A tense and pacy true-crime thriller (Hardcover): Andrew Harding These Are Not Gentle People - A tense and pacy true-crime thriller (Hardcover)
Andrew Harding 1
R526 R431 Discovery Miles 4 310 Save R95 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

NOW SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION "Utterly gripping, timely and shocking" PHILIPPE SANDS "Compelling and disturbing . . . quietly devastating" DAMON GALGUT "This is a book of profound importance . . . A masterpiece" ALEXANDER McCALL SMITH "A vintage crime story . . . an extraordinary tale . . . It is written as a drama, part thriller, part tragedy" ALEC RUSSELL, Financial Times "A smartly paced true-crime thriller with a vivid cast of characters . . . as tense as it is disturbing" JOHN CARLIN, author of Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation Two dead men. Forty suspects. The trial that broke a small South African town "Look what the fucking dogs did to them, someone muttered. No-one mentioned the rope, or the monkey-wrench, or the gun, or the knife, or the stick, or the whip, or the blood-stained boots. In fact, no-one said much at all. It seemed simpler that way. There was no sense in pointing fingers.'" At dusk, on a warm evening in 2016, a group of forty men gathered in the corner of a dusty field on a farm outside Parys in the Free State. Some were in fury. Others treated the whole thing as a joke - a game. The events of the next two hours would come to haunt them all. They would rip families apart, prompt suicide attempts, breakdowns, divorce, bankruptcy, threats of violent revenge and acts of unforgivable treachery. These Are Not Gentle People is the story of that night, and of what happened next. It's a courtroom drama, a profound exploration of collective guilt and individual justice, and a fast-paced literary thriller. Award-winning foreign correspondent and author Andrew Harding traces the impact of one moment of collective barbarism on a fragile community - exploding lies, cover-ups, political meddling and betrayals, and revealing the inner lives of those involved with extraordinary clarity. The book is also a mesmerising examination of a small town trying to cope with a trauma that threatens to tear it in two - as such, it is as much a journey into the heart of modern South Africa as it is a gripping tale of crime, punishment and redemption. When a whole community is on trial, who pays the price?

The Passion - Football and the Story of Modern Turkey (Hardcover): Patrick Keddie The Passion - Football and the Story of Modern Turkey (Hardcover)
Patrick Keddie
R847 Discovery Miles 8 470 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In 1981 a young semi-professional footballer - known as `Imam Beckenbauer' for his piety and his dominant style of play - has his career cut short after a confrontation with Turkey's military junta. His name was Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and three decades later he is Turkey's most powerful ruler since Ataturk....' Turkey is a nation obsessed with football. From the flares which cover the stadium with multi-coloured smoke and often bring play to a halt, to the `conductors' - ultras who lead the `walls of sound' at matches, Turkish football has always been an awesome spectacle. And yet, in this politically fraught country, caught between the Middle East and the West, football has also always been so much more. From the fan groups resisting the government in the streets and stands, to ambitious politicians embroiling clubs in Machiavellian shenanigans, football in Turkey is a site of power, anger, and resistance. Journalist and football obsessive Patrick Keddie takes us on a wild journey through Turkey's role in the world's most popular game. He travels from the streets of Istanbul, where fans dodge tear gas and water cannons, to the plains of Anatolia, where women are fighting for their rights to wear shorts and play sports. He meets a gay referee facing death threats, Syrian footballers trying to piece together their shattered dreams, and Kurdish teams struggling to play football amid war. `The Passion' also tells the story of the biggest match-fixing scandal in European football, and sketches its murky connections to the country's leadership. In doing so he lifts the lid on a rarely glimpsed side of modern Turkey. Funny, touching and beautifully observed, this is the story of Turkey as we have never seen it before.

Fortified Special Edition - 10 Effective Strategies to Fortify Our Families (Paperback): Lorrie Richins Fortified Special Edition - 10 Effective Strategies to Fortify Our Families (Paperback)
Lorrie Richins
R884 R719 Discovery Miles 7 190 Save R165 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Lockdown Papers - social and political essays (Paperback): John Dillon The Lockdown Papers - social and political essays (Paperback)
John Dillon
R431 R387 Discovery Miles 3 870 Save R44 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The 'Jewish Gandhi' Of Cochin - A 20th Century Nationalist/Zionist & His Cochin Assembly Speeches (Paperback): Bala... The 'Jewish Gandhi' Of Cochin - A 20th Century Nationalist/Zionist & His Cochin Assembly Speeches (Paperback)
Bala Menon, Essie Sassoon
R430 R360 Discovery Miles 3 600 Save R70 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Oscar Wilde - The Complete Interviews - Volume Two (Hardcover): Rob Marland Oscar Wilde - The Complete Interviews - Volume Two (Hardcover)
Rob Marland
R975 Discovery Miles 9 750 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Table Talk - Sweet And Sour, Salt and Bitter (Paperback): Adrian Gill Table Talk - Sweet And Sour, Salt and Bitter (Paperback)
Adrian Gill 2
R308 R252 Discovery Miles 2 520 Save R56 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

The first collection of food writing by Britain's funniest and most feared critic A.A. Gill knows food, and loves food. A meal is never just a meal. It has a past, a history, connotations. It is a metaphor for life. A.A. Gill delights in decoding what lies behind the food on our plates: famously, his reviews are as much ruminations on society at large as they are about the restaurants themselves. So alongside the concepts, customers and cuisines, ten years of writing about restaurants has yielded insights on everything from yaks to cowboys, picnics to politics. TABLE TALK is an idiosyncratic selection of A.A. Gill's writing about food, taken from his Sunday Times and Tatler columns. Sometimes inspired by the traditions of a whole country, sometimes by a single ingredient, it is a celebration of what great eating can be, an excoriation of those who get it wrong, and an education about our own appetites. Because it spans a decade, the book focuses on A.A. Gill's general dining experiences rather than individual restaurants - food fads, tipping, chefs, ingredients, eating in town and country and abroad, and the best and worst dining experiences. Fizzing with wit, it is a treat for gourmands, gourmets and anyone who relishes good writing.

The AEF in Print - An Anthology of American Journalism in World War I (Hardcover): Chris Dubbs, John-Daniel Kelley The AEF in Print - An Anthology of American Journalism in World War I (Hardcover)
Chris Dubbs, John-Daniel Kelley
R997 R925 Discovery Miles 9 250 Save R72 (7%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The AEF in Print is an anthology that tells the story of U.S. involvement in World War I through newspaper and magazine articles-precisely how the American public experienced the Great War. From April 1917 to November 1918, Americans followed the war in their local newspapers and popular magazines. The book's chapters are organized chronologically: Mobilization, Arrival in Europe, Learning to Fight, American Firsts, Battles, and the Armistice. Also included are topical chapters, such as At Sea, In the Air, In the Trenches, Wounded Warriors, and Heroes.

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