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Steal, Kill & Destroy - A Guide for Today's Christian on How to Disarm the Adversary. (Hardcover): Loribel Maldonado Steal, Kill & Destroy - A Guide for Today's Christian on How to Disarm the Adversary. (Hardcover)
Loribel Maldonado
R556 R467 Discovery Miles 4 670 Save R89 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Social Struggle - How we took over the Internet (Hardcover): Woody And Kleiny The Social Struggle - How we took over the Internet (Hardcover)
Woody And Kleiny
R563 R522 Discovery Miles 5 220 Save R41 (7%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

With more than 20 million followers across their social media channels, @WoodyandKleiny have established themselves as two of the world's foremost internet content creators. But how did they do it? The Social Struggle: How We Took Over The Internet shares their story of initial failure that through determination became success. From overcoming broken homes and broken dreams, filming blurry videos for no more than 100 views, working every hour of the day for four years to make a handful of loose change, @WoodyandKleiny's tale is sure to inspire readers around the world.

Wild Wisdom - A Warthog's Tale (Paperback): Laurada Byers Wild Wisdom - A Warthog's Tale (Paperback)
Laurada Byers; Contributions by Natalie Hays Stewart; Designed by Stewart Williams
R453 Discovery Miles 4 530 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Just a Shot Away - 1969 Revisited (Paperback): Kris Needs Just a Shot Away - 1969 Revisited (Paperback)
Kris Needs
R498 R464 Discovery Miles 4 640 Save R34 (7%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Just A Shot Away:69 Revisited is veteran author-journalist Kris Needs' highly-personal account of 1969 as he experienced it happening; from starting the year as a wide-eyed 14-year-old Rolling Stones/Hendrix nut and turning 15 the day Brian Jones died to becoming part of the UK's longest-running club and befriending its hottest new band. There have been endless books that take a well-researched look at that tumultuous year but few that actually live it in real time. Rather than recycle hoary cliches about Manson and Altamont snuffing the 60s after Woodstock's brief optimism, or any ludicrous rivalry between the Beatles and Stones, Kris remembers the gigs, bands and records that bombarded his own young radar and helped shape his future life as a music writer, DJ and, briefly fan club secretary. With John Peel a lifeline, 1969 was pivotal for Kris, including the births of the legendary Friars Aylesbury rock club, for which he designed the membership card and flyers, Pete Frame's Zigzag magazine, which he later wrote for before becoming editor, and Mott The Hoople, who he befriended after they played his school dance and ended up running their fan club. As a member of the Jimi Hendrix fan club, he witnessed the guitarist in concert, plunging himself in black music and becoming fascinated with the Black Power movement. As a lifelong Stones fan, he saw them early and ended up hanging out with Keith Richards in later years. There was never time to care about the death of a decade in which he was coming alive, let alone any loss of innocence when he couldn't lose his fast enough. With Foreword by his mentor Pete Frame, Kris's 45 year career as a music writer impacts on the narrative time machine fashion, including sessions with Keith Richards, Captain Beefheart, George Clinton and Marianne Faithfull, epic conversations with Ian Hunter, the Doors, the Magic Band, the Fugs, Traffic, Silver Apples, Last Poets, "voice of Woodstock" Chip Monck and many more. Obviously, the book gains perspectives and knowledge from 50 years reading, writing, listening, investigating and living a life the teenage Needs (or anyone else, for that matter!) could never have imagined, some of those leading characters becoming lifelong friends. The book also carries a sad back story as, while Kris was writing it, his beloved partner Helen, who he fell in love with at a Mott The Hoople reunion gig in 2013, succumbed to cancer, his grief inevitably tangible and casting a tragic shadow over the story. Helen's death instilled a greater appreciation of life when it was just getting under way, along with the romantic notion that none of his many experiences can ever compare to finding his true soul mate. Helen's death resulted in Kris moving back to the family home with his 93-year-old mum; now writing in the same bedroom where he experienced 1969 as it unfolded, and still getting told to turn down his Rolling Stones records! Once Kris finished writing the book, it was twice as long as the average music tome so will now come in two volumes, each covering half that year.

Breaking Free (Paperback): Jeffrey Vonk Breaking Free (Paperback)
Jeffrey Vonk
R492 Discovery Miles 4 920 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson (Paperback): Rowlandson Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson (Paperback)
Rowlandson
R345 Discovery Miles 3 450 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Tales from the Range - Stories from the Saddle (Paperback): Cecil G Emery Tales from the Range - Stories from the Saddle (Paperback)
Cecil G Emery; Edited by Ron Hamm
R485 R396 Discovery Miles 3 960 Save R89 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Gabacho - Drugs Landed Me In Mexican Prison, Theater Saved Me (Paperback): Richard Jewkes, Brian Whitney Gabacho - Drugs Landed Me In Mexican Prison, Theater Saved Me (Paperback)
Richard Jewkes, Brian Whitney
R515 R432 Discovery Miles 4 320 Save R83 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Larkin About in Coventry - The City where a Great Poet Grew Up (Paperback): Chris Arnot Larkin About in Coventry - The City where a Great Poet Grew Up (Paperback)
Chris Arnot
R468 Discovery Miles 4 680 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
his way... or no way (Paperback): Paula Rivers his way... or no way (Paperback)
Paula Rivers
R367 Discovery Miles 3 670 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Glimpses of the Unseen - A Study of Dreams, Premonitions, Prayer and Remarkable Answers, Hypnotism, Spiritualism, Telepathy,... Glimpses of the Unseen - A Study of Dreams, Premonitions, Prayer and Remarkable Answers, Hypnotism, Spiritualism, Telepathy, Apparitions, Peculiar Mental and Spiritual Experiences, Unexplained Psychical Phenomena - A Book of Personal Experiences, Original and Selected, Related in Their Own Language by Reputable Persons, Together with Running Comments and a Thoughtful Summary (Paperback)
Rev Principal Austin
R874 Discovery Miles 8 740 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Adventures of a Metalhead Librarian - A Rock n' Roll Memoir (Paperback): Anna-Marie O'Brien Adventures of a Metalhead Librarian - A Rock n' Roll Memoir (Paperback)
Anna-Marie O'Brien; Foreword by Lonn M Friend
R439 Discovery Miles 4 390 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Soul of a Boy - True-life tales full of wit and warmth of childhood (Paperback): Troy Kidder The Soul of a Boy - True-life tales full of wit and warmth of childhood (Paperback)
Troy Kidder
R406 R338 Discovery Miles 3 380 Save R68 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
My Journey Back - Part 1 (Paperback): Robert Brooks Strong My Journey Back - Part 1 (Paperback)
Robert Brooks Strong
R304 Discovery Miles 3 040 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Walking On Air - How to face challenges with resilience and adversity with strength (Paperback): Francis O'Toole Walking On Air - How to face challenges with resilience and adversity with strength (Paperback)
Francis O'Toole
R475 Discovery Miles 4 750 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Akela, Leader of the Pack (Paperback): John Furniss Akela, Leader of the Pack (Paperback)
John Furniss
R321 Discovery Miles 3 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Black Man White House - The Struggle is Real (Paperback): Eric Reese Black Man White House - The Struggle is Real (Paperback)
Eric Reese
R447 R361 Discovery Miles 3 610 Save R86 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Life Behind Bars (Paperback): Ian Coburn Life Behind Bars (Paperback)
Ian Coburn
R212 R176 Discovery Miles 1 760 Save R36 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Life Behind Bars is a collection of real-life experiences from the author's life spent working behind pub bars. Some stories are hilarious and some are shocking so there will be something here for anyone with an interest in this British mainstay and what life really is like behind bars.

Grampie - True Home Stories from the Life of Alexander Graham Bell (Hardcover): Carol Lauritzen, Laurel Mathewson Grampie - True Home Stories from the Life of Alexander Graham Bell (Hardcover)
Carol Lauritzen, Laurel Mathewson
R636 Discovery Miles 6 360 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Half the Size, but Twice the Life (Paperback): Carli Jay Half the Size, but Twice the Life (Paperback)
Carli Jay
R319 R262 Discovery Miles 2 620 Save R57 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days
Bittersweet Gallerias (Paperback): Bittersweet Gallerias (Paperback)
R343 Discovery Miles 3 430 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Schneider Trophy Races - The Extraordinary True Story of Aviation's Greatest Competition (Paperback): Ralph Barker The Schneider Trophy Races - The Extraordinary True Story of Aviation's Greatest Competition (Paperback)
Ralph Barker
R601 Discovery Miles 6 010 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

'Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines meets Le Mans. Hugely entertaining. And deadly serious' Rowland White, Author of Vulcan 607 It was the greatest international competition of its day - a thrilling, globe-trotting, high speed air racing series that married cutting-edge technology with astonishing skill, bravery and danger. Duelling at 400 mph just a few feet from sea surface left pilots little margin for error. For over a decade, as aircraft of Great Britain, the United States, France and Italy fought for the prize, the Schneider Trophy represented the pinnacle of aviation development. A succession of world records fell to machines that combined super-charged brute power with streamlined good looks. With the RAF's Supermarine S6B, legendary aircraft designer R.J Mitchell, honed the genius that produced the Spitfire, while Rolls-Royce advanced the state-of-the-art with a powerful V-12 engine that paved the way for its war-winning masterpiece, the Merlin.

Rescued from the Ashes - The Diary of Leokadia Schmidt, Survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto (Paperback): Leokadia Schmidt Rescued from the Ashes - The Diary of Leokadia Schmidt, Survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto (Paperback)
Leokadia Schmidt; Translated by Oscar E Swan
R664 Discovery Miles 6 640 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Molly III - The Untold Story (Paperback): Rosemarie Smith Molly III - The Untold Story (Paperback)
Rosemarie Smith
R406 Discovery Miles 4 060 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Rosemarie Smith has written her autobiography in three parts; Little Molly, Molly II: Am I who I should be? and Molly III: The Untold Story. Having suffered, child abuse she reached a point where she had totally given up on life and felt that the long hard battle to survive just wasn't worth the pain anymore. In Molly III she gives a true account of what it was like suffering severe physical and mental abuse as a child and then to go on suffering throughout most of her life. Just as she had given up on society and every Government body, came a massive break-through and as a result of that, on July 12th 2017, a judge ruled 'life in prison' for her childhood abuser and said, "Rosemarie Smith's statement of facts was `so compelling....' he believed abuser, John Wass had committed every single sexual and indecent act that his victims had given evidence on!

A Freezing Night in Geneva - Unforgettable Experiences (Paperback): Ajay Adala A Freezing Night in Geneva - Unforgettable Experiences (Paperback)
Ajay Adala
R332 Discovery Miles 3 320 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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