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Responses to Pale Blue Dot (1990) by Voyager 1 (Paperback): Richard Porter Responses to Pale Blue Dot (1990) by Voyager 1 (Paperback)
Richard Porter
R348 Discovery Miles 3 480 Ships in 9 - 15 working days
Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone - The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson (Paperback): Hunter S. Thompson Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone - The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson (Paperback)
Hunter S. Thompson; Edited by Jann Wenner
R564 R478 Discovery Miles 4 780 Save R86 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

From the bestselling author of The Rum Diary and king of "Gonzo" journalism Hunter S. Thompson, comes the definitive collection of the journalist's finest work from "Rolling Stone." "Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone" showcases the roller-coaster of a career at the magazine that was his literary home.
"Buy the ticket, take the ride," was a favorite slogan of Hunter S. Thompson, and it pretty much defined both his work and his life. Jann S. Wenner, the outlaw journalist's friend and editor for nearly thirty-five years, has assembled articles--and a wealth of never- before-seen correspondence and internal memos from Hunter's storied tenure at "Rolling Stone"--that begin with Thompson's infamous run for sheriff of Aspen on the Freak Party ticket in 1970 and end with his final piece on the Bush-Kerry showdown of 2004. In between is Thompson's remarkable coverage of the 1972 presidential campaign and plenty of attention paid to Richard Nixon; encounters with Muhammad Ali, Bill Clinton, and the Super Bowl; and a lengthy excerpt from his acknowledged masterpiece, "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas." The definitive volume of Hunter S. Thompson's work published in the magazine, "Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone "traces the evolution of a personal and professional relationship that helped redefine modern American journalism, presenting Thompson through a new prism as he pursued his lifelong obsession: The life and death of the American Dream.

Briewe Van W.E.G. En N.P. Van Wyk Louw 1941-1970 (Afrikaans, Hardcover): J C Kannemeyer Briewe Van W.E.G. En N.P. Van Wyk Louw 1941-1970 (Afrikaans, Hardcover)
J C Kannemeyer
R267 Discovery Miles 2 670 Ships in 4 - 8 working days

n Versameling briewe van die broers W.E.G. en N.P. van Wyk Louw. Die briefwisseling tussen Van Wyk en W.E.G. Louw vanaf 1941 tot met Van Wyk Louw se dood in 1970 strek oor 'n periode van bykans dertig jaar. Die korrespondensie tussen die twee broers, waarby ook enkele briewe van Truida Louw aansluit, beslaan 'n totaal van 226 briewe, poskaarte en telegramme en foto's ingesluit.

Major Political Writings (Paperback): George Bernard Shaw Major Political Writings (Paperback)
George Bernard Shaw; Edited by Elizabeth Carolyn Miller
R306 R250 Discovery Miles 2 500 Save R56 (18%) In Stock

A new collection of Shaw's major political writings presents an opportunity to reflect on his influential role as a public intellectual. At the forefront of economic and political debate from the 1880s to the 1950s, George Bernard Shaw was once the most widely read socialist writer in the English language, and his lifelong crusade against inequality and exploitation is far from irrelevant today. The thorough interpenetration of Shaw's literary and political engagements is an unusual story in modern literature, and this volume offers a portrait of Shaw as a political artist in the purest possible sense: that is, as a writer of essays, articles, pamphlets, and books with explicitly and expressly political aims. The selected writings in this volume showcase Shaw's most influential and most accomplished political work, but also provide a cross-section that is representative of the whole of his long career. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Everything Is Under Control - A Memoir with Recipes (Paperback): Phyllis Grant Everything Is Under Control - A Memoir with Recipes (Paperback)
Phyllis Grant
R429 R351 Discovery Miles 3 510 Save R78 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
GATHERINGS OF IRISH HARPERS - 1780-1840 (Paperback): David Byers GATHERINGS OF IRISH HARPERS - 1780-1840 (Paperback)
David Byers
R275 Discovery Miles 2 750 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The 1792 Harpers' Meeting in Belfast was indeed an important event in the history and life of the town. Belfast's reformers and radicals desired a better future, but they also shared an interest in the past. Through their support for the few surviving harpers, they hoped future generations might benefit from the survival of a tradition and an instrument, music, language, and practises that were all fast disappearing. These were challenging times: a period of aspirational ideals, new rights, new freedoms set against the contagious atmosphere of revolution in the US, France, and Poland. The rise of sectarianism, the violence of the 1798 Rebellion, the loss of the Irish Parliament - all led to a sharp reduction in progressive developments and in funding for unfashionable causes. Thank goodness for the Irish soldiers in India who raised money to support a harp school in Belfast for a further 20 years, until once again the money ran out. And thank you Edward Bunting for not giving up.

John Main: Essential Writings (Paperback): John Main John Main: Essential Writings (Paperback)
John Main; Edited by Laurence Freeman
R557 R457 Discovery Miles 4 570 Save R100 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

John Main (1926-1982), an English Benedictine monk, pioneered the practice of Christian meditation. His genius was to recover a way into the contemplative experience for ordinary people within the Christian tradition. Hailed by Bede Griffiths as the "most important spiritual guide in the church today, " Main's work inspired the foundation of the World Community for Christian Meditation and a network of hundreds of meditation groups around the world.

John Main introduces the practice of Christian meditation for modern people who wish to deepen their spiritual lives.

Things I Have Withheld (Paperback): Kei Miller Things I Have Withheld (Paperback)
Kei Miller
R470 R397 Discovery Miles 3 970 Save R73 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

By acclaimed Forward Prize winner, novelist, and poet, Kei Miller's linked collection of essays blends memoir and literary commentary to explore the silences that exist in our conversations about race, sex, and gender. In a deeply moving, critical and lyrical collection of interconnected essays, award-winning writer Kei Miller explores the silences in which so many important things are kept. Miller examines the experience of discrimination through this silence and what it means to breach it -- "to risk words, to risk truth; and through the body and the histories those bodies inherit" the crimes that haunt them, and how the meanings of our bodies can shift as we move through the world, variously assuming privilege or victimhood. Through letters to James Baldwin, encounters with Soca, Carnival, family secrets, love affairs, questions of aesthetics and more, Miller powerfully and imaginatively recounts everyday acts of racism and prejudice from a black, male, queer perspective. An almost disarmingly personal collection, Kei dissects his experiences in Jamaica and Britain, working as an artist and intellectual, making friends and lovers, discovering the possibilities of music and dance, literary criticism, culture, and storytelling. With both the epigrammatic concision and conversational cadence of his poetry and novels, Things I Have Withheld is a great artistic achievement: a work of innovation and beauty which challenges us to interrogate what seems unsayable and why, "our actions, defense mechanisms, imaginations and interactions" and those of the world around us.

Letters Home (Hardcover): Jolyon Nuttall Letters Home (Hardcover)
Jolyon Nuttall
R250 R195 Discovery Miles 1 950 Save R55 (22%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days
Smothered in Hugs - Essays, Interviews, Feedback, and Obituaries (Paperback): Dennis Cooper Smothered in Hugs - Essays, Interviews, Feedback, and Obituaries (Paperback)
Dennis Cooper
R500 R416 Discovery Miles 4 160 Save R84 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Selected from the range of Cooper's essays and reportage in Artforum, Bookforum, Detour, Interview, LA Weekly, Spin, and the Village Voice, among other publications, Smothered in Hugs presents the best nonfiction of one of America's greatest writers. Cooper has written on grave social issues, producing touchstone pieces for a generation of readers. His obituaries for Kurt Cobain, River Phoenix, and William S. Burroughs offer portraits that are both crystallizing and appropriately indefinite. His reckonings of contemporary writers are astute and unsparing. And, of course, he serves as witness to the work and play of an illustrious roster of cultural personalities--and does so with an acuity and fairness missing from most pop culture criticism.

The Boy in the Post (Paperback): Holly Rivers The Boy in the Post (Paperback)
Holly Rivers
R191 Discovery Miles 1 910 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A charming action-packed adventure across the Atlantic from acclaimed author Holly Rivers! 'Energetic, lively and charming' READING ZONE Siblings Orinthia and Seafra Shalloo accept a summer job from eccentric Grandy, who has collected a menagerie of furry and feathered posties known as animails. The children are especially fond of Geronimo, a homing pelican. But when the big bird fails to return from a delivery, Taber - the youngest sibling - is devastated; so much so, he mails himself to New York, where Geronimo was sent. Orinthia and Seafra follow suit, stealing a precious stamp and hopping in a freight crate - and soon all are embarked on an extraordinarily daring first-class adventure ... A warm, adventurous and action-packed story from acclaimed author Holly Rivers, author of Demelza & the Spectre Detectors A brillantly-imagined fantasy world with a vintage feel and a trio of characters you'll long to be friends with As a child, Holly was a lead actress in ITV's original Worst Witch series! Perfect for fans of M.G. Leonard and Sam Sedgman's Adventures on Trains series

Teaching Christianity (Paperback, New edition): Saint Augustine Teaching Christianity (Paperback, New edition)
Saint Augustine; Volume editing by John E. Rotelle
R880 R715 Discovery Miles 7 150 Save R165 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Teaching Christianity is the most original book Augustine ever wrote. It is not so much a treatise or scholarly work but an instruction manual on how to teach Christianity. He wrote this how to book for those who would be preaching and explaining Christianity. It is entirely based on the bible and helps the reader express its truths of faith with soundproof methodology. It is a book that will help readers to communicate their message in a clear and effective way. Edmund Hills new translation of Augustines treatise On Christian Doctrine is superb. His early and mature thought on how to understand scripture and how to communicate that understanding to others is set forth clearly and attractively. The translator has shown great discernment in his choice of words and in their placement. This makes for a smooth reading. Extremely valuable are the scholarly endnotes provided after each of the four books. The new title chosen by Edmund Hill, namely, Teaching Christianity indicates that Augustine is here instructing the African clergy, probably the bishops, how to preach effectively to their congregations. The treatise is not focused on doctrine. Sr. Mary T. Clark, RSCJ Manhattanville College President, Society for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy

Give Up Art - Collected Writings (2005-15) (Hardcover): Maria Fusco Give Up Art - Collected Writings (2005-15) (Hardcover)
Maria Fusco
R766 Discovery Miles 7 660 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Bump to Birthday, Pregnancy & First Year Journal (Hardcover): Helen from you to me, Stephens Bump to Birthday, Pregnancy & First Year Journal (Hardcover)
Helen from you to me, Stephens
R622 R452 Discovery Miles 4 520 Save R170 (27%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Bump to Birthday - a beautifully designed, colour illustrated, combined pregnancy and first year baby journal - will inspire any parent-to-be to capture the unique story of the journey of pregnancy and baby's precious first year. During pregnancy Bump to Birthday provides week- by-week information on the developing bump and provides prompts to enable parents to tell their own remarkable story and record unique, unrepeatable experiences. The pregnancy journey, hopes and dreams, the birthing experience, and all the special moments with the new baby - from first movements to first smile, first Christmas to first birthday - with spaces for photos and scan images, will all be treasured forever in one beautiful journal.

Mits Dese Wil Ek Vir Jou Sê - Briewe van Hennie Aucamp (Afrikaans, Hardcover): Petrovna Metelerkamp Mits Dese Wil Ek Vir Jou Sê - Briewe van Hennie Aucamp (Afrikaans, Hardcover)
Petrovna Metelerkamp
R267 Discovery Miles 2 670 Ships in 4 - 8 working days

Persoonlike briewe van Hennie Aucamp aan familie en vriende, 'n boek waarna Aucamp se duisende aanhangers al lank uitsien. Briewe aan o.a. Amanda Strydom, Breyten Breytenbach, Andre P Brink, Elzabe Zietsman, Margaret Bakkes, Johan Bakkes, Elize Botha, Elisabeth Eybers. Twaalf bladsye foto's. Hierdie bundel is die vyfde in 'n reeks briewe van belangrike skrywers. Vorige titels: 'n Blywende vreugde - Briewe van Audrey Blignault (2008), Briewe van Peter Blum (2008), Briewe van Uys Krige (2010) en Briewe van W.E.G. en N.P. van Wyk Louw (2011).

Scholars, Poets and Radicals - Discovering Forgotten Lives in the Blackwell Collections (Hardcover): Rita Ricketts Scholars, Poets and Radicals - Discovering Forgotten Lives in the Blackwell Collections (Hardcover)
Rita Ricketts
R938 Discovery Miles 9 380 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Exploring the Blackwell Collections (publishing and bookselling archives), Rita Ricketts discovered diverse characters associated with this world-famous company, between 1830 and 1940. There is a tailor's son saving souls, a reluctant radical, a hammerman poet, a spellbound princess, pauper apprentices, pioneering women, profligate printers and patriots publishing in protest against the authorities who sent so many to 'certain death' in the First World War. Some became famous: J.R.R. Tolkien, Wilfred Owen, John Betjeman, Dorothy L. Sayers, Vera Brittain, Edith Sitwell and Laurence Binyon, whose name is recollected wherever For the Fallen is read. Most were obscure, yet their memoirs, letters and journals, often disregarded in recorded history, are preserved here. This is what makes the collections a rarity and so appealing. Family memories of the first B.H. Blackwell and the diaries of his son and first apprentices document everyday life against the backdrop of the book trade, and also present a tableau of nineteenth and twentieth-century history ranging far beyond Oxford. The third B.H. Blackwell (Sir Basil) collected their stories, singling out Rex King whose diaries, 1918-1940, contain an astonishing reading list and a mordant dissection of the texts amounting to a critique of early twentieth-century English culture; rich fodder for any book or cultural historian. Rex King, like all the characters in this book, wrote for posterity. And Rita Ricketts, a consummate storyteller, has ensured that they will be read by a new generation.

Everybody - A Book About Freedom (Hardcover): Olivia Laing Everybody - A Book About Freedom (Hardcover)
Olivia Laing
R565 Discovery Miles 5 650 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The body is a source of pleasure and of pain, at once hopelessly vulnerable and radiant with power. At a moment in which basic rights are once again imperilled, Olivia Laing conducts an ambitious investigation into the body and its discontents, using the life of the renegade psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich to chart a daring course through the long struggle for bodily freedom, from gay rights and sexual liberation to feminism and the civil rights movement.

Drawing on her own experiences in protest and alternative medicine, and travelling from Weimar Berlin to the prisons of McCarthy-era America, she grapples with some of the most significant and complicated figures of the past century, among them Nina Simone, Christopher Isherwood, Andrea Dworkin, Sigmund Freud, Susan Sontag and Malcolm X.

Despite its many burdens, the body remains a source of power, even in an era as technologized and automated as our own. Everybody is an examination of the forces arranged against freedom and a celebration of how ordinary human bodies can resist oppression and reshape the world.

An Evening of Dreams 2017 (Hardcover): Chloe Aridjis An Evening of Dreams 2017 (Hardcover)
Chloe Aridjis; Homero Aridjis, Eva Hoffman, Darian Leader, Tom McCarthy, …
R286 Discovery Miles 2 860 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
A Russian Journal (Paperback, New Ed): John Steinbeck A Russian Journal (Paperback, New Ed)
John Steinbeck; Introduction by Susan Shillinglaw
R388 R313 Discovery Miles 3 130 Save R75 (19%) In Stock

Just after the iron curtain fell on Eastern Europe John Steinbeck and acclaimed war photographer, Robert Capa ventured into the Soviet Union to report for the New York Herald Tribune. This rare opportunity took the famous travellers not only to Moscow and Stalingrad - now Volgograd - but through the countryside of the Ukraine and the Caucasus. A Russian Journal is the distillation of their journey and remains a remarkable memoir and unique historical document. Steinbeck and Capa recorded the grim realities of factory workers, government clerks, and peasants, as they emerged from the rubble of World War II. This is an intimate glimpses of two artists at the height of their powers, answering their need to document human struggle

Escape Into Meaning - Essays on Superman, Public Benches, and Other Obsessions (Paperback): Evan Puschak Escape Into Meaning - Essays on Superman, Public Benches, and Other Obsessions (Paperback)
Evan Puschak
R459 R345 Discovery Miles 3 450 Save R114 (25%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Voice of the Fish - A Lyric Essay (Paperback): Lars Horn Voice of the Fish - A Lyric Essay (Paperback)
Lars Horn
R433 R363 Discovery Miles 3 630 Save R70 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Kiki's Delivery Service: Jiji Journal (Hardcover): Studio Ghibli Kiki's Delivery Service: Jiji Journal (Hardcover)
Studio Ghibli
R379 R322 Discovery Miles 3 220 Save R57 (15%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Featuring Jiji, the lovable black cat from Hayao Miyazaki's animated classic Kiki's Delivery Service, this soft plush and embroidered journal includes lined interiors and full-color artwork on the front and back pages, purr-fect for cat lovers and Studio Ghibli fans of all ages. Kiki's Delivery Service (c) 1989 Eiko Kadono - Studio Ghibli - N

The Written World - Essays & Reviews (Paperback): Kevin Power The Written World - Essays & Reviews (Paperback)
Kevin Power
R413 R377 Discovery Miles 3 770 Save R36 (9%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Art honours the world, and criticism honours art, even - perhaps especially - when the critic sets out to destroy. The bad review is hardly ever written out of mere spite. In most cases, the motivation is disappointed idealism. Critics are people who love art and who hate to see it traduced. Hence the critic's sempiternal cry: You're doing it wrong. What the critic wants is for you to do it better. Since 2008, acclaimed novelist Kevin Power has reviewed almost three hundred and fifty books. Power declares, 'Even now, cracking open a brand-new hardback with my pencil in my hand, I feel the same pleasure, and the same hope. That's the great secret: every critic is an optimist at heart.' Art that thinks and feels at the same time - 'good art' - requires explication. The writing of criticism in response to such art is an activity that has taken place since Aristotle first sat down to figure out what made tragedy work. It is in the pursuit of this question - what makes good art 'good' - that Kevin Power found his vocation. During a ten-year stint as a regular freelance reviewer for the Sunday Business Post, Power fell in love with the writing of criticism, and with the reading of it, too, particularly by talented novelists who review books on the side. His conclusion is that criticism is absolutely an art. But it is never more so than when practiced by an actual artist. These pieces, ranging from reviews of Susan Sontag to the meaning of Greta Thunberg, apocalyptic politics, and literary theory, represent a decade's worth of thinking about books; a record of the author's attempts to honour art, and through art, the world. In The Written World, Power explains how he became a critic and what he thinks criticism is. It begins and ends with a long personal essays, 'The Lost Decade', written especially for this collection, about his mental and writing block after publishing Bad Day in Blackrock and his decade-long journey to White City. The pieces gathered by Power are connected by a theme - this is a book about writing, seen from various positions, and about growth as an artist and a critic.

Disney Villains: Slay Your Day (Paperback): Autumn Publishing Disney Villains: Slay Your Day (Paperback)
Autumn Publishing
R229 Discovery Miles 2 290 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Never lose sight of your goals. Give organisation an edge with this eye-catching undated weekly planner and darkly humourous journal pages, featuring famous quotes from Disney's most infamous Villains.

Listening Below the Noise - The Transformative Power of Silence (Paperback): Anne D LeClaire Listening Below the Noise - The Transformative Power of Silence (Paperback)
Anne D LeClaire
R405 R332 Discovery Miles 3 320 Save R73 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

When Anne D. LeClaire decided to turn an ordinary Monday into a day of silence, little did she realize she had begun an inner voyage that would transform her life.

In the seventeen years since, LeClaire has practiced total silence two days each month. By detaching herself from the bustle of her hectic lifestyle and learning to listen to her deepest self, she has found a center from which to live--one that tests, strengthens, and heals her. In practicing silence, she has discovered her own secret garden--a cloistered, sacred private place where true personal growth is possible.

In this eloquent book--part memoir, part philosophical inquiry, written with clarity and warm humor--LeClaire reflects on how silence can help us expand our awareness, ignite and nurture creativity, and achieve inner peace.

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