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A Promised Land (Hardcover): Barack Obama A Promised Land (Hardcover)
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R930 R795 Discovery Miles 7 950 Save R135 (15%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

A riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making - from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracy.

In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of the first term of his historic presidency - a time of dramatic transformation and turmoil. Obama takes readers on a compelling journey from his earliest political aspirations to the pivotal Iowa caucus victory that demonstrated the power of grassroots activism to the watershed night of November 4, 2008, when he was elected 44th president of the United States, becoming the first African American to hold the nation’s highest office. Reflecting on the presidency, he offers a unique and thoughtful exploration of both the awesome reach and the limits of presidential power, as well as singular insights into the dynamics of U.S. partisan politics and international diplomacy.

Obama brings readers inside the Oval Office and the White House Situation Room, and to Moscow, Cairo, Beijing, and points beyond. We are privy to his thoughts as he assembles his cabinet, wrestles with a global financial crisis, takes the measure of Vladimir Putin, overcomes seemingly insurmountable odds to secure passage of the Affordable Care Act, clashes with generals about U.S. strategy in Afghanistan, tackles Wall Street reform, responds to the devastating Deepwater Horizon blowout, and authorizes Operation Neptune’s Spear, which leads to the death of Osama bin Laden.

A Promised Land is extraordinarily intimate and introspective - the story of one man’s bet with history, the faith of a community organizer tested on the world stage. Obama is candid about the balancing act of running for office as a Black American, bearing the expectations of a generation buoyed by messages of “hope and change,” and meeting the moral challenges of high-stakes decision-making. He is frank about the forces that opposed him at home and abroad, open about how living in the White House affected his wife and daughters, and unafraid to reveal self-doubt and disappointment. Yet he never wavers from his belief that inside the great, ongoing American experiment, progress is always possible.

This beautifully written and powerful book captures Barack Obama’s conviction that democracy is not a gift from on high but something founded on empathy and common understanding and built together, day by day.

The Mother Of Black Hollywood - A Memoir (Paperback): Jenifer Lewis The Mother Of Black Hollywood - A Memoir (Paperback)
Jenifer Lewis
R405 R356 Discovery Miles 3 560 Save R49 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

National Book Club Conference ‘Book of the Year’ Award Winner!

From her more than three hundred appearances for film and television, stage and cabaret, performing comedy or drama, as an unforgettable lead or a scene stealing supporting character, Jenifer Lewis has established herself as one of the most respected, admired, talented, and versatile entertainers working today. This “Mega Diva” and costar of the hit sitcom black-ish bares her soul in this touching and poignant—and at times side-splittingly hilarious—memoir of a Midwestern girl with a dream, whose journey took her from poverty to the big screen, and along the way earned her many accolades.

With candor and warmth, Jenifer Lewis reveals the heart of a woman who lives life to the fullest. This multitalented “force of nature” landed her first Broadway role within eleven days of her graduation from college and later earned the title “Reigning Queen of High-Camp Cabaret.” In the audaciously honest voice that her fans adore, Jenifer describes her transition to Hollywood, with guest roles on hits like The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and Friends. Her movie Jackie’s Back! became a cult favorite, and as the “Mama” to characters portrayed by Whitney Houston, Tupac Shakur, Taraji P. Henson, and many more, Jenifer cemented her status as the “Mother of Black Hollywood.”

When an undiagnosed mental illness stymies Jenifer’s career, culminating in a breakdown while filming The Temptations, her quest for wholeness becomes a harrowing and inspiring tale, including revelations of bipolar disorder and sex addiction.

Written with no-holds-barred honesty and illustrated with more than forty color photographs, this gripping memoir is filled with insights gained through a unique life that offers a universal message: “Love yourself so that love will not be a stranger when it comes.”

Hidden Figures - The Untold Story of the African-American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race (Paperback): Margot Lee Shetterly Hidden Figures - The Untold Story of the African-American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race (Paperback)
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R337 R306 Discovery Miles 3 060 Save R31 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Set amid the civil rights movement, this is the true story of NASA's African-American female mathematicians who played a crucial role in America's space program.

Before Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of professionals worked as 'Human Computers', calculating the flight paths that would enable these historic achievements. Among these were a coterie of bright, talented African-American women. Segregated from their white counterparts, these 'coloured computers' used pencil and paper to write the equations that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space.

Moving from World War II through NASA's golden age, touching on the civil rights era, the Space Race, the Cold War, and the women's rights movement, 'Hidden Figures' interweaves a rich history of mankind's greatest adventure with the intimate stories of five courageous women whose work forever changed the world.

Call Sign Chaos - Learning To Lead (Hardcover): Jim Mattis, Bing West Call Sign Chaos - Learning To Lead (Hardcover)
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R621 R532 Discovery Miles 5 320 Save R89 (14%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

A clear-eyed account of learning how to lead in a chaotic world, by General Jim Mattis—the former Secretary of Defense and one of the most formidable strategic thinkers of our time—and Bing West, a former assistant secretary of defense and combat Marine.

Call Sign Chaos is the account of Jim Mattis’s storied career, from wide-ranging leadership roles in three wars to ultimately commanding a quarter of a million troops across the Middle East. Along the way, Mattis recounts his foundational experiences as a leader, extracting the lessons he has learned about the nature of warfighting and peacemaking, the importance of allies, and the strategic dilemmas—and short-sighted thinking—now facing our nation. He makes it clear why America must return to a strategic footing so as not to continue winning battles but fighting inconclusive wars.

Mattis divides his book into three parts: Direct Leadership, Executive Leadership, and Strategic Leadership. In the first part, Mattis recalls his early experiences leading Marines into battle, when he knew his troops as well as his own brothers. In the second part, he explores what it means to command thousands of troops and how to adapt your leadership style to ensure your intent is understood by your most junior troops so that they can own their mission. In the third part, Mattis describes the challenges and techniques of leadership at the strategic level, where military leaders reconcile war’s grim realities with political leaders’ human aspirations, where complexity reigns and the consequences of imprudence are severe, even catastrophic.

Call Sign Chaos is a memoir of a life of warfighting and lifelong learning, following along as Mattis rises from Marine recruit to four-star general. It is a journey about learning to lead and a story about how he, through constant study and action, developed a unique leadership philosophy, one relevant to us all.

Humans Of New York (Hardcover, New): Brandon Stanton Humans Of New York (Hardcover, New)
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R868 R660 Discovery Miles 6 600 Save R208 (24%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

An instant Number One New York Times bestseller, Humans of New York began in the summer of 2010, when photographer Brandon Stanton set out on an ambitious project: to single-handedly create a photographic census of New York City. Armed with his camera, he began crisscrossing the city, covering thousands of miles on foot, all in his attempt to capture ordinary New Yorkers in the most extraordinary of moments. The result of these efforts was "Humans of New York," a vibrant blog in which he featured his photos alongside quotes and anecdotes.

The blog has steadily grown, now boasting nearly a million devoted followers. Humans of New York is the book inspired by the blog. With four hundred colour photos, including exclusive portraits and all-new stories, and a distinctive vellum jacket, Humans of New York is a stunning collection of images that will appeal not just to those who have been drawn in by the outsized personalities of New York, but to anyone interested in the breathtaking scope of humanity it displays.

Heartfelt and moving, Humans of New York is a celebration of individuality and a tribute to the spirit of a city.

The Gunfighters - How Texas Made the West Wild (Hardcover): Bryan Burrough The Gunfighters - How Texas Made the West Wild (Hardcover)
Bryan Burrough
R887 R731 Discovery Miles 7 310 Save R156 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The “Wild West” gunfighter is such a stock figure in our popular culture that some dismiss it all as a corny myth, more a product of dime novels and B movies than a genuinely important American history. In fact, as Bryan Burrough shows us in his dazzling and fast-paced new book, there’s much more below the surface. For three decades at the end of the 1800s, a big swath of the American West was a crucible of change, with the highest murder rate per capita in American history. The reasons behind this boil down to one word: Texas.

Texas was born in violence, on two fronts, with Mexico to the south and the Comanche to the north. The Colt revolver first caught on with the Texas Rangers. Southern dueling culture transformed into something wilder and less organized in the Lone Star State. The collapse of the Confederacy and the presence of a thin veneer of Northern occupiers turned the heat up further. And the explosion in the cattle business after the war took that violence and pumped it out from Texas across the whole of the West. The stampede of longhorn cattle brought with it an assortment of rustlers, hustlers, gamblers, and freelance lawmen who carried a trigger-happy honor culture into a widening gyre, a veritable blood meridian. When the first newspapermen and audiences discovered what good copy this all was, the flywheel of mythmaking started spinning. It’s never stopped.

The Gunfighters brilliantly sifts the lies from the truth, giving both elements their due. And the truth is sufficiently wild for any but the most unhinged tastes. All the legendary figures are here, and their escapades are told with great flair—good, bad, and ugly. Like all great stories, this one has a rousing end—as the railroads and the settlers close off the open spaces for good, the last of the breed, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, really do get on a boat for South America, ending their era in a blaze of glory. Burrough knits these histories together into something much deeper and more provocative than simply the sum of its parts. To understand the truth of the Wild West is to understand a crucial dimension of the American story.

Tides of Revolution - Information, Insurgencies, and the Crisis of Colonial Rule in Venezuela (Hardcover): Cristina Soriano Tides of Revolution - Information, Insurgencies, and the Crisis of Colonial Rule in Venezuela (Hardcover)
Cristina Soriano
R4,146 Discovery Miles 41 460 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This is a book about the links between politics and literacy, and about how radical ideas spread in a world without printing presses. In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Spanish colonial governments tried to keep revolution out of their provinces. But, as Cristina Soriano shows, hand-copied samizdat materials from the Caribbean flooded the cities and ports of Venezuela, hundreds of foreigners shared news of the French and Haitian revolutions with locals, and Venezuelans of diverse social backgrounds met to read hard-to-come-by texts and to discuss the ideas they expounded. These networks efficiently spread antimonarchical propaganda and abolitionist and egalitarian ideas, allowing Venezuelans to participate in an incipient yet vibrant public sphere and to contemplate new political scenarios. This book offers an in-depth analysis of one of the crucial processes that allowed Venezuela to become one of the first regions in Spanish America to declare independence from Iberia and turn into an influential force for South American independence.

Untangling a Red, White, and Black Heritage - A Personal History of the Allotment Era (Hardcover): Darnella Davis Untangling a Red, White, and Black Heritage - A Personal History of the Allotment Era (Hardcover)
Darnella Davis
R2,020 Discovery Miles 20 200 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Examining the legacy of racial mixing in Indian Territory through the land and lives of two families, one of Cherokee Freedman descent and one of Muscogee Creek heritage, Darnella Davis's memoir writes a new chapter in the history of racial mixing on the frontier. It is the only book-length account of the intersections between the three races in Indian Territory and Oklahoma written from the perspective of a tribal person and a freedman. The histories of these families, along with the starkly different federal policies that molded their destinies, offer a powerful corrective to the historical narrative. From the Allotment Period to the present, their claims of racial identity and land in Oklahoma reveal inequalities that still fester more than one hundred years later. Davis offers a provocative opportunity to unpack our current racial discourse and ask ourselves, ""Who are 'we' really?

Major Problems in the History of the American South, Volume 2 (Paperback, 3rd Revised edition): Paul D Escott Major Problems in the History of the American South, Volume 2 (Paperback, 3rd Revised edition)
Paul D Escott
R1,521 R1,397 Discovery Miles 13 970 Save R124 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Designed to encourage critical thinking about history, the MAJOR PROBLEMS IN AMERICAN HISTORY series introduces readers to both primary sources and analytical essays on important topics in U.S. history. The collection of essays and documents in MAJOR PROBLEMS IN THE HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN SOUTH provides a comprehensive view of the culture of the American South as well as its political, social, and economic history. The documents are grouped with important secondary sources, accompanied by chapter introductions, selection headnotes, and suggested readings.

Revisit The Old Mill - Its Creation Defined Texas - Limited Publisher's Edition (Hardcover): W. Leon Smith Revisit The Old Mill - Its Creation Defined Texas - Limited Publisher's Edition (Hardcover)
W. Leon Smith
R701 Discovery Miles 7 010 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Colorado Forts - Historic Outposts on the Wild Frontier (Paperback): Jolie Anderson Gallagher Colorado Forts - Historic Outposts on the Wild Frontier (Paperback)
Jolie Anderson Gallagher
R534 R494 Discovery Miles 4 940 Save R40 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Throughout the 1800s, explorers braved brutal weather and hostile enemies, trekking through the towering mountains and fertile valleys on the ragged edge of civilization. These early pioneers built stockades, trading posts, military camps and miniature citadels that would shape the state of Colorado for generations to come. As the settlers struggled to survive desperate times, economic depressions and bloody wars, some of these historic outposts would become Colorado's cities, schools, hospitals and museums, while others would sink back into the mud from which they came. Join author Jolie Anderson Gallagher as she chronicles the stories of the forts and the early explorers, fur trappers, soldiers and wives who constructed and occupied them.

Idaho Ruffed Grouse Hunting - The Heartbeat of the Woods (Paperback): Andrew Marshall Wayment Idaho Ruffed Grouse Hunting - The Heartbeat of the Woods (Paperback)
Andrew Marshall Wayment
R614 R563 Discovery Miles 5 630 Save R51 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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
Hollywood Left and Right - How Movie Stars Shaped American Politics (Hardcover): Steven Ross Hollywood Left and Right - How Movie Stars Shaped American Politics (Hardcover)
Steven Ross
R1,789 Discovery Miles 17 890 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In Hollywood Left and Right, Steven J. Ross tells a story that has escaped public attention: the emergence of Hollywood as a vital center of political life and the important role that movie stars have played in shaping the course of American politics.
Ever since the film industry relocated to Hollywood early in the twentieth century, it has had an outsized influence on American politics. Through compelling larger-than-life figures in American cinema--Charlie Chaplin, Louis B. Mayer, Edward G. Robinson, George Murphy, Ronald Reagan, Harry Belafonte, Jane Fonda, Charlton Heston, Warren Beatty, and Arnold Schwarzenegger--Hollywood Left and Right reveals how the film industry's engagement in politics has been longer, deeper, and more varied than most people would imagine. As shown in alternating chapters, the Left and the Right each gained ascendancy in Tinseltown at different times. From Chaplin, whose movies almost always displayed his leftist convictions, to Schwarzenegger's nearly seamless transition from action blockbusters to the California governor's mansion, Steven J. Ross traces the intersection of Hollywood and political activism from the early twentieth century to the present.
Hollywood Left and Right challenges the commonly held belief that Hollywood has always been a bastion of liberalism. The real story, as Ross shows in this passionate and entertaining work, is far more complicated. First, Hollywood has a longer history of conservatism than liberalism. Second, and most surprising, while the Hollywood Left was usually more vocal and visible, the Right had a greater impact on American political life, capturing a senate seat (Murphy), a governorship (Schwarzenegger), and the ultimate achievement, the Presidency (Reagan).

East Bay Hills - A Brief History (Paperback): Amelia Sue Marshall East Bay Hills - A Brief History (Paperback)
Amelia Sue Marshall
R656 R600 Discovery Miles 6 000 Save R56 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Hidden History of Fort Collins (Paperback): Barbara Fleming Hidden History of Fort Collins (Paperback)
Barbara Fleming
R544 R503 Discovery Miles 5 030 Save R41 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Haunted Lawrence (Paperback): Paul Thomas Haunted Lawrence (Paperback)
Paul Thomas
R544 R503 Discovery Miles 5 030 Save R41 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
A History of Theater on Cape Cod (Paperback): Sue Mellen A History of Theater on Cape Cod (Paperback)
Sue Mellen; Foreword by Kathi Scrizzi Driscoll
R552 R512 Discovery Miles 5 120 Save R40 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Fire Island Lighthouse - Long Island's Welcoming Beacon (Paperback): Bill Bleyer Fire Island Lighthouse - Long Island's Welcoming Beacon (Paperback)
Bill Bleyer
R550 R509 Discovery Miles 5 090 Save R41 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Queen of Denver - Louise Sneed Hill and the Emergence of Modern High Society (Paperback): Shelby Carr The Queen of Denver - Louise Sneed Hill and the Emergence of Modern High Society (Paperback)
Shelby Carr; Foreword by Thomas J Dr Colorado Noel
R548 R508 Discovery Miles 5 080 Save R40 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Ghosts of the Last Best Place (Paperback): Ellen Baumler Ghosts of the Last Best Place (Paperback)
Ellen Baumler
R495 R463 Discovery Miles 4 630 Save R32 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Steel - The Story of Pittsburgh's Iron & Steel Industry, 1852-1902 (Paperback): Dale Richard Perelman Steel - The Story of Pittsburgh's Iron & Steel Industry, 1852-1902 (Paperback)
Dale Richard Perelman
R561 R521 Discovery Miles 5 210 Save R40 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Chicago Haymarket Affair: A Guide to a Labor Rights Milestone (Paperback, p>  </P>   ed.): Joseph Anthony Rulli The Chicago Haymarket Affair: A Guide to a Labor Rights Milestone (Paperback, p> </P> ed.)
Joseph Anthony Rulli
R534 R494 Discovery Miles 4 940 Save R40 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Lost Youngstown (Paperback): Sean T Posey Lost Youngstown (Paperback)
Sean T Posey
R552 R512 Discovery Miles 5 120 Save R40 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Delta Hot Tamales - History, Stories & Recipes (Paperback): Anne Martin Delta Hot Tamales - History, Stories & Recipes (Paperback)
Anne Martin; Foreword by Foreword By Elizabeth Heiskell
R534 R494 Discovery Miles 4 940 Save R40 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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