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The Guns of John Moses Browning - The Remarkable Story of the Inventor Whose Firearms Changed the World (Paperback): Nathan... The Guns of John Moses Browning - The Remarkable Story of the Inventor Whose Firearms Changed the World (Paperback)
Nathan Gorenstein
R503 R419 Discovery Miles 4 190 Save R84 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
White Too Long - The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity (Paperback): Robert P. Jones White Too Long - The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity (Paperback)
Robert P. Jones
R451 R375 Discovery Miles 3 750 Save R76 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
I Wanna Do That! - The Magic of Mardi Gras Marching Krewes (Hardcover): Echo Olander, Yehonathan Goldstein I Wanna Do That! - The Magic of Mardi Gras Marching Krewes (Hardcover)
Echo Olander, Yehonathan Goldstein; Photographs by Ryan Hodgson-Rigsbee, Patrick Niddrie
R1,249 R1,051 Discovery Miles 10 510 Save R198 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Tuesdays With Morrie - An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson (Paperback): Mitch Albom Tuesdays With Morrie - An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson (Paperback)
Mitch Albom
R304 R248 Discovery Miles 2 480 Save R56 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher or a colleague?

Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, and gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it?

For Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie Schwartz, his college professor from nearly twenty years ago.

Maybe, like Mitch, you lost track of this mentor as you made your way, and the insights faded. Wouldn't you like to see that person again, ask the bigger questions that still haunt you?

Mitch Albom had that second chance. He rediscovered Morrie in the last months of the older man's life. Knowing he was dying of ALS - or motor neurone disease - Mitch visited Morrie in his study every Tuesday, just as they used to back in college. Their rekindled relationship turned into one final 'class': lessons in how to live. v TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE is a magical chronicle of their time together, through which Mitch shares Morrie's lasting gift with the world.

Everything Now - Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles (Paperback): Rosecrans Baldwin Everything Now - Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles (Paperback)
Rosecrans Baldwin
R489 R403 Discovery Miles 4 030 Save R86 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The King of Confidence - A Tale of Utopian Dreamers, Frontier Schemers, True Believers, False Prophets, and the Murder of an... The King of Confidence - A Tale of Utopian Dreamers, Frontier Schemers, True Believers, False Prophets, and the Murder of an American Monarch (Paperback)
Miles Harvey
R511 R427 Discovery Miles 4 270 Save R84 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Escape from Davao - The Forgotten Story of the Most Daring Prison Break of the Pacific War (Paperback): John D. Lukacs Escape from Davao - The Forgotten Story of the Most Daring Prison Break of the Pacific War (Paperback)
John D. Lukacs
R535 R447 Discovery Miles 4 470 Save R88 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Life of a Klansman - A Family History in White Supremacy (Paperback): Edward Ball Life of a Klansman - A Family History in White Supremacy (Paperback)
Edward Ball
R525 R436 Discovery Miles 4 360 Save R89 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Black Ghost of Empire - The Long Death of Slavery and the Failure of Emancipation (Paperback): Kris Manjapra Black Ghost of Empire - The Long Death of Slavery and the Failure of Emancipation (Paperback)
Kris Manjapra
R468 R387 Discovery Miles 3 870 Save R81 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Revolver - Sam Colt and the Six-Shooter That Changed America (Paperback): Jim Rasenberger Revolver - Sam Colt and the Six-Shooter That Changed America (Paperback)
Jim Rasenberger
R535 R447 Discovery Miles 4 470 Save R88 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Other Madisons - The Lost History of a President's Black Family (Paperback): Bettye Kearse The Other Madisons - The Lost History of a President's Black Family (Paperback)
Bettye Kearse
R438 R362 Discovery Miles 3 620 Save R76 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Child in the Electric Chair - The Execution of George Junius Stinney Jr. and the Making of a Tragedy in the American South... The Child in the Electric Chair - The Execution of George Junius Stinney Jr. and the Making of a Tragedy in the American South (Hardcover)
Eli Faber; Foreword by Carol Berkin
R774 R639 Discovery Miles 6 390 Save R135 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

At 7:30 a.m. on June 16, 1944, George Junius Stinney Jr. was escorted by four guards to the death chamber. Wearing socks but no shoes, the 14-year-old Black boy walked with his Bible tucked under his arm. The guards strapped his slight, five-foot-one-inch frame into the electric chair. His small size made it difficult to affix the electrode to his right leg and the face mask, which was clearly too large, fell to the floor when the executioner flipped the switch. That day, George Stinney became, and today remains, the youngest person executed in the United States during the twentieth century.How was it possible, even in Jim Crow South Carolina, for a child to be convicted, sentenced to death, and executed based on circumstantial evidence in a trial that lasted only a few hours? Through extensive archival research and interviews with Stinney's contemporaries-men and women alive today who still carry distinctive memories of the events that rocked the small town of Alcolu and the entire state-Eli Faber pieces together the chain of events that led to this tragic injustice. The first book to fully explore the events leading to Stinney's death, The Child in the Electric Chair offers a compelling narrative with a meticulously researched analysis of the world in which Stinney lived-the era of lynching, segregation, and racist assumptions about Black Americans. Faber explains how a systemically racist system, paired with the personal ambitions of powerful individuals, turned a blind eye to human decency and one of the basic tenets of the American legal system that individuals are innocent until proven guilty. As society continues to grapple with the legacies of racial injustice, the story of George Stinney remains one that can teach us lessons about our collective past and present. By ably placing the Stinney case into a larger context, Faber reveals how this case is not just a travesty of justice locked in the era of the Jim Crow South but rather one that continues to resonate in our own time. A foreword is provided by Carol Berkin, Presidential Professor of History Emerita at Baruch College at the City University of New York and author of several books including Civil War Wives: The Lives and Times of Angelina Grimke Weld, Varina Howell Davis, and Julia Dent Grant.

Democracy in America: Abridged Edition (Abridged, Paperback, Abridged edition): Alexis De Tocqueville Democracy in America: Abridged Edition (Abridged, Paperback, Abridged edition)
Alexis De Tocqueville
R463 R388 Discovery Miles 3 880 Save R75 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The abridged edition of the enduring masterwork--a classic portrait of America's culture and people

Originally penned in the mid-nineteenth century by Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville, "Democracy in America" remains the most comprehensive, penetrating, and astute picture of American life, politics, and morals ever written, as relevant today as when it first appeared in print nearly two hundred years ago.

This abridged edition by scholar and historian Scott A. Sandage includes a new introduction and editorial notes, and offers students and the general reader alike easy access to the preeminent translation by George Lawrence, widely recognized as the best translation based on the second revised and corrected text of the 1961 French edition, edited by J. P. Mayer.

Devil Dogs - First in, Last out - King Company from Guadalcanal to the Shores of Japan (Paperback): Saul David Devil Dogs - First in, Last out - King Company from Guadalcanal to the Shores of Japan (Paperback)
Saul David
R242 Discovery Miles 2 420 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A Times History Book of the Year 2022 From Sunday Times bestselling historian Saul David, the dramatic tale of the first American troops to take the fight to the enemy in the Second World War, and also the last. The 'Devil Dogs' of K Company, 3/5 Marines, were part of the legendary first Marine Division. They landed on the beaches of Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands in 1942 - the first US ground offensive of the war - and were present when Okinawa, Japan's most southerly prefecture, finally fell to American troops after a bitter struggle in June 1945. In between they fought in the 'Green Hell' of Cape Gloucester on the island of New Britain, and across the coral wasteland of Peleliu in the Palau Islands, a campaign described by one K Company veteran as 'thirty days of the meanest, around-the-clock slaughter that desperate men can inflict on each other.' Ordinary men from very different backgrounds, and drawn from cities, towns, and settlements across America, the Devil Dogs were asked to do something extraordinary: take on the victorious Imperial Japanese Army, composed of some of the most effective soldiers in world history - and defeat it. This is the story of how they did just that and, in the process, forged bonds of brotherhood that still survive today. Remarkably, the company contained an unusually high number of talented writers, whose first-hand accounts and memoirs provide the colour, emotion, and context for this extraordinary story. In Devil Dogs, award-winning historian Saul David sets the searing experience of K Company into the broader context of the brutal war in the Pacific and does for the U.S. Marines what Band of Brothers did for the 101st Airborne. Gripping, intimate, authoritative and far-reaching, this is a unique and incredibly personal narrative of war. Saul David's previous book SBS -Silent Warriors was in the Sunday Times Bestseller Chart in the 35th and 36th week of 2021.

Death in Mud Lick - A Coal Country Fight Against the Drug Companies That Delivered the Opioid Epidemic (Paperback): Eric Eyre Death in Mud Lick - A Coal Country Fight Against the Drug Companies That Delivered the Opioid Epidemic (Paperback)
Eric Eyre
R467 R386 Discovery Miles 3 860 Save R81 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Race Against Time - A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era (Paperback): Jerry Mitchell Race Against Time - A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era (Paperback)
Jerry Mitchell
R462 R387 Discovery Miles 3 870 Save R75 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Southwest (Paperback): David Scott The Southwest (Paperback)
David Scott
R318 R264 Discovery Miles 2 640 Save R54 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
American Energy Cinema (Paperback): Robert Lifset, Raechel Lutz, Sarah Stanford-McIntyre American Energy Cinema (Paperback)
Robert Lifset, Raechel Lutz, Sarah Stanford-McIntyre
R795 Discovery Miles 7 950 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Historians investigate the relationships between film, culture, and energy. American Energy Cinema explores how Hollywood movies have portrayed energy from the early film era to the present. Looking at classics like Giant, Silkwood, There Will Be Blood, and Matewan, and at quirkier fare like A Is for Atom and Convoy, it argues that films have both reflected existing beliefs and conjured new visions for Americans about the role of energy in their lives and their history. The essays in this collection show how film provides a unique and informative lens to understand perceptions of energy production, consumption, and infrastructure networks. By placing films that prominently feature energy within historical context and analyzing them as historical objects, the contributing authors demonstrate how energy systems of all kinds are both integral to the daily life of Americans and inextricable from larger societal changes and global politics.

The Evidence of Things Not Seen (Paperback): James Baldwin The Evidence of Things Not Seen (Paperback)
James Baldwin; Foreword by Stacey Abrams
R445 R329 Discovery Miles 3 290 Save R116 (26%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Hidden History of East Texas (Paperback): Tex Midkiff Hidden History of East Texas (Paperback)
Tex Midkiff
R572 R473 Discovery Miles 4 730 Save R99 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Midwest (Paperback): Amanda Green The Midwest (Paperback)
Amanda Green
R318 R264 Discovery Miles 2 640 Save R54 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Introduction to Chile - A Cartoon History (Paperback): Adrian Welch Introduction to Chile - A Cartoon History (Paperback)
Adrian Welch
R220 Discovery Miles 2 200 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Still Dreaming / Seguimos Sonando (English, Spanish, Hardcover): Claudia Guadalupe Martinez Still Dreaming / Seguimos Sonando (English, Spanish, Hardcover)
Claudia Guadalupe Martinez; Illustrated by Magdalena Mora; Translated by Luis Humberto Crosthwaite
R572 R480 Discovery Miles 4 800 Save R92 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Landslide - The Final Days of the Trump Presidency (Paperback): Michael Wolff Landslide - The Final Days of the Trump Presidency (Paperback)
Michael Wolff
R503 R419 Discovery Miles 4 190 Save R84 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Story of Washington DC (Paperback): Curtis Slepian The Story of Washington DC (Paperback)
Curtis Slepian
R318 R264 Discovery Miles 2 640 Save R54 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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