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Iconic Chicago Dishes, Drinks and Desserts (Paperback): Amy Bizzarri Iconic Chicago Dishes, Drinks and Desserts (Paperback)
Amy Bizzarri
R623 R515 Discovery Miles 5 150 Save R108 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Bicycling Across America's Great Northwest: When Fear and Faith Collide - The Final 31 Days of My Trip Across the North... Bicycling Across America's Great Northwest: When Fear and Faith Collide - The Final 31 Days of My Trip Across the North American Continent (Paperback)
Joe Tarantino
R1,178 R929 Discovery Miles 9 290 Save R249 (21%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
A history of schooling in South Africa - Method and context (Paperback): J.J. Booyse, C.S. le Roux, J. Seroto, C.C. Wolhuter A history of schooling in South Africa - Method and context (Paperback)
J.J. Booyse, C.S. le Roux, J. Seroto, C.C. Wolhuter
R480 R444 Discovery Miles 4 440 Save R36 (7%) Ships in 7 - 10 working days

An unfortunate consequence of the restructuring of teacher education in South Africa over the past 15 years has been the virtual disappearance of history of education from tertiary programmes and a corresponding decline in the number of publications on the subject. But this is now changing; especially in postgraduate courses. A history of schooling in South Africa: method and context provides a perspective on the development of schooling for all of South Africa's diverse population groups, from pre-colonial times to present day, in as much detail as is possible in a single volume.

The Ship of Dreams - The Sinking of the Titanic and the End of the Edwardian Era (Paperback): Gareth Russell The Ship of Dreams - The Sinking of the Titanic and the End of the Edwardian Era (Paperback)
Gareth Russell
R511 R428 Discovery Miles 4 280 Save R83 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Recipes from the World of Tolkien - Inspired by the Legends (Hardcover): Robert Tuesley Anderson Recipes from the World of Tolkien - Inspired by the Legends (Hardcover)
Robert Tuesley Anderson
R611 R530 Discovery Miles 5 300 Save R81 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The 5-Ingredient Italian Cookbook - 101 Regional Classics Made Simple (Paperback): Francesca Montillo The 5-Ingredient Italian Cookbook - 101 Regional Classics Made Simple (Paperback)
Francesca Montillo
R552 R466 Discovery Miles 4 660 Save R86 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Inside Bridgerton (Hardcover): Shonda Rhimes, Betsy Beers Inside Bridgerton (Hardcover)
Shonda Rhimes, Betsy Beers
R1,298 R1,068 Discovery Miles 10 680 Save R230 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Players - How Sports Became a Business (Paperback): Matthew Futterman Players - How Sports Became a Business (Paperback)
Matthew Futterman
R498 R413 Discovery Miles 4 130 Save R85 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Horns, Hogs, and Nixon Coming - Texas vs. Arkansas in Dixie's Last Stand (Paperback): Terry Frei Horns, Hogs, and Nixon Coming - Texas vs. Arkansas in Dixie's Last Stand (Paperback)
Terry Frei
R476 R403 Discovery Miles 4 030 Save R73 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Fire and Brimstone - The North Butte Mining Disaster of 1917 (Paperback, Epub Edition): Michael Punke Fire and Brimstone - The North Butte Mining Disaster of 1917 (Paperback, Epub Edition)
Michael Punke
R272 Discovery Miles 2 720 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

From the #1 international bestselling author of The Revenant - the book that inspired the award-winning movie - comes the remarkable true story of the worst mining disaster in American history. In 1917, the lives of a company of miners changed forever when the underground labyrinth of tunnels in which they worked burst into flames. Within an hour, more than four hundred men would be locked in a battle to survive. Within three days, one hundred and sixty-four of them would be dead.

Ten Poems about Black History (Paperback): Panya Banjoko Ten Poems about Black History (Paperback)
Panya Banjoko
R179 R162 Discovery Miles 1 620 Save R17 (9%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days
Legacy of the Lions - Lessons in Leadership from the British & Irish Lions (Hardcover): Gavin Hastings Legacy of the Lions - Lessons in Leadership from the British & Irish Lions (Hardcover)
Gavin Hastings; As told to Peter Burns
R556 R505 Discovery Miles 5 050 Save R51 (9%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

'An intriguing study of the minds of some of rugby's greatest leaders' - Tom English, BBC Sport An Official Licensed Product of the British & Irish Lions A British & Irish Lions tour presents one of the greatest challenges in sport. Rugby is a game that rewards creative expression, toil, teamwork and a never-say-die attitude. It can be joyful, vibrant and beautiful. Equally, it can brutally expose human flaws and frailties - even more so in the hugely pressurised environment of a Lions tour. Every team, no matter how talented, will find itself in dark and difficult situations both on and off the field; the successful ones are those with a leadership group that can navigate these challenging moments. In Legacy of the Lions, former Lions captain Gavin Hastings draws on his own experiences in the famous red jersey and interviews other greats of the game - including, among many others, Sam Warburton, Warren Gatland, Paul O'Connell, Brian O'Driscoll, Martin Johnson, Finlay Calder and Sir Ian McGeechan, plus a selection of their illustrious opponents, such as Kieran Read, John Smit and John Eales - to explore how to forge a successful team in this most rarefied of environments, the difficulties they each encountered and what leadership lessons they learned. Inspiring, humorous and illuminating, Legacy of the Lions casts a unique light on leadership, team-building and elite performance and reveals a new perspective on touring with - and playing against - The British & Irish Lions in the modern era.

Livres d'ecole et litterature de jeunesse en France au XVIIIe siecle (Paperback): Emmanuelle Chapron Livres d'ecole et litterature de jeunesse en France au XVIIIe siecle (Paperback)
Emmanuelle Chapron
R2,932 Discovery Miles 29 320 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Riche de ses editeurs scolaires et de ses collections enfantines, le dix-neuvieme siecle a-t-il invente le marche du livre pour enfants? Dans la France du dix-huitieme siecle, de nombreux acteurs s'efforcent deja de separer, au sein de la librairie, les lectures adaptees aux enfants et aux jeunes gens. Les rituels pedagogiques des colleges et des petites ecoles, les strategies commerciales des libraires, les preoccupations des Eglises, les projets et les politiques de reforme scolaire, tous pousses par la fievre educative de la noblesse et de la bourgeoisie, produisent alors d'innombrables bibliotheques enfantines, plurielles et plastiques, avec ou sans murs. Cet ouvrage montre comment, a un ordre des livres domine par les logiques des institutions scolaires et des metiers du livre, se surimpose a partir des annees 1760 une nouvelle categorie, celle du " livre d'education ", qui ne s'identifie plus a un lieu, mais a un projet de lecture, et s'accompagne de l'emergence de nouvelles figures d'auteurs. Alors que les etudes sur la litterature de jeunesse poursuivent partout leur developpement et leur structuration, ce livre dialogue avec les dernieres recherches europeennes sur la question. A l'inverse des travaux litteraires, il part, non des auteurs et des textes, mais des objets et de leurs manipulations. Son originalite est d'apporter un regard historien sur ces questions, en articulant histoire du livre et de la librairie, histoire de l'education, histoire des milieux litteraires et de la condition d'auteur. --- With its wealth of educational publishers and children's collections, did the nineteenth century invent the children's book market? In eighteenth-century France, many people were already trying to separate the literature suitable for children and young people within the bookstore. The pedagogical rituals of colleges and small schools, the commercial strategies of booksellers, the concerns of the churches, the projects and policies of school reform, all driven by the educational fever of the nobility and the bourgeoisie, produced countless children's libraries, plural and plastic, with or without walls. At the beginning of the century, the ordering of books was dominated by the rationale of educational institutions and the book trade: this book shows how a new category emerged from the 1760s onwards, that of the "educational book", which was no longer identified with a place, but with a literacy project, and which was accompanied by the emergence of new authors. As studies on children's literature continue to be developed and shaped in many areas, this book is in dialogue with the latest European research on the subject. In contrast to literary studies, this research does not start from authors and texts, but from objects and their uses. Its originality lies in the fact that it provides a historical perspective on these issues, articulating the history of books and bookshops, the history of education, the history of literary circles and the status of the author.

Understanding More About the Knight Templar and Malta Degrees (Paperback): Neville Barker-Cryer Understanding More About the Knight Templar and Malta Degrees (Paperback)
Neville Barker-Cryer
R351 R327 Discovery Miles 3 270 Save R24 (7%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Whatever does the word 'Bauseant' mean? Why does the Malta Cross have eight points? Whatever is a Turcopolier and why do knights have an Admiral? Over the last 25 years, whilst becoming Provincial Prior in two areas, the Revd Neville Barker Cryer has produced shorter booklets providing some of the answers to these and other similar questions. So successful have they been in explaining various aspects of the degrees of Knight Templar and of Malta that it was decided to expand the number of subjects dealt with and make them available to any knight in England.Stories about the Knights Templar and their exploits abound; here is something to help Masonic knights become more informed about what they do and say. The subjects include: Templar Churches and the Holy Sepulchre, Why Is the Royal Arch Linked with the Knights Templar?, The Pilgrim's Hat, The Accolade of Dubbing, What Is the Significance of the Mediterranean Pass?, What Does the Patte Cross of the Degrees Mean?, The Malta Banners, What Exactly Was the Office of Conservator?, The Knightly Garments, Is there any Link between the First Templars and Freemasonry?

Their Life's Work - The Brotherhood of the 1970s Pittsburgh Steelers (Paperback): Gary M Pomerantz Their Life's Work - The Brotherhood of the 1970s Pittsburgh Steelers (Paperback)
Gary M Pomerantz
R548 R461 Discovery Miles 4 610 Save R87 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"The definitive book of the 1970s Pittsburgh Steelers" (Scott Brown, "ESPN"): A unique literary sports book that--through exquisite reportage, love, and honesty--tells the full story of the best team to ever play the game.
The Pittsburgh Steelers of the 1970s won an unprecedented and unmatched four Super Bowls in six years. A dozen of those Steelers players, coaches, and executives have been inducted into the Hall of Fame, and three decades later their names echo in popular memory: "Mean" Joe Greene, Terry Bradshaw, Franco Harris, Mike Webster, Jack Lambert, Lynn Swann, and John Stallworth. In ways exhilarating and heartbreaking, they define not only the brotherhood of sports but those elements of the game that engage tens of millions of Americans: its artistry and its brutality.
Drawing on hundreds of interviews, "Their Life's Work" is a richly textured story of a team and a sport, what the game gave these men, and what the game took. It gave fame, wealth, and, above all, a brotherhood of players, twelve of whom died before turning sixty. To a man, they said they'd do it again, all of it. They bared the soul of the game to Gary Pomerantz, and he captured it wondrously. "Here is a book as hard-hitting and powerful as the 'Steel Curtain' dynasty that Pomerantz depicts so deftly. It's the NFL's version of "The Boys of Summer," with equal parts triumph and melancholy. Pomerantz's writing is strong, straightforward, funny, sentimental, and blunt. It's as working class and gritty as the men he writes about" ("The Tampa Tribune," Top 10 Sports Books of 2013).

Baseball in the Garden of Eden - The Secret History of the Early Game (Paperback): John Thorn Baseball in the Garden of Eden - The Secret History of the Early Game (Paperback)
John Thorn
R511 R428 Discovery Miles 4 280 Save R83 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Now available in paperback, the "fresh and fascinating" ("The Plain Dealer," Cleveland), "splendid and brilliant" ("Philadelphia Daily News") history of the early game by the Official Historian of Major League Baseball.
Who really invented baseball? Forget Abner Doubleday at Cooperstown and Alexander Cartwright. Meet Daniel Lucius Adams, William Rufus Wheaton, and other fascinating figures buried beneath the falsehoods that have accrued around baseball's origins. This is the true story of how organized baseball started, how gambling shaped the game from its earliest days, and how it became our national pastime and our national mirror.
"Baseball in the Garden of Eden" draws on original research to tell how the game evolved from other bat-and-ball games and gradually supplanted them, how the New York game came to dominate other variants, and how gambling and secret professionalism promoted and plagued the game. From a religious society's plot to anoint Abner Doubleday as baseball's progenitor to a set of scoundrels and scandals far more pervasive than the Black Sox Fix of 1919, this entertaining book is full of surprises. Even the most expert baseball fan will learn something new with almost every page.

Literary Censorship in Francisco Franco's Spain and Getulio Vargas' Brazil, 1936-1945 - Burning Books, Awarding... Literary Censorship in Francisco Franco's Spain and Getulio Vargas' Brazil, 1936-1945 - Burning Books, Awarding Writers (Paperback)
Gabriela De Lima Grecco
R1,114 Discovery Miles 11 140 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book presents two systems of censorship and literary promotion, revealing how literature can be molded to support authoritarian regimes. The issue is complex in that at a descriptive level the strategies and methods "new states" use to control communication through the written word can be judged by how and when formal decrees were issued, and how publishing media, whether in the form of publishing companies or at the individual level, engaged with political overseers. But equally, literature was a means of resistance against an authoritarian regime, not only for writers but for readers as well. From the point of view of historical memory and intellectual history, stories of "people without history" and the production of their texts through the literary "underground" can be constructed from subsequent testimony: from books sold in secret, to the writings of women in jail, to books that were written but never published or distributed in any way, and to myriad compelling circumstances resulting from living under fascist authority. A parallel study on two fascist movements provides a unique viewpoint at literary, social and political levels. Comparative analysis of literary censorship/literary reward allows an understanding of the balance between dictatorship, official policy, and what literary acts were deemed acceptable. The regime need to control its population is revealed in the ways that a particular type of literature was encouraged; in the engagement of propoganda promotion; and in the setting up of institutions to gain international acceptance of the regime. The work is an important contribution to the history of twentieth-century authoritarianism and the development fascist ideas.

White Feminism - From the Suffragettes to Influencers and Who They Leave Behind (Paperback): Koa Beck White Feminism - From the Suffragettes to Influencers and Who They Leave Behind (Paperback)
Koa Beck
R445 R338 Discovery Miles 3 380 Save R107 (24%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Leftovers - Baylor, Betrayal, and Beyond (Paperback): Matt Sayman, David L Thomas The Leftovers - Baylor, Betrayal, and Beyond (Paperback)
Matt Sayman, David L Thomas; Foreword by Scott Drew
R518 R435 Discovery Miles 4 350 Save R83 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
A Place for Everything - The Curious History of Alphabetical Order (Paperback): Judith Flanders A Place for Everything - The Curious History of Alphabetical Order (Paperback)
Judith Flanders
R480 R400 Discovery Miles 4 000 Save R80 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
A History of Virginia Wines - From Grapes to Glass (Paperback): Walker Elliott Rowe A History of Virginia Wines - From Grapes to Glass (Paperback)
Walker Elliott Rowe; Foreword by Richard Leahy; Photographs by Jonathan Timmes
R511 R420 Discovery Miles 4 200 Save R91 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Go beyond the bottle and step inside the minds- and vines- of Virginia's burgeoning wine industry in this groundbreaking volume. Join grape grower and industry insider Walker Elliott Rowe as he guides you through some of the top vineyards and wineries in the Old Dominion. Rowe explores the minds of pioneering winemakers and vineyard owners, stitches together an account of the wine industry's foundation in Virginia, from Jamestown to Jefferson to Barboursville, and uncovers the fascinating missing chapter in Virginia wine history. As the Philip Carter Winery's motto explains, 'Before there was Jefferson, there was Carter.'

Rowe goes behind the scenes to interview migrant workers who toil daily in the vineyards, makes the rounds in Richmond with an industry lobbyist and talks shop with winemakers on the science and techniques that have helped put the Virginia wine industry on the map. Also included are twenty-four stunning color photographs from professional photographer Jonathan Timmes and a foreword by noted wine journalist Richard Leahy.

The Shortest History of Democracy (Paperback): John Keane The Shortest History of Democracy (Paperback)
John Keane
R296 R247 Discovery Miles 2 470 Save R49 (17%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days
The Glory Game - How the 1958 NFL Championship Changed Football Forever (Paperback): Frank Gifford, Peter Richmond The Glory Game - How the 1958 NFL Championship Changed Football Forever (Paperback)
Frank Gifford, Peter Richmond
R394 R327 Discovery Miles 3 270 Save R67 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In 1958 Frank Gifford was the golden boy on the glamour team in the most celebrated city in the NFL. When his New York Giants played the Baltimore Colts for the league championship that year, it became the single most memorable contest in the history of professional football. Its drama, excitement, and controversy riveted the nation and helped propel football to the forefront of the American sports landscape. Now Hall of Famer and longtime television analyst Frank Gifford provides an inside-the-helmet account that will take its place in the annals of sports literature.

Greatest Lions XV Ever, The (Hardcover): Jonathan Davies, Alun Wyn Bevan Greatest Lions XV Ever, The (Hardcover)
Jonathan Davies, Alun Wyn Bevan 1
R357 R116 Discovery Miles 1 160 Save R241 (68%) In Stock

Who are the fifteen best rugby players ever to have represented the Lions? Was Willie John McBride better than Martin Johnson? Was Barry John better than Johnny Wilkinson? Was anyone better than Gareth Edwards? As incisive and decisive as he was on the pitch, Jonathan Davies has the answer to all these questions and more. -- Welsh Books Council

In the Weeds - Around the World and Behind the Scenes with Anthony Bourdain (Paperback): Tom Vitale In the Weeds - Around the World and Behind the Scenes with Anthony Bourdain (Paperback)
Tom Vitale
R441 Discovery Miles 4 410 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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