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Bad Girls Of The Bible - And What We Can Learn From Them (Paperback, Revised edition): Liz Curtis Higgs Bad Girls Of The Bible - And What We Can Learn From Them (Paperback, Revised edition)
Liz Curtis Higgs
R489 R378 Discovery Miles 3 780 Save R111 (23%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Women everywhere marvel at those "good girls" in Scripture - Sarah, Mary, Esther - but on most days, that's not who they see when they look in the mirror. Most women (if they're honest) see the selfishness of Sapphira or the deception of Delilah. They catch a glimpse of Jezebel's take-charge pride or Eve's disastrous disobedience. Like Bathsheba, Herodias, and the rest, today's modern woman is surrounded by temptations, exhausted by the demands of daily living, and burdened by her own desires.

So what's a good girl to do? Learn from their lives, says beloved humor writer Liz Curtis Higgs, and by God's grace, choose a better path. In Bad Girls Of The Bible, Higgs offers a unique and clear-sighted approach to understanding those "other women" in Scripture, combining a contemporary retelling of their stories with a solid, verse-by-verse study of their mistakes and what lessons women today can learn from them.

Whether they were "Bad to the Bone," "Bad for a Season, but Not Forever" or only "Bad for a Moment," these infamous sisters show women how "not" to handle the challenges of life. With her trademark humor and encouragement, Liz Curtis Higgs teaches us how to avoid their tragic mistakes and joyfully embrace grace.

Normal Women - 900 Years Of Making History (Paperback): Philippa Gregory Normal Women - 900 Years Of Making History (Paperback)
Philippa Gregory
R420 R336 Discovery Miles 3 360 Save R84 (20%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Did you know that there are more penises than women in the Bayeux Tapestry? That the Peasant’s Revolt was started and propelled by women, protesting a tax on women? Or that celebrated naturalist Charles Darwin believed not just that women were naturally inferior to men but that they’d evolve to become ever more inferior?

These are just a few of the startling findings you will learn from reading Philippa Gregory’s Normal Women. In this ambitious and ground-breaking book, she tells the story of our nation over 900 years, but for the very first time women – some fifty per cent of the population – are no longer invisible in this history of England, but are at its beating heart.

Using research skills honed in her work as one of our foremost historical novelists, Gregory trawled through court records to find highway women, beggars and shepherdesses, through newspapers and diaries to find murderers and brides, housewives and pirates, female husbands and hermits. The ‘normal women’ you will meet in her pages went to war, ploughed the fields, campaigned, wrote, and loved. They rode in jousts, flew Spitfires, issued their own currency and built ships, corn mills and houses as part of their everyday lives They committed crimes, or treason, worshipped many gods, cooked and nursed, invented things and rioted. A lot. They built our society to be as diverse and varied as the women themselves. They are there in the archives – if you look – and they made our history.

A Renegade Called Simphiwe (Paperback): Pumla Dineo Gqola A Renegade Called Simphiwe (Paperback)
Pumla Dineo Gqola
R290 R249 Discovery Miles 2 490 Save R41 (14%) Ships in 4 - 8 working days

Catapulted into national prominence with the release of her multiple-award-winning debut album, Zandisile, in 2005, Simphiwe Dana has since carved a place for herself as one of the most significant artists of her generation using a unique combination of jazz, rap and traditional music. Hailed by the media as 'South Africa's Jazz Diva No#1' and 'the best thing to happen to Afro-Soul music since Miriam Makeba', Dana is listened to and loved both locally and abroad.

A feminist exploration of the public lives of performer Simphiwe Dana - a rebel with several causes, in eight essays, award winning author, Prof Gqola brilliantly shows why Dana is arguably one of the most significant cultural figures working in contemporary South Africa today.

Fluctuating public responses to Ms Dana show us something about South African sensitivities to Blackness, femininity, language and the imagination.

The Lifegiving Home - Creating A Place Of Belonging & Becoming (Paperback): Sally Clarkson The Lifegiving Home - Creating A Place Of Belonging & Becoming (Paperback)
Sally Clarkson
R486 R396 Discovery Miles 3 960 Save R90 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

How to make home your family’s favorite place to be . . . all year long.

Does your home sometimes feel like just a place to eat, sleep, and change clothes on the way to the next activity? Do you long for “home” to mean more than a place where you stash your stuff? Wouldn’t you love it to become a haven of warmth, rest, and joy . . . the one place where you and your family can’t wait to be?

There is good news waiting for you in the pages of The Lifegiving Home. Every day of your family’s life can be as special and important to you as it already is to God. In this unique book designed to help your family enjoy and celebrate every month of the year together, you’ll discover the secrets of a life-giving home from a mother who created one and her daughter who was raised in it: popular authors Sally and Sarah Clarkson. Together they offer a rich treasure of wise advice, spiritual principles, and practical suggestions. You’ll embark on a new path to creating special memories for your children; establishing home-building and God-centered traditions; and cultivating an environment in which your family will flourish.

The Soft Life - Love, Choice And Modern Dating (Paperback): Lebohang Masango The Soft Life - Love, Choice And Modern Dating (Paperback)
Lebohang Masango
R280 R189 Discovery Miles 1 890 Save R91 (32%) Ships in 4 - 8 working days

For once, this is not a book about 'transactional sex' or HIV. There is no moral panic over women having standards in their romantic lives, or easy clichés of desperation in the face of unrelenting African poverty. In this book, Lebohang Masango explores how women in South Africa give meaning to aspiration, romance and love in their pursuit of the soft life -- a life free of hardship.

Love it or hate it, soft life will not be a passing trend, even if it carries different names in the future.

100 Most Successful Women Around The World - Volume 1 (Paperback): Maria-Renee Davila, Caroline Makaka 100 Most Successful Women Around The World - Volume 1 (Paperback)
Maria-Renee Davila, Caroline Makaka
R579 R481 Discovery Miles 4 810 Save R98 (17%) In Stock

The 100 Successful Women Around the World book is a compilation of amazing stories by incredible women from many sectors and many nations that have overcome great odds and achieved balance, daily routines, priorities, and see challenges as opportunities.

This book will inspire, motivate, teach, and empower the reader. It will have a powerful impact on their lives for years to come.

The following global organizations have joined forces to produce this book that will help women of all ages learn and grow in all areas of their lives:

  • Global Trade Chamber (GTC)
  • Ladies of all Nations International (LOANI)
  • 100 Successful Women in Business

This is the first volume featuring the first 50 successful women from around the world.

Ougat - From A Hoe Into A Housewife, And Then Some (Paperback): Shana Fife Ougat - From A Hoe Into A Housewife, And Then Some (Paperback)
Shana Fife 5
R275 R220 Discovery Miles 2 200 Save R55 (20%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

By the time Shana Fife is 25 she has two kids from different fathers. To the coloured people she grew up around, she is a jintoe, a jezebel, jas, a woman with mileage on the p*ssy. She is alone, she has no job and, as she is constantly reminded by her family, she is pretty much worthless and unloveable. How did she become this woman, the epitome of everything she was conditioned to strive not to be?

Unsettlingly honest and brutally blunt, Ougat is Shana Fife’s story of survival: of surviving the social conditioning of her Cape Flats community, of surviving sexual violence and depression, and of ultimately escaping a cycle of abuse. Exploring themes of sexuality, marriage and motherhood, rape, drugs and depression and cultural identity, Shana describes – with the self-deprecating humour her followers love so much – what it means to be a coloured woman, who gives coloured womanhood meaning and, ultimately, how surviving life as a coloured woman means being OK with giving a giant ‘f*ck you’ to the norm.

A powerful, fresh and disarming new voice – Shana’s writing is like nothing you’ve read before.

200 Women - Who Will Change The Way You See The World (Hardcover): Geoff Blackwell, Ruth Hobday 200 Women - Who Will Change The Way You See The World (Hardcover)
Geoff Blackwell, Ruth Hobday 1
R200 R156 Discovery Miles 1 560 Save R44 (22%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

200 women from a variety of backgrounds are asked the same five questions. Their answers are inspiring human stories of success and courage, love and pain, redemption and generosity. From well-known activists, artists, and innovators to everyday women whose lives are no less exceptional for that, each woman shares her unique replies to questions like “What really matters to you?” and “What would you change in the world if you could?” Interviewees include US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, actor and human rights activist Alfre Woodard, and Nobel laureate Jodi Williams, along with those who are making a difference behind the scenes around the world, such as Marion Wright Edelman, head of the Children’s Defense Fund.

Each interview is accompanied by a photographic portrait, resulting in a volume that is compelling in word and image — and global in its scope and resonance. This landmark book is published to coincide with an immersive travelling exhibition and an interactive website, building on this remarkable, ever-evolving project. With responses ranging from uplifting to heartbreaking, these women offer gifts of empowerment and strength inviting us to bring positive change at a time when so many are fighting for basic freedom and equality.

Local interviewees include Graça Machel, Caster Semenya, Zelda la Grange, Mpho Tutu van Furth, Hlubi Mboya, Sahm Venter, Joanne Fedler, Ingrid le Roux, Gillian Slovo and Zoleka Mandela, among others.

A minimum of 10% of the project’s revenue will be distributed to organisations devoted to protecting and advancing the rights of women. Each interviewee can nominate an organisation (or themselves if they are in financial need) to receive their portion of the charitable pool or they can select the principal charitable partner, the Graça Machel Trust.

Maverick Africans - The Shaping Of The Afrikaners (Paperback): Hermann Giliomee Maverick Africans - The Shaping Of The Afrikaners (Paperback)
Hermann Giliomee 1
R395 R339 Discovery Miles 3 390 Save R56 (14%) Ships in 4 - 8 working days

Hermann Giliomee, pre-eminent South African historian, dissects the forces that shaped the Afrikaners into an unusual ‘maverick African’ nation.

He analyses long-term forces like the powerful legal position of Afrikaner women, the expanding frontier, and the struggles about race inside the church, along with more recent political history.

Small Group Workbook: The Bible in 52 Weeks for Women - A Yearlong Bible Study Companion (Paperback): Brittini L Palmer Small Group Workbook: The Bible in 52 Weeks for Women - A Yearlong Bible Study Companion (Paperback)
Brittini L Palmer
R463 R396 Discovery Miles 3 960 Save R67 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Flow - The Book About Menstruation (Paperback): Candice Chirwa, Karen Jeynes, Pontsho Pilane, Ilana Johnson, Tariq Hoosen,... Flow - The Book About Menstruation (Paperback)
Candice Chirwa, Karen Jeynes, Pontsho Pilane, Ilana Johnson, Tariq Hoosen, …
R280 R241 Discovery Miles 2 410 Save R39 (14%) Ships in 4 - 8 working days

Flow: The Book About Menstruation is to inform, educate, empower and inspire all those who menstruate.

It covers:

  • What menstruation is and why it happens, what is healthy, how to keep things clean, and how to take control of your menstruation, what could go wrong, and what to look out for
  • Important facts and answers significant questions
  • How society sees menstruation, what different cultures have to say, and how to tackle some of the stigma and embarrassment etc.
  • Issues and concerns for those who are just starting to menstruate, those who're struggling, those who never really came to understand it
  • Problematic opinions that get spouted on social media and debunk them

This is also a book for those who don’t menstruate themselves but would like more information on the subject to help them educate a friend or child. It is a book to help you befriend your body – a book to help you with your flow!

Who Held the Door Open? - Mentoring Through Life's Challenges (Paperback): Raejean Kanter Who Held the Door Open? - Mentoring Through Life's Challenges (Paperback)
Raejean Kanter
R397 R330 Discovery Miles 3 300 Save R67 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Fiercely Loved - God's Wild Thoughts About You (Hardcover): Lisa Bevere Fiercely Loved - God's Wild Thoughts About You (Hardcover)
Lisa Bevere
R349 Discovery Miles 3 490 In Stock

Do you know that God loves to think about you? Even right now! The psalmist David realized this when he wrote Psalm 139: "How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them! If I would count them, they are more than the sand." But God doesn't just think about you. He loves you--fiercely. In times of uncertainty, we need some pillars we can build our lives on. You are loved. You are welcomed. You are wanted. You were always his idea and he has a plan for you.

New York Times bestselling author Lisa Bevere shifts your perspective with daily boosts of courageous love, giving you a confidence grounded in both your identity and your relationship with your Creator.

These 90 devotionals each include Scripture to guide you, encouragement to lift you up, and powerful declarations of truth to send you forth in strength.

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)
Margot Lee Shetterly
R295 R236 Discovery Miles 2 360 Save R59 (20%) In Stock

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE Oscar Nominated For Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay Set amid the civil rights movement, the never-before-told 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 'colored 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.

Mind.Body.Soul. (Paperback): Kendra Leonard Mind.Body.Soul. (Paperback)
Kendra Leonard
R255 R209 Discovery Miles 2 090 Save R46 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Faith to Follow - The Journey of Becoming a Pastor's Wife (Paperback): Kate Meadows Faith to Follow - The Journey of Becoming a Pastor's Wife (Paperback)
Kate Meadows
R524 R435 Discovery Miles 4 350 Save R89 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
It Is Possible - An African Woman's Reflections on a Life-Long Political Journey (Paperback): Phoebe Muga Asiyo It Is Possible - An African Woman's Reflections on a Life-Long Political Journey (Paperback)
Phoebe Muga Asiyo
R573 R488 Discovery Miles 4 880 Save R85 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Eve, Where Are You? - Confronting Toxic Practices Against the Advancement of Women (Paperback): Nicole L Davis Phd Eve, Where Are You? - Confronting Toxic Practices Against the Advancement of Women (Paperback)
Nicole L Davis Phd
R368 R306 Discovery Miles 3 060 Save R62 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Rounders (Paperback): Helen E Ellias Rounders (Paperback)
Helen E Ellias
R276 R233 Discovery Miles 2 330 Save R43 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Reclaiming Motherhood from a Culture Gone Mad (Paperback): Samantha Stephenson Reclaiming Motherhood from a Culture Gone Mad (Paperback)
Samantha Stephenson
R488 R402 Discovery Miles 4 020 Save R86 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Courageously Pro-Life - Equipping Believers to Transform Our World Student Guide (Paperback): Sarah M Bowen Courageously Pro-Life - Equipping Believers to Transform Our World Student Guide (Paperback)
Sarah M Bowen
R469 R346 Discovery Miles 3 460 Save R123 (26%) Out of stock
Courageously Pro-Life - Equipping Believers to Transform Our World Teacher Guide (Paperback): Sarah M Bowen Courageously Pro-Life - Equipping Believers to Transform Our World Teacher Guide (Paperback)
Sarah M Bowen
R561 R413 Discovery Miles 4 130 Save R148 (26%) Out of stock
No Time for Fear - My Path to Awakening (Hardcover): Dianne Siebens No Time for Fear - My Path to Awakening (Hardcover)
Dianne Siebens
R1,057 R866 Discovery Miles 8 660 Save R191 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Trusting God in the Present (Paperback): Jacques Philippe Trusting God in the Present (Paperback)
Jacques Philippe
R220 R179 Discovery Miles 1 790 Save R41 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Chancellor - The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel (Paperback): Marton The Chancellor - The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel (Paperback)
Marton
R500 R415 Discovery Miles 4 150 Save R85 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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