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Derby County: Champions at Last - A Diary of the Rams' Triumphant 1971-72 Season (Paperback): David Moore Derby County: Champions at Last - A Diary of the Rams' Triumphant 1971-72 Season (Paperback)
David Moore
R470 Discovery Miles 4 700 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

David Moore's book chronicles how the momentous season unfolded, match by match, week by week, starting with the successful pre-season tour of Germany and Holland right up to the famous encounter with Liverpool. It is a story of a triumphant season as Derby County were crowned champions of England for the first time. It was the Rams' seventy-second in League football, forty-five of which had been played in the top flight and Brian Clough's tiny squad of first team players had to finish above the likes of Don Revie's formidable Leeds United and Bill Shankly's outstanding Liverpool side to win the title. David Moore's book chronicles how the momentous season unfolded, match by match, week by week, starting with the successful pre-season tour of Germany and Holland right up to the famous encounter with Liverpool at the beginning of May which was followed seven days later by the nail-biting climax when Leeds and Liverpool failed to secure the points needed to deny Derby the title they richly deserved. Clough and Taylor also found time to mastermind victory in the Texaco Cup, but a promising run in the FA Cup came to a dramatic end in a 5th Round second replay against double holders Arsenal at Leicester City's Filbert Street in March. To round off a memorable season Derby's reserve side won the Central League. David's book records the Rams' exploits in those competitions too.

A History of South Carolina Barbeque (Paperback): Lake E High Jr A History of South Carolina Barbeque (Paperback)
Lake E High Jr
R541 R500 Discovery Miles 5 000 Save R41 (8%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days

South Carolina has been home to good, old-fashioned barbeque for quite a long time. Hundreds of restaurants, stands and food trucks sell tons of the southern staple every day. But the history of Palmetto State barbeque goes deeper than many might believe--it predates the rest of America. Native Americans barbequed pork on makeshift grills as far back as the 1500s after the Spanish introduced the pig into the Americas. Since the early 1920s, South Carolinians have been perfecting the craft and producing some of the best-tastin' 'que in the country. Join author and president of the South Carolina Barbeque Association Lake E. High Jr. as he traces the delectable history from its pre-colonial roots to a thriving modern-day tradition that fuels an endless debate over where to find the best plate.

The Real Madrid Handbook - A Concise History of Real Madrid (Paperback): Rab MacWilliam The Real Madrid Handbook - A Concise History of Real Madrid (Paperback)
Rab MacWilliam
R260 Discovery Miles 2 600 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The ultimate guide to Real Madrid. The Real Madrid Handbook is an entertaining compendium of fascinating facts, match coverage, stories, personalities and trivia from the biggest club team on the planet. Rab MacWilliam traces the history of Real Madrid from the early 20th century, examining its progress in the domestic cup and league, and analyses the impact that the Republic, the Spanish Civil War and the repressive authoritarian aftermath had on the club. He relates how the stunning success in European football in the mid-1950s to the early 1960s was one of the factors that helped to ease Spain's integration into Europe and explores the club's rise to become one of the most skilful and dominant teams in the global game over the last thirty years. Fascinating, informative, irreverent and insightful, The Real Madrid Handbook is the perfect guide to the history of this extraordinary club.

Behind the Lions - Playing Rugby for the British & Irish Lions (Paperback, New in Paperback): Stephen Jones, Nick Cain, Tom... Behind the Lions - Playing Rugby for the British & Irish Lions (Paperback, New in Paperback)
Stephen Jones, Nick Cain, Tom English, David Barnes, Peter Burns; As told to …
R451 R358 Discovery Miles 3 580 Save R93 (21%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

For 125 years the British & Irish Lions have stood out as a peerless emblem in world sport. This unique account of the best from the four Home Nations examines every tour in the Lions' history, including the victorious 2013 tour to Hong Kong and Australia, told in the players' words. Behind the Lions sees rugby writers from across the Home Nations delve to the heart of what it means to be a Lion, interviewing a vast array of former and current players to uncover the passion, pride and exhilaration experienced when wearing the famous red jersey. It is a tale of heartbreak and ecstasy, humour and poignancy that is at once inspirational, moving and utterly compelling. This is the story of the British & Irish Lions in their own words.

The Bill Gates Problem - Reckoning with the Myth of the Good Billionaire (Paperback): Tim Schwab The Bill Gates Problem - Reckoning with the Myth of the Good Billionaire (Paperback)
Tim Schwab
R295 R263 Discovery Miles 2 630 Save R32 (11%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

You know him as the founder of Microsoft; the philanthropic, kind-hearted billionaire who has donated endless funds to good causes around the world. But there’s another side to Bill Gates.

In this fearless, groundbreaking investigation, Tim Schwab offers readers a counter-narrative, one where Gates has used his monopolistic approach in business to amass a stunning level of control over public policy, scientific research and the news media. Whether he is pushing new educational standards in America, health reforms in India or industrialized agriculture in Africa, Gates’s unbridled social experimentation has shown itself to be not only undemocratic, but also ineffective.

All of which begs the question: why should the super rich be able to transform their wealth into political power, and just how far can they go?

Jews, Judaism, and Success - How Religion Paved the Way to Modern Jewish Achievement (Hardcover): Robert Eisen Jews, Judaism, and Success - How Religion Paved the Way to Modern Jewish Achievement (Hardcover)
Robert Eisen
R1,819 Discovery Miles 18 190 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In Jews, Judaism, and Success, Robert Eisen attempts to solve a long-standing mystery that has fascinated many: How did Jews become such a remarkably successful minority in the modern western world? Eisen argues that Jews achieved such success because they were unusually well-prepared for it by their religion - in particular, Rabbinic Judaism, or the Judaism of the rabbis. Rooted in the Talmud, this form of Judaism instilled in Jews key values that paved the way for success in modern western society: autonomy, freedom of thought, worldliness, and education. The book carefully analyses the evolution of these four values over the past two thousand years in order to demonstrate that they had a longer and richer history in Jewish culture than in western culture. The book thus disputes the common assumption that Rabbinic Judaism was always an obstacle to Jews becoming modern. It demonstrates that while modern Jews rejected aspects of Rabbinic Judaism, they also retained some of its values, and these values in particular led to Jewish success. Written for a broad range of readers, Jews, Judaism, and Success provides unique insights on the meaning of success and how it is achieved in the modern world.

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 Discovery Miles 3 510 Ships in 10 - 15 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?

Engaging Place, Engaging Practices - Urban History and Campus-Community Partnerships (Hardcover): Robin F. Bachin, Amy L. Howard Engaging Place, Engaging Practices - Urban History and Campus-Community Partnerships (Hardcover)
Robin F. Bachin, Amy L. Howard
R2,162 Discovery Miles 21 620 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Colleges and universities in urban centers have often leveraged their locales to appeal to students while also taking a more active role in addressing local challenges. They embrace civic engagement, support service-learning, tailor courses to local needs, and even provide university-community collaborations such as lab schools and innovation hubs. Engaging Place, Engaging Practices highlights the significant role the academy, in general, and urban history, in particular, can play in fostering these critical connections. The editors and contributors to this volume address topics ranging from historical injustices and affordable housing and land use to climate change planning and the emergence of digital humanities. These case studies reveal the intricate components of a city's history and how they provide context and promote a sense of cultural belonging. This timely book appreciates and emphasizes the critical role universities must play as intentional-and humble-partners in addressing the past, present, and future challenges facing cities through democratic community engagement.

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
R600 Discovery Miles 6 000 Ships in 5 - 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 Hall in the Garden - The Story of Freemasons Hall (Paperback, illustrated edition): Library and Museum of Freemasonry The Hall in the Garden - The Story of Freemasons Hall (Paperback, illustrated edition)
Library and Museum of Freemasonry
R655 Discovery Miles 6 550 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

An imposing art deco building, covering two and one quarter acres, it was built 1927-1933 as a memorial to the many Freemasons who died on active service in the First World War. Initially known as the Masonic Peace Memorial, it reverted to the name Freemasons' Hall at the outbreak of war in 1939. The headquarters of English freemasonry have been located in Great Queen Street, London, since the last quarter of the eighteenth century. This publication, written by staff at the Library and Museum of Freemasonry, tells the story of the various buildings on the site.

Tor! - The Story of German Football (Paperback): Uli Hesse Tor! - The Story of German Football (Paperback)
Uli Hesse
R520 R420 Discovery Miles 4 200 Save R100 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Germany did not have professional players or a national league until the 1960s, yet it became one of the most successful football nations in the world. Tor! (Goal!) traces the extraordinary story of Germany's club and international football, from the days when it was regarded as a dangerously foreign pastime, through the horrors of the Nazi years to postwar triumphs and the crisis of the new century. Tor! challenges the myth that German football is 'predictable' or 'efficient' and brings to life the fascinating array of characters who shaped it: the betrayed pioneer Walther Bensemann; the enigmatic genius Sepp Herberger; the all-conquering Franz Beckenbauer; the modern misfit Lothar Matthaus. And even the radio commentator Herbert Zimmermann, whose ecstatic cries of 'Tor!' greeted the winning goal in the 1954 World Cup final and helped change a whole nation's view of itself. Fully revised and updated ahead of the 2022 World Cup, Tor! is the definitive history of German football.

Hidden History of Horse Racing in Kentucky (Paperback): Edwin, Jr. Ockerman Hidden History of Horse Racing in Kentucky (Paperback)
Edwin, Jr. Ockerman
R492 R458 Discovery Miles 4 580 Save R34 (7%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Garo Jungle Book (Hardcover): William Carey The Garo Jungle Book (Hardcover)
William Carey
R888 Discovery Miles 8 880 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Cherokees - A Captivating Guide to the History of a Native American Tribe, the Cherokee Removal, and the Trail of Tears... The Cherokees - A Captivating Guide to the History of a Native American Tribe, the Cherokee Removal, and the Trail of Tears (Hardcover)
Captivating History
R600 R544 Discovery Miles 5 440 Save R56 (9%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Crowd - A Study of the Popular Mind (Hardcover): Gustave Le Bon The Crowd - A Study of the Popular Mind (Hardcover)
Gustave Le Bon
R484 Discovery Miles 4 840 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Marginal Comment - A Memoir Revisited (Hardcover): K.J. Dover, Stephen Halliwell, Christopher Stray Marginal Comment - A Memoir Revisited (Hardcover)
K.J. Dover, Stephen Halliwell, Christopher Stray
R2,537 Discovery Miles 25 370 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Marginal Comment, which attracted keen and widespread interest on its original publication in 1994, is the remarkable memoir of one of the most distinguished classical scholars of the modern era. Its author, Sir Kenneth Dover, whose academic publications included the pathbreaking book Greek Homosexuality (1978, reissued by Bloomsbury in 2016), conceived of it as an 'experimental' autobiography - ruthlessly candid in retracing the full range of the author's experiences, both private and public, and unflinching in its attempt to analyse the entanglements between the life of the mind and the life of the body. Dover's distinguished career involved not only an influential series of writings about the ancient Greeks but also a number of prominent positions of leadership, including the presidencies of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and the British Academy. It was in those positions that he became involved in several high-profile controversies, including the blocking of an honorary degree for Margaret Thatcher from Oxford University, and a bitter debate in the British Academy over the fellowship of Anthony Blunt after his exposure as a former Soviet spy. This edition of Marginal Comment is much more than a reissue: it includes an introduction which frames the book in relation to its author's life and work, as well as annotations based in part on materials originally excluded by Dover but left in his personal papers on this death. Now newly available, the memoir provides not only the self-portrait of an exceptional individual but a rich case-study in the intersections between an intellectual life and its social contexts.

Concise Psychology - An Integrated Forensic Approach to Psychology for Global African Settings (Hardcover): John Egbeazien... Concise Psychology - An Integrated Forensic Approach to Psychology for Global African Settings (Hardcover)
John Egbeazien Oshodi
R729 R688 Discovery Miles 6 880 Save R41 (6%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Three Centuries of Girls' Education - Regulations of the Ursuline Nuns of the Congregation of Paris (Hardcover): Mary Anne... Three Centuries of Girls' Education - Regulations of the Ursuline Nuns of the Congregation of Paris (Hardcover)
Mary Anne O'Neil
R1,495 Discovery Miles 14 950 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

In Three Centuries of Girls' Education, Mary Anne O'Neil offers both an examination and the first English translation of Les Reglemens des religieuses Ursulines de la Congregation de Paris. Published in 1705, Regulations is the first pedagogical system explicitly designed for the education of girls. It is also one of the few surviving documents describing the day-to-day operations of early Ursuline schools. O'Neil traces the history of the document from the writings of the Italian foundress of the Ursulines, to the establishment of the religious order in Paris in 1612, to the changes in the organization of Ursuline schools in nineteenth-century France, and, finally, to Mother Marie de St. Jean Martin's spirited defense of the traditional French Ursuline method after World War II. In the eighteenth century, New Orleans Ursulines used the Regulations as a guide to establish their schools and teaching methods. Overall, O'Neil's history and translation recover a vital source for historians of the early modern era but will also interest scholars in the fields of education history and female religious life.

A Culinary History of West Virginia - From Ramps to Pepperoni Rolls (Paperback): Shannon Colaianni Tinnell A Culinary History of West Virginia - From Ramps to Pepperoni Rolls (Paperback)
Shannon Colaianni Tinnell
R545 R504 Discovery Miles 5 040 Save R41 (8%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Romanian History - A Captivating Guide to the History of Romania and Vlad the Impaler (Hardcover): Captivating History Romanian History - A Captivating Guide to the History of Romania and Vlad the Impaler (Hardcover)
Captivating History
R770 R684 Discovery Miles 6 840 Save R86 (11%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Georgia Tech - Campus Architecture (Hardcover): Robert M. Craig Georgia Tech - Campus Architecture (Hardcover)
Robert M. Craig
R658 Discovery Miles 6 580 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Wonderful Adventures of Nils (Hardcover): Selma Lagerlof The Wonderful Adventures of Nils (Hardcover)
Selma Lagerlof
R984 Discovery Miles 9 840 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Biographical Sketches of Loyalists of the American Revolution - With an Historical Essay; Volume 2 (Hardcover): Lorenzo Sabine Biographical Sketches of Loyalists of the American Revolution - With an Historical Essay; Volume 2 (Hardcover)
Lorenzo Sabine
R1,110 Discovery Miles 11 100 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Tohoku Unbounded: Regional Identity and the Mobile Subject in Prewar Japan (Hardcover): Anne Giblin Gedacht Tohoku Unbounded: Regional Identity and the Mobile Subject in Prewar Japan (Hardcover)
Anne Giblin Gedacht
R3,142 Discovery Miles 31 420 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

In 1870, a prominent samurai from Tohoku sells his castle to become an agrarian colonist in Hokkaido. Decades later, a man also from northeast Japan stows away on a boat to Canada and establishes a salmon roe business. By 1930, an investigative journalist travels to Brazil and writes a book that wins the first-ever Akutagawa Prize. In the 1940s, residents from the same area proclaim that they should lead Imperial Japan in colonizing all of Asia. Across decades and oceans, these fractured narratives seem disparate, but show how mobility is central to the history of Japan's Tohoku region, a place often stereotyped as a site of rural stasis and traditional immobility, thereby collapsing boundaries between local, national, and global studies of Japan. This book examines how multiple mobilities converge in Japan's supposed hinterland. Drawing on research from three continents, this monograph demonstrates that Tohoku's regional identity is inextricably intertwined with Pacific migrations.

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
R3,206 Discovery Miles 32 060 Ships in 10 - 15 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.

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