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Juan Peron - The Life of the People's Colonel (Hardcover): Jill Hedges Juan Peron - The Life of the People's Colonel (Hardcover)
Jill Hedges
R2,698 Discovery Miles 26 980 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Within Argentina, Juan Domingo Peron continues to be the subject of exaggerated and diametrically opposed views. A dictator, a great leader, the hero of the working classes and Argentina's "first worker"; a weak and spineless man dependent on his strongerwilled wife; a Latin American visionary; a traitor, responsible for dragging Argentina into a modern, socially just 20th century society or, conversely, destroying for all time a prosperous nation and fomenting class war and unreasonable aspirations among his client base. Outside Argentina, Peron remains overshadowed by his second wife, Evita. The life of this fascinating and unusual man, whose charisma, political influence and controversial nature continue to generate interest, remains somewhat of a mystery to the rest of the world. Peron remains a key figure in Argentine politics, still able to occupy so much of the political spectrum as to constrain the development of viable alternatives. Jill Hedges explores the life and personality of Peron and asks why he remains a political icon despite the 'negatives' associated with his extreme personalism.

Thomas Edison - Thomas Edison's Inventions, Incredible Life, and Story of How He Changed the World (Hardcover): Andrew... Thomas Edison - Thomas Edison's Inventions, Incredible Life, and Story of How He Changed the World (Hardcover)
Andrew Knight
R594 R537 Discovery Miles 5 370 Save R57 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Ceasefire! - The Ivan Molloy Story (Hardcover): Ivan Molloy Ceasefire! - The Ivan Molloy Story (Hardcover)
Ivan Molloy
R1,084 Discovery Miles 10 840 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Genius in the Design - Bernini, Borromini, and the Rivalry That Transformed Rome (Paperback): Jake Morrissey The Genius in the Design - Bernini, Borromini, and the Rivalry That Transformed Rome (Paperback)
Jake Morrissey
R467 R436 Discovery Miles 4 360 Save R31 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The rivalry between the brilliant seventeenth-century Italian architects Gianlorenzo Bernini and Francesco Borromini is the stuff of legend. Enormously talented and ambitious artists, they met as contemporaries in the building yards of St. Peter's in Rome, became the greatest architects of their era by designing some of the most beautiful buildings in the world, and ended their lives as bitter enemies. Engrossing and impeccably researched, full of dramatic tension and breathtaking insight, "The Genius in the Design" is the remarkable tale of how two extraordinary visionaries schemed and maneuvered to get the better of each other and, in the process, created the spectacular Roman cityscape of today.

Mohandas K. Gandhi, Autobiography - The Story of My Experiments with Truth (Hardcover): Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Mahatma... Mohandas K. Gandhi, Autobiography - The Story of My Experiments with Truth (Hardcover)
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi
R1,021 R883 Discovery Miles 8 830 Save R138 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Souls at Risk (Hardcover): Nancy Vernon Kelly Souls at Risk (Hardcover)
Nancy Vernon Kelly
R1,164 R976 Discovery Miles 9 760 Save R188 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The 12 Apostles of Russian Law - Lawyers who changed law, state and society (Hardcover): Pavel Krasheninnikov The 12 Apostles of Russian Law - Lawyers who changed law, state and society (Hardcover)
Pavel Krasheninnikov
R737 R653 Discovery Miles 6 530 Save R84 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Eccentric Personages - Memoirs of the Lives and Actions of Remarable Characters, Beau Brummell, Beau Nash, Daniel DeFoe, Dean... Eccentric Personages - Memoirs of the Lives and Actions of Remarable Characters, Beau Brummell, Beau Nash, Daniel DeFoe, Dean Swift, Captain Morris, J. M. W. Turner, Chevalier D'Eon, Etc. (Hardcover)
W (William) Russell
R975 Discovery Miles 9 750 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Shoemaker's Son - The Life of a Holocaust Resister (Hardcover): Laura Beth Bakst The Shoemaker's Son - The Life of a Holocaust Resister (Hardcover)
Laura Beth Bakst
R706 Discovery Miles 7 060 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Lincoln Family Photograph - Moses in the Bulrushes (Hardcover): Jay Peter Morgan The Lincoln Family Photograph - Moses in the Bulrushes (Hardcover)
Jay Peter Morgan
R1,121 R961 Discovery Miles 9 610 Save R160 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
To Be Hoosiers - Historic Stories of Character and Fortitude (Paperback): Ray E Boomhower To Be Hoosiers - Historic Stories of Character and Fortitude (Paperback)
Ray E Boomhower
R609 R558 Discovery Miles 5 580 Save R51 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Prince Eugene of Savoy - the Life of a Great Military Commander of the 17th & 18th Centuries (Hardcover): G.B. Malleson Prince Eugene of Savoy - the Life of a Great Military Commander of the 17th & 18th Centuries (Hardcover)
G.B. Malleson
R872 Discovery Miles 8 720 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Cyril Ramaphosa - The Road To Presidential Power (Paperback): Anthony Butler Cyril Ramaphosa - The Road To Presidential Power (Paperback)
Anthony Butler 1
R350 R323 Discovery Miles 3 230 Save R27 (8%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

President Cyril Ramaphosa is South Africa's fifth post-apartheid president. He first came to prominence in the 1980s as the founder of the National Union of Mineworkers. When Nelson Mandela was released from prison in February 1990, Ramaphosa was at the head of the reception committee that greeted him. Chosen as secretary general of the African National Congress in 1991, Ramaphosa led the ANC's team in negotiating the country's post-apartheid constitution. Thwarted in his ambition to succeed Mandela, he exchanged political leadership for commerce, ultimately becoming one of the country's wealthiest businessmen, a breeder of exotic cattle, and a philanthropist.

This fully revised and extended edition charts Ramaphosa's early life and education, and his career in trade unionism - including the 1987 21-day miners' strike when he committed the union to the wider liberation struggle - politics, and constitution-building. Extensive new chapters explore his contribution to the National Planning Commission, the effects of the Marikana massacre on his political prospects, and the real story behind his rise to the deputy presidency of the country in 2014. They set out the constraints Ramaphosa faced as Jacob Zuma's deputy, and explain how he ultimately triumphed in the election of the ANC's new president in 2017. The book concludes with an analysis of the challenges Ramaphosa faces as the country's fifth post-apartheid president.

Based on numerous personal conversations with Ramaphosa over the past decade, and on rich interviews with many of the subject's friends and contemporaries, this new biography offers a frank appraisal of one of South Africa's most enigmatic political figures.

The Absolutely Indispensable Man - Ralph Bunche, the United Nations, and the Fight to End Empire (Hardcover): Kal Raustiala The Absolutely Indispensable Man - Ralph Bunche, the United Nations, and the Fight to End Empire (Hardcover)
Kal Raustiala
R1,023 R815 Discovery Miles 8 150 Save R208 (20%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

A wide-ranging political biography of diplomat, Nobel prize winner, and civil rights leader Ralph Bunche. A legendary diplomat, scholar, and civil rights leader, Ralph Bunche was one of the most prominent Black Americans of the twentieth century. The first African American to obtain a political science Ph.D. from Harvard and a celebrated diplomat at the United Nations, he was once so famous he handed out the Best Picture award at the Oscars. Yet today Ralph Bunche is largely forgotten. In The Absolutely Indispensable Man, Kal Raustiala restores Bunche to his rightful place in history. He shows that Bunche was not only a singular figure in midcentury America; he was also one of the key architects of the postwar international order. Raustiala tells the story of Bunche's dramatic life, from his early years in prewar Los Angeles to UCLA, Harvard, the State Department, and the heights of global diplomacy at the United Nations. After narrowly avoiding assassination Bunche received the Nobel Peace Prize for his ground-breaking mediation of the first Arab-Israeli conflict, catapulting him to popular fame. A central player in some of the most dramatic crises of the Cold War, he pioneered conflict management and peacekeeping at the UN. But as Raustiala argues, his most enduring achievement was his work to dismantle European empire. Bunche perceptively saw colonialism as the central issue of the 20th century and decolonization as a project of global racial justice. From marching with Martin Luther King to advising presidents and prime ministers, Ralph Bunche shaped our world in lasting ways. This definitive biography gives him his due. It also reminds us that postwar decolonization not only fundamentally transformed world politics, but also powerfully intersected with America's own civil rights struggle.

Oliver Tambo - Beyond the Engeni Mountains (Paperback, New ed): Luli Callinicos Oliver Tambo - Beyond the Engeni Mountains (Paperback, New ed)
Luli Callinicos
R450 R422 Discovery Miles 4 220 Save R28 (6%) In Stock

Born in 1917 in Bizana in the Eastern Cape, Oliver Reginald Tambo became Nelson Mandela's legal partner and a prominent member of the ANC's Youth League.

Following the Sharpeville massacre in 1960, Tambo left South Africa to set up the ANC's international mission. As President of the ANC in exile, he led the fight against apartheid on both the diplomatic and military fronts. He died in 1993 on the eve of liberation. Tambo had a profound influence on the ANC during the difficult years of uncertainty, loneliness and homesickness in exile. His simplicity, his nurturing style, his genuine respect for all people seemed to bring out the best in them.

This is the story of one of South Africa's great sons - 'the most loved leader', the Moses who led his people to the promised land but did not live to enter it.

A Doorbell, A Dictator, A Dad - A daughter's memoir of life and family under Marcos' Martial Law (Hardcover): Mitos... A Doorbell, A Dictator, A Dad - A daughter's memoir of life and family under Marcos' Martial Law (Hardcover)
Mitos Suson, Darby Patterson
R822 Discovery Miles 8 220 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Imperial Dictionary of Universal Biography - a Series of Original Memoirs of Distinguished Men, of All Ages and All... The Imperial Dictionary of Universal Biography - a Series of Original Memoirs of Distinguished Men, of All Ages and All Nations; 1, pt.5 (Hardcover)
John 1810-1876 Eadie, John Francis 1810-1894 Waller
R898 Discovery Miles 8 980 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Lilies in the Field (Hardcover): Kathy Anderson Lilies in the Field (Hardcover)
Kathy Anderson
R1,002 R845 Discovery Miles 8 450 Save R157 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
An Irregular Life (Hardcover): Mark Mcpherson An Irregular Life (Hardcover)
Mark Mcpherson
R1,114 Discovery Miles 11 140 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Torch Time Tales - Volume One (Hardcover): Joni L Whitmore Torch Time Tales - Volume One (Hardcover)
Joni L Whitmore
R894 Discovery Miles 8 940 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Saints of Zara - An Intimate Memoir (Hardcover): Isabel-Rose Kulski The Saints of Zara - An Intimate Memoir (Hardcover)
Isabel-Rose Kulski
R825 Discovery Miles 8 250 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
No Return - The Gerry Irwin Story, UFO Abduction or Covert Operation? (Hardcover): David Booher No Return - The Gerry Irwin Story, UFO Abduction or Covert Operation? (Hardcover)
David Booher; Foreword by Jacques Vallee
R769 Discovery Miles 7 690 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
For My Legionaries (Hardcover): Corneliu Zelea Codreanu For My Legionaries (Hardcover)
Corneliu Zelea Codreanu; Introduction by Kerry Bolton; Contributions by Lucian Tudor
R959 Discovery Miles 9 590 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Asia Ernie (Hardcover): Patrick J. Killen Asia Ernie (Hardcover)
Patrick J. Killen
R983 Discovery Miles 9 830 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Life's Encounters - My Story (Hardcover): Eve Axon Life's Encounters - My Story (Hardcover)
Eve Axon
R673 Discovery Miles 6 730 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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