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Elusive Capital - Merchant Networks, Economic Institutions and Business Practices in Late Imperial China (Hardcover): Francois... Elusive Capital - Merchant Networks, Economic Institutions and Business Practices in Late Imperial China (Hardcover)
Francois Gipouloux
R3,484 Discovery Miles 34 840 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Offering a fresh analysis of late imperial China, this cutting-edge book revisits the roles played by merchant networks, economic institutions, and business practices in the divergence between Europe and China during the trade revolution. Focusing on the operating modes of three major regional trading networks active in Fujian, Huizhou, and Shanxi from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries, Francois Gipouloux assesses the driving forces behind their dynamism, the role they played in Chinese economic development, and the constraints in which they were embedded. Examining merchants' business practices, partnerships,and investment strategies, chapters portray the three central figures of China's economy - the financier, the middleman, and the business entrepreneur - and their complex relationships with the imperial bureaucracy. By analysing the divergent trajectory of seemingly identical institutions in China and Europe, Elusive Capital takes a comparative approach to shed light on the factors that inhibited the transformation of commercial development into an industrial revolution, ultimately discovering why capital accumulation proved so elusive in late imperial China. Revealing novel insights from primary documentation including trial accounts, Elusive Capital will prove an invigorating read for students and scholars of economic history, business studies, and Asian urban and regional studies

Unveiling Jazbaa - A History of Pakistan Women's Cricket (Hardcover): Aayush Puthran Unveiling Jazbaa - A History of Pakistan Women's Cricket (Hardcover)
Aayush Puthran; Foreword by Kamila Shamsie
R548 R509 Discovery Miles 5 090 Save R39 (7%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Jazbaa Definition: spirit, feeling, passion, desire, sentiment, emotion In 1996, Shaiza Khan led a Pakistan team on a tour of New Zealand and Australia. While the tour was a failure on the cricketing front, the singular act of eleven women wearing flannels and battling for victory in the faraway antipodes was a significant achievement. These women had - individually and collectively - worked to throw off the shackles of social and cultural decrees that had conspired to keep Pakistani women away from sport for years. Even more importantly, these players were harbingers of change who became heroic role models for women back home and all around the world. Unveiling Jazbaa tells the story of Pakistan's women's cricket, detailing the extraordinary journey the players have been on to bring about change both in their country and in the sport itself. This is a tale told through the lens of society and politics, of personal battles and triumphs against the odds, of friendships and rivalries, of favours and revenge. Above all else, it is story of bravery and unerring will and a moving testimony to power of the human spirit. Foreword by Kamila Shamsie 'Compelling, ambitious, beautifully written and about so much more than cricket' - Tim Wigmore, The Telegraph and author of the multiple award-winning Cricket 2.0

A Devon Village 2021 - Life in Victorian Christow (Paperback): Graham Thompson A Devon Village 2021 - Life in Victorian Christow (Paperback)
Graham Thompson
R575 Discovery Miles 5 750 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Keorapetse Kgositsile & The Black Arts Movement (Paperback): Uhuru Portia Phalafala Keorapetse Kgositsile & The Black Arts Movement (Paperback)
Uhuru Portia Phalafala
R330 R258 Discovery Miles 2 580 Save R72 (22%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

A key study on writer and activist Keorapetse Kgositsile that presents a new approach to studying the radicalism of Africa and its diaspora, and makes a major contribution to the histories of Black lives, gender studies, jazz studies, politics, and creativity.

The cultural configurations of the Black Atlantic cannot be fully understood without recognising the significant presence of writers and artists from the African continent itself. Among the most influential was South African poet laureate Keorapetse Kgositsile, or Bra Willie, as he was affectionately known. Yet, until now, there has been no full-length study of his work.

Uhuru Portia Phalafala’s wide-ranging book reveals the foundational influence of Kgositsile’s mother and grandmother on his craft and unveils the importance of Tswana oral andaural traditions, indigenous knowledge systems, and cosmologies he carried with him into and after exile. It illuminates a southern African modernity that was strongly gendered and expressed robust anti-imperialist, anti-colonial, anti-apartheid, and civil rights struggles. Using the original concept of ‘elsewhere’, the author maps the sources of Kgositsile’s transformative verse, which in turn generated ‘poetics of possibility’ for his contemporaries in the Black Arts and Black Power Movements and beyond - among them Maya Angelou, Larry Neal, Gwendolyn Brooks, Tom Dent, members of The Last Poets, Otabenga Jones & Associates, and rapper Earl Sweatshirt – who all looked to his work to model their identities, cultural movements and radical traditions.

The Tortuous Birth of a Nation - Israel's Military History - A Self Guiding Tour Book (Paperback): Anthony Malkin The Tortuous Birth of a Nation - Israel's Military History - A Self Guiding Tour Book (Paperback)
Anthony Malkin
R353 Discovery Miles 3 530 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The tour guide is designed specifically for the enthusiast wanting to explore and discover more about Israel's military history. But instead of simply reading about historical events this guide takes the traveller to the battle sites themselves throughout Israel. The guide is in chronological order starting with the First World War and taking you through selective events in history up to 2006. From a geographical perspective the tour will take you from southern Israel through the Jordan Valley and on to the Golan Heights in the north by the Syrian and Lebanese border.

Scotland: A Card Game (Boxed pack): Phil Cooke Scotland: A Card Game (Boxed pack)
Phil Cooke
R271 Discovery Miles 2 710 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Two-Seat Spitfires - The Complete Story (Hardcover): Greg Davis, John Sanderson and Peter Arnold Two-Seat Spitfires - The Complete Story (Hardcover)
Greg Davis, John Sanderson and Peter Arnold
R1,031 Discovery Miles 10 310 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Spitfire a " there have been many hundreds, maybe even thousands, of books written about this beautiful R.J Mitchell designed, elliptically winged areoplane. But there has yet to be a book published, which has focused solely on the lesser-known two-seat variant of graceful Spitfirea |Until now! In two-seater spitfires, Greg Davis, John Sanderson and Peter Arnold trace the history of this iconic aircraft a " from its initial design through to those still taking to the skies today.

The Meaning Of Beer - How Our Pursuit Of The Perfect Pint Built The World (Hardcover): Jonny Garrett The Meaning Of Beer - How Our Pursuit Of The Perfect Pint Built The World (Hardcover)
Jonny Garrett
R837 R657 Discovery Miles 6 570 Save R180 (22%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Jonny Garrett, cofounder of the YouTube sensation Craft Beer Channel, travels in search of the deeper cultural impact of brewing—how it has become one of the world’s most important inventions and shaped our lives for millennia.

What’s the oldest and most consumed alcoholic beverage on earth? Beer, of course. And it might just be one of our more important inventions.

Since its creation thirteen thousand years ago, our love of beer has shaped everything from religious ceremonies to advertising, and architecture to bioengineering. The people who built the pyramids were paid in ale; the first fridge was built for beer, not food; bacteria was discovered while investigating sour beer; Germany’s beer halls hosted Hitler’s rise to power; and brewer’s yeast may yet be the answer to climate change.

In The Meaning of Beer, award-winning beer writer Jonny Garrett tells the stories of these incredible human moments and inventions, taking readers to some of the best-known beer destinations in the world—Munich and Oktoberfest, Carlsberg Brewery’s historic laboratory, St. Louis and the home of Budweiser—as well as those lesser known, from a five-thousand-year-old brewery in the Egyptian desert to Arctic Svalbard, home to the world’s most northerly pub.

Ultimately, this is not a book about how we made beer, but how beer made us.

Yale Needs Women - How the First Group of Girls Rewrote the Rules of an Ivy League Giant (Paperback): Anne Gardiner Perkins Yale Needs Women - How the First Group of Girls Rewrote the Rules of an Ivy League Giant (Paperback)
Anne Gardiner Perkins
R465 R407 Discovery Miles 4 070 Save R58 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

WINNER OF THE 2020 CONNECTICUT BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION AND NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS FOR BOOK CLUBS IN 2021 BY BOOKBROWSE "Perkins' richly detailed narrative is a reminder that gender equity has never come easily, but instead if borne from the exertions of those who precede us."-Nathalia Holt, New York Times bestselling author of Rise of the Rocket Girls If Yale was going to keep its standing as one of the top two or three colleges in the nation, the availability of women was an amenity it could no longer do without. In the winter of 1969, from big cities to small towns, young women across the country sent in applications to Yale University for the first time. The Ivy League institution dedicated to graduating "one thousand male leaders" each year had finally decided to open its doors to the nation's top female students. The landmark decision was a huge step forward for women's equality in education. Or was it? The experience the first undergraduate women found when they stepped onto Yale's imposing campus was not the same one their male peers enjoyed. Isolated from one another, singled out as oddities and sexual objects, and barred from many of the privileges an elite education was supposed to offer, many of the first girls found themselves immersed in an overwhelmingly male culture they were unprepared to face. Yale Needs Women is the story of how these young women fought against the backward-leaning traditions of a centuries-old institution and created the opportunities that would carry them into the future. Anne Gardiner Perkins's unflinching account of a group of young women striving for change is an inspiring story of strength, resilience, and courage that continues to resonate today. "Yes, Yale needed women, but it didn't really want them... Anne Gardiner Perkins tells how these young women met the challenge with courage and tenacity and forever changed Yale and its chauvinistic motto of graduating 1,000 male leaders every year."-Lynn Povich, author of The Good Girls Revolt

The Black Side of the River - Race, Language, and Belonging in Washington, DC (Hardcover): Jessica A. Grieser The Black Side of the River - Race, Language, and Belonging in Washington, DC (Hardcover)
Jessica A. Grieser
R769 R661 Discovery Miles 6 610 Save R108 (14%) In Stock

An insightful exploration of the impact of urban change on Black culture, identity, and language Across the United States, cities are changing. Gentrification is transforming urban landscapes, often pushing local Black populations to the margins. As a result, communities with rich histories and strong identities grapple with essential questions. What does it mean to be from a place in flux? What does it mean to be a specific kind of person from that place? What does gentrification mean for the fabric of a community? In The Black Side of the River, sociolinguist Jessi Grieser draws on ten years of interviews with dozens of residents of Anacostia, a historically Black neighborhood in Washington, DC, to explore these ideas through the lens of language use. Grieser finds that residents use certain speech features to create connections among racial, place, and class identities; reject negative characterizations of place from those outside the community; and negotiate ideas of belonging. In a neighborhood undergoing substantial class gentrification while remaining decisively Black, Grieser finds that Anacostians use language to assert a positive, hopeful place identity that is inextricably intertwined with their racial one. Grieser's work is a call to center Black lived experiences in urban research, confront the racial effects of urban change, and preserve the rich culture and community in historic Black neighborhoods, in Washington, DC, and beyond.

207 Squadron (Paperback): Chris Ward 207 Squadron (Paperback)
Chris Ward
R866 Discovery Miles 8 660 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Game Ranger, The Knife, The Lion And The Sheep - 20 Tales About Curious Characters From Southern Africa (Paperback): David... The Game Ranger, The Knife, The Lion And The Sheep - 20 Tales About Curious Characters From Southern Africa (Paperback)
David Bristow
R295 R231 Discovery Miles 2 310 Save R64 (22%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

The Game Ranger, The Knife, The Lion And The Sheep offers spell-binding stories of some amazing, little known characters from South Africa, past and very past. Let us introduce you to some of the characters you’ll meet inside.

Starting with Krotoa, the Khoi maiden who is found working in the Van Riebeeck household as both servant and interpreter. In time she becomes the concubine of Danish surgeon Pieter Merhoff and later his wife. But did she jump (allured by the European glitz and good food) or was she pushed (abducted or sold to the Van Riebeeck’s by her uncle Atshumatso, otherwise Herry)? Was she raped or a willing sexual parter of Meerhoff? Women, like fresh meat and vegetables, were in short supply in those early colonial years in the Cape.

Then there is Mevrou Maria Mouton who preferred to socialise with the slaves than her husband on their farm in the Swartland, and with whom she conspired to murder him. What became of them is … best those gory details are glossed over for now.

And the giant Trekboer Coenraad de Buys, rebel, renegade, a man with a price on his head who married many women (none of them white) and fathered a small nation. The explorer Lichtenstein called him a modern-day Hercules. Then there are the men of learning and insight, such as Raymond Dart and Adrian Boshier, who opened up the world of myths and ancient artefacts so we now better understand the ancients and the world they created for us to inherit. Or James Kitching who broke open rocks in the Karoo to reveal creatures that inhabited this region long before even Africa was born.

And so, without further ado, we give you our selection of stories about remarkable characters from the veld. These stories will excite, entertain and enthral you! You will finish reading them wishing you had more!

Historic Sears, Roebuck and Co. Catalog Plant (Paperback): John Oharenko, With the Homan Arthington Foundation Historic Sears, Roebuck and Co. Catalog Plant (Paperback)
John Oharenko, With the Homan Arthington Foundation
R624 R532 Discovery Miles 5 320 Save R92 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Located on the site of the original Sears Tower, the historic Sears, Roebuck and Company catalog plant is one of the nation's most unique landmarks. Representing American ingenuity at its best, Richard Sears and Julius Rosenwald combined technology, commerce, and social science with bricks and mortar to build "the World's Largest Store" on Chicago's West Side. Completed in 1906, the plant housed nearly every conceivable product of the time: clothing, jewelry, furniture, appliances, tools, and more. The complex employed 20,000 people, and merchandise orders were processed and delivered by rail -- within the same day. During the first two decades of the 20th century, almost half of America's families shopped the over 300 million catalogs published in that era. WLS (World's Largest Store) Radio broadcasted the Gene Autrey show from the top of the tower, and the first Sears retail store opened here on Homan Avenue and Arthington Street. In 1974, Sears moved to the current Sears Tower. Thanks to many individuals who fought to save these architecturally and historically important treasures, the administration building, the original Sears Tower, the catalog press-laboratory building, and the powerhouse remain today. There are currently plans for redeveloping these buildings into housing, office, and retail space. A new Homan Square Community Center stands on the site of the merchandise building.

10/7 - 100 Human Stories (Hardcover): Lee Yaron 10/7 - 100 Human Stories (Hardcover)
Lee Yaron
R763 R545 Discovery Miles 5 450 Save R218 (29%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The definitive account of the 10/7 attacks through the stories of its victims and the communities they called home.

On October 7, 2023―the Sabbath and the final day of the holiday of Sukkot―the Gaza-based terror group Hamas launched an unprecedented assault on the people of Israel. Crashing through the border, attacking from the sea and air, militants indiscriminately massacred civilians in what became one of the worst terror attacks in modern history, and the most lethal day for the Jewish people since the Holocaust.

A radically passionate work of investigative journalism and political critique by acclaimed Haaretz reporter Lee Yaron, 10/7 chronicles the massacre that ignited a war through the stories of more than 100 civilians. These stories are the products of extensive interviews with survivors, the bereaved, and first responders in Israel and beyond. The victims run the gamut from left-wing kibbutzniks and Burning Man-esque partiers to radical right-wingers, from Bedouins and Israeli Arabs to Thai and Nepalese guest workers, peace activists, elderly Holocaust survivors, refugees from Ukraine and Russia, pregnant women, and babies.

At a time when people are seeking a deeper understanding of the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and how internal political turmoil in Israel has affected it, they predominantly encounter perspectives from the powerful―from politicians and military officers. 10/7 takes a fresh approach, offering answers through the stories of everyday people, those who lived tenuously on the border with Gaza.

Yaron profiles victims from a wide range of communities―depicting the fullness of their lives, not just their final moments―to honor their memories and reveal the way the attack ripped open Israeli society and put the entire Middle East on the precipice of disaster. Each chapter begins with a portrait of a community, interweaving history with broader political analysis of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to provide context for the narratives that follow. Ultimately, 10/7 shows that the tragedy is much greater than the violence of the attacks, and in fact extends back through the entire Netanyahu era, which propagated a false image of Israel as a technologically advanced, militarily formidable powerhouse so essential to the region that it could continue to ignore and undermine Palestinian statehood indefinitely.

Everything Must Go - The Stories We Tell About The End Of The World (Paperback): Dorian Lynskey Everything Must Go - The Stories We Tell About The End Of The World (Paperback)
Dorian Lynskey
R399 R312 Discovery Miles 3 120 Save R87 (22%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

A brilliantly original exploration of our obsession with the end of the world, from Mary Shelley’s The Last Man to the Manic Street Preachers’ Everything Must Go.

For two millennia, Christians have anticipated the end of the world, haunted by the apocalyptic visions of the Book of Revelation. But over the past two centuries, these dark fantasies have given way to secular stories of how the world, our planet, or our species (or all of the above) might be annihilated.

In Everything Must Go – a cultural history of the modern world that weaves together politics, history, science, high and popular culture – Dorian Lynskey explores the endings that we have read, listened to, or watched, while perched on the edge of our seats with eyes wide, (mostly) loving every moment.

Whether with visions of destruction by nuclear holocaust or a mighty collision with a meteor, a devastating epidemic or a violent takeover by robots, why do we like to scare ourselves, and why do we keep coming back for more?

Deeply illuminating about our past, our present and – given the revelation that the end of the world has seemingly always been nigh – hopeful about our future, Everything Must Go will grip you from beginning to, well, end.

The Science of Murder - The Forensics of Agatha Christie (Paperback): Carla Valentine The Science of Murder - The Forensics of Agatha Christie (Paperback)
Carla Valentine
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R470 R412 Discovery Miles 4 120 Save R58 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Tarawa - The Incredible Story of One of World War II's Bloodiest Battles (Paperback): Robert Sherrod Tarawa - The Incredible Story of One of World War II's Bloodiest Battles (Paperback)
Robert Sherrod
R452 R387 Discovery Miles 3 870 Save R65 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In the summer of 1943, at the height of World War II, battles were exploding all throughout the Pacific theater. In mid-November of that year, the United States waged a bloody campaign on Betio Island in the Tarawa Atoll, the most heavily fortified Japanese territory in the entire Pacific. They were fighting to wrest control of the island to stage the next big push toward Japan--and one journalist was there to chronicle the horror.
Dive into war correspondent Robert Sherrod's battlefield account as he goes ashore with the assault troops of the U.S. Marines 2nd Marine Division in Tarawa. Follow the story of the U.S. Army 27th Infantry Division as nearly 35,000 troops take on less than 5,000 Japanese defenders in one of the most savage engagements of the war. By the end of the battle, only seventeen Japanese soldiers were still alive.
This story, a must for any history buff, tells the ins and outs of life alongside the U.S. Marines in this lesser-known battle of World War II. The battle itself carried on for three days, but Sherrod, a dedicated journalist, remained in Tarawa until the very end, and through his writing, shares every detail.

History of the Great Rebellion, from Its Commencement to Its Close, Giving an Account of Its Origin - the Secession of the... History of the Great Rebellion, from Its Commencement to Its Close, Giving an Account of Its Origin - the Secession of the Southern States, and the Formation of the Confederate Government, the Concentration of the Military and Financial Resources of the Fe (Paperback)
Thomas Prentice. Kettell
R903 Discovery Miles 9 030 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Firearms in American History - Our Rifles (Paperback): Charles Winthrop Sawyer Firearms in American History - Our Rifles (Paperback)
Charles Winthrop Sawyer
R680 Discovery Miles 6 800 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Women of the War Their Heroism and Self Scrifice (Paperback): Frank Moore Women of the War Their Heroism and Self Scrifice (Paperback)
Frank Moore
R720 Discovery Miles 7 200 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Naval and Military Memoirs of Great Britain - from the Year 1727, to the Present Time (Paperback): Robert Beatson Naval and Military Memoirs of Great Britain - from the Year 1727, to the Present Time (Paperback)
Robert Beatson
R827 Discovery Miles 8 270 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Memoir of John Whitman and His Descendants (Paperback): Ezekiel Whitman Memoir of John Whitman and His Descendants (Paperback)
Ezekiel Whitman
R319 Discovery Miles 3 190 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Hamilton's Campaign With Moore and Wellington During the Peninsular War - Original and Compiled (Paperback): Anthony... Hamilton's Campaign With Moore and Wellington During the Peninsular War - Original and Compiled (Paperback)
Anthony Hamilton
R401 Discovery Miles 4 010 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Life of Major General Zachary Taylor - With Notices of the War in New Mexico; and Biographical Sketches of Officers Who Have... Life of Major General Zachary Taylor - With Notices of the War in New Mexico; and Biographical Sketches of Officers Who Have Distinguished Themselves in the War With Mexico (Paperback)
John Frost
R565 Discovery Miles 5 650 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Memorials of Affghanistan - Being State Papers, Official Documents, Dispatches, Authentic Narratives, Etc. Illustrative of the... Memorials of Affghanistan - Being State Papers, Official Documents, Dispatches, Authentic Narratives, Etc. Illustrative of the British Expedition To, and Occupation Of, Affghanistan and Scinde, Between the Years 1838 and 1842 (Paperback)
Joachim Hayward Stocqueler
R646 Discovery Miles 6 460 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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