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Boudicca's Daughter (Paperback): Elodie Harper Boudicca's Daughter (Paperback)
Elodie Harper
R445 R355 Discovery Miles 3 550 Save R90 (20%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Boudicca. Infamous warrior, queen of the British Iceni tribe and mastermind of one of history's greatest revolts. Her defeat spelled ruin for her people, yet still her name is enough to strike fear into Roman hearts.

But what of the woman who grew up in her shadow?

The woman who has her mother's looks and cunning but a spirit all of her own?

The woman whose desperate bid for survival will take her from Britain's sacred marshlands to the glittering façades of Nero's Roman Empire…

Born to a legend. Forced to fight. Determined to succeed.

Meet Solina.

Boudicca's Daughter.

When Things Don?t Go Your Way - Zen Wisdom for Difficult Times (Hardcover): Haemin Sunim When Things Don’t Go Your Way - Zen Wisdom for Difficult Times (Hardcover)
Haemin Sunim
R380 R339 Discovery Miles 3 390 Save R41 (11%) In Stock

What if moments of great difficulty are, in fact, opportunities for growth and self-discovery? What if they can serve as stepping stones to greater things in life?

Modern life doesn't always go our way. Loss, rejection, uncertainty and loneliness are unavoidable parts of the human experience -- but there is solace to be found.

In When Things Don't Go Your Way, Zen Buddhist teacher Haemin Sunim provides simple but powerful wisdom for navigating life's challenges. Through his trademark combination of beautiful illustrations, insightful stories, and contemplative aphorisms, Sunim helps us reframe our mindsets and develop emotional agility.

Whether you're in the midst of a crisis or simply seeking to improve your mental and emotional wellbeing, When Things Don't Go Your Way is a soothing balm that helps us all find courage and comfort when we need it most.

Samhain - The Ultimate Guide to Halloween and How It's Celebrated in Wicca, Druidry, and Celtic Paganism (Hardcover): Mari... Samhain - The Ultimate Guide to Halloween and How It's Celebrated in Wicca, Druidry, and Celtic Paganism (Hardcover)
Mari Silva
R679 Discovery Miles 6 790 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Cwe Missions: Short-Term Missions with Long-Term Impact (Paperback): Cwe Volunteers Cwe Missions: Short-Term Missions with Long-Term Impact (Paperback)
Cwe Volunteers
R311 R295 Discovery Miles 2 950 Save R16 (5%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Philosophy for Girls - An Invitation to a Life of Thought (Hardcover): Melissa Shew, Kimberly Garchar Philosophy for Girls - An Invitation to a Life of Thought (Hardcover)
Melissa Shew, Kimberly Garchar
R2,445 Discovery Miles 24 450 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This revolutionary book empowers its readers by exploring enduring, challenging, and timely philosophical issues in new essays written by expert women philosophers. The book will inspire and entice these philosophers' younger counterparts, curious readers of all genders, and all who support equity in philosophy. If asked to envision a philosopher, people might imagine a bearded man, probably Greek, perhaps in a toga, pontificating about abstract ideas. Or they might think of that same man in the Enlightenment, gripping a quill pen and pouring universal truths onto a page. They may even call to mind a much more modern man, wearing a black sweater and smoking a cigarette in a Paris cafe, expressing existential angst in a new novel or essay. What people are unlikely to picture, though, is a woman. Women have historically been excluded from the discipline of philosophy and remain largely marginalized in contemporary textbooks and anthologies. The under-representation of women in secondary and post-secondary curricula makes it harder for young women to see themselves as future philosophers. In fact, it makes it harder for all people to engage the valuable contributions that women have made and continue to make to intellectual thought. While some progress has been made in building a more inclusive world of philosophy, especially in the last fifty years, important work remains to be done. Philosophy for Girls helps correct the pervasive and problematic omission of women from philosophy. Divided into four sections that connect to major, primary fields in philosophy (metaphysics, epistemology, social and political philosophy, and ethics), this anthology is unique: chapters are all written by women, and each chapter opens with an anecdote about a girl or woman from mythology, history, art, literature, or science to introduce chapter topics. Further, nearly all primary and secondary sources used in the chapters are written by women philosophers. The book is written in a rigorous, academic spirit but in lively and engaging prose, making serious philosophical insights accessible to readers who are new to philosophy. This book appeals to a wide audience. Individual readers will find value in these pages-especially girls and women ages 16-24, as well as university and high school educators and students who want a change from standard anthologies that include few or no women. The book's contributors both represent and map the diverse landscape of philosophy, highlighting its engagement with themes of gender and equity. In doing so, they encourage philosophers current and future philosophers to explore new territory and further develop the topography of the field. Philosophy for Girls is a rigorous yet accessible entry-point to philosophical contemplation designed to inspire a new generation of philosophers.

Die Herero-Opstand 1904-1907 (Afrikaans, Paperback): Gerhardus Pool Die Herero-Opstand 1904-1907 (Afrikaans, Paperback)
Gerhardus Pool
R529 Discovery Miles 5 290 Ships in 6 - 10 working days

Die Herero-opstand 1904–1907 is ’n heruitgawe van ’n boek wat ses keer tussen 1976 en 1979 deur HAUM gepubliseer is. Die lotgevalle van die Hererovolk word in hierdie boek geskets, ’n stuk geskiedenis wat ’n sentrale plek in Namibie se kleurryke geskiedenis beklee. Die opstand van die Herero’s in 1904 teen Duitse koloniale gesag kan beskou word as die enkele gebeurtenis wat die gebied se volksverhoudinge die ingrypendste verander het. Die Herero-opstand 1904–1907 vertel van die geleidelike opbou na die konflik, die skielike uitbarsting van geweld en die tragiese afloop vir die Herero’s toe duisende verhonger het en hulle grond en politieke seggenskap verloor het.

Practical Feelings - Emotions as Resources in a Dynamic Social World (Hardcover): Marci D. Cottingham Practical Feelings - Emotions as Resources in a Dynamic Social World (Hardcover)
Marci D. Cottingham
R2,436 Discovery Miles 24 360 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Tracing emotions across work, leisure, social media, and politics, Practical Feelings counters old myths and shows how emotions are practical resources for tackling individual and collective challenges. We do not usually think of our emotions as practical - often they are nuisances to overcome, momentary mysteries to solve, or fleeting sensations to savor before getting back to the business of living. But emotions interlace the practical elements of daily life. In Practical Feelings, Marci D. Cottingham develops a theory of emotion as practical resources. By integrating the sociology of emotion with practice theory, Cottingham covers diverse areas of social life to show the range of an emotion practice approach and trace how emotions are put to use in divergent domains. Spanning work, leisure, digital interactions, and the political sphere, Cottingham portrays nurses, sports fans, social media users, and political actors in more complex, holistic ways. Practical Feelings provides the conceptual tools needed to examine emotions as effort, energy, and embodied resources that calibrate us to the social world.

Do The New You - 6 Mindsets To Become Who You Were Created To Be (Paperback): Steven Furtick Do The New You - 6 Mindsets To Become Who You Were Created To Be (Paperback)
Steven Furtick
R335 R299 Discovery Miles 2 990 Save R36 (11%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Do you ever get a glimpse of yourself that is exactly who you want to be, but always seems just out of reach? The happier, kinder, less stressed, more courageous you? The ideal version of you isn't imaginary at all. It's actually the authentic you trying to break through. And it’s not a future version of yourself you have to chase. The true you may be new to you, but it’s not new to God. It's the you He knew all along.

In Do the New You, New York Times bestselling author and pastor Steven Furtick speaks directly to the challenge of living out your God-given identity and calling. He explores and unpacks six practical mindsets everyone can adopt to get from who you are today to where God is taking you.

These six statements are truths you can speak over yourself any time and anywhere:

  • I’m not stuck unless I stop
  • Christ is in me. I am enough
  • With God there's always a way and by faith I will find it
  • God is not against me, but he's in it with me, working through me, fighting for me.
  • My joy is my job
  • God has given me everything I need for the season I’m in

These simple, powerful, memorable phrases will shift your focus, feelings, and actions to align with God’s vision of you. God isn’t just calling you to do you. He’s calling you to do the new you—the unique and powerful person He created you to be.

The Answer to Anxiety - How to Break Free from the Tyranny of Anxious Thoughts and Worry (Paperback): Joyce Meyer The Answer to Anxiety - How to Break Free from the Tyranny of Anxious Thoughts and Worry (Paperback)
Joyce Meyer
R200 R159 Discovery Miles 1 590 Save R41 (20%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

What if there was a way to put a stop to your worrying before it steals your peace of mind? In The Answer to Anxiety, Joyce Meyer reveals truth from God’s Word that shows us how to focus on God when we’re feeling unsettled. She also teaches readers practical steps based on Scripture that we can take when we need to face our fears.

God doesn’t want you to live with worry and anxiety. And when you understand that He has a plan for you, you can experience the life-changing peace He offers.

The Prophet Joseph Smith - Restoration Issues (Paperback): C Paul Smith The Prophet Joseph Smith - Restoration Issues (Paperback)
C Paul Smith
R453 R429 Discovery Miles 4 290 Save R24 (5%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Redeemed Reflections - Poems and Ponderings of Faith (Hardcover): Kari L Greenaway Redeemed Reflections - Poems and Ponderings of Faith (Hardcover)
Kari L Greenaway
R568 Discovery Miles 5 680 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Murasaki Shikibu's The Tale of Genji - Philosophical Perspectives (Hardcover): James McMullen Murasaki Shikibu's The Tale of Genji - Philosophical Perspectives (Hardcover)
James McMullen
R2,692 Discovery Miles 26 920 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Murasaki Shikibu's The Tale of Genji is variously read as a work of feminist protest, the world's first psychological novel and even as a post-modern masterpiece. Commonly seen as Japan's greatest literary work, its literary, cultural, and historical significance has been thoroughly acknowledged. As a work focused on the complexities of Japanese court life in the Heian period, however, the The Tale of Genji has never before been the subject of philosophical investigation. The essays in this volume address this oversight, arguing that the work contains much that lends itself to philosophical analysis. The authors of this volume demonstrate that The Tale of Genji confronts universal themes such as the nature and exercise of political power, freedom, individual autonomy and agency, renunciation, gender, and self-expression; it raises deep concerns about aesthetics and the role of art, causality, the relation of man to nature, memory, and death itself. Although Murasaki Shikibu may not express these themes in the text as explicitly philosophical problems, the complex psychological tensions she describes and her observations about human conduct reveal an underlying framework of philosophical assumptions about the world of the novel that have implications for how we understand these concerns beyond the world of Genji. Each essay in this collection reveals a part of this framework, situating individual themes within larger philosophical and historical contexts. In doing so, the essays both challenge prevailing views of the novel and each other, offering a range of philosophical interpretations of the text and emphasizing the The Tale of Genji's place as a masterful work of literature with broad philosophical significance.

Hong Kong's Last English Bishop - The Life and Times of John Gilbert Hindley Baker (Hardcover): Philip L. Wickeri Hong Kong's Last English Bishop - The Life and Times of John Gilbert Hindley Baker (Hardcover)
Philip L. Wickeri
R2,120 R1,315 Discovery Miles 13 150 Save R805 (38%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Law in American History, Volume III - 1930-2000 (Hardcover): G. Edward White Law in American History, Volume III - 1930-2000 (Hardcover)
G. Edward White
R1,525 Discovery Miles 15 250 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In Law in American History, Volume III: 1930-2000, the eminent legal scholar G. Edward White concludes his sweeping history of law in America, from the colonial era to the near-present. Picking up where his previous volume left off, at the end of the 1920s, White turns his attention to modern developments in both public and private law. One of his findings is that despite the massive changes in American society since the New Deal, some of the landmark constitutional decisions from that period remain salient today. An illustration is the Court's sweeping interpretation of the reach of Congress's power under the Commerce Clause in Wickard v. Filburn (1942), a decision that figured prominently in the Supreme Court's recent decision to uphold the Affordable Care Act. In these formative years of modern American jurisprudence, courts responded to, and affected, the emerging role of the state and federal governments as regulatory and redistributive institutions and the growing participation of the United States in world affairs. They extended their reach into domains they had mostly ignored: foreign policy, executive power, criminal procedure, and the rights of speech, sexuality, and voting. Today, the United States continues to grapple with changing legal issues in each of those domains. Law in American History, Volume III provides an authoritative introduction to how modern American jurisprudence emerged and evolved of the course of the twentieth century, and the impact of law on every major feature of American life in that century. White's two preceding volumes and this one constitute a definitive treatment of the role of law in American history.

Tibet as I Knew It - The Memoir of Dr. Tsewang Yishey Pemba (Hardcover): Tsewang Yishey Pemba Tibet as I Knew It - The Memoir of Dr. Tsewang Yishey Pemba (Hardcover)
Tsewang Yishey Pemba; Foreword by The Dalai Lama
R3,192 R2,281 Discovery Miles 22 810 Save R911 (29%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Written in the 1990s after retirement from his services as a doctor and discovered by his daughter in the loft of their house in Darjeeling in India in 2017, this memoir of Dr. Tsewang Yishey Pemba provides an intricate portrayal of early twentieth-century Tibet. With his finger on the pulse of the Tibetan ethos, Pemba offers glimpses into the traditional sociology of Tibet and occasionally its snail-paced reforms, as well as the British Raj in India, while recollecting his young days in his native country. Pemba also draws information from prized sources like his fathers diaries and his conversations with Tibetan and British officials as well as people at the grassroots. His own metamorphosis, as he leaves Tibet in 1949 for higher education abroad, foreshadows the metamorphosis of Tibet and its inescapable fate in the decade that followed.

These oppressions won't cease - An anthology of the political thought of the Cape Khoesan, 1777-1879 (Paperback): Robert... These oppressions won't cease - An anthology of the political thought of the Cape Khoesan, 1777-1879 (Paperback)
Robert Ross
R395 R365 Discovery Miles 3 650 Save R30 (8%) In Stock

The Khoesan were the first people in Africa to undergo the full rigours of European colonisation. By the early nineteenth century, they had largely been brought under colonial rule, dispossessed of their land and stock, and forced to work as labourers for farmers of European descent. Nevertheless, a portion of them were able to regain a degree of freedom and maintain their independence by taking refuge in the mission stations of the Western and Eastern Cape, most notably in the Kat River valley. For much of the nineteenth century, these Khoesan people kept up a steady commentary on, and intervention in, the course of politics in the Cape Colony. Through petitions, speeches at meetings, letters to the newspapers and correspondence between themselves, the Cape Khoesan articulated a continuous critique of the oppressions of colonialism, always stressing the need for equality before the law, as well as their opposition to attempts to limit their freedom of movement through vagrancy legislation and related measures. This was accompanied by a well-grounded distrust, in particular, of the British settlers of the Eastern Cape and a concomitant hope, rarely realised, in the benevolence of the British government in London. Comprising 98 of these texts, These Oppressions Won't Cease - an utterance expressed by Willem Uithaalder, commander of Khoe rebel forces in the war of 1850-3 - contains the essential documents of Khoesan political thought in the nineteenth century. These texts of the Khoesan provide a history of resistance to colonial oppression which has largely faded from view. Robert Ross, the eminent historian of precolonial South Africa, brings back their voices from the annals of the archive, voices which were formative in the establishment of black nationalism in South Africa, but which have long been silenced.

Christian Awakening (Paperback): Joellen Saddock Christian Awakening (Paperback)
Joellen Saddock
R417 Discovery Miles 4 170 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Faces And Phases Of Resilience - A Memoir Of A Special Kind (Paperback): Tinyiko Maluleke Faces And Phases Of Resilience - A Memoir Of A Special Kind (Paperback)
Tinyiko Maluleke; Foreword by Reuel J. Khoza
R380 R339 Discovery Miles 3 390 Save R41 (11%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

In this captivating collection of essays, Tinyiko Maluleke invites his readers on a journey that begins with his eventful boyhood in Soweto and his life-changing sojourn in Limpopo. His reflections on the roles of his mother, maternal grandmother and aunts in his upbringing will melt many hearts. In a deep sense of the word, this is a ‘feminist’ book with large sections profiling and promoting the contribution of women in national development.

Included in this memoir is the story of Maluleke’s journey through academia, his rise through the ranks, and the many lessons he learnt along the way. All the while, Maluleke presents his story as a microcosm of the human story of all South Africans, challenging his readers to rethink the history of the country, villages, townships and their own selves.

Maluleke does not pull any punches in the essays where he provides analysis of critical issues facing the country. Deploying solid scholarship, to undergird a variety of literary genres and writing strategies, Maluleke’s book is also a compendium of and an ode to the moments, places and people – celebrated and ordinary – who have shaped and continue to shape his outlook. His profiling of a few fellow university leaders is particularly riveting.

Faces and Phases of Resilience will make you think, laugh, yell and cry. In a way, this book is not merely an individual memoir, it is the memoir of a country, a memoir of a historical epoch and a memoir of a people – it is an invitation to the tragedy, the beauty and the hope that define South Africa.

The book ends, forty-nine chapters later, with a heart-rending essay on the bane of xenophobia, foretelling the death of Maluleke, chillingly titled, ‘The Day I Die’.

The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse (Hardcover, 5th Anniversary Limited Edition): Charlie Mackesy The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse (Hardcover, 5th Anniversary Limited Edition)
Charlie Mackesy
R535 R477 Discovery Miles 4 770 Save R58 (11%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

A book for all ages, a book for all times, treasured by millions.

Charlie Mackesy’s The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse was adapted into the BAFTA and Academy Award® winning animated short film.

“What do you want to be when you grow up?” asked the mole.
“Kind,” said the boy.

In this beautiful book, follow the tale of a curious boy, a greedy mole, a wary fox and a wise horse who find themselves together in sometimes difficult terrain, sharing their greatest fears and biggest discoveries about vulnerability, kindness, hope, friendship and love.

Faith to Produce Miracles (Paperback): Brent C Satterfield Phd Faith to Produce Miracles (Paperback)
Brent C Satterfield Phd
R404 R382 Discovery Miles 3 820 Save R22 (5%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Ntsikana - His Great Hymn And His Enduring Legacy On Black Consciousness (Paperback): Janet Hodgson Ntsikana - His Great Hymn And His Enduring Legacy On Black Consciousness (Paperback)
Janet Hodgson
R335 R309 Discovery Miles 3 090 Save R26 (8%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Janet Hodgson traces the life of Xhosa prophet Ntsikana (1780–1821) from his birth through his years as a Christian convert, evangelist, and composer of enduring hymns.

Ntsikana is known as one of the first Christians to adapt Christian ideas to African culture, writing hymns in isiXhosa and translating concepts into terms that resonated with his Xhosa community.

Even today, his hymns are among the most important in the amaXhosa churches, and he is regarded as an important symbol of both African unity and Black Consciousness.

Anti-contiguity - A Theory of Wh- Prosody (Hardcover): Jason Kandybowicz Anti-contiguity - A Theory of Wh- Prosody (Hardcover)
Jason Kandybowicz
R2,430 Discovery Miles 24 300 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A recent wave of research has explored the link between wh- syntax and prosody, breaking with the traditional generative conception of a unidirectional syntax-phonology relationship. In this book, Jason Kandybowicz develops Anti-contiguity Theory as a compelling alternative to Richards' Contiguity Theory to explain the interaction between the distribution of interrogative expressions and the prosodic system of a language. Through original and highly detailed fieldwork on several under-studied West African languages (Krachi, Bono, Wasa, Asante Twi, and Nupe), Kandybowicz presents empirically and theoretically rich analyses bearing directly on a number of important theories of the syntax-prosody interface. His observations and analyses stem from original fieldwork on all five languages and represent some of the first prosodic descriptions of the languages. The book also considers data from thirteen additional typologically diverse languages to demonstrate the theory's reach and extendibility. Against the backdrop of data from eighteen languages, Anti-contiguity offers a new lens on the empirical and theoretical study of wh- prosody.

Are You Really Listening? (Paperback): Bernice Simpson Are You Really Listening? (Paperback)
Bernice Simpson
R350 Discovery Miles 3 500 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Fading Footprints - In Search Of South Africa's First People (Paperback): Jose Manuel de Prada-Samper Fading Footprints - In Search Of South Africa's First People (Paperback)
Jose Manuel de Prada-Samper
R350 R312 Discovery Miles 3 120 Save R38 (11%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

"That summer afternoon, I had no way of knowing the book would radically alter my existence. Yet that proved to be the case."

So writes folklorist José Manuel de Prada-Samper about a chance discovery more than thirty years ago of an obscure book called Specimens of Bushman Folklore in a second-hand bookshop in England.

Part historical detective story, part memoir, Fading Footprints traces the author’s journey into the magical folklore of the /xam hunter-gatherers of the Upper Karoo. Through archival research and on field trips in South Africa, De Prada-Samper is able to humanise the /xam as he delves into the work and lives of researchers William Bleek and Lucy Lloyd, who recorded the stories of San prisoners in Cape Town in the late 1800.

The author learns that many are still told to this day by farm workers in forgotten corners of the Northern Cape and that, contrary to common belief, the culture and traditions of South Africa’s first people are still alive.

Ghosts of the Last Best Place (Paperback): Ellen Baumler Ghosts of the Last Best Place (Paperback)
Ellen Baumler
R496 R463 Discovery Miles 4 630 Save R33 (7%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
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