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The Mystic Test Book, or the Magic of the Cards: Giving the Mystic Meaning of These Wonderful and Ancient Emblems in Their... The Mystic Test Book, or the Magic of the Cards: Giving the Mystic Meaning of These Wonderful and Ancient Emblems in Their Relationship to the Heavenly Bodies, Under All Conditions; With Rules and Processes for Reading or Delineating the Emblems (Paperback)
Olney H. Richmond
R520 Discovery Miles 5 200 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Experiments in Imagining Otherwise (Paperback): Lola Olufemi Experiments in Imagining Otherwise (Paperback)
Lola Olufemi
R411 Discovery Miles 4 110 Ships in 9 - 15 working days
Beauties of Shakespeare CB - Eighteenth Century Shakespeare Volume 9 - 2 Volumes (Book): Dodd William Beauties of Shakespeare CB - Eighteenth Century Shakespeare Volume 9 - 2 Volumes (Book)
Dodd William
R1,066 Discovery Miles 10 660 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Eighteenth Century Shakespeare Volume 9 2 Volumes.

Nobody (Hardcover, Illustrated edition): Alice Oswald Nobody (Hardcover, Illustrated edition)
Alice Oswald; Illustrated by William Tillyer
R686 Discovery Miles 6 860 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World - Essays (Paperback): Barry Lopez Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World - Essays (Paperback)
Barry Lopez; Introduction by Rebecca Solnit
R408 R372 Discovery Miles 3 720 Save R36 (9%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

An ardent steward of the land, fearless traveller and unrivalled observer of nature and culture, Barry Lopez died after a long illness on Christmas Day in 2020. The previous summer, a wildfire had consumed much of what was dear to him in his home and the community around it - a tragic reminder of the climate change of which he'd long warned. At once a cri de Coeur and a memoir of both pain and wonder, this remarkable collection of essays adds indelibly to Lopez's legacy, and includes previously unpublished works, some written in the months before his death. They unspool memories, both personal and political, among them tender, sometimes painful stories of his childhood in New York and California, reports from expeditions to study animals and sea life, recollections of travels to Antarctica and other extraordinary places on earth, and mediations on finding oneself amid vast, dramatic landscapes. He reflects on those who taught him, including Indigenous elders and scientific mentors who sharpened his eye for the natural world. We witness poignant returns from his travels to the sanctuary of his Oregon backyard and in prose of searing candour, he reckons with the cycle of life, including own and - as he has done throughout his career - with the dangers the earth and its people are facing. With an introduction by Rebecca Solnit that speaks to Lopez's keen attention to the world, including its spiritual dimensions, Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World opens our minds and sounds to the important of being wholly present to the beauty and complexity of life.

Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass (Hardcover): Lana Del Rey Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass (Hardcover)
Lana Del Rey
R341 Discovery Miles 3 410 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER THE HIGHLY ANTICIPATED DEBUT BOOK OF POETRY FROM LANA DEL REY, VIOLET BENT BACKWARDS OVER THE GRASS 'Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass is the title poem of the book and the first poem I wrote of many. Some of which came to me in their entirety, which I dictated and then typed out, and some that I worked laboriously picking apart each word to make the perfect poem. They are eclectic and honest and not trying to be anything other than what they are and for that reason I'm proud of them, especially because the spirit in which they were written was very authentic. Lana Del Rey Lana's breathtaking first book solidifies her further as 'the essential writer of her times' (The Atlantic). The collection features more than thirty poems, many exclusive to the book: Never to Heaven, The Land of 1,000 Fires, Past the Bushes Cypress Thriving, LA Who Am I to Love You?, Tessa DiPietro, Happy, Paradise Is Very Fragile, Bare Feet on Linoleum and many more. This beautiful hardcover edition showcases Lana's typewritten manuscript pages alongside her original photography. The result is an extraordinary poetic landscape that reflects the unguarded spirit of its creator. Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass is also brought to life in an unprecedented spoken word audiobook which features Lana Del Rey reading fourteen select poems from the book accompanied by music from Grammy Award-winning musician Jack Antonoff.

TWITSTORM (Paperback): Chris England TWITSTORM (Paperback)
Chris England
R296 Discovery Miles 2 960 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
An Inspector Calls and Other Plays (Paperback, New Ed): J.B. Priestley An Inspector Calls and Other Plays (Paperback, New Ed)
J.B. Priestley
R270 R211 Discovery Miles 2 110 Save R59 (22%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

An Inspector Calls, first produced in 1946 when society was undergoing sweeping transformations, has recently enjoyed an enormously successful revival. While holding its audience with the gripping tension of a detective thriller, it is also a philosophical play about social conscience and the crumbling of middle class values. Time and the Conways and I Have Been Here Before belong to Priestley’s ‘time’plays, in which he explores the idea of precognition and pits fate against free will. The Linden Tree also challenges preconceived ideas of history when Professor Linden comes into conflict with his family about how life should be lived after the war.

The Puppy No One Wanted - The Little Dog Desperate for a Home to Call His Own (Paperback): Barby Keel The Puppy No One Wanted - The Little Dog Desperate for a Home to Call His Own (Paperback)
Barby Keel
R413 R341 Discovery Miles 3 410 Save R72 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
When Our Fathers Return to Us as Birds (Paperback): Peter Markus When Our Fathers Return to Us as Birds (Paperback)
Peter Markus
R483 R404 Discovery Miles 4 040 Save R79 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Over the course of two decades and six books, Peter Markus has been making fiction out of a lexicon shaped by the words brother and fish and mud. In an essay on Markus's work, Brian Evenson writes, ""If it's not clear by now, Markus's use of English is quite unique. It is instead a sort of ritual speech, an almost religious invocation in which words themselves, through repetition, acquire a magic or power that revives the simpler, blunter world of childhood."" Now, in his debut book of poems, When Our Fathers Return to Us as Birds, Markus tunes his eye and ear toward a new world, a world where father is the new brother, a world where the father's slow dying and eventual death leads Markus, the son, to take a walk outside to ""meet my shadow in the deepening shade."" In this collection, a son is simultaneously caring for his father, losing his father, and finding his dead father in the trees and the water and the sky. He finds solace in the birds and in the river that runs between his house and his parents' house, with its view of the shut-down steel mill on the river's other side, now in the process of being torn down. The book is steadily punctuated by this recurring sentence that the son wakes up to each day: My father is dying in a house across the river. The rhythmic and recursive nature to these poems places the reader right alongside the son as he navigates his journey of mourning. These are poems written in conversation with the poems of Jack Gilbert, Linda Gregg, Jim Harrison, Jane Kenyon, Raymond Carver, Theodore Roethke too-poets whose poems at times taught Markus how to speak. ""In a dark time . . .,"" we often hear it said, ""there are no words."" But the truth is, there are always words. Sometimes our words are all we have to hold onto, to help us see through the darkened woods and muddy waters, times when the ear begins to listen, the eye begins to see, and the mouth, the body, and the heart, in chorus, begin to speak. Fans of Markus's work and all of those who are caring for dying parents or grieving their loss will find comfort, kinship, and appreciation in this honest and beautiful collection.

My Trip to the Rockies (Paperback): Monika Davies My Trip to the Rockies (Paperback)
Monika Davies
R249 R210 Discovery Miles 2 100 Save R39 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This fun and interactive Reader s Theater book will help students build fluency while learning all about Colorado. The engaging script covers Colorado s continental divide, important landmarks such as Pikes Peak, examples of civic responsibilities in action, and much more. Make learning about Colorado s history, economy, government, and geography exciting with this book.The book includes a glossary, song and poem, and color-coded script. Go on an adventurous camping trip in the Rocky Mountains with this fun Reader s Theater book.

Sleighed to Death (Paperback): Peter Gordon Sleighed to Death (Paperback)
Peter Gordon
R296 Discovery Miles 2 960 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Revolutionary Letters (Paperback, New edition): Diane Di Prima Revolutionary Letters (Paperback, New edition)
Diane Di Prima; Preface by Francesca Wade; Introduction by Sophie Lewis
R426 R346 Discovery Miles 3 460 Save R80 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days
A Raisin in the Sun (Paperback): Lorraine Hansberry A Raisin in the Sun (Paperback)
Lorraine Hansberry
R320 Discovery Miles 3 200 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

"Come to A Raisin in the Sun as you would to any classic. It speaks to us today as it did almost half a century ago." Bonnie Greer In south side Chicago, Walter Lee, a Black chauffeur, dreams of a better life, and hopes to use his father's life insurance money to open a liquor store. His mother, who rejects the liquor business, uses some of the money to secure a proper house for the family. Mr Lindner, a representative of the all-white neighbourhood, tries to buy them out. Walter sinks the rest of the money into his business scheme, only to have it stolen by one of his partners. In despair Walter contacts Lindner, and almost begs to buy them out, but with the help of his wife, Walter finally finds a way to assert his dignity. A Raisin in the Sun was the first play written by a Black woman to be produced on Broadway and won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award. Hansberry was the youngest and the first Black writer to receive this award. Deeply committed to the Black struggle for equality and human rights, Lorraine Hansberry's brilliant career as a writer was cut short by her death when she was only 34. This new, updated edition in Methuen Drama's Modern Classics series includes the full, definitive text and a brand new introduction by Soyica Diggs Colbert.

The Catastrophist (Paperback): Lauren Gunderson The Catastrophist (Paperback)
Lauren Gunderson
R335 Discovery Miles 3 350 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Honestly the best science I've ever done and - frankly the best science in the history of humankind - has started with the same thought experiment: find the ways in which humanity thinks it is special... and assume that we're not. How do you plan for a catastrophe? Virologist Nathan Wolfe, named one of TIME's 100 Most Influential People in the World for his work tracking viral pandemic outbreaks, proposed pandemic insurance years before the novel coronavirus outbreak. No one bought it. Now, in a post-COVID world, we hear his story. A time-jumping tale based on the life and work of Nathan Wolfe (who also happens to be the playwright's husband). Though not a play about COVID19, it is a true story of a pandemic expert. A deep dive into the profundities of scientific exploration and modern Judaism, the lengths one goes for love and family, the bracing truths of fatherhood and discovery, and the harrowing realities of facing your own mortality, The Catastrophist is also a story of a main character battling the story he's in... and who is writing it.

The Mechanics' Institute Review - The Climate Issue (Paperback): Hamblyn, Richard | McNeil, Jean | Lock, Fran | plus 29... The Mechanics' Institute Review - The Climate Issue (Paperback)
Hamblyn, Richard | McNeil, Jean | Lock, Fran | plus 29 others | Bell, Julia (foreword) | Ferrari, Diego (photography)
R331 Discovery Miles 3 310 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Nuwe Vrese (Afrikaans, Paperback): Willem S. van der Merwe Nuwe Vrese (Afrikaans, Paperback)
Willem S. van der Merwe
R220 R172 Discovery Miles 1 720 Save R48 (22%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Die ontnugtering en nostalgie van die middeljare word hier in alle erns met humor en trefsekere taalgevoel verwoord.

Ryk aan intertekstualiteit en slim woordspeling, is hierdie bundel vars en toeganklik vir alle oopkop lesers. Ou vrese word besweer en nuwes sinies en liries besing.

Elke Duim 'n Koning (Afrikaans, Paperback): Pieter Fourie Elke Duim 'n Koning (Afrikaans, Paperback)
Pieter Fourie
R58 Discovery Miles 580 Ships in 4 - 8 working days

Die toneelstuk ontgin nie net Andre Huguenet se lewe as mens en akteur tot met sy tragiese einde nie maar ook die ironiese spel tussen toneel en werklikheid. Ondanks die hoe eise wat hierdie tweekuns aan ’n dramaturg stel, bevestig Fourie opnuut sy vermoe om boeiende, menslike toneel te skep wat toeganklik is vir die gespesialiseerde sowel as die minder ingewyde teaterganger.

Death Knell (Paperback): James Cawood Death Knell (Paperback)
James Cawood
R296 Discovery Miles 2 960 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Tussen Duine Gebore (Afrikaans, Paperback): Julian De Wette Tussen Duine Gebore (Afrikaans, Paperback)
Julian De Wette
R20 Discovery Miles 200 Ships in 4 - 8 working days
Final Draft - The Collected Work of David Carr (Paperback): David Carr, Jill Rooney Carr Final Draft - The Collected Work of David Carr (Paperback)
David Carr, Jill Rooney Carr; Foreword by Ta-Nehisi Coates
R462 R387 Discovery Miles 3 870 Save R75 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Condensations (Paperback): Nathan Walker Condensations (Paperback)
Nathan Walker
R287 Discovery Miles 2 870 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Moerstaal (Afrikaans, Paperback): Loit Sols Moerstaal (Afrikaans, Paperback)
Loit Sols
R240 R206 Discovery Miles 2 060 Save R34 (14%) Ships in 4 - 8 working days

In Moerstaāl word oorsprong in oënskyn geneem: perspektiewe word gebied op geskiedenis en erfenis en hoe dit met taal saamhang. ’n Skryfwyse wat deur Khoekhoegowab geïnspireer is, veral wat die gebruik van die makron op klinkers betref, word ingespan tesame met Sols se kenmerkende Ghoema-Afrikaans. ’n Respek vir byna uitgestorwe kennis word oorgedra en in dié opsig is die gedigte ’n kreet van verlies en ’n bewuste poging tot ’n daad van bestendiging.

Die lewe-gewende moederfiguur tree hier na vore – die vrou wat verguising en ontkenning moes deurleef en wie se bydrae en plek, soos ook dié van die taal, in en deur die bundel herstel, of ten minste openbaar gemaak, wil word.

Die musikaliteit van Sōls se vorige twee bundels is weer hier teenwoordig. Só ook sy vlymskerp kommentaar en ironie, en sy digterlike gebruik van spreektaal. Sols se terugkeer na geskrewe poësie – die eerste bundel in sestien jaar – is beslis ’n groot aanwins vir die Afrikaanse letterkunde.

Van Roes En Amarant (Afrikaans, Paperback): Pirow Bekker Van Roes En Amarant (Afrikaans, Paperback)
Pirow Bekker
R58 Discovery Miles 580 Ships in 4 - 8 working days
Atlas Teen Die Vergeet (Afrikaans, Paperback): Pirow Bekker Atlas Teen Die Vergeet (Afrikaans, Paperback)
Pirow Bekker
R58 Discovery Miles 580 Ships in 4 - 8 working days

Met die skerp waarnemingsvermoe eie aan sy skryfwerk bring Pirow Bekker met die bundel alledaagse gegewens opnuut onder die leser se aandag. Benewens die satiriese gedigte oor die aktuele werklikheid waarvoor Bekker ook bekend geword het, bevat die ses afdelings van die bundel ook mooi liefdesverse, gedigte oor die ouderdom en gedigte oor die verlange van ouers na hul kinders in die vreemde.

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