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The Island of Desire - The Story of a South Sea Trader (Hardcover): Robert Dean Frisbie The Island of Desire - The Story of a South Sea Trader (Hardcover)
Robert Dean Frisbie
R561 Discovery Miles 5 610 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Handbook on Climate Change and Disasters (Hardcover): Rajib Shaw Handbook on Climate Change and Disasters (Hardcover)
Rajib Shaw
R7,876 Discovery Miles 78 760 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This comprehensive Handbook assesses the escalation of global natural disasters as a result of climate change. Examining the complex interplay of human and natural activities, it highlights the growing vulnerability of people and communities in developing countries to floods, landslides, cyclones, heat waves and wildfires. The Handbook opens with a global framework analysis, outlining the implications of the UN Sustainable Development Goals, the Paris Agreement and the Sendai Framework for disaster risk reduction. International contributors address the roles of stakeholders in mitigating climate hazards, as well as offer detailed analysis of cross-cutting issues, including poverty, health, education and gender. Concluding chapters address the future of climate change mitigation and disaster protection, exploring the growing role of emerging technologies in disaster resilience and sustainable development. Bringing together cutting-edge research from renowned global scholars and professionals, this Handbook offers key insights for researchers and students of environmental studies and development studies, particularly those focusing on natural disasters and climate technologies. The empirical data and case analysis will also benefit practitioners, professionals and policymakers working in climate risk relief.

Life on the Line in Contemporary Manufacturing - The Workplace Experience of Lean Production and the `Japanese' Model... Life on the Line in Contemporary Manufacturing - The Workplace Experience of Lean Production and the `Japanese' Model (Hardcover)
Rick Delbridge
R5,773 Discovery Miles 57 730 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Much is stated and written about the new world of work but how much do we know about the contemporary workplace? What influence have Japanese management techniques (Just-in-Time Production and Total Quality Management, for example) had on the way work is organized in `transplants', and more broadly in other firms and sectors? Have the systems and mechanisms of control changed radically in recent years, or are they much the same as they have always been? Rick Delbridge sought an answer to these questions at first hand by working on the shopfloor in a Japanese consumer electronics transplant and a European automotive components supplier in order to witness and experience life on the line in contemporary manufacturing. His book is in a long tradition of ethnographic research in industrial sociology and management/labour studies. Not only does he offer rich empirical data on the lived reality of work and a management practice that may share little in common with that found in the textbooks; he also raises a number of important issues about the best ways to understand the complex and changing nature of work. The book will be essential reading for those wishing to understand the reality of the contemporary workplace, the diffusion of Japanese management practices, and the various influences brought to bear on the organization of work.

Testing Hearing - The Making of Modern Aurality (Hardcover): Viktoria Tkaczyk, Mara Mills, Alexandra Hui Testing Hearing - The Making of Modern Aurality (Hardcover)
Viktoria Tkaczyk, Mara Mills, Alexandra Hui
R3,181 Discovery Miles 31 810 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Testing Hearing: The Making of Modern Aurality argues that the modern cultural practices of hearing and testing have emerged from a long interrelationship. Since the early nineteenth century, auditory test tools (whether organ pipes or electronic tone generators) and the results of hearing tests have fed back into instrument calibration, human training, architecture, and the creation of new musical sounds. Hearing tests received a further boost around 1900 as a result of injury compensation laws and state and professional demands for aptitude testing in schools, conservatories, the military, and other fields. Applied at large scale, tests of seemingly small measure-of auditory acuity, of hearing range-helped redefine the modern concept of hearing as such. During the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, the epistemic function of hearing expanded. Hearing took on the dual role of test object and test instrument; in the latter case, human hearing became a gauge by which to evaluate or regulate materials, nonhuman organisms, equipment, and technological systems. This book considers both the testing of hearing and testing with hearing to explore the co-creation of modern epistemic and auditory cultures. The book's twelve contributors trace the design of ever more specific tests for the arts, education and communication, colonial and military applications, sociopolitical and industrial endeavors. Together, they demonstrate that testing as such became an enduring and wide-ranging cultural technique in the modern period, one that is situated between histories of scientific experimentation and many fields of application.

Manipulation - Theory and Practice (Hardcover): Christian Coons, Michael Weber Manipulation - Theory and Practice (Hardcover)
Christian Coons, Michael Weber
R3,977 Discovery Miles 39 770 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In all groups - from couples to nation-states - people influence one another. Much of this influence is benign, for example giving advice to friends or serving as role models for our children and students. Some forms of influence, however, are clearly morally suspect, such as threats of violence and blackmail. A great deal of attention has been paid to one form of morally suspect influence, namely coercion. Less attention has been paid to what might be a more pervasive form of influence: manipulation. The essays in this volume address this relative imbalance by focusing on manipulation, examining its nature, moral status, and its significance in personal and social life. They address a number of central questions: What counts as manipulation? How is it distinguished from coercion and ordinary rational persuasion? Is it always wrong, or can it sometimes be justified, and if so, when? Is manipulative influence more benign than coercion? Can one manipulate unintentionally? How does being manipulated to act bear on one's moral responsibly for so acting? Given various answers to these questions, what should we think of practices such as advertising and seduction?

Come As You Are - The Surprising New Science That Will Transform Your Sex Life (Paperback, Revised And Updated): Emily Nagoski Come As You Are - The Surprising New Science That Will Transform Your Sex Life (Paperback, Revised And Updated)
Emily Nagoski
R574 R455 Discovery Miles 4 550 Save R119 (21%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A revised and updated edition of Emily Nagoski’s game-changing New York Times bestseller Come As You Are, featuring new information and research on mindfulness, desire, and pleasure that will radically transform your sex life.

For much of the 20th and 21st centuries, women’s sexuality was an uncharted territory in science, studied far less frequently—and far less seriously—than its male counterpart.

That is, until Emily Nagoski’s Come As You Are, which used groundbreaking science and research to prove that the most important factor in creating and sustaining a sex life filled with confidence and joy is not what the parts are or how they’re organized but how you feel about them. In the years since the book’s initial publication, countless women have learned through Nagoski’s accessible and informative guide that things like stress, mood, trust, and body image are not peripheral factors in a woman’s sexual wellbeing; they are central to it—and that even if you don’t always feel like it, you are already sexually whole by just being yourself.

This revised and updated edition continues that mission with new information and advanced research, demystifying and decoding the science of sex so that everyone can create a better sex life and discover more pleasure than you ever thought possible.

Black Natural Law (Hardcover): Vincent W. Lloyd Black Natural Law (Hardcover)
Vincent W. Lloyd
R1,913 Discovery Miles 19 130 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Black Natural Law offers a new way of understanding the African American political tradition. Iconoclastically attacking left (including James Baldwin and Audre Lorde), right (including Clarence Thomas and Ben Carson), and center (Barack Obama), Vincent William Lloyd charges that many Black leaders today embrace secular, white modes of political engagement, abandoning the deep connections between religious, philosophical, and political ideas that once animated Black politics. By telling the stories of Frederick Douglass, Anna Julia Cooper, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Martin Luther King, Jr., Lloyd shows how appeals to a higher law, or God's law, have long fueled Black political engagement. Such appeals do not seek to implement divine directives on earth; rather, they pose a challenge to the wisdom of the world, and they mobilize communities for collective action. Black natural law is deeply democratic: while charismatic leaders may provide the occasion for reflection and mobilization, all are capable of discerning the higher law using our human capacities for reason and emotion. At a time when continuing racial injustice poses a deep moral challenge, the most powerful intellectual resources in the struggle for justice have been abandoned. Black Natural Law recovers a rich tradition, and it examines just how this tradition was forgotten. A Black intellectual class emerged that was disconnected from social movement organizing and beholden to white interests. Appeals to higher law became politically impotent: overly rational or overly sentimental. Recovering the Black natural law tradition provides a powerful resource for confronting police violence, mass incarceration, and today's gross racial inequities. Black Natural Law will change the way we understand natural law, a topic central to the Western ethical and political tradition. While drawing particularly on African American resources, Black Natural Law speaks to all who seek politics animated by justice.

Anthro-Vision - A New Way to See in Business and Life (Paperback): Gillian Tett Anthro-Vision - A New Way to See in Business and Life (Paperback)
Gillian Tett
R483 R414 Discovery Miles 4 140 Save R69 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Dispossession without Development - Land Grabs in Neoliberal India (Hardcover): Michael Levien Dispossession without Development - Land Grabs in Neoliberal India (Hardcover)
Michael Levien
R3,398 Discovery Miles 33 980 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Since the mid-2000s, India has been beset by widespread farmer protests against land dispossession. Dispossession Without Development demonstrates that beneath these conflicts lay a profound shift in regimes of dispossession. While the postcolonial Indian state dispossessed land mostly for public-sector industry and infrastructure, since the 1990s state governments have become land brokers for private real estate capital. Using the case of a village in Rajasthan that was dispossessed for a private Special Economic Zone, the book ethnographically illustrates the exclusionary trajectory of capitalism driving dispossession in contemporary India. Taking us into the lives of diverse villagers in "Rajpura," the book meticulously documents the destruction of agricultural livelihoods, the marginalization of rural labor, the spatial uneveness of infrastructure provision, and the dramatic consequences of real estate speculation for social inequality and village politics. Illuminating the structural underpinnings of land struggles in contemporary India, this book will resonate in any place where "land grabs" have fueled conflict in recent years.

Muslim Peoples, v. 1 - A World Ethnographic Survey (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition): Richard V. Weekes Muslim Peoples, v. 1 - A World Ethnographic Survey (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition)
Richard V. Weekes
R3,201 Discovery Miles 32 010 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Reversing Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) - Overcoming Cravings The Raw Vegan Plant-Based Detoxification & Regeneration Workbook for... Reversing Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) - Overcoming Cravings The Raw Vegan Plant-Based Detoxification & Regeneration Workbook for Healing Patients. Volume 3 (Paperback)
Health Central
R454 Discovery Miles 4 540 In Stock
Reversing Premature Ovarian Failure - As God Intended The Raw Vegan Plant-Based Detoxification & Regeneration Workbook for... Reversing Premature Ovarian Failure - As God Intended The Raw Vegan Plant-Based Detoxification & Regeneration Workbook for Healing Patients. Volume 1 (Paperback)
Health Central
R457 Discovery Miles 4 570 In Stock
Reversing Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) - As God Intended The Raw Vegan Plant-Based Detoxification & Regeneration Workbook for... Reversing Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) - As God Intended The Raw Vegan Plant-Based Detoxification & Regeneration Workbook for Healing Patients. Volume 1 (Paperback)
Health Central
R457 Discovery Miles 4 570 In Stock
Reversing Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) Naturally The Raw Vegan Plant-Based Detoxification & Regeneration Workbook for Healing... Reversing Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) Naturally The Raw Vegan Plant-Based Detoxification & Regeneration Workbook for Healing Patients. Volume 2 (Paperback)
Health Central
R455 Discovery Miles 4 550 In Stock
Gentle And Lowly - The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers (Hardcover): Dane C. Ortlund Gentle And Lowly - The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers (Hardcover)
Dane C. Ortlund
R450 R375 Discovery Miles 3 750 Save R75 (17%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

“I have read no book that more carefully, thoroughly, and tenderly displays Christ’s heart.” — Paul David Tripp, President, Paul Tripp Ministries; author, New Morning Mercies and My Heart Cries Out

Christians know what Jesus Christ has done—but who is he? What is his deepest heart for his people, weary and faltering on their journey toward heaven? Jesus said he is “gentle and lowly in heart.” This book reflects on these words, opening up a neglected yet central truth about who he is for sinners and sufferers today.

Assembling Tomorrow - A Guide To Designing A Thriving Future From The Stanford d.school (Hardcover): Scott Doorley, Carissa... Assembling Tomorrow - A Guide To Designing A Thriving Future From The Stanford d.school (Hardcover)
Scott Doorley, Carissa Carter
R906 R770 Discovery Miles 7 700 Save R136 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A powerful guide to why even the most well-intentioned innovations go haywire, and the surprising ways we can change course to create a more positive future, by two celebrated experts working at the intersection of design, technology, and learning at Stanford University’s acclaimed d.school.

In Assembling Tomorrow, authors Scott Doorley and Carissa Carter explore the intangible forces that prevent us from anticipating just how fantastically technology can get out of control, and what might be in store for us if we don’t start using new tools and tactics. Despite our best intentions, our most transformative innovations tend to have consequences we can’t always predict. From the effects of social media to the uncertainty of AI and the consequences of climate change, the outcomes of our creations ripple across our lives. Time and again, our seemingly ceaseless capacity to create rubs up against our limited capacity to understand our impact.

Assembling Tomorrow explores how to use readily accessible tools to both mend the mistakes of our past and shape our future for the better. We live in an era of “runaway design,” where innovations tangle with our lives in unpredictable ways. This book explores the off-­­kilter feelings of today and follows up with actionables to alter your perspective and help you find opportunities in these turbulent times.

Mixed throughout are histories of the future, short pieces of speculative fiction that imagine the future as if it has already happened and consider the past with a critical yet hopeful eye so that all of us—as designers of our own futures—can create a better world for generations to come.

Portraits From The Pandemic (Paperback, Mini-Edition): Karin-Therese Howell Portraits From The Pandemic (Paperback, Mini-Edition)
Karin-Therese Howell
R200 R156 Discovery Miles 1 560 Save R44 (22%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

A watercolour journey through the experiences of the forest folk during the pandemic.

This book introduces a series of characters, each with a personal struggle, often presented with a humoristic twist, and how they have dealt with it during a particularly trying time. The characters, although fictional, capture the struggles of many, even those who attempt to conceal theirs.

The overall theme is that we are all united in our struggles and challenges. The artworks are authentic, and although the pages were edited to blend with the text, the watercolour is unedited. The various textures and techniques match the characters’ personalities. The book has a distinctly South African flavour with international appeal.

Raising Bean - Essays on Laughing and Living (Paperback): W. S. Penn Raising Bean - Essays on Laughing and Living (Paperback)
W. S. Penn
R516 R444 Discovery Miles 4 440 Save R72 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Essays from a Native American grandfather to help navigate life's difficult experiences. Offered in the oral traditions of the Nez Perce, Native American writer W. S. Penn records the conversations he held with his granddaughter, lovingly referred to as ""Bean,"" as he guided her toward adulthood while confronting society's interest in possessions, fairness, and status. Drawing on his own family history and Native mythology, Penn charts a way through life where each endeavor is a journey-an opportunity to love, to learn, or to interact-rather than the means to a prize at the end. Divided into five parts, Penn addresses topics such as the power of words, race and identity, school, and how to be. In the essay "In the Nick of Names," Penn takes an amused look at the words we use for people and how their power, real or imagined, can alter our perception of an entire group. To Have and On Hold is an essay about wanting to assimilate into a group but at the risk of losing a good bit of yourself. "A Harvest Moon" is a humorous anecdote about a Native grandfather visiting his granddaughter's classroom and the absurdities of being a professional Indian. "Not Nobody" uses "Be All that You Can Be Week" at Bean's school to reveal the lessons and advantages of being a "nobody." In "From Paper to Person," Penn imagines the joy that may come to Bean when she spends time with her Paper People-three-foot-tall drawings, mounted on stiff cardboard-and as she grows into a young woman like her mom, able to say she is a person who is happy with what she has and not sorry for what she doesn't. Comical and engaging, the essays in Raising Bean will appeal to readers of all backgrounds and interests, especially those with a curiosity in language, perception, humor, and the ways in which Native people guide their families and friends with stories.

Language, society and communication - An introduction (Paperback, 2nd ed): Z. Bock, G. Mheta Language, society and communication - An introduction (Paperback, 2nd ed)
Z. Bock, G. Mheta
R670 R620 Discovery Miles 6 200 Save R50 (7%) In Stock

We live in a multilingual, transforming society in which language plays a dynamic and central role. We use it every day for communication and it is not possible to imagine life without it - it is generally recognised as a mark of what makes us human. But how often do we think about exactly what language is and how we actually use it? Language, society and communication introduces established and new linguistic concepts and theories, and links these to contemporary issues in society and the media, including new social media, with a particular focus on southern Africa. Language, society and communication explores how language is intricately bound up with issues of power, status and identity. It explores the tension between the diverse nature of everyday language practices, on the one hand, and the societal pressures towards managing and containing this diversity, on the other. It also demonstrates the relevance of linguistic study (e.g. phonology and syntax) to real world problems (e.g. analysis of a child's acquisition of language), within a southern African context. Study questions and case studies, which relate the theoretical ideas discussed to current research, are provided at the end of each chapter. Language, society and communication is aimed at undergraduate students studying linguistics, language and communication and related fields such as language education.

Islam, Secularism, and Liberal Democracy - Toward a Democratic Theory for Muslim Societies (Hardcover): Nader Hashemi Islam, Secularism, and Liberal Democracy - Toward a Democratic Theory for Muslim Societies (Hardcover)
Nader Hashemi
R2,562 Discovery Miles 25 620 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Islam's relationship to liberal-democratic politics has emerged as one of the most pressing and contentious issues in international affairs. This book analyzes the relationship between religion, secularism, and liberal democracy, both theoretically and in the context of the contemporary Muslim world. This book challenges a widely held belief among social scientists that religious politics and liberal-democratic development are structurally incompatible. While there are certainly tensions between Islam and democracy -- Hashemi draws on Iran as an example -- the two are not irreconcilable. He affirms the need for political secularism in order for liberal democracy to flourish, and examines how Muslim societies can develop the political secularism required for liberal democracy when the main political, cultural and intellectual resources that are available are religious. Hashemi argues that democratization and liberalization do not necessarily require a rejection or privatization of religion but do require a reinterpretation of religious ideas about the moral basis of legitimate political authority and individual rights. In fact, he shows, liberal democracy in the West often developed not in strict opposition to religious politics but in concert with it. Hashemi argues that an indigenous theory of Muslim secularism -- similar to what developed in the Christian West -- is possible and a necessary requirement for the advancement of liberal democracy in Muslim societies.

Whistled - A Memoir of Achievement, Betrayal, and the Search for Self-Worth (Paperback): Dawn Duhamel Whistled - A Memoir of Achievement, Betrayal, and the Search for Self-Worth (Paperback)
Dawn Duhamel
R414 R357 Discovery Miles 3 570 Save R57 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Jesus Takes a Side - Embracing the Political Demands of the Gospel (Paperback): Jonny Rashid Jesus Takes a Side - Embracing the Political Demands of the Gospel (Paperback)
Jonny Rashid
R436 R369 Discovery Miles 3 690 Save R67 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Making of Apartheid, 1948-1961 - Conflict and Compromise (Hardcover): Deborah Posel The Making of Apartheid, 1948-1961 - Conflict and Compromise (Hardcover)
Deborah Posel
R3,012 Discovery Miles 30 120 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Deborah Posel breaks new ground in exposing some of the crucial political processes and struggles which shaped the reciprocal development of Apartheid and capitalism in South Africa. Her analysis debunks the orthodoxy view which presents apartheid as the product of a single `grand plan', created by the State in response to the pressures of capital accumulation. Using as a case study influx control during the first phase of apartheid (1948-1961), she shows that apartheid arose from complex patterns of conflict and compromise within the State, in which white capitalists, the black working class, and popular movements exercised varying and uneven degrees of influence. Her book integrates a detailed empirical analysis of the capitalist State and its relationship to class interests.

Youth and the Mystery Wall (Paperback, First): Phil Frampton Youth and the Mystery Wall (Paperback, First)
Phil Frampton; Illustrated by Emily Mulenga
R415 Discovery Miles 4 150 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Jesus Takes a Side - Embracing the Political Demands of the Gospel (Hardcover): Jonny Rashid Jesus Takes a Side - Embracing the Political Demands of the Gospel (Hardcover)
Jonny Rashid
R733 R621 Discovery Miles 6 210 Save R112 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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