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The spectacular scenery of Cape Town's mountains and seascapes has
fascinated its citizens and visitors for centuries. This is the
story of how the City's early motorists opened up the Cape
Peninsula and its hinterland. The author of the difinitive
pictorial history, 'Early motoring in South Africa,' and Derek
Stuart-Findlay now reveal the story of the building of the All
round the Peninsula road, the first motor journeys over the
mountain passes to inland towns and coastal villages and incredible
journeys commencing from or ending in Africa's southernmost city.
Above all this is the story of many of the personalitites involved
in these adventures. Over 400 historic photographs reflect the
challenges, frustrations and humour involved in the first 40 years
of motoring in and around the Mother City.
Leonard Cohen was right in the middle of a career peak when he
released 1973's LIVE SONGS, which came in between two titanic
studio albums, SONGS OF LOVE & HATE and NEW SKIN FOR THE OLD
CEREMONY. But since much of the album was recorded during a 1970
tour, it consists mostly of songs from his second album, SONGS FROM
A ROOM. An ensemble including Charlie Daniels on fiddle and
Jennifer Warnes on backing vocals lends a good amount of oomph to
these tunes, but previously unreleased songs like "Queen Victoria"
and "Please Don't Pass Me By" (which never made it onto a studio
album) are among the most visceral and striking. Cohen would go on
to release three more live albums over the years, but this is
probably the best.
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Our Big Day (Hardcover)
Bob Johnston; Illustrated by Michael Emberley
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R386
R318
Discovery Miles 3 180
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Uncle David and Simon are going to get married! There's lots to do,
from making the invitations to arranging the decorations, but when
the wedding rings go missing just before the ceremony, Bear the dog
has to use all of his special skills to help save the day! A fun
and engaging picture book and a heart-warming celebration of love,
family, weddings and marriage equality.
New Morning is singer-songwriter Bob Dylan's 11th studio album,
released by Columbia Records in October 1970. Coming only four
months after the controversial Self Portrait, the more concise and
immediate New Morning won a much warmer reception from fans and
critics. Most welcome was the return of Dylan's more familiar,
nasally singing voice. However, on Alberta #1 (Self Portrait), he
has a slight nasal tone in his voice, but this was his first full
album with his familiar voice since John Wesley Harding in 1967 (he
had taken on an affected country croon since then).
Bob Johnston is a retired petroleum engineer and translator. His
published works include a number of papers in the scientific press
and eight books translated from Russian. He waited until his
sixtieth year to begin writing serious poetry, and over the next
thirty years he has been trying to catch up. His poetry and short
stories have been published in twenty-odd literary journals. He
lives in Las Vegas, New Mexico with his wife and some hope of
completing his memoirs and The Great American Novel.
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Minnie Pearl's Diary (Paperback)
Minnie Pearl; Edited by Ophelia Colley Cannon; Illustrated by Bob Johnstone
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R599
Discovery Miles 5 990
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Minnie Pearl's Diary (Hardcover)
Minnie Pearl; Edited by Ophelia Colley Cannon; Illustrated by Bob Johnstone
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R912
Discovery Miles 9 120
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Christians all over the world even today, who, in spite of the
availability of the knowledge of God's grace, continue to live
their lives without a real understanding of the marvel of that
Grace. Many continue to struggle in every area of their lives even
though some time ago they audibly invited Jesus into their lives to
save their souls. Sam presents some well-thought out reasons that
happens. Sam dearly wants his readers to encounter the eternal
loving and all-powerful God in a new living way and then to lead
productive and joyful lives in Christ. Through stories of people in
the Bible, his own encounter and of others all over the world who
have discovered the deeper well of God's grace and personal
involvement in their lives Sam leads us through a simple process so
we are brought to a new level of peace, love and joy we have not
known. Sam compares his encounter to being "arrested by God's
grace.
"What we all hope for our children's education is undiminished
curiosity and creativeness, and solid practical preparation for
adult work. Today, there's no doubt that easy access to computers
is vital for students. Bob Johnstone has brilliantly and
passionately told the story of the worldwide struggle to make
today's equivalent of the pencil accessible to all students."
--Victor K. McElheny, author of "Watson and DNA"
If every kid had a laptop computer, what would difference would
it make to their learning? And to their prospects? Today, these are
questions that all parents, teachers, school administrators, and
politicians must ask themselves.
Bob Johnstone provides a definitive answer to the conundrum of
computers in the classroom. His conclusion: we owe it to our kids
to educate them in the medium of their time.
In this book he tells the extraordinary story of the world's
first laptop school. How daring educators at an independent girls'
school in Melbourne, Australia, empowered their students by making
laptops mandatory. And how they solved all the obstacles to laptop
learning, including teacher training.
Their example spread to thousands of other schools worldwide.
Especially in America, where it inspired the largest educational
technology initiative in US history--the State of Maine issuing
laptops to every seventh-grader in its public school system.
This lively, intriguing, anecdote-rich account is based on
hundreds of interviews. In it, you'll meet the visionary leaders,
inspirational principals, heroic teachers, and their
endlessly-surprising students who showed what computers in the
classroom are really for.
"What we all hope for our children's education is undiminished
curiosity and creativeness, and solid practical preparation for
adult work. Today, there's no doubt that easy access to computers
is vital for students. Bob Johnstone has brilliantly and
passionately told the story of the worldwide struggle to make
today's equivalent of the pencil accessible to all students."
--Victor K. McElheny, author of "Watson and DNA"
If every kid had a laptop computer, what would difference would
it make to their learning? And to their prospects? Today, these are
questions that all parents, teachers, school administrators, and
politicians must ask themselves.
Bob Johnstone provides a definitive answer to the conundrum of
computers in the classroom. His conclusion: we owe it to our kids
to educate them in the medium of their time.
In this book he tells the extraordinary story of the world's
first laptop school. How daring educators at an independent girls'
school in Melbourne, Australia, empowered their students by making
laptops mandatory. And how they solved all the obstacles to laptop
learning, including teacher training.
Their example spread to thousands of other schools worldwide.
Especially in America, where it inspired the largest educational
technology initiative in US history--the State of Maine issuing
laptops to every seventh-grader in its public school system.
This lively, intriguing, anecdote-rich account is based on
hundreds of interviews. In it, you'll meet the visionary leaders,
inspirational principals, heroic teachers, and their
endlessly-surprising students who showed what computers in the
classroom are really for.
Music by Bob Johnston and Nancy White Book by Jeff Hochhauser
Lyrics by Nancy White, Bob Johnston and Jeff Hochhauser Based on
the novels Anne of Avonlea and Anne of the Island by L.M.
Montgomery Based on the sequel novels to Anne of Green Gables, this
new Canadian musical continues the story of Anne Shirley's life.
Set in the village of Avonlea and at Redmond College in Halifax,
Anne and Gilbert follows Anne's journey to young adulthood and her
romance with high school academic rival, Gilbert Blythe. Gilbert is
in love with Anne, but she seems to be immune to his declarations
of love. In the end, Anne realizes what everyone else already
knows: that Gilbert is the love of her life. "Anne and Gilbert is a
marvel." - The Toronto Star "When the curtain fell, I was
disappointed to see it all end." - Variety "It is funny, charming,
and musically and visually sensational. Writers, Jeff Hochauser,
Nancy White, and Bob Johnstone...have succeeded in grand fashion.
Refreshingly modern, Anne & Gilbert is magically artistic, and
oh so romantic " - The Buzz "Heartwarming, tear-inducing,
thoroughly satisfying" - The Halifax Chronicle Herald
Are the Japanese faceless clones who march in lockstep to the drums
beaten by big business and the bureaucrats of MITI, Japan's
miracle-working ministry of international trade and industry? Can
Japanese workers, and by extrapolation their entire society, be
characterized by deference to authority, devotion to group
solidarity, and management by consensus? In "We Were Burning,"
investigative journalist Bob Johnstone demolishes this misleading
stereotype by introducing us to a new and very different kind of
Japanese worker-a dynamic, iconoclastic, risk-taking
entrepreneur.Johnstone has tracked down Japan's invisible
entrepreneurs and persuaded them to tell their stories. He presents
here a wealth of new material, including interviews with key
players past and present, which lifts the veil that has hitherto
obscured the entrepreneurial nature of Japanese companies like
Canon, Casio, Seiko, Sharp, and Yamaha.Japanese entrepreneurs,
working in the consumer electronics industry during the 1960s and
70s, took unheralded American inventions such as microchip cameras,
liquid crystal displays, semiconductor lasers, and sound chips to
create products that have become indispensable, including digital
calculators and watches, synthesizers, camcorders, and compact disc
players. Johnstone follows a dozen micro-electronic technologies
from the U.S. labs where they originated to their eventual
appearance in the form of Japanese products, shedding new light on
the transnational nature of twentieth-century innovation, and on
why technologies take root and flourish in some places and not in
others.At this time of Asian financial crisis and the bursting of
Japan's bubble economy, many are tempted todismiss Japan's future
as an economic power. "We Were Burning" serves as a timely warning
that to write off Japan--and its invisible entrepreneurs--would be
a big mistake.
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