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Rebels And Rage - Reflecting On #FeesMustFall (Paperback): Adam Habib Rebels And Rage - Reflecting On #FeesMustFall (Paperback)
Adam Habib
R583 Discovery Miles 5 830 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

“Rebels And Rage is a critically important contribution to public discussion about #FeesMustFall”–Eusebius McKaiser

Adam Habib, the most prominent and outspoken university official through the recent student protests, takes a characteristically frank view of the past three years on South Africa’s campuses in this new book. Habib charts the progress of the student protests that erupted on Wits University campus in late 2015 and raged for the better part of three years, drawing on his own intimate involvement and negotiation with the students, and also records university management and government responses to the events. He critically examines the student movement and individual student leaders who emerged under the banners #feesmustfall and #Rhodesmustfall, and debates how to achieve truly progressive social change in South Africa, on our campuses and off.

This book is both an attempt at a historical account and a thoughtful reflection on the issues the protests kicked up, from the perspective not only of a high-ranking member of university management, but also Habib as political scientist with a background as an activist during the struggle against apartheid. Habib moves between reflecting on the events of the last three years on university campuses, and reimagining the future of South African higher education.

Studying While Black - Race, Education And Emancipation In South African Universities (Paperback): Sharlene Swartz, Alude... Studying While Black - Race, Education And Emancipation In South African Universities (Paperback)
Sharlene Swartz, Alude Mahali, Relebohile Moletsane, Emma Arogundade, Nene Ernest Khalema, …
R976 R862 Discovery Miles 8 620 Save R114 (12%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Between 2013 and 2017, a team of researchers from the Human Sciences Research Council undertook a longitudinal qualitative study that tracked eighty students from eight diverse universities in South Africa and documented their experiences at these higher education institutions. Midway through the study, the student protests erupted and focused national attention on many of the stories we had already heard. In the subsequent years of the study, we also heard from students who were actively involved in these transformation struggles as well as those who sat on the side-lines.

Studying While Black is an intimate portrait of the many ways in which students in South Africa experience university, and the centrality of race and geography in their quest for education and ultimately emancipation. Students voices can be heard directly in a 45 minute documentary that accompanied this study entitled Ready or Not!: Black students’ experiences of South African universities – freely available on social media.

Birds Of South Africa (Paperback): Adam Riley Birds Of South Africa (Paperback)
Adam Riley
R265 R212 Discovery Miles 2 120 Save R53 (20%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

The definitive photographic guide to the amazing avifauna of South Africa.

South Africa – from the vast savanna of Kruger to the unparalleled richness of the Cape – is one of the most biodiverse countries in the world, featuring the highest number of endemics of any African country, as well as rich seabird assemblage and vast numbers of more widespread yet no less spectacular African birds.

The perfect companion for any wildlife-friendly visitor, Birds of South Africa provides photographic coverage of more than 340 species that regularly occur in the region. Concise text for each species includes information on identification, songs and calls, behaviour, distribution and habitat, with each photo having been carefully selected to guide identification. A guide to the best birdwatching sites in South Africa is also included.

Portable yet authoritative, this is the perfect guide for travellers and birdwatchers visiting this spectacular and bird-rich destination.

Graded Questions On Auditing 2024 (Paperback): G. Richard, C. Roets, A. Adams, J.F. Jonck Graded Questions On Auditing 2024 (Paperback)
G. Richard, C. Roets, A. Adams, J.F. Jonck
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R620 R399 Discovery Miles 3 990 Save R221 (36%) In Stock

The purpose of this book is to provide Auditing students with revision and practice questions.

Solutions are available to prescribing lecturers.

Pleasures Of The Harbour (Paperback): Adam Kethro Pleasures Of The Harbour (Paperback)
Adam Kethro 2
R295 R236 Discovery Miles 2 360 Save R59 (20%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Adam Askew, a young man in a hurry, always wanted to be financially independent. Armed with guts, determination and a cocky self-assurance, he sets up a shipping company with a view to take on the world, one ton of cargo at a time.

Fed up with the cliquey set-up in Durban, he takes a gutsy gamble – the biggest risk of his life – one that will ultimately make or break him. He heads for the big city lights of swanky 80s Joburg and is soon wining and dining at the top of the Carlton, sipping the best champagne in London and making some enemies along the way.

Set in the closing decades of the 20th century in sanction-wracked South Africa, Pleasures of the Harbour navigates a world of dodgy business partners, dubious deals and a few failed attempts at love before Adam can finally, and honestly, say he’s made it.

Part adventure, part action, and lots of wheeling and dealing means readers are in for a rollicking ride in this highly entertaining novel that traverses the high seas and low roads of Southern Africa, while opening boardroom and a few bedroom doors along the way.

Die Maan Is Swart - Gedigte Van Adam Small (Afrikaans, Paperback): Adam Small, Ronelda Kamfer Die Maan Is Swart - Gedigte Van Adam Small (Afrikaans, Paperback)
Adam Small, Ronelda Kamfer 1
R315 R271 Discovery Miles 2 710 Save R44 (14%) Ships in 4 - 8 working days

Hierdie keur bevat van Adam Small se gewildste – en gee ook aandag aan sy minder bekende – gedigte. Die doel van hiedie versameling is om sy bydrae tot Suid-Afrikaanse letterkunde, en Kaaps, te vereer.

Die klem word geplaas op die tersaaklikheid en veelsydigheid van sy stem. Adam Small se eerste bundel het in 1957 verskyn en dekades later gee sy woorde steeds ’n stem aan die gemarginaliseerdes en die werkende stand.

Die maan is swart is saamgestel deur Ronelda S Kamfer.

White Chalk - Stories (Paperback): Terry-Ann Adams White Chalk - Stories (Paperback)
Terry-Ann Adams 1
R220 R172 Discovery Miles 1 720 Save R48 (22%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Following on from the critical acclaim of Those Who Live in Cages, Terry-Ann Adam’s latest book is a collection of short stories set in Eldorado Park, the site of Terry-Ann’s inspiration. Her sentences positively glow as she documents the wonders and sadnesses of everyday life. These rich and powerful stories confirm Terry-Ann Adams’ place as one of the brightest stars of new South African writing.

Everyday life in these stories centres can be pregnancy, death, getting the fahfee numbers from gran, what to wear to a matric ball if you are from Eldos and you want to look like Princess Diana. These stories are nothing short of miraculous and this fearless collection of stories takes the reader on an odyssey of love and grief.

Terry-Ann Adam’s peerless writing brims with fire and wonder. You will be provoked and you will exult. Above all, you’ll remember where you were when you read White Chalk.

Astrochimp (Paperback): David Walliams Astrochimp (Paperback)
David Walliams; Illustrated by Adam Stower
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R295 R195 Discovery Miles 1 950 Save R100 (34%) View more sellers In Stock

Chump the chimpanzee was always being silly.

He would make rude noises from BOTH ENDS, pick his nose with his little toe... and eat the skins of bananas, hurling out the tasty part inside. NASA's scientists thought he'd be the PERFECT chimp to send into space.

Little did Chump know that he had been selected for a deadly-dangerous mission. If a chimp could orbit Earth, then chances were a human could too. With Chump the chimp at the controls of a spacecraft, what could possibly go wrong? As it turned out, EVERYTHING.

Blast off with Chump, and encounter dog space pirates, evil insects, and the silliest chimpanzee who ever lived in this wildly funny space opera, fully illustrated in fantastic colour.

Hidden Potential - The Science Of Achieving Greater Things (Paperback): Adam Grant Hidden Potential - The Science Of Achieving Greater Things (Paperback)
Adam Grant
R410 R320 Discovery Miles 3 200 Save R90 (22%) In Stock

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again illuminates how we can elevate ourselves and others to unexpected heights.

We live in a world that's obsessed with talent. We celebrate gifted students in school, natural athletes in sports, and child prodigies in music. But admiring people who start out with innate advantages leads us to overlook the distance we ourselves can travel. We can all improve at improving. And when opportunity doesn't knock, there are ways to build a door.

Hidden Potential offers a new framework for raising aspirations and exceeding expectations. Adam Grant weaves together groundbreaking evidence, surprising insights, and vivid storytelling that takes us from the classroom to the boardroom, the playground to the Olympics, and underground to outer space. He shows that progress depends less on how hard you work than how well you learn. Growth is not about the genius you possess-it's about the character you develop. Grant explores how to build the character skills and motivational structures to realize our own potential, and how to design systems that create opportunities for those who have been underrated and overlooked.

This book reveals how anyone can rise to achieve greater things. The true measure of your potential is not the height of the peak you've reached, but how far you've climbed to get there.

The End Of Eden - Wild Nature In The Age Of Climate Breakdown (Paperback): Adam Welz The End Of Eden - Wild Nature In The Age Of Climate Breakdown (Paperback)
Adam Welz
R560 R448 Discovery Miles 4 480 Save R112 (20%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

A revelatory exploration of climate change from the perspective of wild species and natural ecosystems - an homage to the miraculous, vibrant entity that is life on Earth.

The stories we usually tell ourselves about climate change tend to focus on the damage inflicted on human societies by big storms, severe droughts, and rising sea levels. But the most powerful impacts are being and will be felt by the natural world and its myriad species, which are already in the midst of the sixth great extinction. Rising temperatures are fracturing ecosystems that took millions of years to evolve, disrupting the life forms they sustain - and in many cases driving them towards extinction. The natural Eden that humanity inherited is quickly slipping away.

Although we can never really know what a creature thinks or feels, The End of Eden invites the reader to meet wild species on their own terms in a range of ecosystems that span the globe. Combining classic natural history, first-hand reportage, and insights from cutting-edge research, Adam Welz brings us close to creatures like moose in northern Maine, parrots in Puerto Rico, cheetahs in Namibia, and rare fish in Australia as they struggle to survive. The stories are intimate yet expansive and always dramatic.

An exquisitely written and deeply researched exploration of wild species reacting to climate breakdown, The End of Eden offers a radical new kind of environmental journalism that connects humans to nature in a more empathetic way than ever before and galvanizes us to act in defense of the natural world before it's too late.

The Flame (Hardcover, Main): Leonard Cohen The Flame (Hardcover, Main)
Leonard Cohen; Foreword by Adam Cohen; Edited by Robert Faggen, Alexandra Pleshoyano 3
R745 R557 Discovery Miles 5 570 Save R188 (25%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

THESE POEMS AND NOTEBOOKS ARE THE LAST WORD FROM THE LATE, GREAT LEONARD COHEN.

The Flame is a stunning collection of Leonard Cohen's last poems and writings, selected and ordered by Cohen in the final months of his life. The book contains an extensive selection from Cohen's notebooks, featuring lyrics, prose pieces and illustrations, which he kept in poetic form throughout his life, and offers an unprecedentedly intimate look inside the life and mind of a singular artist and thinker. An enormously powerful final chapter in Cohen's storied literary career, The Flame showcases the full range of Leonard Cohen's lyricism, from the exquisitely transcendent to the darkly funny.

By turns devastatingly sad and winningly strange, these are the works of a poet and lyricist who has plumbed the depths of our darkest questions and come up wanting, yearning for more.

Bryan Adams - So Happy It Hurts (CD): Bryan Adams Bryan Adams - So Happy It Hurts (CD)
Bryan Adams
R412 Discovery Miles 4 120 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Marmalade - The Orange Panda (Paperback): David Walliams Marmalade - The Orange Panda (Paperback)
David Walliams; Illustrated by Adam Stower
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R240 R165 Discovery Miles 1 650 Save R75 (31%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Cuddle up and laugh with this heart-warming and funny new children’s picture book from number-one bestselling author David Walliams, gloriously illustrated by the awesome Adam Stower!

One morning, deep in the forest, a beautiful baby panda was born. The panda was different to all the others, as he had dazzling orange fur.

“I will call you Marmalade,” his mummy whispered. . .

Meet Marmalade, the little panda who goes on a big adventure as he sets off to explore the forest one day to find where he belongs. Along the way, he meets all sorts of animals . . . until he sees he has come full circle and is back home with his mum, which is where he always did belong, of course!

This gorgeous and endearing story is a celebration of family love, being yourself and finding your place in the world. It is the perfect story to share with your special someone – big or little.

The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy (With Previously Unseen Archive Material) (Paperback, 42nd Anniversary... The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy (With Previously Unseen Archive Material) (Paperback, 42nd Anniversary Edition)
Douglas Adams
R360 R281 Discovery Miles 2 810 Save R79 (22%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

A special 42nd anniversary edition of Douglas Adams' mega-selling cult classic: now in one handy paperback volume!

A phenomenon across all formats, this 42nd anniversary paperback omnibus contains the complete Hitchhiker's Guide trilogy in five parts, charting the whole of Arthur Dent's odyssey through space and time. Share and enjoy.

Collected together in this omnibus are the five titles that comprise Douglas Adams' wildly popular and wholly remarkable comedy science fiction 'trilogy', introductions to each book, expanded material from the Douglas Adams archives plus a bonus short story, Young Zaphod Plays It Safe, and a special undeleted scene.

Before I Go to Sleep (DVD): Nicole Kidman, Anne-Marie Duff, Adam Levy, Charlie Gardner, Mark Strong, Jing Lusi, Dean-Charles... Before I Go to Sleep (DVD)
Nicole Kidman, Anne-Marie Duff, Adam Levy, Charlie Gardner, Mark Strong, …
R43 Discovery Miles 430 Ships in 10 - 20 working days

Nicole Kidman, Colin Firth and Mark Strong star in this adaptation of the bestselling novel by S. J. Watson.

Christine Lucas (Kidman) suffers from anterograde amnesia, waking up every day without any knowledge of who she is. Christine regularly visits Dr. Nash (Strong) who, with the help of her understanding husband Ben (Firth), is assisting her with the recovery of her memories.

When Dr. Nash takes her to the place where she was attacked to try to reconstruct the event in her mind, Christine realises that she may be better off not remembering...

The Twilight Garden (Paperback): Sara Nisha Adams The Twilight Garden (Paperback)
Sara Nisha Adams
R380 R304 Discovery Miles 3 040 Save R76 (20%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

In a small pocket of London, between the houses of No.77 and No.79 Eastbourne Road, lies a neglected community garden. Once a sanctuary for people when they needed it most, the garden’s gate is now firmly closed. And that’s exactly how Winston at No.79 likes it – anything to avoid his irritating new next-door neighbour.

But when a mystery parcel drops on Winston’s doormat – a curious bundle of photographs of a community garden, HIS garden, bursting with life years ago – a seed of an idea is planted.

Somewhere out there, a secret gardener made a decades-old promise to keep the community’s spirit alive. And now it’s time for The Twilight Garden to come out of hibernation...

Sweeping through the 1970s to a modern corner of London, this is a life-affirming story of small spaces, small pleasures – and a community lost and found.

Batman v Superman - Dawn Of Justice (Ultimate Edition 4K Ultra HD) (Blu-ray disc): Ben Affleck, Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Jesse... Batman v Superman - Dawn Of Justice (Ultimate Edition 4K Ultra HD) (Blu-ray disc)
Ben Affleck, Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Jesse Eisenberg, Gal Gadot; Directed by … 3
R549 Discovery Miles 5 490 Ships in 10 - 20 working days

The battle intensifies in the Ultimate Edition

In this no-holds-barred Ultimate Edition, with 30 minutes of additional footage not seen in cinemas, titans of justice Batman/Bruce Wayne (Ben Affleck) and Superman/ Clark Kent (Henry Cavill) face off in the most anticipated showdown of our time. But while Gotham City’s formidable vigilante takes on Metropolis’ revered saviour, the world wrestles with what sort of hero it really needs... and a new danger arises to threaten all of humanity.

Private Beijing (Paperback): James Patterson, Adam Hamdy Private Beijing (Paperback)
James Patterson, Adam Hamdy
R320 R256 Discovery Miles 2 560 Save R64 (20%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

A brutal attack. An agent on the run.

Private Beijing is left devastated after an attack sees its lead agent, Lee Sheung, captured. With Private now under scrutiny by the Beijing police, Sheung's second-in-command calls on Jack Morgan, global head of the world's finest PI agency, to investigate.

As more Private detectives find themselves in the firing line, Justine Smith conducts her own investigation in New York and quickly becomes entangled in a web of deceit. It's clear the conspiracy is closer to home than first thought.

And as Jack works in unfamiliar territory, a ghost from the past is on his tail...

Accounting for Attorneys (Paperback, 3rd Edition): G. Adams, S. de Lange, A. Storm Accounting for Attorneys (Paperback, 3rd Edition)
G. Adams, S. de Lange, A. Storm
R652 R603 Discovery Miles 6 030 Save R49 (8%) Ships in 4 - 8 working days
Star Wars: Episode 9 - The Rise Of Skywalker (DVD): Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Adam Driver, Oscar Isaac Star Wars: Episode 9 - The Rise Of Skywalker (DVD)
Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Adam Driver, Oscar Isaac
R74 Discovery Miles 740 Ships in 10 - 20 working days

The surviving Resistance faces the First Order once more as an old threat makes itself known once more.

Journey to a galaxy far, far away for the riveting conclusion of the Skywalker saga, where new legends will be born and the final battle for freedom is yet to come.

Shutdown - How Covid Shook The World's Economy (Paperback): Adam Tooze Shutdown - How Covid Shook The World's Economy (Paperback)
Adam Tooze
R534 R437 Discovery Miles 4 370 Save R97 (18%) View more sellers In Stock

From the author of Crashed comes a gripping short history of how Covid-19 ravaged the global economy, and where it leaves us now.

When the news first began to trickle out of China about a new virus in December 2019, risk-averse financial markets were alert to its potential for disruption. Yet they could never have predicted the total economic collapse that would follow in COVID-19's wake, as stock markets fell faster and harder than at any time since 1929, currencies across the world plunged, investors panicked, and even gold was sold. In a matter of weeks, the world's economy was brought to an abrupt halt by governments trying to contain a spiralling public health catastrophe.

Flights were grounded; supply chains broken; industries from tourism to oil to hospitality collapsed overnight, leaving hundreds of millions of people unemployed. Central banks responded with unprecedented interventions, just to keep their economies on life-support. For the first time since the second world war, the entire global economic system contracted. This book tells the story of that shutdown. We do not yet know how this story ends, or what new world we will find on the other side.

In this fast-paced, compelling and at times shocking analysis, Adam Tooze surveys the wreckage, and looks at where we might be headed next.

The First to Die at the End - TikTok made me buy it! The prequel to THEY BOTH DIE AT THE END (Paperback): Adam Silvera The First to Die at the End - TikTok made me buy it! The prequel to THEY BOTH DIE AT THE END (Paperback)
Adam Silvera
R265 R212 Discovery Miles 2 120 Save R53 (20%) In Stock

In this prequel to the NO. 1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING phenomenon of TIKTOK fame, They Both Die at the End, two new strangers spend a life-changing day together after Death-Cast make their first fateful calls. ‘If They Both Die at the End broke your heart and put it back together again, be prepared for this novel to do the same. A tender, sad, hopeful and youthful story that deserves as much love as its predecessor.’ Culturefly '[A] heart-pounding story [full] of emotion and suspense.' Kirkus  'An extraordinary book with a riveting plot.' Booklist Meet Orion and Valentino.    It’s the night before Death-Cast goes live, and there’s one question on everyone’s mind: Can Death-Cast actually predict death, or is it an elaborate hoax? Orion Pagan has waited years for someone to tell him that he’s going to die, given his serious heart condition. Valentino Prince has a long and promising future ahead of him and only registered for Death-Cast after his twin sister nearly died in a car accident.   Orion and Valentino cross paths in Times Square and immediately feel a deep connection. But when the first End Day calls go out, their lives are changed for ever – one of them receives a call . . . the other doesn’t.   Told with acclaimed author Adam Silvera’s signature bittersweet touch, this story celebrates the lasting impact that people have on each other and proves that life is always worth living to the fullest.    PRAISE FOR ADAM SILVERA: 'There isn't a teenager alive who won't find their heart described perfectly on these pages.' Patrick Ness, author of The Knife of Never Letting Go 'Adam Silvera is a master at capturing the infinite small heartbreaks of love and loss and grief.' Nicola Yoon, author of Everything, Everything  'A phenomenal talent.' Juno Dawson, author of Clean and Wonderland 'Bold and haunting.' Lauren Oliver, author of Delirium

Infinity Kings - The Infinity Cycle: Book 3 (Paperback): Adam Silvera Infinity Kings - The Infinity Cycle: Book 3 (Paperback)
Adam Silvera
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R295 R236 Discovery Miles 2 360 Save R59 (20%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

In this epic conclusion to the New York Times bestselling Infinity Cycle, two brothers find themselves in a heartbreaking war against one another.

After the ultimate betrayal, Emil must rise up as a leader to stop his brother before he becomes too powerful. Even if that means pushing away Ness and Wyatt as they compete for his heart so he can focus on the war.

Brighton has a legion of followers at his command, but when he learns about an ancient scythe that can kill the unkillable, that’s all he will need to become unstoppable against Emil and other rising threats.

Meanwhile, Maribelle aligns with her greatest enemy to resurrect her lost love, and Ness infiltrates political circles to stop Iron from ruling the country, but both missions lead to tragedies that will change everyone’s lives forever.

As the Infinity Son and the Infinity Reaper go to war, who will be crowned the Infinity King?

Dark White Light Black (Paperback): Malvory Adams Dark White Light Black (Paperback)
Malvory Adams
R220 R172 Discovery Miles 1 720 Save R48 (22%) In Stock

First published in Afrikaans as "Als Is Nie Net Swart En Wit Nie, this expanded memoir probes some of the most pivotal issues facing South Africa today: race, ‘othering’, unremembering, identity, gangsterism, addiction, and the process of making meaning of a society that has become unhinged from its moorings.

Malvory Adams is an author and veteran journalist who served as an editorial executive at mainstream newspapers such as City Press, Sowetan, Die Burger, Beeld and Son. At present, he plies his trade as a News Bulletin Writer at Afrikaanse TV-Nuus on SABC2. Away from the newsroom, he is the singer-songwriter MeZZo.

He walks with the reader through a lion-hearted personal lens and through the purgatory of his travelogue, which starts 15 years before his birth in the tiny Eastern Cape hamlet of Breidbach. He dramatically recounts how his German grandfather robbed him of his grandparents. Premised on that epoch-making deed, he takes the reader on a painful journey of uprooting, an agonising coming of age, and the intricacies of navigating cultural belongings and a bloodline concoction. Next, he plummets horrifyingly into a netherworld of alcoholism culminating in a spine-chilling desperate act.

On this treacherous odyssey to restoration and redemption, the veils of darkness lift, and he now lives in a world that is not stark black and white but where the grey mitigates the storms.

Mr Men Little Miss: The Baby Dinosaur: Roger Hargreaves, Adam Hargreaves Mr Men Little Miss: The Baby Dinosaur
Roger Hargreaves, Adam Hargreaves
R240 R192 Discovery Miles 1 920 Save R48 (20%) Pre-order
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