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The Essential Driver's Handbook - What to Do in the Event of an Accident, Roadside First-aid, Safety Tips for Lone Drivers... The Essential Driver's Handbook - What to Do in the Event of an Accident, Roadside First-aid, Safety Tips for Lone Drivers & Much More (Paperback)
Bruce Grant-Braham
R297 R265 Discovery Miles 2 650 Save R32 (11%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Emergency situations can occur without warning and in any condition - day or night, in fine or inclement weather. This book shows you what to do in the event of an accident, whatever the severity. Practical roadside first aid basics are addressed, as are the practical and legal obligations for all those who may be involved, and explanations of what the emergency services will do, and why. Other situations addressed include how to avoid problems as a lone driver, as well as situations such as car-jacking. Finally, car parks, and their own specific security problems, are discussed.

Social Change and Psychosocial Adaptation in the Pacific Islands - Cultures in Transition (Hardcover, 2005 ed.): Anthony J... Social Change and Psychosocial Adaptation in the Pacific Islands - Cultures in Transition (Hardcover, 2005 ed.)
Anthony J Marsella, Ayda Aukahi Austin, Bruce Grant
R2,824 Discovery Miles 28 240 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This volume is the product of an international gathering of scholars and healthprofessionalsinHonolulu,Hawaii,forthespeci?cpurposeofdo- menting and understanding the wide-ranging psychosocial consequences of rapid social change among people of Paci?c Island nations. In the wide expanse of the Paci?c Ocean, there are scores of nations and an untold number of cultural traditions. This area has been the scene of rapid social change since the Paci?c Island people began contact with the Western and Eastern worlds through exploration, commerce, and religious mission- ies. These changes led to the collapse and decimation of many groups as challengestotraditionalwaysoflifesoonexceededtheircapacitytoendure and survive. Today, from Australia's Aboriginal peoples in the South to the Hawaii's Native Hawaiian (Kanaka Maoli) people in the North, there is a resurgence of cultural pride and efforts to renew ties with past. From Po- nesia (e. g. , Hawaii, Samoa) to Micronesia (e. g. , Chuuk, Pohnpei, Palau) to Melanesia (e. g. , Solomon Islands, New Guinea), the indigenous p- ple of the Paci?c are continuing their struggle to survive amidst a rapidly changingworldinwhichbasicandfundamentalvaluesandlifestyles? nd themselvesincon?ictwithwaysoflifethatemphasizealienvaluessuchas individuality, materialism, competition, and change. These words are not meant to idealize the traditional cultures of the Paci?c Island people for they have often been characterized by aggression, hostility, and destr- tion of one another in the course of their history. Yet, it is clear that never hastherebeensuchsomanyandsopotentexternalforceschallengingtheir existence. Westernization can now be found throughout the Paci?c Islands with the exception of a few isolated regions in Melanesia and Micronesia.

How to Make Cowboy Horse Gear (Paperback, 2): Bruce Grant How to Make Cowboy Horse Gear (Paperback, 2)
Bruce Grant
R386 R293 Discovery Miles 2 930 Save R93 (24%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The gear illustrated and described in this book is made of rawhide. However, leather thongs and plastic string can be worked in the same manner. The illustrations are clear, and detailed drawings show from beginning to end how to make the articles of gear the horseman uses to "work or show" his horse to best advantage. Bridles, hackamores, hobbles, reins, reatas, quirts, and riding crops are just a few of the articles that can be made by following the illustrations and instructions.

Included in the volume is a section titled "How to Make a Western Saddle, " by Lee M. Rice. He explains each step in making a western saddle, with text and drawings.

Encyclopedia of Rawhide and Leather Braiding (Paperback): Bruce Grant Encyclopedia of Rawhide and Leather Braiding (Paperback)
Bruce Grant 1
R908 R726 Discovery Miles 7 260 Save R182 (20%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Encyclopedia of Rawhide and Leather Braiding is the definitive work on the subject and results from the late Bruce Grant's many years of interest and experience as a braider and writer on the subject. It combines most of the material published in Leather Braiding and How to Make Cowboy Horse Gear with a mass of completely new material. The book's more than 350 illustrations are arranged so that the step-by-step instructions face the picture being described, making it very easy to follow. While the book is primarily for those interested in leathercraft, in nearly all cases the methods of braiding are applicable to many other materials, such as silk, cotton, plastic, catgut, or horsehair. Braidwork takes many forms, and its applications are practical as well as decorative. The combination of beauty and utility lends itself to an array of items-personal gear or clothing, working or show gear for a horse, decoration of plain, carved, or tooled leather work. Truly a book to be used as well as read, Encyclopedia of Rawhide and Leather Braiding provides all the information needed for this satisfying pastime.

Motor Racing at Thruxton in the 1980s (Paperback): Bruce Grant-Braham Motor Racing at Thruxton in the 1980s (Paperback)
Bruce Grant-Braham
R446 R397 Discovery Miles 3 970 Save R49 (11%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Thruxton has been described as "the UK's Speedbowl." The circuit is home to the prestigious British Automobile Racing Club, and during the period covered by this book the author was editor of the club's magazine. As a result, he was able to get behind the scenes at many of the events, including F2, British Touring Cars, Aurora AFX F1, and club races. In the 1980s Thruxton featured in the early careers of many Formula One drivers, and the book records the early performances of such luminaries as Ayrton Senna, Nigel Mansell, Damon Hill, Derek Warwick, Alan McNish, Mike Thackwell, Mika Hakkinen, and many more. Featuring many previously unpublished photographs from the author's personal collection, this is an insightful account of racing at one of the fastest motor racing circuits in the UK.

Social Change and Psychosocial Adaptation in the Pacific Islands - Cultures in Transition (Paperback, Softcover reprint of... Social Change and Psychosocial Adaptation in the Pacific Islands - Cultures in Transition (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2005)
Anthony J Marsella, Ayda Aukahi Austin, Bruce Grant
R2,798 Discovery Miles 27 980 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This volume is the product of an international gathering of scholars and healthprofessionalsinHonolulu,Hawaii,forthespeci?cpurposeofdo- menting and understanding the wide-ranging psychosocial consequences of rapid social change among people of Paci?c Island nations. In the wide expanse of the Paci?c Ocean, there are scores of nations and an untold number of cultural traditions. This area has been the scene of rapid social change since the Paci?c Island people began contact with the Western and Eastern worlds through exploration, commerce, and religious mission- ies. These changes led to the collapse and decimation of many groups as challengestotraditionalwaysoflifesoonexceededtheircapacitytoendure and survive. Today, from Australia's Aboriginal peoples in the South to the Hawaii's Native Hawaiian (Kanaka Maoli) people in the North, there is a resurgence of cultural pride and efforts to renew ties with past. From Po- nesia (e. g. , Hawaii, Samoa) to Micronesia (e. g. , Chuuk, Pohnpei, Palau) to Melanesia (e. g. , Solomon Islands, New Guinea), the indigenous p- ple of the Paci?c are continuing their struggle to survive amidst a rapidly changingworldinwhichbasicandfundamentalvaluesandlifestyles? nd themselvesincon?ictwithwaysoflifethatemphasizealienvaluessuchas individuality, materialism, competition, and change. These words are not meant to idealize the traditional cultures of the Paci?c Island people for they have often been characterized by aggression, hostility, and destr- tion of one another in the course of their history. Yet, it is clear that never hastherebeensuchsomanyandsopotentexternalforceschallengingtheir existence. Westernization can now be found throughout the Paci?c Islands with the exception of a few isolated regions in Melanesia and Micronesia.

Leather Braiding (Paperback): Bruce Grant Leather Braiding (Paperback)
Bruce Grant
R292 R250 Discovery Miles 2 500 Save R42 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Leather Braiding has stood for more than forty years as the definitive book in its field. Grant's clearly written guide to the art of leather braiding contains detailed illustrations, step-by-step instructions, and a wealth of incidental, fascinating information. It makes accessible, to even the novice, serviceable and recreational uses of leather, from the simple but clever braided button to the elaborate results of thong applique. The book includes a historical perspective of leather and its function in society, a chapter on leather braiding tools, and a glossary of terms.

Neotraditionalism in the Russian North - Indigenous Peoples and the Legacy of Perestroika (Paperback): Aleksandr Pika Neotraditionalism in the Russian North - Indigenous Peoples and the Legacy of Perestroika (Paperback)
Aleksandr Pika; Foreword by Bruce Grant; Afterword by Boris Prokhorov
R764 Discovery Miles 7 640 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The advent of perestroika, and the subsequent collapse of the Soviet Union have had an enormous impact on indigenous peoples in the Russian Arctic. This book probes the cultural, political, and economic issues guiding Russian state policy toward Siberian indigenous peoples in the post-Soviet age. Growing from a report to the Russian parliament, it became a major building block for new legislation on the treatment of Northern minority peoples in the new Russia.

In the Soviet House of Culture - A Century of Perestroikas (Paperback, New): Bruce Grant In the Soviet House of Culture - A Century of Perestroikas (Paperback, New)
Bruce Grant
R1,099 R1,002 Discovery Miles 10 020 Save R97 (9%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

At the outset of the twentieth century, the Nivkhi of Sakhalin Island were a small population of fishermen under Russian dominion and an Asian cultural sway. The turbulence of the decades that followed would transform them dramatically. While Russian missionaries hounded them for their pagan ways, Lenin praised them; while Stalin routed them in purges, Khrushchev gave them respite; and while Brezhnev organized complex resettlement campaigns, Gorbachev pronounced that they were free to resume a traditional life. But what is tradition after seven decades of building a Soviet world?

Based on years of research in the former Soviet Union, Bruce Grant's book draws upon Nivkh interviews, newly opened archives, and rarely translated Soviet ethnographic texts to examine the effects of this remarkable state venture in the construction of identity. With a keen sensitivity, Grant explores the often paradoxical participation by Nivkhi in these shifting waves of Sovietization and poses questions about how cultural identity is constituted and reconstituted, restructured and dismantled.

Part chronicle of modernization, part saga of memory and forgetting, "In the Soviet House of Culture" is an interpretive ethnography of one people's attempts to recapture the past as they look toward the future. This is a book that will appeal to anthropologists and historians alike, as well as to anyone who is interested in the people and politics of the former Soviet Union.

A Young Woman from China (Paperback): Bruce Grant A Young Woman from China (Paperback)
Bruce Grant
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R556 R490 Discovery Miles 4 900 Save R66 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Six Gun - A Story of the Texas Rangers (Paperback): Bruce Grant Six Gun - A Story of the Texas Rangers (Paperback)
Bruce Grant; Illustrated by Jacob Landau
R760 Discovery Miles 7 600 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This is a new release of the original 1955 edition.

Crossing the Arafura Sea (Paperback): Bruce Grant Crossing the Arafura Sea (Paperback)
Bruce Grant
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R563 Discovery Miles 5 630 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Last Kiss (Paperback): Bruce Grant The Last Kiss (Paperback)
Bruce Grant
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R564 Discovery Miles 5 640 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Eagle of the Sea - The Story of Old Ironsides (Paperback): Bruce Grant Eagle of the Sea - The Story of Old Ironsides (Paperback)
Bruce Grant; Illustrated by Gordon Grant
R719 Discovery Miles 7 190 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Warpath - A Tale Of The Plains Indians (Paperback): Bruce Grant Warpath - A Tale Of The Plains Indians (Paperback)
Bruce Grant; Illustrated by Jacob Landau
R758 Discovery Miles 7 580 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Zachary, the Governor's Pig (Paperback): Bruce Grant Zachary, the Governor's Pig (Paperback)
Bruce Grant; Illustrated by Robert Frankenberg
R651 Discovery Miles 6 510 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Boone Hardin's Adventures In The Kentucky Regiment In 1813 With His Pig Zachary.

Fight for a City - The Story of the Union League Club of Chicago and Its Times, 1880-1955 (Paperback): Bruce Grant Fight for a City - The Story of the Union League Club of Chicago and Its Times, 1880-1955 (Paperback)
Bruce Grant; Foreword by Herbert Hoover, Joseph A. Matter
R941 Discovery Miles 9 410 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Fight for a City - The Story of the Union League Club of Chicago and Its Times, 1880-1955 (Hardcover): Bruce Grant Fight for a City - The Story of the Union League Club of Chicago and Its Times, 1880-1955 (Hardcover)
Bruce Grant; Foreword by Herbert Hoover, Joseph A. Matter
R1,230 Discovery Miles 12 300 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Six Gun - A Story Of The Texas Rangers (Paperback): Bruce Grant Six Gun - A Story Of The Texas Rangers (Paperback)
Bruce Grant; Illustrated by Jacob Landau
R718 Discovery Miles 7 180 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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Eagle Of The Sea - The Story Of Old Ironsides (Hardcover): Bruce Grant Eagle Of The Sea - The Story Of Old Ironsides (Hardcover)
Bruce Grant; Illustrated by Gordon Grant
R1,017 Discovery Miles 10 170 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Six Gun - A Story Of The Texas Rangers (Paperback): Bruce Grant Six Gun - A Story Of The Texas Rangers (Paperback)
Bruce Grant; Illustrated by Jacob Landau
R702 Discovery Miles 7 020 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!

The Russia Reader - History, Culture, Politics (Paperback): Adele Marie Barker, Bruce Grant The Russia Reader - History, Culture, Politics (Paperback)
Adele Marie Barker, Bruce Grant
R842 R795 Discovery Miles 7 950 Save R47 (6%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Letters recording the reactions of ordinary Russians to the Revolution as events unfolded in 1917, an account of the day-to-day scramble to make a living after the end of the Soviet Union, and excerpts from a sixteenth-century manual instructing elite Muscovites on proper household management--"The Russia Reader" brings these and many other selections together in this introduction to the history, culture, and politics of the world's largest country, from the earliest written accounts of the Russian people to today. Conveying the texture of everyday life alongside experiences of epic historical events, the book is filled with the voices of men and women, rulers and revolutionaries, peasants, soldiers, literary figures, emigres, journalists, and scholars. Most of the selections are by Russians, and thirty are translated into English for the first time.

Illustrated with maps, paintings, photographs, posters, and cartoons, "The Russia Reader" incorporates song lyrics, jokes, anecdotes, and folktales, as well as poems, essays, and fiction by writers including Akhmatova, Dostoyevsky, Pushkin, and Tolstoi. Transcripts from the show trials of major Party figures and an account of how staff at the Lenin Library in Moscow were instructed to interact with foreigners are among the many selections based on personal memoirs and archival materials only recently made available to the public. From a tenth-century emissary's description of his encounters in Kyivan Rus', to a scientist's recollections of her life in a new research city built from scratch in Siberia during the 1950s, to a novelist's depiction of the decadence of the "New Russians" in the 2000s, "The Russia Reader" is an extraordinary introduction to a vast and varied country.

The Captive and the Gift - Cultural Histories of Sovereignty in Russia and the Caucasus (Paperback): Bruce Grant The Captive and the Gift - Cultural Histories of Sovereignty in Russia and the Caucasus (Paperback)
Bruce Grant
R737 Discovery Miles 7 370 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Caucasus region of Eurasia, wedged in between the Black and Caspian Seas, encompasses the modern territories of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia, as well as the troubled republic of Chechnya in southern Russia. A site of invasion, conquest, and resistance since the onset of historical record, it has earned a reputation for fearsome violence and isolated mountain redoubts closed to outsiders. Over extended efforts to control the Caucasus area, Russians have long mythologized stories of their countrymen taken captive by bands of mountain brigands.

In The Captive and the Gift, the anthropologist Bruce Grant explores the long relationship between Russia and the Caucasus and the means by which sovereignty has been exercised in this contested area. Taking his lead from Aleksandr Pushkin's 1822 poem "Prisoner of the Caucasus," Grant explores the extraordinary resonances of the themes of violence, captivity, and empire in the Caucasus through mythology, poetry, short stories, ballet, opera, and film. Grant argues that while the recurring Russian captivity narrative reflected a wide range of political positions, it most often and compellingly suggested a vision of Caucasus peoples as thankless, lawless subjects of empire who were unwilling to acknowledge and accept the gifts of civilization and protection extended by Russian leaders.

Drawing on years of field and archival research, Grant moves beyond myth and mass culture to suggest how real-life Caucasus practices of exchange, by contrast, aimed to control and diminish rather than unleash and increase violence. The result is a historical anthropology of sovereign forms that underscores how enduring popular narratives and close readings of ritual practices can shed light on the management of pluralism in long-fraught world areas.

Subtle Moments - Scenes on a Life's Journey (Paperback): Bruce Grant Subtle Moments - Scenes on a Life's Journey (Paperback)
Bruce Grant
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R800 R640 Discovery Miles 6 400 Save R160 (20%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Captive and the Gift - Cultural Histories of Sovereignty in Russia and the Caucasus (Hardcover): Bruce Grant The Captive and the Gift - Cultural Histories of Sovereignty in Russia and the Caucasus (Hardcover)
Bruce Grant
R3,552 Discovery Miles 35 520 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Caucasus region of Eurasia, wedged in between the Black and Caspian Seas, encompasses the modern territories of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia, as well as the troubled republic of Chechnya in southern Russia. A site of invasion, conquest, and resistance since the onset of historical record, it has earned a reputation for fearsome violence and isolated mountain redoubts closed to outsiders. Over extended efforts to control the Caucasus area, Russians have long mythologized stories of their countrymen taken captive by bands of mountain brigands.

In The Captive and the Gift, the anthropologist Bruce Grant explores the long relationship between Russia and the Caucasus and the means by which sovereignty has been exercised in this contested area. Taking his lead from Aleksandr Pushkin's 1822 poem "Prisoner of the Caucasus," Grant explores the extraordinary resonances of the themes of violence, captivity, and empire in the Caucasus through mythology, poetry, short stories, ballet, opera, and film. Grant argues that while the recurring Russian captivity narrative reflected a wide range of political positions, it most often and compellingly suggested a vision of Caucasus peoples as thankless, lawless subjects of empire who were unwilling to acknowledge and accept the gifts of civilization and protection extended by Russian leaders.

Drawing on years of field and archival research, Grant moves beyond myth and mass culture to suggest how real-life Caucasus practices of exchange, by contrast, aimed to control and diminish rather than unleash and increase violence. The result is a historical anthropology of sovereign forms that underscores how enduring popular narratives and close readings of ritual practices can shed light on the management of pluralism in long-fraught world areas.

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