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Succession - Season 3 (DVD): Brian Cox, Kieran Culkin, Matthew Macfadyen, Jeremy Strong, Alan Ruck, Sarah Snook Succession - Season 3 (DVD)
Brian Cox, Kieran Culkin, Matthew Macfadyen, Jeremy Strong, Alan Ruck, …
R245 Discovery Miles 2 450 Ships in 10 - 25 working days

Ambushed by his rebellious son Kendall at the end of Season two, Logan Roy begins Season 3 in a perilous position, scrambling to secure familial, political, and financial alliances.

Tensions rise as a bitter corporate battle threatens to turn into a family civil war.

The Black Phone (DVD): Ethan Hawke, Jeremy Davies, Mason Thames The Black Phone (DVD)
Ethan Hawke, Jeremy Davies, Mason Thames
R239 Discovery Miles 2 390 Ships in 10 - 17 working days

Oscar nominee Ethan Hawke, in the most disturbing role of his career, stars in a new psychological thriller from Blumhouse and the director who brought you Sinister and Doctor Strange.

Finney Shaw, a shy but clever 13-year-old boy, is abducted by a sadistic killer and trapped in a soundproof basement where screaming is of little use. When a disconnected phone on the wall begins to ring, Finney discovers that he can hear the voices of the killer’s previous victims. And they are dead set on making sure that what happened to them doesn’t happen to Finney.

High Times - The Extraordinary Life Of A Joburg Dope Smuggler (Paperback): Roy Isacowitz, Jeremy Gordin High Times - The Extraordinary Life Of A Joburg Dope Smuggler (Paperback)
Roy Isacowitz, Jeremy Gordin
R320 R286 Discovery Miles 2 860 Save R34 (11%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

High Times is the true story of Michael Medjuck, whose taste for weed, women and the good life led him from late-1960s Johannesburg to notoriety as one of the biggest hash and weed smugglers in North America.

From his base in Vancouver, Michael built up a smuggling network that supplied dealers in scores of cities across Canada and the United States. The proceeds of smuggling afforded this former King David High School pupil a lifestyle of hedonistic excess – the finest wines, the most glamorous hookers, the best weed in the world.

In 1991, Michael was nabbed by US federal agents while smuggling an enormous shipload of Afghani hash into the West Coast of Canada. Put on trial as the scheme’s mastermind, Michael was convicted and sentenced to 24 years behind bars. His US prison experiences, from dingy county lock-ups to brutal federal penitentiaries, are the stuff of legend. Eventually, a chance remark to his lawyer led to his early release and return to Canada. After barely a year of freedom, Michael was again arrested – this time in Spain for an ill-judged cocaine-smuggling venture – and sentenced to another prison term of nine years.

This is Michael’s extraordinary story, as told to fellow South Africans Roy Isacowitz, author and journalist, and the late Jeremy Gordin, award-winning journalist, editor and author.

Armageddon Time (DVD): Anne Hathaway, Jeremy Strong, Banks Repeta, Jaylin Webb, Anthony Hopkins Armageddon Time (DVD)
Anne Hathaway, Jeremy Strong, Banks Repeta, Jaylin Webb, Anthony Hopkins
R244 Discovery Miles 2 440 Ships in 10 - 17 working days

From acclaimed filmmaker James Gray and featuring an all-star cast including Anthony Hopkins, Anne Hathaway and Jeremy Strong comes Armageddon Time.

Set in 1980s Queens, New York, it is a deeply personal story about the strength of family, the complexity of friendship and the generational pursuit of the American Dream.

The Crown - Season 1 (DVD): Claire Foy, John Lithgow, Matt Smith, Jeremy Northam, Vanessa Kirby The Crown - Season 1 (DVD)
Claire Foy, John Lithgow, Matt Smith, Jeremy Northam, Vanessa Kirby 3
R129 Discovery Miles 1 290 Ships in 10 - 25 working days

The Crown focuses on Queen Elizabeth II as a 25-year-old newlywed faced with the daunting prospect of leading the world's most famous monarchy while forging a relationship with legendary Prime Minister, Sir Winston Churchill.

The British Empire is in decline, the political world is in disarray, and a young woman takes the throne.... a new era is dawning.

Peter Morgan's masterfully researched scripts reveal the Queen's private journey behind the public facade with daring frankness. Prepare to be welcomed into the coveted world of power and privilege and behind locked doors in Westminster and Buckingham Palace....the leaders of an empire await.

Avengers 4: Endgame - 4K Ultra HD + Blu-Ray (Blu-ray disc): Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo,... Avengers 4: Endgame - 4K Ultra HD + Blu-Ray (Blu-ray disc)
Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Scarlett Johansson, …
R608 Discovery Miles 6 080 Ships in 10 - 17 working days

After the devastating events of Avengers 3: Infinity War, the universe is in ruins. With the help of remaining allies, the Avengers assemble once more in order to undo Thanos' actions and restore order to the universe.

Get ready for one final stand in Marvel Studios' epic conclusion to twenty-two films, Avengers 4: Endgame.

My Next Breath - A Memoir (Paperback): Jeremy Renner My Next Breath - A Memoir (Paperback)
Jeremy Renner
R430 Discovery Miles 4 300 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The gripping and inspiring story of acclaimed actor Jeremy Renner’s near-fatal accident, and what he learned about inner strength, endurance and hope as he overcame insurmountable odds to recover, one breath at a time.

Two-time Oscar nominee Jeremy Renner was the second most googled person in 2023… and not for his impressive filmography. His searing portrayals on film ranged from an Iraq-based army bomb technician in The Hurt Locker and a Boston bank robber in The Town to a crooked Camden mayor in American Hustle before he became heir to the Jason Bourne franchise (The Bourne Legacy). Amongst other iconic roles, he also captured hearts as fan-favorite comic book marksman Hawkeye in seven Marvel films.

Yet, his otherworldly success on-screen faded to the periphery when a fourteen-thousand-pound snowplow crushed him on New Year’s Day 2023. Somehow able to keep breathing for more than half an hour, he was subsequently rushed to the ICU, after which he would face multiple surgeries and months of painful rehabilitation.
 
In this debut memoir, Jeremy writes in blistering detail about his accident and the aftermath. This retelling is not merely a gruesome account of what happened to him; it’s a call to action and a forged companionship between reader and author as Jeremy recounts his recovery journey and reflects on the impact of his suffering. Ultimately, Jeremy’s memoir is a testament to the human spirit and its capacity to endure, evolve, and find purpose in the face of unimaginable adversity. His writing captures the essence of profound transformation, exploring the delicate interplay between vulnerability and strength, despair and hope, redemption and renewal.

American Hustle (Blu-ray disc): Jennifer Lawrence, Amy Adams, Christian Bale, Robert De Niro, Bradley Cooper, Jeremy Renner,... American Hustle (Blu-ray disc)
Jennifer Lawrence, Amy Adams, Christian Bale, Robert De Niro, Bradley Cooper, … 2
R514 R243 Discovery Miles 2 430 Save R271 (53%) Ships in 10 - 17 working days

In the alluring world of one of the most stunning scandals to rock the United States, American Hustle tells the story of con man Irving Rosenfeld, who along with his equally cunning and seductive partner Sydney Prosser is forced to work for a wild FBI agent Richie DiMaso.

DiMaso pushes them into a world of Jersey powerbrokers and mafia that's as dangerous as it is enchanting. Caught between the con-artists and Feds is Carmine Polito, the passionate, volatile, New Jersey political operator, but it's Irving's unpredictable wife Rosalyn who could be the one to pull the thread that brings the entire world crashing down.

(2014 Oscar nominations for: Best Motion Picture; Best Director; Best Actor; Best Actress; Best Supporting Actor; Best Supporting Actress; Best Original Screenplay; Best Film Editing; Best Production Design; Best Costume Design)

Crimson Sands - The Story of Dirk Aruseb and the Bondelswarts (Paperback): Jeremy Vearey Crimson Sands - The Story of Dirk Aruseb and the Bondelswarts (Paperback)
Jeremy Vearey
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R360 R321 Discovery Miles 3 210 Save R39 (11%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Dirk Aruseb was seventeen years old when Abraham Morris fetched him from the Pella orphanage to join the Bondelswarts. Dirk couldn’t wait to conquer the accursed Schutztruppe alongside legendary Kaptein Jakob Marengo, successor to Hendrik Witbooi and Jonker Afrikaner. But when he arrived at Schansvlakte deep in Namaland, Dirk was warned that he first had to master many life skills before he could join the war: be humble, be patient, be merciful. Find your eland, tame your butcherbird.

But for Dirk war was an adventure – as long as he could kill the German enemy, he was content. It didn’t matter what commander Nana Kruiper, or Klara Morris, her second in command, tried to teach him: that the liberation struggle of the Bondelswarts meant more than protecting Namaland – their promised land – at all costs.

Crimson Sands is set in Namaland – from German-South-West Africa to the Cape Colony – from 1904 to 1922, when thousands of Bondelswarts were shot down by Jan Smuts’s fighter planes. It is an epic, panoramic war novel, traversing southern Africa from Tsumeb to Upington, from internment camps in Windhuk to the dry riverbeds of the Fish River Canyon. Jeremy Vearey conjures a mesmerising tale across an arid landscape of sand, shrub and dune, evoking voices and stories long gone.

Mission Impossible 5: Rogue Nation (DVD): Tom Cruise, Jeremy Renner, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Sean Harris, Simon McBurney,... Mission Impossible 5: Rogue Nation (DVD)
Tom Cruise, Jeremy Renner, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Sean Harris, …
R422 R194 Discovery Miles 1 940 Save R228 (54%) Ships in 10 - 17 working days

Tom Cruise reprises his role as Impossible Mission Force (IMF) agent Ethan Hunt in the fifth film of the action thriller series.

Written and directed by Christopher McQuarrie, the movie follows on from events in the previous instalment where the IMF agents find themselves being targeted by a shadowy organisation of highly-trained assassins known only as the Syndicate.

Can Ethan reassemble the now-disbanded IMF team to bring down this rogue organisation before it's too late?

Avengers: 4-Movie Collection - The Avengers / Age Of Ultron / Infinity War / Endgame (Blu-ray disc, Boxed set): Robert Downey... Avengers: 4-Movie Collection - The Avengers / Age Of Ultron / Infinity War / Endgame (Blu-ray disc, Boxed set)
Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Mark Ruffalo, …
R855 R748 Discovery Miles 7 480 Save R107 (13%) Ships in 10 - 17 working days

The Avengers
Marvel's The Avengers is the ultimate superhero adventure. When an unexpected enemy emerges that threatens global safety and security, Nick Fury, Director of the international peacekeeping agency known as SHIELD, finds himself in need of a team to pull the world back from the brink of disaster. Spanning the globe, a daring recruitment effort begins. And the world's greatest superheroes will have to stand together to save us all!

Avengers 2: Age Of Ultron
When Tony Stark tries to jumpstart a dormant peacekeeping program, things go awry and Earth’s Mightiest Heroes, including Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, The Incredible Hulk, Black Widow and Hawkeye, are put to the ultimate test as the fate of the planet hangs in the balance. As the villainous Ultron emerges, it is up to The Avengers to stop him from enacting his terrible plans, and soon uneasy alliances and unexpected action pave the way for an epic and unique global adventure.

Avengers 3: Infinity War
As the Avengers and their allies have continued to protect the world from threats too large for any one hero to handle, a new danger has emerged from the cosmic shadows: Thanos. A despot of intergalactic infamy, his goal is to collect all six Infinity Stones, artifacts of unimaginable power, and use them to inflict his twisted will on all of reality. Everything the Avengers have fought for has led up to this moment – the fate of Earth and existence itself has never been more uncertain.

Avengers 4: Endgame
After the devastating events of Avengers 3: Infinity War, the universe is in ruins. With the help of remaining allies, the Avengers assemble once more in order to undo Thanos' actions and restore order to the universe. Get ready for one final stand in Marvel Studios' epic conclusion to twenty-two films, Avengers 4: Endgame.

Diddly Squat - Pigs Might Fly (Paperback): Jeremy Clarkson Diddly Squat - Pigs Might Fly (Paperback)
Jeremy Clarkson
R380 R339 Discovery Miles 3 390 Save R41 (11%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Another year on the Diddly Squat Farm and Jeremy is still knee-deep in mud and endless challenges . . .

Welcome back to Clarkson's Farm. Since taking the wheel three years ago Jeremy's had his work cut out. And it's now clear from hard-won experience that, when it comes to farming, there's only one golden rule: Whatever you hope will happen, won't.

Enthusiastic and inventive schemes to diversify have met with stubborn opposition from the red trouser brigade, defeat at the hands of Council Planning department, and predictable derision from Kaleb - although, to be fair, even Lisa had doubts about Jeremy's brilliant plan to build a business empire founded on rewilding and nettle soup. And only Cheerful Charlie's still smiling about the stifling amount of red tape that's incoming. But he charges by the hour.

Then there are the animals: the sheep are gone; the cows have been joined by a rented bull called Break-Heart Maestro;. the pigs are making piglets; and the goats have turned out to be psychopaths.

But despite the naysayers and (sometimes self-inflicted) setbacks, Jeremy remains irrepressibly optimistic about life at Diddly Squat. Because It's hard not to be when you get to harvest blackberries with a vacuum cleaner.

And, after all, it shouldn't just be Break-heart Maestro who gets to enjoy a happy ending ....

FBI - Season 4 (DVD): Missy Peregrym, Jeremy Sisto FBI - Season 4 (DVD)
Missy Peregrym, Jeremy Sisto
R512 Discovery Miles 5 120 Ships in 10 - 17 working days

From Emmy Award winner Dick Wolf and the team behind the Law & Order franchise comes Season Four of FBI, featuring even more incredible action and stunning suspense.

Led by Special Agent in Charge Isobel Castille and Assistant Special Agent in Charge Jubal Valentine, Special Agents Maggie Bell, Omar Adom ‘OA’ Zidan, Stuart Scola and Tiffany Wallace form an elite unit that continues to take on the most critical cases facing the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s New York office.

In this six-disc collection, the team has their clever intellect and extraordinary tactical skills challenged like never before as loyalties are tested, past traumas resurface, and deadly criminal masterminds threaten the city as well as the country throughout 21 thrilling episodes.

Into Dark Water - A Police Memoir (Paperback): Jeremy Vearey Into Dark Water - A Police Memoir (Paperback)
Jeremy Vearey
R360 R321 Discovery Miles 3 210 Save R39 (11%) View more sellers Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Major-General Jeremy Vearey, ex-MK cadre, is deputy provincial commissioner of the Western Cape SAPS. He starts his 'police memoir' with the old apartheid police and ex-freedom fighters meeting for the first time.

Action ranges from the secretive Operation Saladin to anti-gang policing with the 'skollie patrollie'. Underworld figures and gangsters loom large, as does the constant fear of death. Painting a vivid portrait of policing, politics and criminality in the Western Cape, this is also an intimate account of what it means to reach the highest ranks of policing, having been a revolutionary.

The ‘dark stream’ is the price that the author has paid for following his calling.

American Hustle (DVD): Jennifer Lawrence, Amy Adams, Christian Bale, Robert De Niro, Bradley Cooper, Jeremy Renner, Jack... American Hustle (DVD)
Jennifer Lawrence, Amy Adams, Christian Bale, Robert De Niro, Bradley Cooper, …
R248 Discovery Miles 2 480 Ships in 10 - 17 working days

Set in the alluring world of one of the most stunning scandals to rock the United States, American Hustle tells the story of con man Irving Rosenfeld (Christian Bale), who along with his equally cunning and seductive partner Sydney Prosser (Amy Adams) is forced to work for a wild FBI agent Richie DiMaso (Bradley Cooper).

DiMaso pushes them into a world of Jersey powerbrokers and mafia that's as dangerous as it is enchanting. Caught between the con-artists and Feds is Carmine Polito (Jeremy Renner), the passionate, volatile, New Jersey political operator, but it's Irving's unpredictable wife Rosalyn (Jennifer Lawrence) who could be the one to pull the thread that brings the entire world crashing down.

Diddly Squat 4: Home to Roost (Paperback): Jeremy Clarkson Diddly Squat 4: Home to Roost (Paperback)
Jeremy Clarkson
R440 R393 Discovery Miles 3 930 Save R47 (11%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Welcome back to Clarkson’s Farm.

So, that went well …

The spring barley crop failed. Just like the oil seed rape. And the durum wheat. Then the oats turned the colour of a hearing aid and the mushrooms went mouldy. Farming sheep, pigs and cows was hardly more lucrative. Jeremy would be better off trying to breed ostriches.

But in the face of uncooperative weather, the relentless realities of the agricultural economy, bureaucracy, a truculent local planning department and the world’s persistent refusal to recognise his ingenuity and genius, our hero’s not beaten yet. Not while the farm shop’s still doing a roaring trade in candles that smell like his knacker hammock, he isn’t.

On the face of it, the challenges of making a success of Diddly Squat are enough to have you weeping into your (Hawkstone) beer, but misery loves company and in girlfriend Lisa, Farm Manager Kaleb, Cheerful Charlie and Gerald his Head of Security Jeremy knows he’s got the best. And it’s hard for a chap to feel too gloomy about things when there’s a JCB telehandler, a crop-spraying hovercraft and a digger in the barn.

Because as a wise man* once said, ‘there’s no man alive who wouldn’t have fun with a digger …’

*Jeremy

Rooisand - Die verhaal van Dirk Aruseb en die Bondelswarts (Afrikaans, Paperback): Jeremy Vearey Rooisand - Die verhaal van Dirk Aruseb en die Bondelswarts (Afrikaans, Paperback)
Jeremy Vearey
R360 R321 Discovery Miles 3 210 Save R39 (11%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Dirk Aruseb was sewentien toe Abraham Morris hom uit die Pella-weeshuis kom haal het om by die Bondelswarts aan te sluit. By Schansvlakte begin die eerste van Dirk se lewenslesse: wees nederig, geduldig, en genadig. Vind jou eland, tem jou janfiskaal.

Rooisand speel af in Namaland – van Duits-Suidwes-Afrika tot die Kaapkolonie – vanaf 1904 tot 1922. Dit is ’n epiese oorlogsroman wat strek van Tsumeb tot Upington, van Windhuk se interneringskampe tot die droë rivierlope van die Visrivier.

The System (DVD): Tyrese Gibson, Terrence Howard, Jeremy Piven The System (DVD)
Tyrese Gibson, Terrence Howard, Jeremy Piven
R195 Discovery Miles 1 950 Ships in 10 - 17 working days

Pushed to the edge to save his daughter, retired marine Terry Savage is reduced to robbing drug houses to pay for her medical treatment. When Savage gets busted, he’s offered a chance at redemption in exchange for going undercover to expose corruption at a private prison headed by a sadistic warden, Lucas Fisher.

After a gang attack, he is taken under the wings of Bones who teaches him the ways to survive inside the system.

Fighting for his life when the warden forces him into The Dungeon - a vicious, underground fight ring - run by deranged inmate Joker, Savage recruits the very inmates that tried to kill him in a plan to expose the truth about the corrupt system and all those who ran it.

Diddly Squat (Paperback): Jeremy Clarkson Diddly Squat (Paperback)
Jeremy Clarkson
R295 R255 Discovery Miles 2 550 Save R40 (14%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Welcome back to Clarkson’s Farm.

So, that went well . . .

The spring barley crop failed.
Just like the oil seed rape.
And the durum wheat.
Then the oats turned the colour of a hearing aid and the mushrooms went mouldy.
Farming sheep, pigs and cows was hardly more lucrative. Jeremy would be better off trying to breed ostriches.

But in the face of uncooperative weather, the relentless realities of the agricultural economy, bureaucracy, a truculent local planning department and the world’s persistent refusal to recognise his ingenuity and genius, our hero’s not beaten yet. Not while the farm shop’s still doing a roaring trade in candles that smell like his knacker hammock, he isn’t.

On the face of it, the challenges of making a success of Diddly Squat are enough to have you weeping into your (Hawkstone) beer, but misery loves company and in girlfriend Lisa, Farm Manager Kaleb, Cheerful Charlie and Gerald his Head of Security Jeremy knows he’s got the best. And it’s hard for a chap to feel too gloomy about things when there’s a JCB telehandler, a crop-spraying hovercraft and a digger in the barn.

Because as a wise man* once said, ‘there’s no man alive who wouldn’t have fun with a digger . . .’

Diddly Squat 5: The Farmer's Dog (Paperback): Jeremy Clarkson Diddly Squat 5: The Farmer's Dog (Paperback)
Jeremy Clarkson
R440 R339 Discovery Miles 3 390 Save R101 (23%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Uncooperative animals, underperforming crops, and rather less than best-laid plans pursued with unbridled enthusiasm. Clarkson’s farm is the gift that keeps on giving.

But, as one overseas visitor* admitted, he only came to Diddly Squat because he just didn’t believe that Jeremy could be so incompetent.

Not one to be discouraged, however, our hero decides to bring his misunderstood entrepreneurial flair to bear on a new venture: a pub. And just a few short weeks later, the doors open on The Farmer’s Dog.

All British produce, Hawkstone beer on tap, a private bar for farmers and a vintage tractor hanging from the ceiling. The perfect country pub. A welcome distraction from sustainable farming initiatives, psychedelic wheat, angry protests in central London and a headbutting goat.

What, you may be asking, could possibly go wrong?

On top of the lavatories packing up and the electricity running out, you mean? As the Cotwolds’ newest publican quickly discovers, there’s a lot more to landlording than pulling pints.

Just as well, then, that he still has Lisa, Kaleb, Cheerful Charlie and Gerald to help him through. Especially now his doctor’s told him he’s got to become a vegetablist …

*along with the whole of the rest of China, apparently

The Handbook of Metabolic Phenotyping (Paperback): John C. Lindon, Jeremy K. Nicholson, Elaine Holmes The Handbook of Metabolic Phenotyping (Paperback)
John C. Lindon, Jeremy K. Nicholson, Elaine Holmes
R4,944 Discovery Miles 49 440 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Handbook of Metabolic Phenotyping is the definitive work on the rapidly developing subject of metabolic phenotyping. It explores in detail the wide array of analytical chemistry and statistical modeling techniques used in the field, coupled with surveys of the various application areas in human development, nutrition, disease, therapy, and epidemiology to create a comprehensive exploration of the area of study. It covers recent studies that integrate the various -omics data sets to derive a systems biology view. It also addresses current issues on standardization, assay and statistics validation, and data storage and sharing. Written by experts with many years of practice in the field who pioneered many of the approaches widely used today, The Handbook of Metabolic Phenotyping is a valuable resource for postgrads and research scientists studying and furthering the field of metabolomics.

The Music and Sound of Experimental Film (Hardcover): Holly Rogers, Jeremy Barham The Music and Sound of Experimental Film (Hardcover)
Holly Rogers, Jeremy Barham
R3,289 Discovery Miles 32 890 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book explores music/sound-image relationships in non-mainstream screen repertoire from the earliest examples of experimental audiovisuality to the most recent forms of expanded and digital technology. It challenges presumptions of visual primacy in experimental cinema and rethinks screen music discourse in light of the aesthetics of non-commercial imperatives. Several themes run through the book, connecting with and significantly enlarging upon current critical discourse surrounding realism and audibility in the fiction film, the role of music in mainstream cinema, and the audiovisual strategies of experimental film. The contributors investigate repertoires and artists from Europe and the USA through the critical lenses of synchronicity and animated sound, interrelations of experimentation in image and sound, audiovisual synchresis and dissonance, experimental soundscape traditions, found-footage film, re-mediation of pre-existent music and sound, popular and queer sound cultures, and a diversity of radical technological, aesthetic, tropes in film media traversing the work of early pioneers such as Walther Ruttmann and Len Lye, through the mid-century innovations of Norman McLaren, Stan Brakhage, Lis Rhodes, Kenneth Anger, Andy Warhol, and studio collectives in Poland, to latter-day experimentalists John Smith and Bill Morrison, as well as the contemporary practices of Vjing.

Cities and Stability - Urbanization, Redistribution, and Regime Survival in China (Hardcover): Jeremy Wallace Cities and Stability - Urbanization, Redistribution, and Regime Survival in China (Hardcover)
Jeremy Wallace
R3,837 Discovery Miles 38 370 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Cities bring together masses of people, allow them to communicate and hide, and to transform private grievances into political causes, often erupting in urban protests that can destroy regimes. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has shaped urbanization via migration restrictions and redistributive policy since 1949 in ways that help account for the regime's endurance, China's surprising comparative lack of slums, and its curious moves away from urban bias over the past decade. Cities and Stability details the threats that cities pose for authoritarian regimes, regime responses to those threats, and how those responses can backfire by exacerbating the growth of slums and cities. Cross-national analyses of nondemocratic regime survival link larger cities to shorter regimes. To compensate for the threat urban threat, many regimes, including the CCP, favor cities in their policy-making. Cities and Stability shows this urban bias to be a Faustian Bargain, stabilizing large cities today but encouraging their growth and concentration over time. While attempting to industrialize, the Chinese regime created a household registration (hukou) system to restrict internal movement, separating urban and rural areas. China's hukou system served as a loophole, allowing urbanites to be favored but keeping farmers in the countryside. As these barriers eroded with economic reforms, the regime began to replace repression-based restrictions with economic incentives to avoid slums by improving economic opportunities in the interior and the countryside. Yet during the global Great Recession of 2008-09, the political value of the hukou system emerged as migrant workers, by the tens of millions, left coastal cities and dispersed across China's interior villages, counties, and cities. The government's stimulus policies, a combination of urban loans for immediate relief and long-term infrastructure aimed at the interior, reduced discontent to manageable levels and locales.

For the Ones You Love: A true story of sisterhood and survival during the Holocaust (Paperback): Jeremy Dronfield For the Ones You Love: A true story of sisterhood and survival during the Holocaust (Paperback)
Jeremy Dronfield
R250 R223 Discovery Miles 2 230 Save R27 (11%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

The extraordinary true story of the sisters who saved each other.

Friedel and Gina, twins and best friends, live happy enough lives. Their world is cycling trips, visits to their father’s shops, and first-day-of school excitement.

But this is a world that is about to fall apart.

It is the 1930s, and the Nazis are on the rise across Germany. They hate anyone who is different – anyone who is Jewish.

Friedel and Gina and their family are Jewish, and before long they are forced to journey to Poland, where terrible hardships await in a prison-like ghetto. Soon separated from loved ones, as the Second World War rages around them Friedel and Gina are eventually taken to a Nazi prison camp – a place of danger and fear, where they must do everything they can to survive.

From daring recues to incredible acts of kindness, this is the story of the sisters’ love for each other, and of friendships found in the darkest of places.

Family Business Case Studies Across the World - Succession and Governance in a Disruptive Era (Hardcover): Jeremy Cheng, Luis... Family Business Case Studies Across the World - Succession and Governance in a Disruptive Era (Hardcover)
Jeremy Cheng, Luis Diaz-Matajira, Nupur P. Bang, Rodrigo Basco, Andrea Calabro, …
R2,858 Discovery Miles 28 580 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book presents a unique collection of case studies from across the globe to create a comprehensive understanding of how family firms can respond to future disruptions. Each case contains learning notes with objectives, discussion questions and suggested readings to facilitate learner understanding and engagement with the topic. Cases on topics such as global succession and governance practices will aid strategic decision-making capabilities in family businesses and will also benefit practitioners in these areas. Diverse in terms of generational involvement, demographic groups, cultural aspects, institutional settings and industries, the cases range from founder-led SMEs to multi-generational family conglomerates in 18 countries spanning over four continents. In addition to identifying successful practices, this book offers unconventional wisdom on the impact of family feuds, sudden death, divorce and multiple marriages on family businesses. It concludes by exposing new understandings on succession and the unique role played by rising-generation leaders in this disruptive era. Informed by the common research paradigm of the Successful Transgenerational Entrepreneurship Practice (STEP) Project Global Consortium, this book will provide a practical learning experience for advanced students and scholars of family business, family entrepreneurship, and strategic management studies.

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