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Unafraid to challenge the status quo, CR Snyman's Criminal Law takes a challenging look at criminal law in South Africa.
This book has been thoroughly revised in light of important changes in the South African legal system, with updated reference to the latest reported judgements.
'When I’m dead, you make sure that ordinary people, ordinary rural women, must be at the forefront of my funeral. I want my rural women to be there at the forefront: people that know me well.’
With great care and meticulous research, Kally Forrest brings us the life of Lydia Komape, also known as Mam Lydia Kompe. Kally travels in Lydia’s footsteps, with family, friends, comrades and ancestors from Limpopo and Johannesburg to Cape Town where Lydia sat in Nelson Mandela’s parliament.
Her family’s shattering loss of land in the 1930s deeply impacted Lydia’s life choices. She was fiercely independent, yet bound by the collective, forceful but consultative, humorous and deeply serious.
Lydia closely identified with rural women, remarking, ‘We are so discriminated against, but we are made to work like donkeys. We do all the dirty work – you must go and plough, hoe, harvest, carry water, fetch wood, and men are just sitting drinking alcohol under the tree.’
This is a biography that will open your eyes and heart.
Renowned South African photographer Ranjith Kally captured iconic scenes throughout his career, such as his portrait Umkumbane, which has come to symbolise the shimmering jazz age of African townships in the 1950s.
When Miriam Makeba returned to Maseru, Lesotho, for a concert for black South Africans at the height of apartheid, Ranjith, too ventured to Lesotho and returned home with a remarkable image of an exiled singer poised between joy and heartbreak. And in a series of unflinching portraits, he documented with probity the horror of the forced removals in Natal.
As one of our country’s most prolific photojournalists, Ranjith’s pictures provide us with a glimpse into the tensions of the past and the events that shaped our future.
Travel back to the land before time to discover real dinosaur
stories from the world of palaeontology - featuring T. rex,
Stegosaurus, and Triceratops! Written by Kallie Moore, fossil
expert and host of PBS Eons on YouTube, Tales of the Prehistoric
World contains stories of incredible prehistoric beasts, including
the shark with a circular saw in its mouth, the dinosaurs that
turned into gemstones, and the pterosaurs the size of aeroplanes.
The book also whizzes back in time even further to meet the first
walking fish, before speeding forwards to hang out with mammoths.
Along the way you'll discover if you have what it takes to be a
palaeontologist!
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Sniffing Out Murder
Kallie E. Benjamin
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Discovery Miles 3 860
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The relentless pursuit of economic growth is the defining
characteristic of contemporary societies. Yet it benefits few and
demands monstrous social and ecological sacrifice. Is there a
viable alternative? How can we halt the endless quest to grow
global production and consumption and instead secure
socio-ecological conditions that support lives worth living for
all? In this compelling book, leading experts Giorgos Kallis, Susan
Paulson, Giacomo D'Alisa and Federico Demaria make the case for
degrowth - living well with less, by living differently,
prioritizing wellbeing, equity and sustainability. Drawing on
emerging initiatives and enduring traditions around the world, they
advance a radical degrowth vision and outline policies to shape
work and care, income and investment that avoid exploitative and
unsustainable practices. Degrowth, they argue, can be achieved
through transformative strategies that allow societies to slow down
by design, not disaster. Essential reading for all concerned
citizens, policy-makers, and students, this book will be an
important contribution to one of the thorniest and most pressing
debates of our era.
Journey to the clouds and back in Colt of the Clouds, the
breathtaking second Winged Horse Race adventure from Kallie George,
illustrated by Lucy Eldridge. Ever since Pippa and her beloved
horse, Zephyr, were banished from the slopes of Mount Olympus,
they've tried to adjust to living a normal life on the ground. But
when Pippa rescues a winged colt, she knows she must take return
him to the land of the gods and goddesses. Up on Olympus, however,
disaster awaits. The gods and goddesses are at war, and all of the
winged horses have disappeared. With the help of a new friend,
Hero, Pippa takes on a task few mortals would dare: to find the
winged horses and end the war. Join the winged horses in this
fast-paced story of loyalty, friendship and bravery.
This series is designed to meet the needs of students and lecturers
of the National Certificate Vocational. Features for the student
include: Easy-to-understand language; Real-life examples; A key
word feature for important subject terms; A dictionary feature for
difficult words; A reflect-on-how-you-learn feature to explore
personal learning styles; Workplace-oriented activities; and
Chapter summaries that are useful for exam revision.
U2's ongoing popular appeal is constructed in the spaces between
band and fan, commercialism and community, spirituality and
nihilism; finding meaning in a surface-oriented popular culture and
contradiction in the depths of political and faith-based
institutions. The band's long-term success and continued relevance
is a result of their ability to hold these energies in tension
without one subsuming the other-to live in the liminal space that
such contradictions invite. U2's mythic trajectory was born from a
bygone electronic era, realized in our current digital era but with
an eye on the forthcoming virtual era; it is a new myth for the
whole world, found in the most unlikely of places, popular culture.
This book approaches the band's mythic trajectory through a
combination of rhetorical analysis and autoethnographic
explorations that unveil the more personal experiences most of us
have with media. Drawing heavily upon the works of Marshal McLuhan,
Joseph Campbell, Thomas S. Frentz, and Janice Hocker Rushing, Myth,
Fan Culture, and the Popular Appeal of Liminality in the Music of
U2 unpacks U2's popular appeal through the lenses of Agape
(spiritual, communal love), Amor (romantic love), and Eros (erotic
love). Check out the book's official website for additional
information: https//:www.u2mythos.com
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Demystifying Scriabin (Hardcover)
Vasilis Kallis, Kenneth Smith; Contributions by Vasilis Kallis, Kenneth Smith, Simon Morrison, …
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An innovative contribution to Scriabin studies, covering aspects of
Scriabin's life, personality, beliefs, training, creative output,
and interaction with contemporary Russian culture. This book is an
innovative contribution to Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915) studies,
covering aspects of Scriabin's life, personality, beliefs,
training, creative output, as well as his interaction with
contemporary Russian culture. It offers new and original research
from leading and upcoming Russian music scholars. Key Scriabin
topics such as mysticism, philosophy, music theory, contemporary
aesthetics, and composition processes are covered. Musical coverage
spans the composer's early, middle and late period. All main
repertoire is being discussed: the piano miniatures and sonatas as
well as the symphonies. In more detail, chapters consider:
Scriabin's part in early twentieth-century Russia's cultural
climate; how Scriabin moved from early pastiche to a style much
more original; the influence of music theory on Scriabin's
idiosyncratic style; the changing contexts of Scriabin
performances; new aspects of reception studies. Further chapters
offer: a critical understanding of how Scriabin's writings sit
within the traditions of Mysticism as well as French and Russian
Symbolism; a new investigation into his creative compositional
process; miniaturism and its wider context; a new reading of the
composer's mysticism and synaesthesia. Analytical chapters reach
out of the score to offer an interpretative framework; accepting
new approaches from disability studies; investigating the complex
interaction of rhythm and metre and modal interactions, the latent
diatonic 'tonal function' of Scriabin's late works, as well as
self-regulating structures in the composer's music.
This book discusses Change Management Impact Analysis and how this
method is used to analysis the risks and benefits of a change
management initiative when it pertains to obtaining critical
insight into how the change management program budget should be
allotted. The process also offers useful indicators for what areas
within the system should be monitored during the change management
process. This book presents theoretical analysis of practical
implications and surveys, along with analysis. It covers the
functions aimed at identifying various stakeholders associated with
the software such as requirement component, design component, and
class component. The book talks about the interrelationship between
the change and the effects on the rest of the system and dives
deeper to include the critical role that the analysis places on the
existing multiple functions such as estimating the development
costs, the project overhead costs, cost for the modification of the
system, and system strength or detecting errors in the system
during the process. Case studies are also included to help
researchers and practitioners to absorb the material presented.
This book is useful to graduate students, researchers,
academicians, institutions, and professionals that interested in
exploring the areas of Impact Analysis.
This series is designed to meet the needs of students and lecturers
of the National Certificate Vocational. Features for the student
include: Easy-to-understand language; Real-life examples; A key
word feature for important subject terms; A dictionary feature for
difficult words; A reflect-on-how-you-learn feature to explore
personal learning styles; Workplace-oriented activities; and
Chapter summaries that are useful for exam revision.
This joyful and soothing book about ocean sounds for kids 3-7 will
transport readers to the seaside. When a child visits the ocean
with his little brother, he whispers to him, "The ocean has lots to
say, if you listen." Together, they hear wondrous things, like the
rumble of pebbles tumbling and filling the beach with shiny gems,
the bark of a seal playing peekaboo, and the whooshing of a shell
murmuring messages. The second book in the Sounds of Nature Series
for young children, I Hear You, Ocean is an excellent resource for
outdoor education and social-emotional learning, helping to teach:
How to engage with nature in fun and respectful ways Mindfulness
and empathy with the world around us Positive and gentle play with
younger siblings The ocean makes magical sounds-you just have to
listen!
This is an extraordinary contemporary account of witchcraft and
witch-hunting in the modern world. A powerful ethnographic study of
witch-hunting in 1980s South Africa - a period of rapid social
change - this book demonstrates the extent to which witchcraft must
be seen, not as a residue of 'traditional' culture but as part of a
complex social drama which is deeply embedded in contemporary
political and economic processes. Isak Niehaus provides the context
for this fascinating study of witchcraft practices. He shows how
witchcraft was politicised against the backdrop of the apartheid
state, the liberation struggle and the establishment of the first
post-apartheid regime, which all affected conceptions of
witchcraft. Niehaus demonstrates how the ANC and other political
groups used witchcraft beliefs to further their own agenda. He
explores the increasingly conservative role of the chiefs and the
Christian church. In the process, he reveals the fraught nature of
intergenerational and gender relations. The result is a truly
insightful and theoretically engaged account of a much-studied but
frequently misunderstood practice.
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