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In the autumn of 2010, a little-known New Zealander called Joe Schmidt took over as head coach at Leinster. He had never been in charge of a professional team.
After Leinster lost three of their first four games, a prominent Irish rugby pundit speculated that Schmidt had 'lost the dressing room'. Nine years on, Joe Schmidt has stepped down as Ireland coach having achieved success on a scale never before seen in Irish rugby. Two Heineken Cups in three seasons with Leinster. Three Six Nations championships in six seasons with Ireland, including the Grand Slam in 2018. And a host of firsts: the first Irish victory in South Africa; the first Irish defeat of the All Blacks, and then a second; and Ireland's first number 1 world ranking. Along the way, Schmidt became a byword for precision and focus in coaching, remarkable attention to detail and
the highest of standards. But who is Joe Schmidt?
In Ordinary Joe, Schmidt tells the story of his life and influences: the experiences and management ideas that made him the coach, and the man, that he is today. And his diaries of the 2018 Grand Slam and the 2019 Rugby World Cup provide a brilliantly intimate insight into the stresses and joys of coaching a national team in victory and defeat. From the small towns in New Zealand's North Island where he played
barefoot rugby and jostled around the dinner table with seven siblings, to the training grounds and video rooms where he consistently kept his teams a step ahead of the opposition, Ordinary Joe reveals an ordinary man who has helped his teams to achieve extraordinary things.
In 1979, the SADF established a highly clandestine unit, called Delta40 or D40 in short. This ultrasecret unit was tasked with the dirty work of “disappearing” hundreds of ANC, PAC and Swapo actvisits. With the help of Project Coast, D40 poisoned political activists and prisoners of war before dumping their bodies into the ocean from a light aircraft.
Even some of the SADF’s own special force members became victims of these ‘death flights’ when they threatened to expose the secret work of D40. D40 was renamed Barnacle and eventually became the wellknown Civil Cooperation Bureau (CCB), but the existence and operations of D40 remained almost unknown until now. Its role in statesanctioned murders was a wellkept secret.
Seasoned investigative journalist Michael Schmidt interviewed veteran D40, Barnacle and CCB operatives, as well as Recce commanders and doubleagents, to piece together this topsecret history. With Death Flight he uncovers black ops kept hidden for decades
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Wiplala (Afrikaans, Hardcover)
Annie M. G Schmidt; Illustrated by Philip Hopman; Translated by Amelia de Vaal
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R210
Discovery Miles 2 100
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“Pappa!” roep Johannes. “Pappa, kyk net!”. “Stil!” roep meneer
Blom. “Ek kry nie gewerk nie!”. “Maar jy moet kyk, Pappa,” se Nella
Della. Sy hou haar hand ’n bietjie stywer om die mannetjie sodat hy
nie kan ontsnap nie. Meneer Blom kyk. “Wat is dit?” vra hy effens
knorrig, asof hy vies is dat hulle hom oor so ’n kleinigheid pla.
“Is dit ’n kabouter? Kabouters bestaan nie. Dit is dus onmoontlik.
Los my nou dat ek kan werk.” ’n Kabouter is dit nie, maar ’n
wiplala met die naam Wiplala. En Wiplala kan toor, of soos hy dit
noem ‘tinkel’. Die enigste probleem is dat Wiplala dit soms regkry
om te tinkel en soms nie. Wanneer hy die Blom-gesin net so klein
maak soos hy, is dit die begin van ’n opwindende avontuur. Die
Bloms wonder egter of hulle ooit weer normale mense sal word!.
Wiplala verskyn oorspronklik in 1957 in Nederlands. Dit is uit die
pen van die bekende Nederlandse kinderboekskrywer Annie M.G.
Schmidt. Die boek word in verskeie tale vertaal (onder meer Duits,
Fins, Engels en selfs Japannees). In 2014 verskyn daar ook ’n film
wat gebaseer is op die boek.
Wannie woon alleen in ? klein kamertjie op die boonste verdieping
van ’n gebou. Hy maak hier vriende met Zaza, die kokkerot, en
Dollie, die vriendelike duif wat wéét wanneer om haar ding te doen.
Kort voor lank moet Wannie sy dierevriende uit die moeilikheid
help. Met sy rooi insleeplorretjie, en saam met Agie en die
Stampertjies beleef hy groot avonture.
It all begins with Kalmann in hot water. He’s at the FBI
Headquarters in Washington, arrested during the Jan 6, 2021 riots
at the Capitol Building. All he wanted was to visit his American
father in the US for the Christmas holidays – but his dad takes
him (and a group of MAGA friends) to the protests in Washington to
“regain the house which is oursâ€. He is promptly arrested
during the riots. Thanks to sympathetic FBI agent Dakota Leen,
he’s soon on a plane back to Iceland. But not before Dakota
informs him that his recently deceased grandfather was on an FBI
list of suspected Russian spies working in Iceland during the Cold
War. Back home, Kalmann begins to suspect that his grandfather’s
death from “heart failure†was a murder. His maverick
investigation uncovers another assassination and takes him to the
site of a US radar station abandoned in the 1970s. So, there are
now two deaths to be solved and the threat of more to come. Much to
do for our unlikely amateur detective who somehow never loses
heart.
Think you know Chicago? If you are thinking of Al Capone, the L,
the Cubs, Barack Obama or the Great Fire of 1871, then you are
remembering the highlights from the tour bus. Here's the rest of
the story, day by day. Chicago opened the first blood bank,
invented the vacuum cleaner and sent a bowling ball around the
world. One high school football game drew 120,000 people.
Chicagoans fought nineteen years over the name of a street. For
fifty years, they saved a gallows for an escaped killer. And those
are just some of the stories.
A Wall Street Journal Bestseller 'IT SHOULD BE READ BY ANYONE
TRYING TO MAKE SENSE OF GEOPOLITICS TODAY' FINANCIAL TIMES Three of
our most accomplished and deep thinkers come together to explore
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the way it is transforming human
society - and what it means for us all. An AI learned to win chess
by making moves human grand masters had never conceived. Another AI
discovered a new antibiotic by analysing molecular properties human
scientists did not understand. Now, AI-powered jets are defeating
experienced human pilots in simulated dogfights. AI is coming
online in searching, streaming, medicine, education, and many other
fields and, in so doing, transforming how humans are experiencing
reality. In The Age of AI, three leading thinkers have come
together to consider how AI will change our relationships with
knowledge, politics, and the societies in which we live. The Age of
AI is an essential roadmap to our present and our future, an era
unlike any that has come before.
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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
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