Kin

Buy Kin: A Tale of Beauty and Madness by Lili St. Crow (Paperback) for R45.00

 First edition hardcover published by Ampersand press. 2004.Unread copy. Tracked postage is R50.00.  "Elsabe Einhorn, a former lecturer in UCT French studies section, recently donated a copy of her latest book, The William of Orange Epics, aka The Heroic Deeds of Count William of Orange and His Kin, to UCT Libraries.  The work, some 20 years in the making, is Einhorn's translation into vivid modern English of the 17 most important epic poems from the William Cycle, a series that recounts the chivalric tales of medieval knight, Count William of Orange. The original Old French poems date back to the 12th and 13th centuries. While there have been selective translations of many of the William epics, Einhorn's new text is thought to be the only one to include such a substantial range in one volume."  

Buy Dragons Kin (The Dragons of Pern) - Anne McCaffrey for R290.00

Large secondhand hardcover with dust jacket;22 x 30.5 cm;A Salamander book;Co-published by Bok Books in SA in pages with colour photographs and colour and line illustrations;Plelase see image of the inside fold of the dust jacket for a synopsis of the contents;Book in a very good condition and internally clean;Contact person Jan cell or land line .Keyword;Koi.

A comprehensive introduction to keeping and displaying these magnificent ornamental fish,from choosing healthy stock to installing a fully equipped koi pond,plus a full-colour survey of all the mayor varieties; Large with dust jacket;22 x 30.5 cm;Published in the UK by Salamander Books and co-published by Bok Books in SA IN pages with colour photographs and illustrations;Please see inside fold of the dust jacket for a synopsis of the contents;Book in a good condition and internally clean;Contact person Jan cell or land line ;I also do postings,postage on this book will be an extra R50,it includes postage for an insured parcel and insurance fee;Keyword;Koi.

Buy Medeas Curse: Shocking. Page-Turning. Psychological Thriller with Forensic Psychiatrist Natalie Kin for R205.00

 Soft Cover. In excellent condition. No Blemishes of any nature. 212 pages. 2002 This book evokes the world in which our earliest ancestors. It provides detail about all known hominin species; it details all the sites within the area and describes its animals and plants, past and present, giving the reader a context in which to understand who we are and where we come from. This book has even more relevance, after the discovery of early hominoid remains in a cave, showing that out earliest ancestors seems to have buried their kin a few thousand years earlier that we though it happened... all because of intensive research by Dr Lee R Berger, who is also the author of this book   

A breakthrough volume in the study of the material culture of the slave trade. Hardcover with dust jacket new with 509 pages. R55 postage in SA. This is the first book devoted to the archaeology of African life on both sides of the Atlantic and highlights the importance of historical archaeology in completing the historical records of the Atlantic world's Africans. Archaeology of Atlantic Africa and the African Diaspora presents a diverse, richly textured picture of Africans' experiences during the era of the Atlantic slave trade and offers the most comprehensive explanation of how African lives became entangled with the creation of the modern world. Through interdisciplinary approaches to material culture, the dynamics of a comparative transatlantic archaeology is developed. Table of Contents and Contributors: 1. Pathways in the Archaeology of Transatlantic Africa, by Akinwumi Ogundiran and Toyin Falola Part 2. Atlantic Africa 2. Entangled Lives: The Archaeology of Daily Life in the Gold Coast Hinterlands, AD 1400-1900, by Ann Brower Stahl 3. Living in the Shadow of the Atlantic World: History and Material Life in a Yoruba-Edo Hinterland, ca. 1600-1750, by Akinwumi Ogundiran 4. Dahomey and the Atlantic Slave Trade: Archaeology and Political Order on the Bight of Benin, by J. Cameron Monroe 5. Enslavement in the Middle Senegal Valley: Historical and Archaeological Perspectives, by Alioune Déme and Ndeye Sokhna Guèye 6. The Landscape and Society of Northern Yorubaland during the Era of the Atlantic Slave Trade, by Aribidesi Usman 7. The Collapse of Coastal City-States of East Africa, by Chapurukha M. Kusimba 8. Ghana's "Slave Castles," Tourism, and the Social Memory of the Atlantic Slave Trade, by Brempong Osei-Tutu Part 3. African Diaspora 9. BaKongo Identity and Symbolic Representation in the Americas, by Christopher C. Fennell 10. "In This Here Place": Interpreting Enslaved Homeplaces, by Whitney L. Battle-Baptiste 11. Bringing the Out Kitchen In? The Experiential Landscapes of Black and White New England, by Alexandra A. Chan 12. African Metallurgy in the Atlantic World, by Candice L. Goucher 13. Between Urban and Rural: Organization and Distribution of Local Pottery in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica, by Mark W. Hauser 14. Allies, Adversaries, and Kin in the African Seminole Communities of Florida: Archaeology at Pilaklikaha, by Terrance Weik 15. Scars of Brutality: Archaeology of the Maroons in the Caribbean, by E. Kofi Agorsah 16. The Archaeological Study of the African Diaspora in Brazil, by Pedro P. Funari 17. The Vanishing People: Archaeology of the African Population in Buenos Aires, by Daniel Schávelzon 18. Maritime Archaeology and the African Diaspora, by Fred L. McGhee 19. Archaeology of the African Meeting House on Nantucket, by Mary C. Beaudry and Ellen P. Berkland 20. Practicing African American Archaeology in the Atlantic World, by Anna S. Agbe-Davies  

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 6 - 13 working days 'I don't care what else you've seen in the bookstore today. Read this one' - Kevin Hearne 'I enjoyed the hell out of it' - Patrick Rothfuss Nettie Lonesome lives in a land of hard people and hard ground dusted with sand. She's a half-breed who dresses like a boy, raised by folks who don't call her a slave but use her like one. She knows of nothing else. That is, until the day a stranger attacks her. When nothing, not even a sickle to the eye can stop him, Nettie stabs him through the heart with a chunk of wood and he turns to black sand. And just like that, Nettie can see. But her newfound sight is a blessing and a curse. Even if she doesn't understand what's under her own skin, she can sense what everyone else is hiding - at least physically. The world is full of evil, and now she knows the source of all the sand in the desert. Haunted by the spirits, Nettie has no choice but to set out on a quest that might lead her to find her true kin...if the monsters along the way don't kill her first A rich, dark fantasy of destiny, death and the supernatural world hiding beneath the surface. Features Summary A rich, dark fantasy of destiny, death and the supernatural world hiding beneath the surface. Author Lila Bowen Publisher Orbit Release date 20151029 Pages 368 ISBN 0-356-50656-8 ISBN 13 978-0-356-50656-2

A Mothers Legacy By: Kim Feinberg A first edition hardcover published by Kin Feinberg in 2007 Black cover boards with silver writing to the spine & front cover, binding is tight & strong, no marks or inscriptions, dustjacket is complete, clean & bright, an as new copy. Postage within South Africa R50.00 Overseas Customers can contact us for a Postage Quote Abe #07290

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 15 working days Wendy Law-Yone was just fifteen when Burma's military staged a coup and overthrew the civilian government in 1962. The daughter of Ed Law-Yone, the daredevil founder and chief editor of The Nation, Burma's leading postwar English-language newspaper, she experienced firsthand the perils and promises of a newly independent Burma. On the eve of Wendy's studies abroad, Ed Law-Yone was arrested and The Nation shut down. Wendy herself was briefly imprisoned. After his release, Ed fled to Thailand with his family, where he formed a government-in-exile and tried, unsuccessfully, to foment a revolution. Exiled to America with his wife and children, Ed never gave up hope that Burma would one day adopt a new democratic government. Though he died disappointed, he left in his daughter's care an illuminating trove of papers documenting the experiences of an eccentric, ambitious, humorous, and determined patriot, vividly recounting the realities of colonial rule, Japanese occupation, postwar reconstruction, and military dictatorship. This memoir tells the twin histories of Law-Yone's kin and his country, a nation whose vicissitudes continue to intrigue the world. Features Summary Wendy Law-Yone was fifteen at the time of Burma's military coup in 1962. The daughter of Ed Law-Yone, daredevil proprietor of Rangoon Nation, Burma's leading postwar English-language daily... Author Wendy Law-Yone (Author), David I. Steinberg (Foreword by) Publisher Columbia University Press Release date 20140717 Pages 328 ISBN 0-231-16936-1 ISBN 13 978-0-231-16936-3

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 13 working days "Since I first read, and then taught, Helmreich's extraordinary essay on alien kinship and the biopolitics of gene transfer in marine biology and biotechnology in 2003, I have been swimming eagerly in his alien oceans, waiting for this book, eager to feast. A multi-sited and deeply sounded ethnography of ocean microbiologists and their subvisible critters, "Alien Ocean" dunks the reader in seas of blue-green capital and rampant globalizing viral traders in gene currency. Tangled in sentiment and science, salty microbial webs infuse dreadful and promising figures of aliens and familiars. In this rich study of microbial oceanography we meet the extremeophiles of a mortal earth--an earth better named ocean, where deep-sea dwelling, heat-loving archaea are dredged to tell stories of unlikely kin, extraordinary technology, planktonic globalizers, and Hawaiian indigenous activists. This is a book about networks of loves and disciplines that is hard to put down."--Donna Haraway "This book is as wondrous as the otherworldly creatures whose apperception it recounts, from one of the most innovative cultural anthropologists writing today. Helmreich shows how the water covering the earth demands of scientists a planetary optic haunted always by the figure of that which lies just outside the limits of the imagination--the alien. Deep-sea creatures turn out to be connected to networks of knowledge, economy, politics, and culture that reshape everything from the shifting shorelines of Georgian barrier islands to the postcolonial futures of Hawai'i. "Alien Ocean" challenges longstanding constructs of causation, system, and replication that are the foundation of scientific knowledge itself."--BillMaurer, University of California, Irvine "Taking us from laboratory workbenches to the cramped confines of the Alvin submarine, Helmreich immerses readers in his ethnographic account of a scientific field, marine microbiology, concerned with questions of fundamental importance--what is life? what is a planet? is there a difference? Alien Ocean--inviting and challenging in its empirical and theoretical scope, in its humor and serious play, in its deft handling of scientific material--will set a new standard for the anthropology of science."--Mike Fortun, author of "Promising Genomics: Iceland and DeCODE Genetics in a World of Speculation" Features Summary Charts how revolutions in genomics, bioinformatics, and remote sensing have pressed marine biologists to see the sea as animated by its smallest inhabitants: marine microbes.. Author Stefan Helmreich Publisher University of California Press Release date 20081125 Pages 422 ISBN 0-520-25062-1 ISBN 13 978-0-520-25062-8

 Georgie Sinclair's husband has walked out on her; her 16-year-old son is busy surfing born-again websites; and all those overdue articles for Adhesives In The Modern World are getting her down. So when Georgie spots Mrs Shapiro, an eccentric old Jewish emigre neighbour with an eye for a bargain and a fondness for matchmaking, rummaging through her skip in the middle of the night, it's just the distraction she needs.  And although they mistrust each other at first - Georgie doesn't like the look of that past-its-sellby-date fish, while Mrs Shapiro thinks Georgie needs to smarten herself up and grab a new husband - a firm friendship is formed over the reduced-price shelf at the supermarket. Then Mrs Shapiro is admitted to hospital and, to Georgie's surprise, she is named as her next of kin.  But sorting out Mrs Shapiro's semi-derelict mansion in Highbury is no easy job when the handyman called in to change the locks turns out to be not what he seems and his two assistants, The Uselesses, are doing more breaking than fixing. And what about the two slimy estate agents who start competing to trick Mrs Shapiro into selling her rickety old house? Or the social worker determined to commit her to a nursing home? Soft cover, very good condition.   

Garden Aloes: Growing and Breeding Cultivars and Hybrids Authored by two leading international experts on aloes and their kin, "Garden Aloes" is the first to deal with a range of the most desirable aloe cultivars and hybrids, all of which are exceptionally suitable for planting in gardens. The book is comprehensively illustrated with full-color photographs that show the growth forms and a range of the characters that make these plants some of the most desirable to grow in any garden. Identification of the cultivars is made easy through descriptions and a range of images of the plants, their inflorescences and flowers. Informative descriptions and flowering periods are provided for more than 60 widely grown and exceptional cultivars and hybrids currently available. The species are arranged in 20 groups according to size and flower color, making it easy to select what is suitable for your garden. "Garden Aloes" is a must for anyone interested in gardening, landscaping, natural history, aloes, succulents, and more. Authors Gideon F. Smith, Estrela Figueiredo ISBN 1431421073, 9781431421077 Format Paperback Pages 208p.