Modern tragedy soft cover

  MODERN TRAGEDY Good unused condition with storage age wear                   Package content: 1 x MODERN TRAGEDY (SOFT COVER) ~ RAYMOND WILLIAMS Packaging and Shipping: Items will be shipped within 10 days from confirmation of payment by BoB Post Office: R80.00 (includes insurance at 3% of item value).  The Seller will provide a Track & Tracing number. The Buyer is responsible for tracking their purchased item(s).  Goods returned as unclaimed will be reposted at postage fee equal the fee listed for the item. PostNet to PostNet courier: R99.00

 Modern wrestling by Nat Fleischer. Old soft cover book in fair condition. 

 How do you introduce a younger sister who, until recently was a younger brother?  Is it possible to vomit courteously?  What's the chic thing to throw in a food fight?  And why is it not done to commit suicide at someone else's funeral? In today's complex world of shifting values and uncertainties, it's good to know that there are still certain standards we can aspire to. Soft cover, fairly good condition.  The cover shows slight signs of wear, but the book is clean.  243 pages.

"Makonde art can be subdivided into different areas. The Makonde traditionally carve household objects, figures and masks. After the 1930s, the Portuguese colonizers and other missionaries arrived at theMakonde plateau. They immediately showed great interest and fascination for the Makonde wood carvings and began to order different pieces, from religious to political "eminences." The Makonde sculptors, after noticing such interest, decided to carve the new pieces using pau-preto (ebony wood, Diospyros ebenum) and pau-rosa (Swartzia spp.) instead of the soft and non long-lasting wood they had used before. This first contact with the Western culture can be considered to be the first introduction of the classical European style into the traditional Makonde style.Since the 1950s years the socalled Modern Makonde Art has been developed. An essential step was the turning to abstract figures, mostly spirits,Shetani, that play a special role. This shetani style originated in the early 1950s by master carverSamaki Likankoa, whose patronMohamed Peera, an art curator in Tanzania played an instrumental and decisive role in influencing the modern makonde art movement. Some Makonde sculptors, the best known of whom isGeorge Lugwani, have embraced fully abstract style of carving without discernible figures. Makonde are also part of the important contemporary artists of Africa today. The most internationally acknowledged such artist wasGeorge Lilanga.The ex libris of ritual Makonde art are the unique Mapiko masks (singular: Lipiko), which have been used in coming-of-age rituals since before contact was made with missionaries, in the 19th century. These masks are painstakingly carved from a single block of light wood (usually 'sumaumeira brava') and may represent spirits ('shetani'), ancestors, or living characters (real or idealized). The dancer wears them so that he sees through the mask's mouth and the mask faces straight when he bends forward."Price: R550.00Edition: First editionPublished: 1974Publishers: HamlynISBN: 0600361713Condition: Hardcover in good condition, with minor shelf wear and discolouration on the corners of the cover, and top and bottom of the spine. Dust jacket has minor scuff marks around the edges - now covered in a protective plastic sleeve. Internally in very good condition - very clean and tightly bound.

The Making of Modern Africa Volume 1 The Nineteenth Century Volume 2 The Twentieth Century A seventh impression revised soft covers in 2 volumes published by Longmans Soft cover boards are still fairly clean vol2 is slightly agecoloured to spine, binding is tight & strong, specimen copy is stamped on front page of vol 2 otherwise unmarked. Postage within South Africa will be R30-00 Overseas buyers can contact us for a postal quote.

Inventing Ireland - By Declan Kiberd 3rd Printing, Soft Cover, Published By Harvard University Press 1996 Cover Boards Are Clean But Do Have Rubbing To The Edges & The Corners Are Slightly Bent. Binding Is Tight & Strong. Inscription On The Half-Title Page In Red Pen. Light Browning & Foxing To The Pages. Postage Within South Africa Will Be R30.00 Overseas Buyers Can Contact Us For A Postal Quote.

Ted Hughes: The Life of a Poetby Elaine Feinstein Soft cover in good condition. 2001 Synopsis: Ted Hughes is one of the greatest English poets of this century, yet his life was dogged by tragedy and controversy. His marriage to the American poet Sylvia Plath marked his whole life and he never entirely recovered from her suicide in 1963, though he chose to remain silent on the subject for more than 30 years. Many people, including his friend Al Alvarez, have held Hughes's adultery responsible for Plath's death. Elaine Feinstein first met Hughes in 1969, and she was a good friend of his and his sister Olwen's, both of whom guarded the Plath estate. She knows many of the European and America poets who so influenced Hughes - Seamus Heaney, Thom Gunn, Miroslav Holub, and knows the world in which both he and Plath moved. About the Author: Elaine Feinstein is a prize-winning poet, novelist and biographer. She was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1980 and her work has been translated into many languages. She is the author of highly praised lives of Pushkin and Ted Hughes (the first biography).

 Toby Temple, superstar, the world's funniest man. He gets any woman he wants. But underneath the callous, super-stud image is a lonely man, desperate for attention, greedy for love. Jill Castle, beautiful, sensuous starlet. She has a dark and mysterious past and an ambition even greater than Toby's. Together they rule the glittering kingdom of Hollywood until lust, jealousy and revenge turn triumph into tragedy in a nightmare scenario that rolls relentlessly on to a stunning sensational climax... Soft cover, fair condition. The book shows signs of wear.  348 pages.

495 PAGE SOFT COVER IN LOVELY UNUSED CONDITION-LIGHT MARKS IN PLACES-A RARE ACCOUNT OF THE OLD/ MODERN DAY RACISM OF THE INDIAN PEOPLE-FIREARM LICENCE DECLINED LAND ISSUES ETC-SIGNED COPY-POSTAGE WILL BE R80.00 ON THIS LARGE  LOT-NO COMBINATION SENDING UNLESS DISCUSSED WITH SELLER.   NB I AM AWAY UNTIL THE 22nd FEB-POSTAGE FROM THE 23rd-THANKS.                                                                                                                                             

 Marq de Villiers, whose family has been in South Africa for more than 300 years, has travelled to every corner of Africa in search of ancient empires which cut across modern national and traditional boundaries: Great Zimbabwe, at its height before the end of the Crusades; the Land of the Zanj, which the Arabs traded with for centuries before Europe had ever heard of it; the kings of the Kongo, who so impressed the Portuguese in the late 15 century; the Ashanti kingdoms; the ancient kingdom of Benin; the great empires of the Sahel. In his travels, Marq flies in an old plane piloted by an arms smuggler, travels downriver on a barge through some of the least explored jungles in Africa, hires an armed-to-the-teeth four-wheeler driven by a mercenary, and sails in a dhow manned by 4 Swahili teenagers - all through a landscape inhabited by villians and heroes, rascals and saints, and ordinary people.  He tells their stories of what it is like to live in this 'place of prodigies, of great amazements'.  Amplifying and giving context to these tales are the legends, folktales and histories collected by his co-author, Sheila Hirtle. Soft cover, fairly good condition.  The cover has a minor crease at the corner.  Pen inscription on the first page.  399 pages.

 A beautiful young woman, a boy, his dead brother.  Three people, three destinies - in three very different stories.  In the squalor and wonder of 19th-century New York the machine age is born; a modern metropolis is in thrall to the threat of random terror; and on a future Earth otherworldly life has arrived.  In each the trio take different roles, altered but recognisable, travelling towards some strange, beautiful, redemptive end. A haunting, explosively inventive novel, Specimen Days is the work of one of the most daring and visionary writers. Soft cover, good condition.  304 pages.

2014. Soft cover. 34 pages. Very good condition; like new.  Under 1kg. A thought-provoking Cape Town exhibition, Design & Making [the story of food], traces the evolution of craft and design through food - in particular, the vessels used for its preservation, storage, packaging and distribution. The exhibition, at the Castle of Good Hope from 12 May-12 October 2014, is a collaboration between the Cape Craft & Design Institute (CCDI) and Iziko Museums of South Africa’s Social History Collections Department. It is an official Cape Town World Design Capital 2014 project (#461). Installations reveal how the story of food preservation, storage and packaging over time is vast and complex. From using found objects such as ostrich eggs and gourds, and objects made from clay, wood, grass and other materials, we now store food in freezers, plastic, cardboard, glass and vacuum-packaging. And while we still have the same food types such as grains and cereals, in our current era there is a proliferation of ‘created’ foodstuffs such as energy drinks and same-size fruit and vegetables. The exhibition story is told through installations and objects: a large group of historic African, European and Asian objects sourced from Iziko’s Collections stands alongside 30 contemporary objects created by designer-makers from the Western Cape. There are also examples of modern packaging. The curators are independent consultants Rayda Becker and June Hosford, Esther Esmyol and Wieke van Delen (Iziko Museums), Vikki du Preez (Cape Peninsula University of Technology); it was project managed by Marjorie Naidoo (CCDI) and exhibition designer Aidan Bennetts.    

The Boy With No Shoes: A Memoir   by William Horwood 2004 - 440 pages Soft Cover in Good Condition Five-year-old Jimmy Rova is the unwanted child of a mother who rejects him, and whose other children bully him. The one thing he can call his own is a pair of shoes, a present from the only person he feels has ever loved him. When they are cruelly taken away, Jimmy spirals down into a state of loneliness and terrible loss from which there seems no recovery. This triumphant story of a boy's struggle with early trauma and his remarkable journey into adulthood is based on William Horwood's own remarkable childhood in south-east England after the Second World War. Using all the skills that went into the creation of his modern classics, Horwood has written an inspiring story of a journey from a past too painful to imagine to the future every child deserves.            

 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.   

This book is a groundbreaking development in modern mental health because it recognizes the importance of the first hand experience and argues that hearing voices is not a sign of madness but a reaction to serious problems in life. Must-read book for all concerned with mental health issues. Soft cover in good condition.