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Vanishing Cultures of South Africa By: Peter Magubane A second printing hardcover published by Struik in 1998 Picture cover boards are as new, binding is tight & strong, no marks or inscriptions, dustjacket is complete, in as new condition Packaging and Postage within South Africa R70.00 Overseas Customers can contact us for a Postal Quotation Abe #

In Vanishing Cultures, Magubane documents the customs and traditional beliefs of ten indigenous peoples in his homeland of South Africa. A separate chapter is devoted to each of the peoples. Blending a thoughtful description of rituals, religion, artistry, and other aspects of social life, along with an exquisite photo essay, Magubane offers a wonderful introduction to these people. His photographs range from the dramatic action of dances to the quiet dignity of individuals posing in their traditional dress. An excellent example of the best in photo journalism. Large format hardcover with dust jacket. First edition published 1998. 168 pages.  Illustrated throughout. A stunning work in very good condition. Tracked postage is R60.00.    

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This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 10 - 15 working days South Africa has lost 116 indigenous flower species to three extinction categories: 'Extinct', 'Extinct in the Wild' and 'Critically Endangered, Possibly Extinct'. Mindful of the fact that extinctions are mainly due to people, Cape-based photographer Anneke Kearney compiled this photographic record of endangered plants to make people aware of the dire future of our beautiful plants, so that nobody can say, 'I didn't know'. Cape Town has more threatened species than any other area in the country. The most important other hotspots are Coega, Albany, Pondoland, KwaZulu-Natal midlands and Drakensberg, Magaliesberg, Sekhukhuneland-Drakensberg and Barberton. Renowned botanist and conservation campaigner, Dr Tony Rebelo, says in the Foreword that a call to action is not just for us. "It is for our children. It is not just for esoteric and idealist reasons. Thousands of visitors come...every year just for the biodiversity. Hundreds of thousands more have it as one of the reasons for their visit. Our health, our relaxation, our existence is enhanced by living in a biodiversity showcase. The Littlest Kingdom on earth must retain its splendour...there is space for everyone, including the biodiversity that occurs nowhere else on earth. This book with its spectacular photographs of rare and little seen plants, is sure to make a huge contribution to raising awareness of and spreading critical information on our indigenous flora. Features Summary A showcase of spectacular photographs of rare and little seen plants, raising awareness of their endangerment. Author Anneke Kearney Publisher Metz Press Release date 20121015 Pages 176 ISBN 1-920479-55-4 ISBN 13 978-1-920479-55-8

 1973 hardcover- no dustjacket -the hardcover has one or two small marks, very small marks on the first page, the text is clean and the binding good- condition good, just no dustjacket- NO overseas shipping

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Subtitle: Whatever Happened to the Good News Author: Philip Yancey Publisher: Hodder and Stoughton (2014) ISBN-10: 1444789010 ISBN-13: 9781444789010 Condition: Very Good. The cover has some scratches and wear to edges and corners. There is a light crease along the edge of the back cover. Else a very good copy. Binding: Softcover Pages: 294 Dimensions: 23 x 15 x 2 cm +++ by Philip Yancey +++ 'Why does the church stir up such negative feelings?' This is a question that Philip Yancey has been asking all his life - for himself, as a pilgrim; for others, as a journalist. The question is more relevant now than ever: in the United Kingdom, Christianity continues to decline, even as it is increasingly thought to be linked with intolerant, fundamentalist attitudes.Yet while identification with traditional forms of Christian religion is dropping, indicators show that interest in spirituality is rising. Why the disconnect? Why are so many asking, 'What's so good about the "good news?"' Yancey's lifelong writing career has always focused on the search for honest faith that makes a visible difference for a world in pain.

Large format. Hardcover with d/j in very good condition. First edition 1998 with 168 pages and beautifully illustrated with colour photographs. Peter Magubane documented the customs and traditional beliefs of ten indigenous peoples in South Africa. Contents: The Xhosa, the Zulu, the Ndebele, the Venda, the Tsonga, the Basutho, the Tswana, the Pedi, the Ntwana and the San. The photographs bear witness to what is the best example of photo journalism. Postage in RSA = R59.00

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days The Vanishing Witch by Karen Maitland, author of the hugely popular Company of Liars, will thrill fans of The Essex Serpent and His Bloody Project with its chilling recreation of the Peasants' Revolt. 'A gem, crafted in the darkness...Maitland has produced another gripping tale, from a darker age, which has surprising resonances with the present' - Independent on Sunday By the pricking of my thumbs...Lincoln, 1380. A raven-haired widow is newly arrived in John of Gaunt's city, with her two unnaturally beautiful children in tow. The widow Catlin seems kind, helping wool merchant Robert of Bassingham care for his ill wife. Surely it makes sense for Catlin and her family to move into Robert's home? But when first Robert's wife - and then others - start dying unnatural deaths, the whispers turn to witchcraft. The reign of Richard II brings bloody revolution, but does it also give shelter to the black arts? And which is more deadly for the innocents of Lincoln? Features Summary The critically acclaimed Queen of the Dark Ages introduces a chilling novel set against the backdrop of the Peasants' Revolt. Author Karen Maitland Publisher Headline Review Release date 20150307 Pages 597 ISBN 1-4722-1503-6 ISBN 13 978-1-4722-1503-1

A Kind of Vanishing From the author of acclaimed thriller 'The Detective's Daughter' A spellbinding mystery of obsession and guilt, this is also the poignant story of what happens to those left behind when a child vanishes without trace. It is the summer of 1968, the day Senator Robert Kennedy is shot. Two nine-year-old girls are playing hide and seek in the ruins of a deserted village. Alice has discovered a secret about Eleanor Ramsay's mother, and is taunting the other girl. When it is Eleanor's turn to hide, Alice disappears. Years later, an extraordinary turn of events opens up shocking truths for the Ramsay family and all who knew the missing girl. Author      Lesley Thomson ISBN        0956559999, 9780956559999 Format     Paperback Pages      352p.

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  (W) Rick Remender (A/CA) Matteo Scalera   The Anarchist League of Scientists dive deeper into the Onion than ever before. Now veterans of inter-dimensional travel, the team begins to realize how damaging their actions are on the fabric of reality. No longer content with merely fixing the Pillar and finding a way back home, they vow to uphold a new ideal: leave every dimension they visit better off than how they found it. Collects BLACK SCIENCE #12-16

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 6 - 13 working days My name is Lady Aileana Kameron. First the fae murdered my mother. Then they destroyed my world. Now I'm fighting for more than revenge. Aileana took a stand against the Wild Hunt, and she lost everything: her home, her family and her friends. Held captive by her enemy, and tormenting herself over her failure, escape seems like only the faintest possibility. But when she gets her chance, she seizes it...to rejoin a world devastated by war. The future is bleak. Hunted by the fae, running for her life, Aileana has only a few options left. Trying to become part of a society scarred by - and hiding from - the Wild Hunt; trusting that a fragile alliance with the fae will save her; or walking the most dangerous path at all: coming in to her own powers as the last of the Falconers... Features Summary Heiress. Debutant. Murderer. A new generation of heroines has arrived. Author Elizabeth May Publisher Gollancz Release date 20160908 Pages 370 ISBN 0-575-13047-4 ISBN 13 978-0-575-13047-0

Very large hardcover with 192 pages in good condition. Dust jacket has lots of wear around edges. R100 postage in SA.

About the product Signed by the author-illustrator on the title page. 4to; original black boards, lettered in white on spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper (housed in removable protector); pictorial endpapers; pp. (xiv) + 129; wildlife sketches; colour photographs. Edges lightly sunned; some fox spots to top edge. Very good condition."Through his evocative words, drawings and photographs Clive Walker conveys the importance of conserving wilderness areas such as Savuti. He depicts the contrasts which make Savuti unique: the beauty and the harshness, luxuriant riverine vegetation and parched Kalahari grasses, conservationists and poachers: life and death."

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 12 working days Nicholas Whittaker's much-loved classic recollects the long sunny days of his childhood when, notepad in hand, jam sandwiches in the duffel bag, he happily spent his time jotting down train numbers during the Indian summer of steam and the heyday of diesel. Whittaker returns to his roots in this updated edition, casting a sceptical eye over recent developments, catching up with old acquaintances and considering the toll that half a century of ridicule and a couple of decades of privatisation have wrought upon his beloved pastime. As Andrew Martin notes in his Foreword, this is `one of the best books ever written about rail enthusiasm'. Equally it is a poetically written memoir of growing up in a more innocent age, a hymn to British eccentricity and to the virtues of observing the world around you: `Spotters - of trains, planes, buses or birds - are a last redoubt for something rapidly vanishing from our lives: looking outward, seeing, observing. People notice things less and less these days, while watching things more and more.' Praise for the first edition: `An elegy: for the steam trains already vanishing when Whittaker's hobby began in 1964; for the short-lived diesel age which followed; for an era of near innocence.' Times Literary Supplement `Whittaker writes with humour and considerable evocative power... For anyone who will admit to having a childhood brush with this now derided hobby, Platform Souls brings it all rushing back.' Independent Features Summary A very special 20th anniversary edition of the acclaimed cult trainspotting classic Author Nicholas Whittaker Publisher Icon Books Release date 20160707 Pages 320 ISBN 1-78578-105-7 ISBN 13 978-1-78578-105-6

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 4 - 8 working days She was disappearing inch by inch, vanishing into thin air, and then one day a postcard arrived... There was no return address, no signature, only a scrawled message: Say something. Shelby Richmond is an ordinary girl growing up on Long Island until one night a terrible road accident brings her life to a halt. While her best friend Helene suffers life-changing injuries, Shelby becomes crippled with guilt and is suddenly unable to see the possibility of a future she'd once taken for granted. But as time passes, and Helene becomes an almost otherworldly figure within the town, seen by its inhabitants as a source of healing, Shelby finds herself attended to by her own guardian angel. A mysterious figure she half-glimpsed the night of the car crash, he now sends Shelby brief but beautiful messages imploring her to take charge of her life once more... What happens when a life is turned inside out? When you lose all hope and sense of worth? Shelby, a fan of Chinese food, dogs, bookshops, and men she should stay away from, captures both the ache of loneliness and the joy of finding oneself at last. From the bestselling author of The Dovekeepers comes this spellbinding, poignant and life-affirming story of one woman's journey towards happiness - and the power of love, family and fate. Features Summary A young woman must redefine herself after a tragic road accident in a powerful story of love, family and fate. Author Alice Hoffman Publisher Simon & Schuster Release date 20161212 Pages 258 ISBN 1-4711-6293-1 ISBN 13 978-1-4711-6293-0

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 15 working days The Humana Festival of New American Plays is "the center of the nation's playwriting universe" (The Miami Herald). It is an event whose impact has "enlivened and enriched stages in the United States and around the world" (The Irish Times). This year's plays have been selected from more than 500 script submissions for production and these plays feature some of the most talented and adventurous playwrights writing for the American stage today. Includes After Ashley by Gina Gionfriddo, The Ruby Sunrise by Rinne Groff, Sans-Culottes in the Promised Land by Kristen Greenridge, Kid-Simple, a radio play in the flesh by Jordan Harrison, At the Vanishing Point by Naomi Iizuka, and Tallgrass Gothic by Melanie Marnich. Features Summary A collection of all ten scripts from the 2006 Humana Festival of New American Plays. Author Adrien-Alice Hansel (Editor), Julie Felise Dubiner (Editor) Publisher Playscripts, Inc. Release date 20080801 Pages 400 ISBN 0-9709046-1-4 ISBN 13 978-0-9709046-1-4

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 15 working days "Shadeland" is not only the name of the Illinois farm on which poet Andrew Grace was raised, it is also that elusive space where language attempts to recover all that has been lost. Deeply concerned with the state of today's rural spaces, Grace's poems describe a landscape and a lifestyle that are both eroding. Stylistically rangy, yet united by an ardent eye for intricate imagery, "Shadeland" features allusions and influences as classical as Homer, Virgil, and Hopkins while still exhibiting a poetic sensibility that is thoroughly contemporary. Employing a blend of baroque and innovative language, these 21st-century pastorals and anti-pastorals both celebrate and elegize the buckshot-peppered silos and unstill cornfields that are quietly vanishing from the countryside. Features Summary "Shadeland" is not only the name of the Illinois farm on which poet Andrew Grace was raised, it is also that elusive space where language attempts to recover all that has been lost... Author Andrew Grace Publisher Ohio State University Press Release date 20081201 Pages 56 ISBN 0-8142-5067-X ISBN 13 978-0-8142-5067-9

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days From the acclaimed author of The Information and Chaos, a mind-bending exploration of time travel: its subversive origins, its evolution in literature and science, and its influence on our understanding of time itself.Gleick's story begins at the turn of the twentieth century with the young H. G. Wells writing and rewriting the fantastic tale that became his first book, an international sensation, The Time Machine. A host of forces were converging to transmute the human understanding of time, some philosophical and some technological - the electric telegraph, the steam railroad, the discovery of buried civilisations, and the perfection of clocks. Gleick tracks the evolution of time travel as an idea in the culture - from Marcel Proust to Doctor Who, from Woody Allen to Jorge Luis Borges. He explores the inevitable looping paradoxes and examines the porous boundary between pulp fiction and modern physics. Finally, he delves into a temporal shift that is unsettling our own moment: the instantaneous wired world, with its all-consuming present and vanishing future. Features Summary From the acclaimed author of The Information and Chaos, a mind-bending exploration of time travel: its subversive origins, its evolution in literature and science... Author James Gleick Publisher Fourth Estate Release date 20170223 Pages 336 ISBN 0-00-754443-X ISBN 13 978-0-00-754443-1

In The Old West, There's Nothing Strange About A Stagecoach Getting Robbed. But A Stagecoach Vanishing Without A Trace, Now...Hired To Protect The Next Coach And Its Important Passengers, Lucky Luke Finds Himself Teaming Up With A Particularly Irritated Calamity Jane - Something Of Hers Was On The Missing Vehicle. The Two Of Them Soon Begin Hearing Rather Unpleasant Rumours: Whispers That The Disappearance Was Caused By...A Mysterious Ghost! This product ships within 3-5 working days