Jonathan: 707 books
The Ranter's Guide To South Africa
A Handbook For Hotheads, Windbags And Demagogues.
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2011
Ever wondered what waffle like 'accountability', 'site of contestation' or 'The National Democratic Revolution' really means? Here, in an irreverent nutshell, is your answer. The Ranter's Guide to South Africa pinpoints and defines some of the most overused and abused words, acronyms, piffle and jargon...
Clever Blacks, Jesus and Nkandla
The real Jacob Zuma in his own words
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
Jacob Zuma is a man who walks in two worlds. As president of South Africa, he is tasked with upholding the principles that define the Constitution and embodying the values they are designed to engender. But, as an individual, a set of private impulses - ranging from his religious beliefs, to his traditional...
Heart of a Game Ranger
Stories from a Wild Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2017
MARIO CESARE, after decades as warden of Olifants River Game Reserve, has his feet firmly planted in this magnificent slice of Big Five country to the west of the Kruger Park. Cesare recounts some of the hair-raising, heartbreaking and heartwarming moments: a buffalo calf reunited with its pining...
by Jonathan Adler
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2013
In this book there are practical exercises, psychological ideas and interesting stories to help you to;•Play your best golf when it matters•Stop getting so frustrated when you play•Develop a calm and equanimous mind•Understand how anxiety affects your game•Improve your concentration•Stop...
Jan Smuts
Unafraid of Greatness
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Jan Smuts: Unafraid of Greatness is a re-examination of the life and thoughts of Jan Smuts. It is intended to remind a contemporary readership of the remarkable achievements of this impressive soldier-statesman. The author, a former editor of The Star, argues that Smut's role in the creation of modern...
The Hidden Thread
Russia and South Africa in the Soviet Era
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2013
The Hidden Thread is a journey of revelation about the relationship between Soviet Russia and South Africa, hidden for most of its length. The story is told with insight and depth by Irina Filatova and Apollon Davidson, who have had a decades long association researching and writing on Russian and...
A Perfect Storm
Antisemitism in South Africa 1930 - 1948
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
The interwar years were a tumultuous time in South Africa. The effects of the worldwide economic slump gave rise to a huge number of ‘poor whites’ and fed the growth of a militant and aggressive Afrikaner nationalism that often took its lead from Nazi Germany. For a great number of whites, both...
Enemy of the People
How Jacob Zuma stole South Africa and how the people fought back
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Enemy of the People is the first definitive account of Zuma’s catastrophic misrule, offering eyewitness descriptions and cogent analysis of how South Africa was brought to its knees – and how a people fought back. When Jacob Zuma took over the leadership of the ANC one muggy Polokwane evening...
by Jonathan Ozanne
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2015
Liberty! The Birthday of America! Celebrate the Fourth of July with a trivia challenge featuring more than 80 multiple choice questions about Independence Day. Question topics include: Independence Day past and present; Declaring Independence; Thomas Jefferson; Signers of the Declaration of Independence;...
by Jonathan P. Brazee
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
The First Barbary War (1801-1805), or “America’s First War on Terror,” as some refer to it, was a pivotal moment in US history. While both the Navy and Marines participated in the Quasi-War with France, it was the war with the Barbary pirates that cemented both the Marine Corps and the Navy...
The White Africans
From Colonisation To Liberation
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
The negotiated transfer of power in apartheid South Africa was the last act in the dismantling of white supremacy on the African continent. While opening a new era for the whites in Africa, it closed an earlier one that contains some of the most colourful episodes in world history. In The White Africans,...
by Daniel Browde
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
I sat there divided. Though my grandfather was visibly shaken by the force of this memory, I felt a bubbly thrill because this was such good stuff, and I remember turning my eyes away from his distressed face to make sure the wheels of the dictaphone were still turning.
When Daniel is tasked...
Heartbreaker
Christiaan Barnard and the first heart transplant
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
In this new biography of Chris Barnard we not only learn about the life of South Africa’s most famous surgeon, from his Beaufort West childhood through his studies locally and abroad to his prominent marriages – and divorces – but James Styan also examines the impact of the historic heart transplant...
by Jonathan Mubanga Mumbi
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2016
This small book is a small window into where I am coming from. Every day shapes who we are and I chose this day from among many others for its importance in a major transition time for our family. There are obviously more dramatic days I could have chosen, but this day is the most vulnerable day for...