Jonathan Ball Publishers: 173 books
Billionaires Under Construction
The Mindset of an Entrepreneur
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
DJ Sbu is not your ordinary entrepreneur. He was born to be great and refuses to settle for less. Have you ever wondered what goes on in the mind of a successful entrepreneur? How they come up with their ground-breaking ideas, how they turn them into flourishing businesses, how they deal with failure,...
My Lion's Heart
A Life for the Lions of Africa
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Environmentalist, independent researcher and author, Gareth Patterson has spent his entire adult life working tirelessly for the greater protection of African wildlife and, more particularly, for that of the lion. Born in England in 1963, Gareth grew up in Nigeria and Malawi. From an early age he...
Rocks
One Man's Climb From Drugs to Dreams
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Marco Broccardo was an ordinary boy from an ordinary family. He had parents who loved him and older sisters who doted on their little brother. He had friends and he played sport at school. Schoolboy experimentation with weed quickly turned to coke and ecstasy. Drugs made him feel great. What was the...
Whispers from the Depths
The Kariba Story
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
Liz and Mike Wickins' book Whispers from the Depths ... The Kariba Story is more than just the story of the building of the Kariba Dam in the mid-1950s. Built in just five years against overwhelming odds, the dam is a monument to engineering excellence. Shrouded in political undertones, the construction...
Scarred
But Not For Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
Brutally dragged 780 metres beneath a taxi, a young woman’s inspiring story of survival, courage, and the will to live. 13 September 2011. The story would shock thousands and be remembered by many for years to come. It would be plastered all over the papers and continue to attract interest well...
Glory Game
The Joost van der Westhuizen Story
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
In 2011 the world was shocked when the news broke that Joost van der Westhuizen, known for years as the golden boy of South African rugby and a former Springbok captain, had been diagnosed with motor neuron disease (MND). This rare condition attacks the central nervous system, causing progressive...
Kasinomics
African Informal Economies and the People Who Inhabit Them
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Kasinomi is a book as eclectic, mysterious and colourful as the places and people it explores. eKasi, the lokasie, the South African township, once an apartheid ghetto, is today an amazingly transformed place. This township today is an eclectic mix of mansions, shacks, spaza shops, rocking taverns,...
The Villager
How Africans Consume Brands
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
The Villager is essential reading for brand owners wishing to conquer new markets.
When Feyi Olubodun, CEO of one of West Africa’s leading creative agencies, witnessed one too many cases of brands failing in the African marketplace he began to ask himself questions: Why did brands, both global...
Do. Fail. Learn. Repeat.
The Truth Behind Building Businesses
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2018
Are you bored and baffled by spin doctors telling you how to succeed, how to make $1 000 000 or how to build the best business in just 30 days? Everyone claims to have the next best short cut or hack to help you along the path of entrepreneurship. It’s all bullshit.
In his business autobiography...
by Tracy Todd
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2017
Why walk when you can soar... These are the opening words on Tracy Todd's website and they are a powerful affirmation of the person Tracy is today - a sought-after inspirational speaker whose uplifting presentations have inspired and given hope to many people. But it is difficult to imagine what she...
Out of Line
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
"You'll be a dentist," says Dad. "Why?" I ask. "Because you'll be called doctor and you won't be called out at night." "I'm not sticking my hands down anyone's mouth. Yech!" DOV FEDLER was a laatlammetjie, born and bred in Johannesburg in 1940 just as Hitler...
Boredom Slayer
A speaker’s guide to presenting like a pro
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2018
Any fool can put together a presentation; this book exists because so many do.
There’s something sucking the life out of audiences everywhere, transforming them from the very people who can change your business into the disengaged masses. It’s called The Boredom … and your job is to slay...
Syd Kitchen
Scars That Shine
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2017
Skollie, saint, scholar, hippest of hippies, imperfect musician with a perfect imagination, Syd Kitchen was, like all great artists, born to enrich his art and not himself. Plagued by drugs, alcohol and depression, too much of an outlaw to be embraced by record companies, he frequently sold his furniture...
Third World Child
Born White, Zulu Bred
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
GG Alcock's parents, Creina and Neil, were humanitarians who gave up comfortable lives to move to rural Zululand. In a place called Msinga, a dry rock-strewn wilderness and one of the most violent places in Africa, they lived and worked among the Mchunu and Mthembu tribes, fighting for the rights...