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This new edition of Nelson Science provides a practical and activity-based approach to teaching and learning Primary science. Nelson Science Starter level is designed to be a fun and accessible introduction to the subject for pupils from a range of...

The adage 'ignorance of the law is no excuse' is significantly inaccurate. Ignorance and mistake of law do, under certain circumstances, exclude responsibility both in national and international criminal law. This monograph updates the existing reviews...

This book examines how pollinators affect the environment, the threats these species face, and how people can help protect them with pollinator gardens. This book also includes a table of contents, fun facts, a "That's Amazing!" special...

From the ongoing war in Angola, to sporadic instability in Zimbabwe and Lesotho, to the conflict in Congo, to issues of land reform and the ravages of AIDS, southern Africa faces varied and complex threats to its peace and security. The authors of From...

Divided Country explains how segregation and apartheid became entrenched in a unique way in cricket in South Africa between 1915 and the 1950s. While the rest of the cricket world increasingly rubbed out old dividing lines, South Africa reinforced them...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911512028Author Lindsay O'BrienFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903155400Author Hilda BernsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Persephone Books LtdPublisher Persephone Books LtdDimensions(mm) 194mm * 139mm * 32mm

On March 18, 1975, Herbert Chitepo, an African nationalist in exile and chairman of the war council that struggled to liberate Zimbabwe from white-ruled Rhodesia, was killed by a car bomb. Since then, there have been four confessions and at least as many...

One of the biggest challenges in the study of history is the unreliable nature of traditional archival sources which omit histories of marginalised groups. This book makes the case that quantitative history offers a way to fill these gaps in the archive...

This book, the first of its kind, compiled over six years, provides a wealth of information that opens up a new world of understanding for all plant lovers. For anyone with an interest in botany or wondering what a plant name means, this remarkable book...

Eleven-year-old Fennymore lives with his strange great-aunt in an old house with only a magical bike for company. After she dies, Fennymore sets off with his new friend Fizzy to find his parents, who mysteriously disappeared. They fall foul of a silvery...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909982284Author Lt. Col. Douw SteynFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

An innovative examination of the forces - both destructive and dynamic - which have shaped twentieth-century South Africa. This book provides a stimulating introduction to the history of South Africa in the twentieth century. It draws on the rich and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783906927008Author Luregn LenggenhagerFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Basler Afrika BibliographienPublisher Basler Afrika BibliographienWeight(grams)...

By tracing the long and turbulent history of the Zulus from their arrival in South Africa and the establishment of Zululand, The Zulus at War is an important and readable addition to this popular subject area. It describes the violent rise of King Shaka...

Zimbabwe's recent history has been shaped by battles about who speaks for the nation, one fought out in struggles for control of political institutions, the media, and civil society. In her book Sara Rich Dorman examines the interactions of social groups...

'1879, the year in which I grew up faster than I could shout my name. That year was the one in which we experienced events and encounters that no one, particularly a child, should ever witness. It was also the year my people lost everything - their land...

An award-winning investigation that has been called the most important piece of journalism in post-apartheid South Africa, Murder at Small Koppie delves into the truth behind the massacre that killed thirty-four platinum miners and wounded seventy-eight...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679724469Author Elizabeth Marshall ThomasFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

WINNER SAfA BOOK PRIZE 2023 The first full-length examination of the archaeology and history of the Namib Desert. This is a story of human survival over the last one million years in the Namib Desert - one of the most hostile environments on Earth...

The acclaimed poet Christopher Reid distils Charles Boyle's six books of poems into The Disguise: Poems 1977-2001, recovering a notable one-time poet, now known as a publisher and writer of fiction and non-fiction, from poetic neglect. Charles Boyle...

The Battle of Spion Kop was fought during the campaign to relieve Ladysmith, South Africa, and was the single bloodiest episode in the campaign, as well as a harbinger of the bitter and desperate fighting still to come in the Second Boer War. Spion...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781485307549Author T.V. BulpinFormat PaperbackPage Count 620Imprint Protea BoekhuisPublisher Protea Boekhuis

South Africa is still the major-player in African diplomacy, its military resources far outstripping those of other nations on the continent. It also has traditionally taken the lead role in Africa's united negotiations with other power blocs. Yet the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604880939Author Harry VillegasFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Pathfinder PressPublisher Pathfinder Press

For 250 years the author's family spread across the globe, helping to expand the British Empire and paint the map red. This is a personal reckoning with that dubious legacy, echoing down to the present in South Africa. It begins with the 'discovery' of...

This collection of Biko's writings is a testament to the passion and insight that made him one of the most powerful figures in South Africa's struggle against apartheid. The selection contains writings from 1969 to 1972 while Biko was president of the...

The sense of place and of senses porous to land and sea bring to life this stand-out sequence of poems. The voice, at once conversational and distinctive, is enraging and personal. There's an ache at the core of the beauty here, not of self-pity or of...

In southeast Africa, the power to heal is often associated with crossing borders, whether literal or metaphorical. This wide-ranging volume reveals that healers, whose power depends on the ability to broker therapeutic resources, also contribute to the...

When the Second Boer War erupted in South Africa in 1899, Great Britain was confident that victory would come quickly and decisively. Instead, the war lasted for three grueling years. To achieve final victory, the British government was forced to depend...

This book offers the first comprehensive history of white workers from the end of the First World War to Zimbabwean independence in 1980. It reveals how white worker identity was constituted, examines the white labouring class as an ethnically and...

In Imagining a Nation, Ruramisai Charumbira analyzes competing narratives of the founding of Rhodesia/Zimbabwe constructed by political and cultural nationalists both black and white since occupation in 1890. The book uses a wide array of...

First comprehensive account of the origins and early history of the Chewa as revealed by oral tradition and archaeology that allows a more accurate picture of a pre-literate society. The Chewa are the largest ethnic group in Malawi, representing a...

Provides a new perspective on the struggle against apartheid, and contributes to key debates in South African history, gender inequality, sexual violence, and the legacies of the liberation struggle. WINNER OF THE RHS GLADSTONE BOOK PRIZE 2022 ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781641286718Author Kristine SpanierFormat HardbackPage Count 24Imprint Pogo BooksPublisher Pogo BooksWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 193mm * 8mm

The Later Zulu wars of the 1880s were a last-ditch resistance to colonialism combined with bitter civil war, and their consequences proved more devastating for the Zulu people than the famous Anglo-Zulu war of 1879. They took place at a time of changing...

This is the first in-depth study of Sharpeville, the South African township that was the site of the infamous police massacre of March 21, 1960, the event that prompted the United Nations to declare apartheid a "crime against humanity."Voices of...

Drum was launched as a popular magazine in the 1950s and quickly came to reflect the image and interests of the urban African. Its reports of the Defiance Campaign, the Congress of the People and the Treason Trial shared column-space with stories of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780987043726Author Alexander ParkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint MercuryPublisher Burnet Media

In 1953 Dag Hammarskjoeld became the second Secretary-General of the United Nations--the highest international civil servant. Before his mission was cut short by a 1961 plane crash in then Northern Rhodesia (Zambia), he used his office to act on the...