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Spoilt Ballots: The Elections that Shaped South Africa, from Shaka to Cyril (Paperback)
Matthew Blackman, Nick DallOriginal price R 340.00 - Original price R 340.00Original price R 340.00R 340.00R 340.00 - R 340.00Current price R 340.00‘All those who want to understand the country’s trajectory over the long run of history will enjoy this lively and well-written text.’ – Roger Sout...
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Nuwe geskiedenis van Suid-Afrika
Herman GiliomeeOriginal price R 650.00 - Original price R 650.00Original price R 650.00R 650.00R 650.00 - R 650.00Current price R 650.00Original price R 650.00 - Original price R 650.00Original price R 650.00R 650.00R 650.00 - R 650.00Current price R 650.00Save 0% Save % -
On This Day in History
Wordsworth BooksOriginal price R 340.00 - Original price R 340.00Original price R 340.00R 340.00R 340.00 - R 340.00Current price R 340.00On which day was history's shortest war waged and won (in roughly 40 minutes)? How was Napoleon bested by a group of rabbits in 1807? Why did a dis...
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ORGAN THIEVES BPB
Wordsworth BooksOriginal price R 250.00 - Original price R 250.00Original price R 250.00R 250.00R 250.00 - R 250.00Current price R 250.00The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks meets Get Out in this landmark investigation of racial inequality at the core of the heart transplant race. ...
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Out of Our Minds: What We Think and How We Came to Think It
Felipe Fernandez-ArmestoOriginal price R 355.00 - Original price R 355.00Original price R 355.00R 355.00R 355.00 - R 355.00Current price R 355.00To imagine - to see that which is not there - is the startling ability that has fuelled human development and innovation through the centuries. As ...
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Past Mistakes: How We Misinterpret History and Why it Matters
David MountainOriginal price R 250.00 - Original price R 250.00Original price R 250.00R 250.00R 250.00 - R 250.00Current price R 250.00'A welcome ally in the fight against fake history' Eleanor Janega, author of The Middle Ages From the fall of Rome to the rise of the Wild West, ...
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PILGRIMAGE
STANFORD, PETEROriginal price R 740.00 - Original price R 740.00Original price R 740.00R 740.00R 740.00 - R 740.00Current price R 740.00Pilgrimage, a global ritual embraced by all faiths, is one of the most enduring traits in our human story. In this compelling history Peter Stanfor...
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Places of Destiny: 50 Places Where History Was Made
Ben DupreOriginal price R 272.00 - Original price R 272.00Original price R 272.00R 272.00R 272.00 - R 272.00Current price R 272.00In Places of Destiny, Ben Dupre offers a rich selection of dramatic historical events and locations: the resistance of Leonidas' Spartans, an endur...
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Prime Movers: The real stories of twelve great thinkers from Pericles to Gandhi
Wordsworth BooksOriginal price R 280.00 - Original price R 280.00Original price R 280.00R 280.00R 280.00 - R 280.00Current price R 280.00Ferdinand Mount has been fascinated by the great thinkers and politicians who have shaped human history over the past two millennia In this fascin...
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REBEL WOMEN BPB
MILES, ROSALINDOriginal price R 264.99 - Original price R 264.99Original price R 264.99R 264.99R 264.99 - R 264.99Current price R 264.99'They will have to choose between giving us freedom or giving us death'So said,in 1913 ,the brilliant orator and suffragette ,Emmeline Pankhurst, j...
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RELICS TPB
WELDON OWEN,Original price R 615.00 - Original price R 615.00Original price R 615.00R 615.00R 615.00 - R 615.00Current price R 615.00Start your personal museum at home with Relics: A Bizarre History of the World Told in 201 Rare Fragments - from Ancient Rome to Dracula's Home. St...
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Rise and Fall: A History of the World in Ten Empires
Paul StrathernOriginal price R 250.00 - Original price R 250.00Original price R 250.00R 250.00R 250.00 - R 250.00Current price R 250.00Rise and Fall opens with the Akkadian Empire, which ruled over a vast expanse of the region of ancient Mesopotamia, then turns to the immense Roman...
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Rogues' Gallery: An Irreverent History Of Corruption In South Africa, From The VOC To The ANC (Paperback)
Matthew Blackman; Nick DallOriginal price R 340.00 - Original price R 340.00Original price R 340.00R 340.00R 340.00 - R 340.00Current price R 340.00If you reckon corruption in South Africa began with Zuma or even with apartheid, it’s time to catch a wake-up call. Rogues’ Gallery tells the story...
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Short History of Humanity TPB
Wordsworth BooksOriginal price R 350.00 - Original price R 350.00Original price R 350.00R 350.00R 350.00 - R 350.00Current price R 350.00Humanity has often found itself on the precipice. We've survived and thrived because we've never stopped moving...In this eye-opening book, Johanne...
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Steinheist: Markus Jooste, Steinhoff & SA's biggest corporate fraud
Rob PoseOriginal price R 335.00 - Original price R 335.00Original price R 335.00R 335.00R 335.00 - R 335.00Current price R 335.00Original price R 335.00 - Original price R 335.00Original price R 335.00R 335.00R 335.00 - R 335.00Current price R 335.00Save 0% Save % -
The 10 Greatest Conspiracies of All Time: Decoding History's Unsolved Mysteries
Brad MeltzerOriginal price R 395.00 - Original price R 395.00Original price R 395.00R 395.00R 395.00 - R 395.00Current price R 395.00Previously collected in the interactive book History Decoded, these stories are now collected in a reading book for any history buff.
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The Best of Times, The Worst of Times: A History of Now
Wordsworth BooksOriginal price R 230.00 - Original price R 230.00Original price R 230.00R 230.00R 230.00 - R 230.00Current price R 230.00In the decades since the end of the Second World War, it has been widely assumed that the western model of liberal democracy and free trade is the ...
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The Colour of Time: A New History of the World, 1850-1960
Wordsworth BooksOriginal price R 250.00 - Original price R 250.00Original price R 250.00R 250.00R 250.00 - R 250.00Current price R 250.00The Colour of Time spans more than a hundred years of world history from the reign of Queen Victoria and the US Civil War to the Cuban Missile Cris...
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The End is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses
Dan CarlinOriginal price R 440.00 - Original price R 440.00Original price R 440.00R 440.00R 440.00 - R 440.00Current price R 440.00THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Do tough times create tougher people? Can humanity handle the power of its weapons ...
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The Great Journeys in History
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The History Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained
Wordsworth BooksOriginal price R 475.00 - Original price R 475.00Original price R 475.00R 475.00R 475.00 - R 475.00Current price R 475.00Travel thousands of years into our past and discover the significant events that shaped the world as we know it.From the founding of Baghdad, and t...
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MAKING HISTORY TPB
Richard CohenOriginal price R 405.00 - Original price R 405.00Original price R 405.00R 405.00R 405.00 - R 405.00Current price R 405.00THE HISTORY MAKERS is an epic exploration of who writes about the past and how the biases of certain storytellers - whether Julius Caesar, William ...
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The History of the World in Bite-Sized Chunks
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The Human Tide: How Population Shaped the Modern World
Wordsworth BooksOriginal price R 260.00 - Original price R 260.00Original price R 260.00R 260.00R 260.00 - R 260.00Current price R 260.00'Superbly explained' Washington Post'Fascinating' Sunday Times'Engrossing' Evening StandardEvery phase since the advent of the industrial revolutio...
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The Madman's Library: The Greatest Curiosities of Literature
Edward Brooke-HitchingOriginal price R 740.00 - Original price R 740.00Original price R 740.00R 740.00R 740.00 - R 740.00Current price R 740.00'Anybody who loves the printed word will be bowled over by this amusing, erudite, beautiful book about books. It is in every way a triumph. One of ...
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The New Silk Roads: The Present and Future of the World (Paperback)
Peter FrankopanOriginal price R 385.00Original price R 385.00 - Original price R 385.00Original price R 385.00Current price R 269.50R 269.50 - R 269.50Current price R 269.50From the Sunday Times and internationally bestselling author of The Silk Roads 'Masterly mapping out of a new world order' - Evening Standard The N...
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The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
Peter FrankopanOriginal price R 510.00 - Original price R 510.00Original price R 510.00R 510.00R 510.00 - R 510.00Current price R 510.00For centuries, fame and fortune was to be found in the west - in the New World of the Americas. Today, it is the east which calls out to those in s...
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The Square and the Tower: Networks, Hierarchies and the Struggle for Global Power
Wordsworth BooksOriginal price R 320.00 - Original price R 320.00Original price R 320.00R 320.00R 320.00 - R 320.00Current price R 320.00THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Silicon Valley needed a history lesson and Ferguson has provided it' Eric Schmidt Most history is about the peop...
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The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words (1000 BCE - 1492)
Wordsworth BooksOriginal price R 264.99 - Original price R 264.99Original price R 264.99R 264.99R 264.99 - R 264.99Current price R 264.99It is a story like no other: an epic of endurance against destruction, of creativity in oppression, joy amidst grief, the affirmation of life again...
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The World Aflame: The Long War, 1914-1945
Wordsworth BooksOriginal price R 615.00 - Original price R 615.00Original price R 615.00R 615.00R 615.00 - R 615.00Current price R 615.00'Purists argue that colourising black and white photographs is sacrilege, but the world has always been in colour. Truth be told, monochrome is a c...
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The World After the War: America Confronts the British Superpower, 1945-1957
Wordsworth BooksOriginal price R 355.00 - Original price R 355.00Original price R 355.00R 355.00R 355.00 - R 355.00Current price R 355.00One of the great myths of the twentieth century is that after the Second World War Britain simply relinquished its power and America quickly embrac...
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The World is Flat: The Globalized World in the Twenty-first Century
Wordsworth BooksOriginal price R 340.00 - Original price R 340.00Original price R 340.00R 340.00R 340.00 - R 340.00Current price R 340.00The beginning of the twenty-first century will be remembered, Friedman argues, not for military conflicts or political events, but for a whole new ...
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Titans of History: The Giants Who Made Our World
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Treasures of World History: The Story Of Civilization in 50 Documents
Peter SnowOriginal price R 665.00 - Original price R 665.00Original price R 665.00R 665.00R 665.00 - R 665.00Current price R 665.00A spirited examination of world history, told through 50 key documents, by two celebrated historians and journalists. With a wealth of experience b...
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Upheaval - How Nations Cope with Crisis and Change (Paperback)
Wordsworth BooksOriginal price R 370.00 - Original price R 370.00Original price R 370.00R 370.00R 370.00 - R 370.00Current price R 370.00'A riveting and illuminating tour of how nations deal with crises - which might hopefully help humanity as a whole deal with our present global cri...
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Voices From the Past: A year of great quotations - and the stories from history that inspired them
W.B. MarshOriginal price R 340.00 - Original price R 340.00Original price R 340.00R 340.00R 340.00 - R 340.00Current price R 340.00In a treasure trove for history buffs, W.B. Marsh fleshes out the context behind famous quotations associated with each day of the year, sending us...
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Warriors, Witches, Women: Mythology's Fiercest Females
Kate HodgesOriginal price R 495.00 - Original price R 495.00Original price R 495.00R 495.00R 495.00 - R 495.00Current price R 495.00Meet mythology's fifty fiercest females in this modern retelling of the world's greatest legends. From feminist fairies to bloodsucking temptresses...
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WE NEED SNOWFLAKES TPB
Wordsworth BooksOriginal price R 355.01 - Original price R 355.01Original price R 355.01R 355.01R 355.01 - R 355.01Current price R 355.01Is today's youth over sensitive, mollycoddled and intellectually pathetic?Does the scourge of political correctness threaten the very fabric of our...
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When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt
Kara CooneyOriginal price R 290.00 - Original price R 290.00Original price R 290.00R 290.00R 290.00 - R 290.00Current price R 290.00This riveting narrative explores the lives of six remarkable female pharaohs, from Hatshepsut to Cleopatra--women who ruled with real power--and sh...
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Women with Silver Wings HB
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Written in History: Letters that Changed the World
Wordsworth BooksOriginal price R 280.00 - Original price R 280.00Original price R 280.00R 280.00R 280.00 - R 280.00Current price R 280.00INCLUDES NEW MATERIAL WRITTEN IN HISTORY celebrates the great letters of world history, creative culture and personal life. Acclaimed historian ...
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The Coming Civil War
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Papyrus: The Invention of Books in the Ancient World (Trade Paperback)
Irene VallejoOriginal price R 470.00 - Original price R 470.00Original price R 470.00R 470.00R 470.00 - R 470.00Current price R 470.00'A fascinating and profound, yet delightfully personal take on books in the ancient world, with many illuminating insights into more modern literat...
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Tutankhamun: Pharaoh, Icon, Enigma: Lost for three thousand years, misunderstood for a century (Trade Paperback)
Joyce TyldesleyOriginal price R 355.01 - Original price R 355.01Original price R 355.01R 355.01R 355.01 - R 355.01Current price R 355.01Pharaoh. Icon. Enigma. Lost for three thousand years, misunderstood for a century. A hundred years ago, a team of archaeologists in the Val...
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Between Starshine and Clay: Conversations from the African Diaspora
Footnote Press LtdOriginal price R 310.01 - Original price R 310.01Original price R 310.01R 310.01R 310.01 - R 310.01Current price R 310.01WITH A FOREWORD FROM BERNARDINE EVARISTO Conversations with some of the most extraordinary Black minds of our age, discussing race, decolonisation...
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To The Bitter End: The Diaries of Victor Klemperer 1942-45
Orion Publishing CoOriginal price R 250.00 - Original price R 250.00Original price R 250.00R 250.00R 250.00 - R 250.00Current price R 250.00The international bestselling record of a German Jew in Nazi Germany.'Deserves to stand beside the diary of Anne Frank as a day-to-day description ...
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The Lesser Evil: The Diaries of Victor Klemperer 1945-1959
Orion Publishing CoOriginal price R 250.00 - Original price R 250.00Original price R 250.00R 250.00R 250.00 - R 250.00Current price R 250.00The superb, bestselling diaries of Victor Klemperer, a Jew in Dresden who survived the war - hailed as one of the 20th century's most important chr...
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Ongekende ellende rampe wat Suid-Afrika geruk het
Protea BoekhuisOriginal price R 275.00 - Original price R 275.00Original price R 275.00R 275.00R 275.00 - R 275.00Current price R 275.00Chris Schoeman neem nog Suid-Afrikaanse rampe oor die eeu heen opnuut onder die loep, maar sluit dié keer ’n heel paar minder bekende voorvalle in ...
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