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Catherine from America and South African André have a small grape-producing farm in the Cape Winelands, but their dream is becoming a nightmare. A great gap has opened up between them and the resident workers, revealing vastly different perspectiv...

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A unique book! Italian women at their best! What talent! This book is a must read for everyone who loves Italian culture and those who appreciate talented women. Extensively researched with hundreds of references, it is a comprehensive encyclopedi...

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Soweto to Beirut follows a young South African Journalist on an emotional journey of self-discovery while covering conflict in Beirut, Lebanon (2006). The experience of war precipitates a deep loss of faith, triggering childhood memories of growin...

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The purpose of this book is to engage challenging issues that are called into question during ministerial training. This is a volume presenting eleven contested issues that attend to concerns related to structures, processes, knowledge and practic...

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Although cities constitute the key contributors to unsustainable development, especially due to their ecological and equity impacts, they are also viewed as the vehicle for the transition to a sustainable future for humanity both in terms of techn...

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Stellenbosch faces the same challenges that most South African urban areas face: rapid urbanisation, sluggish economic growth, growing inequalities, unsustainable use of natural resources, deteriorating biodiversity, social problems, unhealthy liv...

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Woordeloos tot verhaal is in menig opzicht een baanbrekend werk. Het brengt onderzoekers uit verschillende disciplines bij elkaar om vanuit een scala van perspectieven helderheid te verschaffen over het trauma als centraal gegeven in de menselijke...

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In Reflections on War, the editors and contributing authors succeeded in covering a broad range of issues in the discourse on war and conflict. The study investigates the crucial links between theory, strategy and objectives in war, and indicates ...

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South African Perspectives on Notions and Forms of Ecumenicity is the second in a series of publications on the interface between ecumenical theology and social transformation in the (South) African context. It explores the underlying tensions in ...

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This volume is the first in a series of publications on the interface between ecumenical theology and social transformation in the (South) African context. It focuses on the significance but also the contested nature of reconciliation as one expre...

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This collection of essays continues the journey on which NetACT (Network for African Congregational Theology) set out fifteen years ago, and which eventually culminated in the publication of Men in the Pulpit, Women in the Pew? Addressing Gender I...

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Academic boundaries are in some ways similar to national boundaries - they are set up to colonise and govern, but at the same time are constantly challenged to reaffirm their authority and meaning. The postgraduate environment has been and is stil...

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Chris van der Merwe vertel in hierdie boek die verhaal van sy eie omgang met die letterkunde - 'n persoonlike verhaal, maar ook 'n stimulus vir lesers en navorsers wat belangstel in verbande tussen letterkunde en lewe.

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This volume of essays forms part of a series on the interface between ecumenical theology and social ethics in the (South) African context. This contribution is the result of a public conference hosted at the University of the Western Cape in May ...

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This book gives a fascinating insight into the engine room of the once powerful political communication instrument of the then ruling National Party: Naspers and its founding newspaper,  Die Burger . It shows with academic precision how manag...

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The centenary of the First World War presents historians with an opportunity to reflect anew upon South African participation in that war and particularly the role played by South African black and coloured participants in the conflict. Drawing up...

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The book presents a nuanced narrative about statistical development in Africa since around the time of independence when emerging states needed statistics mainly to support their planning processes. It highlights challenges faced then, some of whi...

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If we needed good theology to lead us from apartheid to democracy, we now already know that we need even better theology to strengthen and sustain our democracy through a vigilant civil society in which the university and vibrant scholarship are c...

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Ecclesial Reform and Deform Movements in the South African Context is the fourth volume in a series on the interface between ecumenical theology and social transformation in the (South) African context. Ecclesial movements are amongst the most sig...

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Here for the first time is an account of the inner lives of teachers during and immediately after the pandemic lockdown. What is teaching like during a pandemic? How did teachers manage their emotional lives as colleagues became infected, hospital...

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At the time of his death in August 2012 Neville Alexander was undoubtedly one of South Africa's foremost proponents of the philosophy of non-racialism. He had devoted his life to fighting against the evils of racism, sexism and economic injustice....

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Originally planned as a fact-based book on the pre-colonial history of the Eastern Cape in the true tradition of history, this ground-breaking book focuses on epistemological and foundational questions about the writing of history and whose histor...

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What is heritage in Africa? Who defines and authorises heritage? Is heritage limited to tangible forms of land, resources and monuments, or do intangible forms of heritage, such as cultural and religious heritage, count equally or even more? ...

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Forty great South Africans celebrate their mothers and grandmothers. Leaders from the worlds of politics, business, music, sport, education and literature pay homage to the women who have influenced and inspired them to lead exceptional lives. Mac...

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This book deals with contested and topical matters. Biblical hermeneutics has always been contested - how to read and understand Biblical passages. Things become even more contested when such passages are read inter-culturally; they become even mo...

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Although we should acknowledge the fragility of memory, we should nevertheless affirm the remarkable ability of memory to reform and transform our identity. Our memories and ways of remembering are, however, often marked by trauma and violence. Me...

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Security is a key topic of our time. But how do we understand it? Do law and religion take different views of it? In this fifth volume in the Law and Religion in Africa series, radicalisation, terrorism, blasphemy, hate speech, religious freedom a...

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Struggle and Hope is an absorbing memoir by a distinguished citizen of "Phalo's Land," in which the memoirist Mda Mda, traces the fractious events of Transkeien history over the period from roughly the late eighteen-hundreds to the present - that ...

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A shared interest of law and religion is the advancement of human flourishing, yet there is no common understanding of what it means for humans to flourish and the means by which to attain a flourishing life. The concept of human flourishing is es...

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The compositions brought together in this book began a quarter of a century ago in 1994, with the onset of South Africa's non-racial democracy, and in one way it may be viewed as the critical observations of an 'organic intellectual' engaging the ...

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