Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Is it Just Me or is Everything Kak by Grant Schreiber


Is it Just Me or is Everything KakIs it Just Me or is Everything Kak?: The whingers’ guide to South Africa
Author: Grant Schreiber; Tim Richman
Format: Softcover




Description:
Is It Just Me Or Is Everything Kak? The Whinger's Guide To South Africa is a funny and satirical A-to-Z frothy that cuts to the quick, sparing nothing and no-one that affects the lives of South Africans.

Car guards, bank fees, quotas, minibus taxis, Hansie Cronje, crossing, crime, corruption, Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, Telkom, Eskom, the Vodacom meerkat, Paris Hilton, Jacob Zuma. An ideal gift for people who like to whinge...


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Spreekkamerstories by Fana Malherbe


SpreekkamerstoriesSpreekkamerstories
Author: Fana Malherbe
Format: Softcover




Description:
Erns en skerts, vreugde en smart - die lag met 'n traan - vorm in humor soos ons dit vandag verstaan 'n wonderlike harmonie.

Ons praat van die operasiekamer as die teater - 'n teater waar chirurg en verpleegster die hoofrolle vertolk en waar inderdaad soms groot dramas afspeel, selfs tragedies, maar waar die gang van sake gewoonlik rustig en doelgerig is, en ook humor sy plek het.

Die meeste van die stories - deur die skrywer versamel oor 'n periode van meer as veertig jaar - het werklik met dokters en hulle pasiënte gebeur en is voorbeelde van humor, van die siening van pasiënt en dokter.


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The Money Book by Suze Orman


The Money Book by Suze OrmanThe Money Book for the Young, Fabulous & Broke
Author: Suze Orman
Format: Softcover




Description:
The Money Book for the Young, Fabulous & Broke is financial expert Suze Orman's answer to a generation's cry for help. They're called "Generation Debt" and "Generation Broke" by the media - people in their twenties and thirties who graduate college with a mountain of student loan debt and are stuck with one of the weakest job markets in recent history.

The goals of their parents' generation - buy a house, support a family, send kids to college, retire in style - seem absurdly, depressingly out of reach. They live off their credit cards, may or may not have health insurance, and come up so far short at the end of the month that the idea of saving money is a joke. This generation has it tough, without a doubt, but they're also painfully aware of the urgent need to take matters into their own hands.

The Money Book was written to address the specific financial reality that faces young people today and offers a set of real, not impossible solutions to the problems at hand and the problems ahead. Concisely, pragmatically, and without a whiff of condescension, Suze Orman tells her young, fabulous & broke readers precisely what actions to take and why.

Throughout these pages, there are icons that direct readers to a special YF&B domain on Suze's website that offers more specialized information, forms, and interactive tools that further customize the information in the book. Her advice at times bucks conventional wisdom (did she just say use your credit card?) and may even seem counter-intuitive (pay into a retirement fund even though your credit card debt is killing you?), but it's her honesty, understanding, and uncanny ability to anticipate the needs of her readers that has made her the most trusted financial expert of her day.

Over the course of ten chapters that can be consulted methodically, step-by-step or on a strictly need-to-know basis, Suze takes the reader past broke to a secure place where they'll never have to worry about revisiting broke again.

And she begins the journey with a bit of overwhelmingly good news (yes, there really is good news): Young people have the greatest asset of all on their side -- time.


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Michael Schumacher: The Whole Story by Christopher Hilton


Michael SchumacherMichael Schumacher: The Whole Story
Author: Christopher Hilton
Format: Softcover




Description:
When Michael Schumacher retired from Formula One, battling to win his eighth World Championship, fans questioned how he, and indeed former team-mates and rivals, would react after the end of such a stupendous, record-breaking career.

In this paperback edition of his highly successful hardback biography, Christopher Hilton updates the story of this controversial genius who, with a powerful mix of sublime skills and raw drama, in turns thrilled and enraged the Grand Prix world.


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Meerkat Manor: Flower of the Kalahari by TH Clutton-Brock


Meerkat ManorMeerkat Manor: Flower of the Kalahari
Author: T.H. Clutton-Brock
Format: Hardcover




Description:
Meerkat Manor, a television series now in its 3rd year (with 2 more seasons contracted) following the fortunes of a group of Meerkats has recently attracted sensational viewing figures. So much so that the BBC Natural History Unit that created Blue Planet and Planet Earth is producing a full-length feature film based on the hugely successful precedent of The March of the Penguins, backed by Harvey Weinstein's Weinstein Company.

The series follows a group of named individuals and the viewer becomes closely involved in the life-or-death struggles, just like a soap opera, of this curiously attractive and anthropomorphic tribe.

To tie in with the success of the television series and the publicity which will accrue from worldwide release of the film the originator of the Meerkat research project, Tim Clutton-Brock, has written an engaging and informative book about these animals and what his research tells us about their world, a world which appears to mirror our own but is in fact driven by the sometimes savage instincts of self-interest and survival.


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Nauti Nights by Lora Leigh


Nauti NightsNauti Nights
Author: Lora Leigh
Format: Softcover




Description:
Second in a hot and naughty trilogy from the author of Nauti Boy . Angela Knight says, When I'm in the mood for steamy romance, I read Lora Leigh. So do readers who devoured the author's first novel in the Mackay Cousins trilogy, Nauti Boy.

Now, in Nauti Nights , Leigh delivers an even hotter tale of a Kentucky marine who'll anything to get the woman he wants. Luckily for him, she wants it bad. James Dawg Mackay has lusted after sweet Crista for years. Just as many as she's spent running from him-and from a dangerous attraction. But for Crista, running isn't an option anymore because Dawg's got a plan to get her and keep her. It's kind of low-down-but completely hot.


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Battlefield of the Mind by Joyce Meyer


Battlefield of the MindBattlefield of the Mind: Winning the Battle in Your Mind
Author: Joyce Meyer
Format: Softcover




Description:
In BATTLEFIELD OF THE MIND Joyce Meyer shows you how to change your life by changing your mind. She teaches you to deal with the thousands of thoughts you have every day and focus your mind to think the way God thinks. And she shares the trials, tragedies and ultimate victories from her own marriage, family and ministry that led her to a wondrous, life-transforming truth - and reveals her thoughts and feelings every step of the way.

Now it's your turn to gain control over your mind and find freedom and peace; recognise damaging thoughts and stop them from influencing your life; be patient with yourself even when you make mistakes; arm yourself with the Word of God, praise, prayer and other powerful spiritual weapons; and follow the light out of your mental 'wilderness' - the bad attitudes and excuses people use that keep them from God - and find undreamed of happiness and fulfilment.

Don't surrender to misery another day...


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Tricks of the Mind by Derren Brown


Tricks of the MindTricks of the Mind
Author: Derren Brown
Format: Softcover




Description:
Derren Brown's television and stage performances have entranced and dumbfounded millions. His baffling illusions and stunning set pieces - such as The Seance , Russian Roulette and The Heist - have set new standards of what's possible, as well as causing more than their fair share of controversy.

Now, for the first time, he reveals the secrets behind his craft, what makes him tick and just why he grew that beard. Tricks of the Mind takes you on a journey into the structure and pyschology of magic.

Derren teaches you how to read clues in people's behaviour and spot liars. He discusses the whys and wherefores of hypnosis and shows how to do it. And he investigates the power of suggestion and how you can massively improve your memory.

He also takes a long hard look at the paranormal industry and why some of us feel the need to believe in it in the first place. Alternately hilarious, controversial and challenging, Tricks of the

Mind is essential reading for Derren's legions of fans, and pretty bloody irresistible even if you don't like him that much...


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