EAN: 9781847080004
Format: Hardback

Release Date: 1 July 2008
Price: R185

Elizabeth Pisani has spent ten years working as a scientist in the bloated AIDS industry. In The Wisdom of Whores , she unfolds a universe of brothels and bureaucracies, of bickering junkies and squabbling charities, of men who sell sex and men who would rather prohibit it. Illustrating solid science with ribald tales from the frontlines of sex and drugs, The Wisdom of Whores explains how we could shut down HIV everywhere except sub-Saharan Africa. We could do it with a few, simple steps. We could do it with less money than we already have. But we won’t. This book shows how politics, ideology and money – lots of money, ten billion dollars a year – have bulldozed through scientific evidence and common sense.The consequences of our global hypocrisy are tragic. Over 70 million people have been infected with HIV. We know how to stop the virus. But instead of doing what is needed, governments continue to squander taxpayer’s money on feel-good programmes that make no difference. Like Freakonomics , The Wisdom of Whores makes a complex discipline fascinating. Like Liar’s Poker , it provides a riveting insider’s view of an industry. It’s both a brave, campaigning book that will save lives and change policy on; and a fantastic read, written with passion, wit and integrity.

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Outliers
Malcolm Gladwell

EAN: 9781846141218
Format: Hardback

Release Date: 1 November 2008
Price: R240

This is a brilliant new book from the bestselling author of The Tipping Point and Blink . Why are people successful? For centuries, humankind has grappled with this question, searching for the secret to accomplishing great things. In this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an invigorating intellectual journey to show us what makes an extreme overachiever.

He reveals that we pay far too much attention to what successful people are like, and too little attention to where successful people are from: their culture, their family, and their generation.Gladwell examines how the careers of Bill Gates and the performance of world-class football players are alike; what top fighter pilots and The Beatles have in common; why so many top lawyers are Jewish; why Asians are good at maths; and why it is correct to say that the mathematician who solved Fermat’s Theorem is not a genius. Just as he did in Blink , Gladwell overturns many of our conventional notions and creates an entirely new model for seeing the world. Brilliant and entertaining, this is a landmark work that will simultaneously delight and illuminate.

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Love, Aubrey
Suzanne LaFleur

EAN: 9780141326870
Format: Hardback

Release Date: 1 July 2009
Price: R140

Something terrible has happened. Eleven-year-old Aubrey is on her own. ‘It was fun at first, playing house. Nothing to think about but T.V and cheese. A perfect world’. She’s determined to hide away and take care of herself, because facing the truth is too much to bear. ‘I couldn’t let anyone know that I was alone. I was staying right here’.

But with the love of her grandmother and the letters she writes, can Aubrey begin to see that even though she’s lost everything – all is not lost?

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Cool Spaces For Kids
Sam Scarborough

EAN: 9780600618393
Format: Hardback
Release Date: 1 May 2009

Recommended Retail Price: R220

Providing your children with a safe, stimulating living space is an essential job for any parent.

Taking you through the process, from conception to construction, Cool Spaces for Kids gives you all the ideas and know-how you need to create appealing areas in your home for your kids, whatever their age.

From imaginative playrooms and bedrooms to customizing a corner of your living room or garden, creating special spaces for your little ones will help them to enjoy playing, working, relaxing and learning.

With over 50 stunning ideas comprising step-by-step projects, stylish alternatives, quick fixes and more, you can give your kids cool spaces they’ll enjoy for years to come.

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She worked briefly as a legal secretary.  “I could type fast but couldn’t spell, I was the worst legal secretary ever,” she says now.  After her sons were born she stayed home and tried every craft that came along.  A blizzard in February 1979 forced her hand to try another creative outlet.  She was snowed in with a three and six year old with no kindergarten respite in sight and a dwindling supply of chocolate. Born into a family of readers, Nora had never known a time that she wasn’t reading or making up stories.  During the now famous blizzard, she pulled out a pencil and notebook and began to write down one of those stories. It was there that a career was born.  Several manuscripts and rejections later, her first book, Irish Thoroughbred, was published by Silhouette in 1981.

Nora met her second husband, Bruce Wilder, when she hired him to build bookshelves.  They were married in July 1985.  Since that time, they’ve expanded their home, traveled the world and opened a bookstore together.

Through the years, Nora has always been surrounded by men. Not only was she the youngest in her family, but she was also the only girl.  She has raised two sons.  Having spent her life surrounded by men has given Ms. Roberts a fairly good view of the workings of the male mind, which is a constant delight to her readers.  It was, she’s been quoted as saying, a choice between figuring men out or running away screaming.

Nora is a member of several writers groups and has won countless awards from her colleagues and the publishing industry.

Nora’s J.D. Robb titles include:

• Naked in Death
• Glory in Death
• Immortal in Death

Nora Roberts titles include:

• Angels Fall
• Birthright
• Black Rose
• Blood Brothers
• Blue Dahlia
• Blue Smoke
• Born in Fire
• Born in Ice
• Dance of the Gods
• High Noon

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EAN: 9780141383279
Format: Hardback
Release Date: 1 August 2008

Recommended Retail Price: R130 Gone are the days when Ginger was an outsider, always on the fringes of friendship. She’s swapped puppy fat and pigtails for make-up and hair straighteners and never looked back – until now. Ginger and Shannon are best mates, but when they befriend lonely Emily, everything changes. Even the saxophone-playing boy in the trilby hat can’t help – he’s part of the problem…Are Ginger and Shannon drifting apart or can they stay best friends forever? A gorgeously tender-hearted story about secrets, friends and fitting in from the new queen of tween, Cathy Cassidy.

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Disney

EAN: 9781405338936

Format: Hardback

Release Date: 1 March 2009

Recommended Retail Price: R200 Hang onto your cowboy hats – Toy Story is back with this new, expanded completely re-mastered Essential Guide . Enter the extraordinary world of Toy Story 1 and 2, where as soon as the bedroom door closes the toys come to life. Meet Woody, Buzz, their favourite friends and worst enemies – from Bullseye the horse and Jessie the yodelling cowgirl, to the evil Emperor Zurg – and learn all about them from tons of cool facts. You’ll journey to magical Toy Story movie sets exploring everything from the insides of toys, to Al’s World and Pizza Planet. It’s a non-stop Toy Story adventure.

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EAN: 9780399242472
Format: Hardback
Release Date: 1 July 2007

Recommended Retail Price: R140

Moka is a good dog. But when Michelle, his little girl, reads him a book about wolves, being a good dog suddenly seems awfully boring. Wolves get to run around doing whatever they want. No one ever makes a wolf dress up for a tea party.

So Moka decides to run away to the wild. But what will happen when the real wolves show up?

For any kid who’s tired of being good, Moka’s antics will be a vicarious treat.

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Recommended Retail Price: R190

Your inner purpose is to awaken. It is as simple as that. You share that purpose with every other person on the planet – because it is the purpose of humanity. Your inner purpose is an essential part of the purpose of the whole, the universe and its emerging intelligence.

Your outer purpose can change over time. It varies greatly from person to person. Finding and living in alignment with the inner purpose is the foundation for fulfilling your outer purpose. It is the basis for true success.

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The Gamble
Thomas E Ricks

EAN: 9781846141454
Format: Hardback
Release Date: 1 March 2009

Based on unprecedented real-time access to the military’s entire chain of command, The Gamble is the definitive account of the insurgency within the US military that led to a radical shift in America’s strategy in Iraq – and the bloody implementation of that strategy on the ground. In his international bestseller Fiasco, Thomas E. Ricks gave us the definitive reckoning with what went so wrong in Iraq.

The story The Gamble tells is how, when the war was at its darkest hour, a group of dissident junior commanders and their civilian allies did an end run around their superiors in the military establishment and seized control of the war. The result was ‘the Surge’, one of the American military’s boldest strategic gambles since the landings at Inchon. General David Petraeus gave military expert Thomas E. Ricks extraordinary privileged access to himself and his team during the past two years, and the result is a chronicle of astonishing vividness and analytical depth. It is the story of military leadership in the crucible of war, under excruciating political pressure at home.

It is also the story of the soldiers who executed the strategy out in the field. Ricks concludes that the war likely will last for many years to come – and that it will not be remembered for the reasons we think.

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