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Archaeology
Birds
See also More Bird Guides
The latest Roberts Birds shows new names and new bird orders
Birds Of Southern Africa
CD Rom A comprehensive and interactive multimedia program. It combines a
multimedia database on over 950 Southern African bird species.
Clive Gibson and John Mendelsohn, Everyone's Guide to Birds of South Africa, Struik Publishers, 2001
Kenneth Newman, Newman's Birds of Southern Africa, Struik, 2002
Ber van Perlo, Birds of Southern Africa, Princeton University Press, 2003
Richard Liversidge, Jill Adams (illustrations), The Birds Around Us, Fontein, 1991
Lex Hes, Roy Tredler, Attracting Birds to Your Garden in Southern Africa
Ian Sinclair, Field guide to Birds of Southern Africa
Why Don't Woodpeckers Get Headaches?: And Other Answers to Bird Questions You Know You Want to Ask
Biographies
See also History and Best of 2007Anonymous, A Woman in Berlin (April - June 1945)
John Allen, Rabble-Rouser for Peace, The authorised biography of Desmond Tutu
Hennie Aucamp, Bly te kenne
Lady Anne Barnard's Cape Diaries. Paradise, the Castle and the Vineyard (Margaret Lenta (Ed.)
In die vroegte
Lauren Beukes, Maverick: Extraordinary women from South Africa's past
Danie Botha Voetligte & Applous!
Bill Bryson's autobiography. The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
A C Cilliers, Lewensavontuur, 3 volumes, 1971-73 - The memoirs of a renown South African
theoretical phycisist
Bill Clinton, My Life
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Living History
J.M. Coetzee, Boyhood: A Memoir
HF Heese, Groep sonder grense: Die rol en status van die gemengde bevolking aan die Kaap, 1652–1795
Michiel Heyns, The Children's Day
Elspeth Huxley, The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood
The Mottled Lizard
J.D.F. Jones, Storyteller: The Lives of Laurens Van Der Post
Li Cunxin:
Mao's Last Dancer
Koos Kombuis, Seks&Drugs&Boermusiek
Willem D. Kotzé, Voetspore in die Kalahari: Jeugherinneringe
Rian Malan, My traitor's heart
Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom
Bill Clinton; Desmond Tutu; Pq Publishers Ltd, Mandela: The Authorized Portrait
Sindiwe Magona, To my children's children
Sylvia Nasar, A Beautiful Mind: A Biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr., Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics,
1994
Eve Palmer, The Plains of Camdeboo
A Bruised Reed: The James Reed Story
PJ Schoeman, Uit die dagboek van 'n wildbewaarder
Dan Sleigh, Die Buiteposte van die VOC onder Kaapse bestuur, 1652-1795
Robert McG Thomas, The Best Obituaries from Legendary New York Times Reporter Robert McG. Thomas Jr.
Marita van der Vyver, Where the heart is
Henk van Woerden, A mouthful of glass
A fascinating biography with a difference. It tells the story of three
outsiders in South Africa – Dimitri Tsafendas, the man he assassinated –
Hendrik Verwoed – and a young student who witnessed the dramatic 1960s in South
Africa.Business
Robert Greene, Joost Elffers, The 48 Laws of Power
Gawie du Toit and Gerhard Cronje, Introduction to Business Management (6 Revised Edition)
B. Cameron, Getting Started: Money Matters for under-25s
Jeff Cox and William Byham, Zapp! the Lightning of Empowerment: How to Improve Quality, Productivity, and Employee Satisfaction
Stephen R. Covey, Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
Cooking
Kerneels Breytenbach, Die lekkerste lekker
Ina de Villiers, Kook en Geniet/ Cook and enjoy it
Die Klein Kook en Geniet (Co-author: Eunice van der Berg)
Cooking with Basil - a fun cook book by the wellknown illustrator and
cartoonist. Can be ordered from Frans Groenewald directly
Carmen Niehaus, Huisgenoot Top 500 wenresepte
Context Links
Dictionaries
Isabel Uys, English Afrikaans Xhosa Zulu Aid and Die Afrikaanse makro Gid
John Bennett and Nthuseng Tsoeu, The Multilingual Illustrated Dictionary : English, IsiZulu, Sesotho, IsiXhosa, Setswana, Afrikaans and Sepedi
A. de Stadler; L.G. de Stadler, Tesourus van Afrikaans, Pharos, 2006
Christo Viljoen, Niek du Plooy & Samuel Murray: Kuberwoordeboek/Cyber Dictionary
Fiction
See also Afrikaans authors
Nicholas Drayson, 
A Guide to the Birds of East Africa (A novel, not a bird guide)
Michael Chapman: Omnibus of a Century of South African Short Stories, 2007
This Omnibus of a century of South African stories makes available all the
stories from three best-selling anthologies: A Century of South African Short
Stories (1978); the revised edition (1993); and The New Century of South
African Short Stories (2004)
Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist: A Fable About Following Your DreamFrederick Forsyth, Day of the Jackal
The Dogs of War
Elspeth Huxley, Red Strangers
John Irving, The World According to Garp
Eleven Minutes
Sir Percy Fitzpatrick, Jock of the Bushveld
All Alexander McCall Smith books (also available as audio books) have become
bestsellers, especially the books about the ever-popular Precious Ramotswe,
Botswana's leading, and only, female private detective
:
The No. 1 Ladies detective agency
Tears of the Giraffe
Morality for beautiful girls
The Kalahari typing school for men
The full cupboard of life
The Sunday Philosophy Club, expected September 2004
and the 3 novels featuring the endless mishaps of the German Professor Dr.
Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld:
Portuguese irregular verbs
The finer point of sausage dogs
At the villa of reduced circumstances (audio)
Dai Sijie, Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
J.R.R. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings
John van de Ruit:
Doc Immelman, Die tyd van die klippe
Abraham H. de Vries, Tot verhaal kom
Elsa Joubert, Die Laaste Sondag
Etienne le Roux, Magersfontein, O Magersfontein!
Marlene van Niekerk, Triomf
Agaat
Dalene Matthee, Kringe in 'n Bos
Marita van der Vyver:
Die ongelooflike avonture van Hanna Hoekom
Mia se ma/Mia's Mom
Griet skryf 'n sprokie
Griet kom weer
Die hart van ons huis/ Where the heart is
Bestemmings/Short Circuits
Raka, NP van Wyk Louw
Jan Rabie, Die groot anders-maak, Human & Rousseau
Wilma Stockenström, Die kremetartekspedisie
Eben Venter, Begeerte
Francois Greeff, The Hidden Code of Cryptic CrosswordsHealth
Patrick Holford, Optimum Nutrition for the MindGeraldine Mitton, Dr Geraldine Mitton's Handbook of Anti-ageing, Struik and New Holland Publishers, 2004
This book has become an international bestseller immediately after publication.
Jean du Plessis, Oor gay wees, Tafelberg
Although the book is based on many years of research, clinical practice and
personal experience, it was written as a non-academic, informative book,
suitable for gay people, their parents and relatives, teachers, ministers of
religion and everybody who has to deal with issues related to sexual
orientation.
The book is available in book shops, but can also be ordered at the reduced
price of Rand 30 from the author.
History
Paul Holden, The Arms Deal in your Pocket
Mark Robert Dunbar Anderson, Blue Berg - Britain takes the Cape, MRD Anderson, 2008
George Bizos, No one to blame? Personal account of inquests into some deaths in detention under Apartheid,
1999
Harriet Deacon, A History of Robben Island
Hermann Giliomee, The Afrikaners - Biography of a people, 2003
Herman Giliomee and Bernard Mbenga, New History of South Africa / Nuwe geskiedenis van Suid-Afrika
The Boer War:
SB Spies, Memoirs of the Boer war: Jan Smuts
Nelson Mandela, African Writers S.: No Easy Walk to Freedom
Nelson Mandela, The Illustrated Long Walk to Freedom
Thabo Mbeki, Africa: Define yourself
Frederick Van Zyl Slabbert, The other side of history / Duskant die geskiedenis: ""One thing the 'old' and 'new' South Africa have in common is a passion for
inventing history."
Dan Sleigh, Islands
Desmond Tutu, The Rainbow People of God - The making of a peaceful revolution
Humor and Cartoons
Zapiro:
T.O. HONIBALL-trilogie: Jakkals en Wolf, Oom Kaspaas en Adoons-hulle
Bitterkomix
Authors: Anna Sommer; Catherine Clarke; Joe Daly; Joe Dog; Karien de Villiers;
Paddy Bouma
Satirical underground comics created by Conrad Botes and Anton KannemeyerAbraham H. de Vries, Alles Goed en Wel
Non-Fiction
Isabel Uys, Feitegids
A compact one-volume source that quickly delivers thousands of accurate and fascinating overviews, key dates, statistics and other essential facts on everything from art to zoology.
John Platter's South African Wines 2008
Desmond Tutu, God Has a Dream: A Vision of Hope for Our Time
Photo books
Jürgen Schadeberg, Witness: 52 years of pointing lenses at life -
"a photographer with an uncanny sense of timing"
Philip de Vos, Milieu - a book of photographs of 134 creative South Africans
Poetry
Breyten Breytenbach, windvanger
Daniel Hugo; Leon Rousseau; Phil Du Plessis:
Nuwe Verset
Byna veertig digters, van Hennie Aucamp tot Peter Snyders en George Weideman
Ingrid Jonker, Selected poems
Night crossing is Petra Müller's first volume of English poems.
Pablo Neruda, The Captain's Verses (English and Spanish)
Ina Rousseau, Die stil middelpunt (a collection from her work compiled by Daniel Hugo)
Wilma Stockenström, Die stomme aarde: 'n keur - The wisdom of water: A selection
Science and popular Science
See also Some of the best books of 2007 Daniel Clement Dennett, Consciousness Explained
Alex Vilenkin: Many Worlds in One: The Search for Other Universes, 2006
Immensely lucid description of the latest insights in CosmologyGideon Joubert, Die Groot Gedagte: Abstrakte Weefsel Van Die Kosmos
David Bodanis, e=mc2: A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation
Brian Eno; John le Carre; Richard Dawkins, Not one more death
Steven Pinker:
Simon Sing: Fermat's last theorem
The Code Book: The Secret History of Codes and Code-breaking
Big Bang: The origin of the universe
Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything
Science Fiction
Gardner Dozois:
Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction
Iain Banks:
Vernor Vinge, The peace war
Rainbows End
The Witling
A Deepness in the Sky
A Fire Upon the Deep
Joan D. Vinge, The snow queen
Neil Gaiman,Neverwhere
Stardust
American Gods
Peter S Beagle, The last unicorn
E.R. Eddison, The worm Ouroboros
Peter F. Hamilton, Night's Dawn trilogy
The reality dysfunction
The Neutronium Alchemist
The Naked God
Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle, Lucifer's hammer
Barry Hughart, The bridge of birds
Song books
Anton Goosen, hitte vannie teerpad: songs van die liedjieboer
Koos Kombuis, Koos se songs: 'n Versameling lirieke en kitaarakkoorde
Sport
Markus Keohane, Springbok Rugby: Uncovered: The inside story of South Africa's rugby controversies
Travel
Wildlife
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