World History

	Empire's Crossroads - Carrie Gibson Empire's Crossroads: A History of the Caribbean from Columbus to the Present by Carrie Gibson unfolds the story of the Caribbean from Columbus's first landing on the island he named San Salvador to today's islands - largely independent, but often still in thrall to Europe and America's insatiable desire for tropical luxuries.	ZAR 150.00
	Double Entry - Jane Gleeson-White Double Entry: How the Merchants of Venice Created Modern Finance by Jane Gleeson-White takes us from the ancient origins of accounting in Mesopotamia to the frontiers of modern finance. At the heart of the story is double-entry bookkeeping: the first system that allowed merchants to actually measure the worth of their businesses.	ZAR 130.00
	Rivers in the Desert - Nelson Glueck Rivers in the Desert: A History of the Negev by Nelson Glueck tells the story of the discovery, excavation and mapping of hundreds of lost settlements in the Israeli desert know as the Negev. He tells how he, Bible in hand, dug the evidence out of the arid desert sands to tell of flourishing civilizations dating back to the fourth millennium BC.	ZAR 75.00
	Apollo 11, the NASA Mission Reports - Robert Godwin Apollo 11, the NASA Mission Reports, volumes 1 and 2, edited by Robert Godwin have been compiled from the NASA archives. Volume 1 contains all the technical information of the mission. Volume 2 is the technical crew debriefing done immediately after the flight. Both books contain a CD ROM with images and MPEG video.	ZAR 150.00
	The Gods of Olympus - Barbara Graziosi The Gods of Olympus: A History by Barbara Graziosi is an elegant and entertaining account of the transformations of the Greek gods across the ages, from antiquity to the Renaissance and the present day The gods of Olympus are the most colourful characters of Greek civilization: even in antiquity, they were said to be cruel, oversexed, mad, or just plain silly.	ZAR 150.00
	Chasing the Sun - Jonathan Green Chasing the Sun: Dictionary Makers and the Dictionaries They Made by Jonathan Green is an immensely readable and fascinating history of the dictionary. The author traces the story from the first lexicon created in 2340 BC in Sumeria to the pinnacle of the Oxford English Dictionary and today's computer-generated successors of that great masterwork. Illustrated.	ZAR 90.00
	Death of a Revolutionary - Richard L Harris Death of a Revolutionary: Che Guevara's Last Mission by Richard L Harris is a probing account into the life and death of South American revolutionary icon Che Guevara and this revised edition includes a new chapter on the effects of his legacy today.	ZAR 75.00
	The Last Slave Market - Alastair Hazell The Last Slave Market: Dr John Kirk and the Struggle to End the East African Slave Trade by Alastair Hazell is an extraordinary and controversial book which brings Dr John Kirk's years in Zanzibar to life. The horrors of the overland passage from the interior, and the Zanzibar slave market itself, are vividly described, together with Kirk's final, bitter conflict with Livingstone.	ZAR 170.00
	1913 - Florian Illies 1913: The year before the storm by Florian Illies is a witty yet moving narrative worked up from sketched biographical fragments and is an intimate vision of a world that is about to change forever. The stuffy conventions of the nineteenth century are receding into the past, and 1913 heralds a new age of unlimited possibility.	ZAR 110.00
	Nehru on Gandhi - The John Day Company Nehru on Gandhi: A selection, arranged in the order of events, from the writings and speeches of Jawaharlal Nehru by The John Day Company is an anthology of Nehru's written recollections of Mohandas K. Gandhi, published shortly after Gandhi's assassination in 1948	ZAR 145.00
	Modern Times - Paul Johnson Modern Times: A history of the world from the 1920s to the year 2000 by Paul Johnson is a fast-paced, all-encompassing narrative history which covers the great events, ideas, and personalities of the six decades following the end of World War I, and offers a full-scale if controversial - analysis of how the modern age came into being and where it is heading.	ZAR 75.00
	Bosworth 1485 - Michael Jones Bosworth 1485: Psychology of a Battle by Michael Jones rewrites this landmark event in English history. He shifts our perspective of its heroes and villains and puts Richard firmly back into the context of his family and his times.	ZAR 130.00
	World Order - Henry Kissinger World Order by Henry Kissinger makes his monumental investigation into the 'tectonic plates' of global history and state relations. World Order is the summation of Henry Kissinger's thinking about history, strategy and statecraft.	ZAR 230.00
	What? - Mark Kurlansky What? Are These Really the Twenty Most Important Questions in Human History? by Mark Kurlansky is a very short, terrifically witty, deeply thought-provoking book entirely in the form of questions? A book that draws on philosophy, religion, literature, policy - indeed, all of civilization - to ask what may well be the twenty most important questions in human history?	ZAR 85.00
	War and Gold - Kwasi Kwarteng War and Gold: A Five-hundred-year History of Empires, Adventures and Debt by Kwasi Kwarteng reveals a pattern of war-waging, financial debt and fluctuations between paper money and the gold standard, and creates a compelling study of the powerful relationship that has shaped the world as we know it, that between war and gold.	ZAR 165.00
	Severed - Frances Larson Severed: A History of Heads Lost and Heads Found by Frances Larson is about the fascination we have with heads, ours and others. Over the centuries, human heads have decorated our churches, festooned our city walls and filled our museums.	ZAR 175.00
	Tigress of Forli - Elizabeth Lev Tigress of Forli: The Life of Caterina Sforza by Elizabeth Lev shows how between her birth in 1463 as the illegitimate daughter of the Duke of Milan, to her death in 1509 as a member of the powerful Medici family, Caterina Sforza's life crossed the firmament of Italy's High Renaissance like a shooting star.	ZAR 105.00
	The Nazis Next Door - Eric Lichtblau The Nazis Next Door: How America Became a Safe Haven for Hitler's Men by Eric Lichtblau is the shocking story of how America became one of the world's safest postwar havens for Nazis.	ZAR 160.00
	Sincerity - R Jay Magill Jr Sincerity: How a Moral Ideal Born Five Hundred Years Ago Inspired Religious Wars, Modern Art, Hipster Chic, and the Curious Notion That We All Have Something to Say (No Matter How Dull) by R Jay Magill Jr argues that we can't shake sincerity's deep theological past, emotional resonance, and the sense of conscience it has carved in the Western soul.	ZAR 98.00
	Galley Slave - Jean Marteilhe Galley Slave: Seafarers' Voices No.	ZAR 130.00
	Treasure of the Atocha - R Duncan Mathewson III Treasure of the Atocha: A $400 Million Archaeological Adventure by R Duncan Mathewson III tells the story of the long search for the wreck, telling of a series of tantalising clues and serious setbacks before it was eventually found.	ZAR 75.00
	Mazes & Labyrinths - W H Matthews Mazes & Labyrinths: Their history and development by W H Matthews shows us with devoted scholarship and an appreciation for what he terms "the lure of the labyrinth," Matthews explores accounts of ancient mazes, the "meanders" of Greek and Roman times, the hedge maze, and more. With 151 illustrations.	ZAR 60.00
	Indigo - Catherine E McKinley Indigo: In search of the color that seduced the world by Catherine E McKinley brims with rich, electrifying tales of the precious dye and its ancient heritage.	ZAR 110.00
	12 Years a Slave - Solomon Northup 12 Years a Slave: A True Story of Betrayal, Kidnap and Slavery by Solomon Northup is a powerful and riveting condemnation of American slavery. The harrowing true story of Solomon Northup who was kidnapped and sold into slavery, enduring unimaginable degradation and abuse until his rescue twelve years later.	ZAR 110.00
	Revelations - Elaine Pagels Revelations: Visions, Prophecy, and Politics in the Book of Revelation by Elaine Pagels is a startling exploration of the history of the most controversial book of the Bible. In this timely book, Pagels returns The Book of Revelation to its historical origin, written as its author John of Patmos took aim at the Roman Empire after what is now known as "the Jewish War," in 66 CE.	ZAR 120.00