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Archaeology


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Birds

See also More Bird Guides

The famous RobertsThe 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

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Biographies

See also History and Best of 2007
Anonymous, 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
Voetligte & Applous!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
Mao's Last Dancer 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.

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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
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Cooking


Die lekkerste lekkerKerneels 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
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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

Omnibus of a Century of South African Short StoriesMichael 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 Dream

Frederick 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:
Spud
Spud
Spud JournalSpud Audio bookSpud: The madness continues  
 

Jan Rabie
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Buy Bestemmings
Marita van der Vyver
Bestemmings
Raka: Die Roman
Koos Kombuis
Raka: Die Roman
The Complete Secret Diaries of God (Satire)
'n Vreemdeling Op Deurtog
Hennie Aucamp
'n Vreemdeling Op Deurtog

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

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Fun and Hobbies

Francois Greeff, The Hidden Code of Cryptic Crosswords

Health

Patrick Holford, Optimum Nutrition for the Mind

Geraldine 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

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."
IslandsDan Sleigh, Islands
Desmond Tutu, The Rainbow People of God - The making of a peaceful revolution

Humor and Cartoons


Zapiro:
Zapiro Da Zuma code
Zapiro Da Zuma code
Zapiro: Long walk to free time
Zapiro: Long walk to free time
Zapiro: the Madiba Years: Cartoons from Sowetan and the Mail & Guardian
Zapiro: the Madiba Years: Cartoons from Sowetan and the Mail & Guardian
  

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 Kannemeyer

Abraham H. de Vries, Alles Goed en Wel

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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
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
Nuwe Verset
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

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Science and popular Science

See also Some of the best books of 2007  
Daniel Clement Dennett, Consciousness Explained
Richard Dawkins:
River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life
River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life
The Blind Watchmaker
The Blind Watchmaker
Climbing Mount Improbable
Climbing Mount Improbable
Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder
Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder
The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary Edition--With a New Introduction by the Author
The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary Edition--With a New Introduction by the Author
The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution
Richard Dawkins; Yan Wong:
The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution
The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene
The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene
The God Delusion
Daniel Dennett; Richard Dawkins:
The God Delusion
Format: Audio CD
The God Delusion
 
Many Worlds in One: The Search for Other Universes
Alex Vilenkin: Many Worlds in One: The Search for Other Universes
, 2006
Immensely lucid description of the latest insights in Cosmology

Gideon 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:
The Language Instinct: The New Science of Language and Mind
The Language Instinct: The New Science of Language and Mind
How the Mind Works
How the Mind Works
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language
Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window Into Human Nature
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window Into Human Nature
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2004
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2004

Editors: Steven Pinker; Tim Folger

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

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Science Fiction

Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction
Gardner Dozois:
Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction

Iain Banks:
The Crow Road
The Crow Road
Against a Dark Background
Against a Dark Background

The Player of Games
The Player of Games

Use of Weapons
Use of Weapons
Excession
Excession
Inversions
Inversions
The Algebraist
The Algebraist
The Steep Approach to Garbadale
The Steep Approach to Garbadale
Matter
Matter
The Wasp Factory
Matter

Audio CD

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
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Travel


Wildlife

Van jagter tot wildliefhebber
P.J. Schoeman:
Van jagter tot wildliefhebber


Coastal Fishes
The Complete Book of Southern African Mammals
The Complete Book of Southern African Mammals

by Gus Mills and Lex Hes
A guide to the reptiles of Southern Africa
Graham Alexander; Johan Marais:
A guide to the reptiles of Southern Africa

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