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From Hope to Action through Knowledge
0R460,00Its November 2001. A university in dire straits, financially bankrupt burdening a debt in excess of R100-million, a disillusioned and demoralised staff complement still reeling from the trauma of retrenchments, coupled with an academic project facing collapse as student numbers dwindle by a third to less than 10 000. Is there a future for such an institution, described by some as a Obasket caseO with very bleak prospects of survival? This was the landscape that confronted the newly-appointed Vice-Chancellor and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the University of the Western Cape.
Fast forward to December 2014. The CEO retires from office, bestowing upon his successor a financially sound institution with a flourishing academic project, recording unprecedented achievements, enriching the lives of more than 20 000 students, and widely acknowledged as a research-led university.E
This book narrates how visionary leadership with the steadfast belief that your past does not determine your future, galvanised an entire organisation into believing that a better outcome was indeed achievable, and the will to move forward as a collective with a redefined purpose and commitment to achieve that which was once deemed impossible.
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From Water to Wine: Angola’s Transformation
0R0,00From Water to Wine explores how Angola has changed since the end of its civil war in 2002. Its focus is on the middle classN defined as those with a house, a car, and an educationNand their consumption, aspirations, and hopes for their families.
It takes as its starting point Owhat is working in Angola?O
rather than Owhat is going wrong?O and makes a deliberate, political choice to give attention to beauty and happiness in everyday life in a country that has had an unusually troubled history. Each chapter focuses on one of the five senses, with the introduction and conclusion provoking reflection on proprioception (or kinesthesia) and curiosity. Various media are employedNpoetry, recipes, photos, comics, and other textual experimentsNto engage readers and their senses.
Written for a broad audience, this text is an excellent addition to the study of Africa, the lusophone world, international development, sensory ethnography, and ethnographic writing.
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From Water to Wine: Angola’s Transformation
0R300,00From Water to Wine explores how Angola has changed since the end of its civil war in 2002. Its focus is on the middle classN defined as those with a house, a car, and an educationNand their consumption, aspirations, and hopes for their families.
It takes as its starting point Owhat is working in Angola?O
rather than Owhat is going wrong?O and makes a deliberate, political choice to give attention to beauty and happiness in everyday life in a country that has had an unusually troubled history. Each chapter focuses on one of the five senses, with the introduction and conclusion provoking reflection on proprioception (or kinesthesia) and curiosity. Various media are employedNpoetry, recipes, photos, comics, and other textual experimentsNto engage readers and their senses.
Written for a broad audience, this text is an excellent addition to the study of Africa, the lusophone world, international development, sensory ethnography, and ethnographic writing.
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Game Farm and Hunting Tourism
0R525,00Wildlife tourism, of which game farms form an important part, is one of South Africa’s biggest tourism products with more game conserved and land under protection than all provincial and national parks combined. Therefore wildlife tourism, especially hunting, is a very important source of income for the country and contributes to job creation in rural provinces like Limpopo, Northern Cape, North West and Eastern Cape. This book places emphasis on hunting (trophy and biltong), game farm development for tourism purposes, game management, game farming and the law, and important future trends. The book is aimed at game farm owners, hunters, hunting outfitters, professional hunters and students in search of knowledge concerning game farm and hunting tourism.
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Game Farm and Hunting Tourism
0R420,00Wildlife tourism, of which game farms form an important part, is one of South Africa’s biggest tourism products with more game conserved and land under protection than all provincial and national parks combined. Therefore wildlife tourism, especially hunting, is a very important source of income for the country and contributes to job creation in rural provinces like Limpopo, Northern Cape, North West and Eastern Cape. This book places emphasis on hunting (trophy and biltong), game farm development for tourism purposes, game management, game farming and the law, and important future trends. The book is aimed at game farm owners, hunters, hunting outfitters, professional hunters and students in search of knowledge concerning game farm and hunting tourism.
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Gedagtes oor Geestelike Waardes: Versamelde Opstelle 6
0R375,00Die gedagtes in di bundel gaan terug op bydraes wat in die Afrikaanse koerant, Die Burger, se Saterdag-uitgawe verskyn het, in die rubriek OGeestelike waardesO onder die skuilnaam DJS. Ook hulle was deurgaans geskryf in di hoop dat ons dalk OdieperO mag lewe meer nadenkend, meer geprikkel tot groter verwondering, meer vraend, meer nuuskierig, meer waarderend, meer erkentlik oor die wonderbare gawes en die ryke verrassings van dit wat ons werklikheid en waarheid en mens-wees noem; meer bewus van wat ons aan andere doen en hoe ons woorde en dade en versuim hulle dalk raak, selfs mag wond.
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Geloof en Openbare Lewe
0R480,00Het die Christelike geloof enigiets met die openbare lewe te make, het die geloof enigiets betekenisvol by te dra tot die openbare lewe ? en indien wel, hoe gebeur dit? Wat beteken ‘die openbare lewe’ eintlik? Op welke wyse indien enige kan die kerk ‘n bydrae tot die openbare lewe en die openbare mening lewer?
Op welke wyse verkondig en leef die kerk die evangelie as boodskap van ‘Heil vir die Wereld’ Die opstelle in hierdie bundel dink na oor hierdie soort vrae vanuit ‘n wye verskeidenheid van gesigshoeke. Talle van hierdie vrae is van brandende belang in ‘n tyd waarin baie gepraat word oor die sogenaamde ‘sekularisasie? en waarin baie mense wonder oor die relevansie van die kerk in ‘n tydgees soos vandag.
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Gender and Sexuality in South African Music
0R220,00During the past two decades, the study of sexuality and gender in music has become a decidedly mainstream activity. To be sure, music has long been obviously and intimately involved in matters pertaining to relations, both sexual and otherwise, between and amongst the sexes. Its use in courtship is the one that perhaps first comes to mind, this use being probably as old as music itself.
This book contains all the papers presented at the conference by the same name.
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Genres of Critique
0R265,00The book seeks to open and explore the liminal space of critique at the intersection of law, aesthetics and politics. The essays in this volume elaborate and expand the meaning and significance of critique through an engagement with aesthetic forms. Although this endeavour has wider significance, the focus is primarily on South Africa. The various contributions arose out of a process of reading, writing and discussion among visiting scholars at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS), Stellenbosch University, South Africa, in 2010. The project responds to the limits of the transplantation of critical legal studies into different jurisdictions, especially South Africa. The essays develop an approach to critical legal thinking that is conscious of critique as a problem of genre and seek to open up this problem of genre in the context of critical legal studies.
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Genres of Critique
0R0,00The book seeks to open and explore the liminal space of critique at the intersection of law, aesthetics and politics. The essays in this volume elaborate and expand the meaning and significance of critique through an engagement with aesthetic forms. Although this endeavour has wider significance, the focus is primarily on South Africa. The various contributions arose out of a process of reading, writing and discussion among visiting scholars at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS), Stellenbosch University, South Africa, in 2010. The project responds to the limits of the transplantation of critical legal studies into different jurisdictions, especially South Africa. The essays develop an approach to critical legal thinking that is conscious of critique as a problem of genre and seek to open up this problem of genre in the context of critical legal studies.
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Geometrically Nonlinear Analysis of Plan trusses and Frames
0R490,00This book is an outcome of academic cooperation between the Volgograd State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering in Russia, Stellenbosch University in South Africa, and the Technische Universitat Berlin in Germany.
The authors performed coordinated and cooperative research on nonlinear structural analysis and on computer-supported civil engineering over a period of several years. Many of the innovative aspects of this book were invented and developed in the course of the research effort.
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Geskiedenis van die koringbedryf
0R300,00Dit is nie alleen ‘n lekkerlees boek nie, maar is propvol geskiedkundige inligting en beslis ‘n waardevolle toevoeging tot die literatuur oor landbou in Suid Afrika. ? Prof Andra Agenbag Universiteit Stellenbosch
