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Kromdraai
0R440,00This book is dedicated to the palaeontogical site of Kromdraai, one of the most well-known sites of the ?Cradle of Humankind?, the famous UNESCO World Heritage site located in the Gauteng province (South Africa). From 1938 to 1943, Robert Broom described important hominin fossil discoveries from Kromdraai as belonging to a single individual and designated the type specimen as one of our distant relatives, called Paranthropus robustus
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Kromdraai
0R0,00This book is dedicated to the palaeontogical site of Kromdraai, one of the most well-known sites of the ‘Cradle of Humankind’, the famous UNESCO World Heritage site located in the Gauteng province (South Africa). From 1938 to 1943, Robert Broom described important hominin fossil discoveries from Kromdraai as belonging to a single individual and designated the type specimen as one of our distant relatives, called Paranthropus robustus
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Law, Religion and Human Flourishing in Africa
0R420,00A shared interest of law and religion is the advancement of human flourishing, yet there is no common understanding of what it means for humans to flourish and the means by which to attain a flourishing life. The concept of human flourishing is especially important for Africa, where community and national development compete with forces of conflict and scarce resources. In the broadest sense, the concept of human flourishing focuses our attention on having a comprehensively good or worthwhile life, but various religious and legal traditions suggest different norms for measuring the quality of life and designing the institutional structures that could best facilitate and preserve it.
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Law, Religion and Human Flourishing in Africa
0R525,00A shared interest of law and religion is the advancement of human flourishing, yet there is no common understanding of what it means for humans to flourish and the means by which to attain a flourishing life. The concept of human flourishing is especially important for Africa, where community and national development compete with forces of conflict and scarce resources. In the broadest sense, the concept of human flourishing focuses our attention on having a comprehensively good or worthwhile life, but various religious and legal traditions suggest different norms for measuring the quality of life and designing the institutional structures that could best facilitate and preserve it.
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Life under Lockdown
0R225,00When the Covid-19 virus spread to South Africa in March 2020, President Cyril Ramaphosa announced a national lockdown. Universities closed and students were required to move back home at short notice. To record their experience of living through this unprecedented period, students in one Economics class at Stellenbosch University kept a diary during the first month of lockdown. The 333 diary entries in this anthology reflect the diversity of experiences and reactions of this relatively privileged group of students.
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Life under Lockdown
0R0,00When the Covid-19 virus spread to South Africa in March 2020, President Cyril Ramaphosa announced a national lockdown. Universities closed, and students were required to move back home at short notice. To record their experience of living through this unprecedented period, students in one Economics class at Stellenbosch University kept a diary during the first month of lockdown. The 333 diary entries in this anthology reflect the diversity of experiences and reactions of this relatively privileged group of students.
From the humdrum of everyday life to anxiety about lost incomes, societal inequality, and the physical, mental, and economic health of the nation, the diary entries reveal the hopes and fears of young people during a time of crisis. The purpose of the anthology is twofold: to preserve these thoughts so they can be integrated into future historians’ accounts and to help a generation that continues to experience the painful effects of a pandemic and lockdown to think about how our perceptions have evolved and how much has changed in such a short time.
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Living in a hut in 21st Century South Africa
0R220,00This book takes a closer look at a hut-homestead and a hut-village, examining the socio-economic, political and cultural life of their inhabitants.
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Living with Dignity
0R450,00By addressing gender equality as a fundamental expression of human dignity and justice on our continent, this collage of ? essays [by 14 women and 6 men], is meant to serve as a concrete alternative to aspects of gender inequality ? Its format is particularly devised for use in the classroom, and for critical-constructive group engagement. It is our sincere prayer that it will also be used in imaginative ways by clergy and in congregations as a necessary part of adult learning programmes.
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Maritime Security in Southern African Waters
0R250,00Two thirds of the world population lies within 60 kilometres of the sea. Much of the well-being of our planet is dependent on the sea, as the bulk of international trade passes across oceans and through ports, while the sea is a rich source of protein and contains profound wealth in terms of energy and natural sources. Inevitably, economic stability and development are therefore closely linked to maritime security. This volume contains a selection of papers presented at an international conference on ?Maritime Security in Southern African Waters? in Stellenbosch on 22-23 July 2008.
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On Strategy
0R315,00The literature on the art of war over centuries presupposed that the decision maker was a single entity with a coherent and unitary political will. The ideal strategy maker was thus Alexander the Great, or a Napoleon. Little was written on the policy- and strategy-making process when there were multiple decision makers. Strategy in peace was recognized especially in the Cold War as something just as real as strategy war.
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On the way to the best possible science
0R265,00The road to the best possible science runs along all kinds of ondulary paths of peer evaluation with the preferences, assumptions, prejudices and convictions of the evaluating readers. It runs over the bumpy roads of ideological preferences and obstinacies that are mostly negatively affected (muddled) by the urge for power and money of institutional and political botching, so that any pure outcome will be difficult to achieve. There are also all sorts of detours and side tracks, inspired by the obsession with instant solutions, reductionistic and absolutising oversimplifications of the full multiple reality, and the complex knowledge world, but above all by the intriguing fickleness of impulsive and ever-present fallible human beings. With this in mind, the best possible science, as emphasised in this publication, can never be defined in any final sense, nor can it ever without any doubt be achieved, although this remains our firm ideal.
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Onderweg na die beste moontlike wetenskap
0R265,00Die roete na die beste moontlike wetenskap gaan langs allerlei kronkelwee van ewekniebeoordeling met die voorkeure, aannames, vooroordele en oortuigings van die beoordelende lesers.
Die boek behels n ondersoek van interdissiplinere en filosofiese aard na die geldigheid en probleme met ewekniebeoordeling, beleidsake wat wetenskapkwaliteit mag bedreig of bevorder, n soeke na die beste maniere om wetenskap wel te bevorder en die voorwaardes waaraan so n aktiwiteit behoort te voldoen, en n alternatief vir die beoordelingstelsel met sterk beklemtoning van kommunikasie deur die hele proses heen.
