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This book explores how cricket in South Africa was shaped by society and society by cricket. It demonstrates the centrality of cricket in the evolving relationship between culture, sport and politics starting with South Africa as the beating heart of the imperial project and ending with the country as an international pariah. The contributors explore the tensions between fragmentation and unity, on and off the pitch, in the context of the raci...

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Fun and Games with Lad and Slim has 15 stories, including two stories for each long vowel as well as stories for more advanced vowel digraphs (er, or, and ur, ou and ow, au and aw, and oi and oy). The book follows up our short-vowel series, Lad and His Pals. The stories feature strong story structure, inviting illustrations, a growing set of correspondences allowing an ever richer pool of words, and an idea pioneered in the Dick and Jane stori...

Lad and his Pals develops the five short vowels across 14 stories, with stories introducing and practicing each short vowel and the digraphs ch, sh, and th. This book incorporates the best features of past decodable children's stories: strong story structure, inviting illustrations, and a growing set of correspondences allowing an ever richer pool of words. We have added a feature to our series pioneered in the Dick and Jane stories read by ea...

This book explores how cricket in South Africa was shaped by society and society by cricket.  It demonstrates the centrality of cricket in the evolving relationship between culture, sport and politics starting with South Africa as the beating heart of the imperial project and ending with the country as an international pariah.   The contributors explore the tensions between fragmentation and unity, on and off the pitch, in the context of the r...

Director of Pasadena's Jet Propulsion Laboratory from 1976 to 1982, Bruce Murray is uniquely qualified to tell the story of America's unmanned space program. Mixing an insider's knowledge of the politics of space with a scientist's command of technical intricacy, he chronicles our rise and decline in space and calls for a return to greatness.

South Africas participation in international cricket has been bedeviled by racism and the political intervention of governments virtually from the beginning. This book is a compulsively readable account of the events and political machinations that led to South Africas cricket isolation in the apartheid era and its ultimate readmission.

Examines the railway operated road vehicles during the first two decades of the British Railway era, with rare first-hand experiences and previously unpublished material.

Revive Your Spirit Does the abundant Christian life you're "supposed" to have feel more like a chore than reality? Impoverished and stale, is your spirit crying out for recharging? One of the most powerful voices of the past two hundred years, Andrew Murray wrote extensively about this age-old struggle. This treasury of 365 gems of biblical wisdom is presented here in contemporary English by best-selling author Bruce Wilkinson. Each day wil...

Piau led hundreds of Acadians into the wilderness to escape the Acadian Expulsion. He vowed to lead them to the Promised Land, where they could live without fear. Over the years Piau became a prisoner of war, was deported to Boston, and built a castle before finally leading his people to Memramcook, New Brunswick, the Promised Land.

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This remarkable new book is a collection of selected essays whose theses first came together in October 1988 at a conference sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities, "Concepts of History in German Cinema". The contributors include notable historians, film scholars, and German studies specialists who explore the complex network of social, psychological, and aesthetic factors that have influenced the historiography of German cinem...

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The physical and mental health of an employee influences attendance and quality of work. Indifferent health, lack of a sense of well- being, affects both the individual and the efficiency of the organisation. This book is intended to give general and specific guidance to the non-medical person involved with the health of people working in offices and similar surroundings, on the common cause of ill-health of staff and factors at work which inf...

An alternative critical approach to the traditional one of close readings of the classical films.

In the period between the outbreak of World War II and the enactment of the Extension of University Education Act in 1959, which established the system of apartheid, the University of Witwatersrand became known as an "open university". This second volume of the history of Wits covers that period.

For more than two hundred years Americans have disagreed about the proper role of religion in public life and where to draw the line between church and state. This book re-examines these debates and distills the volumes of commentary and case law they have generated.