books about: johannesburg

books about: johannesburg

books:

Johannesburg

Green Planet Blues: Environmental Politics from Stockholm to Johannesburg

Ken Conca, Geoffrey Dabelko

Westview Press, 2004

Great Envrionmental Reference Book
I had to get this book for one of my classes. We only read several passages, but the book has proved invaluable for other classes, not to mention general knowledge. It has excerpts of books by Garret Harding, Thomas Homer-Dixon, Alan Durning, The Brudtland Commission, ...

Johannesburg: The Bradt City Guide (Bradt Mini Guide)
Lizzie Williams

Bradt Travel Guides, 2007

The main gateway for tourists to southern Africa, Johannesburg is seldom explored fully by visitors, principally because of a misinformed view of the city. In the past year Johannesburg has made enormous strides in creating a safe, dynamic city which has won two awards from the British Guild of Travel Writers. This pocket-sized guide will give ...

Taming the Disorderly City: The Spatial Landscape of Johannesburg After Apartheid
Martin J. Murray

Cornell University Press, 2008

In postapartheid Johannesburg, tensions of race and class manifest themselves starkly in struggles over "rights to the city." Real-estate developers and the very poor fight for control of space as the municipal administration steps aside, almost powerless to shape the direction of change. Having ceded control of development to the private sector, ...

Welcome to Our Hillbrow

Phaswane Mpe

Univ of Natal Pr, 2001

Post-Apartheid fiction
Much of South African fiction deals with, by necessity, with the history of racialized oppression. This book takes a look at the post-apartheid South Africa where the old narratives no longer apply so neatly. The result is a wonderfully engaging book that deals ...

Bitter Fruit: A Novel

Achmat Dangor

Black Cat, 2005

Thought Provoking
This is one of the best books I have read in my life! I never heard of this author, I just happened to pick up the book while I was in an airport. I was so engaged with this book I could barely put it down! As an African American who has never been to South Africa I ...

Lonely Planet South Africa, Lesotho & Swaziland

Mary Fitzpatrick

Lonely Planet, 2006

Great travel guide
I bought this exact lonely planet guide for a friend a year ago and now I need it myself, it's great! It's very practical, it allows you to be prepared, it's easy to read and it makes travel so much easier. (I'm hooked; each time I travel I get the lonely planet guide ...

Johannesburg City Map (Country Mapping S.)

Freytag-Berndt, 2005

Conçues en Autriche, les cartes Freytag proposent une des cartographies les plus précises qui soit. Des index détaillés sont fournis, permettant de retrouver le moindre petit village. Légende en français, couverture solide et couleurs attrayantes.

Why Do I Scream at God for the Rape of Babies?

Claudia Ford

North Atlantic Books, 2004

Embraces the power of love, courage, faith, and hope
African American, globetrotter, midwife, activist, scholar, feminist, author, mother, Claudia J. Ford is an extraordinary woman who has lived many places in the world while honing her expertise of issues of international development while raising three sons. On ...

Let Me Create A Paradise, God Said To Himself: A Journey Of Conscience From Johannesburg To Jerusalem

Hirsh Goodman

PublicAffairs, 2005

from the frying pan into the fire
Rebeccasreads highly recommends LET ME CREATE A PARADISE GOD SAID TO HIMSELF (long title notwithstanding!) as a memoir of an extraordinary journey from one country -- South Africa -- of extreme prejudice to another -- Israel, during the 1960s & onward. An ...

Salamander Cotton

Richard Kunzmann

St. Martin's Minotaur, 2007

Black History
Richard Kunzmann proves that "Bloody Harvests", his debut novel, was no fluke as he follows up with "Salamander Cotton", another gripping and grisly tale of crime and culture in South Africa that is as intelligent and stylishly-written as it is bloody and brutal. The ...

Dog Eat Dog
Niq Mhlongo

Kwela Books, 2007

This exciting slice-of-life novel is a remarkable record of being young in a nation that is undergoing tremendous turmoil, and provides a glimpse inside South Africa's pivotal kwaito generation. Dingz is an average student in South Africa who spends his days partying, skipping class, and picking up girls. But he is living in charged times, and his ...

The Power of Form: African Art From the Horstmann Collection

Ezio Bassani, Patrick McNaughton, ...

Skira, 2002

Very disappointing
Don't buy it if you have any standards - I don't mean the production values - the pictures are reasonable, although the lay-out leaves something to be desired, but the quality of the pieces, for anyone familiar with African art, is third rate - I should have known this ...

My Mother's Lovers

Christopher Hope

Grove Press, 2007

Bold, dramatic, and colorful, My Mother's Lovers is a high-spirited, adventurous and emotionally moving read.
Award-winning author Christopher Hope presents My Mother's Lovers, a novel about the connection between mother and son set in twentieth-century sub-Saharan Africa. Told from the son's point of view, My Mother's Lovers chronicles the vivacious life of Kathleen Healy, ...

The Persistence of Memory: A Novel

Tony Eprile

W. W. Norton & Company, 2004

"What will become of us all?"
South Africa from 1968 - 2000 is revealed in all its cultural variety and internal stresses through the life story of Paul Sweetbread, an overweight Jewish boy who is an outsider to everyone. Neither a Boer nor an Englishman, he is also not really a Jew, since his ...