 From
my Oven
Fay Lewis
ISBN: 9781770075641
Language: English
Format:
260mm x 230mm
Binding: Softbook
Pages: 224
Published: 2007-11-01
Imprint:
Struik
What could be more enticing than the smell of freshly
baked bread or chocolate cake, welcoming friends and neighbours to your home to
enjoy your kitchen fare? From my Oven is filled with delectable recipes, tried
and triple-tested by author and well-known hostess, Fay Lewis. Step-by-step
instructions and hundreds of beautiful photographs take the mystery out of this
exact science, inspiring those who have never had the courage to bake, to produce
cakes, biscuits, scones, breads and croissants. Slightly more challenging recipes
will appeal to seasoned bakers who will delight in the variety of recipes on offer.
From my Oven is the ultimate home baking book and no lover
of baked goods should be without it.
Fay Lewis
Fay Lewis’s
love for baking was inspired by her mother who encouraged her from a young age
to develop her natural flair into a passion for creating beautiful food. Her creativity
has since expanded into a hands-on involvement in food styling for television
and advertisements, writing comprehensive food articles for magazines and regularly
catering for large and small functions. She is the author of the book, At My Table,
also published by Struik. She lives in Johannesburg with her husband and three
daughters.
Faye
Lewis holds up her new book at the launch. 
The Age of Turbulence
Greenspan Alan
ISBN: 9780713999822 | HARDBACK
| 1 October 2007 | ALLEN LANE
The most remarkable thing that happened
to the world economy after 9/11 was ... nothing. What would have once meant a
crippling shock to the system was absorbed astonishingly quickly, partly due to
the efforts of the then Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, Alan Greenspan.
The post 9/11 global economy is a new and turbulent system - vastly more
flexible, resilient, open, self-directing, and fast-changing than it was even
twenty years ago.
The Age of Turbulence will be an incomparable reckoning
with the nature of this new world - how we got here, what we're living through,
and what lies over the horizon, for good or ill, channelled through Greenspan's
own experiences working in the command room of the global economy for longer and
with greater effect than any other single living figure.
He will share
the story of his life with an eye to doing justice to the extraordinary years
he has experienced and shaped, taking full measure of the individuals who made
strong impressions on him, including every US President from Nixon to George W.
Bush, and the great crises and challenges that they faced. But his other goal
is to draw readers along the same learning curve he followed, so they have a grasp
of his own hard-won, layered understanding of the dynamics that drive world events.
The distillation of a life's worth of wisdom and insight into an elegant expression
of a coherent worldview, The Age of Turbulence will stand as Alan Greenspan's
personal and intellectual legacy.
Zhoozsh
Author:
Jacqui Mansfield; Jeremy Mansfield
Publisher: Struik Publishers
ISBN:
9781770074545
Format: Hardcover
Publication Date: 2007/10
Length:
250mm
Width: 230mm
Pages: 144
For those who love to cook, and
those who don't, comes this cookbook from one of South Africa's celebrity couples.
Chock-a-block with quick and easy recipes, humorous stories, travel anecdotes
and a behind-the-scenes look at the life of the authors, this is a laugh-out-loud
cookbook to be enjoyed in other rooms of your home, and not just the kitchen!
Cook Simply Everything
Norman Jill
Format: Hardback
ISBN:
9781405320306
Size: 195 x 235mm
Number of pages: 496
Publication date:
04 Oct 2007
Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Ken Hom - Author
Paul Gayler
- Author
Christine Manfield - Author
David Thompson - Author
Jill Norman
- Editor-in-chief
Peter Gordon - Essay
A new, compact edition of
The Cook's Book, winner of the Gourmand World Cookbook Award 2005. From roasting
a perfect Sunday chicken to cooking fluffy rice, you’ll find 200 easy to
achieve techniques to help you create perfection on a plate in your own kitchen,
no matter what your culinary skills. Get cooking and explore chapters covering
all the major foods: from meat, fish and vegetables to desserts and cakes.
 Bird
The
Definitive Visual Guide
David Burnie - Author
Format: Hardback
ISBN:
9781405306331
Size: 252 x 301mm
Number of pages: 512
Publication date:
06 Sep 2007
Publisher: Dorling Kindersley
From hummingbirds weighing less
than a coin to monkey-eating eagles this is a unique celebration of birds, photographed
and studied in their natural environments around the world. Explore the
complete bird story: from their origins to bird watching locations, with up-to-date
information on flight, anatomy, feeding, communication, breeding, habitat, migrations
and life cycles. Spectacular features on the most impressive birds, plus a huge
catalogue that profiles nearly fifteen hundred different species makes this is
a must-have for every bird enthusiast.
Published with Birdlife International,
the world’s leading avian authority.
Ja,
No, Man
Richard Poplak
Penguin Books
Format: Softcover
ISBN:
978-0-143-02549-8
Number of pages: 229
Ja, No, Man is an eerily familiar
portrayal of the life of an ordinary white South African growing up during apartheid.
Told with extraordinary humour and self-awareness, Richard’s story brings
his gradual understanding of the difference between his country and the rest of
the world vividly to life.
 Good
enough mother
Author: Sam Cowen
Publisher: Oshun Books
ISBN: 9781770200173
Format: Softcover
Publication Date: 2007/10
Length: 230mm
Width:
150mm
Edition: New title
Pages: 256
Chris goes through all the
milestones: starting nursery school, learning that hot plates are hot (the hard
way), realising that mummy can’t make the earthmoving equipment on the side
of the road perform just for him and becoming addicted to Teletubbies.
Chris
also develops a mind of his own, almost as sharp as his mummy’s, which makes
for some amusing battles of will. On top of a growing child and a successful radio
show, Sam is offered a job presenting a show on a national TV station.
Soon
after taking on the position as presenter for Great Expectations, Sam finds out
that she is pregnant. It’s a difficult pregnancy, made harder by all Sam
has to juggle professionally and personally, but eventually Gen arrives safely.
Of course, Chris has something to say about that... Sam’s incisive
deadpan humour has leopard-crawled through the sleepless nights, walked the minefields
of temper tantrums and sidestepped sticky little hands to write this hilarious
frontline account of Chris’s toddler years and the arrival Genevieve.
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 Coast
to Coast: Life along South Africa’s shores
Author: Chris Marais; Julienne
du Toit
Publisher: Struik Publishers
ISBN: 9781770074828
Format:
Hardcover
Publication Date: 2007/7
Length: 250mm
Width: 214mm
Pages:
208
Something magical happens to your head when you start packing for
a seaside holiday. And when you crest that hill after a long journey, the brightest
light bulb in the car shouts, "There's the sea!" and everyone goes gaga:
it's buckets and spades and The Summer of '42 and Beach Party and sunburnt noses
and stolen snogs behind the rocks all over again. Now the rush is on for a patch
of ground along the 3000-odd kilometre coastline of South Africa. Everyone seems
to want to live by the sea. Authors went to the South African beach in the spring
of 2005. They stayed there for more than two months, travelling the entire course
of South Africa's coastline from Alexander Bay to Kosi Bay. Coast to coast celebrates
the seaside South Africa they found. Join them on a pictorial journey covering
the whole coastline. Along the way, the authors dig into history and legend, meet
all sorts of colourful coast-dwellers, and showcase slices of life in coastal
towns and cities. Their photographs and lively anecdotes cover a range of seaside
topics, including shark cage diving, polo estates, penguin antics, shipwrecks,
whale watching, Wild Coast beach hiking, baboon management, coastal township life,
and the wonders of the St Lucia Wetland complex. Meet the people they came across.
Share the good light with them. Feel the heat. Stick your toe in both oceans,
throw back your head and laugh like no one's watching.
Available at Exclusive
Books, CNA and other major book outlets  Make
the Most of Your Time on Earth: A Rough Guide to the World (Edition 1)1000
Ultimate Travel Experiences
Format : Paperback
ISBN: 9781843539254
Size
: 210 x 133mm
Published : 27 Sep 2007
Publisher : Rough Guides
With
1000 must-do activities from around the world, Make the Most of Your Time on Earth
is a book that will inspire everyone. Perfect for both the seasoned traveller
and the armchair dreamer, it brings you the very best of travel – extraordinary
landscapes, jaw-dropping architecture, white-knuckle adventures, and the world’s
best beaches. From Intrepid travel adventures such as trekking to the source
of the Ganges, cycling the Karokoram Highway and hiking Corsica’s GR20, to
suggestions for the perfect places to stay - have you ever tried sleeping in a
yurt in Inner Mongolia or chilled out at the Icehotel in Sweden? For amazing wildlife
why not look for lemurs in Madagascar or go platypus-watching in Australia. Don’t
forget the world’s most spectacular festivals including Queen’s Day
in Amsterdam, Trinidad carnival and the camel fair in Pushkar. And from living
in an African village to tagging dolphins on the Spanish coast, there’s all
manner of ethical travel experiences to keep those feet itching!
The very best
things to see or do, and not before you die, but now.  Place:
A Collection of South African Travel and Landscape Quotations
Bridget Hilton-Barber
and Pat Hopkins
ISBN: 9781770073043
Language: English
Format:
230mm x 150mm
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Published: 2007-07-01
Imprint: Zebra Press
An evocative and entertaining
book of quotations on places in South Africa, drawn from a wide variety of sources,
including pioneers, trekkers, early travellers, hunters, military men, missionaries,
wanderers, poets and writers, as well as famous personalities such as Winston
Churchill and Mahatma Gandhi. Place covers vast and varied locations, such as
the Mother City, Kimberley and the Big Hole, the Groot Marico, the Richtersveld,
Jozi and the plains of Camdeboo in writing that ranges from witty and joyous to
awe-struck and heartbreaking.
The
Remarkable and Unfinished Exodus of the Ethiopian Jews
Cost: R395 available
from Ilan Ossendryver, or call 072
3689344 Photographic exhibition "Ethiopia in Israel"
now on until 5 August 2007:
Museum Africa (121 Bree Street, Newtown) In
1977 there were about one hundred Ethiopian Jews in Israel; now there are more
than one hundred thousand. Their courageous exodus from their native land and
their mass immigration to Israel is a unique historical event. But their journey
to feel at home in the Promised Land is not yet complete. How can they become
accepted and integrated into Israeli culture without losing their own character,
identity and values? How will their experience as a part of Israel's most impoverished
and culturally distinct minority enrich Judaism and Israeli society? Insightful
and touching, THE ETHIOPIAN JEWS OF ISRAEL: Personal Stories of Life in the Promised
Landis the first book to recount in captivating photographs and candid interviews
the profound challenges and inspiring accomplishments of Ethiopian Jews struggling
to become Ethiopian Israelis. Featuring more than fifty men and women-religious
leaders, soldiers, lawyers, students, actors, musicians, a member of the Knesset,
and more-it reveals their fascinating personal stories and traces their hazardous
journeys to Israel and how they fight to survive and thrive in an environment
they could never have imagined. Using dramatic and evocative full-color photographs,
it tells an unforgettable story of contemporary relevance, as the Jewish State
continues to bring more Jews from Ethiopia. "That the
Ethiopian Jews have persevered over the centuries and made aliyah almost in their
entirety is a miracle of our own time," writes Len Lyons in THE ETHIOPIAN
JEWS OF ISRAEL. "Even with substantial help from Jews around the world, the
cost of completing the aliyah and the absorption of the Ethiopian Jews is daunting.…
Their collective saga is one of dedication to living as Jews and commitment to
living in Israel. Their individual stories show them to be a treasure that once
fully claimed will enrich Judaism and Israeli society."
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Chief
Rabbi Warren Goldstein launches his book, "Defending the Human Spirit".
A new book on "Jewish Life in the South African Country Communities has just
bee launched. 
