Honey beer & penguin eggs, pinball & stick-fighting, sacred dancing & shebeens, swimming at night & kissing in the forest. Over the years, South Africans have pursued pleasure in a wild variety of ways. Nice times! is a compendium of writing about local delights, by all kinds of writers, from every era of South African history. Here you will find innocent joys, wicked temptations, obscure enthusiasms
- & a great deal of humour, fun & sensual relish.
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Somewhere on the French Riviera, tucked between glitzy Monte Carlo & Cannes` red carpets, lies the pretty town of Bellevue-Sur-Mer. Sheltered from the glittering melee, it is home to many an expat
- including an enterprising team who plan to open a new restaurant. Snapping up a local property & throwing themselves into preparations, Theresa, Carol, William & Benjamin`s plans are proceeding unnervingly well. But when Theresa encounters a mysterious intruder, she begins to wonder what secrets the building is concealing. Meanwhile Sally, an actress who gave up the stage to live in quiet anonymity, has decided not to be involved. The famous Cannes Film Festival is on & she is far too busy entertaining unexpected visitors from her past, & an intriguingly handsome Russian. As the razzmatazz of the festival begins to spill over into Bellevue-Sur-Mer, its inhabitants become entangled in complex love triangles & conflicting business interests. With the race on to get the restaurant open in time, the gang find themselves knee-deep in skulduggery, & realise they can no longer tell who`s nasty.. .and who`s nice.
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Somewhere on the French Riviera, tucked between glitzy Monte Carlo & Cannes` red carpets, lies the pretty town of Bellevue-Sur-Mer. Sheltered from the glittering melee, it is home to many an expat
- including an enterprising team who plan to open a new restaurant. Snapping up a local property & throwing themselves into preparations, Theresa, Carol, William & Benjamin`s plans are proceeding unnervingly well. But when Theresa encounters a mysterious intruder, she begins to wonder what secrets the building is concealing. Meanwhile Sally, an actress who gave up the stage to live in quiet anonymity, has decided not to be involved. The famous Cannes Film Festival is on & she is far too busy entertaining unexpected visitors from her past, & an intriguingly handsome Russian. As the razzmatazz of the festival begins to spill over into Bellevue-Sur-Mer, its inhabitants become entangled in complex love triangles & conflicting business interests. With the race on to get the restaurant open in time, the gang find themselves knee-deep in skulduggery, & realise they can no longer tell who`s nasty.. .and who`s nice.
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Flexi Map Nice, Cannes & Monaco is laminated, durable &

Includes:: 3 separate maps, each map has its own

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Nice, Cannes & Monte Carlo in the Pocket Guide series from Berlitz; a collection of handy, pocket-sized guides dedicated to an extensive range of cities, regions & countries worldwide. Written in narrative form, individual guides explore the history, main sights & attractions, food & drink, accommodation & local culture of the destination in detail. Each Berlitz pocket guide has a similar format, with colour-coded sections helping readers locate information quickly in addition to distinctive chapters exploring the city or region. An introduction outlines the destination for visitors & a section dedicated to 'A Brief History' actually explores the area in relative depth. A where to go chapter is organized by region & city & is written in prose form with references to individual sites highlighted in bold for clarity. There are also further suggestions on where & when to eat. Recommendations for leisure activities in the region, including sport, nightlife & shopping, are also provided & tailored accordingly for each destination. Handy travel tips are listed alphabetically in a dedicated section, providing practical guidance & helping visitors make the most of their stay. The main hotels, particularly for cities, are also listed in an accommodation section, offering a brief overview with approximate price bandings & relevant contact details. ...

Nicholas & the Gang contains 16 stories about Nicholas, the French schoolboy, & his friends, many of whom are familiar from the other books in the series: there`s Alec, who`s always eating; Cuthbert, who`s always top of the class; Matthew, who`s always bottom of the class; & Mary Jane, the little girl with blonde pigtails who lives next door. As usual, the children get into all kinds of trouble, even though they have the very best intentions. In this book, they try to make friends with the owner of a new bookshop near their school, take part in a chaotic radio interview, & play an unusually messy game of chess. ...

The character of the last Tsar, Nicholas II (1868-1918) is crucial to understanding the overthrow of tsarist Russia, the most significant event in Russian history. Nicholas became Tsar at the age of 26. Though a conscientious man who was passionate in his devotion to his country, he was weak, sentimental, dogmatic & indecisive. Ironically he could have made an effective constitutional monarch, but these flaws rendered him fatally unsuited to be the sole ruler of a nation that was in the throes of painful modernisation. That he failed is not surprising, for many abler monarchs could not have succeeded. Rather to be wondered at is that he managed, for 23 years, to hold on to power despite the overwhelming force of circumstances. Though Nicholas was exasperating, he had many endearing qualities. A modern audience, aware
- as contemporaries were not
- of the private pressures under which he lived, can empathise with him & forgive some of his errors of judgement. To some readers he seems a fool, to others a monster, but many are touched by the story of a well-meaning man doing his best under impossible conditions. He is, in other words, a biographical subject that engages readers whatever their viewpoint. His family was of great importance to Nicholas. He & his wife, Alexandra, married for love & retained this affection to the end of their lives. His four daughters, all different & intriguing personalities, were beautiful & charming. His son, the family`s
- & the nation`s
- hope for the future, was disabled by an illness that had to be concealed from Russia & from the world. It was this circumstance that made possible the nefarious influence of Rasputin, which in turn hastened the end of the dynasty. This story has everything: romance & tragedy, grandeur & misery, human frailty & an international catastrophe that would not only bring down the Tsar but put an end to the glittering era of European monarchies.



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A reformatted, redesigned edition of this popular title. We are all fascinated by, & often wary of, the tiny creatures that creep & crawl in our gardens or lurk in the dark corners of our homes, but how much do we really know about insects & their relatives? For instance, could you identify the larvae of a ladybird, which each eat 50 aphids a day? & did you know that some species of snail are hairy? This book aims to encourage our understanding of all types of bugs that can be found in our back gardens & beyond
- worms, snails, ants, woodlice, centipedes, flies, grasshoppers, beetles, bees, wasps, spiders & butterflies (to name but a few)
- by offering practical information & fun activities for the whole family. Learn how to determine the sex of a spider, how to look after ants in a home-made formicarium & even how to rear your own dragonflies! Packed with details on essential equipment for bug watching & collecting, clear annotated diagrams on bug anatomy & amazing full-colour close-up photographs, as well as astonishing facts on insect behaviour & identification, this book is essential reading for budding entomologists of all ages.

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Three years after the conclusion of his trilogy, On This Earth, A Shadow Falls Across the Ravaged L&, Nick Brandt returns to East Africa to photograph the escalating changes to the continent`s natural world. In a series of epic panoramas, Brandt records the impact of man in places where animals used to roam, but no longer do. In each location, Brandt erects a life size panel of one of his animal portrait photographs, setting the panels within a world of explosive urban development, factories, wasteland & quarries. The people within the photographs are oblivious to the presence of the panels & the animals featured in them, who are now no more than ghosts in the landscape. Some of the animals in the panels appear to be looking out at these destroyed landscapes with sadness, as if lamenting the loss of the world they once inhabited. By the end, we see that it is not just the animals who are the victims in this out of control world, but also the humans. Inherit the Dust also

Includes:: plates of the original portraits of the animals that are featured in the life-size panels, the unique emotional animal portraiture for which Brandt is recognized. There are also two essays by the artist: a text about the crisis facing the conservation of the natural world in East Africa, & behind-the-scenes descriptions of Brandt`s elaborate production process, with accompanying documentary photographs.

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Millions of Americans work full-time, year-round, for poverty level wages. Distinguished journalist Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them, in order to find out how anyone survives on six to seven dollars an hour. Ehrenreich left home, took the cheapest lodgings she could find & accepted whatever job she was offered, from cleaning to care work, waitressing to folding clothes at Wal-Mart. So began a gruelling, hair-raising & darkly funny odyssey through the underside of working America. ...