Социология
Различные книги в жанре СоциологияA Time Traveller's Guide to Our Next Ten Years
Picture South Africa ten years from now: Are the angry poor rising up and seizing land and businesses? Or has economic reform created jobs and growth? Is an increasingly desperate government clamping down on freedoms? Or do the middle classes still braai in suburban bliss?
South Africa is at a tipping point, and small shifts in political and economic conditions can bring about dramatic changes. Unemployment, slow growth, threats to freedom of speech, and poor education can send the country in any direction.
Leading scenario planner Frans Cronje identifies the key trends that will shape our future. Will South Africa follow the Narrow Road, the Wide Road, the Rocky Road or the Toll Road? His four scenarios for the country are sobering, sometimes shocking, but also hopeful.
A Nation in Crisis
Schabir Shaik, Jackie Selebi, Tony Yengeni, 'Oilgate', Jacob Zuma, Judge Hlophe and the JSC, 'Travelgate' – what has happened to morality in South Africa?
With this book, respected academic and community leader Paulus Zulu cuts right to the heart of our current malaise.
Drawing equally on Western concepts and on African traditional thought, he provides a searing indictment of the state of the nation, casting new light on corruption, incompetence and mismanagement.
This enlightening analysis makes for compelling reading.
Witness to AIDS
The moving and powerful story that stunned South Africa: Edwin Cameron – the first public office holder to disclose he was living with AIDS – writes about his decision, his experience and the struggle that millions face in seeking treatment.
Part memoir, part thought-provoking analysis, this book is a vivid exploration of what HIV/AIDS means – for Edwin Cameron as he faces the possibility of lingering death, for all of us in facing one of the foremost challenges of our time.
He explains his decision to go public and to accept anti-retroviral treatment, in a country beset by «denialism». He takes a critical look at what is so different about African AIDS; at the divergent reactions of Mandela and Mbeki to the crisis; the role of international pharmaceutical companies; the intricacies of «race, sex, death and Africa»; and the impact of South Africa’s largest activist group, the Treatment Action Campaign.
Along the way we come to know a number of remarkable people, among others Gugu Dlamini, killed for owning up to HIV infection; Simon Nkuli, brave activist; the unnamed gardener who «died of shame»; and Zackie Achmat, trusted friend and wily strategist.
Cameron integrates the intensely personal with scientific research and a considered examination of the politics and cultural forces at play, particularly in Africa, in a touching human story which ultimately speaks of hope and possibility.
Let Your Self Be
"Let Your Self Be" is an an Open-minded Guided Devotional for the modern and mindful thinker. Meant to be shared, give this book as a gift to your best friends and confidants.
Die Einde van verslawing
Sonder om verslaafdes te verdoem verskaf Dr. Hitzertoth en Dr. Kramer praktiese en toepaslike raad. Die einde van verslawing gee advies en inligting oor verslawing. Hierdie boek belig die feit dat drank- en dwelmmisbruik nie noodwendig te doen het met swakheid nie, maar dat dit ’n komplekse interaksie is van biologiese, psigologiese en sosiale faktore. Die boek sal vir sowel verslaafdes as hul gesinne en vriende van groot waarde wees.
The End of addiction
Aimed at patients, their families and healthcare practitioners, this is an invaluable practical guide, relevant to South Africans and to South African conditions. it is packed with helpful information. The book highlights the fact that drug and alcohol abuse is not a sign of moral weakness, but rather a result of the complex interaction between biological, psychological and social factors. The End of Addiction offers insight and assistance with addiction in South Africa.
Boos en Bisar
Barbaarse misdade is deel van die Suid-Afrikaanse werklikheid, en hier is tien bondige en spannende oorvertellings van sommige van die verfoeilikste gebeure nog, dikwels met ’n grieselrige en onheilspellende kinkel. Alison glo haar oorlewing van die onbeskryflike wrede aanval deur twee (met-die-duiwel?) besetenes is aan wonderwerke te danke. Ewe boos en bisar is die optredes van die psigopatiese skroewedraaiermaniak, die pedofiel wat die skuld aan die deur van sy meervoudige persoonlikhede lê, en die sadistiese moordenaar en kannibaal wat nie eers sy eie dogtertjie ontsien nie.
Tafelberg Kort: Rigtingbedonnerd
Dis stiller, veiliger … en verveliger? Onwillige Voortrekkers is wat Fred de Vries die 21ste eeuse Afrikaners noem wat hulle oorsee gevestig het. Hoe ervaar hulle die lewe in Perth of Melbourne? Is dit nie net sissies of verraaiers wat die hasepad kies nie? Fred gesels o.a. met die Claassens, die De Villierse van Fremantle en Frikkie Kotzé wat Potch vir Perth verruil het. In Melbourne kuier hy by die filosoof Johann Rossouw, wat uiteindelik tog huistoe kom. Aangrypend.
Tafelberg Short: The Politics of Pregnancy
South African women's fertility poses a puzzle: despite immense poverty, our population is growing very slowly, against all international experience. Sadly, this cannot be attributed to the empowerment of women… Activist and analyst Rhoda Kadalie and her daughter Julia Pollak take a hard look at the politics behind our low fertility rate and related quandaries: low use of contraception and staggering rates of teen pregnancy. A wake-up call and a call to action.
'n Hemelhoë hekkie
Op 26 Februarie 1988, ‘n Vrydagaand, het Douwleen Bredenhann haar dogter Liesl by die balletklas gaan haal en begin kosmaak. Minute later is Liesl in hul agterplaas vermoor terwyl sy haar hondjie gaan kosgee het.’n Hemelhoë hekkie is Douwleen se hart-verskeurende ware verhaal van skok, pyn en ’n geleidelike soort heling. Die vertelling is onverskrokke en skreiend eerlik. Dit sal jou waarskynlik lewenslank bybly.