by Amanda on 16 May 2012
Two Random House Struik imprints have just launched eBook library apps for the iPad. The apps, Earth & Nature (Struik Nature) and South Africa in Print (Zebra Press), will house a wide selection of natural history and current events eBooks at discounted prices.
Titles available at the initial launch include Guide to Night Skies of Southern Africa, Basic Bird ID in Southern Africa, Filmer’s Spiders, Winnie Mandela: A Life, Herschelle Gibbs’ biography To the Point and eBook bestseller 32 Battalion.
Additional titles will be added to the libraries on an ongoing basis and will immediately be available for purchase when the customer next opens the app.
The Apple iBookstore is currently not available in South Africa, but South Africans can purchase apps from iTunes. These library applications enable local and international iPad users to purchase South African eBooks. The apps can be downloaded for free from iTunes and customers can then purchase eBooks seamlessly from within the app.
The apps can be downloaded from here iTunes: Earth and Nature and South Africa in Print.
Random House Struik (Pty) Ltd is South Africa’s leading publishing house and offers readers the best of both local and international titles. It promotes books written in both English and Afrikaans through its many diverse and highly respected imprints, which include the Struik Lifestyle, Struik Nature, Struik Travel & Heritage, Zebra Press, Umuzi, eKhaya and Fernwood Press imprints.
Book details
by Lindsay on 07 May 2012
Verdict: carrot
The time had arrived to upgrade my cellphone and one of the new programs I was able to download was Sky Maps.
I now had a screen full of stars and planets with names that meant nothing to me. Now, together with this book and a small telescope bought at an auction, I am ready to reach for the stars.
Book Details
by Luso on 03 May 2012
Verdict: carrot
What do you call a lover of dictionaries? Lexicomane, perhaps? Unsurprisingly, no such word can be found in the new English Dictionary for South Africa. But that’s no criticism, for this is above all a practical work.
Book Details
by Carolyn on 02 May 2012
Verdict: carrot
In South Africa, we are spoilt for choice when it comes to bird identification guides and bird watchers get quite attached to their guide.
The Sasol Birds Of Southern Africa has always had a strong following and this is the fully revised a fourth edition.
Book Details
- Sasol Birds of Southern Africa IV by Ian Sinclair, Phil Hockey, Peter Ryan, Warwick Tarboton, illustrated by Norman Arlott
EAN: 9781770079250
Find this book with BOOK Finder!
by Sophy on 24 Apr 2012
Verdict: carrot
Regular listeners of the SAfm radio programme Word of Mouth will be familiar with University of Cape Town linguistics professor Rajend Mesthrie. The Sunday programme features a group of experts discussing various language issues. Often listeners appear to be elderly individuals who have been greatly put out by a mispronunciation by a South African TV presenter, or what they see as the gradual encroachment of “nonsensical” modern terms on English. Sometimes it is difficult not to feel some of their issues have nothing much to do with language, and everything to do with a sense of unease and confusion at a rapidly-shifting modern landscape. That’s the thing about language, of course: extricating it from matters of identity is an almost impossible task.
Book Details
by Simon on 20 Apr 2012
Two of Julius Malema’s domestic workers – gardener, Joseph Mabuza, and house-keeper, Rebecca Masia – have reported grievances with the suspended ANC Youth League president to The Star newspaper.
According to The Star, Mabuza, has not been paid his wages for the past two months and Masia was served her notice on the same night that Malema accused president Jacob Zuma of being a dictator. Perhaps Malema would have benefited from reading André van Niekerk’s Employing a Domestic Worker….
A gardener who works on Sundays for axed ANC Youth League president Julius Malema claims he has not been paid for two months, and is owed R1 200.
Joseph Mabuza contacted The Star – through another one of his employers, who he had asked for help – complaining that Malema had failed to pay him his wages for February and March.
Malema has denied the claim.
Book details
Photo courtesy SABC
Apr
