Download or read book Hearing Grasshoppers Jump written by Raymond Ackerman and published by New Africa Books. This book was released on 2011-10-03 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hearing Grasshoppers Jump written by Raymond Ackerman and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Grasshopper Jungle written by Andrew Smith and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-02-11 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 2015 Michael L. Printz Honor Book Winner of the 2014 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Fiction "Raunchy, bizarre, smart and compelling." --Rolling Stone “Grasshopper Jungle is simultaneously creepy and hilarious. Reminds me of Kurt Vonnegut’s in “Slaughterhouse Five,” in the best sense.” --New York Times Book Review In the small town of Ealing, Iowa, Austin and his best friend, Robby, have accidentally unleashed an unstoppable army. An army of horny, hungry, six-foot-tall praying mantises that only want to do two things. This is the truth. This is history. It’s the end of the world. And nobody knows anything about it. You know what I mean. Funny, intense, complex, and brave, Grasshopper Jungle brilliantly weaves together everything from testicle-dissolving genetically modified corn to the struggles of recession-era, small-town America in this groundbreaking coming-of-age stunner.
Download or read book A Sprat To Catch A Mackerel written by Raymond Ackerman and published by Jonathan Ball Publishers. This book was released on 2011-02-23 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Raymond Ackerman was fired from his job in 1966, he persuaded a group of friends to loan him the money to buy three small Pick 'n Pay stores, which at the time employed a total of 175 people. On his retirement, 44 years later, he had changed the face of southern African retailing, growing his company to encompass 792 stores in eight countries, employing more than 60 000 people, and generating an annual turnover of around R60 billion. In A Sprat to Catch a Mackerel: Key principles to build your business, Raymond Ackerman shares the basic tenets behind his business philosophy - timeless principles that have guided him through some of South Africa's most turbulent times. Whatever your business background or interest, the practical, accessible advice in this book will help you define and build your vision, and help you reach success and self-actualised growth - not by chasing profit, but by giving expression to a driving passion. Rated by the Financial Times as among the World's Top 100 Most Respected Businessmen, Raymond Ackerman is also the first South African ever to receive the International Woodrow Wilson Award for Corporate Citizenship. In 2009, his company was voted the World's Best Retailer by the National Retail Federation (NRF). Raymond Ackerman is also the author of the best-selling memoir Hearing Grasshoppers Jump, and The Four Legs of the Table, in which he recounts how he built Pick 'n Pay into one of the most respected brands in the world today.
Download or read book Sakegesprek met Theo Vorster written by Theo Vorster and published by Jonathan Ball Publishers. This book was released on 2013-04-11 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sakegesprek met Theo Vorster is 'n in 2009 vrygestel en is een van die gewildste programme op Kyknet. Hierdie boek bevat 38 onderhoude wat Theo Vorster oor die laaste drie jaar met top sakelui gevoer het en sluit Koos Bekker, Whitey Basson, Ina Paarman en vele ander bekendes in. Die doel van die boek is om die sakeleier onderhoude te boekstaaf op so 'n manier dat elke leser die pitkos uit die sakeleier se sukses kry wat hy / sy op sy eie loopbaan kan toepas. Daar is geen syfers, finansiële resultate of harde sakenuus in die onderhoude nie, meer die suksesresep en die beginsels wat tot die sukses bygedrae het. Die vierdie reeks sal in April 2013 begin en vir 13 weke elke week 3 keer uitgesaai word en sal saamval met die publikasie van die boek. Die program is die 8ste gewildste program op DSTV en het gemiddelde kykersgetalle van tussen 100,000 en 130,000, almal in die hoër LSM groepe. In die afgelope 3 reekse is daar met 38 sakeleiers gesels wat opgedeel is in enterpreneurs, professionele bestuurders, ouer / afgetrede sakeleiers en dan jong mense op die kruin van hul loopbane. KykNet het onderneem om vir vier maande die boek, Sakegsprek met Theo Vorster te adverteer en dit sal dekking geniet in Sake24 (in Beeld, Burger, Volksblad en Rapport) waar Theo 'n weeklikse kolom skryf.
Download or read book Broadcasting the End of Apartheid written by Martha Evans and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: South Africa came late to television; when it finally arrived in the late 1970s the rest of the world had already begun to boycott the country because of apartheid. While the ruling National Party feared the integrative effects of television, they did not foresee how exclusion from globally unifying broadcasts would gradually erode their power. South Africa was barred from participating in some of television's greatest global attractions (including sporting events such as the Olympics and contests such as Miss World). With the release of Nelson Mandela from prison came a proliferation of large-scale live broadcasts as the country was permitted to return to international competition, and its re-admittance was played out on television screens across the world. These events were pivotal in shaping and consolidating the country's emerging post-apartheid national identity. Broadcasting the End of Apartheid assesses the socio-political effects of live broadcasting on South Africa's transition to democracy. Martha Evans argues that just as print media had a powerful influence on the development of Afrikaner nationalism, so the 'liveness' of television helped to consolidate the post-apartheid South African national identity.
Download or read book Speeches that Shaped South Africa written by Martha Evans and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2017-11-01 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Great speeches have the power to bring about political change, and South Africa lays claim to some of the world’s most skilled orators, from Nelson Mandela, whose courageous statement from the dock inspired the liberation struggle, to Desmond Tutu, whose ‘Rainbow People of God’ speech prepared the country for a new era. On the other side of the political spectrum, who can forget P.W. Botha’s infamous Rubicon speech, an oratorical flop which took the country backwards during the 1980s, or F.W. de Klerk’s unbanning of the ANC in 1990, which took it forwards again? Speeches that Shaped South Africa is the first collection of these historic utterances, featuring key speeches from the beginning of apartheid to the present. It includes Harold Macmillan’s ‘Wind of Change’, Thabo Mbeki’s ‘I am an African’ and Mmusi Maimane’s ‘Broken Man’ speech. Also featured are Bram Fischer, Helen Suzman, Steve Biko, Winnie Mandela, Oliver Tambo, Julius Malema and many others. The book covers past and present shenanigans in Parliament, clandestine broadcasts on Radio Freedom, moving funeral eulogies that celebrate our political giants, and the informal rhetoric of populist crowd-pleasers. Accompanying each speech is a commentary that places it in a historical context and explores its effects. Accessible and engaging, this analysis is based on original research and offers fresh insights into events. This is a fascinating journey through South African history over the past seventy years.
Download or read book Retail Worker Politics Race and Consumption in South Africa written by Bridget Kenny and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-05-23 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that we need to focus attention on the ways that workers themselves have invested subjectively in what it means to be a worker. By doing so, we gain an explanation that moves us beyond the economic decisions made by actors, the institutional constraints faced by trade unions, or the power of the state to interpellate subjects. These more common explanations make workers and their politics visible only as a symptom of external conditions, a response to deregulated markets or a product of state recognition. Instead – through a history of retailing as a site of nation and belonging, changing legal regimes, and articulations of race, class and gender in the constitution of political subjects from the 1930s to present-day Wal-Mart – this book presents the experiences and subjectivities of workers themselves to show that the collective political subject ‘workers’ (abasebenzi) is both a durable and malleable political category. From white to black women’s labour, the forms of precariousness have changed within retailing in South Africa. Workers’ struggles in different times have in turn resolved some dilemmas and by other turn generated new categories and conditions of precariousness, all the while explaining enduring attachments to labour politics.
Download or read book British Royal Visits and Black Loyalism in Twentieth century Southern Africa written by Hilary Sapire and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Performance Management Handbook for Emerging Markets written by Mark Bussin and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2012-10-30 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are thousands of books and gurus on the subject of performance management. Yet, there are so few examples of where it is practised well. Everyone knows what performance management is, have read the books, have heard the gurus, yet there are so few outstanding success stories. This book is different for the following reasons:1. It is based on years of personal experience in implementing hundreds of performance management systems in companies.2. Contributors to the book have actually done and experienced what they are writing about, with particular experience in emerging markets.3. It is underpinned by empirical research.4. It is practical and, for once, tells you how to do it, with no missing steps or information. There are tool kits, forms and check lists that can be used instantly.5. It is written in plain English with no bamboozling jargon, with many practical examples and templates that you can amend to suit your needs.It also includes practical examples of different types of performance appraisal methodologies, namely the; Outputs Approach Traditional Approach Balanced Scorecard Multirater/360oContents include: The philosophy of performance Measurement and metrics The measurement of human capital Developing an output-driven performance plan The traditional approach to performance appraisal Performance appraisal rating scales The balanced scorecard approach Multisource/360-degree feedback Performance-related pay The link between performance management and long-term incentives (LTIs) Does performance management work? Embracing the law - a South African case study Director and Board Evaluations Crucial/honest conversations regarding performance Critical success factors and epilogue
Download or read book Creepy Critters written by and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces insects, including ladybugs, bees, and grasshoppers.
Download or read book How Much is Enough written by Arun Abey and published by Greenleaf Book Group. This book was released on 2009 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This practical guide will not only challenge the way you think about money and happiness, it may well inspire you to change your life. The author show how to identify your real values, set goals for each stage of your life and arrange your finances to achieve them.
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Download or read book Big Book of Knowledge written by DK and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-04-16 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Packed full of facts, this is the perfect encyclopedia for any information-hungry kid who wants to boost their general knowledge. Ever wondered how the roots of a plan can grow through solid rock? Or what life is like on the surface of Venus? Maybe you want to know how long it takes a drop of blood to travel around your body or how a solar power plant works? No matter the question, the Big Book of Knowledge has the answer. Packed with incredible images that show you what others only tell you, this children's book is the perfect resource for curious kids of all ages. When you have this much information at your fingertips, homework will be a breeze!
Download or read book Modern Hearing Aids written by H. Gustav Mueller and published by Plural Publishing. This book was released on 2013-06-28 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
