Namibia Space takes the reader on a virtual tour of every corner of this haunting and beautiful country. It is packed with glorious full-colour photographs and first-hand experiences. We come to know the appeal of Namibia for travellers: the history, close-up Nature, infinite sand shaped by constant wind, exotic people (many of whom have turned their backs on civilisation and still practise their old ways), great herds of animals – and there is The Road, with its infinite possibilities. Th...

Roman policier de Peter Haberl et Chris Heller Qui fait assassiner les criminels que la police n'a pas pu condamner ? À chaque fois, une lettre revendiquant le meurtre est retrouvée sur les lieux. Qui l'engage ? Le nom « Le Tribunal » apparaît. Lorsque le bourreau se met à travailler pour le crime organisé, un conflit d'intérêts surgit. Les inspecteurs marseillais Marquanteur et Leroc mènent l'enquête.

It was the year 1891, and the first rugby football team from the British Isles was about to embark on a tour of South Africa; any doubts about the financial sustainability of the venture were removed when mining magnate Cecil John Rhodes thumped the table and declared, ’Let them come. I shall stand security for any shortfall.’ And so a tradition began that survived the financial insecurities of the pioneer years, two World Wars, sports boycotts, and the birth of the professional era. These...

One Planet, One Health provides a multidisciplinary reflection on the state of our planet, human and animal health, as well as the critical effects of climate change on the environment and on people. Climate change is already affecting many poor communities and traditional aid programs have achieved relatively small gains. Going beyond the narrow disciplinary lens and an exclusive focus on human health, a planetary health approach puts the ecosystem at the centre. The contributors...

J. M. Coetzee is perhaps the most critically acclaimed bestselling author of imaginative fiction writing in English today. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003 and is the first writer to have been awarded two BookerPrizes. The present volume makes critical views of this important writer accessible to the general reader as well as the scholar, discussing Coetzee's main works in chronological order and introducing the dominant themes in the academic discussion of his oeuvre.

Two journalists – passionate about travel and the ‘vast, dry cathedral called Namibia’ – set out to meander through this land and to relish the pure space and the joy of road travel. The journey shaped up as something special. Along the way, thirty years of memories returned. Chris Marais and Julienne du Toit encountered a landscape like no other, a seemingly barren place of unexpected and unrivalled beauty: from the enchantment of the Kalahari to the misty shipwreck world of the Skeleton ...