The office of tomorrow is already with us. You can see it in coffee shops, airport lounges and hotel lobbies across the world. It's called the mobile office and in some instances consists of only a laptop and a wireless broadband card. Even now mobile office options are evolving rapidly and the bewildering range of add-ons is growing every day. Ironically, the choices meant to make your life simpler and more productive are in fact becoming more and more complex. Arthur Goldstuck has once again come to the rescue.This vital roadmap guides you through the jungle of competing products and connectivity options, and helps you to decipher the hard-sell you are bombarded with daily. Should you upgrade now? Should you wait for the next version? Are you being led down an electronic dead-end? This book answers such questions with insights into older technologies that are still viable, practical advice on current office options and predictions on what will arrive in the near future. Whether you are self-employed, an entrepreneur looking to start up a small business or a corporate looking to become more efficient, this book could hold the key to your streamlined success.

The Mobile Office: The Essential Small Business Guide to Office Technology

Goldstuck, Arthur

Business & Money

Double Storey

The 1940s was a turbulent period in the history of South Africa. It opened with parliament’s bitterly contested decision to enter the war; was rocked by political turmoil; and ended with a bang, as well as a whimper, as the National Party captured political power in 1948. Most see it as a decade that led inexorably towards apartheid but the coming of Afrikaner nationalism was only one of several competing visions of the future. The decade was in fact marked by a general sense of expectancy and optimism that the end of the war would usher in a brave new world. New worlds of possibilities were envisioned on all sides. Reform, social and political, was in the air. But in the end it turned out to be a Prague spring, and the kinds of reforms that many envisaged were dealt a death blow, only to be resurrected 40 years later with the demise of Afrikaner nationalism. These worlds of possibilities are explored more fully in this volume.

South Africa's 1940s: Worlds of Possibilities

Economics

Morgan Tsvangirai had an advantage over many other rural Rhodesian children born in the 1950s – his parents believed he should receive the best possible education to ensure his future. The first of nine children, Tsvangirai made the most of his schooling and subsequent opportunities, which saw him start his working life as a sweeper in a textile factory and move on to the Trojan Nickel Mine as a plant operator. It was here that Tsvangirai’s involvement with the mining trade union began, and in 1985 he took up the full-time position of vice-president of Zimbabwe’s Associated Mine Workers Union. Three years later he became secretary-general of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU). Over the next ten years Tsvangirai played a key role in uniting Zimbabwe’s trade union and civil movements into an informal opposition to the Zanu-PF government of Robert Mugabe. This culminated, in September 1999, in the launch of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC). Under Tsvangirai’s leadership, the MDC contested the 2000 parliamentary election and the 2002 presidential election, both hampered by electoral irregularities and intimidation, including two sets of treason charges leveled at Tsvangirai. Against a backdrop of the wider social, political and economic developments in Zimbabwe, The Face of Courage focuses on the life and career of Morgan Tsvangirai. It draws on extended interviews with Tsvangirai and those close to him in order to provide an in-depth look at an internationally respected man who has dedicated himself to restoring Zimbabwe to a workable democracy.

Face of Courage: A Biography of Morgan Tsvangirai

Biographies & Memoirs

Hudleston, Sarah

Historical

As she says in her introduction: “No matter how successful you are in your work, how happy you are in love, or how content you are with your family and friends, there is still that little hollowness that never goes away, a longing for something, a search for completion. … But there are answers, and that’s what I hope this book will communicate. Answers about the soul and its survival after death; about empowering your life; about growing closer to God through knowing that there is so much more than there appears to be. Hamlet said it first and best when he recognised that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt in our philosophy.”

A Survival Kit for the Hereafter

Religion & Spirituality

Silbert, Belinda

New Age & Spirituality

This book tells how South Africa came to lead the world in enshrining sexual equality in our Bill of Rights, which forms part of the Constitution. The achievement, which has been hailed as a model for the rest of the world, did not come about without a long struggle. This was spearheaded by gender activists and movements during the 1980s, whose campaigns on the one hand evoked hostility from the apartheid state and were also dismissed as an irrelevance by conservative factions within the liberation movement. Indeed, the end of apartheid did not automatically guarantee that sexual equality would be realised, and the book explains how in the end this was achieved. The volume draws upon the rich archive of the Gay and Lesbian association and incorporates fascinating first-hand documents from the time as well as essays by participants in the events and later commentators.

Sex and Politics in South Africa

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

"Once upon a time there lived a man who was born the son of a mortician. In this small matter of the choice of a suitable father no choice was given to him. This at least is true of every man. No man chooses his father."Anthony Loxton, reluctant third-generation funeral director by day, is by night Tony the Fox, a guitarist in the bars of Kalk Bay. It looks like there's no escape from the burden of the past. But when Tony's one-night stand, Lily, arrives in a body bag at the Loxton Funeral Parlour, he surprises himself by breaking his own rules.In this charming, complex and often moving story, we follow Anthony Loxton as he poignantly struggles to come to terms with himself, the living and the dead, and, indeed, death itself. The Good Cemetery Guide received an honourable mention from the English Academy. Judges described the book as 'an intensely readable creation of story and character'.

The Good Cemetery Guide

Literature & Fiction

Roland, Consuelo

Literary

Twelve Rows Back: Some Mutterings from Tom Eaton

Eaton, Tom

Intricacy: A Meditation Memory: A Meditation on Memory

Cope, Michael

Pathways of the Sun: Unveiling the Mysteries of Table Mountain and Beyond

Dean Liprini

Africa occupies a very special position in the origin and development of humankind. It is on this continent, as exciting new discoveries of fossil material have revealed, that our pre-human ancestors evolved and first acquired the key characteristics that give us our humanity. The evidence of this immense surge of human creativity is incontrovertible: the tools uncovered, the art painted and engraved on rocks, the representations of symbolic thought. This book celebrates humanity's origins in Africa and the rich archeological heritage of the continent. It has been written by some of the world's foremost authorities on Africa's past under the editorship of Geoffrey Blundell, the Origin Centre's Curator.

Origins: The Story of the Emergence of Humans and Humanity in Africa

Blundell, Geoffrey

Anthropology

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