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BOOK REVIEWS

Raising Good Humans discover strategies for cultivating respectful

By Hunter Clarke-Fields communication, effective conflict resolution,
and reflective listening. In the process,
A kinder, more compassionate world starts you’ll learn to examine your own unhelpful
with kind and compassionate kids. In patterns and ingrained reactions that reflect
Raising Good Humans, you’ll find powerful the generational habits shaped by your
and practical strategies to break free from parents, so you can break the cycle and
“reactive parenting” habits and raise kind, respond to your children in more skillful
cooperative, and confident kids. ways.

Whether you’re running late for school, trying When children experience a parent reacting
to get your child to eat their vegetables, with kindness and patience, they learn to
or dealing with an epic meltdown in the act with kindness as well, thereby altering
checkout line at a grocery store, being a generational patterns for a kinder, more
parent is hard work! And, as parents, many compassionate future. With this essential
of us react in times of stress without thinking guide, you’ll see how changing your own
and often by yelling. But what if, instead “autopilot reactions” can create a lasting
of always reacting on autopilot, you could With this book, you’ll find powerful positive impact, not just for your kids, but for
respond thoughtfully in those moments, keep mindfulness skills for calming generations to come.
your cool, and get from A to B on time and in your own stress response when
one piece? difficult emotions arise. You’ll also Price: R419.00

Mr Einstein’s Secretary Place

By Matthew Reilly By Justin Fox

A secretary like no other In this gripping travelogue,
in an epic spanning forty Justin Fox goes on a one-of-
years. All Hanna Fischer a-kind journey. Marrying his
ever wanted to do was to love for travel and writing, he
study physics under the sets off to explore the places
great Albert Einstein. But of his favourite books. From
when, as a teenager in the mountainous eastern
1919, her life is suddenly Karoo of Olive Schreiner to
turned upside down, she the big-game Lowveld of Sir
is catapulted into a new Percy Fitzpatrick, from Deneys
and extraordinary life – as Reitz’s wide-open Cape
a student, a secretary, a interior to the Bushveld of
sister and a spy. Eugène Marais’s Waterberg,
Fox reveals the majestic power of place.
From racist gangs in
Berlin to gangsters in Through the savannah of Herman Charles Bosman’s Marico, the
New York City, Nazis in the 1930s and Hitler’s inner circle during dusty plains of JM Coetzee’s Moordenaars Karoo, the forests of
the Second World War, Hanna will encounter some of history’s Dalene Matthee’s Garden Route, the subtropical hamlets of Zakes
greatest minds and most terrible moments, all while desperately Mda’s Wild Coast, and finally the sandstone crags of Stephen
trying to stay alive. She is a most unique secretary, and she will Watson’s Cederberg, he brings to life the settings we’ve only seen
work for many bosses – from shrewd businessmen to vile Nazis, through characters’ eyes.
to the greatest boss of them all, Mr Albert Einstein.
Place is a moving love letter to South Africa, merging literature and
This is the thrilling tale of a young woman propelled through landscape, and taking the reader on a breath-taking journey – into
history’s most dangerous times. But read it carefully, because all the heart of South Africa’s spectacular landscape and the inner-
may not be as it seems... worlds of its most celebrated authors.

Price: R465.00 Price: R320.00

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