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Unstoppable Us – Volume 1
How Humans Took Over the World
Yuval Noah Harari
From the author of the multi-million bestselling And this has made us very powerful... but very
Sapiens comes an incredible new story of the deadly. Nothing stands in our way, and we always
human race, for younger readers. want more.
We humans aren’t strong like lions, we don’t So, get ready for the most amazing story
swim as well as dolphins, and we definitely don’t there ever was – the incredible true tale of the
have wings! So how did we end up ruling the Unstoppables. Find out how fire shrank our
world? The answer to that is one of the strangest stomachs, how our ancestors spoke to animals,
tales you’ll ever hear. And it’s a true story... what football can tell us about being human,
how we used our superpower for good and bad...
Have you ever wondered how we got here? From and how YOU have the superpower to change
hunting mammoths, to flying to the moon? the world.
It is because we are unstoppable. But what With full-colour illustrations showing the
made us so? Well, we have the most amazing relentless rise and rise of the human race, this is
superpower: the ability to tell stories. Fairy tales history like you’ve never experienced it before.
have led us from imagining ghosts and spirits to
being able to create money (yes, really!). Price R330.00
Koos Bekker’s Billions
By T.J. Strydom
With M-Net, Koos Bekker convinced Financial journalist, TJ Strydom, distils it
the business world he had the magic down to 15 steps, each calculated and
touch. But it was only the start of an effective, sketching out the winning
entrepreneurial journey that would ways of the elusive media mogul. Bekker
bring him immense wealth. Bekker often gets the credit for the investment
swept in at Naspers, transforming in China’s Tencent, a single punt that
an Afrikaans printer into a global rivals South Africa’s entire mining sector
technology giant, earning investors in the wealth it created this century. But
trillions and himself a good few billion. should he be the one lauded for this
But how? What were the methods achievement?
employed by this boerseun from
Heidelberg? Price R280.00
All The Broken Places
By John Boyne
From the author of the globally bestselling, multi- begin a friendship with the little boy, Henry, though
million-copy classic, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, and his presence brings back memories she would rather
The Heart’s Invisible Furies. forget. One night, she witnesses a violent argument
between Henry’s mother and his domineering
Ninety-one-year-old Gretel Fernsby has lived in father, one that threatens Gretel’s hard-won, self-
the same mansion block in London for decades. contained existence.
She leads a comfortable, quiet life, despite her dark
and disturbing past. She doesn’t talk about her Gretel is faced with a chance to expiate her guilt,
escape from Germany over seventy years before. grief and remorse and act to save a young boy – for
She doesn’t talk about the post-war years in France the second time in her life. But to do so, she will be
with her mother. Most of all, she doesn’t talk about forced to reveal her true identity to the world. Will
her father, the commandant of one of the most she make a different choice this time, whatever the
notorious Nazi concentration camps. cost to herself?
Then, a young family moves into the apartment Price R330.00
below her. In spite of herself, Gretel can’t help but
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