Mob Justice and the New Vigilantism in South Africa
by Karl Kemp
Price: $19.95
ISBN: 9781776390458
Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa
Pub Date: 2024-08-08
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Penguin Random House South Africa
376 Pages
Why do so many South Africans prefer taking the law into their own hands to relying on the police? Why are those who do so often cheered or sympathized with? Of the unprecedented 27,000 recorded murders...
Told in short prose, Glass Bricks tells the story of Lester's experience working both traditional and non-traditional jobs. Sometimes raw and often humorous, Lester shares stories about learning to work, working, and moving on.
Waste, Sewage, and Sanitation in Nineteenth Century Britain
by Andre Gren
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9781526731401
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Pub Date: 2019-12-27
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Pen and Sword History
136 Pages
In the nineteenth century, as towns grew, Britain became increasingly grimy. The causes of dirt and pollution were defined legally as ‘nuisances’ and, in 1835, the new local authorities very rapidly appointed an army of ‘inspectors of nuisances’.
In the eighty years between 1787 and 1868 more than 160,000 men, women and children convicted of everything from picking pockets to murder were sentenced to be transported ‘beyond the seas’. These convicts were destined to serve out their sentences in the empire’s most remote colony: Australia.
Great women are hidden behind great men, or so they say, and no man is greater than the king. For centuries, royal aunts, cousins, sisters and mothers have watched history unfold from the shadows, their battlefields the bedchamber or the birthing room, their often short lives remembered only through the lens of others. But for those who want to he
by Loretta Bellman, Sue Boase, Sarah Rogers and Barbara Stuchfield
Price: $32.95
ISBN: 9781526748461
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Pub Date: 2018-12-21
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Pen and Sword History
248 Pages
As an interrogator, he drew many confessions out of the war criminals including Otto Ohlendorf’s admission to ‘humanely’ killing 90,000 Jews with his mobile gas chambers.
Cathy Hunt examines the lives of Coventry women throughout one extraordinary century of change. The result of her detailed research is a book packed with stories of what it was like to be a woman between...
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