Gus Silber, well-known journalist and wordsmith, has over the last few years written some extraordinary commentary pieces on his journeys around his neighbourhood in Johannesburg and his digital wanderings through the global village we call social media, and posted them to Facebook.

Gus’s followers know what insightful and frankly charming pieces he writes, and we’re bringing those digital missives to the page and discerning masses. This is a collection of over 50 of Gus’s most-loved social media posts – covering everything from understanding house-breaking hadedas, the meaning of pathos, deciphering Joburg style, and everything in between.

My F*k, Marelize, you’ll want to get your hands on this one.

Create stunning contemporary artwork with no painting experience required!

Painting By Numbers: Hummingbird is a complete painting kit for experienced and beginner artists alike, with everything required to get started with a canvas artboard panel, reference sheet, palette, 8 paint pots and 2 paint brushes. By following the simple instructions, this relaxing and mindful pastime helps focus attention and concentration.

Best of all, painting by numbers is an immersive creative outlet that will provide hours of stress-free joy.

• 8 paint pots
• 2 paintbrushes
• a preprinted canvas
• a palette
• a reference sheet

Colouring enthusiasts will be immersed in a world of tranquillity with Zen Colour: Mandala.

With 24 beautiful illustrations and four dual-ended colour pencils (resulting in eight different colours), this mesmerising selection of mandalas – cosmic diagrams that represent the infinite – encourages users to colour themselves calm. Through the focused act of colouring, this book is living proof why mandalas have been used for centuries to seek peace, inspiration and a sense of interconnection. The Zen Colour series cultivates mindful awareness through colouring; be at once absolutely relaxed and yet entirely present while creating beautiful artwork.

Colouring enthusiasts will feel their creativity blossom with Zen Colour: Superflora!

With 24 beautiful illustrations and four dual-ended colour pencils (resulting in eight different colours), the lush pictures in this book feature bouquets, fields bursting into bloom, ornate garlands of fronds and flowers, and a joyful chorus of birds singing among bowers. This stunning, intricately illustrated book has something for everyone. The Zen Colour series cultivates mindful awareness through colouring, promoting relaxation and focus.

Colouring enthusiasts will wander through a world of wonder with Zen Colour: Wilderness!

With 24 beautiful illustrations and four dual-ended colour pencils (resulting in eight different colours), this book promotes the captivating majesty of an African landscape, from the awe-inspiring might of a tiger to the charming skittishness of a hummingbird. These stunning and intricate pictures have something for everyone. The Zen Colour series cultivates mindful awareness through colouring, promoting relaxation and focus.

Zen Colour: Aquatica presents a world of colour waiting to be discovered!

It's easy to imagine waves of serenity washing over any colouring enthusiast, as they frolic with pods of dolphins, glide through undulating seaweed, and collect seashells by the shore ... all at the tips of their colour pencils!

With 24 beautiful illustrations and four dual-ended colour pencils (resulting in eight different colours), these stunning and intricate pictures have something for everyone, whether they are new to colouring or an aficionado! The Zen Colour series cultivates mindful awareness through colouring.

Create stunning contemporary artwork with no painting experience required!

Painting By Numbers: Hawaiian Sunset is a complete painting kit for experienced and beginner artists alike, with everything required to get started with a canvas artboard panel, reference sheet, palette, 8 paint pots and 2 paint brushes. By following the simple instructions, this relaxing and mindful pastime helps focus attention and concentration.

Best of all, painting by numbers is an immersive creative outlet that will provide hours of stress-free joy.

• 8 paint pots
• 2 paintbrushes
• a preprinted canvas
• a palette
• a reference sheet

Create stunning contemporary artwork with no painting experience required!

Painting By Numbers: Koi Fish is a complete painting kit for experienced and beginner artists alike, with everything required to get started with a canvas artboard panel, reference sheet, palette, 8 paint pots and 2 paint brushes. By following the simple instructions, this relaxing and mindful pastime helps focus attention and concentration.

Best of all, painting by numbers is an immersive creative outlet that will provide hours of stress-free joy.

• 8 paint pots
• 2 paintbrushes
• a preprinted canvas
• a palette
• a reference sheet

Create stunning contemporary artwork with no painting experience required!

Painting By Numbers: Alpine Village is a complete painting kit for experienced and beginner artists alike, with everything required to get started with a canvas artboard panel, reference sheet, palette, 8 paint pots and 2 paint brushes. By following the simple instructions, this relaxing and mindful pastime helps focus attention and concentration.

Best of all, painting by numbers is an immersive creative outlet that will provide hours of stress-free joy.

• 8 paint pots
• 2 paintbrushes
• a preprinted canvas
• a palette
• a reference sheet

Welcome to Collected Works of Drive-By Abuser that gathers together some of his most penetrating insights into the contemporary condition. With an analytical mind so pin sharp, you can almost hear him thinking. Drive-By Abuser will happily tackle any subject in the world and make some sense out of it. His brain is like a filter prospecting for nuggets of thought lumps. Wearing a hat, climbing a mountain, the social status of brie on the cheese scene, he's had a go at all of them. With this new volume, we hear again the voice of this uniquely fearless, scooter-mounted maverick shouting out to be heard. Challenging yes, but due to the fact he's got a fucking megaphone, almost impossible to completely ignore. Contains foul language throughout

Menige ouer, onderwyser en afrigter het al die wens uitgespreek dat minder tyd aan die soek van geskikte materiaal vir Eisteddfods bestee hoef te word. Eisteddfod-pret is gebore uit hierdie noodkreet van ouers, onderwysers en kinders wat jaarliks in desperaatheid die internet en biblioteke fynkam vir vars, nuwe materiaal, want dis nie sommer enigiets wat geskik is nie. Die inhoud van hierdie bundel is oorspronklike, ongepubliseerde werke van die Fynbosskrywers, werke wat die potensiaal het om A++ by ’n Eisteddfod te verwerf. Dit bestaan uit 108 gedigte, 24 monoloë en 20 samesprake wat geskik is vir gebruik in die laerskool. ‘n Inleiding deur Louise Lachenicht verseker ook dat die deelnemer se potensiaal ten volle ontwikkel word met riglyne vir afrigters, onderwysers en ouers.

Legendary tattoo artist, historian, and beloved raconteur Henk Schiffmacher takes us through 180 years of tattoos from Japan and New Zealand to the Bowery. This oversized, personal exploration of tattoo art gathers 800+ images from Schiffmacher's renowned collection of ephemera-including extremely rare flash sheets from giants in early tattooing, original drawings, and photographs-into one unprecedented collection.

A captivating account of the Parisian art world at the turn of the twentieth century, these memoirs offer firsthand impressions of Manet, Matisse, Picasso, Rousseau, Vuillard, and other famous artists. Art merchant and socialite Ambroise Vollard (1867-1939) possessed a keen ability to recognize genius in painters as well as a natural warmth and candor, a combination of traits that earned him the friendship of a generation of artists. "Recollections of a Picture Dealer recounts his early efforts to sell the works of Cezanne; his portrait sittings for Renoir, Rouault, Bonnard, Forain, and Picasso; and his social encounters with such artists as Degas, Odilon Redon, and Rodin, as well as with writers Gertrude Stein, Guillaume Apollinaire, Mallarme, and Zola. Unabridged republication of the original (1936) English-language edition, translated by Violet M. Macdonald. Index. 33 illustrations.

In 1980, the film Flash Gordon was released, becoming an instant cult favourite. One of the most quotable and beloved sci-fi films ever, it is legendary for its unique look, tone and iconic soundtrack. This beautiful, first-of-its-kind coffee table book will delve into the making of the movie and celebrate its legacy. Featuring brand new interviews with cast and creative, including stars Sam Jones and Brian Blessed and director Mike Hodges, this stunning book features never-been-seen-before concept artwork and behind-the-scenes photography that makes it a must-have for any classic sci-fi fan.

Where does my body begin? Where does it end? What is inside my body? What is outside? What is primary? What is secondary? What is natural? What is artificial? Science fiction has long imagined a future fusion of humanity with technology. Today, many of us-especially people with health issues such as autoimmune diseases-have functionally become hybrids connected to other machines and to other bodies. The combination of artificial intelligence with implants, transplants, prostheses, and genetic reprogramming is transforming medical research and treatment, and it is now also transforming what we thought was human nature. Mark C. Taylor identifies this process as "intervolution" and explores how it is weaving together smart things and smart bodies to create new forms of life. Our wired bodies are no longer freestanding individuals, but interconnected nodes in worldwide networks. Recognizing this transformation overturns deeply entrenched distinctions and oppositions between minds and bodies. Intervolution reveals that we are already cyborgs, integral cogs in what will become a superorganism of bodies and things.

Turn over a bottle of wine and you may well see a reference to its terroir, the total local environment of the vineyard that grew the grapes, from its soil to the climate. Winemakers universally accept that where a grape is grown influences its chemistry, which changes the flavor of the wine. A detailed system has codified the idea that where the grapes are grown matters to the wine. But why don't we feel the same way about whiskey? The master distiller Rob Arnold reveals how innovative whiskey producers are recapturing a sense of place to create distinctive, nuanced flavors. He takes readers on a world tour of whiskey and the science of flavor, stopping along the way at distilleries in Kentucky, New York, Texas, Ireland, and Scotland. Arnold puts the spotlight on a new generation of distillers, plant breeders, and local farmers who are bringing back long-forgotten grain flavors and creating new ones in pursuit of terroir. In the twentieth century, we inadvertently bred distinctive tastes out of grains in favor of high agronomic yields-but today's artisans have teamed up to remove themselves from the commodity grain system, resurrect heirloom cereals, bring new varieties to life, and recapture the flavors of specific local ingredients. The Terroir of Whiskey makes the scientific and cultural cases that terroir is as important in whiskey as it is in wine.

Beautiful reproductions of Katsushika Hokusai's "Kingfisher, Irises, and Pinks"; Kitagawa Utamaro's "The Courtesan Hinazuru at the Keizetsuro"; Eisui's "Somenosuke of the Matsubaya," and 13 other works of art.

The Russian Revolution and Civil War - as never seen before! Packed with jaw-dropping, at times blood-curdling images, Russia Accursed! showcases the reaction of Ivan Vladmirov (1869-1947) to the human suffering and Bolshevik barbarity he observed as an artist-reporter during the years 1917-25. Some of his paintings and watercolours appeared in magazines and periodicals, including London weekly The Graphic (Vladimirov's mother was English). But other scenes - featuring point-blank executions, passers-by cutting chunks of meat from a dead horse or dogs gnawing at a human corpse - were deemed too shocking for publication and had to be secretly exported from the USSR by American relief workers. Selected from private collections, Russian museums and the Hoover Library at Stanford University, California, most of the 160 Vladimirov images in this majestic 324-page volume are published here for the first time. Placed in their historic context by scholarly essays, contemporary photographs and eye-witness quotes, they revolutionize our understanding of the beginnings of the Soviet Union.