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19/06/2026

The Escoffier Cookbook and Guide to the Fine Art of Cookery --Auguste Escoffier
- R90 -

Condition : Good.
Crown Publishers, 1975, Hardback with removable protective plastic wrap - French Cuisine - 923pp. ISBN 9780517506622.

The English translation of the monumental Guide Culinaire, Auguste Escoffier’s indispensable guide to fine cooking originally published in 1903, with nearly 3,000 recipes for sauces, soups, roasts, desserts, and more.

In The Escoffier Cookbook, Auguste Escoffier, regarded as one of the greatest chefs of all time, presents 2,973 dishes, clearly and simply outlines the methods of preparation for each, and shows how to achieve perfection in delicious flavor.

In Part I: The Fundamental Elements of Cooking, he explains the importance of flawless stocks and guides the reader through making them at home. He then moves on to the sauces—Espagnole, Velouté, Bechamel, Tomato, and Hollandaise—that form the foundation of French cooking. Next, Escoffier explores the Aspics and Jellies; the Court Bouillons (or short broths); Elementary Preparations (seasoning, condiments, garnishes, stuffings, and the like); and finally Leading Culinary Operations (braising, poaching, sauteing, roasting, grilling, frying, gratinating, and glazing, among others).

In Part II: Recipes and Methods of Procedure, Escoffier offers nearly 3,000 recipes that show the incredible range of classic French cuisine. All the familiar standards are here—Coquilles Saint-Jacques, Crepes Suzette, Cassoulet, Charlotte Russe, Lobster Newburg, and Potatoes Dauphinoise, plus thousands of not-so-familiar standards.

Featuring a comprehensive glossary and a collection of sample menus, The Escoffier Cookbook is an invaluable resource for connoisseurs, gourmets, and those who appreciate excellence in food preparation. Bon appétit!

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19/06/2026

The Old Way: A Story of the First People -- Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
- R89 -

Condition : Good.
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006, Hardback with removable protective plastic wrap- Anthropology - 344pp. ISBN 9780374225520.

“Wise and loving,” an acclaimed author “helps us see as these gentle people do and takes us with her through their endangered, fragile environment” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).

One of our most influential anthropologists reevaluates her long and illustrious career by returning to her roots—and the roots of life as we know it.

When Elizabeth Marshall Thomas first arrived in Africa to live among the Kalahari San, or bushmen, it was 1950, she was nineteen years old, and these last surviving hunter-gatherers were living as humans had lived for 15,000 centuries. Thomas wound up writing about their world in a seminal work, The Harmless People (1959). It has never gone out of print.

After a lifetime of interest in the bushmen, Thomas has come to see that their lifestyle reveals great, hidden truths about human evolution.

As she displayed in her bestseller, The Hidden Life of Dogs, Thomas has a rare gift for giving voice to the voices we don’t usually listen to. In The Old Way, she shows how the skills and customs of the hunter-gatherer share much in common with the survival tactics of our animal predecessors, helping us to see how linked we are to our origins in the animal kingdom.

The Old Way is a rare and remarkable achievement, sure to stir up controversy, and worthy of celebration.

“Brilliantly conceived, wise and hauntingly vivid. . . . The Old Way is a deeply felt, deeply observed masterpiece.” —Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, author of Mother Nature: A History of Mothers, Infants and Natural Selection
“The owner’s manual we need for humankind.” —Sy Montgomery, author of The Snake Scientist

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19/06/2026

The Man Who Made Lists: Love, Death, Madness, and the Creation of Roget's Thesaurus -- Joshua Kendall
- R88 -

Condition : Good.
First USA Edition, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2008, Hardback with removable protective plastic wrap - Biographical - 298pp. ISBN 9780399154621.

The extraordinary true story of Peter Mark Roget and his legendary Thesaurus.

Peter Mark Roget-polymath, eccentric, synonym aficionado-was a complicated man. He was an eminent scholar who absorbed himself in his work, yet he also possessed an allure that endeared him to his mentors and colleagues-not to mention a host of female admirers. But, most notably, Roget made lists. From the age of eight, he kept these lists with the intention of ordering the chaotic world around him. After his father's death, his mother became, at once, overbearing and despondent. Soon, his sister would also descend into mental illness.

Despite these tragedies, Roget lived a colorful life full of unexpected twists and discoveries-including narrowly avoiding jail in Napoleon's France, assisting famed physician Thomas Beddoes by personally testing the effects of laughing gas, and inventing the slide rule.

Evocative and entertaining, The Man Who Made Lists lets readers join Roget on his worldly adventures and emotional journeys. This rich narrative explores the power of words and the everlasting legacy of a rediscovered genius.

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19/06/2026

Imaginings of Sand -- Andre Brink
- R85 -

Condition : Good.
First British Edition, Secker & Warburg, 1996, Hardback with removable protective plastic wrap SA Fiction - 354pp. ISBN 9780436202599.

A searing panorama of South Africa's experience, reminiscent in its political & imaginative scope of Marquez's One Hundred Years Of Solitude.

When expatriate Afrikaner Kristien Müller hears of her grandmother's impending death, she ends her self-imposed exile in London and returns to the South Africa she thought she'd escaped. But irrevocable change is sweeping the land, and reality itself seems to be in flux as the country stages its first democratic elections.

Kristien's Ouma Kristina herself is dying because of the upheavals: a terrorist attack on her isolated mansion has terminally injured her. As Kristien keeps vigil by her grandmother's sickbed, Ouma tells Kristien stories of nine generations of women in the family, stories in which myth and reality blur, in which legend and brute fact are confused, in which magic, treachery, farce, and heroism are the stuff of the day-to-day.

Imaginings of Sand is the passionate tale of a nation discovering itself and of the women who pioneered that discovery.

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19/06/2026

Julius Caesar: The Life and Times of the People's Dictator -- Luciano Canfora
- R80 -

Condition : Good.
First EnglishEdition, University of California Press, 2007, Hardback with removable protective plastic wrap Biographical - 392pp. ISBN 9780520235021.

This book is a splendid profile of an extraordinary man, and a radically new interpretation of one of the most controversial figures in history.

Caesar played a leading role in the politics and culture of a world empire, dwarfing his contemporaries in ambition, achievement and appetite. For that, he has occupied a central place in the political imagination of Europe ever since. Yet he remains something of an enigma, struck down by his own lieutenants because he could be neither comprehended nor contained. In surviving evidence he emerges as incommensurate and nonpareil, just beyond the horizons of contemporary political thought and understanding.

The result of Luciano Canfora's many years of research is a fascinating portrait of the Roman dictator, combining the evidence of political history and psychology. The product of a comprehensive study of the ancient sources, it paints an astonishingly detailed portrait of a complex personality whose mission of 'Romanisation' lies at the root of modern Europe.

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19/06/2026

The Book of Phobias and Manias -- Kate Summerscale
- R79 -

Condition : Very Good.
Profile Books, 2022, Medium-format paperback - Psychology - 240pp. ISBN 9781800813359. AS NEW.

From the winner of the Edgar Award and the Samuel Johnson Prize, a cultural history of “everyday madness”

The Book of Phobias and Manias is a thrilling compendium of 99 obsessions that have shaped us all, the rare and the familiar, from ablutophobia (a horror of washing) to syllogomania (a compulsion to hoard) to zoophobia (a fear of animals).

Phobias and manias are deeply personal experiences, and among the most common anxiety disorders of our time, but they are also clues to our shared past. The award-winning author Kate Summerscale uses rich and riveting case studies to trace the origins of our obsessions, unearthing a history of human strangeness, from the middle ages to the present day, and a wealth of explanations for some of our most powerful aversions and desires.

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19/06/2026

Organisational development with Theory U: Exercises and case studies -- Esther de Haan, Eva Beerends
- R60 -

Condition : Very Good.
First Edition, De Haan Organisatiecoaching FNAC, 2018, Large-format paperback - Business - 264pp. ISBN 9789082796704.

Theory U offers innovative insights into change processes. It assumes that the seeds of answers to issues are already present, but not yet visible on the surface. Organizations worldwide are now working with Theory U and utilizing the collective wisdom of groups of people to achieve actual innovation. But how do they navigate the curve?

Organizational Development with Theory U demonstrates how Theory U can be applied in practice. Using practical working methods, the possibilities for facilitating the U-process are described. The case studies showcase experiences of KLM Cargo, Achmea, S2M, Enviu, and The Hub Amsterdam, among others, in working with Theory U. This makes the book a valuable tool in the toolbox of organizational coaches, consultants, and trainers involved in organizational development.

Esther de Haan and Eva Beerends are organizational coaches. They facilitate the U-process for organizations seeking profound development to find answers to the challenges they face. Going through the U yields answers that are sustainable and widely supported.

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19/06/2026

Asmodeus: A forkful of tales from Devil’s Peak - Alex D'Angelo
- R59 -

Condition : Good.
First Edition, Tafelberg, 1997, Medium-format paperback - SA Fiction - 100pp. ISBN 9780624035879.

Not long after the early Dutch settlers arrived in the Cape of Good Hope, the Devil saw the need for a new branch of Hell.

“THIS IS YOUR BIG CHANCE, ASMODEUS,” he told the quaking junior devil who grovelled before his throne. “THE CAPE OF STORMS HAS NEED OF OUR SERVICES. THERE ALREADY SEEM TO BE ENOUGH SINNERS IN THE CAPE TO JUSTIFY THE RUNNING COSTS. YOU WILL HAVE TO GO DOWN THERE AND SET UP A REGIONAL OFFICE.”

But although Asmodeus is a very willing young demon, and although he acts with only the very worst intentions, the Cape sinners are a tough, wily, devious lot, and he lands up with far more than he bargained for. He has more than enough schemes to keep the fiery pits burning and the sulphur vats bubbling over, but if only the sinners would be just a little more cooperative.

Alex D’Angelo was born in London in 1966 and brought up in the Cape. He did an MA in medieval literature at UCT, reading Old Norse and Old and Middle English, and therefore felt doomed to penury and starvation. He completed an Honours degree in librarianship in an effort to avoid this fate. He has worked, sometimes simultaneously, as librarian, line-sub, coppersmith and cartomancer. He now runs a slide library at UCT, is married with one daughter and can swear fluently in Old Icelandic.
Complete with Tony Grogan’s wonderful illustrations, the adven-tures of Asmodeus make up an ideal gift book for young and old and anyone who has ever had a good time in the Cape.

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16/06/2026

The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol 1 -- M. H. Abrams [Editor]
- R90 -

Condition : Good.
Seventh Edition, W. W. Norton, 2000, Large-format paperback - Literature - 2974pp. ISBN 9780393974874.

An anthology introducing the major authors and works of English literature. Volume 1 covers the Middle Ages through the Restoration and the Eighteenth Century.

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16/06/2026

The Classic Family d'Alembert series -- E.E."Doc"Smith
- R165 -

Condition : Very Good
Granta, [circa 1980’s], Four Paperbacks in Slipcase.

The box contains:
Imperial Stars
Getaway World
The Clockwork Traitor
The Purity Plot

The series follows the high-stakes adventures of Jules and Yvette d'Alembert, acrobats in the flying d'Alembert family who are secretly intergalactic secret agents (working for SOTE) dedicated to fighting threats to the Galactic Empire.

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