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  The ANC Billionaires - Big...

  Pieter Du Toit

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  'We were talking about the rise of Japan, about Ronald Reagan's Star Wars … globalisation, technology. And they were still banging on about the Freedom Charter.' – Anglo American's Michael Spicer on the ANC in the mid-1980s.
  In 1985, a group of white South African business leaders, led by Gavin Relly, the executive chairperson of Anglo American, travelled to a game lodge in Zambia to meet with the exiled ANC leadership under Oliver Tambo and Thabo Mbeki. This visit set in motion a coordinated and well-resourced plan by big business to influence and direct political change in South Africa.
  In The ANC Billionaires, top-selling author Pieter du Toit draws on first-hand accounts by major roleplayers about the contentious relationship between capital and the ANC before, during and after the country's transition to democracy, and shows how the liberation organisation was completely unprepared to navigate the intersection between business and politics.
  He also ties the rise of the new elite – including Cyril Ramaphosa, Patrice Motsepe and Saki Macozoma – to the ANC, a party of government and patronage.

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  The illegal power of elites

  Thierry Brugvin

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  “If the people of this nation understood our banking and monetary system, I believe there would be a revolution before morning.” Henry Ford
  Our contemporary liberal democracies have gradually given way to ademocratic, chaotic and illegal governance. By exploiting the flaws in our system to their advantage, the ruling class secures supreme power for itself, while the citizens sacrifice more and more.
  How extensive is the illegal power of the elites? And what can be done to change things?
  In this book, Thierry Brugvin provides valuable material for any citizen concerned with preserving the rule of law. He conducts a damning investigation into our contemporary democracies in order to expose their inner workings, while proposing avenues for modernization towards a better distribution of wealth.

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  Manifesting Justice - Wrongly...

  Valena Beety, Koa Beck

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  When Valena Beety first became a federal prosecutor, her goal was to protect victims, especially women, from cycles of violence. What she discovered was that not only did prosecutions often fail to help victims, they frequently relied on false information, forensic fraud, and police and prosecutor misconduct. 
   
   
    
  Seeking change, Beety began working in the Innocence Movement, helping to free factually innocent people through DNA testing and criminal justice reform. Manifesting Justice focuses on the shocking story of Beety's client Leigh Stubbs—a young, queer woman in Mississippi, convicted of a horrific crime she did not commit because of her sexual orientation. Beety weaves Stubbs's harrowing narrative through the broader story of a broken criminal justice system. 
   
   
    
  Drawing on interviews with both innocence advocates and wrongfully convicted women, along with Beety's own experiences as an expert litigator and a queer woman, Manifesting Justice provides a unique outsider/insider perspective. Beety expands our notion of justice to include not just people who are factually innocent, but those who are over-charged, pressured into bad plea deals, and over-sentenced. The result is a riveting and timely book that will transform our very ideas of crime and punishment, what innocence is, and who should be free.

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  Leveraging Latency - How the...

  Tristan A. Volpe

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  When does nuclear latency—the technical capacity to build the bomb—enable states to pursue effective coercion? 
   
   
   
  In Leveraging Latency, Tristan A. Volpe argues that having greater capacity to build weaponry doesn't translate to greater coercive advantage. Volpe finds that there is a trade-off between threatening proliferation and promising nuclear restraint. States need just enough bomb-making capacity to threaten proliferation, but not so much that it becomes too difficult for them to offer nonproliferation assurances. The boundaries of this sweet spot align with the capacity to produce the fissile material at the heart of an atomic weapon. 
   
   
   
  To test this argument, Volpe includes comparative case studies of four countries that leveraged latency against superpowers: Japan, West Germany, North Korea, and Iran. In doing so, Volpe identifies a generalizable mechanism—the threat-assurance trade-off—that explains why more power often makes compellence less likely to work. This framework illuminates how technology shapes broader bargaining dynamics and helps to refine policy options for inhibiting the spread of nuclear weapons. As nuclear technology continues to cast a shadow over the global landscape, Leveraging Latency provides a systematic assessment of its coercive utility.

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  New Moons For Sam - Becoming...

  Peter Hamilton

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  A personal, intimate, memoir spanning 70 years, in three parts, describing my childhood in the UK and New Zealand, my 35 years as a New Zealand diplomat, and the hundreds of amazing individuals I met on the way, from farming folk to Kings, Queens and Presidents. Part One is the story of an English boy growing up on a farm in rural Devon and Somerset in an extended family, and then, aged 9, moving to rural New Zealand. It covers my school years, my year as a volunteer teacher, aged 17, at an all boys school, in the South Pacific Kingdom of Tonga and my year as a university student in a still divided Germany. Part Two describes my career as a junior, then senior, New Zealand diplomat, and my postings in Fiji, Canada, Geneva, Samoa, Germany and Singapore, the last three as Ambassador. Part Three argues that New Zealand should become a republic in the Commonwealth, with its own Head of State. It describes, too, my liberating journey from Anglicanism to freedom from any religion. I have aimed to tell the memoir with a sense of humour, humility and (for the most part) optimism!

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  Life in the UK Test 2026 - With...

  Freddie Ixworth

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  Most people fail the Life in the UK Test for one simple reason: they don't have time to study properly. 
  They buy the official guide, promise themselves they’ll read it later, and then life gets in the way—work, family, commuting, stress. Suddenly, the test is next week, and they are trying to cram everything at the last minute! 
  This audiobook is designed to save you time. Instead of forcing you through long, dry chapters, this book uses the fastest and most effective format for this exam: clear, direct practice questions with instant answers. 
  Why? Because the question-and-answer format is easier to digest than the original learning material. Questions make you think. Answers make you remember. Repetition makes you pass.  
  The book's narrator is clear, calm, and easy to understand, making it perfect for repeated listening during your commute, at the gym, on walks, or before bed. Many listeners go through the audiobook 2.5 to 4 times before their test. 
  You can listen to the sample and hear the difference for yourself. 
  Most importantly, this edition is fully updated for 2026. That includes the new King, the latest government changes, updated taxes and policies, and Brexit developments. 
  Here’s what you’ll get inside this book:   
  • 500 official-style practice test questions & instant answers 
  • Fully updated 2026 content and policy changes 
  • A simple structure that makes progress easy to track 
  • A repeatable study system designed for first-time success 
  If passing quickly matters to you, and passing the first time matters even more, this audiobook gives you the most effective way to get there.

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