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 The Power, by Rhonda Byrne, author of The Secret

 

You are meant to have an amazing life! This is the handbook to the greatest power in the Universe – The Power to have anything you want.

Every discovery, invention, and human creation comes from The Power. Perfect health, incredible relationships, a career you love, a life filled with happiness, and the money you need to be, do, and have everything you want, all come from The Power.

The life of your dreams has always been closer to you than you realised, because The Power – to have everything good in your life – is inside you. To create anything, to change anything, all it takes is just one thing…THE POWER.

 

About the author:

Rhonda was born in Australia and began her career as a radio producer before moving into television production. Many of her shows won industry awards and were screened in major countries outside Australia. Rhonda’s experience, background and skill in film and television production were instrumental in the creation of The Secret film. In May of 2007, she was recognized as one of the world’s most influential people in TIME magazine’s ‘The TIME 100: The People Who Shape Our World”‘, and shortly afterwards appeared in Forbes’ The Celebrity 100 List’. Rhonda currently lives just outside Los Angeles.

 

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Achieving the Impossible is an inspiring and thrilling memoir of adventure and achievement from an internationally recognised endurance swimmer and ambassador for environmental awareness.

In July 2007, Lewis Gordon Pugh became the first person to swim at the North Pole, in temperatures that would kill a normal person, primarily to raise awareness of climate change. Nicknamed ‘the human polar bear’ for his ability to raise his body’s core temperature at will, he has pioneered swims in the world’s most hostile waters, redefining what it is possible to achieve in terms of endurance.

A maritime lawyer and former member of the SAS, Lewis tells his fantastic story here for the first time. Chapters cover his childhood, growing up with his ‘hero’ Surgeon Rear Admiral father, his early life in South Africa, his training in the army’s elite corps, his inspiration and, of course, plenty of action/adventure stories, chronicling his many nail-biting endurance swims. He also shares his secrets on how to achieve the seemingly impossible.

With practical lessons taken from his own life, Lewis explains how recognising one’s passions and taking calculated risks is essential for anyone looking to fulfill their goals. The book will also cover his next and most dangerous expedition yet in May 2010. His story is inspiring, entertaining and thrilling in equal measure, and its 38-year-old author is a much needed role model for our times.

Red Pepper Price: R 195.00
Delivery time: 3-4 days
ISBN-13: 9781868423408 (ISBN-10: 1868423409)
Format: Paperback
No of Pages: 304pp
Publisher: Jonathan Ball Publishers SA
Publication Date: 01 Jun 2010
Country of publication: South Africa

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About the author

“I always wanted to be a pioneer swimmer – to swim in places where nobody had swum before. Much of my inspiration came from explorers like Roald Amundsen, Robert Scott, and Edmund Hillary. Twenty-three years on, I have now pioneered more swims around famous landmarks than any other swimmer, and I am the only person to have completed a long distance swim in every ocean of the world.

But I’m probably best known for becoming the first person to undertake a long distance swim across the Geographic North Pole in 2007.”

Click here to read more at Lewis Gordon Pugh’s website.

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When Sienna Hegarty turns up at his family home one night, covered in blood and frozen in shock, psychologist Joe O’Loughlin finds himself drawn deep into her world, trying to unearth the dark secrets her mind has buried. The police find a major piece of the puzzle at Sienna’s house: her father, a retired cop, is face-down in a pool of his own blood, his throat slashed and his skull caved in. The blood covering Sienna was his. The 14-year-old can’t remember what happened that night but, at the same time, Sienna doesn’t mourn her father’s death. What was going on behind closed doors in the Hegarty household? Is Sienna guilty of brutal murder? And what part has her charismatic teacher Gordon Ellis played in this blood-soaked event?

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Mother’s Day 2010 falls on Sunday the 9th of May. Why not give the special woman in your life the gift of choice by giving her a book voucher this year? 

A book voucher is the perfect gift for that woman who has everything, including the kitchen sink, and gives her the opportunity to buy something that SHE really wants, and probably, unbeknown to you, she has had her eye on for a while now!

Simply purchase a book voucher online and either have the voucher emailed to you, or your mum (or any magnificent woman in your life who deserves to be spoilt on Mother’s Day), or have it posted or delivered at a nominal fee. 

For last minute shoppers in the Gauteng area, please remember that you are more than welcome to collect your book voucher from us in-store between 8am and 4pm, Monday to Friday. 

 We have vouchers in the following denominations:
R150, R200, R300, R400, R500, R600, R700, R800, R900 and R1000.

 We accept payment by credit card, EFT and direct deposit.

As an added bonus, and as our way of thanking YOU for spoiling your mum, we will give you a R25 book voucher to be used against your next online book purchase from Red Pepper Books. Your R25 bonus book voucher will be emailed to you within minutes of you placing your order for a Mother’s Day book voucher.

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“There are thousands of leadership books, but only one you really need to read. This one.”

– Matthew May, author of In Pursuit of Elegance, a BusinessWeek “Best Innovation” book

  

What do many of the world’s richest people and companies like Nike, FedEx, General Electric and Microsoft all have in common? They have quietly discovered a powerful system that the best use to create spectacular results and breakthrough wins.

For over 15 years, Robin Sharma, one of the world’s most widely read authors on leadership and personal success with blockbusters like The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari and The Greatness Guide – has been quietly sharing a proprietary success formula with his clients that has made him one of the most respected leadership advisors and success coaches in the world (he’s currently featured in SUCCESS magazine and in a survey of 22,000 business people was ranked in the Top 5 leadership gurus globally).

Now, for the first time, Robin makes his proprietary process available to you in his wildly anticipated new book The Leader Who Had No Title: A Modern Fable On Real Success In Business and In Life (already an international bestseller!).

This game-changing book will help you take your work life and your personal world to a whole new level of wow and show you exactly how to play at your absolute peak.

In The Leader Who Had No Title, you will learn how to create spectacular results, awaken your inner leader and have the professional and personal life you have always wanted.

Specifically, you will discover:

1. How to work and influence people like a superstar, regardless of your position
2. A method to recognize and then seize opportunities in times of deep change
3. What the superrich and wildly successful do in their private moments
4. An instant strategy to build a great team as well as become a “merchant of wow” with your customers
5. Hard-hitting tactics to become mentally strong and physically tough to lead your field
6. Real-world ways to defeat stress, build an unbeatable mindset, unleash energy and balance your personal life
7. Tools to shift from victimhood into leadership

Regardless of what you do within your organization or the current conditions of your life, it is absolutely essential for you to remember that you have the power to show leadership where you are now planted – and shine at brilliance in all that you do. This powerful book shows you how to claim that staggering power.

Buy this book for you, your boss and EVERY person on your team – especially those who are playing victim versus showing leadership. It really is that powerful!

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Henry’s second novel, written, like his first, under a pen name, had done well…
 
Yann Martel’s astonishing new novel begins with a successful writer attempting to publish his latest book, made up of a novel and an essay. Henry plans for it to be a “flip book” that the reader can start at either end, reading the novel or the essay first, because both pieces are equally concerned with representations of the Holocaust. His aim is to give the most horrifying of tragedies “a new choice of stories,” in order that it be remembered anew and in more than one way.
 
But no one is sympathetic to his provocative idea. What is your book about? his editor repeatedly asks. Should it be placed in the fiction section of a bookstore or with the non-fiction books? a bookseller asks. And where will the barcode go? To them, Henry’s book is an unpublishable disaster. Faced with severe and categorical rejection, Henry gives up hope. He abandons writing, moves with his wife to a foreign city, joins a community theatre, becomes a waiter in a chocolatería. But then he receives a package containing a scene from a play, photocopies from a short story by Flaubert – about a man who hunts animals down relentlessly – and a short note: “I need your help.”
 
Intrigued, Henry tracks down his correspondent, and finds himself in a strange part of the city, walking past a stuffed okapi into a taxidermist’s workshop. The taxidermist – also named Henry – says he has been working on his play, A 20th-Century Shirt, for most of his life, but now he needs Henry’s help to describe his characters: the play’s protagonists are a stuffed donkey and a howler monkey named Beatrice and Virgil, respectively, and Henry’s successful book was in part about animals. He wants help to finish his play and, we may suspect, free himself from it. And though his new acquaintance is austere, abrupt and almost unearthly, Henry the writer is drawn more and more deeply into Henry the taxidermist’s uncompromising world.
 
The same goes for the reader. The more we read of the play within the novel, the more we find out about the lives of Beatrice and Virgil – in a series of initially funny, and then increasingly harrowing dialogues – the more troubling their story becomes. As we are drawn deeper into their disturbing moral fable, the relationship between the two faltering writers named Henry becomes more and more complex until it can only be resolved in an explosive, unexpected catastrophe.
 
Though Beatrice & Virgil is initially as wry and engaging as anything Yann Martel has written, this book gradually grows into something more, a shattering and ultimately transfixing work that asks searching questions about the nature of our understanding of history, the meaning of suffering and the value of art. Together it is a pioneeringly original and profoundly moving accomplishment, one that meets Kafka’s description of what a book should be: the axe for the frozen sea within us.

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Red Pepper Books is 12 years young and we’d like to thank each and every one of our very special customers for being with us on our incredible journey since we opened our doors for business in 1998!

As a token of our gratitude, we’d like to offer you a R50 book voucher to use towards any book purchase to the value of R150 or more.

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Why are some people easily outsourced, downsized , or freelanced into obscurity, while others have their pick of opportunities? Discover how to become indispensable in Seth Godin‘s new book: Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? How to Drive Your Career and Create a Remarkable Future

There used to be two teams in every workplace: management and labor. Now there’s a third team, the linchpins. These people invent, lead (regardless of title), connect others, make things happen, and create order out of chaos. They figure out what to do when there’s no rule book. They delight and challenge their customers and peers.  They love their work, pour their best selves into it, and turn each day into a kind of art.    
           
Linchpins are the essential building blocks of great organizations. Like the small piece of hardware that keeps a wheel from falling off its axle, they may not be famous but they’re indispensable. And in today’s world, they get the best jobs and the most freedom. Have you ever found a shortcut that others missed? Seen a new way to resolve a conflict? Made a connection with someone others couldn’t reach? Even once? Then you have what it takes to become indispensable, by overcoming the resistance that holds people back. 
           
As Godin writes, “Every day I meet people who have so much to give but have been bullied enough or frightened enough to hold it back. It’s time to stop complying with the system and draw your own map. You have brilliance in you, your contribution is essential, and the art you create is precious. Only you can do it, and you must.”

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Captain in the Cauldron: The John Smit Story 

 The longest serving captain in Springbok rugby history gives a revealing account of the simultaneous joys and travails of one of the most challenging – and rewarding – jobs in sport in this much anticipated autobiography.

The genial, jovial and witty Rugby World Cup-winning captain explains how a tubby kid from Pietersburg with dreams of winning Wimbledon grew into his country’s most successful rugby captain.

Smit, renowned for his honesty and humility, gives an eyebrow-raising account of the ambushes awaiting rugby celebrities in this country and offers the secret to his longevity in a sport that eats the naïve and gullible for breakfast.

Besides Coach, Springbok Captain must be the most unforgiving job in South Africa. John William Smit is undeniably the most successful Springbok captain in history. Born in Pietersburg (Polokwane) South Africa on 3 April 1978, he was educated at the prestigious Pretoria Boys High school where he matriculated in 1996.

At PBH school he played for the schools first team from 1994 to 1996. It was also at PBH where his leadership abilities was first noticed when he was made head prefect in 1996. Smith made his debut for South Africa on June 10, 2000 at the age of 22 against Canada. On Saturday June 7, 2008 he played in his 76th test (vs Wales) which also was his 50th as captain.

As of 2005 Smit is one of South Africa’s most successful captains ever, having led the Springboks to victory in 16 of the 22 games that he captained, a win percentage of 72%. This makes him just as successful as other South African captains such as Gary Teichmann and Francois Pienaar.

Together with Jake White he lead South Africa to their second William Webb Ellis trophy on October 20, 2007. With predecessors like Francois Pienaar, Gary Teichman and Morne Du Plessis to name but a few, it is a mark of a great sportsman and a remarkable leader to be acknowledged as the best captain to ever lead the Springboks. Smit’s leadership qualities came to the fore in the 2007 Rugby World Cup, his calm under pressure and inspirational captaincy seeing South Africa win the William Web Ellis Trophy for the second time.

Smit led South Africa in the 2008 Tri Nations against Australia and New Zealand. In the first game against New Zealand in Wellington, he was spear tackled by New Zealand lock Brad Thorn who was suspended for one game. He missed the rest of the 2008 Tri-Nations because of a groin injury and veteran Springbok lock, Victor Matfield, led the side. About the Author Smit tells his story to Mike Greenaway the award-winning sports writer from The Mercury newspaper in KZN.

Greenaway has tracked Smit’s career from the day he arrived in Durban to join the Sharks as a 19-year-old after the Blue Bulls had shut the door in his face – and that is a chapter on its own! Published By: HIGHBURY SAFIKA MEDIA 125mm X 195mm/ 300pp / SC / ISBN 978-0-620-44751-5 / R 225/ Pub November 2009

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