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The Human Sciences Building and Merensky 2 Library in the 1980s.

‘Creators of Rosetta Stones: Jewish Nobel Laureates, 1901 – 2005’ by David Mordant, has been added to our Reserved Collection!

For more information go to the New Books guide on our webpage library.up.ac.za/specialcollections/newbooks

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The Kruger National Park: A History by Salomon Joubert.

Combining exhaustive research with 30 years of management experience in the Kruger National Park, Dr Salomon Joubert paints a dramatically new picture of the Park and its meaning to the world, showing how the Kruger National Park was successfully managed over different eras. Kruger’s image as a peaceful, unchanging African wilderness is belied by a century of bitter debate over what its real purpose should be, as our continually changing relationship with nature alters our preconceptions about the wild. Kruger’s founders had no idea that it would become a global conscience and a barometer of the health of our planet. The search for the meaning of Kruger today is as vital an unpredictable as it was in 1898. Dr Joubert makes and urgent, eloquent and startlingly practical case for conserving Kruger’s unique values for Africa and the world at large.

In 2007 the First Edition was acclaimed by academics, conservationists, the media and ardent Kruger Lovers scattered throughout South Africa. Dr Joubert revised the original text and other contents, including the index, to create this Second Edition.

This 3-volume set is part of our Africana (ZA) Collection.

UnivofPretoria.on.worldcat.org/oclc/856550099

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The new Merensky 2 Library in 1976.

‘Developing Donor Support: Selected Ways & Means for African Non-profits’ by Peter N. Thuynsma, has been added to our TUK Collection!

For more information go to the New Books guide on our webpage library.up.ac.za/specialcollections/newbooks

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Fynbos: South Africa's Unique Floral Kingdom by Richard Cowling and Dave Richardson, photography by Colin Paterson-Jones.

South Africa's fynbos is a wonder of the natural world. Not content merely to eke out an existence in the unlikeliest of environments—where the landscape is parched in summer and drenched in winter, where soils are nutrient-starved and where fires frequently rage—this unique vegetation is exuberant in its floral diversity. Nowhere else on earth are so many plant species crammed into such a small area. Early plant collectors were fascinated by the richness of the flora, and assiduously took specimens back to Europe for study and cultivation. Even today, some 350 years later, new species are still being discovered. Nowadays, though, the focus of research has shifted from describing individual species to understanding the ecology of the fynbos region as a whole. How old is fynbos? Why is it here? What role does fire play in its survival? What makes it so special, and why—and how—should it be conserved? This volume discusses all aspects of the fynbos environment, as well as the problems that must be overcome if this unique vegetation is to survive.

This book is part of our Africana (ZA) Collection.

UnivofPretoria.on.worldcat.org/oclc/34065793

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‘Fiction and Fable: Tales of Time-Series’, edited by Johan Ferreira and Seite Makgai, has been added to our TUK Collection!

For more information go to the New Books guide on our webpage library.up.ac.za/specialcollections/newbooks

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The lower floor of the Old Merensky Library in the 1950s.

The Whale Trail of South Africa by Allan Davie.

Whale-watching in South Africa—one of the most exciting activities in some of the most beautiful destinations in the world. The South African Whale Route stretches from Paternoster/Saldanha Bay on the West Coast (Atlantic), south around the Cape of Good Hope, and some 2,500 kilometres northeast to Kosi Bay in the iSimangaliso Wetland Park (St. Lucia), a World Heritage Site, just south of the Mozambican border on the Indian Ocean. This book offers visitors and enthusiasts all they need to know to plan a whale-watching trip-and will teach you the meaning of blowing, breaching, lobtailing, spy-hopping and grunting!

This book is part of our Africana (ZA) Collection.

UnivofPretoria.on.worldcat.org/oclc/223851603

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‘De Aar: Lines of Architecture in the Making of a South African Town (1902-1977)’ by Giorgio Miescher, has been added to our Africana Collection!

For more information go to the New Books guide on our webpage
library.up.ac.za/specialcollections/newbooks

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The First Hundred Years: National Zoological Gardens of South Africa by Philip and Ingrid Van den Berg, and Pat Hopkins.

The National Zoological Gardens of South Africa is justly regarded as one of the top ten zoos in the world. Because of this reputation, it is the preferred nature experience of many. But it is more than a recreation haven. “The massive growth in the world's human population,” wrote the late Prince Philip, HRH the Duke of Edinburgh and first President of the World Wildlife Fund – UK branch, from its foundation in 1961 to 1982, “and the demands that it is now making on the world's rapidly diminishing natural resources, has caused a very serious crisis for the natural environment and all the wild species of animals and plants which depend on it for survival. This threat to the integrity of the global ecological system is also a threat to the survival of human civilisation itself. […] I believe that we have a very special practical, and moral, responsibility to ensure the survival of the rest of life on earth. Much can be done by establishing and managing protected areas, but there are many species whose natural habitats have already been degraded or destroyed. For these, the only hope of survival is direct stewardship and human care in zoological and botanical gardens and ex situ breeding centres.” That is precisely what is happening at the National Zoological Gardens of South Africa—a conservation centre for the future.

This book is part of our Africana (ZA) Collection.

UnivofPretoria.on.worldcat.org/oclc/47354320

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