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Author
Publisher
Mandela Legacy
Pub. Date
2018.
Lexile measure
AD 610L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Language
English
Description
The great-grandchildren of Nelson Mandela ask their grandmother fifteen questions about the former South African president, from his activism work, his Nobel Peace Prize, and his time in prison.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st American ed.
Lexile measure
1000L
Physical Desc
128 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Biography of Nelson Mandela who was imprisoned during the apartheid years and became the elected leader of South Africa after being released.
Author
Publisher
Teacher Created Materials
Pub. Date
[2013]
Lexile measure
640L
Physical Desc
1 online resource (48 pages) : illustrations (some color), color maps.
Language
English
Description
Nelson Mandela helped create a new world for South Africa in his fight against apartheid. Readers will learn about Mandela's fight for peace and equality and how he used peaceful protests to make his way from a political prisoner to the first South African President of Africa in this nonfiction biography. Featuring colorful images, informational text, timelines, a glossary of terms, and an index, readers are sure to be inspired by Mandela's amazing...
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xv, 620 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"An unforgettable portrait of one of the most inspiring historical figures of the twentieth century, published on the centenary of his birth. Arrested in 1962 as South Africa's apartheid regime intensified its brutal campaign against political opponents, forty-four-year-old lawyer and African National Congress activist Nelson Mandela had no idea that he would spend the next twenty-seven years in jail. During his 10,052 days of incarceration, the...
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
4 audio discs (4 hr., 30 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Shares life lessons learned from the author's conversations with the former leader, describing the experiences that led Mandela to believe such edicts as keeping one's rivals close and courage being more than an absence of fear.
8) Invictus
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (133 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Newly elected President Mandela knows his nation remains racially and economically divided in the wake of apartheid. Believing he can bring his people together through the universal language of sport, Mandela rallies South Africa's underdog rugby team as they make an unlikely run to the 1995 World Cup Championship match.
Author
Language
English
Description
Nelson Mandela is one of the great moral and political leaders of our time: an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight against racial oppression in South Africa won him the Nobel Peace Prize and the presidency of his country. Since his triumphant release in 1990 from more than a quarter-century of imprisonment, Mandela has been at the center of the most compelling and inspiring political drama in the world. As president of the African...
11) Nelson Mandela
Author
Series
Publisher
Abdo Zoom
Pub. Date
[2017]
Lexile measure
480L
Physical Desc
24 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Before he was South Africa's first black president, Nelson Mandela was an activist who opposed apartheid.
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xxi, 454 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
This historic collection of documents archived at the Nelson Mandela Foundation offers an unprecedented insight into Mandela's remarkable life--from his first stirrings of political consciousness to his galvanizing role on the world stage.
Nelson Mandela is widely considered to be one of the most inspiring and iconic figures of our age. Now, after a lifetime of taking pen to paper to record thoughts and events, hardships and victories, he has bestowed...
Author
Series
Publisher
Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2015].
Lexile measure
770L
Physical Desc
48 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Learn who Nelson Mandela was and how he made a difference in the lives of the people of South Africa and around the world." -- From publisher website.
Author
Series
Publisher
Lerner Publications
Pub. Date
[2015]
Lexile measure
860L
Physical Desc
48 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
After spending more than 30 years in jail for protesting South African apartheid laws, Nelson Mandela became the first African president of South Africa. This is his story.
Author
Publisher
Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Lexile measure
830L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"This biography follows Nelson Mandela from his work with the African National Congress, to his imprisonment on Robben Island, to his extraordinary rise to the presidency"--
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
355 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm
Language
English
Description
Mandela: The Authorized Portrait was created by a team of award-winning writers, photographers, and researchers in collaboration with Mandela's closest living comrades from Robben Island, Mac Maharaj and Ahmed Kathrada. Among the narrative contributors are biographer Mike Nichol and three interviewers personally selected by Nelson Mandela: Ros Coward, Professor Tim Couzens, and Amina Frense.
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (141 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on South African President Nelson Mandela's autobiography of the same name, it chronicles his early life, coming of age, education and 27 years in prison before becoming President and working to rebuild the country's once segregated society.