Heritage Collection

119 Titles

This is a free access collection of earliest publications by Unisa Press.

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White main title and subtitle lettering on a plain bright orange background, with a line drawing in deep red of a staff

Julius Caesar: Die Galliese Oorlog

J T Benade
December 31, 1984
orange and green block on book cover, with white lettering at the top (author's name) and capital orange lettering on the bottom green background part. There is a thin horizontal line separating the cover into 2 sections at the top.

Juridical Aspects of Education, School and Classroom Management

W Bray
December 31, 1988
Orange background with brown lettering and detailed line drawing of classical temple (with eagle on roof) and symbolic sculpture in the foreground. The Áfrikaans book title: Vergilius: Die Aeneis' appears at the top right.

Die Aenaes

J T Benade
December 31, 1975
Duotone sepia photo in high-contrast style of kneeling African man in white robe, planting a wooden cross, with book title in brown lettering at the bottm left, and subtitle in black lettering. The author's name , ML Daneel, is in black lettering at the top left of the book cover.

African Earthkeepers Volume 2: Environmental mission and liberation in Christian perspective

Marthinus L Daneel
January 30, 1999
Beige title and author information at top of cover with African geometric textile pattern as background design

African Mosaic: A Festschrift for J A Louw on his 75th birthday

Rosalie Finlayson (ed)
June 30, 1999
Greyscale photo of thorn tree at top, fading to grey at bottom, with white and deep red lettering of book title on front cover

African Proverbs Series : Volume 2: AKAN PROVERBS: hearing and Keeping

Kofi Asare Opuku; John S Mbiti
December 31, 1997
Sepia-toned photo of African priest in white cloak bending over a person with outstretched neck, and at the bottom of the cover is a black band with white lettering of the main title, subtitle and author name

All things hold together: Holistic Theologies at the African Grassroots: Selected essays by ML Daneel

ML Daneel
December 30, 2007
Black lettering of author name at top with book title in middle on white block. Background photographic image of torso of male African figure, from 2 different angles (2 side views, one frontal), combined with horizontal white band and black line mediveal drawing of one-eyed cyclops figure

The Anatomy of Power: European Constructions of the African Body

Alexander Butchart
June 30, 1997
The book title is written in plain black capital letters at the top, and the author's name is at the bottom of the cover, all against a plain brown background.

Antonio Soler's keyboard sonatas

Klaus F Heimes
December 31, 1969
Plain black lettering of the book main title at the top, followed by the author's name, a Unisa logo in black linework, and at the bottom of the page, the university of South Africa indicated in both Afrikaans and in English, followed by the word 'Pretoria' and the publication date on a plain cream

Aristoteles en die Macedoniese Politiek

H J De Vleeschauwer
December 30, 1956
Pale green background with subtitle in green at top, and vertical main title in decorative lettering on the right-hand side of the book. at the bottom, a list of languages used in the book is placed.

Beyond the He-man Approach: Guidelines for gender-inclusive language

Wendy Martyna
June 30, 1996
Book title in yellow lettering at top and author's name below, on a soft blue background shaded to green with oval horizontal drawing of a multi-coloured smiling family on a picnic blanket

Bringing up parents and children

Lily Gerdes
December 31, 1998
Sepiatone historic illustration of a ship with British flag sailing on the sea against a horizon line of mountains and clouds, with green letters (in white outline) of the main book title at the top, and the author's name at the bottom

The Cape of Good Hope and foreign contacts 1735-1755

Maurice Boucher
December 30, 1985
Light purple background with white main title in capital letters and white design of a stethoscope, and at the bottom, white subtitle lettering.sthetoscope design

Caring for patients with AIDS: A nursing and other support service perspective

Charlotte Searle
June 30, 1988
abstract design in deep orange/brown and turquoise background design with white lettering on front cover of book title (and name of author at bottom, in dark orange lettering)

Cataloguing and Classification for school media centres

Sandra Olen
June 30, 1996
Mauve 2-tone design on white background with central rectangle, design based on a medieval print of a congragation, book title at top in maroon and authorname at bottom, both in mauve shades of scripted lettering

Catholic thought since the alignment: A survey

Aidan Nichols
December 31, 1998
Golden script lettering of main title at the top, with subtitle in white lettering in the middle and the author's name at the bottom of the page, in a decorative gold frame with a border inside and outside, all on a deep indigo blue background.

The Cave of Adullam or anchor, a door of hope?

Chris Botha
June 30, 1990
Greyscale photo in background of a landscape with a bridge, with modern red lettering of the book title at the top against a white background. Th author's name is at the bottom in thin black lettering.

Ceres van gister en eergister

Francois Botma
June 30, 1997
high-contrast wine red photo rendering of the face of the man to whom the book is dedicated, CPT Naude, in a square block. the background is gret, and the book title lettering is in winered, and the 2 editors; names are placed in grey lettering at the bottom of the cover.

Charistion CPT Naude

Ursula Vogel-Weidemann (ed), Jan Scholtemeijer (ed)
December 30, 1993
Naive-styled colour painting of the Christ figure on the cross, in bright colours, and with white lettering of the book title and author name at the bottom of the front cover

Christ Divided: Liberalism, Ecumenism and Race in South Africa

David Thomas
December 30, 2002
Red lettering of main title in top left-hand corner on high-contrast black-and-white photocollage of a church building montaged against a South African coastline shape, filled with photographic landscape imagery, including a tall palm tree, right. Author's name is in red lettering at bottom right of cover.

Christian Mission in South Africa: Political and Ecumenical

Willem Saayman
January 1, 1991
Black lettering of book title in English, left, and Afrikaans, right, at top. IN the centre of the cover, the author names are listed. The background is plain beige.

Computer Exercises in French - Rekenaaroefeninge in Frans

Louise Broccardo, Rochelle Sadowsky , Celia van der Pluym; Peter Haffter
January 1, 1978
White book title at top and author names in the middle, against a photo collage of a modern cityscape with roads and railways prominent in the foreground.

Crime and crime prevention on public transport

Oliver Page, Prudence Moeketsi , Willem Schurink , Leseli Molefe , David Bruce
December 31, 2001
Blue main title lettering at top right, beneath a blue photorealistic feather quill/imitating a pen/writing action on a blue triangular page-like watery surface, against a green background forming a horison line, on which white lettering of subtitle is placed.

Culture in retrospect: Essays in honour of ED Prinsloo

A.P.J. Roux, P.H. Coetzee; J Margolis , D.F.M. Strauss, A.M.T. Meyer , P Duvenage , P.H. Coetzee, P Higgs, W Kistner , W.J. Jordaan , J Heidema , W Labuschagne , A.J. Antonites , M Faure , F.C. de Beer , J Wilkinson, M Schoeman , J Hund, M Macnamara, Z Postma-de Beer, J Broodryk
June 30, 2001
Full-colour photo of 4 large cycad plants outlined against a bright blue sky, with bilingual black italicised lettering of the main title at the top (left in English and right in Afrikaans)

The Cycad Garden of Unisa: Broodboomtuin van Unisa

B P Barkhuizen
June 30, 1975
Top three-quarters of the cover is a full-colour photo of a dancing crowd with strobe lights from above, with a purple colour band at the bottom, interrupted with a circular-shaped e-embossed tablet forming part of the title lettering, or the e in rave (the lettering is white, italicized capital letters); the subtitle is smaller, also in white lowercase letterign, on the purple colour band background, with the author's name in bright blue lettering at the bottom of the cover.

The E in Rave

Fanitsa H Zervogiannis
June 30, 2003
white main title lettering in capital letters at the top of the cover, against a bright green background. At the bottom of the cover is a silhouettepen sketch of a pastoral scene, with 2 flute-playing men herding cattle, with the one carrying a load on his back. At the bottom corner of the drawing is a small buck and the outline of a plant.

Eclogae en Georgica

JT Benade
December 31, 1983
Greyscale photo of tree branches at top of cover, facing into grey mist towards the bottom of the cover. In the middle of the cover, the African Proverbs Series wording is inserted (vol 5) and at the bottom of the cover, the book title in blue, with a light blue banner holding the black subtitle wording. The author's name is at the bottom of the cover in light blue.s the

Embracing the Baobab Tree: The African Proverb in the 21st Century

Willem Saayman; EJ Alagoa, E Amoah, PA Bennett, M Chindongo, G Cotter, A Dalfovo, H Kimmerle, JN Kudadjie, J Mbiti, W Mieder, J Mkuchu, M Mokitimi, TN Ntshinga, BO Olayinka, KA Opoku, J Penfield, G Sawadogo, W van Heerden, G Wanjohi
December 30, 1997
large colour photo of CR Snyman set at 45 degree angle placed on grey background, and at the bottom the book title and authors are printed in deep grey with the 'C R Snyman' part in decorative lettering repeated in the background.

Essays in honour of /Huldigingsbundel vir C R Snyman

J J Joubert ; R Mare , S A Strauss , P M Bekker , J Burchell , F Cassim , L C Coetzee , J A Faris , S Hoctor , B Huber , L Jordaan , S Lotter , HC F-C Schroeder , O Sibanda, P Swanepoel , K van Rooyen
December 31, 2008
bilingual main title at top in brown lettering on beige background, with a large drawing of indigenous people in silhouette style against a background of a rural environment suggested by plants, a goat, and with the female figure on the right carrying firewood on her head .

Folk-tales of the Wambo: Volksverhale van die Wambo

J J Viljoen, P Amakali, Paavo Hasheela
June 30, 1984
Black lettering (book title) at top right against a pale blue background, with line drawings (top left: Jan van Riebeeck drawn within an outline map of France, and at the bottom left, a line drawing of the Hugenote monument, inside a map outline of South Africa. The author's name is in small black capital letters at the bottom left-hand side of the cover.

French speakers at the Cape: The European background

Maurice Boucher
December 31, 1981
Main words in title, Rags and Riches, are in large capital letters, with 'RAGS' filled with a patchwork design, while the rest of the main title wording and the author's name is in plain dark brown lettering on a plain beige background.

From rags to riches: An analysis of the Faith movement and its relation to the classical Pentecostal movement

December 31, 1989
The top part of book cover is in plain dark turquoise with white decorative lettering used for the title. The subtitle is at the bottom of a sepia-tone photo of a group of African church members in white robes.

Frontiers of African Christianity: Essays in honour of Inus Daneel

December 31, 2003
cover has a plain black background with decorative 'G'and main title in bright orange, and authors' names are in light blue, centre, at the bottom, in smaller font.

GAAP Handbook 1996: Financial accounting and reporting practices including specimen annual financial statements

December 31, 1996
Detailed pencil drawing of 3 Roman soldiers on horseback, portrayed at high speed and charging into the battledfield, with weapons raised. The drawing is framed in navy blue and placed against a deep red background. The author's name is placed in white capital letters at the top of the cover, and the main title is placed on a rectangle at the top, overlapping the drawing.

Gaius Marius: A political biography

Richard J Evans
December 31, 1994
White capital letters GLOSSARIUM against a medieval-style full-colour Keltic-style frame with yellow inner section, on which the subtitle is placed in maroon upper-and lowercase lettering, and the author's name is placed in capital letters, navy, at the bottom of the frame. The frame is placed against a plain burgundy background.

Glossarium: A compilation of Latin words and phrases generally used in law with English translations

Theo Bosman Rood
December 31, 2003
The main title is placed i bold yellow capital letters at top of the cover, with the subtitle in yellow lowercase at the bottom of the design, as well as the author's name. The. main design is an adapted photo of the silhoutee of a medieval cross, superimposed on a sunset. The photo's are both rendered to print in shades of deep purple.

God's wisdom and human reason: The development of theology as a discipline in medieval times

Brian Gaybba
December 31, 1998
Dark brown capital letters (with decorative first letter) at the top of the cover on a textured biege band, followed by a plain dark brown band on which the subtitle is placed in lowercase caramelbeig lettering. At the bottom of the cover is another textured beige background, and the author's name is printed in brown lowercase lettering at the bottom of the cover.

Goeie nuus vir armes en rykes: Perspektiewe uit die Lukasevangelie

David J Bosch
December 31, 1990
Grey to turquoise colour background with white outlined main title and part of subtitle, with the word Perspective in dark navy lettering at the top of the cover. IN the middle of the cover, three simplified outline designs of pillars are foregrounded, of three different lengths and with sets of white rows of icons representing people balanced on top of each of the three pillars. The authorás name is on a grey-blue banner at the bottom of the page.

Governmental Relations: A South African Perspective

Jan J Hattingh
December 31, 1998
Plain typewritten text of main title and authors details, with the early University of South Africa logo, and publication date, on a simple cream paper background. This was an early publication which was stapled without a cover, and not bound.

Grondslae van die Bedryfsielkunde en verhoudinge tot die Wetenskappe

I van W Raubenheimer
August 31, 1970
Background colour photo of a comet moving horizontally, with in the front, blue lettering outlined in white for the book's maintitle, while the 2 authors' names are placed in smaller and in white lettering at the lower part of the cover.

Halley se Komeet

Gawie Cillie, Walter Wargau
December 31, 1985
Sketch in red pencil with handwriting superimposed on the drawing in the background, while in the foreground the main book title is in red lettering, with the subtitle in navy blue script font, while the compiler's name is placed below in red lettering against a faded transparent blue colour band.

Herman Charles Bosman: The Prose Juvenilia

M C Anderson
December 31, 1998
Plain capital letters main title and author name in lowercase, placed on simple plain light grey background.

The Historian's net

S B Spies
December 30, 1981
White lettering is used for the book's main title placed against a plain cerise pink background. At the bottom of the cover, the authors' names are in white lettering. The cover has 3 horizontal bands filled with thin horizontal stripes alternating white, navy and cerise pink. The subtitle is in italics and in navy blue.

Die Historiese Opvoedkunde: Enkele Eietydse Vraagstukke

IA Coetzer, AE Van Zyl
December 31, 1989
Background is in shaded radiating shades of orange to red in the centre, with two simple cross symbols in red, with the main title in large white decorative lettering at the top, the subtitle in plain bold white lettering in the middle, and the names of the authors in small decorative font, printed in orange at the bottom of the book cover.

History of the Church in South Africa: A document and source book (Volume 1)

JW Hofmeyr , CJJ Froneman, JA Millard
December 31, 1991
Yellow capital letters for the main title with horizontal yellow lines above and below, placed on a wine-red background. The authors' names are at the bottom in yellow lowercase plain lettering.

History of the Church in Southern Africa Volume 2: A select bibliography of published material 1981 to 1985

J W Hofmeyr, K E Cross
December 31, 1988
decorative lettering in black on yellow background, with multicoloured cartoon drawing of a puzzled male office worker holding his pay cheque in his hand, pondering investment options. The author's name is in black capital letters at the bottom.

Hoe moet ek my pakket bele?

Nico Swart
December 31, 1999
photo of SA Strauss, seated, on monotone brown and sepia brown tones, with decorative script-style writing used for the title (english at top right, and Afrikaans at bottom right).

Huldigingsbundel vir / Essays in honour of SA Strauss

September 30, 1995
White lettering moving from vertical placement of first 4 words, to horizontal placement of the words Dacia Maraini, with the author's name printed in bright red lettering at the bottom of the cover. the background is deep brown. There is a sepiatint black and white photo of an actress, midway in a dramatic interpretation, with hands outstretched.

Invito alla lettura di Dacia Maraini

M Gracia Sumeli Weinberg
December 31, 1993
The background of the cover is in bright blue (top quarter), where the author's name is placed in white lettering. The lower half of the cover is beige, with the full title in bright blue capital letters. There is a thin horizontal white line between the 2 colour blocks.

Juridiese aspekte van onderwys-, skool- en klasbestuur

W Bray
December 31, 1988
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