Heritage Collection

119 Titles

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

All Books

navy blue lettering of main title (English and Afrikaans) on a tuquoise blue background, with a navy vertical band on the left next to the spine, and at the bottom right, the 3 editors names in navy blue smaller lettering.

South African Theological Bibliography Vol 7: Suid-Afrikaanse Teologiese Bibliografie 7

June 30, 1992
Main title in capital letters in wine red, with patterns of dates against a beige background.

Spes in arduis: 'n geskiedenis van die Universiteit van Suid-Afrika

Maurice Boucher
December 31, 1973
At the top of the cover, white outline lettering for the main title, with lowercase wine red subtitle lettering, and the author's name also in wine red lettering below subtitle, followed by a stippled-style line drawing in wine red of various religious symbols (from Hindu to Islam to a Christ figure on the cross), all on a background of plain muted musk pink

Studying Religion

J S Krüger
June 30, 1982
artwork of 3 dieties bowing in front of a priest at top, with an adult dressed in a classical Greek style wrapped cloth dress, with a child reading a tablet with scripture. The book title is in capital letters in the middle, with the author's name at the bottom in white capital letters.

Subject Didactics of Biblical Studies

C B Borst
June 30, 1991
Times Roman capital letters used for the main title, with lowercase text and University of South Africa logo lower, centre of the cover, on a plain white background

Summaries of theses accepted by the University of South Africa in 1965

P Haffter
December 30, 1965
Olive green background with black line drawing on left of a traditional indigenous hut made of reeds, with a palm tree, left and in front a topless indigenous woman wearing a grass skirt, and holding a naked baby on her hip. She is standing in front of a heap of large vegetables, and behnd her are 2 baskets. Part of the book title, `trobriand gardening'' is in white outlined capital letters. The author's name is at the bottom right, in black italics lettering.

The symbolic role of women in Trobriand gardening

Marianne Brindley
June 30, 1984
White capital and lowercase letters for main title at the top, and author's name at the bottom in white lowercase letters, with a colour photo of a ancient Greek open-air arena in the middle of the book cover

Syracuse in Antiquity

Richard J Evans
June 30, 2009
Main title in small capital letters at top, followed by lowercase small black lettering for author's itiials and surname, with a Unisa logo in black line in middle, and small black lettering at the bottom, on a plain cream colour background.

Three papers on Tragedy

F D Sinclair
May 30, 1960
The cover background is of a brick orange wall with a writing board, with a simplified silhouette of a male teacher pointing to the lettering on the writing board in dark brown. At the bottom of the cover, aligned left is the main book title in dark brown, and the author's name is placed at the bottom right of the cover.

Die toerusting van die voorligtingonderwyser as opvoeder

HC Petrick
December 31, 1985
Red lettering of main and subtitle at top, with author name at bottom also in red, against a faded cloud-like mottled blue background with top left a traffic directional arrow, and below right a sky blue thick , stylised outline of a stylised hand

Travelling the career highway

W A Van Schoor
June 30, 1997
Photo of white blossoms on a tree in the background, wih red lettering in the foreground: at the top is the main book title, bilingual and in caps, on left (English) and on right: Afrikaans, with the rest of the subtitle below: vn / of UNISARAND

Trees, birds and shrubs of Unisa: Bome,Struike en Voëls van Unisarand

B P Barkhuizen
June 30, 1984
Black-and-white sepia-style images of artwork arranged in postage stamp size, adjacent to each other, with large orange lettering at the bottom, saying Uitstalling

Uitstalling Unisa Versameling / Exhibition Unisa Collection

Karin Skawran
December 30, 1979
Green concentric circles in the background, alternating with light green bands, with the book main title in black capital latters spread across 3 rows at the top part of the cover. The name of the author is also in black lettering at the bottom right-hand side of the cover.

Unity and Mission

W A Saayman
June 30, 1984
Light blue abstract pattern in background with blue band, large capital letters VENDA in middle of cover, with bilingual subtitles added, and author names at bottom.

Venda Afrikaans English Improved Trilingual Dictionary: Venda Afrikaans Engels Verbeterde Drietalige Woordeboek

P J Wentzel, T W Muloiwa
June 30, 1982
White lettering on grey background with authorname at bottom. The centra image is of Christ sitting in an African chair, rendered in a medieval linear style, in black and white only.

What do you mean by this service?

Paul F Bradshaw
December 31, 1997
Decorative dark blue title lettering across top part of cover, with 2 authors names at bottom also in dark blue, on a light lavender plain colour background

What is distinctive about Pentecostal Theology?

Mathew S Clark
May 30, 1983
wine red background with white and grey capital letters used on top for the main title, with below a silhouetted cut-out black-and-white photo of a poor white family standing in front of a smalll stone house. At the bottom of the book cover is a dark grey horizontal band with white lettering of the subtitle and the editor, Robert Morrell

White but poor: Essays on the History of Poor Whites in Southern Africa 1880-1940

Robert Morrell
June 30, 1996
Orange main title in capital letters at the top left of the cover, with a sepia brown collage in the background, showing a photo of a young white woman bottom left, and on the right, an artistic rendering of a African woman in traditional adornments.

Women, society and constraints: A collection of contemporary South African gender studies

Jeanette Malherbe, Marc Kleijwegt, Elize Koen
December 30, 2000
Plain black lettering of the main title at top, and authorname at bottom, on a plain light grey background

The writer in his time: Socio-economic influences in the literary work

P F D'Onofrio
October 30, 1984
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