Heritage Collection

30 Titles

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

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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 JA Louw on his 75th birthday

Rosalie Finlayson (ed)
June 30, 1999
Hazy greyscale image of thorn tree branch at top fading into grey at bottom, with book title lettering in white and orange

African Proverbs Series: Volume 3

Albert T Dalfovo (ed), John S Mbiti (ed)
December 31, 1997
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
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
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
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
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
Red main title lettering on right, with an airplane maked with the South African flag colours, is flying downwards towards another globe. Ths Author's name is in white at the bottom, right. The book subtitle is in blue lettering on the bottom right of the cover.globe

The New Great Trek: The story of South Africa's white exodus

Johann Van Rooyen
June 30, 2000
Beige background, with brown outline drawing of a classical style building (with overlay in centre of oval cameo head-and-shoulders sepia-tone photo of central figure of the book, Cross) with brown lettering at top (title) and bottom (author name)

Ours is the frontier: A life of GW Cross, Baptist pioneer

K E Cross
January 1, 1986
Main book title in mustard brown script lettering on a blue-toned photo of a woman gazing downwards. The author's name is smaller and on the bottom left-hand side.

The Piety of Afrikaans Women

Christina Landman
June 30, 1994
Brown lettering on yellow background, with book title at top, and graph line horizontally across, with a brown line drawing of the scales of justice and a line drawing of a scientist holding in one hand a test tube while peering directly into its contents. The author's name is placed at the bottom right.

The Right to Life: Issues in Bioethics

W S Vorster
June 30, 1988
Deep pink background with white lettering for title and author's name, with a stylised white outline image of an adult reaching down one hand to help a child to climb up a white staircase.

The Self-actualising Educand

J D Vrey
June 30, 1979
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
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
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
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
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