Books by Peter Horn

Autobiography. Peter Horn describes being raised in a small Yorkshire village at the tail end of the British Empire when horses and carts, and pigs in the public bar were normal.

The essays collected here are responses to books of poetry and prose published during the transition period from the apartheid regime of the mid-1980s to the first democratic election in South Africa in 1994. The volume comprises a variety of texts written during the crucial mid-1980s - the time of the Emergency and the height of oppression - up to and including the installation of the first freely elected South African government in 1994. In the years of anti-apartheid struggle, the immediate political conflict was pre-eminent in the minds of many poets but extended to broader concerns about race, writing and colonialism, such as the debate about the imbongi (African praise singer) as the true antecedent of the contemporary African poet. After the end of apartheid new challenges came to the South African book publishing industry and, thus, to South African writers, as they tried to make sense of the past and draw tentative lines into the future. The works of J. M. Coetzee, Njabulo Ndebele, Kelwyn Sole, Sandile Dikeni, Vincent Swart, Heather Robertson, Patrick Cullinan, Seitlhamo Motsapi, W. P. B. Botha and more are read against this changing social and political landscape.

Guiden Brænd igennem er skrevet for at give personer med talent, sociale færdigheder og faglige kompetencer mulighed for at vise deres personlige varedeklaration til andre, der derefter kan beslutte, om de vil drage nytte af den. Talent vil frem, men uden de rigtige værktøjer og den rette timing kan det være svært i den globale landsby, hvor trængslen på markedspladsen bliver større og større. Vores forudsætninger er ved at være så ens, at det, der adskiller os mest, er vores personlighed. I fremtiden vil netop personligheden ofte spille en vigtigere rolle end de faglige kompetencer. I hvert fald hvis vi hører til den gruppe, der har besluttet sig for at gøre lederkarriere. Guiden er en sammenfattet og opdateret udgave af Personlig branding, der udkom på Børsens Forlag i 2004. Den handler om, hvordan personer med karriereambitioner kan indfri dem professionelt ved at anvende personlig branding. Som sådan er der et strategisk fokus, men det er hverken bogens eller forfatterens udgangspunkt, at man kommer længst ved at agere strategisk over for alle mennesker til enhver tid.