The importance of the first-year experience is now well recognised. This collection of papers makes a fascinating and important contribution to our understanding of students’ transition to higher education. This is a scholarly, engaging and illuminating text that is relevant, not only in the context of South Africa, but for anyone interested in student learning in the first year of university education.

- David Gosling, Plymouth University (UK)

Ronald Stevenson is a pianist and composer in whom virtuosity and musicality are paired in equal measure. A regular guest at the world's leading concert halls and academic institutions, Stevenson has played a major role in reclaiming for the repertoire the work of numerous composers. The present volume offers a wide selection of Stevenson’s writings: on his own works, on British music, and on the music of the Continental traditions.

Jac Conradie se intreerede as professor aan die Universiteit van Johannesburg het as titel "Die tand van die tyd" gehad. In daardie besonderse lesing het Jac sy kennis van die diachroniese en sinchroniese taalkunde op flambojante wyse uitgestal.

Die bydraes in hierdie bundel weerspieël iets van Jac se veelsydigheid en van sy impak op die akademie. Bydraes uit Europa, Noord-Amerika en Afrika deur taalkundiges, letterkundiges en historici getuig van die respek wat Jac oor ’n wye akademiese front afdwing. As die huldiging van 'n loopbaan, van 'n wetenskaplike, maar ook van 'n wellewende mens, kan hierdie bundel nie genoegsaam wees nie, maar dit is 'n aanduiding van die waardering en hoë agting wat akademici van oor die wêreld vir Jac het.

Refusal, Transition and Post-apartheid Law under editorship of Prof Karin van Marle is indeed long overdue. As some of the authors in the relevant contributions to this publication rightly point out, Van Marle's call for a 'jurisprudence of generosity', enabled through an ‘ethics of refusal’, signals a new shift in South African jurisprudence.

Through the lens of Van Marle's ethics of refusal and her jurisprudence of generosity, the articles present fresh and meaningful interpretations in respect of a range of very relevant topics ranging from property theory and a rethinking of human rights, to the role of forgiveness and the dangers inherent in modern technology.