Lost in the Christmas Rush? Zebra Press Highlights Three Great Reads from 2011

Zebra Press highlights three great reads that you might have missed during the Christmas rush:

Tim Noakes is one of the world’s leading authorities on the science behind sport and a successful sportsman in his own right.

Through a lifetime of research, he has developed key scientific concepts in sport that have not only redefined the way elite athletes and teams approach their professions, but challenged conventional global thinking in these areas.

In Challenging Beliefs Noakes gives his views on everything from the myths perpetuated by the sports-drink industry and the dangers of overtraining and overdrinking to the prevalence of banned substances and the need to make rugby a safer sport.

The teams and athletes with whom Noakes has worked make fascinating backdrops to these topics, highlighting the importance of science in sport in human terms.

In providing an intimate look at the golden threads running through Noakes’s life and career, this truly remarkable book reveals the groundbreaking theories and principles generated by one of the greatest minds in the history of sports science.

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• Why the Springboks lost the 2011 RWC
• How a low-carb; high protein diet will improve your life

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“Missing & Murdered is very different from anything published before in this field. It is a gripping read that will appeal to the expert and layperson alike, and it proves that forensic anthropology is flourishing in southern Africa. In fact, South Africa forensic anthropologist and the fascinating cases they have investigated have a great deal to offer the broader field of forensic science elsewhere in the world.” – Kathy Reichs

What can human bones tell us of a person’s life, or even death? How can information from bones solve mysteries both modern and ancient? And what makes the study of skeletonised human remains so imperative in southern Africa?

The answers to these and other questions are contained in Missing & Murdered, which lays bare the fascinating world of forensic anthropology. As the popularity of TV programmes such as the CSI trilogy and Silent Witness attests, people are fascinated by forensic science as a means of solving crimes, and in this book Alan G Morris follows the pathway into forensics via the fields of anthropology and anatomy.

He makes the practice of forensic anthropology, the skills base of skeletal biology and the study of archaeological skeletons hugely accessible to the layperson in a series of fascinating cases, from muti murders and political killings to the work of the Missing Persons Task Team.

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“A compelling account of adventure and endurance. I read it in one sitting” – Mike Nicol

In 1973, a young South African named Robert Fridjhon stole a yacht in Hawaii and set out to cross the Pacific solo during hurricane season. He had become involved with Russian gangsters in Los Angeles and witnessed a crime, putting his life in danger and forcing him to flee.

In Caterpillar Seas, Fridjhon tells his dramatic story for the first time. He describes the perils that he faced at sea: caught in violent storms, trapped in the doldrums with dwindling supplies, losing his mainmast and running aground on a reef, as well as contracting scurvy and fever. He recalls the months of solitude and despair, and describes his encounters with remote Pacific islanders and his return to civilisation in Fiji, where the consequences of his crime would catch up with him.

Compelling, entertaining and written with the insight of an experienced sailor, Caterpillar Seas is an astonishing tale of adventure, endurance and courage.

Book details

• Challenging Beliefs: Memoirs of a Career by Tim Noakes, with Michael Vlismas
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  EAN: 9781770221468
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• Missing and Murdered: A Personal Adventure in Forensic Anthropology by Alan G Morris
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  EAN: 9781770223615
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• Caterpillar Seas by Robert Fridjhon
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  EAN: 9781770221840
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