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Dianne Low Reviews More Bird Calls for Beginners by Doug Newman http://book.co.za/xK03

 
 
 

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  • Resensies: drie wortels vir drie tuinboeke

    by Jani on 19 Feb 2010   |    facebook twitter digg yahoo delicious stumbleupon google

    Tuinmaak in Suid-Afrika deur die jaarImmergroenHealing Trees & Plants of the LowveldUitspraak: groen wortels

    Dit is nogal ’n uitdaging om ’n tuinboek te publiseer wat werklik al die uiteenlopende streke van Suid-Afrika in gedagte hou.

    Marianne Alexander se Tuinmaak in Suid-Afrika deur die jaar slaag in ’n groot mate daarin om iets vir tuiniers oor die land heen te bied.

    Die boek bied ’n maand-vir-maand-gids van wat in die tuin gebeur, tuintake vir die spesifieke maand, wat om in die kombuis- en vrugtetuine te doen, die geurtuin, plae wat in daardie tyd beheer moet word en wat daardie maand blom.

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  • Give Yourself a Boost with Eating for Sustained Energy 4

    by Chris on 18 Feb 2010   |    facebook twitter digg yahoo delicious stumbleupon google

    Eating for Sustained Energy 4Eet vir Volgehou Energie 4Coming this March from Tafelberg

    Eating for Sustained Energy 4 was written in response to a genuine need among Gabi and Liesbet’s patients for a practical, easy way to use slow release (low GI) carbohydrates in everyday meals.

    The glycemic index (Gl) is a physiological measure of how a carbohydrate food affects blood glucose levels. It is a solid nutritional tool that works best to regulate blood glucose levels, resulting in sustained energy all day long. The more Liesbet and Gabi applied it, the more they realised its beneficial impact on their patients’ lives.

    Not only does using the GI markedly improve blood glucose control in those with diabetes, it also curtails hunger in slimmers, combats fatigue, helps children with concentration problems and enhances sports performance while it combats high blood pressure and longstanding excessive weight. In short, everybody should know how to use the GI as a means of attaining optimum health, which can lead to an energetic life.

    Also available in Afrikaans as Eet vir Volgehoue Energie 4.

    About the author

    Gabi Steenkamp has been in private practice for over twenty five years. She currently practises in Johannesburg, and is regarded as an extremely practical and down-to-earth dietician. She has also written various articles and presented workshops and lectures on nutrition-related topics.

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  • Robin Goode's Football Muti Aims to Help Africa's Children

    by Thando on 16 Feb 2010   |    facebook twitter digg yahoo delicious stumbleupon google

    Football MutiMoney is dust when you can make a ball from rags tied together with string; when you can draw Adidas stripes on your feet to emulate your favourite footballer; when you can make goal posts from branches and when your football pitch is an open plain in Africa.

    Just in time for the 2010 World Cup, Robin Goode’s photographic documentation, Football Muti seeks to show the inherent purity of the beautiful game by capturing, at grassroots level, Africa’s relationship with this most popular of sports.

    Goode has realised that the beauty and purity of the game can be found, far from the money and celebrity it sometimes brings to mind, in the children of the poorest places on earth. Muti, both a social documentary and photographic journey, highlights not only Africa’s passion for football, but also the maladies that beset the continent, and football’s potential role as a balm for those maladies.

    The Muti project aims at raising money to supply children’s charities with much-needed medicine.

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  • New: Debunking Delusions: The TAC campaign against AIDS denialists by Nathan Geffen

    by Sophy on 10 Feb 2010   |    facebook twitter digg yahoo delicious stumbleupon google

    Debunking Delusions“Between these covers you will find all the passion and intelligence Nathan Geffen devoted to the fight against quackery in South Africa. The Mbeki government’s march of folly is fully exposed here. One hopes that this book will serve, not only as a record, but as a lesson.” – Jonny Steinberg

    One of the great, iconic struggles for social justice in the 21st century has been the campaign of the TAC against state-supported Aids denialism in South Africa. This struggle between activists, scientists and health workers, on the one hand, and a strange alliance of dissidents, quacks and political leaders, on the other, is here recounted in absorbing and dramatic detail for the first time by an insider.

    In Debunking Delusions, Nathan Geffen, one of the TAC leaders, describes how early on in its life the organisation discovered that the greatest obstacle to AIDS treatment was in fact the South African government’s denialism. Not only did this extend to a reluctance to provide antiretroviral treatment to AIDS patients but also to support of a host of quacks and denialists who operated freely in the country to sow suspicion and confusion about the efficacy of standard medical treatment of AIDS. The most notorious of these were the German vitamin seller, Dr Matthias Rath, who along the way sued The Guardian of London and lost his case, and the Dutch nurse Tine van der Maas. It was the TAC that, as a result of a court case it brought against Rath, managed to stop his operations in South Africa; and it was the TAC, once again through legal means, that put pressure on the South African government to roll out an antiretroviral programme throughout the country.

    Geffen describes not only the TAC’s response to the puzzling intransigence of government and the spellbinding nonsense of dissidents, but the thought, strategy and discussion that lay behind the organisation’s major decisions. The story of the TAC’s campaign is one of the great triumphs of citizen activism for social justice and human rights.

    “An intellectually incisive, engagingly written history of a policy calamity – and the courageous activism it unleashed – that has important implications for our country’s understanding of its past, as well as its future course.” – Edwin Cameron

    About the author

    Nathan Geffen has been one of the leaders of TAC since 2000. His work has involved confronting the AIDS denialist policies of Thabo Mbeki and Manto Tshabalala-Msimang. He was also the editor of TAC’s magazine Equal Treatment. He has written extensively on AIDS and human rights. He previously co-authored two chapters in Edwin Cameron’s book Witness to Aids, winner of the Sunday Times Alan Paton Award. This is Geffen’s first full book.

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  • Dr Eve bied aan om Tiger Woods te help

    by Amanda on 18 Jan 2010   |    facebook twitter digg yahoo delicious stumbleupon google

    Tiger WoodsAuthor, mother, sexologist, Marlene Wasserman

    The PillowbookAgeing and SexualityMarlene Wasserman, of te wel Dr Eve, is sekerlik Suid-Afrika se mees bekende seksterapeut. Derduisende aanhangers se sy het hulle huwelike en verstand gered met haar raad en goeie wenke. Sy het glo ook hul lewenstyle verbeter met boeke soos The Pillowbook en Ageing and Sexuality.

    Wie dan beter om vir Tiger Woods deur sy troebel toestand te help? Dr Eve het die afgelope naweek ‘n ope aanbod van hulp aan Woods gemaak in Rapport:

    “Tiger, indien jy in Afrika is… kom na vore, gesels oor alles waardeur jy gaan. Gebruik die geleentheid om mense op te voed oor jou toestand en word ’n rolmodel vir mans.”

    Dít is die ope uitnodiging wat dr. Marlene Wasserman aan die bekende gholfspeler rig. Sy is ook bekend as dr. Eve, een van die land se bekendste seksterapeute.

    Wasserman sê sy kan nie voorbly met navrae oor seksverslawing nie sedert gerugte die ronde begin doen het dat die sportster in Montrose Place in Bischopscourt, Kaapstad, behandel word.

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  • Dr Eve On Reclaiming Power in Your Relationship

    by Amanda on 15 Jan 2010   |    facebook twitter digg yahoo delicious stumbleupon google

    Ageing and SexualityDr Eve blogs about an experience that could have come straight as an object lesson out of her book, Ageing and Sexuality:

    Her name was Joy. She wore a red dress. I was in a red dress. The other women wore black. It was New Year’s Eve, Miami. An evening of oysters, champagne and a burning desire to get home. I danced the night away. I met Joy over our red dresses and prawns. We exchanged names and the fact that we both have a love for dancing in that nameless, senseless place in which you know you can share a profound time together and will never see each other ever again. We danced together, we danced with our partners, but kept returning to dance together, two ageing women in their red dresses.

    After we dutifully kissed our partners, with an understanding and few words, we both simultaneously slipped off our shoes and walked into the warm swimming pool in our red dresses – and swam and laughed. I felt the exhiliration, the freedom to express myself as I choose, to feel the joy in my body. With no words I kissed Joy farewell, knowing we had shared a special and unique evening and that was good enough. Dripping wet I jumped on the bus to return to the condo, pack and catch my plane home.

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  • Mom Pass the Broccoli: Cari Corbet-Owen's Tips on How to Get Kids to Eat Right

    by Amanda on 24 Dec 2009   |    facebook twitter digg yahoo delicious stumbleupon google

    Child Eating

    Mom Pass the BroccoliSometimes it seems that children instinctively gravitate to food that’s bad for them – you never have to beg them to eat ice cream or chocolate or chips. Vegetables are a different story entirely. Cari Corbet-Owen has good news for desperate parents in her book Mom, Pass the Broccoli: How to Empower Your Child with Healthy Eating Habits for Life.

    The holidays are especially tempting times – they can devolve into a month of pure sugar overload! So how to cope?

    On her blog, Corbet-Owen shares some of her tips from the book:

    If you’re looking for idea on children eating healthy, you’ve come to the right place. It’s a subject close to my heart.

    No matter where I’ve done workshops, the most common question I get from parents revolves around concerns about their childrens eating. Everywhere I go I hear about finicky eaters, obese children or children who are underweight and I sense the desperation of parents wishing they knew what was best for their children.

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  • Three Carrots: Sue Oosthuizen Reviews Trespass, The Writing Circle and The Griqua's Apprentice

    by Jani on 23 Dec 2009   |    facebook twitter digg yahoo delicious stumbleupon google

    TrespassThe Writing CircleThe Griqua's ApprenticeVerdict: a triple carrot feast for three BOOK SA members

    Cross the searing emotional wrench of Pauline Smith with Kazuo Ishiguro’s Remains of the Day, and you’re more or less in the 1950s Cape Town that writer and medical doctor – Garisch, has created for the middle-aged Phyllis.

    Her life ruined by a family from hell who horribly mishandled her falling pregnant at the age of 16, Phyllis, like Ishiguro’s butler, has submerged herself in a life of service.

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