Rosi’s Blog

This page is a work in progress. It’s going to link to some of my favourite books, sorted into different categories. You might even see the odd review here or there, if the mood takes me.

General

• Matter, Ian M Banks
• A Primate’s Memoir: Love, Death and Baboons in East Africa
• No Visible Horizon: Surviving the World’s Most Dangerous Sport
• The Undercover Economist

MMA and grappling

• Wrestling for Fighting: The Sport of Mixed Martial Arts
• Mixed Martial Arts: The Book of Knowledge, B.J. Penn

Physical training / strength and conditioning

• Functional Training for Sports: Superior Conditioning for Today’s Athlete

Sports therapy and osteopathy books

• Anatomy Trains
• Netter, Atlas of Human Anatomy

Psychology and philosophy books

• Stumbling on Happiness
• Happiness Hypothesis: Putting Ancient Wisdom to the Test of Modern Science
• On killing

Science and medicine

• Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers
• The Trouble with Testosterone
• Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science