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Crude: The Story of Oil by Sonia Shah
$24.95 AUD
Category: History
An elegantly written and gripping history of 'black gold', from its geological birth millions of years ago to its ascendancy as the indispensable ingredient of modern life - this is the whole story of crude oil.The story of oil is written on a time scale that humans can barely grasp, but it starts with ...Show more
Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years by Sonia Shah
$26.99 AUD
Category: Science | Reading Level: very good
Malaria is on the move. It already infects 300 million new people each year, killing nearly 1 million. With climate change it is moving into new regions of the world. We've known how to prevent this devastating disease for more than a century, so why aren't we doing more to eradicate it? Sonia Shah take ...Show more
Pandemic by Sonia Shah
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science
More than three hundred infectious diseases have emerged or reemerged in new territory during the past fifty years, and ninety percent of epidemiologists expect that one of them will cause a disruptive, deadly pandemic sometime in the next two generations. To reveal how that might happen, Sonia Shah tra ...Show more
The Body Hunters by Sonia Shah
$35.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
This explosive book reveals the unethical drug testing practices of the multinational pharmaceutical industry. In its quest to develop lucrative new drugs for the world's rich, the industry has turned away from the health needs of the world's poor. 90 per cent of the global medical budget takes aim at j ...Show more
The Body Hunters - Testing New Drugs on the World's Poorest Patients by Sonia Shah
$34.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Hailed by John le Carr as "an act of courage on the part of its author" and singled out for praise by the leading medical journals in the United States and the United Kingdom, The Body Hunters uncovers the real-life story behind le Carr 's acclaimed novel The Constant Gardener and the feature film based ...Show more
The Next Great Migration - The Beauty and Terror of Life on the Move by Sonia Shah
$29.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
'Rich with eclectic research and on-the-ground reporting, Shah's book presents us with a dazzlingly original picture of our relentlessly mobile species' NAOMI KLEIN'Fascinating . . . Likely to prove prophetic in the coming months and years' OBSERVER'A dazzling tour through 300 years of scientific histor ...Show more
The Next Great Migration - The Story of Movement on a Changing Planet by Sonia Shah
$22.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
'A dazzlingly original picture of our relentlessly mobile species' NAOMI KLEIN'Fascinating . . . Likely to prove prophetic in the coming months and years' OBSERVER'A dazzling tour through 300 years of scientific history' PROSPECT'A hugely entertaining, life-affirming and hopeful hymn to the glorious ada ...Show more
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