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A Heavy Reckoning: War, Medicine and Survival in Afghanistan and Beyond by Emily Mayhew
$32.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Wellcome
What happens when you reach the threshold of life and death - and come back? As long as humans have lived together on the planet, there have been wars, and injured soldiers and civilians. But today, as we engage in wars across the globe with increasingly sophisticated technology, we are able to bring pe ...Show more
Adventures in Human Being by Gavin Francis
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Wellcome Ser.
Sunday Times bestsellerWe have a lifetime's association with our bodies, but for many of us they remain uncharted territory. In Adventures in Human Being, Gavin Francis leads the reader on a journey through health and illness, offering insights on everything from the ribbed surface of the brain to the s ...Show more
Being Mortal - Illness Medicine & What by Atul Gawande
$27.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Wellcome | Reading Level: very good
Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming birth, injury, and infectious disease from harrowing to manageable. But in the inevitable condition of aging and death, the goals of medicine seem too frequently to run counter to the interest of the human spirit. Nursing homes, preoccupied with safet ...Show more
Being Mortal - Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Wellcome Collection Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
For most of human history, death was a common, ever-present possibility. It didn't matter whether you were five or fifty - every day was a roll of the dice. But now, as medical advances push the boundaries of survival further each year, we have become increasingly detached from the reality of being mort ...Show more
Beneath the Skin - Great Writers on the Body by Ned Beauman; Naomi Alderman; Thomas Lynch (Introduction by); Philip Kerr; A. L. Kennedy
$27.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | Series: Wellcome Ser.
Our bodies all have stories to tell - and who better to tell them than fifteen of the world's finest writers? Buried beneath layers of flesh, our hearts pump, our lungs inflate, our kidneys filter. These organs, and others, are essential to our survival but remain largely unknown to us. In Beneath the S ...Show more
Book of Human Emotions by Tiffany Watt Smith
$22.99 AUD
Category: Health & Self Help | Series: Wellcome Ser.
Recent research suggests there are only six basic emotions. But if this makes you feel uneasy, suspicious and maybe even a little bereft, The Book of Human Emotions is for you. From anger to wanderlust, each entertaining and informative alphabetical entry reveals the surprising connections and fascinati ...Show more
Book of Human Emotions: An Encyclopaedia of Feeling from Anger to Wanderlust by Tiffany Watt-Smith
$29.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | Series: Wellcome
Recent research suggests there are only six basic emotions. But if this makes you feel uneasy, suspicious and maybe even a little bereft, The Book of Human Emotions is for you. From anger to wanderlust, each entertaining and informative alphabetical entry reveals the surprising connections and fascinati ...Show more
Chasing the Sun: How the Science ... by Linda Geddes
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Wellcome Ser.
The full story of how our relationship with the sun shapes our health, productivity and moodOur ancestors constructed vast monuments like Stonehenge and Pyramids of Egypt and Central America to keep track of the sun and celebrate the annual cycle of death and rebirth. The returning sun heralds new begin ...Show more
Chasing the Sun - The New Science of Sunlight and How It Shapes Our Bodies and Minds by Linda Geddes
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Wellcome Collection
The full story of how our relationship with light shapes our health, productivity and mood.'A sparkling and illuminating study, one of those rare books that could genuinely improve your life' Sunday TimesSince the dawn of time, humans have worshipped the sun. And with good reason. Our biology is set up ...Show more
Eat Me: A Natural and Unnatural History of Cannibalism (HB) by Bill Schutt
$32.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Wellcome
Cannibalism. It's the last, greatest taboo: the stuff of urban legends and ancient myths, airline crashes and Captain Cook. But while we might get a thrill at the thought of the black widow spider's gruesome mating habits or the tragic fate of the nineteenth-century Donner Party pioneers, today cannibal ...Show more
Living with Buildings - And Walking with Ghosts - on Health and Architecture by Iain Sinclair
$22.99 AUD
Category: Architecture and Urbanism | Series: Wellcome Collection
'A remarkable book; surprisingly gripping and often very moving ... at once disorientating and illuminating.' - Robert Macfarlane. We shape ourselves, and are shaped in return, by the walls that contain us. Buildings affect how we sleep, work, socialise and even breathe. They can isolate and endanger us ...Show more
Living with Buildings - Health and Architecture by Iain Sinclair
$29.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | Series: Wellcome Ser.
'A remarkable book; surprisingly gripping and often very moving ... stories weave and unweave over the book's course, patterning thought into a complex built environment, at once disorientating and illuminating.' Robert MacfarlaneWe shape ourselves, and are shaped in return, by the walls that contain us ...Show more