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Ouch!: Why Pain Hurts, and Why it Doesn't Have To
Author: Margee Kerr Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Pain seems like a fairly straightforward experience - you get hurt and it, well, hurts. But how would you...
The Rules of Contagion: Why Things Spread--And Why They Stop
$15.00
Author: Adam Kucharski Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 One of the Best Books of 2020 -- Financial Times One of the "Most 2020 Books of 2020" -- Washington Post...
Words Fail Us: In Defence of Disfluency
Author: Jonty Claypole Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 In an age of polished TED talks and overconfident political oratory, success seems to depend upon charismatic public speaking. But what...
Our Malady: Lessons in Liberty and Solidarity
Author: Timothy Snyder Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 In a time of pandemic and tyranny Our Malady is an urgent diagnosis of the vital link between health...
Crossing into Medicine Country: A Journey in Native American Healing
Author: David Carson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Here is David Carson's personal story of his initiation into the healing rites of the Choctaw with medicine woman Mary Gardener....
A Good Time to Be Born: How Science and Public Health Gave Children a Future
Author: Perri Klass (New York University) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 Only one hundred years ago, even in the world's wealthiest nations, children died in great numbers?of diarrhea, diphtheria,...
Superbugs: Deadly Microbes and the Extraordinary Race for a Cure: A Tale of Human Ingenuity
$12.00
Author: Matt McCarthy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 International Bestseller "An amazing, informative book that changes our perspective on medicine, microbes and our future." --Siddhartha Mukherjee, MD,...
Catch Your Breath: The Secret Life of a Sleepless Anaesthetist
Author: Ed Patrick Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 'Brilliantly funny.' - Matt Lucas 'You have to read this book.' - Tim Harford 'It's funny, touching and gobsmacking in equal...
The Wine-Dark Sea Within: A Turbulent History of Blood
Author: Dhun Sethna Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 Inspired by Homer's description of the ebb and flow of the "wine dark sea," the ancient Greeks conceived a back-and-forth movement...