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Dark Matter: The New Science of the Microbiome
From a world-leading microbiome scientist and surgeon with over two decades of experience comes Dark Matter, a pioneering guide to hacking your microbiome for a healthier life. Our microbiome -...
Skagboys
Mark Renton has it all- he's good-looking, young, with a pretty girlfriend and a place at university. But there's no room for him in the 1980s. Thatcher's government is destroying...
Friendaholic: Confessions of a Friendship Addict
THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, NOW WITH AN EXTRA CHAPTER! 'Essential reading' Guardian 'A joyful read' Sunday Times 'Disarmingly honest' Daily Mirror 'Bravely revealing' Bernardine Evaristo 'Filled with relatable insights'...
Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors
In these groundbreaking studies, Sontag strips away the myths that surround the two most stigmatized diseases of our time Sontag wrote Illness as Metaphor in 1978, while suffering from breast...
Pathogenesis: How germs made history
Humans did not make history - we played host. This major new history of the world, a Radio 4 Book of the Week, has had unanimous praise from critics and...
Is It Tomorrow Yet?: Paradoxes of the Pandemic
One of our most scintillating public intellectuals explores the political paradoxes of the pandemic and helps us think our way through it 'We are able to imagine anything because we...
No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality
'The book is great: moving but also properly funny.' Hadley Freeman, The Guardian'A memoir with an unusual sense of purpose. . . pithy, highly readable' The TimesThe entire world knows...
Taking Care: The Story Of Nursing And Its Power To Change Our World
"DiGregorio's storytelling is pitch-perfect; narrative and nursing, she understands, come from the same place and both are concerned with a deep understanding of character and plot....This is a brilliant book,...
Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Coronaviruses and
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Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice"[A] grounded, bracingly intelligent study." --NaturePrizewinning science journalist Sonia Shah presents a startling examination of...
The Quarantine Atlas: Mapping Global Life Under COVID-19
In April 2020, Bloomberg CityLab journalists Laura Bliss and Jessica Martin asked readers to submit homemade maps of their lives during the coronavirus pandemic. The response was illuminating and inspiring....
Undoing Drugs: How Harm Reduction is Changing the Future of Drugs and
Drug overdoses now kill more Americans annually than guns, cars or breast cancer. But we have tried to solve this national crisis with policies that only made matters worse. In...
Friendaholic: Confessions of a Friendship Addict
THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, NOW WITH AN EXTRA CHAPTER!'Essential reading' Guardian'A joyful read' Sunday Times'Disarmingly honest' Daily Mirror 'Bravely revealing' Bernardine Evaristo'Filled with relatable insights' Daily Mail'Funny, moving, helpful...
Two Sisters
'Tender, vivid and achingly sad' GUARDIAN, BOOK OF THE YEARTWO SISTERS publishes on the 30th anniversary of Blake Morrison's ground-breaking book And When Did You Last See Your Father? which...
Two Sisters
'Tender, vivid and achingly sad' GUARDIAN, BOOK OF THE YEARTWO SISTERS publishes on the 30th anniversary of Blake Morrison's ground-breaking book And When Did You Last See Your Father? which...
Together: Loneliness, Health and What Happens When We Find Connection
'The most important book you'll read this year' - DANIEL H. PINK, author of DriveThe world seems more connected than ever, and yet even before the world went into lockdown,...
Beneath the Skin: Love Letters to the Body by Great 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 Next Pandemic: On the Front Lines Against Humankind's Gravest Dangers
An inside account of the fight to contain the world's deadliest diseases,and the panic and corruption that make them worseThroughout history, humankind's biggest killers have been infectious diseases: the Black...