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Head On: An All Black's memoir of rugby, dementia, and the hidden cost
An All Black's memoir of rugby, dementia, and the hidden cost of success 'The best sports book I have read in decades' - Kevin Norquay, Stuff 'Startlingly honest' - Phil...
Body: Effective tools to heal pain, restore health and prevent injury
The Sunday Times bestseller with all the strategies you need to prevent pain and fuel your body to its fullest health potential. 'James is incredible - he has played a...
The New Media Epidemic: The Undermining of Society, Family, and Our
Dr Jean-Claude Larchet, renowned for his examinations of the causes and consequences of spiritual and physical illness, here tackles the pressing question of the societal and personal effects of our...
The Plague Year: America in the Time of Covid
A definitive account of the shocking American response to Covid-19, from the acclaimed author of The Looming Tower 'In the twenty-first century, infectious disease seemed like a nuisance, not like...
Suburban Xanadu: The Casino Resort on the Las Vegas Strip and Beyond
Urban gambling, linked to poverty, crime and corruption, was once considered a blight on US cities. Gambling then followed the exodus of Americans into the suburbs after World War II...
Milk of Paradise: A History of Opium
'Lucy Inglis has done a wonderful job bringing together a wide range of sources to tell the history of the most exciting and dangerous plants in the world. Telling the...
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,...
The End of Innocence: Britain in the Time of AIDS
Published to coincide with World AIDS Day, this book looks at a decade of AIDS in Britain. As well as the 8000 who have died, some 20,000 are infected with...
Covid By Numbers: Making Sense of the Pandemic with Data
A vital and concise data-driven analysis of the COVID-19 pandemic around the world How many people have died because of COVID-19? Which countries have been hit hardest by the virus?...
Our Kind of People: Thoughts on the HIV/AIDS epidemic
HIV/AIDS has profoundly affected life in sub-Saharan Africa. It has been reported as one of the most destructive diseases in recent memory - tearing apart communities and ostracising the afflicted....
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....
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...
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...