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How to Argue With a Racist: History, Science, Race and Reality
Author: Adam Rutherford Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK --- THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Seriously important' BILL BRYSON 'A book...
Ouch!: Why Pain Hurts, and Why it Doesn't Have To
Author: Margee Kerr Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Pain seems like a fairly straightforward experience - you get hurt and it, well, hurts. But how would you describe it?...
Good Reasons for Bad Feelings: Insights from the Frontier of Evolutionary Psychiatry
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Author: Randolph M. Nesse Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 A founder of the field of evolutionary medicine uses his decades of experience as a psychiatrist to provide a much-needed...
How to Build a Healthy Brain: Reduce stress, anxiety and depression and future-proof your brain
Author: Kimberley Wilson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 'A practical manual for your brain.' - Dr Megan Rossi, author of Eat Yourself Healthy A groundbreaking science-based guide...
Entangled Life: The phenomenal Sunday Times bestseller exploring how fungi make our worlds, change our minds and shape our futures
Author: Merlin Sheldrake Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 A mind-altering adventure through the world of fungi for readers of Robert Macfarlane and Other Minds The smash-hit Sunday...
Elastic: Flexible Thinking in a Time of Change
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Author: Leonard Mlodinow Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 The best-selling author of Subliminal and The Drunkard's Walk teaches you how to tap into the hidden power of your brain....
The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read (and Your Children Will Be Glad That You Did): THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
Author: Philippa Perry Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 The #1 Sunday Times bestselling guide to healthier, happier relationships by a leading psychotherapist How can we have better...
Plagues and Pandemics: Black Death, Coronaviruses and Other Killer Diseases Throughout History
Author: Douglas Boyd Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 216 All you need for a plague to go pandemic are population clusters and travellers spreading the bacterial or viral pathogens. Many...
Moonshot: Inside Pfizer's Nine-month Race to Make the Impossible Possible
Author: Albert Bourla Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 The exclusive, first-hand, behind-the-scenes story of how Pfizer raced to create the first Covid-19 vaccine, told by Pfizer's CEO...
Outbreaks and Epidemics: Battling infection from measles to coronavirus
Author: Meera Senthilingam Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 For centuries mankind has waged war against the infections that, left untreated, would have the power to wipe out...
When Breath Becomes Air
Author: Paul Kalanithi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 For readers of Atul Gawande's Being Mortal and Henry Marsh's Do No Harm, an unforgettably powerful and heart-breaking book...
Lifespan: Why We Age - and Why We Don't Have To
Author: Dr David A. Sinclair Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 In this paradigm-shifting book from acclaimed Harvard Medical School doctor and one of TIME magazine's 100 most...
I Contain Multitudes : The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
Author: Ed Yong Format: Paperback Number of Pages: Your body is teeming with tens of trillions of microbes. It's an entire world, a colony full of life. In other words,...
A Mind Unraveled: A Memoir
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Author: Kurt Eichenwald Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 The compelling story of an acclaimed journalist and New York Times bestselling author's ongoing struggle with epilepsy--how, through personal resilience and...
The Inevitable: Dispatches on the Right to Die
Author: Katie Engelhart Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Meet Adam. He's twenty-seven years old, articulate and attractive. He also wants to die. Should he be helped? In The Inevitable,...
Superbugs: Deadly Microbes and the Extraordinary Race for a Cure: A Tale of Human Ingenuity
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Author: Matt McCarthy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 International Bestseller "An amazing, informative book that changes our perspective on medicine, microbes and our future." --Siddhartha Mukherjee, MD, New York...
Heart: A History
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Author: Sandeep Jauhar Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 The bestselling author of Intern and Doctored tells the story of the thing that makes us tick For centuries, the human...
Cured: The Power of Our Immune System and the Mind-Body Connection
Author: Dr Jeff Rediger Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 A pioneering Harvard psychiatrist uncovers the lost connections between the mind, body and immune system When it comes...
Stand Up Straight! A History of Posture
Author: Sander L. Gilman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 424 Our bodies are not fixed; they change over time. They vary with alterations in diet, exercise, and illness, and shift...
The Genius Within: Unlocking Your Brain's Potential
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Author: David Adam Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Following the success of The Man Who Couldn't Stop, David Adam now expounds on the latest research into intelligence, revealing how...
Fragile Lives: A Heart Surgeon's Stories of Life and Death on the Operating Table
Author: Stephen Westaby Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY PRIZE THE SUNDAY TIMES NO.2 BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE BMA PRESIDENT'S AWARD 2017 An...
How The Brain Lost Its Mind: Sex, Hysteria and the Riddle of Mental Illness
Author: Dr Allan Ropper Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 In 1882, Jean-Martin Charcot was the premiere physician in Paris, having just established a neurology clinic at the...
The Gene: An Intimate History
Author: Siddhartha Mukherjee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 608 The Gene is the story of one of the most powerful and dangerous ideas in our history. ** NEW...
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 Spike: An Epic Journey Through the Brain in 2.1 Seconds
Author: Mark Humphries Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 232 The story of a neural impulse and what it reveals about how our brains work We see the last...
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
Author: John M Barry Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 In 1918, the world faced the deadliest pandemic in human history. What can the story of the so-called...
Until Proven Safe: The History and Future of Quarantine
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Author: Nicola Twilley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley's Until Proven Safe tracks the idea of quarantine around the globe, through time and space, chasing...
The Female Brain
Author: Louann Brizendine, MD Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 The Female Brain is a thought-provoking, accessible and fun guide that will help women to better understand themselves...
The Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years
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Author: Sonia Shah Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 309 [A] tour-de-force. --The New York Times "The Fever is a vivid and compelling history with a message that's entirely relevant today."...
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,...
The Gendered Brain: The new neuroscience that shatters the myth of the female brain
Author: Gina Rippon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 An agenda-setting, myth-debunking book by neuroscientist Professor Gina Rippon that demolishes the idea of biology as destiny and the...
Casanova's Guide to Medicine: 18th Century Medical Practice
Author: Lisetta Lovett Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Giacomo Casanova's (1725-1798) reputation as libertine has sadly eclipsed his talents as scholar, linguist, prolific writer and manque doctor. Fortunately for...
We Are Our Brains: From the Womb to Alzheimer's
Author: Dick Swaab Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 Everything we think, do and refrain from doing is determined by our brain. From religion to sexuality, it shapes...
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...
The Pandemic Century: A History of Global Contagion from the Spanish Flu to Covid-19
Author: Mark Honigsbaum Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 A timely and critically acclaimed 100-year history of pandemics, by medical historian and viral TED talk presenter - with...
Recovery: The Lost Art of Convalescence
Author: Gavin Francis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 When it comes to illness, sometimes the end is just the beginning. Recovery and convalescence are words that exist at the...
The Premonition: A Pandemic Story
Author: Michael Lewis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 From the global bestselling author of The Big Short, the gripping story of the maverick scientists who hunted down Covid-19 'It's...
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...
How Contagion Works: Science, Awareness and Community in Times of Global Crises - The short essay that helped change the Covid-19 debate
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Author: Paolo Giordano Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 80 'The literature of the time after begins here' EVENING STANDARD 'A jolt of brevity and simplicity' THE TIMES 'In...
Fat: the Secret Organ: The surprising science behind the most misunderstood part of the body
Author: Mariette Boon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 The International Bestseller, as featured in The Times Fat is a vital yet hugely under-rated organ. Fat has become...
Anatomica: The Complete Reference to the Human Body and How it Works
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The Demon in the Machine: How Hidden Webs of Information Are Finally Solving the Mystery of Life
Author: Paul Davies Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 An astonishing new contribution to our ongoing quest for the secret of life itself When Darwin set out to...
The Science of Meditation: How to Change Your Brain, Mind and Body
Author: Daniel Goleman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 A fascinating and practical guide from two New York Times bestselling authors, backed by state-of-the-art scientific research. Drawing on...
Beneath the Skin: Love Letters to the Body by Great Writers
Author: Ned Beauman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Buried beneath layers of flesh, our hearts pump, our lungs inflate, our kidneys filter. These organs, and others, are...
Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End
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The Cure for Good Intentions: A Doctor's Story
Author: Sophie Harrison Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 'When I was twenty-eight I trained as a doctor. Initially everyone was interested. Amazing! people said, when I told them. What...
Super Self-Care: How to Find Lasting Freedom from Addiction, Toxic Relationships and Dysfunctional Lifestyles
Author: Christopher Dines Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 Christopher Dines has profound experience of recovery and personal growth; he struggled with drug addiction for most of his young adult...