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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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
Author: Lindsey Fitzharris Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 The spellbinding story of a visionary British surgeon who changed medicine forever In The Butchering Art, historian Lindsey Fitzharris...
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...
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...
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...
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 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,...
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...
Still Alice
Author: Lisa Genova Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 A moving and insightful story of a woman with early onset Alzheimer's disease, now a major film starring Academy...
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...
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."...
The Empress and the English Doctor: How Catherine the Great defied a deadly virus
Author: Lucy Ward Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 A killer disease ... an all-powerful Empress ... an extraordinary encounter ... the astonishing true story. No disease sparked as much...
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 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...
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...
The Rules of Contagion: Why Things Spread--And Why They Stop
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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...
I Think You'll Find It's a Bit More Complicated Than That
Author: Ben Goldacre Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 The very best journalism from one of Britain's most admired and outspoken science writers, author of the bestselling Bad Science and...
Good Reasons for Bad Feelings: Insights from the Frontier of Evolutionary Psychiatry
Author: Randolph M. Nesse Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 A founder of the field of evolutionary medicine uses his decades of experience as a psychiatrist to provide...