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Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
The struggle to perform well is universal, but nowhere is this drive to do better more important that in medicine. In his new book, Atul Gawande explores grippingly how doctors...
Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End
Author: Atul Gawande Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 For most of human history, death was a common, ever-present possibility. It didn't matter whether you were five or fifty -...
Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
This is a stunningly well-written account of the life of a surgeon: what it is like to cut into people's bodies and the terrifying - literally life and death -...
The Checklist Manifesto: How To Get Things Right
Today we find ourselves in possession of stupendous know-how, which we willingly place in the hands of the most highly skilled people. But avoidable failures are common, and the reason...
Fatherland: A Memoir of War, Conscience and Family Secrets
A New Yorker staff writer, investigates his grandfather, a Nazi Party Chief, in this "unflinching, gorgeously written, and deeply moving exploration of morality, family, and war" (Patrick Radden Keefe, author...
Fatherland: A Memoir of War, Conscience and Family Secrets
A New Yorker staff writer, investigates his grandfather, a Nazi Party Chief, in this "unflinching, gorgeously written, and deeply moving exploration of morality, family, and war" (Patrick Radden Keefe, author...
You Can Stop Humming Now: A Doctor's Stories of Life, Death, and in Between
$12.00 AUD
Author: Daniela Lamas Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 For readers of Atul Gawande and Jerome Groopman, a book of beautifully crafted stories about what life is like for patients...
What the Trees See: A Wander Through Millennia of Natural History in Australia
Author: Dave Witty Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 The trees around us - some we may walk past every day - tell a story. The mallee box by the...
Wanderings In New South Wales, Batavia, Pedir Coast Singapore, And China: Being The Journal Of A Naturalist In Those Countries, During 1832, 1833, And 1834 (Vol. Ii)
$50.00 AUD
Edition: facsimile ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedAt a time when the world's most remote corners were only beginning to yield their...