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The ultimate visual guide to Samurai history and culture! The Samurai are continuously celebrated as the greatest warriors the world has ever seen. They ruled Japan for centuries, finally uniting...

The groundbreaking idea that some systems actually benefit from shocks, and how to expose ourselves to them - now in paperback In The Black Swan Taleb outlined a problem, and...

'A twist to rival Gone Girl left me gasping' KATY BRENT -------------- Meet Emma. Emma is sick. She can't work because of a neurological condition, so is stuck in her...

The exciting new rural crime novel from the bestselling author of Broken Bay and The Creeper. When a massive wind farm is erected on its outskirts, a small Victorian town...

The story of how three individuals conquered the plague of the sea. A lively recounting of how three determined individuals overcame the constraints of 18th century thinking to solve the...

In a world increasingly preoccupied by borders, bridges celebrate the possibility of connection, allowing the flow of goods, people and ideas. Bridges are among our grandest physical structures with the...

This is a classic account by one of the officers who took part in one of the great escapades of WWII. In 1943, W. Stanley Moss and Patrick Leigh-Fermor, both...

A brave and uplifting story about friendship and acceptance from award-winning Nova Weetman. Two very different Grade 6 girls meet in their school sick bay. Meg is a loner. Grieving...

This study of illness in heads of government between 1901 and 2007 considers how illness and therapy - both physical and mental - affect the process of government and decision-making,...

An impressive debut from a major new voice in American fiction. Days after his ex-girlfriend's suicide, Wayne flies to San Francisco for her funeral. When he learns that she aborted...

We have a lifetime's association with our bodies, but for many of us they remain uncharted territory. In Adventures in Human Being, Gavin Francis leads the reader on a journey...

Author: Kenneth F. Kiple EditorBinding: HardbackPublished: Cambridge University Press, 1993Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerThe monumental The Cambridge World History Of Human Disease presents a comprehensive...

'Elegant, erudite and entertaining ... a superbly detailed picture of an architectural era' The Times'A magnificent monument in itself to a fine architectural writer' Simon Heffer, TelegraphBritish architecture between the...

Bestselling author and clinician Gabor Mate proposes a radical new theory on the ADD epidemic Scattered Minds explodes the myth of attention deficit disorder as genetically based - and offers...

Miraculous Sickness deals with society's views and treatment of schizophrenia from ancient times to modern day. From the cure for demon possession to the recovery model, Miraculous Sickness sheds light...

In this ground-breaking debut, Charli Clement combines their own experiences alongside unique short profiles from individuals with chronic illness, to provide an intimate and insightful look at the complexities of...

Since 2004 Gavin Stamp, one of Britain's most eminent and readable architectural historians, has written a monthly column for Apollo, the esteemed architecture and fine art magazine. The subject is...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxing Markings: No markings "The Ill-Tempered Clavichord" is a collection of twenty-three humorous essays by S. J. Perelman, drawn...

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An Observer, New Statesman, Financial Times, Irish Times and Scotsman 2021 Non-Fiction Highlight'Searing yet beautiful ... less a hot take that an astute manifesto for what matters most in life,...

The book titled British Bombers of World War I in Action by the author Peter G Cooksley. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...

Author: Emiko Ohnuki-TierneyBinding: HardbackPublished: Cambridge University Press, 1981Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Sun-faded DJ.This ethnographic study chronicles the intricate relationship between health, sickness, and cultural meaning...

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On March 27, 2003, President George W. Bush said, aAmerica has learned a lot about Tony Blair over the last weeks . . . and weare proud to have him...

Robin thought he knew everything there was to know about gorillas before he bought Gavin. He thought they were just big and scary chest-thumpers! But Gavin was different, and he...

Author: Gavin YoungBinding: HardbackPublished: Hutchinson., 1981Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Some minor tears in DJ and foxing to page edges.This captivating travelogue Slow Boats...

Author: Richard FiennesBinding: HardbackPublished: -Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Good, price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerMan, Nature & Disease by Richard Fiennes presents a compelling examination of the intricate connections between human...

Author: C. G. N. Mascie-TaylorBinding: HardbackPublished: Oxford University Press, 1993Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis academic work presents a comprehensive examination of disease...

Author: Brendan CassidyBinding: HardbackPublished: HARVEY MILLER PUBLISHERS, 2011Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis scholarly biography The Life & Letters Of Gavin Hamilton: Artist & Art Dealer In Eighteenth-Century...

Building on the success of the first two editions, the author has undertaken a complete revision of the book whilst retaining its readable style, and has also taken the opportunity...

Journalist Nathan Dunne was living the life of his dreams in London until, one evening, he jumped into a lake for a swim. When he emerged, his identity was simply...

Dr. Savage, sage prophet of the airwaves, has been diagnosing liberal mental illness for more than a decade. Now, in his third and most insightful book, he strikes at the...

Sarah Waters meets The Girls in this haunting, wickedly perceptive debut set in an all-girl school and seeking to answer the timeless question- Who has authority over a woman's body?...

First published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

'A masterpiece of popularization' Times Literary Supplement 'A fascinating account, based on objective scientific research, of the ways in which mental states affect the individual's liability to disease... Martin is...

Joanne Baldwin is a Weather Warden. The Wardens Association has been around pretty much forever. Some Wardens control fire, others control earth, water or wind - and the most powerful...

The pharmaceutical industry is broken. From the American hedge fund manager who put the price of an AIDS pill up from $13.50 to $750 overnight to the children's cancer drugs...

This is a classic account by one of the officers who took part in one of the great escapades of WWII. In 1943, W. Stanley Moss and Patrick Leigh-Fermor, both...

Author: Sam Byers Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 The new novel from the author of Perfidious Albion - a darkly comic and profoundly affecting novel about resistance, radicalism and...

This memoir is the story of the first politician in Australia to publicly admit to having a mental illness - bipolar mood disorder. Neil Cole was a lawyer, a Melbourne...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Fair - Bumping on spine and corners. Rubbed edges.At the intersection of medicine and modernist literature lies one of the most compelling and...