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Being Mortal - Illness Medicine & What by Atul Gawande
$27.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Wellcome | Reading Level: very good
Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming birth, injury, and infectious disease from harrowing to manageable. But in the inevitable condition of aging and death, the goals of medicine seem too frequently to run counter to the interest of the human spirit. Nursing homes, preoccupied with safet ...Show more
Being Mortal - Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
$24.99 AUD
Category: Health & Wellbeing | Series: Wellcome Collection Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
For most of human history, death was a common, ever-present possibility. It didn't matter whether you were five or fifty - every day was a roll of the dice. But now, as medical advances push the boundaries of survival further each year, we have become increasingly detached from the reality of being mort ...Show more
Book of Human Emotions: An Encyclopaedia of Feeling from Anger to Wanderlust by Tiffany Watt-Smith
$29.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Wellcome
Recent research suggests there are only six basic emotions. But if this makes you feel uneasy, suspicious and maybe even a little bereft, The Book of Human Emotions is for you. From anger to wanderlust, each entertaining and informative alphabetical entry reveals the surprising connections and fascinati ...Show more
Medieval Bodies: Life, Death and Art in the Middle Ages by Jack Hartnell
$24.99 AUD
Category: Medieval | Series: Wellcome Collection
A SUNDAY TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEARJust like us, medieval men and women worried about growing old, got blisters and indigestion, fell in love and had children. And yet their lives were full of miraculous and richly metaphorical experiences radically different to our own, unfolding in a world where d ...Show more
Michael Rosen's Book of Play: Why Play Really Matters by Michael Rosen; Francesca Barrie (Editor); Charlotte Trounce (Illustrator); Kirty Topiwala (Editor)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Children's Reference | Series: Wellcome Collection | Reading Level: 6.5 Wellbeing
Today, we don't get nearly enough play in our lives. At school, kids are drilled on exams, while at home we're all glued to our phones and screens. Former children's laureate and bestselling author, Michael Rosen, is here to show us how to put this right - and why it matters so much for creativity, resi ...Show more
Schadenfreude - The Joy of Another's Misfortune by Tiffany Watt Smith
$24.99 AUD
Category: Psychology | Series: Wellcome Ser.
An entertaining and insightful exploration of schadenfreude: the deliciously dark and complex joy we've all felt, from time to time, at news of others' misfortunes. You might feel schadenfreude when... the boss calls himself "Head of Pubic Services" on an important letter. a cool guy swings back on ...Show more
The Rules of Contagion: Why Things Spread - and Why They Stop by Adam Kucharski
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Wellcome Collection
The bestselling - and hugely timely - guide to the science of contagion, revised and updated to address Covid-19. 'Astonishingly bold' - Daily Mail 'It is hard to imagine a more timely book...much of the modern world will make more sense having read it.' - The Times We live in a world that's more interc ...Show more
The Rules of Contagion: Why Things Spread and Why They Stop by Adam Kucharski; Francesca Barrie (Editor)
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Wellcome Collection
The new science of contagion, and the surprising ways it shapes our lives and behaviour.
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