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Being Mortal - Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
$24.99 NZD
Category: Mind, Body & Spirit | 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
Forensics: The Anatomy of Crime by Val McDermid
$28.99 NZD
Category: True Crime | Series: Wellcome Collection
The dead talk. To the right listener, they tell us all about themselves: where they came from, how they lived, how they died - and who killed them. Forensic scientists can unlock the mysteries of the past and help justice to be done using the messages left by a corpse, a crime scene or the faintest of h ...Show more
Schadenfreude - The Joy of Another's Misfortune by Tiffany Watt Smith
$22.99 NZD
Category: Mind, Body & Spirit | Series: Wellcome Collection
A hilarious quest to understand life's ultimate guilty pleasure.
The Rules of Contagion: Why Things Spread - and Why They Stop by Adam Kucharski
$24.99 NZD
Category: Science & Nature | 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 War of Nerves: Inside the Cold War Mind by Martin Sixsmith
$55.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: Wellcome Collection
A major new history of the Cold War: exploring the conflict through the minds of the people who lived it. More than any other conflict, the Cold War was fought on the battlefield of the human mind. And, nearly thirty years since the collapse of the Soviet Union, its legacy still endures - not only in o ...Show more
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