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Being Mortal - Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
$22.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction | Series: Wellcome Collection Ser.
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
Eat Me: A Natural and Unnatural History of Cannibalism (HB) by Bill Schutt
$32.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction | Series: Wellcome
Cannibalism. It's the last, greatest taboo: the stuff of urban legends and ancient myths, airline crashes and Captain Cook. But while we might get a thrill at the thought of the black widow spider's gruesome mating habits or the tragic fate of the nineteenth-century Donner Party pioneers, today cannibal ...Show more
Forensics: The Anatomy of Crime by Val McDermid
$22.99 AUD
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
Medieval Bodies: Life, Death and Art in the Middle Ages by Jack Hartnell
$49.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Wellcome Ser.
Dripping with blood and gold, fetishized and tortured, gateway to earthly delights and point of contact with the divine, forcibly divided and powerful even beyond death, there was no territory more contested than the body in the medieval world. In Medieval Bodies, art historian Jack Hartnell uncovers th ...Show more
Schadenfreude - The Joy of Another's Misfortune by Tiffany Watt Smith
$24.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction | 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; Francesca Barrie (Editor)
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction | Series: Wellcome Collection
The new science of contagion, and the surprising ways it shapes our lives and behaviour.
The Voices Within by Charles Fernyhough
$34.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction | Series: Wellcome
We all hear voices. Ordinary thinking is often a kind of conversation, filling our heads with speech: the voices of reason, of memory, of self-encouragement and rebuke, the inner dialogue that helps us with tough decisions or complicated problems. For others - voice-hearers, trauma-sufferers and prophet ...Show more
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