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Being Mortal - Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
28.00 NZD
Category: Health | 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
Medieval Bodies: Life, Death and Art in the Middle Ages by Jack Hartnell
33.00 NZD
Category: History | 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
Schadenfreude - The Joy of Another's Misfortune by Tiffany Watt Smith
25.00 NZD
Category: Gift | Series: Wellcome Collection
A hilarious quest to understand life's ultimate guilty pleasure.
The War of Nerves: Inside the Cold War Mind by Martin Sixsmith
55.00 NZD
Category: No Category | 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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