Signs of Life - To the Ends of the Earth with a Doctor by Stephen Fabes
$28.00 NZD
Category: Adventure
The cycling doctor: Round the world with a stethoscope.
Empire of Pain -The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe
$40.00 NZD
Category: Investigative Journalism
The highly-anticipated portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, by the prize-winning, bestselling author of Say Nothing. The Sackler name adorns the walls of many storied institutions - Harvard; the Metropolitan Museum of Art; Oxford; the Louvre. They are one of the richest families in the w ...Show more
Perfection: The Life and Times of Sir William Manchester by Earle Brown
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
From country boy to internationally renowned plastic surgeon, from junior medical officer to Lieutenant Colonel in just four years, "Perfection: the life and times of Sir William Manchester" covers a life of achievement and service. Hailing from small beginnings in rural Waimate, William Manchester beca ...Show more
Heavy Light - A Journey Through Mania, Madness and Healing by Horatio Clare
$40.00 NZD
Category: Wellbeing & Inspiration
A 'Book to look out for in 2021' in the ObserverHeavy Light is the story of a breakdown: a journey through mania, psychosis and treatment in a psychiatric hospital, and onwards to release, recovery and healing.After a lifetime of ups and downs, Horatio Clare was committed to hospital under Section 2 of ...Show more
The Premonition: A Pandemic Story by Michael Lewis
$55.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
From the global bestselling author of The Big Short, the gripping story of the maverick scientists who hunted down Covid-19 'It's a foreboding,' she said. 'A knowing that something is looming around the corner. Like how when the seasons change you can smell Fall in the air right before the leaves change ...Show more
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History by John M. Barry
$26.00 NZD
Category: History
THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Everything you need to know about one of the deadliest outbreaks in human history' Bill Gates 'Easily our fullest, richest, most panoramic history of the subject' New York Times Book Review In 1918, the world faced the deadliest pandemic in human history. What can th ...Show more
How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics by Michael Pollan
$29.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Could psychedelic drugs change our worldview? One of America's most revered writers takes us on a mind-altering journey to the frontiers of human consciousness. 'It's as if we made entering gothic cathedrals illegal, or museums, or sunsets!' When LSD was first discovered in the 1940s, it seemed to resea ...Show more
The Invention of Medicine: From Homer to Hippocrates by Robin Lane Fox
$55.00 NZD
Category: History
Medicine is one of the great fields of achievement of the Ancient Greeks. Hippocrates is celebrated worldwide as the father of medicine and the Hippocratic Oath is admired throughout the medical profession as a founding statement of ethics and ideals. In the fifth century BC, Greeks even wrote of medici ...Show more
The Rules of Contagion: Why Things Spread and Why They Stop by Adam Kucharski; Francesca Barrie (Editor)
$40.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Series: Wellcome Collection
The new science of contagion, and the surprising ways it shapes our lives and behaviour.
Healing Lives hamlin gashe by Sue Williams
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir | Series: CATHERINE HAMLIN
Two incredible women, an unlikely friendship, and a united mission to save the lives of some of the world's poorest and most desperate women. Healing Lives reveals the untold tale of Mamitu Gashe, Dr Catherine Hamlin's protégée, and the inspiring almost 60-year friendship between the two women.In 1962, ...Show more
The Diabetes Handbook: Prevention, Diagnosis, and Treatment by DK
$30.00 NZD
Category: Medical and Nursing
If you or a loved one is living with type 1 or type 2 diabetes, you need this friendly guide to managing health, diet, physical activity, and treatment. This book is packed with simple, easy-to-understand explanations of how diabetes works and practical, positive advice for preventing or living with it ...Show more
All That Remains - A Life in Death by Sue Black
$28.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
For fans of Caitlin Doughty, Mary Roach, and CSI shows, a renowned forensic scientist on death and mortality. Dame Sue Black is an internationally renowned forensic anthropologist and human anatomist. She has lived her life eye to eye with the Grim Reaper, and she writes vividly about it in this book, ...Show more