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Being Mortal - Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
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Category: Science | 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
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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
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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
The Rules of Contagion: Why Things Spread and Why They Stop by Adam Kucharski; Francesca Barrie (Editor)
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Category: Science | Series: Wellcome Collection
The new science of contagion, and the surprising ways it shapes our lives and behaviour.
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
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