Blood and Guts - A Short History of Medicine (Porter Roy)(Paperback / softback)

Blood and Guts - A Short History of Medicine (Porter Roy)(Paperback / softback)

Discusses about millennia of human ingenuity in the quest to cheat death. This book features various chapters that sum up one of these battlefields such as surgery, doctors, disease, hospitals, laboratories and the human body. It is suitable for those who are keenly aware of their own mortality and

Blood and Guts - A History of Surgery (Hollingham Richard (Author))(Paperback / softback)

Accompanying a BBC series, Blood and Guts is an incredible story of stolen corpses, medical fraud, lobotomized patients - and every now and then courageous advances that have saved the lives of millions around the world. You may think twice before going under the

The Cambridge History of Medicine (Porter Roy)(Paperback)

The Cambridge History of Medicine, first published in 2006, surveys the rise of medicine in the West from classical times to the present. Covering both the social and scientific history of medicine, this volume traces the chronology of key developments and events, while at the same time engaging

London - A Social History (Porter Roy)(Paperback / softback)

Looking at urban history, this work balances statistics with the words of historians, diarists and novelists, poets and churchmen such as: Pepys, Boswell, Fielding, Walpole, Blake, Mayhew, Wells, Woolf, and Spark. It is a celebration of the city and also an elegy for its decline, with statistics

Blood and Guts in High School (Acker Kathy)(Paperback / softback)

It Takes Blood and Guts (Skin)(Paperback / softback)

A memoir from Skin, lead singer of rock band Skunk

Short, Illustrated History of... Medicine (Miles John C.)(Paperback / softback)

A curated collection of the best examples of medical discoveries and inventions from

Short History Of Progress (Wright Ronald)(Paperback / softback)

Inspiring a documentary featuring Margaret Atwood, Stephen Hawking and Jane Goodall, A Short History of Progress examines the downside of human

Evil Families - A History of Bad Blood (Knight Martin)(Paperback / softback)

Warhammer - Blood Bowl: More Guts, More Glory! (Kyme Nick)(Paperback / softback)

Crunching tackles, bloody violence, horrible deaths - and that's just the referees The runaway smash-hit board game and videogame comes to comics Armor up and enter the most vicious and dangerous fantasy football tournament you will ever encounter Dive into no-holds barred violent sports action

Blood Rites - DI Kelly Porter Book Six (Lynch Rachel)(Paperback / softback)

Gold Rush - How I Found, Lost and Made a Fortune (Richards Jim)(Paperback / softback)

Gold Rush is a blood-and-guts treasure hunt - the ultimate adventure

Kashmir - The Case for Freedom (Roy Arundhati)(Paperback / softback)

Kashmir is one of the most protracted and bloody occupations in the world--and one of the most ignored. Under an Indian military rule that, at half a million strong, exceeds the total number of US forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, freedom of speech is non-existent, and human- rights abuses and

Mystery of the Exploding Teeth and Other Curiosities from the History of Medicine (Morris Thomas)(Paperback / softback)

Madness: A Brief History (Porter Roy)(Paperback)

Looking back on his confinement to Bethlem, Restoration playwright Nathaniel Lee declared: 'They called me mad, and I called them mad, and damn them, they outvoted me.' As Roy Porter shows in Madness: A Brief History, thinking about who qualifies as insane, what causes mental illness, and how such

Short History of Christianity (Blainey Geoffrey)(Paperback / softback)

A vivid, concise and balanced history of the world's largest religion, written for readers of all religious

Short History of Seafaring (Lavery Brian)(Paperback / softback)

White Blood: A History of Human Milk (Weaver Lawrence)(Paperback)

A groundbreaking history of human milk White Blood explores how the nature and properties of human breast milk were conceived within the fluctuating frameworks of distinct historical periods. For example, in the ancient world, human milk was thought to be blood diverted from the womb to the breast,

Flesh and Blood - A History of My Family in Seven Sicknesses (McGann Stephen)(Paperback / softback)

A uniquely personal and insightful delve into one man's family history, as seen through the prism of two-hundred years of medicine in the British

Railways of Peebles (Perkins Roy G.)(Paperback / softback)

This fascinating selection of photographs gives an insight into the history of the railways in and around Peebles over the last

Short History of Modern Angola (Birmingham Professor David)(Paperback / softback)

Angola of geopolitical interest and this offers a brief

Short History of Drunkenness (Forsyth Mark)(Paperback / softback)

Almost every culture on earth has drink, and where there's drink there's drunkenness. But in every age and in every place drunkenness is a little bit different. Tracing humankind's love affair with booze from our primate ancestors through to Prohibition, it answers every possible question:What did

Short History of Decay (Cioran E. M.)(Paperback / softback)

Short History of Lyme Regis (Fowles John)(Paperback / softback)