Modern Death: How Medicine Changed the End of Life (Warraich Haider)(Paperback)

Modern Death: How Medicine Changed the End of Life (Warraich Haider)(Paperback)

'Warraich's elegant and poignant book takes us on an unforgettable journey....He succeeds in humanizing a complex topic.' --Siddhartha Mukherjee, New York Times bestselling author of The Gene There is no more universal truth in life than death. No matter who you are, it is certain that one day you

How Death Becomes Life - Notes from a Transplant Surgeon (Mezrich Joshua (Author))(Paperback / softback)

A beautifully written and compelling memoir of a largely unexplored area of medicine: transplant surgery. | Leading transplant surgeon Dr Joshua Mezrich creates life from loss, moving organs from one body to another. In this intimate, profoundly moving work, he examines more than one hundred years of

It Tolls for Thee: A Guide to Celebrating and Reclaiming the End of Life (Morton Tom)(Paperback)

A funeral celebrant's story about how celebrating death, and creating personalised space for grief, can enrich lives and give meaning to death. When journalist Tom Morton suffered a heart attack in 2015, his close encounter with death led him on an extraordinary journey into the world of the dead

Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Skloot Rebecca)(Paperback / softback)

The internationally bestselling story of a young woman whose death in 1951 changed medical science for ever

Seed Collectors (Thomas Scarlett)(Paperback / softback)

The seductive new novel from the bestselling author of The End of Mr. Y, full of life, death, desire and family

How the World Works: Medicine - From early healing to the miracles of modern medicine (Rooney Anne)(Paperback / softback)

Shi'i Islam (Haider Najam)(Paperback)

During the formative period of Islam, in the first centuries after Muhammad's death, different ideas and beliefs abounded. It was during this period of roughly three centuries that two particular intellectual traditions emerged, Sunnism and Shi'ism. Sunni Muslims endorsed the historical caliphate,

How to Die: An Ancient Guide to the End of Life (Seneca)(Pevná vazba)

Timeless wisdom on death and dying from the celebrated Stoic philosopher Seneca 'It takes an entire lifetime to learn how to die,' wrote the Roman Stoic philosopher Seneca (c. 4 BC-65 AD). He counseled readers to 'study death always,' and took his own advice, returning to the subject again and

Confessions of a Funeral Director: How Death Saved My Life (Wilde Caleb)(Paperback)

'I tremble to say there's good in death, because I've looked in the eyes of the grieving mother and I've seen the heartbreak of the stricken widow, but I've also seen something more in death, something good. Death's hands aren't all bony and cold.'--from Confessions of a Funeral Director We are a

The End of Fashion: How Marketing Changed the Clothing Business Forever (Agins Teri)(Paperback)

A solid, hard-hitting, and uncompromising journalistic look at the fashion industry.The time when 'fashion' was defined by French designers whose clothes could be afforded only by elite has ended. Now designers take their cues from mainstream consumers and creativity is channeled more into

How I Changed My Life in a Year! (Wilson Shelley)(Paperback)

Discover How to Change Your Life in a YearStraight-talking, honest and with touches of humour, Shelley Wilson shares her journey as she sets out to prove that being a 40-something, single mum with back fat and grey hairs isn't the end of life as we know it.From fighting flab to writing a 50,000

Empire of Chance: How Probability Changed Science and Everyday Life (Gigerenzer Gerd)(Paperback)

This book tells how quantitative ideas of chance have transformed the natural and social sciences as well as everyday life over the past three centuries. A continuous narrative connects the earliest application of probability and statistics in gambling and insurance to the most recent forays into

Kardashian Kulture: How Celebrities Changed Life in the 21st Century (Cashmore Ellis)(Paperback)

Kardashian Kulture uses the royal family of celebrity culture to scrutinize wider understandings of 21st century life. Examining the worlds of business, politics, technology and entertainment, Ellis Cashmore shows how fundamental changes to the way we live have been prompted by celebrities

No Way But Gentlenesse - A Memoir of How Kes, My Kestrel, Changed My Life (Hines Richard)(Paperback / softback)

Caring for the Dying - The Doula Approach to a Meaningful Death (Fersko-Weiss Henry)(Paperback / softback)

A gentle guide for end of life care aimed at families and

The Emerald Planet: How Plants Changed Earth's History (Beerling David)(Paperback)

Plants have profoundly moulded the Earth's climate and the evolutionary trajectory of life. Far from being 'silent witnesses to the passage of time', plants are dynamic components of our world, shaping the environment throughout history as much as that environment has shaped them. In The Emerald

Modern Book of the Dead: A Revolutionary Perspective on Death, the Soul, and What Really Happens in the Life to Come (Tompkins Ptolemy)(Paperback)

The Death of Robin Hood (Donald Angus)(Paperback)

'I charge you, Sir Alan Dale, with administering my death. At the end of the game, I would rather die by your hand than any other' England rebels War rages across the land. In the wake of Magna Carta, King John's treachery is revealed and the barons have risen against him once more. Fighting with

The Denial of Death (Becker Ernest)(Paperback)

Winner of the Pulitzer prize in 1974 and the culmination of a life's work, The Denial of Death is Ernest Becker's brilliant and impassioned answer to the why of human existence. In bold contrast to the predominant Freudian school of thought, Becker tackles the problem of the vital lie -- man's

Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer: Essays (Berry Wendell)(Paperback)

A brief meditation on the role of technology in his own life and how it has changed the landscape of the United States from 'America's greatest philosopher on sustainable life and living' (Chicago Tribune). 'A number of people, by now, have told me that I could greatly improve things by buying a

Fragments of an Infinite Memory: My Life with the Internet (Renouard Mael)(Paperback)

A deeply informed, yet playful and ironic look at how the internet has changed human experience, memory, and our sense of self, and that belongs on the shelf with the best writings of Roland Barthes and Jean Baudrillard. 'One day, as I was daydreaming on the boulevard Beaumarchais, I had the

A Wedding at Mulberry Lane (Clarke Rosie)(Paperback)

Love, marriage, birth, death and betrayal in the East-End of London make up life in Mulberry Lane, perfect for fans of Nadine Dorries, Cathy Sharp and Donna Douglas. Maureen Jackson knew life as a trainee nurse wouldn't be easy, but she didn't expect her hospital to be badly bombed on her first

The Emergency Medicine Trauma Handbook (Koyfman Alex)(Paperback)

Trauma is a leading cause of death and disability around the world and the leading cause of death in those aged under 45 years. Conditions such as airway obstruction, hemorrhage, pneumothorax, tamponade, bowel rupture, vascular injury, and pelvic fracture can cause death if not appropriately

The Death and Life of Bobby Z: A Thriller (Winslow Don)(Paperback)