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A timely and critically acclaimed 100-year history of pandemics, by medical historian and viral TED talk presenter - with a new chapter on COVID-19.
A Financial ...
ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES'S 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2020
ONE OF VANITY FAIR'S BEST BOOKS OF 2020
New York Times bestselling ...
'A history that makes perfect sense when the sky is falling down.' - The Sunday Times
The Sixties, for many, was a time of new ideas ...
Even the greatest minds in medicine have been terribly, terribly wrong. The inventor of the lobotomy won a Nobel prize in medicine for destroying his ...
Why is our sense of smell so under-appreciated? We tend to think of smell as a vestigial remnant of our pre-human past, doomed to gradual ...
Rise and Fall opens with the Akkadian Empire, which ruled over a vast expanse of the region of ancient Mesopotamia, then turns to the immense ...
Rummage tells the overlooked story of our throwaway past. Emily Cockayne extracts glittering gems from the rubbish pile of centuries past and introduces us to ...
To my knowledge...no one...has ever written a comprehensive book dealing with physicians through the ages and recounting their history in a coherent fashion ...
During a single winter, between November 1932 and April 1933, so much went wrong: Hitler came to power; Japan invaded Jehol and left the league ...
Toxic is the first comprehensive history of nerve agents, tracing the spread of these terrible weapons from their Nazi origins to Russia's 2018 deployment ...
A captivating and incisive account of New Zealand's Land Wars - from a Maori perspective.
From the earliest days of European settlement in New Zealand ...
From relics of Georgian empire-building and slave-trading, through Victorian London's barged-out refuse to 1980s fly-tipping and the pervasiveness of present-day plastics, RAG AND BONE ...
Discover the story of the disease that devastated the Victorian population, and brought about major changes in sanitation. Drawing on the latest scientific research and ...
This book features various accounts of a cholera outbreak in West London that killed over 500 people in ten days during the late summer of ...
This book considers the impact of psychology on world events, looking at how mental illness and personality disorders have affected history. How have mental illness ...
