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Living with Buildings - And Walking with Ghosts - on Health and Architecture by Iain Sinclair
$26.00 NZD
Category: Architecture & Interiors | Series: Wellcome Collection
'A remarkable book; surprisingly gripping and often very moving ... at once disorientating and illuminating.' - Robert Macfarlane. We shape ourselves, and are shaped in return, by the walls that contain us. Buildings affect how we sleep, work, socialise and even breathe. They can isolate and endanger us ...Show more
Living with Buildings - Health and Architecture by Iain Sinclair
$7.91 NZD
Category: Architecture & Interiors | Series: Wellcome Ser.
'A remarkable book; surprisingly gripping and often very moving ... stories weave and unweave over the book's course, patterning thought into a complex built environment, at once disorientating and illuminating.' Robert MacfarlaneWe shape ourselves, and are shaped in return, by the walls that contain us ...Show more
Medieval Bodies: Life, Death and Art in the Middle Ages by Jack Hartnell
$55.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: Wellcome Ser.
Dripping with blood and gold, fetishized and tortured, gateway to earthly delights and point of contact with the divine, forcibly divided and powerful even beyond death, there was no territory more contested than the body in the medieval world. In Medieval Bodies, art historian Jack Hartnell uncovers th ...Show more
Medieval Bodies: Life, Death and Art in the Middle Ages by Jack Hartnell
$24.99 NZD
$33.00 (24% off)
Category: No Category | 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
Michael Rosen's Book of Play: Why Play Really Matters by Michael Rosen; Francesca Barrie (Editor); Charlotte Trounce (Illustrator); Kirty Topiwala (Editor)
$33.00 NZD
Category: Parenting | Series: Wellcome Collection | Reading Level: 6.5 Wellbeing
Today, we don't get nearly enough play in our lives. At school, kids are drilled on exams, while at home we're all glued to our phones and screens. Former children's laureate and bestselling author, Michael Rosen, is here to show us how to put this right - and why it matters so much for creativity, resi ...Show more
Notes on Blindness An Experience of Blindness by John Hull
$24.99 NZD
Category: Science | Series: Wellcome
'It's a gift. Not a gift I want, but it is a gift' Days before the birth of his first son, writer and academic John M. Hull started to go blind. He would lose his sight entirely, plunged into darkness, unable to distinguish any sense of light or shadow. Isolated and claustrophobic, he sank into a deep d ...Show more
Schadenfreude - The Joy of Another's Misfortune by Tiffany Watt Smith
$5.34 NZD
Category: Humour | Series: Wellcome Ser.
An entertaining and insightful exploration of schadenfreude: the deliciously dark and complex joy we've all felt, from time to time, at news of others' misfortunes. You might feel schadenfreude when... the boss calls himself "Head of Pubic Services" on an important letter. a cool guy swings back on ...Show more
Schadenfreude - The Joy of Another's Misfortune by Tiffany Watt Smith
$22.99 NZD
Category: Humour | Series: Wellcome Collection
A hilarious quest to understand life's ultimate guilty pleasure.
Sex by Numbers: The Statistics of Sexual Behaviour by David Spiegelhalter
$35.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Series: Wellcome Ser.
Whatever society we live in, and however open-minded we like to think we are, when it comes to our sex lives we all like to keep a few secrets. But this makes the jobs of sexologists - professionals who study sexual behaviour - pretty difficult. Luckily, David Spiegelhalter, Professor of Risk at Cambrid ...Show more
Shapeshifters: On Medicine & Human Change by Gavin Francis
$40.00 NZD
Category: Science, Technology & Nature | Series: Wellcome Ser.
To be alive is to be in perpetual change: growing, healing, learning, aging. In Shapeshifters, award-winning writer and doctor Gavin Francis considers the transformations in mind and body that continue across the arc of human life. Some of these changes we have little choice about. We can't avoid pubert ...Show more
Shapeshifters - On Medicine and Human Change by Gavin Francis
$24.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Series: Wellcome Collection
'Stylish and exhilarating... from a wide-ranging mind and a profound humanity... inspiring' Hilary MantelUnreliable bodies and shifting symptoms are all in a day's work for a GP.In his years of practising, Gavin Francis has seen it all: the promising law student trapped under the spell of anorexia; the ...Show more
Sound: A Story of Hearing Lost and Found by Bella Bathurst; Wellcome Collection Staff (Contribution by)
$24.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Wellcome Ser.
'By the summer of 1998, it had become clear that there was something wrong with my hearing. It didn't happen suddenly but softly, so softly I almost wasn't aware of it happening; sound seemed to have stolen away ...'For twelve years, Bella Bathurst was deaf. She missed the punchlines and the jokes, avoi ...Show more