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The Invisible Rainbow: A History of Electricity and Life by Arthur Firstenberg
RRP: $37.03$21.02'This seminal book...will transform your understanding ...of the environmental and health effects of electricity and radio frequencies' Paradigm Explorer 'Firstenberg is a pioneer in the sense that Rachel Carson was a pioneer.' Chellis Glendinning,... -
Rites of Passage: Death and Mourning in Victorian Britain by Judith Flanders 9781509816972
RRP: $48.75$33.99'Nobody knows more about everyday life in Victorian Britain than Judith Flanders' - Douglas Robert-Fairhurst, author of Metamorphosis and The Turning PointIn Rites of Passage, acclaimed historian Judith Flanders deconstructs the intricate, fascinating,... -
Ending Parkinson's Disease: A Prescription for Action by Bastiaan R. Bloem
RRP: $29.23$19.11In this "must-read" guide (Lonnie Ali), four leading doctors and advocates offer a bold action plan to prevent, care for, and treat Parkinson's disease-one of the great health challenges of our time.Brain diseases are now the world's leading source of... -
Rational Recovery: The New Cure for Substance Addiction by Jack Trimpey
RRP: $37.03$22.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780671528584Author Jack TrimpeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Pocket BooksPublisher Simon & Schuster -
Sedated: How Modern Capitalism Created our Mental Health Crisis by James Davies 9781786499875
RRP: $21.43$14.27A provocative and shocking look at how western society is misunderstanding and mistreating mental illness. Perfect for fans of Empire of Pain and Dope Sick.In Britain alone, more than 20% of the adult population take a psychiatric drug in any one year... -
This Book Will Change Your Mind About Mental Health: A journey into the heartland of psychiatry by Nathan Filer
RRP: $21.43$14.27From the creator of the hit podcast WHY DO I FEEL?'I cannot recommend it highly enough.' Caitlin Moran'Brims with compassion and wit.' Cathy Rentzenbrink'Absolutely blew me away.' Jo Brand'Brilliant . . . I love it.' Phillippa Perry'I have never read a... -
Pathogenesis: How germs made history by Jonathan Kennedy
RRP: $48.75$34.36A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEKA TIMES SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEARA SUNDAY TIMES SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR'Powerfully argued... Fascinating and pacy' Sunday Times, Book of the Week'Superbly written... sure to please readers of Yuval Noah Harari or Rutger... -
Pure, White and Deadly: How Sugar Is Killing Us and What We Can Do to Stop It by John Yudkin
RRP: $21.43$15.15Sugar. It is killing us.Why do we eat so much of it?What are its hidden dangers?In 1972, when British scientist John Yudkin first proved that sugar was bad for our health, he was ignored by the majority of the medical profession and rubbished by the food... -
Cured: The Power of Our Immune System and the Mind-Body Connection by Dr Jeff Rediger
RRP: $21.43$16.52'Ground-breaking. Everyone should read this book' Bessel van der Kolk, author of The Body Keeps the ScoreWhen it comes to understanding the connection between our mental and physical health, we should be looking at the exceptions, not the rules.Dr Jeff... -
Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany by Norman Ohler
RRP: $21.43$15.15THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'The most brilliant and fascinating book I have read in my entire life' Dan Snow'A huge contribution... remarkable' Antony Beevor, BBC RADIO 4'Extremely interesting ... a serious piece of scholarship, very well researched' Ian... -
How to Survive a Plague: The Story of How Activists and Scientists Tamed AIDS by David France
RRP: $29.23$21.18The riveting, powerful and profoundly moving story of the AIDS epidemic.Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-FictionWinner of The Green Carnation Prize for LGBTQ literatureWinner of the Lambda Literary Award for LGBT non-fictionShortlisted for the... -
Drugs without the hot air: Making Sense of Legal and Illegal Drugs by David Nutt
RRP: $29.23$22.37The dangers of illegal drugs are well known and rarely disputed, but how harmful are alcohol and tobacco by comparison? The issue of what a drug is and how we should live with them affects us all: parents, teachers, users - anyone who has taken a... -
The Health Gap: The Challenge of an Unequal World by Michael Marmot
RRP: $25.33$17.73'Punchily written ... He leaves the reader with a sense of the gross injustice of a world where health outcomes are so unevenly distributed' Times Literary Supplement 'Splendid and necessary' Henry Marsh, author of Do No Harm, New Statesman There... -
Lessons from the Covid War: An Investigative Report by The Covid Crisis Group
RRP: $33.13$22.50Our national leaders have drifted into treating the pandemic as though it were an unavoidable natural catastrophe, repeating a depressing cycle of panic followed by neglect. So a remarkable group of practitioners and scholars from many backgrounds came... -
NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and How to Think Smarter About People Who Think Differently by Steve Silberman
RRP: $33.13$22.58Winner of the 2015 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-FictionShortlisted for the Wellcome Book PrizeA Sunday Times and New York Times bestsellerForeword by Oliver SacksWhat is autism: a devastating developmental condition, a lifelong disability, or a naturally... -
Ageless: The New Science of Getting Older Without Getting Old by Andrew Steele
RRP: $21.43$14.64'A stunner ... If you haven't got this book in your house, I don't know why' Chris Evans 'A startling wake-up call . . . Writing with the vim of a Bill Bryson and the technical knowledge of a scientist, Steele gives us a chance to grasp what's at... -
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic by David Quammen
RRP: $25.33$17.73Read this gripping, timely book about the transmission of deadly viruses from animal to human populations, and how we can fight the current Covid-19 pandemic.WITH A NEW AFTERWORD ON CORONAVIRUSAs globalization spreads and as we destroy the ancient... -
Anatomy Of An Epidemic by Robert Whitaker
RRP: $33.13$22.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307452429Author Robert WhitakerFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc)Publisher... -
Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors by Susan Sontag
RRP: $25.33$17.73Sontag wrote Illness as Metaphor in 1978, while suffering from breast cancer herself. In her study she reveals that the metaphors and myths surrounding certain illnesses, especially cancer, add greatly to the suffering of the patients and often inhibit... -
Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis by Annie Proulx 9780008534394
RRP: $33.13$22.37A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week 'A subject that could not be more important. A compact classic!' Bill McKibben 'I learned something new - and found something amazing - on every page' Anthony Doerr, author of All the Light We Cannot... -
The Autumn Ghost: How the Battle Against a Polio Epidemic Revolutionized Modern Medical Care by Hannah Wunsch
RRP: $44.83$30.15"A perfectly pitched medical mystery that will captivate you from page one."-Wes Ely, MD, MPH, author of Every Deep-Drawn Breath, winner of the 2022 Christopher Award for Literature.A suspenseful, authoritative account of how the battle against a... -
Lies My Gov't Told Me: And the Better Future Coming by Robert W. Malone
RRP: $48.75$31.67A WALL STREET JOURNALNATIONAL BESTSELLER*AS SEEN ON TUCKER CARLSON TODAY AND THE JOE ROGAN EXPERIENCE*A guide for the times-breaking down the lies about COVID-19 and shedding light on why we came to believe them. When he invented the original mRNA... -
Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind by Mike Jay 9780300276091
RRP: $21.43$18.27"Fascinating."-Thomas W. Hodgkinson, The Guardian "Richly detailed and frequently illuminating."-Rhys Blakely, Times (UK) "Excellent."-Clare Bucknell, New Yorker A New Yorker Best of the Week PickA provocative and original history of the scientists and... -
The Pelvic Floor Bible: Everything You Need to Know to Prevent and Cure Problems at Every Stage in Your Life by Jane Simpson
RRP: $21.43$15.15Straightforward, no-nonsense guidance on one of the most vital (and often ignored) women's health and wellbeing issues. A must-read! (Rebecca Schiller CEO of Birthrights, the human rights in childbirth charity and author of The No-Guilt Pregnancy Plan) ... -
Planetary Health: Protecting Nature to Protect Ourselves by Samuel Myers
RRP: $91.65$85.10Human health depends on the health of the planet. Earth's natural systems, the air, the water, the biodiversity, the climate, are our life support systems. Yet climate change, biodiversity loss, scarcity of land and freshwater, pollution and other... -
Working with Drug and Alcohol Users: A Guide to Providing Understanding, Assessment and Support by Tony White
RRP: $48.73$45.44Working with Drug and Alcohol Users provides an accessible guide to substance use and working with substance users.Using transactional analysis theory, the author explains why some people use substances, exploring different personality types, and covers... -
Failures of State: The Inside Story of Britain's Battle with Coronavirus by Jonathan Calvert
RRP: $21.43$14.14*THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER* A GUARDIAN AND SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'An astonishing book' James O'Brien 'A gripping,... -
Modern Nature: Journals, 1989 - 1990 by Derek Jarman
RRP: $21.43$15.15Read this meditative and inspiring diary of Derek Jarman's famous garden at Dungeness, which is also a powerful account of his life as an HIV positive man in the 1980s. In 1986 Derek Jarman discovered he was HIV positive and decided to make a garden at... -
The Broken Boy by Patrick Cockburn
RRP: $25.33$16.83In this expanded edition of a widely praised book, now available for the first time in North America, the renowned journalist Patrick Cockburn looks at his experience of contracting polio as a child in the context of a new pandemic, that of COVID-19. The... -
Vaccines, Autoimmunity, and the Changing Nature of Childhood Illness by Thomas Cowan
RRP: $37.03$24.86One doctor's surprising answer to the epidemic of chronic disease and essential reading for everyone concerned with the health of the next generation ..[T]he further we move away from nature the sicker we become, and it is our children who pay the... -
Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics: Mental Illness in Rural Ireland, Twentieth Anniversary Edition, Updated and Expanded by Nancy Scheper-Hughes
RRP: $52.65$41.01TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY EDITION, UPDATED AND EXPANDED When Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics was published twenty years ago, it became an instant classic--a beautifully written study tracing the social disintegration of "Ballybran," a small village on... -
Altered State: The Story of Ecstasy Culture and Acid House by Matthew Collin
RRP: $25.33$17.94From its first publication in 1997, Altered State established itself as the definitive text on Ecstasy and dance culture. This new edition sees Matthew Collin cast a fresh eye on the heady events of the acid house 'Summer of Love' and the rave scene's... -
Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates by Erving Goffman
RRP: $25.33$17.73One of most influential social scientist of the twentieth century examines the meaning of the asylum'Psychiatric staff share with policemen the peculiar occupational task of hectoring and moralizing adults'This groundbreaking work of social science... -
The Addictive Personality by Craig Nakken
RRP: $33.13$22.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781568381299Author Craig NakkenFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Hazelden Information & Educational ServicesPublisher Hazelden Information & Educational... -
Natural Causes: Life, Death and the Illusion of Control by Barbara Ehrenreich 9781783782420
RRP: $19.48$13.07We tend to believe we have agency over our bodies, our minds and even our deaths. Yet emerging science challenges our assumptions of mastery: at the microscopic level, the cells in our bodies facilitate tumours and attack other cells, with... -
The Other Pandemic: How QAnon Contaminated the World by James Ball 9781526642554
RRP: $39.00$27.87Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist James Ball takes us into the depths of the internet to trace the origins and rapid ascent of QAnon, the movement that mutated from a niche online conspiracy theory into the world's first digital pandemic. ... -
Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man and Ninety Days by Bill Clegg
RRP: $19.48$13.86What makes one of the most gifted, charismatic and successful young literary agents in New York fall into full-blown crack-addiction: a collapse that would cost him his business, his home, many of his friends and - very nearly - his life? In his utterly... -
The Shapeless Unease: ‘A small miracle of a book’ – Nathan Flier by Samantha Harvey
RRP: $19.48$13.86**Featured on BBC Radio 4's A Good Read** 'A profound meditation on language and loss and time, and on how we construct ourselves through stories. And it's painful. And it's beautiful. And I love it.' NATHAN FLIER Samantha Harvey's insomnia arrived,... -
Covid By Numbers: Your Questions Answered by David Spiegelhalter
RRP: $21.43$15.15'I couldn't imagine a better guidebook for making sense of a tragic and momentous time in our lives. Covid by Numbers is comprehensive yet concise, impeccably clear and always humane' Tim HarfordHow many people have died because of COVID-19? Which... -
Sedated: How Modern Capitalism Created our Mental Health Crisis by James Davies
RRP: $37.03$25.02In Britain alone, more than 20% of the adult population take a psychiatric drug in any one year. This is an increase of over 500% since 1980 and the numbers continue to grow. Yet, despite this prescription epidemic, levels of mental illness of all types...