Published February, 2016
By Paul Kalanithi
Publisher: The Bodley Head Ltd
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What makes life worth living in the face of death? What do you do when when life is catastrophically interrupted? What does it mean to have a child as your own life fades away? This book is a reflection on facing our mortality and on the relationship between doctor and patient, from a gifted writer who became both.

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Published May, 2015
By David Quammen
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Tells the story of AIDS - how it originated with a virus in a chimpanzee, jumped to one human and infected more than 60 million people. This book includes research reports that has revealed dark surprises and yielded a radically new scenario of how AIDS began and spread.

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Published October, 2014
By David Quammen
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And until we find it, Ebola will continue to strike.Acclaimed science writer and explorer David Quammen first came near the virus whilst travelling in the jungles of Gabon, accompanied by local men whose village had been devastated by a recent outbreak.

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Published June, 2014
By Ben Shephard
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How did the human brain evolve? Why did it evolve as it did? What is man's place in evolution? This title traces the intellectual journey of four men who met at Cambridge in the 1890s and whose lives interlinked for the next three decades - William Rivers, Grafton Elliot Smith, Charles Myers and William McDougall.

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Published August, 2013
By George Johnson
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When the woman he loved was diagnosed with a metastatic cancer, the author embarked on a journey to learn everything he could about the disease. In this book, he describes tumors that evolve like alien creatures inside the body, and the surprising reversals in science's comprehension of the causes of cancer.

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Published August, 2013
By George Johnson
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Published October, 2012
By Sarah Wise
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Uncovers twelve stories, untold for over a century, which reveal the darker side of the Victorian upper and middle classes - their sexuality, fears of inherited madness, financial greed and fraudulence - and chillingly evoke the black motives at the heart of the phenomenon of the 'inconvenient person'.

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Published October, 2012
By David Quammen
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As globalization spreads and as we destroy the ancient ecosystems, we encounter strange and dangerous infections that originate in animals but that can be transmitted to humans. Diseases that were contained are being set free and the results are potentially catastrophic. This book tells the story of such diseases.

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