Published March, 2013
By Nick Coleman
Publisher: Vintage
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How do you lose music? Then having lost it, what do you do next? This book offers an account of one man's struggle to recover from loss of his greatest passion - and go one further than that: to restore his ability not only to hear but to think about and feel music, by going back to the series of big bangs which kicked off his musical universe.

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Published January, 2013
By Dennis O'Donnell
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An extraordinary account of a nurse's life behind the locked doors of a secure psychiatric ward. Dennis O'Donnell started work as an orderly in the Intensive Psychiatric Care Unit of a large hospital in Scotland in 2000.

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Published December, 2012
By Charles Lister
Publisher: Vintage
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Published July, 2010
By Benedict Gummer
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Nothing experienced in human history, before or since, eclipses the terror, tragedy and scale of the Black Death, the disease which killed millions of people in Medieval Europe. By the time it completed its pestilential journey through the British Isles in 1350, the Black Death had left half the population dead.

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Published February, 2010
By Gabriel Weston
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How does it feel to hold someone's life in your hands?

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Published January, 2010
By Druin Burch
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Doctors and patients alike trust the medical profession and its therapeutic powers; yet this trust has often been misplaced. From revolutionary America to Nazi Germany and modern big-pharmaceuticals, this title tells the story of just how bad medicine has been, and of its remarkably effort to improve.

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Published February, 2009
By Rose Shapiro
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Its global market is predicted to be worth $5 trillion by 2050.Suckers reveals how alternative medicine can jeopardise the health of those it claims to treat, leaches resources from treatments of proven efficacy and is largely unaccountable and unregulated.

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Published March, 2008
By Druin Burch
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A tearaway young man from Norfolk, Astley Cooper (1768-1841) became the world's richest and most famous surgeon. Caught up in the French Revolution, and in attempts to bring radical democracy to Britain, Cooper nevertheless rose to become surgeon to royals from the Prince Regent to Queen Victoria.

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Published October, 2006
By Robert M. Sapolsky
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Described by Oliver Sacks as 'one of the best scientist-writers of our time', Robert M. Sapolsky here presents the human animal in all its quirkiness and diversity. In these remarkable essays, Sapolsky once again deploys his compassion and insights into the human condition to tell us who, why and how we are.

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Published July, 2006
By Antonio Damasio
Publisher: Vintage
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In the centuries since Descartes famously proclaimed, 'I think, therefore I am,' science has often overlooked emotions as the source of a person's true being.

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