30-Second Medicine - The 50 Crucial Milestones, Treatments and Technologies in the History of Health, Each Explained in Half a Minute by Gabrielle M. Finn
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Category: Science & Mathematics | Series: 30 Second Ser.
What does the Hippocratic oath actually say? Who originally discovered antibiotics? And is it true that technology now allows reconstructive surgery to use customized 3D-printed body parts? Find out the answers to these questions and many others in 30-Second Medicine, an intriguing visit to the world of ...Show more
Ten Drugs - How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine by Thomas Hager
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Category: Science & Mathematics
Behind every landmark drug is a story. It could be an oddball researcher's genius insight, a catalyzing moment in geopolitical history, a new breakthrough technology, or an unexpected but welcome side effect discovered during clinical trials. Piece together these stories, as Thomas Hager does in this re ...Show more
In Shock: From Doctor to Patient - What I Learned About Medicine's Inhumanity by Dr. Rana Awdish
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Category: Science & Mathematics
At seven months pregnant, intensive care doctor Rana Awdish suffered a catastrophic medical event, haemorrhaging nearly all of her blood volume and losing her unborn first child. She spent months fighting for her life in her own hospital, enduring multiple major surgeries and a series of organ failures. ...Show more
Forensics, Fossils and Fruitbats: a Fieldguide to Australian Scientists by Stephen Luntz
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Category: Science & Mathematics
Forensics, Fossils and Fruitbats is a fascinating collection of more than 70 profiles of Australian scientists from 15 fields of physical, biological and medical science. These scientists have been selected because their research is inspiring, intriguing or simply quirky, or because they have taken an u ...Show more
For Small Creatures Such as We: Ritual.. by Sasha Sagan
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Category: Science & Mathematics | Reading Level: 6.5 Wellbeing
For Small Creatures Such as We hunts for the meaning behind our most common, beloved celebrations and envisions how we can grow these roots into new and fulfilling secular rituals. From the daughter of celebrated scientist, Carl Sagan, this is a luminous and moving tribute to a father, a newborn daughte ...Show more
The Science of Kissing: What Our Lips Are Telling Us by Sheril Kirshenbaum
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Category: Science & Mathematics
When did humans begin to kiss? Why is kissing integral to some cultures and alien to others? Do good kissers make the best lovers? And is that expensive lip-plumping gloss worth it? Sheril Kirshenbaum, a marine biologist and science journalist, tackles these questions and more in THE SCIENCE OF KISSING. ...Show more
Building Paradise The Story of an Eco-lodge on the Great Barrier Reef by Macfarlane David
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Category: Science & Mathematics
The Making of You - A Scientific Journey by Katharina Vestre
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Category: Science & Mathematics
The Making of You is the inside story of one of nature's greatest marvels: the creation of a new human, from first cell to first breath. This is pop science, not a parenting manual, and it almost certainly contains things you didn't know on almost every page. Did you know that sperm have a sense of smel ...Show more
Human by Charlotte Sleigh; Amanda Rees
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Category: Science & Mathematics | Series: Animal Ser.
What does it mean to be human? And what, if anything, does it have to do with being a member of the animal species Homo sapiens? This dazzling book gets to the very heart of our rather unscientific motivations and prejudices, showing how they are of great use in resolving the world's biggest problems. F ...Show more
The Frontiers of Knowledge: What We Know About Science, History and The Mind by A. C. Grayling
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Category: Science & Mathematics
In very recent times humanity has learnt a vast amount about the universe, the past, and itself. But through our remarkable successes in acquiring knowledge we have learned how much we have yet to learn: the science we have, for example, addresses just 5 per cent of the universe; pre-history is still be ...Show more
Cosmic Company: The Search For Life by Shostak & Barnett
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Category: Science & Mathematics
Our House Is on Fire - Scenes of a Family and a Planet in Crisis by Malena Ernman; Greta Thunberg; Beata Thunberg; Svante Thunberg
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Category: Science & Mathematics
Every parent says that they would jump in front of a train to save their child. It's an instinct that no one denies. But when that 'train' finally arrives, it is very seldom a real, speeding locomotive . . . This is the story of a family led to confront a crisis they had never foreseen. Aged eleven, th ...Show more