Emotional Female by Yumiko Kadota
$26.00 NZD
Category: Medicine
A passionate account of the toxic culture of bullying and overwork that junior doctors can experience in the workplace as part of their training.Yumiko Kadota was every Asian parent's dream- model student, top of her class in medical school and on track to becoming a surgeon. A self-confessed workaholic ...Show more
The Perfection Trap: The Power of Good Enough In a World That Always Wants More by Thomas Curran
$40.00 NZD
Category: Personal Development
'Thomas Curran is the world's leading expert on perfectionism, and he's written the definitive book on why it's rising, how it wreaks havoc on our lives, and what we can do to stop it. If you've ever found yourself fearing failure, ruminating about mistakes, or just feeling that you aren't good enough, ...Show more
A Leg to Stand On by Oliver Sacks
$27.99 NZD
Category: Medicine
<b>‘Oliver Sacks is a perfect antidote to the anaesthetic of familiarity. His writing turns brains and minds transparent’ - <i>Observer</i></b> When Oliver Sacks, a physician by profession, injured his leg while climbing a mountain, he found himself in an unusual position – that ...Show more
Migraine by Oliver Sacks
$27.99 NZD
Category: Health, Wellbeing, Medicine
For centuries, physicians have been fascinated by the visual hallucinations, or auras, which often precede a migraine and which are similar to those induced by hallucinogenic drugs or deliria. This study of migraine has been revised and expanded to include a new chapter, illustrated with startling full- ...Show more
Awakenings by Oliver Sacks
$27.99 NZD
Category: Medicine | Series: Picador Collection
'The story of a disease that plunged its victims into a prison of viscous time, and the drug that catapulted them out of it' - GuardianHailed as a medical classic, and the subject of a major feature film as well as radio and stage plays and various TV documentaries, Awakenings by Oliver Sacks is the ext ...Show more
Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity by Peter Attia MD
$40.00 NZD
Category: Health, Wellbeing, Medicine
This is the ultimate manual for longevity.For all its successes, mainstream medicine has failed to make much progress against the diseases of ageing that kill most people- heart disease, cancer, Alzheimer's disease, and type 2 diabetes. Too often, it intervenes with treatments too late, prolonging lifes ...Show more
The Art of Winning: 10 Lessons in Leadership, Purpose and Potential by Dan Carter
$40.00 NZD
Category: Personal Development
A unique and inspiring deep dive into leadership, strength and resilience from one of sport's true masters: All Black legend Dan Carter. Ten timeless truths on leadership, purpose and potential - from the unique culture of the All Blacks, and the mind of a living legend. You might think success at t ...Show more
Be Your Best Self by Rebekah Ballagh
$32.99 NZD
Category: Personal Development
Practical strategies to help you transform the way you see yourself and create lifelong change. It's time to embrace your full potential. Covering everything from your inner critic to perfectionism, self-sabotage and procrastination, soothing your nervous system to limiting beliefs to inner child work t ...Show more
What Doesn'T Kill Us: A Guide... by Professor Stephen Joseph
$29.99 NZD
Category: Personal Development
Research has shown than anywhere from 30 to 90 per cent of people confronted by tragedy, horror and adversity emerge as wiser, more mature and more fulfilled people, sometimes despite great sadness. Relationships become stronger. Perspectives on life change. Inner strengths are found. For the past twent ...Show more
The Feeling of Cancer: A psychotherapist's story of living with incurable cancer by Sandra Russell
$35.00 NZD
Category: Health, Wellbeing, Medicine
Even though close to half of us will now experience cancer in our lifetime, we tend to talk about it as a biomedical event; of doctors, medical treatment and disease. We do not talk about cancer as a traumatic emotional event, and because we can’t always express the overwhelming emotional impact, the ...Show more
I May Be Wrong: And Other Wisdoms From Life as a Forest Monk by Bjorn Natthiko Lindeblad
$24.99 NZD
Category: Health, Wellbeing, Medicine
'This book really, really will stay with me forever. It's not only laced with the most incredible wisdom, but it's also gentle and beautiful and eloquent. It brought me so much joy and so much comfort' FEARNE COTTONThe Sunday Times bestselling book of comfort and timeless wisdom from former forest monk, ...Show more
The Power of Strangers: The Benefits of Connecting in a Suspicious World by Joe Keohane
$26.00 NZD
Category: Health, Wellbeing, Medicine
An interrogation of why we don't talk to strangers, what happens when we do, and why it affects everything from the rise and fall of nations to personal health and wellbeing, in the tradition of Susan Cain's Quiet and Rutger Bregman's HumankindIn our cities, we barely acknowledge one another on public t ...Show more