Medical Ethics Today - Its Practice and Philosophy by BMA Staff
$16.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: very good
This text answers the range of questions commonly raised and relates the long accepted standards which have governed professional behaviour to newly emerging situations. It aims to produce a tool for doctors, whilst recognizing that debate of ethical issues extends beyond the medical profession.
Recovering Bodies - Illness, Disability, and Life Writing by G. Thomas Couser; Nancy Mairs (Foreword by)
$14.00 NZD
Category: Health | Series: Wisconsin Studies in American Autobiography Ser. | Reading Level: very good
This is a provocative look at writing by and about people with illness or disability--in particular HIV/AIDS, breast cancer, deafness, and paralysis--who challenge the stigmas attached to their conditions by telling their lives in their own ways and on their own terms. Discussing memoirs, diaries, colla ...Show more
Claiming Power in Doctor-Patient Talk by Nancy Ainsworth-Vaughn
$20.00 NZD
Category: Medicine | Series: Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Nancy Ainsworth-Vaughn studied stories, topic control, "true" questions, and rhetorical questions in 101 medical encounters in US private-practice settings. In exceptionally lucid and accessible style, Ainsworth-Vaughn explains how power was claimed by and co-constructed for both patients and doctors (p ...Show more
Vireya Rhododendrons by J. Clyde Smith
$10.00 NZD
Category: Gardening | Reading Level: good
Very good softcover copies. Good introduction to Vireyas with useful explanations of cultivation and propagation techniques.
Scientific Practice and Ordinary Action - Ethnomethodology and Social Studies of Science by Michael Lynch
$20.00 NZD
Category: Social Science | Reading Level: very good
Philosophers, historians, and sociologists of science have grown increasingly interested in the daily practices of scientists. Recent studies have drawn linkages between scientific innovations and more ordinary procedures, craft skills, and sources of sponsorship. These studies dispute the idea that sci ...Show more
The Future History Of The Arctic by Charles Emmerson
$16.00 NZD
Category: Arctic | Reading Level: very good
Long at the margins of global affairs and at the edge of our mental map of the world, the Arctic has found its way to the center of the issues which will challenge and define our world in the twenty-first century: energy security and the struggle for natural resources, climate change and its uncertain s ...Show more
The Hedgehog, the Fox and the Magister's Pox - Mending and minding the misconceived gap between science and the humanities by Stephen Jay Gould
$12.00 NZD
Category: Science | Reading Level: very good
Completed shortly before his death, this is the last work of science from the most celebrated popular science writer in the world. In characteristic form, Gould weaves the ideas of some of Western society's greatest thinkers, from Bacon to Galileo to E. O. Wilson, with the uncelebrated ideas of lesser-k ...Show more
Why Us? How Science Rediscovered the Mystery of Ourselves by James Le Fanu
$20.00 NZD
Category: Science | Reading Level: very good
'Know thyself.' It is one of the most basic human principles, and one of the most difficult. For how well can we ever truly know ourselves? In this lively, provocative exploration of our scientific legacy, James Le Fanu combines a fascinating exploration of the limits of science with a celebration of th ...Show more
Seeds of Wealth - Four Plants that Made Men Rich by Henry Hobhouse
$15.00 NZD
Category: Natural History | Reading Level: very good
A highly original interpretation of a wide span of global history through vitally important plants. Henry Hobhouse was the first to recognise plants as a causal factor in history in his Seeds of Wealth. In this new book, he examines four plants: rubber, timber, tobacco and the wine grape, each of w ...Show more
As the Future Catches You - How Genomics and Other Forces Are Changing Your Life, Work, Health and Wealth by Juan Enriquez
$16.00 NZD
Category: Science | Reading Level: very good
If you think the world has changed dramatically in the last five years, you haven't seen anything yet. You will never look at the world in the same way after reading As the Future Catches You. Juan Enriquez puts you face to face with unprecedented political, ethical, economic, and financial issues, dram ...Show more
Owned by the Land - Global Education and the Environmnet by Janet W. B. Rogers (Editor); Eric Widmer (Editor)
$14.00 NZD
Category: Ecology | Reading Level: very good
The Smell of Fresh Rain: The Unexpected Pleasures of our most Elusive Sense by Barney Shaw
$15.00 NZD
Category: Science | Reading Level: very good
What do we actually mean when we say that something smells of fresh paint? Or frying bacon? And what does five o clock in the morning smell like? Inspired by an unsettlingly synaesthesic question put to him by his son, Barney Shaw looks into the science of smell: peering behind its sensory nature to dis ...Show more