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Schadenfreude - The Joy of Another's Misfortune by Tiffany Watt Smith
Category: Personal Development | Series: Wellcome Collection
A hilarious quest to understand life's ultimate guilty pleasure.
Schadenfreude - The Joy of Another's Misfortune by Tiffany Watt Smith
Category: Humour | Series: Wellcome Ser.
An entertaining and insightful exploration of schadenfreude: the deliciously dark and complex joy we've all felt, from time to time, at news of others' misfortunes. You might feel schadenfreude when... the boss calls himself "Head of Pubic Services" on an important letter. a cool guy swings back on ...Show more
Sex by Numbers: The Statistics of Sexual Behaviour by David Spiegelhalter
Category: Culture | Series: Wellcome Ser.
Whatever society we live in, and however open-minded we like to think we are, when it comes to our sex lives we all like to keep a few secrets. But this makes the jobs of sexologists - professionals who study sexual behaviour - pretty difficult. Luckily, David Spiegelhalter, Professor of Risk at Cambrid ...Show more
Shapeshifters: On Medicine & Human Change by Gavin Francis
Category: Science | Series: Wellcome Ser.
To be alive is to be in perpetual change: growing, healing, learning, aging. In Shapeshifters, award-winning writer and doctor Gavin Francis considers the transformations in mind and body that continue across the arc of human life. Some of these changes we have little choice about. We can't avoid pubert ...Show more
Shapeshifters - On Medicine and Human Change by Gavin Francis
Category: Biography | Series: Wellcome Collection
'Stylish and exhilarating... from a wide-ranging mind and a profound humanity... inspiring' Hilary MantelUnreliable bodies and shifting symptoms are all in a day's work for a GP.In his years of practising, Gavin Francis has seen it all: the promising law student trapped under the spell of anorexia; the ...Show more
Sound: A Story of Hearing Lost and Found by Bella Bathurst; Wellcome Collection Staff (Contribution by)
Category: Biography Memoir | Series: Wellcome Ser.
'By the summer of 1998, it had become clear that there was something wrong with my hearing. It didn't happen suddenly but softly, so softly I almost wasn't aware of it happening; sound seemed to have stolen away ...'For twelve years, Bella Bathurst was deaf. She missed the punchlines and the jokes, avoi ...Show more
Sound: Stories of Music, Connection and Hearing Lost and Found by Bella Bathurst
Category: Languages and Reference | Series: Wellcome
In 1997, Bella Bathurst began to go deaf. Within a few months, she had lost half her hearing, and the rest was slipping away. She wasn't just missing punchlines, she was missing most of the conversation - and all of the jokes. For the next twelve years deafness shaped her life, until, in 2009, everythin ...Show more
The Rules of Contagion: Why Things Spread and Why They Stop by Adam Kucharski; Francesca Barrie (Editor)
Category: Science & Natural History | Series: Wellcome Collection
The new science of contagion, and the surprising ways it shapes our lives and behaviour.
The Rules of Contagion: Why Things Spread - and Why They Stop by Adam Kucharski
Category: Science | Series: Wellcome Collection
The bestselling - and hugely timely - guide to the science of contagion, revised and updated to address Covid-19. 'Astonishingly bold' - Daily Mail 'It is hard to imagine a more timely book...much of the modern world will make more sense having read it.' - The Times We live in a world that's more interc ...Show more
The Voices Within by Charles Fernyhough
Category: Science & Natural History | Series: Wellcome
We all hear voices. Ordinary thinking is often a kind of conversation, filling our heads with speech: the voices of reason, of memory, of self-encouragement and rebuke, the inner dialogue that helps us with tough decisions or complicated problems. For others - voice-hearers, trauma-sufferers and prophet ...Show more
The Voices Within : The History and Science of How We Talk to Ourselves' by Charles Fernyhough
Category: Science | Series: Wellcome
We all hear voices. Ordinary thinking is often a kind of conversation, filling our heads with speech: the voices of reason, of memory, of self-encouragement and rebuke, the inner dialogue that helps us with tough decisions or complicated problems. For others - voice-hearers, trauma-sufferers and prophet ...Show more
The War of Nerves: Inside the Cold War Mind by Martin Sixsmith
Category: History | Series: Wellcome Collection
A major new history of the Cold War: exploring the conflict through the minds of the people who lived it. More than any other conflict, the Cold War was fought on the battlefield of the human mind. And, nearly thirty years since the collapse of the Soviet Union, its legacy still endures - not only in o ...Show more