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17Apr

Wellcome Book Prize 2015: The Incredible Unlikeliness of Being by Alice Roberts

Alice McGurran

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Next in our series of Wellcome Book Prize Shortlist 2015 reviews, learn where you came from with The Incredible Unlikeliness of Being by Alice Roberts. It's an entertaining, mind-expanding romp through the fields of embryology, genetics and zoology, which will leave most readers far better-educated than they started out
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31Mar

Wellcome Book Prize 2015: My Age of Anxiety by Scott Stossel

Camilla Nicholls

anxiety, books, culture, Wellcomebookprize

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In My Age of Anxiety: Fear, Hope, Dread and the Search for Peace of Mind Scott Stossel uses his own experience of chronic and debilitating anxiety to examine with clarity and charm a condition that is thought currently to affect 15 percent of people in the UK.
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18Mar

Wellcome Book Prize 2015: Do No Harm by Henry Marsh

Louise Chunn

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This book may not sound like an easy read. Chapter after chapter about the triumphs, tragedies and tribulations of a London-based neurosurgeon as he looks back over 40 years of treating serious accidents and illnesses. Blood, bone, brain and many tears. Doctors live with life and death decisions every day; they seem to be able to cut themselves off the human tragedy. But some, like Henry Marsh, can use what they see, hear, and ultimately do, to open us up to essential truths about life and what really matters. That’s why this book has made the shortlist of...
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