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  • The Unfragile Mind

    A Physician's Call for Restoring Hope and Humanity to Mental Health Care

    by Gavin Francis ...
    **A timely, layered approach to the overdiagnosis epidemic in our mental health climate—from a doctor and internationally acclaimed author—that makes the case for applying compassion and curiosity rather than strict labels“I thought Gavin Francis couldn’t get any better, but I was wrong. This is his best and most important book.”? Bill Bryson, New York Times–bestselling author of A Walk in the ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • Empire Antarctica

    Ice, Silence, and Emperor Penguins

    by Gavin Francis ...
    Meet the majestic Emperor Penguins of Antarctica in this “mesmerizing and memorable” travel memoir about a doctor’s year-long appointment to the remote Halley Research Station (The Economist).Gavin Francis fulfilled a lifetime’s ambition when he spent 14 months as the basecamp doctor at Halley, a profoundly isolated British research station on the Caird Coast of Antarctica. So remote, it is said ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Recovery

    The Lost Art of Convalescence

    by Gavin Francis ...
    **“An essential book for our times, full of wisdom, compassion and sound advice. Every patient needs a copy of this gem.” –Katherine May, author of Wintering and EnchantmentA gentle, expert guide to the secrets of recovery, showing why we need it and how to do it better**For many of us, time spent in recovery—from a broken leg, a virus, chronic illness, or the crisis of depression or anxiety—can ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Shapeshifters

    A Journey Through the Changing Human Body

    by Gavin Francis ...
    From birth to death, a lyrical exploration of the role of transformation in human lifeTo be alive is to be in perpetual metamorphosis: growing, healing, learning, aging. In Shapeshifters, physician and writer Gavin Francis considers the inevitable changes all of our bodies undergo -- such as birth, puberty, and death, but also laughter, sleeping, and healing-and those that only some of our bodies ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The New Makers of Modern Strategy

    From the Ancient World to the Digital Age

    by John Bew, Lawrence Freedman, Walter Russell Mead, Toshi Yoshihara, Matthew Kroenig, Hew Strachan, John H. Maurer, Michael Cotey Morgan, James Lacey, Eric Helleiner, Jonathan Kirshner, Iskander Rehman, Matt J. Schumann, Michael V. Leggiere, Charles Edel, Kori Schake, Wayne Wei-siang Hsieh, Sarah C. M. Paine, Priya Satia, Margaret MacMillan, Williamson Murray, Robert Kagan, Tami Biddle, Brendan Simms, Francis Gavin, Daniel Marston, Guy Laron, Tanvi Madan, Sergey Radchenko, Thomas G. Mahnken, Christopher J. Griffin, Dmitry Adamsky, Carter Malkasian, Ahmed S. Hashim, Elizabeth Economy, Seth G. Jones, Sue Mi Terry, Jason K. Stearns, Joshua Rovner, Thomas Rid, John Lewis Gaddis, Eric Edelman, Andrew Ehrhardt, Mark Moyar, Antulio Echevarria ...
    The essential resource on military and political strategy and the making of the modern worldThe New Makers of Modern Strategy is the next generation of the definitive work on strategy and the key figures who have shaped the theory and practice of war and statecraft throughout the centuries. Featuring entirely new entries by a who’s who of world-class scholars, this new edition provides global, ... Read more

    $34.59 USD

  • Free For All

    Why The NHS Is Worth Saving

    by Gavin Francis ...
    'Needle-sharp analysis from the front line' Ian Rankin'Utterly compelling' Henry Marsh'Wonderful ... A heartbreaking chronicle of the NHS's near-demise, and a call to action' Leah Hazard'A reminder of what is important, what we hold dear, and who we are' Christie Watson'Compassionate, clever, curious, principled, humane ... A succinct, elegant and beautifully written account of what ... ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • True North: Travels in Arctic Europe

    by Gavin Francis ...
    Series series Canons
    Driven by a yearning to experience the vast skies and frozen beauty of the North, Gavin Francis goes in search of the people living along the northern limits of Europe. From the first Greek explorers to the Vikings to modern polar adventurers, he travels through history and legend to find out why – and how – we are drawn to the North.Francis's encounters in the Arctic teach him as much about that ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Empire Antarctica

    Ice, Silence & Emperor Penguins

    by Gavin Francis ...
    Series series Canons
    WINNER OF THE SCOTTISH BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDGavin Francis spent fourteen months in one of the remotest places in the world: Halley, a research station in Antarctica. Storm-locked and frozen, it is said to be easier to evacuate a casualty from the International Space Station than it is to bring someone out of Halley in winter.In the icy emptiness of Antarctica, where one misstep outdoors can mean ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Island Dreams

    Mapping an Obsession

    by Gavin Francis ...
    Series series Canons
    SHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEARIn Island Dreams, Gavin Francis combines stories of his own travels with psychology, philosophy and myth, shedding new light on the importance of islands and isolation in our collective consciousness.Francis draws on thirty years of island adventures from the Faroe Islands to the Aegean, from the Galapagos to the Andaman Islands. He contrasts these ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Bridge Between Worlds

    A Brief History of Connection

    by Gavin Francis ...
    In a world preoccupied by borders, bridges celebrate the possibility of connectionDr Gavin Francis crosses bridges both actual and metaphorical on a journey through six continents, twenty countries and four decades of travel, exploring answers to questions of peace and conflict, connection and community.From Rome’s Ponte Sant’Angelo to Brooklyn, Victoria Falls to London, Singapore to Siberia, ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • Adventures in Human Being

    A Grand Tour from the Cranium to the Calcaneum

    by Gavin Francis ...
    "Adventures in Human Being, with its deft mix of the clinical and the lyrical, is a triumph of the eloquent brain and the compassionate heart." -- Wall Street JournalWe assume we know our bodies intimately, but for many of us they remain uncharted territory, an enigma of bone and muscle, neurons and synapses. How many of us understand the way seizures affect the brain, how the heart is connected ... Read more

    Was $11.99 USD Now $1.99 USD

  • The Age of Hiroshima

    by Campbell Craig, Alex Wellerstein, Sean L. Malloy, David Holloway, Takuya Sasaki, Shinsuke Tomotsugu, Srinath Raghavan, Wakana Mukai, Matias Spektor, Holger Nehring, Kiichi Fujiwara, Avery Goldstein, Sonja D. Schmid, Shampa Biswas, Nina Tannenwald, Francis Gavin ...
    A multifaceted portrait of the Hiroshima bombing and its many legaciesOn August 6, 1945, in the waning days of World War II, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The city's destruction stands as a powerful symbol of nuclear annihilation, but it has also shaped how we think about war and peace, the past and the present, and science and ethics. The Age of ... Read more

    $30.29 USD