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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

    $23.19 CAD

  • 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

    $15.99 CAD

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    Thinking Historically

    A Guide to Statecraft and Strategy

    by Francis J. Gavin ...
    Narrated by Kevin Meyer ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 22 min

    It seems obvious that we should use history to improve policy. If we have a good understanding of the past, it should enable better decisions in the present, especially in the extraordinarily consequential worlds of statecraft and strategy. But how do we gain that knowledge? How should history be used? Sadly, it is rarely done well, and historians and decision-makers seldom interact. But in this ... Read more

    $28.84 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $18.39 CAD

  • Sir Thomas Browne

    The Opium of Time

    by Gavin Francis ...
    Series series My Reading
    In this book, Gavin Francis writes about the resonance for him as a medic in reading the work of early modern polymath Sir Thomas Browne. Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682) was an English physician, wordsmith, and polymath who contributed hundreds of words to the English language (such as medical, electricity, migrant, and computer). After studying medicine in Montpellier, Padua, and Leiden, he settled ... Read more

    $20.89 CAD

  • 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

    $14.29 CAD

  • 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

    $15.99 CAD

  • Intensive Care

    A GP, a Community & a Pandemic

    by Gavin Francis ...
    A Spectator Book of the YearAn Observer, New Statesman, Financial Times, Irish Times and Scotsman 2021 Non-Fiction Highlight'Compassionate, beautifully written .. will only grow in importance and interest as the years go by' Jenny Colgan, Spectator'Searing yet beautiful ... less a hot take that an astute manifesto for what matters most in life, as... ... Read more

    $11.79 CAD

  • Nuclear Weapons and American Grand Strategy

    by Francis J. Gavin ...
    Exploring what we know—and don’t know—about how nuclear weapons shape American grand strategy and international relationsA 2020 CHOICE Outstanding Academic TitleThe world first confronted the power of nuclear weapons when the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. The global threat of these weapons deepened in the following decades as more advanced weapons, ... Read more

    $38.89 CAD

  • 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

    $14.29 CAD

  • Empire Antarctica

    Ice, Silence & Emperor Penguins

    by Gavin Francis ...
    Gavin Francis fulfilled a lifetime's ambition when he spent fourteen months as the base-camp doctor at Halley, a profoundly isolated British research station on the Caird Coast of Antarctica. So remote, 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.Antarctica offered a year of unparalleled silence and ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • 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

    $23.09 CAD