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Yoga adapts to time and place
| Lalita Kaplish
A yoga teacher in 1930s India inspired today’s transnational practice with his spectacular fusion of tradition and innovation.
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Tracing the roots of our fears and fixations
| Kate SummerscaleTim Robinson
Kate Summerscale explores the history of our anxieties and compulsions, and the new phobias and manias that are always emerging.
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The mystery of the malignant brain
| Thomas MorrisEmily Evans
In 1884 a neurologist successfully used a patient’s symptoms, plus a new kind of map, to locate a brain tumour. Discover how his best-laid plans for treatment worked out.
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Indian botanicals and heritage wars
| Sita Reddy
Colonial botanical texts, as astonishingly beautiful as they are, may cast very dark shadows.
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- Book extract
My important, ridiculous nose
| A L Kennedy
The nose is a much-maligned appendage, but it’s a powerful organ capable of invoking powerful emotions from past memories and sexual attraction.