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The body social : symbolism, self, and society / Anthony Synnott.
Synnott, Anthony, 1940-Date: 1993- Books
Red : a history of the redhead / Jacky Colliss Harvey.
Harvey, Jacky CollissDate: 2015- Books
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On inheritance of hair and eye colour / by John Brownlee.
Brownlee, John, 1868-1927.Date: [1913]- Books
The body : a guide for occupants / Bill Bryson.
Bryson, BillDate: 2019- Books
The whole health guide to elemental health : the book about minerals, hair mineral analysis and your health / by Patrick Holford.
Holford, Patrick.Date: 1983- Books
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Comarum akosmia : the loathsomnesse of long haire, or, A treatise wherein you have the question stated, many arguments against it produc'd, and the most materiall arguguments [sic] for it refell'd and answer'd : with the concurrent judgement of divines both old and new against it : with an appendix against painting, spots, naked breasts, &c. / by Thomas Hall.
Hall, Thomas, 1610-1665Date: 1654- Books
Bodies of evidence : ancient anatomical votives past, present, and future / edited by Jane Draycott, University of Glasgow, Emma-Jayne Graham, the Open University.
Date: 2020- Books
Commodification of body parts in the global south : transnational inequalities and development challenges / Firouzeh Nahavandi.
Nahavandi, FirouzehDate: [2016]- Books
The marvelous hairy girls : the Gonzales sisters and their worlds / Merry Wiesner-Hanks.
Wiesner-Hanks, Merry E., 1952-Date: [2009], ©2009- Books
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Comarum akosmia : The loathsomnesse of long haire: or, A treatise wherein you have the question stated, many arguments against it produc'd, and the most materiall arguguments [sic] for it refell'd and answer'd, with the concurrent judgement of divines both old and new against it. With an appendix against painting, spots, naked breasts, &c. / By Thomas Hall B.D. and pastor of Kingsnorton. Mart. 2 1653 Imprimatur Tho: Gataker.
Hall, Thomas, 1610-1665Date: 1654- Books
You feel so mortal : essays on the body / Peggy Shinner.
Shinner, PeggyDate: 2014- Books
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Dusty! : queen of the postmods / Annie J. Randall.
Randall, Annie JaneiroDate: 2009- Books
Der Mensch als Arzneimittel in L. Christoph Hellwigs Lexikon pharmaceuticum von 1714 / von Wilhelm Brachmann.
Brachmann, Wilhelm.Date: 1956- Books
Les remèdes d'origine humaine dans les maladies des yeux : étude de folklore médical / par le Dr. van Schevensteen.
Schevensteen, Dr van.Date: 1923- Books
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Relics of Death in Victorian Literature and Culture / Deborah Lutz.
Lutz, DeborahDate: 2015- Books
The body reader : essential social and cultural readings / edited by Lisa Jean Moore and Mary Kosut.
Date: [2010], ©2010- Books
Burnt substances / taken from Alexander Trallianus, by E. Trosse.
Trosse, E.Date: 1896- Books
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Dictionarium polygraphicum: or, the whole body of arts regularly digested. Containing, I. The arts of Designing, Drawing, Painting, Washing Prints, Limning, Japanning, Gilding: Also Perspective, the Laws of Shadows, Dialling, &c. II. Carving, Cutting in Wood, Stone; Moulding and Casting Figures in Plaister, Wax, Metal; Engraving, Etching, and Mezzotinto. III. An historical Account of the most considerable Painters, Sculptors, Statuaries, and Engravers; with those Cyphers or Marks by which their Works are distinguished. IV. An Explanation of the Emblematical and Hieroglyphical Representations of the Hcathen Deities, Powers, Human Passions, Virtues, Vices, &c. of great Use in History-Painting. V. The Production, Nature, Refining, Compounding, Transmutation and Tinging all Sorts of Metals and Minerals of various Colours. VI. The Arts of Making, Painting or Staining all Sorts of Glass and Marble; Enamelling; Methods of imitating Precious Stones, Pearls, &c. Vii. Dying all Sorts of Materials, Linen, Woollen, Silk, Leather, Wood, Ivory, Horns, Bones; also Bleaching and Whitening Linen, Hair, &c. Viii. The Art of Tapestry-Weaving, as now performed in England, Flanders, and France, either of the high or low Warp; and many other curious Manufactures. IX. A Description of Colours, Natural and Artificial; their Productions, Natures or Qualities, various Preparations, Compositions, and Uses. X. The whole Art of Pyrotechny, or Fire-Works; and the Chinese Method of making Porcelain: Together with a great Variety of other curious Particulars not here enumerated. Illustrated with fifty-six copper-plates.
Barrow, John, teacher of mathematics.Date: M.DCC.LVIII. [1758]- Books
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Dictionarium polygraphicum: or, the whole body of arts regularly digested. containing, I. The arts of Designing, Drawing, Painting, Washing Prints, Limning, Japanning, Gilding in all their various kinds. Also Perspective, the Laws of Shadows, Dialling, &c. II. Carving, Cutting in Wood, Stone; Moulding and Casting Figures in Plaister, Wax, Metal; also Engraving, and Etching, and Mezzotinto. III. A brief historical Account of the most considerable Painters, Sculptors, Statuaries, and Engravers, with those Cyphers or Marks by which their Works are known. IV. An Explanation of the Emblematical and Hieroglyphical Representations of the Heathen Deities, Powers, Human Passions, Virtues, Vices, &c. of great Use in History Painting. V. The Production, Nature, Refining, Compounding, Transmutation and Tinging all sorts of Metals and Minerals of various Colours. VI. The Arts of Making, Working, Painting or Staining all sorts of Glass and Marble; also Enamels, the imitation of all sorts of Precious Stones, Pearls, &c. according to the Practice both of the Antients and Moderns. Vii. Dying all sorts of Materials, Linen, Woollen, Silk, Leather, Wood, Ivory, Horns, Bones; also Bleaching and Whitening Linen, Hair, &c. Viii. The Art of Tapestry-Weaving, as now performed in England, Flanders and France, either of the high or low Warp; also many other curious Manufactures. IX. A Description of Colours, Natural and Artificial, as to their Productions, Natures or Qualities, various Preparations, Compositions and Uses. X. The method of making all kinds of Inks, both Natural and Sympathetical; and also many other Cariosities not here to be specified, whereby this is rendred a more Compleat Work than has hitherto appear'd in any language.
Barrow, John, teacher of mathematics.Date: MDCCXXXV. [1735]- Books
Supporting your microbiome : the vag edition / by Miranda Welch ; illustrations by Ashley Hartman Annis.
Welch, MirandaDate: 2019- Books
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The family pocket-book: or, fountain of true and useful knowledge. Containing The farrier's guide; or, the Horse Dissected: Being the most accurate, and satisfactory Account of the Diseases incident to that noble Beast, ever yet publish'd; with their Signs, Symptoms, Prognosticks and Cures in all Cases; a certain Cure for the Glanders, without trepanning; a never-failing Cure for the Grease; and another for broken-winded Horses: wrote by way of Dialogue between a Horse-Doctor and a Groom, by a late eminent Surgeon. The best Manner of breaking a Colt, of ordering a Horse of Pleasure, and ample Directions for the Management of a Race-Horse. Certain Method of preventing Chimneys from smoaking, let their Form or Situation be what they will; with a Print, the better to enable those concerned in building to prevent those great Inconveniencies for the future. The valuable Fire-Ball; by the Use of which, Families may make four or five Bushels of Coals go as far as forty. An excellent Way to bring Singing Birds to a very great Perfection, by that famous German, Lewis de Burgh. Extraordinary Method of Breeding Game-Cocks; the Manner of dieting and ordering them for Battle; sure Way of matching them: with a choice and valuable Secret for feeding a Cock four Days before fighting, communicated by a noble Lord, by which very extraordinary way of feeding, upwards of ninety Battles have been won out of a Hundred. Indian Way of marking on Silk, Linen, Woollen, &c. Curious Method of casting Urinc, and how Disorders are known by it. The Art of curling, dressing, or colouring Hair. Sir Hans Sloane's valuable Cure for Disorders of the Eyes. Certain Method of preventing the Teeth from being uneven, or bad, by Sig. Curzoni, Operator of the Teeth and Gums. Mons. Rouille's Lip-Salve. The Tea-Tree, and Manner of growing it in England. Instructions for mounting Fans. The Gardener's Legacy; containing all the Instructions necessary for the Cultivation of the Fruit, Flower, and Kitchen-Garden. The good housewife's daily companion; being a choice Collection of the most famous Physical Receipts, for the Cure of almost all Disorders of the human Body, taken chiefly from the late Sir Hans Sloane's, and the ingenious Dr. Lower's Works. Compiled after Thirty Years Experience, by Peregrine Montague, Gent.
Date: [1762?]- Books
For the love of animals : the rise of the animal protection movement / Kathryn Shevelow.
Shevelow, Kathryn, 1951-Date: 2008- Books
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Polygraphice: or, The arts of drawing, engraving, etching, limning, painting, washing, varnishing, guilding, colouring, dying, beautifying, and perfuming : In four books. Exemplified in the drawing of men, women, landskips, countries, and figures of various forms; the way of engraving, etching, and limning, with all their requisites and ornaments; the depicting of the most eminent pieces of antiquities; the paintings of the ancients; washing of maps, globes, or pictures; the dying of cloth, silk, horns, bones, wood, glass, stones, and metals; the varnishing, colouring, and guilding thereof, according to any purpose or intent; the painting, colouring, and beautifying of the face, skin, and hair; the whole doctrine of perfumes, together with the original, advancement, and perfection of the art of painting; the like never published till now ; To which is added, a discourse of perspective and chiromancy.
Salmon, William, 1644-1713Date: 1680- Books
Feeling pleasures : the sense of touch in Renaissance England / Joe Moshenska.
Moshenska, Joe, 1983-Date: 2014- Books
The first man-made man : the story of two sex changes, one love affair, and a twentieth-century medical revolution / Pagan Kennedy.
Kennedy, Pagan, 1962-Date: 2007