Stories
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Bringing Braille back to the modern world
For anyone who thinks Braille is so last century, read on. New tech is helping dust Braille down and bring it to today’s visually impaired people.
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The yogi as hermit, warrior, criminal and showman
How the modern world changed the life and reputation of the yogi.
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A history of mindfulness
Matt Drage questions how an ancient religious practice became a secular cure for stress.
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Vivekananda’s journey
How a young Indian monk’s travels around the world inspired modern yoga.
Catalogue
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The history of Ireland, from the earliest authentic accounts. By the editors of the Modern universal history.
Editors of the Modern universal history.Date: MDCCLXXXIV. [1784]- Books
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The Maps and charts to the modern part of the universal history.
Date: M.DCC.LXVI. [1766]- Books
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The Modern part of the universal history. Compiled from original writers. By the authors of the antient. Which will perfect the work, and render it a complete body of history, from the earliest account of time, to the present. Vol. XIV.
Date: M.DCC.LXIII. [1763]- Books
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Plan and outlines of a course of lectures on universal history, ancient and modern, delivered in the University of Edinburgh, by Alexander Tytler, Esq; Advocate, Professor of Civil History, and of Greek and Roman Antiquities. Illustrated with maps of Ancient and Modern Geography, and a Chronological Table.
Woodhouselee, Alexander Fraser Tytler, Lord, 1747-1813.Date: MDCCLXXXII. [1782]- Books
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Proposals for publishing the modern part of the Universal history. Compiled from original writers, by the authors of the antient. Which will perfect the work, and render it a complete body of history ...
Date: 1758]