Stories
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The shifting shape of language
Author Jessica Andrews explores how her brother’s deafness has influenced her relationship with words and the world.
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Why all of us are evil
Science proves that we’re all capable of evil: your secret fantasy about killing someone you hate is surprisingly normal. But the way to better moral choices is to fight emotional instinct.
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“It wasn’t an accident that I came to you”
Douglas meets psychoanalyst Susie Orbach for a follow-up session, ahead of delivering a difficult verdict.
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Catalogue
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Ask Uncle Albert : 100 1/2 tricky science questions answered / Russell Stannard ; illustrated by John Levers.
Stannard, Russell.Date: 1998- Books
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Some brief remarks upon Mr. Jacob's treatise on wheel-carriages. Containing Chap. I. The Sample. II The Magic-Levers. III. Vis Inertiae. IV. Great Stones. V. The Imaginary Draught-Line. VI. The Challenge. By Daniel Bourn. Reader, I should not have taken the Pains to write an Answer to Mr. Jacob's Treatise, had it not been manifestly calculated to mislead the Publick with Respect to the Principles and Utility of Rolling Carriages, which are, at present, on the Eve of being introduced, and duly encouraged.
Bourn, Daniel.Date: MDCCLXXIII. [1773]
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Two men are using a plank over a large log as a see-saw; representing the mechanics of levers. Engraving.
Date: 1700-1799Reference: 36106i
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Mechanics: levers, pulleys, wedges, and forces. Engraving.
Reference: 45244i
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Mechanics: illustrations of levers, pulleys, wedges, and forces. Coloured engraving.
Reference: 45242i