Stories
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Does mass media pave the way to fascism?
In the aftermath of World War II, psychoanalysts found the psychological roots of authoritarianism closer to home than was comfortable.
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How do advertisers get inside our heads?
Vance Packard exposed techniques of mass manipulation developed by 1950s advertisers that are still at work today in the age of big data.
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Medics, migration and the NHS
In the 1960s the NHS became Britain’s biggest employer. So to help fill all those jobs, the government brought in thousands of workers from abroad.
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It’s getting mighty crowded
Mid-20th-century population-density research on mice produced a whiskered apocalypse, predicted to become the fate of humans too. But perhaps a more compassionate approach could fend this off.
Catalogue
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Alcohol dependence and smoking behaviour / edited by Griffith Edwards [and others].
Date: 1976- Books
The biography of a baby / Milicent Washburn Shinn ; introduction by T. Berry Brazelton.
Shinn, Milicent Washburn, 1858-1940Date: 1985- Books
ABC of obesity / edited by Naveed Sattar, Mike Lean.
Date: 2007- Books
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Paradise promised, by a dying Saviour, to the penitent thief on the cross. A sermon delivered at Cambridge, on Thursday, the eighteenth of November, immediately preceding the execution of Alexander White, Richard Barrick, and John Sullivan: with an appendix, exhibiting som account of their conversation and behaviour in prison, &c. By Timothy Hilliard, A.M. Pastor of the First Church in Cambridge.
Hilliard, Timothy, 1747-1790.Date: [1785]- Books
Evolution and human behaviour : Darwinian perspectives on human nature / John Cartwright.
Cartwright, John, 1953-Date: 2000