Stories
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Sharing Nature: Plastic fantastic
There are serious concerns about plastics in the environment. Yet they make our lives much easier, even in the natural world.
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Living with less for spiritual gain
Today, a minimalist lifestyle is trumpeted as a route to happiness. Find out what religious ascetics from history and modern proponents of the spartan-looking home can teach us.
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Digitising Audrey
Building digital images of what Audrey created means that her work can be frozen in time – for the digital version, at least, the process of decay is halted, and any number of people can view it without the risk of damaging it.
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Illuminated manuscripts, illuminating medicines
From rare bugs to exorbitantly priced plant parts, find out more about the artistic and medical uses of pigments from the past.
Catalogue
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Materialism philosophically examined / John Whitehead.
Whitehead, John, 1740?-1804.Date: 1992- Books
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Materialism / by J.M. Winn.
Winn, James M. (James Michell), 1808-1900.Date: 1875- Books
Materialism and society in the mid-eighteenth century : La Mettrie's Discours préliminaire / Ann Thomson.
Thomson, Ann.Date: 1981- Books
Materialism brought to the test of reason, and refuted by a consideration of the structure of the body and the faculties of the mind / by the Rev. Richard Hart.
Hart, RichardDate: 1835- Books
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Materialism brought to the test of reason : and refuted by a consideration of the structure of the body and the faculties of the mind / by the Rev. Richard Hart.
Hart, Richard, -1846.Date: 1835