Stories
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The girl with no name
When a now anonymous teenager sold her tooth for transplant, she couldn’t have predicted that she’d end up at the heart of a troubling story about 18th-century beauty ideals.
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Rehab centres and the ‘cure’ for addiction
Guy Stagg takes us on a brief history of rehab centres and their approaches to addiction and recovery.
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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.
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The meaning of happiness
What is happiness? Tiffany Watt Smith charts how its definition has changed over time, from chance emotion to something that can be measured and controlled.
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The seasons. Considered as representing the different periods of man's life - as evidences of the power, wisdom, and goodness of God - and as Motives to incite to Piety and Devotion. By James Maxwell, Poet in Paisley.
Maxwell, James, 1720-1800.Date: M.DCC.LXXXVII. [1787]- Books
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Multum in parvo: or, brief miscellaneous poems on divine and moral subjects: To which is subjoined, A Pathetical Expostulation with the Rev. Mr. - Minister of the Gospel at. - Intended as an humble Advice for promoting the Education of Youth, and a Warning against unnecessary and rash Swearing. By James M'farlane, M. A. School Master at Port of Monteith.
McFarlane, James, schoolmaster at Port of Monteith.Date: M,DCC,LXIX. [1769]- Books
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An elegant and useful publication for the fair sex. Adapted for families and boarding schools. On Monday, July 2, 1798, will be published, In a convenient size for the pocket, fancifully done up in coloured paper, and embellished with, 1st, a Portrait of Mrs. Hannah More, beautifully engraved by an eminent artist; 2d, a superb Coloured Plate of the present Fashionable Dresses for the Ladies. Number I. (price 1s.) of the Ladies' Monthly Museum; or, polite repository of amusement and instruction: Being an assemblage of whatever can tend to please the Fancy, interest the Mind, or exalt the character of the British Fair. By a Society of Ladies. London: printed for the Proprietors, and sold by Messrs. Vernor and Hood, in the Poultry, and by every Bookseller in the three Kingdoms. - Communications addressed to the Editors, Post paid, will be thankfully received.
Date: 1798]- Books
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The guardian goddess of health: or, The whole art of preventing and curing diseases; and of enjoying peace and happiness of body and of mind to the longest possible period of human existence: with precepts for the preservation and exaltation of personal beauty and loveliness. To which is added, an account of the composition, preparation, and properties of the three great medicines prepared and dispensed at the Temple of Health, Adelphi, and at the Temple of Hymen, Pall-Mall, London. By James Graham, M.D. This book is of so much real importance to the health and happiness of each individual among the public, that tho' it contains more matter or reading than most two shilling pamphlets, it is ordered to be sold for only two pence; - a price very inadequate to the prime cost of the paper, printing, distribution, &c. But salus populi suprema lex est!
Graham, James, 1745-1794.Date: [1780?]- Books
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The life of Nicolas Mooney. Wherein is contained, his parentage and education; an Account of his joining the Rebel Army at Carlisle, and the Part he acted therein, 'till the Defeat thereof at Culloden-Moor; the Adventures he met with both before and after this, 'till he took to the Highway; with a brief account of his vicious life, 'till he committed the Robbery at Bristol, for which he was executed on St. Michael's Hill on Friday, April 24, 1752. Together with his Religious and Moral Reflections upon the most remarkable Passages of his whole Life; and an Account of his Conversion the Sunday before his Trial. Taken from his own mouth by a friend; and publish'd at his Request.
Mooney, Nicolas, 1721-1752.Date: [1752]