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The meanings of hurt
In the early modern period, gruesome incidents of self-castration and other types of self-injury garnished the literature of the time. Alanna Skuse explores the messages these wounds conveyed.
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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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An essay on the nature and constitution of man; comprehending an answer to the following question, proposed by a learned society: "are there any satisfactory proofs of the immateriality of the soul? If such proofs exist, what conclusions are to be formed from them with respect to the Soul's duration, sensation, and employment, in its state of separation from the Body ?'' " By R. C. Sims, M.D.
Sims, Robert Courthope, -1807.Date: M,DCC,XCIII. [1793]- Books
Nueva filosofia de la naturaleza del hombre, no conocida, ni alcanzada de los grandes filosofos antiguos, la qual mejora la vida, y salud humana, con las adicciones de la segunda impression / Escrita, y sacada a luz por Doña Oliva Sabuco de Nantes Barrera [or rather by her father Miguel Sabuco Álvarez] con un elogio del doctor Don Martin Martinez á esta obra. Con la dedicatoria al rey don Phelipe segundo. Esta nueva impression va expurgada segun el expurgatorio publicado por el Santo Oficio de la Santa y General Inquisicion el año de 1707.
Sabuco de Nantes y Barrera, Oliva, 1562-Date: 1728- Books
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Considerations on man, in his natural as well as moral state. Being an humble attempt towards a plain, simple, and orthodox explanation of the nature and manner of animal and vegetable motion; or, a demonstrative account of the nature and manner of that sympathy, connection, and intercourse, which subsists between the soul and body in an animal, solving all the phænomena of the animal world, of our moral and physical intelligence, &c. hitherto so much the subjects of dispute. Once intended for the press, in three volumes. By a country-gentleman.
Halkerston, Helenus.Date: MDCCLXIV. [1764]- Books
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Anthropōlogia, or, A philosophic discourse concerning man : being the anatomy both of his soul and body : wherein the nature, origin, union, immaterality, immortality, extension, and faculties of the one and the parts, humours, temperaments, complexions, functions, sexes, and ages respecting the other are concisely delineated / by S.H.
Haworth, Samuel, active 1683Date: 1680- Books
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Hartley's theory of the human mind, on the principle of the association of ideas; with essays relating to the subject of it. By Joseph Priestley, LL. D. F. R. S.
Hartley, David, 1705-1757.Date: M.DCC.LXXV. [1775]