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Yoga adapts to time and place
A yoga teacher in 1930s India inspired today’s transnational practice with his spectacular fusion of tradition and innovation.
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Ayurveda: Knowledge for long life
The story of medicine in India is rich and complex. Aarathi Prasad investigates how it came to be this way.
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Womb milk and the puzzle of the placenta
A human baby needs milk to survive – and this holds true even before it’s born. Joanna Wolfarth explores “womb milk”, as well as ancient and modern ideas about the placenta.
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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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An account of the rise, progress, and present state of the most honorable and loyal Society of Ancient Britons, for supporting the charity school, erected in Gray's-Inn-Road, London; with a List of the Governors and Annual Subscribers.
Society of Ancient Britons.Date: 1800- Books
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The history of philosophy: containing the lives, opinions, actions and discourses of the philosophers of every sect. By Thomas Stanley, Esquire. In which the innumerable Mistakes, both in the Text and Notes of all former Editions are corrected, the Citations and References exactly adjusted and compared throughout with the Originals, and with the Latin Translation printed at Leipsick. To which is prefixed, an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author.
Stanley, Thomas, 1625-1678.Date: MDCCXLIII. [1743]- Books
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Lucretius his six books of epicurean philosophy and Manilius his five books containing a system of the ancient astronomy and astrology : together with The philosophy of the Stoicks / both translated into English verse with notes by Mr. Tho. Creech; To which is added the several parts of Lucretius, English'd by Mr. Dryden.
Lucretius Carus, TitusDate: 1700- Books
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The history of philosophy: containing the lives, opinions, actions and discourses of the philosophers of every sect. Illustrated with the effigies of divers of them. By Thomas Stanley, Esq;
Stanley, Thomas, 1625-1678.Date: MDCCI. [1701]- Books
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Philosophical arrangements by Iames Harris Esq.
Harris, James, 1709-1780.Date: MDCCLXXV [1775]