Stories
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A history of gestation outside the body
It’s been over 400 years since a Swiss alchemist theorised that foetuses could develop outside the womb. Claire Horn examines incubator technology past and present, and explores the possibilities recent prototypes might bring.
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Crime drama and the realistic cadaver
Today we are accustomed to the increasingly realistic look of dead bodies in on-screen dramas. Special-effects expert Hildegunn M S Traa reveals how crime and morgue scenes reflect the social idea of death.
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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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How to play in secret
In secret games the strangers around you are playing too. They just don’t know it. Read on for some great ideas for undercover fun at work, school – or almost anywhere.
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The fourth volume of the works of Mr. Thomas Brown, serious, moral, comical, and satyrical. Consisting of Poems on several Occasions. Laconics; or, new Maxims of State and Conversation. The Praise of the Bottle. A Match for the Devil, a Poem. An Essay on Women. The Charms of the Bottle, a Friend to the Ladies. A new Million-Adventure, invented for Ladies that want Husbands, and younger Brothers that want Wives. Commendatory Verses on the Author of the two Arthurs. Collected by Mr. Brown. With a compleat Collection of Mr. Brown's Dialogues. Viz. Poet Bayes's Conversion, in two Parts. Joe Haynes's Conversion and Reconversion. The Welch Levite toss'd in a Blanket. The Reasons of the new Converts taking the Oaths to the Government. Reflexions on Julian Johnson's Argument, and the Pastoral Letter, &c. And Mr. Brown's Translation of the best Odes out of Horace.
Brown, Thomas, 1663-1704.Date: 1709- Books
Pathogenicity islands and the evolution of pathogenic microbes / edited by J. Hacker and J.B. Kaper.
Date: [2002], ©2002- Books
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A token for children. Being an exact account of the conversion, holy and exemplary lives and joyful death of several young children. By James Janeway, Minister of the Gospel. To which is added, A token for the children of New-England. Or, Some examples of children in who the fear of God was remarkable budding before they died, in several parts of New-England. Preserved and published for the encouragement of piety in other children. With new additions.
Janeway, James, 1636?-1674.Date: MDCCXLIX. [1749]- Books
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The School of good manners. Composed for the help of parents in teaching their children how to carry it in their places during their minority.
Date: 1794- Books
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The adventures of Captain Gulliver, in a voyage to the islands of Lilliput & Brobdingnag. Abridged from the works of the celebrated Dean Swift. Adorned with cuts.
Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745.Date: 1794