Stories
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The intimate and invasive art of ethical taxidermy
Does displaying dead animals bring us closer to nature, or drive us further apart?
- Book extract
What the wind can bring
In this extract from ‘This Book is a Plant’, Amanda Thomson shares a newfound fascination with flowers, and reveals why our relationship with plants can also be complicated.
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Rocking psychiatry with R D Laing
Turn on, tune in, drop out. Discover how six rock songs from the 1960s and 1970s link the ideas of famous therapist R D Laing with the era’s counterculture.
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The solidarity of sickness
Visiting an injured friend in hospital prompts writer Sinéad Gleeson to reflect on the instant rapport forged between compatriots in the kingdom of the sick.
Catalogue
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Reframing Darwin : evolution and art in Australia / edited by Jeanette Hoorn.
Date: 2009- Books
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Healthful amusements, and ingenious exercises: or the nobleman's pocket companion in sports & recreations. Containing the art and cunning in hunting, The Names and Descriptions of the Beasts of Chace; the Choice of Hounds, &c. The managing of Horses, Racing, &c. The method of Hawking. Of Bowling. Of Tennis. Of Cock-Fighting. Of Fowling. How to take all manner of Fowls and Birds; The Art of Fishing, and sundry curious baits, and how to procure and keep them for Fishing.
Date: [1770?]- Books
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The pen's dexterity; or, the ingenious and useful art of writing short-hand. Containing twenty copper-plates, (curiously engraved in the Author's Life-Time for the Use of his Scholars) of all the Letters, Characters, and Contractions used therein. - With Rules and Directions explaining the same to the meanest Capacity. Whereunto are added, Law-Terms, with other Discourses, as on War, Trade, Birds, Beasts, Fruit, Vermin, &c. By Jeremiah Rich.
Rich, Jeremiah, -1660?.Date: [1792]- Books
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Fishing and hunting. The art and cunning of hunting the hart, stag, hare, Fox, Otter, wid Goat, &c. The management of a horse, Riding, &c. The method of hawking and how to take all manner of game Fowls, Birds, &c. Of cock-fighting. To play on bowling greens, tennis, &c. The art of fishing and sundry curious Baits, viz. Worms, Flies, Pastes, &c. and how to procure and keep them for Fishing; how to bring the Fish to any Part of the Pond: to make Worms for Baits come out of the Ground; the artificial Cad-Fly: How to take the Fish in the night; the best Time to Angle in, &c. Price 6d.
Date: [1720?]- Books
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The artist's vade-mecum; being the whole art of drawing, taught in a new work, elegantly engraved on one hundred folio copper-plates; Containing Great Variety of Examples in every Branch of that noble Art; AS Parts of the Face, Heads, Hands, Feet, Academy, Antiques, And Groups of Figures, Beasts, Birds, Insects, Flowers, Fruit, Shells, Ornaments, Buildings, Landscapes, &c. &c. &c. Collected from the Works of the greatest Masters. To which is prefixed, an essay on drawing: With Introductory Rules for the Use of Learners: In Which The First Principles of that useful and noble Art are explained in such Manner that it may be attained in a short Time without a Master.
Date: MDCCLXXVI. [1776]