Stories
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Restoring disorder to ‘The Book of Disquiet’
Printer Tim Hopkins explains what making an extraordinary new edition of Fernando Pessoa’s book revealed about both the text and the mind.
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Winter blues and the story of SAD
In ‘Chasing the Sun‘ Linda Geddes reveals why for some people, winter is literally depressing, showing how we first came to recognise seasonal affective disorder (SAD).
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Eating their own kind
In his grisly history of cannibalism, zoologist Bill Schutt asks what drives an animal to feast on its own flesh and blood.
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Mapping the body
These intricate anatomical drawings show how Ayurveda practitioners have explored the human body and how it works.
Catalogue
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A guide to the literature of the history of medicine / compiled by Gale Moore.
Moore, Gale.Date: 1978- Books
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The young lady's new guide to arithmetic. Being a short and useful Selection, containing, besides the common and necessary Rules, the Application of each Rule, by a Variety of Practical Questions, chiefly on Domestic Affairs, together with the Method of making out Bills of Parcels, Book Debts, Receipts, &c. For the Use of Ladies' Schools, and Private Teachers. By John Greig, Teacher of Writing, Geography, &c.
Greig, John, 1759-1819.Date: 1800- Books
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Yorick's jests: being a new collection of jokes, witticisms, bon mots, and anecdotes, of the genuine sons of wit and humour of the last and present age. Containing A great Number of Humorous, Diverting, and Entertaining Jests and Stories, never before published in a Book of this Kind. To which are added, A New and Choice Selection of Poems, Fables, Tales, Epigrams, Epitaphs, Riddles, Rebuses, and Enigmas; And A Complete Collection of the most fashionable and favourite Toasts, Sentiments, and Hob Nobs, now in Vogue. The whole being intended as an antidote for the spleen, vapours, and melancholy.
Date: MDCCLXX. [1770]- Books
A selection from the writings of Joseph Needham / chosen, arranged and introduced by Mansel Davies.
Needham, Joseph, 1900-1995.Date: 1990- Books
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The quest of the folk : antimodernism and cultural selection in twentieth-century Nova Scotia / Ian McKay.
McKay, Ian, 1953-Date: [1994], ©1994