Stories
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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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Renaissance women and their killer cosmetics
In this extract from ‘How to be a Renaissance Woman’, Jill Burke delves into a complex world of beauty products, poison and patriarchy – and reveals the impossible contradictions of femininity faced by 16th-century women.
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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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Your gut’s instincts
Cultural historian Elsa Richardson explores the stomach’s influence over our emotions, and why trusting your gut is often good advice.
Catalogue
- Books
Words, thoughts, and theories / Alison Gopnik and Andrew N. Meltzoff.
Gopnik, AlisonDate: [1997]- Books
The new bookbinder : journal of designer bookbinders [volume thirty-six].
Designer Bookbinders PublishersDate: 2016- Books
The little tea book / Isha Mellor.
Mellor, IshaDate: [1985]- Books
The little coffee book / Jennie Reekie.
Reekie, Jennie, 1946-Date: [1985]- Books
Basic drug manufacture : easy to follow instructions for synthesizing cocaine - mescaline - psilocybin - lsd - dmt - mda - stp - thc / produced by the Twentieth Century Alchemist.
Twentieth Century AlchemistDate: 1973