Stories
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Fleeing fear, defying prejudice
As teenage refugee Sedra Al-Yousef grappled with rebuilding her life and education in another country, at the same time she used compassion and humanity to demolish populist anti-refugee myths.
- 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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Happiness in time
Trying to define happiness is like trying to grasp water: it evades us, constantly changing and becoming evident only in retrospect.
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Rediscovering a love of the game
Sexism and homophobia in football prompted Lara Goodwin to stop playing the sport at 19. Today, while discrimination in the game is still rife, Lara has found hope – and like-minded players – in an inclusive east London club.
Catalogue
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Photographic optics and colour photography : including the camera, kinematograph, optical lantern, and the theory and practice of image formation / by George Lindsay Johnson.
Johnson, G. Lindsay (George Lindsay), 1853-1943.Date: 1909- Books
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Über die prüfung des Lichtsinns : eine physiologicsh-klinische Studie / von Louis Wolffberg.
Wolffberg, Louis.Date: 1885- Books
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Ueber das Abhängigkeitsverhältniss der Sehschärfe von der Beleuchtungsintensität / von W. Uhthoff.
Uhthoff, W.Date: [1886?]- Books
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Ueber eine neue Methode den Winkel [alpha] resp [gamma] zu bestimmen / von Uhthoff.
Uhthoff, W.Date: [1884]- Books
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Studies in the photometry of lights of different colours / by Herbert E. Ives. : spectral luminosity curves obtained by the equality of brightness photometer and the flicker photometer under similar conditions.
Ives, Herbert Eugene, 1882-1953.Date: [1912]