Stories
- Long read
Our complicated love affair with light
Sunlight is essential, but our relationship with artificial light is less clear cut. It expands what’s possible; it also obscures and polices. In this long read, Lauren Collee pits light against night, and reveals the shady places in between.
- 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.
- Article
Is it really OK to not be OK?
Our mental healthcare system is still the poor relation of services that treat physical illness, and the pandemic has shone a spotlight on this situation. Campaigner James Downs argues for fundamental change.
- Article
Intelligence testing, race and eugenics
Specious ideas and assumptions about intelligence that were born during the great flourishing of eugenics well over 100 years ago still inform the British education system today, as Nazlin Bhimani reveals.
Catalogue
- Books
Economic aspects of health and human development / Khairuddin Yusof, Zinal Aznam Yusof.
Khairuddin Yusof.Date: 1979- Journals
- Online
Environment and development economics
Date: ©1996-- Books
Agricultural and environmental policies : opportunities for integration.
Date: 1989- Books
Earth summit : conversations with architects of an ecologically sustainable future / by Steve Lerner.
Lerner, Steve.Date: [1991], ©1991- Books
Biotechnology for a clean environment : prevention, detection, remediation.
Date: [1994], ©1994