Stories
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Coasting to catastrophe
In climate change, everything – and everyone – is connected. The watery process that will gradually cut off the Isle of Thanet from the British mainland has begun, and everyone in the UK needs to pay attention.
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Sacred cows and nutritional purity in India
Apoorva Sripathi explores the complex reasons behind India’s recent boom in all things dairy – beginning with a 1970s Western food-aid programme.
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Blood
Discover the history, mythology and taboos around blood and menopause, and hear from some contemporary voices about their experiences of periods and the onset of menopause.
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Picturing mental health
Ron Hampshire created artworks while resident at Netherne psychiatric hospital. What can we learn from them?
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Catalogue
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Floods / Maurice Riordan.
Riordan, Maurice, 1953-Date: 2000- Books
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Floods, famines, and emperors : El Niño and the fate of civilizations / Brian Fagan.
Fagan, Brian MDate: [2009], ©2009- Books
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Essays and observations on the following subjects. Viz. On trade. - Husbandry of flax. -Raising Banks against Tides and Floods. -Hops. Directions for making Roads. Instructions for making Syder. Observations on the Linen Manufactury. -on Dressing Flax. - on brewing. Published by a Society of Gentlemen in Dublin.
Royal Dublin Society.Date: M,DCC,XL. [1740]- Books
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Three physico-theological discourses, concerning I. The primitive chaos, and Creation of the World. II. The general deluge, its Causes and Effects. III. The dissolution of the world, and Future Conflagration. Wherein are largely discussed, The Production and Use of Mountains; the Original of Fountains, of Formed Stones, and Sea-Fishes Bones and Shells found in the Earth; the Effects of particular Floods, and Inundations of the Sea; the Eruptions of Vulcano's; the Nature and Causes of Earthquakes. Also an Historical Account of those Two late remarkable Ones in Jamaica and England. With Practical Inferences. By John Ray, late Fellow of the Royal Society.
Ray, John, 1627-1705.Date: 1713- Books
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Three physico-theological discourses, concerning I. The primitive chaos, and Creation of the World. II. The general deluge, its Causes and Effects. III. The dissolution of the world, and Future Conflagration. Wherein are largely discussed, The Production and Use of Mountains; the Original of Fountains, of Formed Stones, and Sea-Fishes Bones and Shells found in the Earth; the Effects of particular Floods, and Inundations of the Sea; the Eruptions of Vulcano's; the Nature and Causes of Earthquakes. Also an Historical Account of those Two late remarkable Ones in Jamaica and England. With Practical Inferences. By John Ray, late Fellow of the Royal Society.
Ray, John, 1627-1705.Date: M.DCC.XXXII. [1732]