Stories
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When everyday environments become anxious spaces
Social anxiety disorder isolates those who experience it. Part of the solution is to design public spaces with mental health in mind.
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How stories bring us together
Elif Shafak considers how hard it is to be heard in our divided world, but how listening can nurture wisdom, connection and empathy.
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Naked, not nude
Classicist Caroline Vout argues that it’s time to take the dust covers off the Ancient Greeks and Romans, and to encounter their bodies not nude, but naked.
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Providing care across languages
When medics are taught in English but their patients speak other languages, effective communication becomes fraught. Niyoshi Shah explores the linguistic gaps between patient and doctor.
Catalogue
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The ecology of freedom : the emergence and dissolution of hierarchy / Murray Bookchin.
Bookchin, Murray, 1921-2006Date: ©[1982]- Books
Goffman's legacy / edited by A. Javier Treviño ; foreword by Charles Lemert.
Date: [2003], ©2003
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The people of China weighed down by the hierarchy of emperor, mandarins and priests. Coloured lithograph by Smith, 1858.
Date: 3 May 1858Reference: 33098iPart of: Manners and customs of the Chinese- Books
Essays in comparative social stratification / Leonard Plotnicov and Arthur Tuden, editors.
Date: 1970
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The Nachash origin of the black and mixed races / by C. Blancher Thompson.
Thompson, Charles Blancher, 1814-1895.Date: 1860