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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The history of brainwashing
Is it possible to control what other people think? In this abridged extract from his book ‘Brainwashed’, psychoanalyst and historian Daniel Pick offers us a new history of thought control.
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Fantastic beasts and unnatural history
Find out how a 17th-century compendium of the natural world came to present fantastical beasts –like dragons – as real, living creatures.
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The hidden history of homesickness
Gail Tolley delves into the history of homesickness and discovers that its rich past holds a clue to how we view the experience today.
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The history of the English language; deduced from its origin, and traced through its different stages and revolutions: Being very interesting for Persons ignorant of the Infant State of their own Country and those Revolutions; And For the Benefit of those who aspire to the Perfect Knowledge of their Mother Tongue. By V. J. Peyton, Author of the Elememts of the English - Language.
Peyton, V. J.Date: M.DCC.LXXI. [1771]- Books
The Britannia Bridge : the generation and diffusion of technological knowledge / Nathan Rosenberg and Walter G. Vincenti.
Rosenberg, Nathan, 1927-2015.Date: [1978], ©1978- Books
Hubble's legacy : reflections by those who dreamed it, built it, and observed the universe with it / edited by Roger D. Launius and David H. DeVorkin.
Date: 2014- Books
A social history of knowledge. II, From the Encyclopédie to Wikipedia / Peter Burke.
Burke, Peter, 1937-Date: 2012- Books
[Box of papers given at the Symposium on the history and philosophy of knowledge of the brain and its functions, London, 1957].
Symposium on the History and Philosophy of Knowledge of the Brain and its Functions (1957 : London, England)Date: [between 1950 and 1959?]
