Stories
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The enduring myth of the mad genius
There’s a fine line to tread between creativity and psychosis.
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Sharing Nature: Parks for people
Paula Broom’s photograph of Sydney’s Centennial Park shows the complexity and joy we find in urban greenery.
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Nymphomania and hypersexuality in women and men
The history of nymphomania is closely bound with society's views on women and their sexuality.
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The meaning of happiness
What is happiness? Tiffany Watt Smith charts how its definition has changed over time, from chance emotion to something that can be measured and controlled.
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Letters, essays, and other tracts illustrating the antiquities of Great Britain and Ireland. Together with many curious discoveries of the affinity betwixt the language of the Americans and the ancient Britons To the Greek and Latin, &c. Also Specimens of the Celtic, Welsh, Irish, Saxon and American Languages. By the Rev. Dr. Malcolme.
Malcolm, David.Date: [1744]- Books
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The Americans roused, in a cure for the spleen. Or Amusement for a winter's evening; being the substance of a conversation on the times, over a friendly tankard and pipe. Between Sharp, a country parson. Bumper, a country justice. Fillpot, an inn-keeper. Graveairs, a deacon. Trim, a barber. Brim, a Quaker. Puff, a late representative. Taken in short-hand, by Sir Roger de Coverly. [Two lines in Latin from Horace]
De Coverly, Roger, Sir, 1728-1796.Date: [1775?]- Books
The history of the New World : Girolamo Benzoni's Historia del mondo nuovo / Girolamo Benzoni ; edited by Robert C. Schwaller and Jana Byars ; translated by Jana Byars.
Benzoni, Girolamo, 1519-1572?Date: [2017]- Books
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Life on the hyphen : the Cuban-American way / Gustavo Pérez Firmat.
Pérez Firmat, Gustavo, 1949-Date: 2012- Books
SALALM and the area studies community : papers of the thiry-seventh annual meeting of the Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American library materials, Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas May 30-June 4, 1992 / David Block, editor.
Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials 1992 : University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas)Date: [1994], ©1994