Stories
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Sharing Nature: Plastic fantastic
There are serious concerns about plastics in the environment. Yet they make our lives much easier, even in the natural world.
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Living with less for spiritual gain
Today, a minimalist lifestyle is trumpeted as a route to happiness. Find out what religious ascetics from history and modern proponents of the spartan-looking home can teach us.
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Digitising Audrey
Building digital images of what Audrey created means that her work can be frozen in time – for the digital version, at least, the process of decay is halted, and any number of people can view it without the risk of damaging it.
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Illuminated manuscripts, illuminating medicines
From rare bugs to exorbitantly priced plant parts, find out more about the artistic and medical uses of pigments from the past.
Catalogue
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Sick buildings and sick bodies : the materialization of an occupational illness in late capitalism / by Michelle Murphy.
Murphy, Michelle (Claudette Michelle)Date: 1998- Books
Shades of "schizophrenia" and the rise of radicalized hyper-materialization : a psychoanalytic exploration of abnormal minds and translucent bodies in the works of Stephen King and Nathaniel Hawthorne / Bryce Christopher Lucas.
Lucas, Bryce Christopher.Date: [2006], ©2006- Pictures
A man consulting a wizard, who shows him materializations of human figures in the form of skeletons. Coloured etching by George Cruikshank.
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.Date: Between 1800 and 1899Reference: 47616i- Books
HIV interventions : biomedicine and the traffic between information and flesh / Marsha Rosengarten.
Rosengarten, Marsha.Date: [2009], ©2009- Books
Materials interactions relevant to the pulp, paper, and wood industries : symposium held April 18-20, 1990, San Francisco, California, U.S.A / editors, D.F. Caulfield, J.D. Passaretti, S.F. Sobczynski.
Date: [1990], ©1990