Stories
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Drugs in Victorian Britain
Many common remedies were taken throughout the 19th century, with more people than ever using them. What was the social and cultural context of this development?
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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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Unravelling genetic origins from the potato to cinchona
Starting with the humble potato, Nataly Allasi Canales reveals how researchers unearth the genetic origins of modern plant varieties, and explains why their work is so important for biodiversity.
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Hamlet, the melancholic Prince of Denmark
Hamlet clearly demonstrates an excess of black bile and is arguably the most famous literary melancholic.
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History of a voyage to the land of Brazil, otherwise called America : containing the navigation and the remarkable things seen on the sea by the author; the behavior of Villegagnon in that country; the customs and strange ways of life of the American savages; together with the description of various animals, trees, plants, and other singular things completely unknown over here / Jean de Léry ; translation and introduction by Janet Whatley.
Léry, Jean de, 1534-1611Date: 1992, ©1990- Books
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The poisonous, noxious, and suspected plants of our fields and woods / by Anne Pratt ; published under the direction of the Committee of General Literature and Education, appointed by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.
Pratt, Anne, 1806-1893.Date: [1857 or 1866?]- Books
The mythology of plants : botanical lore from ancient Greece and Rome / Annette Giesecke.
Giesecke, AnnetteDate: [2014]- Books
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Plant-animals : a study in symbiosis / by Frederick Keeble.
Keeble, Frederick, Sir, 1870-1952.Date: 1910- Books
Vanajyotsnā-sahastrasaumanasī = Vanajyotsnā-sahasrasaumanasī : Flora & plant kingdom in Sanskrit literature / editor, Abha Kulshreshtha ; asst. editor, Anju Bala ; managing editor, Jagan Nath ; [principal investigators & editors, Sushma Kulshreshtha, Jagadish Sahai].
Date: 2003