Stories
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Life before assistive technology
When an inherited condition caused Alex Lee’s vision to deteriorate, he began to discover the technologies that would help him navigate the world around him. Here he describes how his life began to change.
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How do advertisers get inside our heads?
Vance Packard exposed techniques of mass manipulation developed by 1950s advertisers that are still at work today in the age of big data.
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The 200-year search for normal people
Sarah Chaney poses the question we’ve likely all asked at some point in our lives: 'Am I normal?’, and explores whether normality even exists.
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Natural eating in Jamaica and the Caribbean
Riaz Phillips is passionate about the Jamaican food he grew up with and plant-based Caribbean food he came to later, like roti, baiganee and vegan stews and curries. Here he explores the origins and surging popularity of these natural ‘health foods’.
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Select portions of the Psalms of David, for the use of parish-churches; the words from the old version, and the music from the most approved compositions.
Date: [1780?]- Books
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Psalms selected from the version of the Revd. Jas. Merrick, ... The music partly new, and partly chosen from the works of the most eminent composers, by the Revd. W. D. Tattersall, ...
Date: [1795?]- Books
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The royal psalmodist compleat: or, the new universal harmony. Being a whole body of church-musick: Containing near One Hundred of the very best Tunes, both Old and New; adapted to the most select Portions of the whole Book of Psalms: With Variety of Tunes, entirely New. Extracted from the Best masters, both Ancient and Modern; and Correctly set in Four Parts, according to the Nicest Rules, for Voices, or Organ, &c. and so neat as to be sung in Two or Three Parts, when Voices can't be had; exempt from the least Disallowance; and fitted for all Teachers, Learners, and Musical Societies, &c. To which are added, A New Jubilate, and Magnificat: With a Variety of Hymns, Anthems, Canons, &c. with compendious Instructions to the Whole. By William Tansur, Musico Theorico. Author of the Melody of the Heart; The Harmony of Sion; The Beauty of Holiness, &c. &c. &c.
Date: [1748]- Books
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A course of singing Psalms, for half a year; beginning on the first Sunday in January, and again on the first Sunday in July: And also Proper Psalms for Particular Days and Occasions. Agreeable to the directions given by the late Lord Bishop of London to the Clergy of his Diocese, in the year 1724. Together with the tunes adapted to each Psalm.
Date: [1765?]- Books
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A collecion [sic] of Psalms, proper to be sung at churches; and suited to the several parts of divine service. ... The whole collected out of the new version, and set to the most approved tunes.
Date: 1704