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The house of Joan

The longueurs of hospital stays and enforced inactivity were the spur to Joan’s precise tailoring skills and flamboyant creations, all to the benefit of her fashion-loving sisters.

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A quick guide to drugs, the brain and brain chemistry

Discover some of the major chemicals that govern activity in our brains, how they work, and why certain drugs have the effects they do.

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Restoring disorder to ‘The Book of Disquiet’

Printer Tim Hopkins explains what making an extraordinary new edition of Fernando Pessoa’s book revealed about both the text and the mind.

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The ambivalence of air

Daisy Lafarge investigates the effects of air quality and pressure on body and mind, exploring air as cure, but one with contradictions.

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  • London labour and the London poor : a cyclopaedia of the condition and earnings of those that will work, those that cannot work, and those that will not work. / by Henry Mayhew.
  • London labour and the London poor : a cyclopaedia of the condition and earnings of those that will work, those that cannot work, and those that will not work. / by Henry Mayhew.
  • London labour and the London poor : a cyclopaedia of the condition and earnings of those that will work, those that cannot work, and those that will not work. / by Henry Mayhew.
  • The book of perfumes / by Eugene Rimmel.
  • A practical treatise on the use of the microscope, including the different methods of preparing and examining animal, vegetable, and mineral structures / by John Quekett.
  • A practical treatise on the use of the microscope, including the different methods of preparing and examining animal, vegetable, and mineral structures / by John Quekett.
  • A practical treatise on the use of the microscope, including the different methods of preparing and examining animal, vegetable, and mineral structures / by John Quekett.
  • Practical pharmacy: the arrangements, apparatus, and manipulations, of the pharmaceutical shop and laboratory / By Francis [sic] Mohr ... and Theophilus Redwood.
  • The anatomy of the external forms of man : intended for the use of artists, painters and sculptors / By J. Fau ; edited with additions by Robert Knox. With an atlas of twenty-eight plates, quarto.
  • The anatomy of the external forms of man : intended for the use of artists, painters and sculptors / By J. Fau ; edited with additions by Robert Knox. With an atlas of twenty-eight plates, quarto.
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