Stories
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The unearthly children of science fiction’s Cold War
In the 1950s a new figure emerged in British novels, film and television: a disturbing young alien that revealed postwar society’s fear of the unruly power of teenagers.
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The big freeze
In recent years we’ve come to realise that global heating is our biggest threat. But it’s hard to shake off the fear of a return to ice-age conditions, the predominant narrative since the late 17th century.
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The stranger who started an epidemic
New Orleans, 1853. James McGuigan arrives in the port city and succumbs to yellow fever.
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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.
Catalogue
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The Review of Black political economy
Date: 1970-- Books
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Catalogue of transactions of societies, periodicals, and memoirs, available for the use of professors and of students in the Radcliffe Library at the Oxford Museum : together with II. A catalogue of books recommended to students in physical science by the Museum professors, III. The regulations of the library, and IV. A fourth report to the Trustees from the Librarian.
Radcliffe Library (University of Oxford)Date: 1871- Journals
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Bulletin of the British Society for the History of Science
Date: 1949-- Journals
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Theriogenology
Date: 1974-- Journals
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Science & justice : journal of the Forensic Science Society.
Date: ©1995-