Stories
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Silent threat
As Vanessa Peterson recovered from a frighteningly serious illness, she wondered whether it was linked to air quality. For many communities, she found, pollution is a political issue.
- Book extract
Inside the Cold War mind
Martin Sixsmith explores the competing national psyches of Russia and America, and a world divided between their irreconcilable visions of human nature.
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How can we prevent violence?
Evidence shows that strategies to prevent some types of violence can be very effective, while other, less well-acknowledged forms continue unabated. But hope can still guide us into a more peaceful future.
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Deadly doses and the hardest of hard drugs
The invention of the modern hypodermic syringe meant we could get high – or accidentally die – faster than before. Find out how this medical breakthrough was adapted for deadly uses.
Catalogue
- Books
Life between islands : Caribbean-British art 1950s - now / edited by Alex Farquharson and David A. Bailey.
Date: 2021- Books
Women, race and class / Angela Y. Davis.
Davis, Angela Y. (Angela Yvonne), 1944-Date: 2019- Books
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The Travels and surprising adventures of John Thomson, who was taken, and carried to America, and sold for a slave there: - how he was taken captive by the savages. - With an account of his happy delivery, after four months slavery, and his return to Scotland. Entered according to order.
Date: 1800?]- Archives and manuscripts
English Language Autograph Letters: GO
Date: 1680-1922Reference: MS.9142