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    Rumbles

    A Curious History of the Gut: The Secret Story of the Body’s Most Fascinating Organ

    by Elsa Richardson ...
    Narrated by Zehra Jane Naqvi ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 27 min

    The fascinating—and often secret—history of the body's most fascinating system: the gut.The stomach is notoriously outspoken. It growls, gurgles, and grumbles while other organs remain silent, inconspicuous, and content. For centuries humans have puzzled over this rowdy organ, deliberating on the extent of its influence over cognition, mental wellbeing, and emotions, and wondering how the gut ... Read more

    $28.84 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

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  • Rumbles

    A Curious History of the Gut: The Secret Story of the Body's Most Fascinating Organ

    by Elsa Richardson ...
    The fascinating—and often secret—history of the body's most fascinating system: the gut.The stomach is notoriously outspoken. It growls, gurgles, and grumbles while other organs remain silent, inconspicuous, and content. For centuries humans have puzzled over this rowdy, often overzealous organ, deliberating on the extent of its influence over cognition, mental wellbeing and emotions, and ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Second Sight in the Nineteenth Century

    Prophecy, Imagination and Nationhood

    by Elsa Richardson ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book explores the phenomenon of second sight in nineteenth-century literature and culture. Second sight is a form of prophetic vision associated with the folklore of the Scottish Highlands and Islands. Described in Gaelic as the An-da-shealladh or ‘the two sights’, those in possession of this extraordinary power are said to foresee future events like the death of neighbour, the arrival of ... Read more

    $128.99 CAD

  • Love, Desire and Melancholy

    Inspired by Constance Maynard (1849-1935)

    Edited by Angharad Eyre, Jane Mackelworth, Elsa Richardson ...
    Originally inspired by the digitisation of the autobiographical writings of Constance Maynard, this volume considers women’s historical experience of sexuality through the frame of the history of emotions. Constance Maynard (1849-1935) rose to prominence as the first Mistress and Principal of Westfield College, holding that position from 1882 to 1913. However, her writings offer more than an ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

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    Applying Philosophy to life

    by Prof A.C. Grayling ...
    A refreshing distillation of insights into the human condition, by one of the best-known and most popular philosophers in the UK.Thinking about life, what it means and what it holds in store does not have to be a despondent experience, but rather can be enlightening and uplifting. A life truly worth living is one that is informed and considered so a degree of philosophical insight into the ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Introduction to Travel Writing

    by Tim Youngs ...
    Critics have long struggled to find a suitable category for travelogues. From its ancient origins to the present day, the travel narrative has borrowed elements from various genres - from epic poetry to literary reportage - in order to evoke distant cultures and exotic locales, and sometimes those closer to hand. Tim Youngs argues in this lucid and detailed Introduction that travel writing ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Fearing the Black Body

    The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia

    by Sabrina Strings ...
    Winner, 2020 Body and Embodiment Best Publication Award, given by the American Sociological AssociationHonorable Mention, 2020 Sociology of Sex and Gender Distinguished Book Award, given by the American Sociological AssociationHow the female body has been racialized for over two hundred yearsThere is an obesity epidemic in this country and poor black women are particularly stigmatized as “diseased ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD

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  • The Legend of Spring-Heeled Jack

    Victorian Urban Folklore and Popular Cultures

    by Karl Bell ...
    WINNER of the 2013 Katharine Briggs AwardNEW LOWER PRICEThis book uses the nineteenth-century legend of Spring-Heeled Jack to analyse and challenge current notions of Victorian popular cultures. Starting as oral rumours, this supposedly supernatural entity moved from rural folklore to metropolitan press sensation, co-existing in literary and theatrical forms before finally degenerating into a ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • The Dirt on Clean

    An Unsanitized History

    by Katherine Ashenburg ...
    For the first-century Roman, being clean meant a public two-hour soak in baths of various temperatures, a scraping of the body with a miniature rake, and a final application of oil. For the seventeenth-century aristocratic Frenchman, it meant changing his shirt once a day, using perfume to obliterate both his own aroma and everyone else’s, but never immersing himself in – horrors! – water. By the ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

  • Spectres of the Self

    Thinking about Ghosts and Ghost-Seeing in England, 1750–1920

    by Shane McCorristine ...
    Spectres of the Self is a fascinating study of the rich cultures surrounding the experience of seeing ghosts in England from the Reformation to the twentieth century. Shane McCorristine examines a vast range of primary and secondary sources, showing how ghosts, apparitions, and hallucinations were imagined, experienced, and debated from the pages of fiction to the case reports of the Society for ... Read more

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  • Through the Darkness

    Glimpses into the History of Western Medicine

    by Monica-Maria Stapelberg ...
    The fascinating history of medicine in Europe is filled with curious, often bizarre, strange, and gruesome cures, enthusiastically espoused by physicians and other medical practitioners of the times. Repulsive and disgusting examples of ‘medications’ often dominated treatment directives and many proposed cures were all but useless, highly dangerous and even lethal.This book explores compelling, ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1830–1914

    Edited by Joanne Shattock ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The nineteenth century witnessed unprecedented expansion in the reading public and an explosive growth in the number of books and newspapers produced to meet its demands. These specially commissioned essays examine not only the full range and variety of texts that entertained and informed the Victorians, but also the boundaries of Victorian literature: the links and overlap with Romanticism in the ... Read more

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