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Research has shown that being near water or blue space helps us to be present, less stressed and more connected. Dr Catherine Kelly explores why, and how you can use it to enhance wellbeing.

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Since the early decades of the eighteenth century, European, and especially British, thinkers were preoccupied with questions of taste. Whether Americans believed that taste was innate—and therefore a marker of breeding and station—or acquired—and thus the product of application and study—all could appreciate that taste was grounded in, demonstrated through, and confirmed by reading, writing, and looking. It was widely believed that shared aes...

¿This book analyzes several components of democratization and party competition in West Africa focusing on Senegal - a country with one of the longest histories of multiparty elections. It does so in service of examining the origins and consequences of the proliferation of political parties, a trend that has taken hold in Senegal and a variety of other African countries. The author uses novel sources of data to illuminate the economic and poli...

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Catherine E. Kelly is Associate Professor and L. R. Brammer Jr. Presidential Professor of History at the University of Oklahoma. She is author of In the New England Fashion: Reshaping Women's Lives in the Nineteenth Century.

In the first half of the nineteenth century, rural New England society underwent a radical transformation as the traditional household economy gave way to an encroaching market culture. Drawing on a wide array of diaries, letters, and published writings by women in this society, Catherine E. Kelly describes their attempts to make sense of the changes in their world by elaborating values connected to rural life. In her hands, the narratives rev...

This study demonstrates the emergence and development of the identity of the `military medical officer¿ and places their work within the broader context of changes to British medicine during the first half of the nineteenth century.

This study demonstrates the emergence and development of the identity of the `military medical officer¿ and places their work within the broader context of changes to British medicine during the first half of the nineteenth century.

Cancer! The diagnosis used to be a death sentence! This is the story of my journey through diagnosis and treatment. It tells of chemotherapy and a stem cell transplant. It tells of visits from my family. But the true story is told in the actual email messages that were sent to family and friends along the way. There were days of despair and days of light. There were times of isolation and times of connection. This book has a beginning and an...

This study researches use of \"this\" and \"that\" by native speakers of English and non-native speakers of English. The research suggests that definitions and rules traditionally found in dictionaries and which are taught in ESL classes are not descriptive of use in a real world situation. The research suggests the possibility that the use of these rules in ESL teaching may lead to speech that is not native-like. The final appendix begins t...