Staying healthy requires access to reliable, quality information sources. This book is designed as a simple guide to finding the best information in the field of health care both for basic enquiries and more research-orientated material. It looks at the best reference works in the area as well as relevent databases and electronic material and how best to use them. There is also a short description of some of the major collections that are ...

Nicolas Barker, OBE, FBA has made many distinguished contributions to the study of the book over the past forty years. In celebration of his seventieth birthday The British Library is publishing a selection of his occasional essays that show the range of his interests in a number of related fields: books and texts, books and people, typography and early printing, the history of the book, bookselling, and forgery. None of these essays has ...

Aimed at both patients and professionals, this is a lively account of how treatments can be tested with unbiased trials.
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The Lewis chessmen were found under mysterious circumstances on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland, in 1831. Probably made in Norway around AD 1150-1200, these enchanting chess pieces consist of elaborately worked walrus ivory and whales' teeth in the forms of seated kings and queens, mitred bishops, knights on their mounts, standing warders and pawns. This lively book considers the various fascinating stories which have evolved ...

Illuminated manuscripts are widely regarded as beautiful works of art in their own right, but if examined closely, they also reveal a wealth of information about the people depicted within them. Often these images are taken at face value, and assumed to depict everyday clothing at any given time: but illuminators often used dress, and elements within it, to help give nuances to the events they were painting, that contemporary viewers would have ...

This is the first time a major library has produced a catalogue that comprehensively records its holdings of early printed materials from all the Scandinavian countries. Books printed elsewhere in the languages of Scandinavia are included. The collection of over 11,000 items consists of books, periodicals and pamphlets, as well as maps and printed music. The author catalogue, containing detailed descriptions, is supplemented by indexes of ...

English Manuscript Studies is an Annual Periodical reflecting the growing level of scholarly interest in manuscript sources for literature and intellectual history from medieval to modern times. Contributors for Volume 8 include Hilton Kelliher on Beaumont, Fletcher and Field: New Biographical Light from Cambridge Records, James Knowles on The Duke of Buckingham Masque, Peter Beal on The Gower Manuscript of Poems by Thomas Carew, Scott Nixon on ...

It includes contributions by Colin Baker, Kathleen Doyle, Scot McKendrick, Vrej Nersessian and Ilana Tahan. ...

The introductory essays discuss the centres of production, artists and subjects of the medals; the reasons they were made; their design, production and functions; the diffusion of the Italian medal throughout Europe in the 16th century, and the history of collecting 16th-century Italian medals in Britain. ...

Revised and updated edition of this authoritative and vivid study of Ancient Egyptian magic. 40 colour, 56 b/w illus. ...