Aging by the Book Yanjie ZhangUncovers the origins of midlife anxiety in Victorian print culture. Aging by the Book offers an innovative look at the ways in which middle age, which for centuries had been considered the prime of life, was transformed during the Victorian era into a period of decline. Single women were nearing middle age at thirty, and mothers in their forties were expected to become sexless; meanwhile, fortyish men anguished over whether their "time for love had
for it is through our bodies that we all must articulate our experience and live our lives
it is also a window on the obsession in its own time with the occult
Charts the story of the people of the Scottish Highlands from medieval times to the great crofter's rebellion in the 1880s
The narrator tells of witnessing the unstoppable onslaught of invaders from Mars
but also how they used their knowledge to further the interests of the state
high public support program costs
the Big Society
and analyses the dominant role played by constructions of national identity in shaping the arguments forwarded by these early Eurosceptics
including methods proposed and employed for their advancement
This book examines how historians have interpreted the German revolution of 1918-19 from its inception to the present day
Popp looks at brain science and examines the relationship between the genome and experience in terms of the contemporary concepts of preparedness and plasticity
including mycorrhizal fungi
