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An Illustrated History of Health and Fitness, from Pre-History to our Post-Modern World
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1095

An Illustrated History of Health and Fitness, from Pre-History to our Post-Modern World

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-11-27
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  • Publisher: Springer

This book examines the health/fitness interaction in an historical context. Beginning in primitive hunter-gatherer communities, where survival required adequate physical activity, it goes on to consider changes in health and physical activity at subsequent stages in the evolution of “civilization.” It focuses on the health impacts of a growing understanding of medicine and physiology, and the emergence of a middle-class with the time and money to choose between active and passive leisure pursuits. The book reflects on urbanization and industrialization in relation to the need for public health measures, and the ever-diminishing physical demands of the work-place. It then evaluates the attitudes of prelates, politicians, philosophers and teachers at each stage of the process. Finally, the book explores professional and governmental initiatives to increase public involvement in active leisure through various school, worksite, recreational and sports programmes.

The Report of the British and Foreign Bible Society
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 972

The Report of the British and Foreign Bible Society

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1812
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Vols. 1-64 include extracts from correspondence.

A Biographical Index of British and Irish Botanists
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 216

A Biographical Index of British and Irish Botanists

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1893
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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A Cabinet of Medical Curiosities
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 276

A Cabinet of Medical Curiosities

Long ago, curiosities were arranged in cabinets for display: a dried mermaid might be next to a giant's shinbone, the skeletons of conjoined twins beside an Egyptian mummy. In ten essays, Jan Bondeson brings a physician's diagnostic skills to various unexpected, gruesome, and extraordinary aspects of the history of medicine: spontaneous human combustion, colonies of snakes and frogs living in a person's stomach, kings and emperors devoured by lice, vicious tribes of tailed men, and the Two-Headed Boy of Bengal. Bondeson tells the story of Mary Toft, who gained notoriety in 1726 when she allegedly gave birth to seventeen rabbits. King George I, the Prince of Wales, and the court physicians at...

Nineteenth Century Short-title Catalogue: phase 1. 1816-1870
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 712

Nineteenth Century Short-title Catalogue: phase 1. 1816-1870

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1984
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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British Museum Catalogue of printed Books
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 464

British Museum Catalogue of printed Books

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1897
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Journal of Botany
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 500

Journal of Botany

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1890
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Journal of Botany, British and Foreign
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 866

Journal of Botany, British and Foreign

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1890
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Kelly's Post Office London Directory
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 758

Kelly's Post Office London Directory

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1891
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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