The Prayer Book Dictionary

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Birds in the Prayer Book of Bonne of Luxembourg

The miniatures of the Prayer Book of Bonne of Luxembourg incorporate many birds among the leaves and tendrils of their margins, and occasionally another small animal, such as a rabbit or a butterfly. The birds are surprisingly numerous there are almost two hundred, all very small, usually three-eighths of an inch or less in size. Despite their tiny dimensions, well over half these birds are pai...

Death in Imam Sajjad`s complete prayer book

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Book Reviews A Dictionary of Epidemiology

When glancing at the cover of the sixth edition of A Dictionary of Epidemiology, the first question that came to mind was whether a new edition of the dictionary was really necessary in an era when everything or almost everything can be found on the internet. It is a difficult question: instead of discussing whether a book is good or not, we debate whether it makes sense to have it in the first...

Book reviews A DICTIONARY OF NEUROLOGICAL SIGNS

In the early 1960s a live BBC television broadcast on Parkinson's disease showed the moment of cessation of tremor in a patient undergoing stereotactic surgery. The importance of the physical sign not only in diagnosis but also, together with knowledge of anatomy, in understanding pathophysiology was made clear and a future addiction to physical signs primed in at least one viewer. Subsequent m...