Book Review: Quiet Talks on Prayer

A Hospital Prayer Book

HIV, prayer, and vintage cars: Danny Douek talks shop

1454 JEM Vol. 206, No. 7, 2009 After rotating through hospitals around London as a physician, Danny Douek gravitated toward a research laboratory at Hammersmith Hospital, where he earned his PhD by tackling the thymus. He continued to monitor the thymus as a postdoc at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, finding that antiretroviral therapy helps to increase thymic out...

Death in Imam Sajjad`s complete prayer book

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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...