Author: Nicole Maxwell
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780806511740
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
Nicole Maxwell first visited the Amazon in search of medicinal plant lore more than 40 years ago. Her engrossing adventure story is an inspiring plea for civilization to save the plants and people who know how to use them before they are destroyed forever. For this newly revised edition, Maxwell catalogues plants mentioned in the text and their medicinal uses.
Witch Doctor's Apprentice
Author: Nicole Maxwell
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780806511740
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
Nicole Maxwell first visited the Amazon in search of medicinal plant lore more than 40 years ago. Her engrossing adventure story is an inspiring plea for civilization to save the plants and people who know how to use them before they are destroyed forever. For this newly revised edition, Maxwell catalogues plants mentioned in the text and their medicinal uses.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780806511740
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
Nicole Maxwell first visited the Amazon in search of medicinal plant lore more than 40 years ago. Her engrossing adventure story is an inspiring plea for civilization to save the plants and people who know how to use them before they are destroyed forever. For this newly revised edition, Maxwell catalogues plants mentioned in the text and their medicinal uses.
The Doctor's Apprentice
Author: Ann Walsh
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1554886325
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 155
Book Description
Short-listed for the 1999 Sheila A. Egoff Award for Children’s Literature and Geoffrey Bilson Award Ann Walsh’s sequel to Moses, Me and Murder (Pacific Educational Press) continues the adventures of Ted, now 14. Still tormented by the ghost of murderer James barry, Ted apprentices to the eccentric doctor J.B. Wilkinson, whose dependency on opium for his patients and for his own demons reveals a past intertwined with the life and death of an enigmatic woman named sophia Cameron.
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1554886325
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 155
Book Description
Short-listed for the 1999 Sheila A. Egoff Award for Children’s Literature and Geoffrey Bilson Award Ann Walsh’s sequel to Moses, Me and Murder (Pacific Educational Press) continues the adventures of Ted, now 14. Still tormented by the ghost of murderer James barry, Ted apprentices to the eccentric doctor J.B. Wilkinson, whose dependency on opium for his patients and for his own demons reveals a past intertwined with the life and death of an enigmatic woman named sophia Cameron.
Black Faces in White Places
Author: Randal Pinkett
Publisher: AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn
ISBN: 0814416802
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
The book also examines social responsibility, institution building, and longstanding traditions of giving throughout African-American culture and history.
Publisher: AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn
ISBN: 0814416802
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
The book also examines social responsibility, institution building, and longstanding traditions of giving throughout African-American culture and history.
The Apprenticeship of Lucas Whitaker
Author: Cynthia C. DeFelice
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux (BYR)
ISBN:
Category : Apprentices
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
After his family dies of consumption in 1849, twelve-year-old Lucas becomes a doctor's apprentice.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux (BYR)
ISBN:
Category : Apprentices
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
After his family dies of consumption in 1849, twelve-year-old Lucas becomes a doctor's apprentice.
Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice
Author: Mark J. Plotkin
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 014012991X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
The fascinating account of a pioneering ethnobotanist’s travels in the Amazon—at once a gripping adventure story, a passionate argument for conservationism, and an investigation into the healing power of plants, by the author of The Amazon: What Everyone Needs to Know For thousands of years, healers have used plants to cure illness. Aspirin, the world's most widely used drug, is based on compounds originally extracted from the bark of a willow tree, and more than a quarter of medicines found on pharmacy shelves contain plant compounds. Now Western medicine, faced with health crises such as AIDS, Alzheimer's disease, and cancer, has begun to look to the healing plants used by indigenous peoples to develop powerful new medicines. Nowhere is the search more promising than in the Amazon, the world's largest tropical forest, home to a quarter of all botanical species on this planet—as well as hundreds of Indian tribes whose medicinal plants have never been studied by Western scientists. In Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice, ethnobotanist Mark J. Plotkin recounts his travels and studies with some of the most powerful Amazonian shamans, who taught him the plant lore their tribes have spent thousands of years gleaning from the rain forest. For more than a decade, Dr. Plotkin raced against time to harvest and record new plants before the rain forests' fragile ecosystems succumb to overdevelopment—and before the Indians abandon their own culture and learning for the seductive appeal of Western material culture. Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice relates nine of the author's quests, taking the reader along on a wild odyssey as he participates in healing rituals; discovers the secret of curare, the lethal arrow poison that kills in minutes; tries the hallucinogenic snuff epena that enables the Indians to speak with their spirit world; and earns the respect and fellowship of the mysterious shamans as he proves that he shares both their endurance and their reverence for the rain forest.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 014012991X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
The fascinating account of a pioneering ethnobotanist’s travels in the Amazon—at once a gripping adventure story, a passionate argument for conservationism, and an investigation into the healing power of plants, by the author of The Amazon: What Everyone Needs to Know For thousands of years, healers have used plants to cure illness. Aspirin, the world's most widely used drug, is based on compounds originally extracted from the bark of a willow tree, and more than a quarter of medicines found on pharmacy shelves contain plant compounds. Now Western medicine, faced with health crises such as AIDS, Alzheimer's disease, and cancer, has begun to look to the healing plants used by indigenous peoples to develop powerful new medicines. Nowhere is the search more promising than in the Amazon, the world's largest tropical forest, home to a quarter of all botanical species on this planet—as well as hundreds of Indian tribes whose medicinal plants have never been studied by Western scientists. In Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice, ethnobotanist Mark J. Plotkin recounts his travels and studies with some of the most powerful Amazonian shamans, who taught him the plant lore their tribes have spent thousands of years gleaning from the rain forest. For more than a decade, Dr. Plotkin raced against time to harvest and record new plants before the rain forests' fragile ecosystems succumb to overdevelopment—and before the Indians abandon their own culture and learning for the seductive appeal of Western material culture. Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice relates nine of the author's quests, taking the reader along on a wild odyssey as he participates in healing rituals; discovers the secret of curare, the lethal arrow poison that kills in minutes; tries the hallucinogenic snuff epena that enables the Indians to speak with their spirit world; and earns the respect and fellowship of the mysterious shamans as he proves that he shares both their endurance and their reverence for the rain forest.
Teach Us to Want
Author: Jen Pollock Michel
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 0830896333
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Isn't desire sinful and selfish? The story of each person is a story of want—desires unmet, hopes dashed, passions pursued and ambitions fulfilled. Jen Pollock Michel guides us on a journey that reintroduces us to a God who purifies our longings and gives us the desires of our hearts.
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 0830896333
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Isn't desire sinful and selfish? The story of each person is a story of want—desires unmet, hopes dashed, passions pursued and ambitions fulfilled. Jen Pollock Michel guides us on a journey that reintroduces us to a God who purifies our longings and gives us the desires of our hearts.
The Apprenticeship to Love
Author: R. Phillip Colon
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1440127697
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
Reentering the dating scene after a painful divorce or the end of a long-term relationship can be difficult, if not downright daunting. Though there are numerous how-to guides on how to navigate the dating world, The Apprenticeship to Love is dramatically different. Why? It can help you find the right person at the right time. Based on a simple, step-by-step program specifically tailored to the love-challenged, this groundbreaking work will teach you how to look for and find a healthy, fulfilling, viable life partner, while having fun and making new friends in the process. Utilizing the principles of focused effort, incremental success, and social networking, youll learn how to meet and date three members of the opposite sex who will become potential candidates in your search for a mate. Dr. R. Phillip Colon makes the program easy to learn. Once you develop a better understanding of what qualities characterize your life partner, you will replace your first candidates with new ones several times until you find the person meant for you. By learning and applying new social, emotional, and interpersonal skills, youll soon access higher-level, more suitable contenders and at the same time, ready yourself for better relationships through personal growth. Love doesnt have to be complicated or agonizing. Find your happily ever after with The Apprenticeship to Love!
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1440127697
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
Reentering the dating scene after a painful divorce or the end of a long-term relationship can be difficult, if not downright daunting. Though there are numerous how-to guides on how to navigate the dating world, The Apprenticeship to Love is dramatically different. Why? It can help you find the right person at the right time. Based on a simple, step-by-step program specifically tailored to the love-challenged, this groundbreaking work will teach you how to look for and find a healthy, fulfilling, viable life partner, while having fun and making new friends in the process. Utilizing the principles of focused effort, incremental success, and social networking, youll learn how to meet and date three members of the opposite sex who will become potential candidates in your search for a mate. Dr. R. Phillip Colon makes the program easy to learn. Once you develop a better understanding of what qualities characterize your life partner, you will replace your first candidates with new ones several times until you find the person meant for you. By learning and applying new social, emotional, and interpersonal skills, youll soon access higher-level, more suitable contenders and at the same time, ready yourself for better relationships through personal growth. Love doesnt have to be complicated or agonizing. Find your happily ever after with The Apprenticeship to Love!
The Sorcerer's Apprentice
Author: Sue Ullstein
Publisher: Ladybird Books
ISBN: 9780721413518
Category : Readers
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
Publisher: Ladybird Books
ISBN: 9780721413518
Category : Readers
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
What Patients Taught Me
Author: Audrey Young
Publisher: Sasquatch Books
ISBN: 1570616582
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
A young doctor writes frankly of her medical training in small rural communities around the world, reflecting on the important lessons she learned along the way Do sleek high-tech hospitals teach more about medicine and less about humanity? Do doctors ever lose their tolerance for suffering? With sensitive observation and graceful prose, this stunning book explores some of these difficult and deeply personal questions, revealing the highs and lows of being a physician in training. Author Audrey Young was just 23-years-old when she took care of her first dying patient. In What Patients Taught Me, she writes of this life-altering experience and of the other struggles she faced in her journey to become a good doctor—from exhausting 36-hour shifts to a perilous rescue mission in an Eskimo village. As she travels to small rural communities throughout the world, she attends to terminal illness, AIDS, tuberculosis, and premature birth, coming face-to-face with mortality and the medical, personal, and socioeconomic dilemmas of her patients.
Publisher: Sasquatch Books
ISBN: 1570616582
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
A young doctor writes frankly of her medical training in small rural communities around the world, reflecting on the important lessons she learned along the way Do sleek high-tech hospitals teach more about medicine and less about humanity? Do doctors ever lose their tolerance for suffering? With sensitive observation and graceful prose, this stunning book explores some of these difficult and deeply personal questions, revealing the highs and lows of being a physician in training. Author Audrey Young was just 23-years-old when she took care of her first dying patient. In What Patients Taught Me, she writes of this life-altering experience and of the other struggles she faced in her journey to become a good doctor—from exhausting 36-hour shifts to a perilous rescue mission in an Eskimo village. As she travels to small rural communities throughout the world, she attends to terminal illness, AIDS, tuberculosis, and premature birth, coming face-to-face with mortality and the medical, personal, and socioeconomic dilemmas of her patients.
The Doctor
Author: Katie Marsico
Publisher: Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 1608706362
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
This fascinating book explores the life of a colonial doctor and his importance to the community, as well as everyday life, responsibilities, and social practices during that time.
Publisher: Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 1608706362
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
This fascinating book explores the life of a colonial doctor and his importance to the community, as well as everyday life, responsibilities, and social practices during that time.