Author: Thomas David
Publisher: Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
ISBN: 9780892817467
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
A doctor's astounding story of promising new treatments from the rainforests of Brazil for diseases that compromise the immune system. During a working visit to Brazil, Dr. Thomas David was given a packet of leaves and bark by a native patient as thanks for his work, and a shaman gave him a recipe for a tea used by the rainforest people to treat a variety of ailments. Dr. David began using these plants in his clinical research in Europe and soon discovered that they were producing amazing results among patients suffering from cancer, AIDS, and other diseases that compromise the immune system. Preliminary studies performed at Stanford and Harvard have substantiated his findings, bringing Dr. David international attention for his groundbreaking work. Dr. David's story is significant not only for its account of research that may herald a major breakthrough in curing diseases that have been the scourge of the modern world, but also for its emphasis on the vast and largely unrecognized pharmacopoeia of the rainforest that is in imminent danger of being lost forever.
Miracle Medicines of the Rainforest
Author: Thomas David
Publisher: Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
ISBN: 9780892817467
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
A doctor's astounding story of promising new treatments from the rainforests of Brazil for diseases that compromise the immune system. During a working visit to Brazil, Dr. Thomas David was given a packet of leaves and bark by a native patient as thanks for his work, and a shaman gave him a recipe for a tea used by the rainforest people to treat a variety of ailments. Dr. David began using these plants in his clinical research in Europe and soon discovered that they were producing amazing results among patients suffering from cancer, AIDS, and other diseases that compromise the immune system. Preliminary studies performed at Stanford and Harvard have substantiated his findings, bringing Dr. David international attention for his groundbreaking work. Dr. David's story is significant not only for its account of research that may herald a major breakthrough in curing diseases that have been the scourge of the modern world, but also for its emphasis on the vast and largely unrecognized pharmacopoeia of the rainforest that is in imminent danger of being lost forever.
Publisher: Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
ISBN: 9780892817467
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
A doctor's astounding story of promising new treatments from the rainforests of Brazil for diseases that compromise the immune system. During a working visit to Brazil, Dr. Thomas David was given a packet of leaves and bark by a native patient as thanks for his work, and a shaman gave him a recipe for a tea used by the rainforest people to treat a variety of ailments. Dr. David began using these plants in his clinical research in Europe and soon discovered that they were producing amazing results among patients suffering from cancer, AIDS, and other diseases that compromise the immune system. Preliminary studies performed at Stanford and Harvard have substantiated his findings, bringing Dr. David international attention for his groundbreaking work. Dr. David's story is significant not only for its account of research that may herald a major breakthrough in curing diseases that have been the scourge of the modern world, but also for its emphasis on the vast and largely unrecognized pharmacopoeia of the rainforest that is in imminent danger of being lost forever.
Jewelry Talks
Author: Richard Klein
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0679758496
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Campy, bitchy, outrageous, and quite a bit more than over the top, Abby Zinzo describes himself as “a cross between Auntie Mame and Louis the Sun King.” Abby has lived a life dedicated to pleasure, and nothing has given him more pleasure than owning, wearing, or merely contemplating the lustrous objects with which women and men have always adorned themselves. In this sexy, funny book that is part novel and part thesis on jewelry, Abby sits down to record everything he has learned over a lifetime, planning to leave this story along with his collection of valuable stones to his beloved niece, Zeem. He recounts the history of famous gems–like the fabulous Koh-i-Noor and the brilliant blue Hope diamond–and regales us with naughty tales of the women who made the beautiful jewelry their own, including Coco Chanel, the Duchess of Windsor, and Elizabeth Taylor. He also narrates his own sensational life, from Harvard undergraduate to dancer in a notorious Paris drag cabaret to his twilight as a man for whom gender is just another glittering ornament. Sharp, fascinating, and sparkling with its own inner fire, Jewelry Talks is precious gem in and of itself.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0679758496
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Campy, bitchy, outrageous, and quite a bit more than over the top, Abby Zinzo describes himself as “a cross between Auntie Mame and Louis the Sun King.” Abby has lived a life dedicated to pleasure, and nothing has given him more pleasure than owning, wearing, or merely contemplating the lustrous objects with which women and men have always adorned themselves. In this sexy, funny book that is part novel and part thesis on jewelry, Abby sits down to record everything he has learned over a lifetime, planning to leave this story along with his collection of valuable stones to his beloved niece, Zeem. He recounts the history of famous gems–like the fabulous Koh-i-Noor and the brilliant blue Hope diamond–and regales us with naughty tales of the women who made the beautiful jewelry their own, including Coco Chanel, the Duchess of Windsor, and Elizabeth Taylor. He also narrates his own sensational life, from Harvard undergraduate to dancer in a notorious Paris drag cabaret to his twilight as a man for whom gender is just another glittering ornament. Sharp, fascinating, and sparkling with its own inner fire, Jewelry Talks is precious gem in and of itself.
Frida Kahlo
Author: Mariana Medina
Publisher: Enslow Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 0766069982
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality. Frida Kahlo is arguably Mexico's most famous artist, with her sometimes whimsical and always poignant works earning international admiration. But the woman behind the self-portraits was darker than her paintings would suggest. Read about her struggles and triumphs and journey into her creative mind.
Publisher: Enslow Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 0766069982
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality. Frida Kahlo is arguably Mexico's most famous artist, with her sometimes whimsical and always poignant works earning international admiration. But the woman behind the self-portraits was darker than her paintings would suggest. Read about her struggles and triumphs and journey into her creative mind.
Wonderful Blood
Author: Caroline Walker Bynum
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812220196
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 457
Book Description
Bynum argues that Christ's blood as both object and symbol was central to late medieval art, literature, and religious life. As cult object, blood provided a focus of theological debate about the nature of matter, body, and God and an occasion for Jewish persecution; as motif, blood became a central symbol in popular devotion.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812220196
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 457
Book Description
Bynum argues that Christ's blood as both object and symbol was central to late medieval art, literature, and religious life. As cult object, blood provided a focus of theological debate about the nature of matter, body, and God and an occasion for Jewish persecution; as motif, blood became a central symbol in popular devotion.
Living in the Excellence of Jesus!
Author: Cheryl Price
Publisher: Urban Ministries Inc
ISBN: 9781934056646
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Living in the Excellence of Jesus! examines the lives of strong biblical characters such as Joshua, Daniel, and Mary to demonstrate how we can live in His image today. Through a study of Scripture, true-to-life accounts, illustrations, and facts, readers will learn to cultivate excellence in areas such as faith, prayer, leadership, determination, hope, and more. Reap the rewards of righteous living that God promises to those who obey His Word, and graduate to the next level in your Christian walk.
Publisher: Urban Ministries Inc
ISBN: 9781934056646
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Living in the Excellence of Jesus! examines the lives of strong biblical characters such as Joshua, Daniel, and Mary to demonstrate how we can live in His image today. Through a study of Scripture, true-to-life accounts, illustrations, and facts, readers will learn to cultivate excellence in areas such as faith, prayer, leadership, determination, hope, and more. Reap the rewards of righteous living that God promises to those who obey His Word, and graduate to the next level in your Christian walk.
Who was who Among North American Authors, 1921-1939
1950s American Style: A Reference Guide (soft cover)
Author: Daniel Niemeyer
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1304201651
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Facets of the Fifties. A reference guide to an iconic Decade of Movie Palaces, Television, Classic Cars, Sports, Department Stores, Trains, Music, Food, Fashion and more
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1304201651
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Facets of the Fifties. A reference guide to an iconic Decade of Movie Palaces, Television, Classic Cars, Sports, Department Stores, Trains, Music, Food, Fashion and more
Within Our Gates
Author: Alan Gevinson
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520209640
Category : Minorities in motion pictures
Languages : en
Pages : 1588
Book Description
"[These volumes] are endlessly absorbing as an excursion into cultural history and national memory."--Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520209640
Category : Minorities in motion pictures
Languages : en
Pages : 1588
Book Description
"[These volumes] are endlessly absorbing as an excursion into cultural history and national memory."--Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
The Miracle of Instruction
Author: Ananda W. P. Guruge
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Buddhism
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Buddhism
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Sacred and Profane Beauty
Author: Gerardus Leeuw
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780195223804
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Gerardus van der Leeuw was one of the first to attempt a rapprochement between theology and the arts, and his influence continues to be felt in what is now a burgeoning field. Sacred and Profane is the fullest expression of his pursuit of a theological aesthetics, surveying religion's relationship to all the arts -- dance, drama, literature, painting, sculpture, architecture, and music. This edition makes this seminal work, first published in Dutch in 1932, newly available. A new foreword by Diane Apostolos-Cappadona analyzes the continuing relevance of van der Leeuw's thought. Van der Leeuw's impassioned and brilliant investigation of the relationship between the holy and the beautiful is founded upon the conviction that for too long the religious have failed to seriously contemplate the beautiful, associating it as they do with the kingdom of sensuality and impermanence. Similarly it has been alien to literati and aesthetes to reflect upon the holy, for they choose to consider this physical world to be permanent, and therefore to be glorified through beauty alone. In truth, as van der Leeuw undertakes to show in Sacred and Profane Beauty, the holy has never been absent from the arts, and the arts have never been unresponsive to the holy. Whether one considers the Homeric epics, the dancing Sivas and Vedic poems, the sacred wall paintings of ancient Egypt, the primitive mask, or the range of sacred arts developed out of Latin and Byzantine Christianity, primordial creation in the arts was always directed toward the symbolization and interpretation of the holy. The fact that in our day this original connection is obscured and the artistic impulse is more generally regarded as wholly individualistic and autonomous does not contradict van der Leeuw's thesis; indeed, the breakdown of the unity of the holy and the arts is central to his thesis. Van der Leeuw was the rare thinker who combined profundity of insight, grace of style, and a willingness to take daring intellectual chances. In Sacred and Profane, he describes each of the arts in its original unity with the religious and then analyzes its historical disjunction and alienation. After a penetrating investigation of the structural elements within the arts which illumines a crucial dimension of the religious experience, van der Leeuw points toward the reemergence of an appropriate theological aesthetics on which a reunification of the arts could be founded.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780195223804
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Gerardus van der Leeuw was one of the first to attempt a rapprochement between theology and the arts, and his influence continues to be felt in what is now a burgeoning field. Sacred and Profane is the fullest expression of his pursuit of a theological aesthetics, surveying religion's relationship to all the arts -- dance, drama, literature, painting, sculpture, architecture, and music. This edition makes this seminal work, first published in Dutch in 1932, newly available. A new foreword by Diane Apostolos-Cappadona analyzes the continuing relevance of van der Leeuw's thought. Van der Leeuw's impassioned and brilliant investigation of the relationship between the holy and the beautiful is founded upon the conviction that for too long the religious have failed to seriously contemplate the beautiful, associating it as they do with the kingdom of sensuality and impermanence. Similarly it has been alien to literati and aesthetes to reflect upon the holy, for they choose to consider this physical world to be permanent, and therefore to be glorified through beauty alone. In truth, as van der Leeuw undertakes to show in Sacred and Profane Beauty, the holy has never been absent from the arts, and the arts have never been unresponsive to the holy. Whether one considers the Homeric epics, the dancing Sivas and Vedic poems, the sacred wall paintings of ancient Egypt, the primitive mask, or the range of sacred arts developed out of Latin and Byzantine Christianity, primordial creation in the arts was always directed toward the symbolization and interpretation of the holy. The fact that in our day this original connection is obscured and the artistic impulse is more generally regarded as wholly individualistic and autonomous does not contradict van der Leeuw's thesis; indeed, the breakdown of the unity of the holy and the arts is central to his thesis. Van der Leeuw was the rare thinker who combined profundity of insight, grace of style, and a willingness to take daring intellectual chances. In Sacred and Profane, he describes each of the arts in its original unity with the religious and then analyzes its historical disjunction and alienation. After a penetrating investigation of the structural elements within the arts which illumines a crucial dimension of the religious experience, van der Leeuw points toward the reemergence of an appropriate theological aesthetics on which a reunification of the arts could be founded.