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The Green Witch Herbal: Restoring Nature's Magic in Home,
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Griggs, Barbara / Van Der Zee, Barbara, PUBLISHER: Healing Arts Press, As we seek more natural alternatives to harsh synthetic products, we are learning a new and healthy respect for the traditional wisdom our ancestors took for granted. Women are rediscovering their foremothers' "green witchcraft"--the use of flowers, leaves, berries, roots, and barks in home and garden, for hygiene and beauty, for pleasure and for health. Now, that lore may be found in this modern source book of the domestic use of herbs. Full of practical advice and fascinating historical insights, this delightful book shows you how to tap into the astonishing power of plants and herbs. Includes recipes for a variety of remedies and personal care products, and devotes a chapter to the creative use of herbs in the kitchen for cooking and as natural cleansers and disinfectants. Griggs' best-selling and widely-praised Green Pharmacy is considered the standard work on the history of herbal medicine.
Close Encounters?
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Lamdourne, R. J. A. / Lambourne, Robert / Lambourne, R. J., PUBLISHER: Taylor & Francis Group, Currently, science fiction in all its forms is enjoying enormous popular interest. There can be no doubt that science fiction books and films have great influence on the public view of science and scientists. Close Encounters? examines the historical development of science fiction as a genre in books and films, tracing its roots, examining its most common ideas, exploring its relationship to real science, and attempting to assess its cultural impact. Discussion focuses on major themes such as time travel, politics, religion, ecology, and disasters. The authors consider the science in science fiction, the images of scientists that science fiction conveys, and some of the political, religious, and social motifs prominent in science fiction. They also discuss pseudo-science and its growing influence on the public perception of science. This fascinating, thought-provoking study should be read by all those interested in how the nature of science and its role in our society is portrayed in science fiction.
BEING ELIZABETH
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: BRADFORD, BARBARA T, PUBLISHER: HARPER COLLINS OMES, At age twenty-five, Elizabeth Deravenel Turner finds herself in a position few women her age could image: the head of Deravenels, a business empire that spans the globe. It's a company whose reach is wide and whose secrets are deep. Deravenels has roots that go far back in her family's history--and she knows the price that many had to pay to see it reach the success it is today. Elizabeth is the youngest executive in the company she now leads. Surrounded by rumors and disloyalty, she is aware that there are many people who would give anything to take down the company--and her with it. With her enemies circling, she finds herself at a crossroad of choices involving her mind, her heart, and her destiny. As scandal surrounds the one man she's ever loved, Elizabeth discovers how the next move she makes could have deadly and final consequences...
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Vendo cd... titoli: sepultura - morbid visions sepultura - airse sepultura - the roots of sepultura 2 cd 10 Blind Guardian ?- Battalions Of Fear Lividity ?- Show Us Your Tits: Live Schizo ?- Sounds Of Coming Darkness Purgatory ?- Damage Done By Worms Internecine ?- The Book Of Lambs Altar - Provoke Antropofagus ?- Alive Is Good... Dead Is Better! Agathocles ?- Thanks For Your Hostility Internal Suffering ?- Chaotic Matrix oppressor - europen oppression live morbus - punishment - kill. 1 Marduk ?- Opus Nocturne Non Serviam ?- Between Light And Darkness Mayhem ?- Mediolanum Capta Est Mephistopheles ?- Landscape Symphonies Forest Of Souls ?- War And Poetry Dark Funeral ?- Vobiscum Satanas Infernal - Summon Forth The Beast Old Man's Child ?- The Pagan Prosperity Sick Of It All ?- Built To Last Terrorvision ?- Regular Urban Survivors Fear Factory ?- Fear Is The Mindkiller Korn ?- Freak On A Leash Biohazard ?- Urban Discipline Biohazard ?- Mata LeÀo fear factory - demanufacture Soulfly ?- Soulfly Kill II This ?- Another Cross Il Bare Slayer ?- Undisputed Attitude manowar - kings of metal Type O Negative ?- Bloody Kisses
True Grits: The Southern Foods Mail-Order Catalog
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Miller, Joni, PUBLISHER: Workman Publishing, Inspired by its Southern author's frustrating search for her favorite grits from her Northern home, "True Grits" is a Southern grocery store between two covers. This guide-a necessity for anyone with Southern roots or a fondness for Southern food-provides ordering information for more than 150 essential Southern ingredients and handmade specialty foods now available beyond the Mason-Dixon line. Now it's easy to stock our pantries with White Lily Flour, cans of Ro*Tel tomatoes, pickled okra, Goo Goo Clusters, ten different barbecue sauces, sweets from Kern's Kitchen Derby Pie to Warrenton Plum Pudding-and, of course, grits. "True Grits" is also a fascinating journey into Southern culture, with food festivals, folklore, unusual recipes, nostalgia, and side-bars-the Dr. Pepper Story, how to handle a country ham, and more. Finally the larder of the South is open to kitchens across the country. Selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club.
Health Promotion in Canada: Critical Perspectives
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: O'Neill, Michael / Pederson, Ann / Dupere, Sophie, PUBLISHER: Canadian Scholars Press, The first edition of Health Promotion in Canada, published in the mid-s, had a huge impact in Canada as well as at a global and international level. In a book review for The Institute for Health Promotion Research, University of British Columbia's Jim Frankish emphasized, ?By providing an understanding of the roots and evolution of Canadian health promotion, the editors also provide a potential roadmap for its future.? Thoroughly updated and meticulously revamped, this second edition promises to do the same. Masterfully edited and thematically divided into six key parts?conceptual, national, provincial, international, practical perspectives, and concluding thoughts?this contributed volume provides a comprehensive profile of the history and evolution of health promotion in Canada. Adopting a critical/sociological and historical perspective, this book offers case studies from each region of Canada and examines what the future holds for health promotion worldwide. The text brilliantly captures the fact that Canada has been a pioneer in the field of health promotion practice, policy, and research.
Roboz: A Painter's Paradox
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Taylor, John Russell, PUBLISHER: David Messum, Zsuszi Roboz the person is a unique mixture of British and exotic; Zsuzsi Roboz the artist is a unique mixture of Classical and Romantic. Though she was born and raised in Hungary, a dramatic series of events brought her to Britain in her teens, and all her subsequent life has been spent there. Her art is in once sense intensely Romantic, concerned with the mysterious and magical life of the imagination. But it is all founded on a finely disciplined grasp of classic draughtsmanship, acquired from the best sources: she was one of Annigoni's favourite pupils. This book tells her story, its agonies and ecstasies, and traces the roots of her passionate art. Along the way she has known and portrayed many extraordinary men and women, especially those - the musicians, the dancers, the actors, the painters, the girls of the Windmill - who have been one way and another connected with the arts. Her portrait drawings range from Spanish gypsies and Croatian peasants to aristocratic grandees and the great beaut
Rhomanife band x il tuo evento
Rhomanife is not only a 10-member roots reggae style band. It´s a full scale cultural project based on events, dance-halls and open parties, recording studio and concert organization, a hand-made sound system and a true crew of friends and music lovers, people that share bread and faith in a complete respect, always ready to give more to who´s around. This year, they have let themselves get ispired by the spiritual experiences of one of their friends to compose songs for the brand new italian-english cd „In the sky', in the name of love and in the name of Lord. RHOMANIFE, for hope, for true and love, Short history: Rhomanife since have played for 30 years and have performed in more than 700 concerts. now the band is composed: Gianni Somma voice and guitar Pino Di Taranto bass Melissa Mongelli voice Chiara Mattia voice Nicola Mineccia guitar Cosimo Lagioia keyboards Francesco Bartoli drum the band RHOMANIFE has played in: Italy, Malta, Albania, Hungary and 2 tours in Czech Republic.
Selected Tales
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Grimm, Jacob Ludwig Carl / Grimm, Wilhelm / Crick, Joyce, PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press, The tales gathered by the Grimm brothers are at once familiar, fantastic, and frightening. They seem to belong to no time, or to some distant feudal age of fairytale imagining. Grand palaces, humble cottages, and the forest full of menace are their settings; and they are peopled by kings and princesses, witches and robbers, millers and golden birds, stepmothers and talking frogs. Regarded from their inception either as simple nursery stories or as raw material for the folklorist, the tales were in fact compositions, collected from literate tellers and shaped into a distinctive kind of literature. This new translation mirrors the apparent artlessness of the Grimms, and fully represents the range of less well-known fables, morality tales, and comic stories as well as the classic tales. It takes the stories back to their roots in German Romanticism and includes variant stories and tales that were deemed unsuitable for children. In her fascinating Introduction, Joyce Crick explores their origins, and their literary evolution at the hands of the Grimms.
No Gods Before Me: The First of the Commandment Mysteries
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Andrews, Gary, PUBLISHER: iUniverse, Three old friends seek to address a crisis of faith by attending an interfaith conference of the world's three great monotheistic religions. Among leading Christians, Muslims and Jews, they find meaning, romance and violence on a biblical scale. An engaging religious polemic wrapped in the familiar mantel of a murder mystery, "No Gods Before Me: The First of the Commandment Mysteries," is imbued with the most relevant Biblical and Quranic verses, revealing the scriptural roots of the current world conflict. Respectfully and intelligently representing the views of humanists and religious believers alike, this book explores answers to questions like: what do the astrological disciplines teach about past and future history; what does God expect; what does the Bible teach on evolution and abortion; who was Jesus and what really happened on Golgotha; what do Jews await in the Messianic age; what does the Quran teach on jihad and on women's rights; what is the emotional root of the dispute between Christianity, Judaism and Islam. A must read for all those secure in their beliefs
Dischi in vinile
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Dischi in vinile 33 giri
Dischi in vinile: 1-CARRARA shine on dance 45 giri del copertina usurata;5 euro 2-EDOARDO BENNATO-GIANNA NANNINI un' estate italiana 45 giri del copertina leggermente usurata;7 euro 3-BARBARA STREISARD woman in love 45 giri del copertina usurata;5 euro; 4-TONY MAURO padrone e stu core 45 giri del in ottimo stato; 5 euro 5-MILVA brecht 33 giri del in ottimo stato; 10 euro 6-MOODS IN MUSIS music for relaxation copertina leggermente usurata 7euro; 7-RIP IT UP rock 'n' roll roots 2 dischi in ottimo stato 20euro; 8-STEPHEN SCHLAKS sensitive and delicate in ottimo stato 10euro; 9-NEUL DIAMOND jonathan livingston seagull 33 giri con libricino con i testi del copertina un pò usurata;10 euro 10-HARRY JACKSON the cowboy 2 dischi 33 giri del copertina usurata. 10 euro 11-NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK no more games/the remix album 33 giri del in ottimo stato 15euro; 12-BEE GEES spirits having flown 33 giri del in ottimo stato; 10 euro; 13-AMAND'S STAR TRUNK FUNKIN MIX in ottimo stato 10euro; 14-THE LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA in love in italy senza copertina in ottimo stato,7euro. spedizione esclusa. contattatemi per ulteriori foto ed info.
On Foreign Soil: American Gardeners Abroad
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Hill, May Brawley, PUBLISHER: ABRAMS, The very act of making a personal garden implies that the gardener feels at home, and creating a garden in a foreign country requires a special character. This handsomely illustrated volume features gardens by fascinating Americans, from Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson to Edith Wharton and Gore Vidal, who have planted their roots in England, France, and Italy since the earliest days of our nation. In a readable text filled with insights into expatriate life, art historian May Brawley Hill describes how American gardens on foreign soil, like autobiographies, reveal the personalities, values, and experiences of their makers. Author Henry James began as a novice, but quickly developed a flair for growing flowers. Gerald and Sara Murphy lived well in their beautiful flower garden at Villa American in Antibes. Art historian Bernard Berenson loved to take walks in the garden he invariably left his wife to tend. The first book to study American horticultural society abroad, this delightful book, illustrated with period prints, photographs, and paintings, will captivate all those interested in gardening, great American thinkers, and life as a foreigner. Acquista Ora
The Little Book of Wisdom: Ten Steps for Healing and
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Scott, Jr., PUBLISHER: Trafford Publishing, The Little Book of Wisdom is based on thirty years of practice in Hypnoanalysis and Psychotherapy. When seeking solutions for life's problems most people are poorly informed about the process to be used in the search. This book explains 10 steps that allow one to get to the roots of problems to find solutions. Some will be able to find their answers without additional help. If professional guidance is chosen to improve one's search for answers this book will help to make that process productive. The reader is asked to take an inventory of life with a particular awareness of the role of fear, guilt, doubt and anger. Self hypnosis instructions are provided and regular practice is strongly suggested. Self contemplation is necessary to growth. The reader is also asked to evaluate her/his maturity level and spiritual growth activities. Examples of real cases are provided throughout the book. Readers will be both challenged and uplifted by this information. Life's problems have solutions. Each of our lives is improved when any one of us conquers past wounds and is raised to a heightened awareness of possibilities for one's life.
The Last Street Before Cleveland: An Accidental Pilgrimage
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Mackall, Joe, PUBLISHER: University of Nebraska Press, The old neighborhood was the place Joe Mackall left. It was a place where everyone's parents worked at the factory at the dead end of the street, where the Catholic church and school operated like a religious city hall, and where a boy like Joe grew up vowing to get out as soon as he could and to shed his blue-collar beginnings and failed, flawed religion. When the mysterious death of a childhood friend draws him back to the last street before Cleveland, however, he discovers that there is more to "old haunts" than mere words--and more to severing one's roots than just getting away."" "The Last Street Before Cleveland" chronicles Mackall's descent into his past: the story of how, looking for answers about his lost friend, he stumbles on larger questions about himself. With clear-eyed candor, Mackall describes the resurfacing of dormant demons, the opening of the old chasms of depression and addiction, and the discovery, at rock bottom, of a flickering faith that casts a surprising light over everything that has come before. Mackall's is, finally, a story about life--lived and lost, given and earned.
CD: Blink 182, HIM, NIN e artisti vari metal, punk rock
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Bulbs for All Seasons
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Gingras, Pierre, PUBLISHER: Firefly Books, Experienced gardeners will know that bulbs are one of the most important garden elements. In this highly useful guide, more than 200 bulbs currently available on the market are presented by season, from the relatively unknown and exotic to the reliable and indispensable. For every season there are outstanding bulbs: spring brings snowdrops, crocuses, tulips and decorative garlic and in summer dahlias, lilies and gladioli; in fall autumn crocuses and precious saffron. Finally, in winter, amaryllis, cyclamen, oxalis and clivias plants brighten homes in the darker winter months and throughout a good portion of the early year. For those in warmer climates, many of these winter bulbs are just one more season of garden color. Pierre Gingras also discusses: the characteristics of true bulbs, corms, tuberous roots and rhizomes gardening in microclimates tips on buying bulbs mulching and hardiness growing basics, fertilizing, and forcing propagating and naturalizing. Bulbs for all Seasons features more than 70 different species, including "Amorphophallus titanum," an arum species that produces the biggest flower in the world. There is also a glossary of terms as well as a bibliography and detailed index. Easy to read yet comprehensive, this book is the ideal reference source for all gardeners.
My Recollection of Chicago
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Leacock, Stephen / Spadoni, Carl, PUBLISHER: University of Toronto Press, Disillusioned by the General Drudgery of his Job, Stephen Leacock resigned from his teaching position at Upper Canada College in to pursue graduate studies. 'At Chicago, ' Leacock wrote wryly, 'they made a genial pretense that I was fit for the graduate school in economics. It is a little hard to see why, except that I was obviously not fit to die.' Leacock graduated from the university in . His dissertation, until now, was thought to be lost. Carl Spadoni's discovery of this thesis -- unread since its defense -- gives readers a unique opportunity to re-examine Leacock's philosophies. 'The Doctrine of Laissez Faire' reveals the early roots of his scepticism about political economy on which his later works of humour fed. In it, Leacock attempts to demystify the dogmatic opposition to state intervention based on this economic precept. In his introduction, Spadoni provides the historical background for an intellectual understanding of Leacock's thesis. The first part of this book is a short essay by Leacock in which he reminisces on his graduate years at Chicago. The second part consists of his newly unearthed thesis. Together, they provide a better understanding of one of the major figures of Canadian cultural theory.
Go Gator and Muddy the Water: Writings by Zora Neale Hurston
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Hurston, Zora Neale / Bordelon, Pamela, PUBLISHER: W. W. Norton & Company, When Pamala Bordelon was researching a work on the Florida Federal Writers Project, she discovered writings in the collection that were unmistakably from the hand of Zora Neale Hurston, one of the leading writers of the Harlem Renaissance. Over half of the works included here have not been published or are only available in the Library of America edition of Hurston's works. As Hurston's fans know, all of her novels draw upon her deep interest in folklore, particularly from her home state of Florida. Here we see the roots of that work, from the wonderful folktale of the monstrous alligator living in a local lake to her recording of folk songs to her work on children's games and the black church. There are also fiery and controversial essays on race and the work of black artists. In a biographical essay, Pamala Bordelon, with the help of Hurston's niece, has re-created the years during which Hurston was working for the FWP and living in Eatonville. She has put together the portrait of a serious writer and folklorist who was running tight on money, but big on spirit. This book is an important new addition to Hurston's work.
20 Libri scolastici (scientifico) singolarmente
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Lp jazz linea tre rca
Vendo 16 LP di Jazz della Linea Tre della RCA con vinili in perfette condizioni, mai ascoltati. Si tratta delle copie promozionali ad uso dei giornalisti e addetti ai lavori. Prezzo complessivo del blocco € 65. Singolarmente 6 € l'uno. ========= LINEA TRE ========= - Louis Armstrong - In the '30s - Louis Armstrong - In the '40s - Lester Young - The Best Of Boogie Woogie - Jelly Roll Morton - Fats Navarro - Duke Ellington - In the '40s - King Oliver - Archie Shepp - The Roots - Charlie Parker - Vol. 1 - Erroll Garner - At His Very Best - Erroll Garner - More From His Best - Charlie Mingus - with Red Norvo and Tal Farlow - Boyd Raeburn - The Progressove Jazz - Milt Jackson - with John Lewis in his First Quartet - Art Blakey - and the Jazz Messengers with Jackie McLean Vendo poi altri LP di Jazz, stampe americane e italiane (di cui posso fornire la lista su richiesta), oltre a questi sotto riportati, sempre a 6€ l'uno. - Porgy & Bess - [VICTROLA AMERICA/RCA] - Louis Armstrong - West End Blues [I MAESTRI DEL JAZZ - D'AGOSTINO] - Art Blakey - Art's Break [Serie ORIZZONTI] - Django Reinhardt - and 'le quintette du Hot Club de France' () [Serie ORIZZONTI] - John Coltrane [Musica Jazz Rusconi] - Count Basie - I Gioielli [Musica Jazz Rusconi] - Sarah Vaughan [Musica Jazz Rusconi]
Harmonic Analysis of Mean Periodic Functions on Symmetric
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Volchkov, Valery V. / Volchkov, Vitaly V. / Volchkov, V. V., PUBLISHER: Springer, The book presents the first systematic and unified treatment of the theory of mean periodic functions on homogeneous spaces. This area has its classical roots in the beginning of the twentieth century and is now a very active research area, having close connections to harmonic analysis, complex analysis, integral geometry, and analysis on symmetric spaces. The main purpose of this book is the study of local aspects of spectral analysis and spectral synthesis on Euclidean spaces, Riemannian symmetric spaces of an arbitrary rank and Heisenberg groups. The subject can be viewed as arising from three classical topics: Johna (TM)s support theorem, Schwartza (TM)s fundamental principle, and Delsartea (TM)s two-radii theorem. Very up-to-date, the book contains most of the significant recent results in this area with complete and detailed proofs. In order to make this book accessible to a wide audience, the authors provide an introductory part developing analysis on symmetric spaces without use of Lie theory. Challenging open problems are described and explained, and promising new research directions are indicated. Designed for both experts and beginners in the field, the book is rich in methods for a wide variety of problems in many areas of mathematics. Acquista Ora
The Refiner's Fire: The Making of Mormon Cosmology,
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Brooke, John L., PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press, Mormon religious belief has long been a mystery to outsiders, either dismissed as anomalous to the American religious tradition or extolled as the most genuine creation of the American imagination. The Refiner's Fire presents a new and comprehensive understanding of the roots of Mormon religion, whose theology promises the faithful that they will become "gods" through the restoration of ancient mysteries and regain the divine powers of Adam lost in the fall from Paradise. Professor Brooke contends that the origins of Mormonism lie in the fusion of radical religion with occult ideas, and organizes his book around the two problems of demonstrating the survival of these ideas into the nineteenth century and explaining how they were manifested in Mormon doctrine. In the concluding chapter, the author provides an outline of how Mormonism since the s gradually moved toward traditional Protestant Christianity. As well as religion, the book explores magic, witchcraft, alchemy, Freemasonry, counterfeiting, and state-formation. John L. Brooke is professor of history at Tufts University and the acclaimed author of The Heart of the Commonwealth: Society and Political Culture in Worcester County, Massachusetts, (CUP, ), which has won, among other prizes, the Organization of American Historians' Merle Curti Award for Intellectual History and the National Historical Society Book Prize for American History.
Jesus: A Meditation on His Stories and His Relationships
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Greeley, Andrew M., PUBLISHER: Forge, "We must begin our story of Jesus by granting him permission to surprise us endlessly...." ---from the Introduction Jesus of Galilee taught through stories, which even today contain the power to startle us out of our prejudices and preconceptions. Now Father Andrew M. Greeley, one of America's most beloved storytellers, examines the parables told by Jesus in search of a fuller understanding of the man and his message. This engaging and informal collection of homilies reveals a Jesus whose simple parables carry profound lessons about the Kingdom of Heaven. Along the way, Father Greeley touches on such provocative topics as the significance of Jesus's Jewish roots, his deep and revolutionary relationship with women, "The Da Vinci Code, " and "The Passion of the Christ." He also singles out the four greatest parables, which best illustrate the infinite love and mercy of the God whose kingdom began with Jesus and continues even today. As a storyteller, Jesus often surprised his listeners with unexpected twists that challenged them to see the world in a whole new light. Father Greeley's insightful tour of the Gospels provides a fresh look at the parables that strips away centuries of false and mistaken interpretations to get at the essential truth of who Jesus really was and what he believed.
Quinceanera]
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Salcedo, Michele, PUBLISHER: Henry Holt & Company, High Heels and lipstick. A beautiful ball gown. A bejeweled crown glistening in the spotlight as a father whirls a young girl out of childhood and into adolescence. One of the most beautiful and significant rituals in the Latino community, the quinceanera is a special birthday party, an all-day cultural and social event that begins a Latina's passage into womanhood at age fifteen. Though some scholars trace its roots back to ancient Indian civilizations, the celebration is becoming increasingly popular among the 25 million Hispanics who live in this country today. This handsome volume is the first book specially designed to help mothers, daughters, and grandmothers plan and create a quinces that will rival any fairy tale. Its fifteen chapters present hundreds of ideas for handling all the important details, from choosing the "Court of Honor" -- the fourteen boys and girls attending the honoree -- to selecting invitations, attire, decorations, music, and more. A comprehensive Resource Guide tells readers where to find dresses, caterers, photographers, and other services across the country. With sixteen pages of beautiful color photographs, and traditions drawn from Mexican, Cuban, Puerto Rican, and Central and South American cultures, Quinceanera will make an exquisite gift book for one of the most memorable days in a Hispanic girl's life.