This compact yet complete guide to herbal medicines shows you how to transform common plants into remedies that heal. While using herbs as medicines can often seem complicated or costly, the Backyard Pharmacy gift edition offers a way to learn that\'s simple, effective, and low cost. Plants you once believed were just seasonings for sauce in the kitchen or scents for your home are in fact medicines

In Finding Myself Lost in Louisiana, author Keagan LeJeune brilliantly weaves the unusual folklore, landscape, and history of Louisiana along with his own family lineage that begins in 1760 to trace the trajectory of people\'s lives in the Bayou State. His account confronts the challenging environmental record evident in Louisiana\'s landscapes. LeJeune also celebrates and memorializes traditions of

Introduction to Materials Science and Engineering: A Design-Led Approach is ideal for a first course in materials for mechanical, civil, biomedical, aerospace and other engineering disciplines. The authors\' systematic method includes first analyzing and selecting properties to match materials to design through the use of real-world case studies and then examining the science behind the material properties

Gerald and Piggie are best friends.Gerald is careful. Piggie is not.Piggie cannot help smiling. Gerald can.Gerald worries so that Piggie does not have to. In Are You Ready to Play Outside?, Piggie can\'t wait to go play in the sunshine. But will a rainy day ruin all the fun?

This concise yet comprehensive guide offers highly practical insights and advice to those wanting to plan weddings as a career choice. Chapters take the reader through all the essential steps to creating the perfect wedding including the clients, budgeting, the venue, the ceremony, food and beverage, stationery and so on. The many business aspects of starting a career in wedding planning are also covered

In this book the author brings to light man\'s deep inner need for spiritual wisdom in life and helps the reader develop a new sense of reality that is based on love, power and compassion. He describes our relationship with the natural world in detail and discusses how we can harness its tremendous powers for our personal and mankind\'s benefit. It\'s Time to Come Alive challenges some of our most

Do depictions of crazy cat ladies obscure more sinister structural violence against animals hoarded in factory farms? Highlighting the frequent pathologization of animal lovers and animal rights activists, this book examines how the \"madness\" of our relationships with animals intersects with the \"madness\" of taking animals seriously. The essays collected in this volume argue that \"animaladies\"

This one-of-a-kind book combines practice, theory, aesthetics, history and a proven pedagogy in leading both children and adults in the joys of jazz. It features 70 activities for teachers to do with children based on the Orff approach to music education, a clear developmental sequence and a thorough analysis of the basics of the blues, jazz standards and improvisation. Activities are applicable to

A beautiful book retelling the movie story of Snow White, accompanied by original concept art and sketches from classic Disney

The Apocrypha (\"hidden things\") is that collection of books included in the Greek Septuagint translation of the Hebrew Bible, or in the Latin Vulgate translation. While these books are not part of the Hebrew text that forms the canon for Judaism and Protestant Christianity, they are regarded as canonical by several Christian traditions. Additionally, scholars have pronounced the Apocrypha to be of

Exciting activities develop pupils\' thinking skills with clear lesson objectives so pupils know what, and how they are going to learn. Assessment pages with mark schemes based on the 8-level scale help pupils understand exactly what is required at each level. Regular peer and self assessment features support Assessment for Learning.

Our lives have been taken over by a tiny germ we can\'t even see. It\'s time to explain to young children (and their parents and carers) what\'s really going on. What IS a virus? How do viruses spread? Why should everyone keep washing their hands? How does a vaccine work? And what can we do to STAY

1. Proem2. Earth, Water, Pyre3. Monu\'s Mummy4. Jamuns5. Next, Kill All the Lawyers6. Holy of the Holy7. Two Urns8. Guavas and Gaslighting9. Glasnost10. Ten Thousand Pairs of

This is the moving story of the development of modern dance as told by the visionary artists who created it. The powerful words of Isadora Duncan, Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey, Ruth St. Denis, and twenty nine other modern dance artists come to life in these original

The Malleus Maleficarum is probably one of the most notorious books of Catholic Church history. Originally put out when the Inquisition was in full force, this book and the text it contains condemned thousands of innocent people to needless deaths. Most of what today\'s society and culture thinks of the witches and the occult comes from these pages. Although this text is largely misguided and inaccurate

Granddaughter of Jeoffrey and grandmother to three Yorkist claimants to the throne, Alice Chaucer is one of the most important female figures of the 15th century. It is remarkable that there has not been a biography of her