This book provides a practical approach to the use of medicinal plants to increase immunity and treat various diseases, including high-risk ones such as cancer. It is a requisite reference for students and professionals of medicinal chemistry courses.
A Correspondence with Peter Geach (1981 – 2009)
This book presents the correspondence between the author and Professor P.T. Geach over a thirty-year period. The letters, with the author’s commentary, lead to a discussion of the Anscombe-C.S. Lewis controversy, revealing Geach’s surprising support for Lewis’s thesis.
A New Approach to Mindfulness
This innovative book uses 100 short stories to approach mindfulness. The stories encourage you to examine your life as you ascend from the ‘Base Camp’ of self-awareness to the ‘Summit’ of new personal and collective understanding.
This ground-breaking book explores the reality of living with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME). Drawing on her own lived experience, social science, and creative work, the author tells the story of how she sought to reimagine a ‘good life’ and find sanctuary alongside the illness.
An Introduction to the Uses and Diffusion of the News
How do audiences use mass media, and how does news spread through society? This text examines how media cultivates fear and shapes our beliefs about crime, risk, and social issues. It covers key theories like the Spiral of Silence, the Knowledge Gap, and Cultivation Theory.
This book chronicles acupuncture’s remarkable fifty-year evolution in the US from an obscure practice to a pivotal modality in modern healthcare. It details the legislative battles and scientific research that allowed acupuncture to secure its place.
This book bridges the gap between human behavior and brain physics, aiming to unite the sciences and the humanities. It argues that the origin of our life world, including the immaterial mind, is reconcilable with the known fundamental laws of physics.
This book shows how a whole of community approach can redesign inadequate services to support families. Drawing on research and experience, it provides key ingredients to break cycles of trauma and build communities where children can flourish.
Career Agility
In our complex and uncertain world, working lives are rapidly changing. This book offers career strategies and a practical toolkit of exercises to prepare you for the future, helping you understand your values and strengths to advance or reboot your career.
Classical Chinese Medicine
This volume details the core concepts of Classical Chinese Medicine (CCM), framing it as a post-Newtonian “ecosystem science.” It explores the paradox of how this ancient, backward-looking practice is at the cutting edge of scientific thinking today.
Deconstructing Dreamscapes of Femininity
This book explores the interplay of two dimensions of consciousness: This World and The Otherworld. Together, they create the archetype Lolita, in the Mist—a protective dreamscape where a girl can explore her budding sexuality through film and social imagery.
This book invites the reader on a fascinating journey across three centuries of Europe, using death as a guide. Authors from varying backgrounds—historians, sociologists, doctors, and more—explore the complex phenomena of death and dying across the continent.
Can a mind observe itself? Without experiential awareness, culture, the arts, and science would not make sense. This volume provides a rich array of views on human nature and the way it shows up in the strange land of human identity.
Explorations of Traditional Chinese Medicine
The first book to use modern scientific principles to explore Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). It reveals how quantum mechanics can explain the integration of body, mind, and consciousness, and how TCM can work with Western medicine to shape the future of human health.
Exploring Practical Perspectives of Emotional Intelligence
This book is for those who want to grow through life’s successes and struggles but don’t know where to start. Develop emotional intelligence, resilience, and empathy through heart-warming stories, insights, and practical activities for your personal development adventure.
Family Economic Adversity and Later-Life Physical Health and Well-being
This book presents a framework linking family economic adversity to later-life health. It details five biopsychosocial pathways, with particular attention to how enduring couple relationships shape these outcomes over the life course and guide future research.
Haiku
A renowned poet shows how haiku is a powerful tool for spiritual awakening. Shed the ego, enjoy glimpses of unity with nature, and discover a deeper sense of what it is to be truly alive. Surprises await readers who think haiku is just a three-line poem.
Healing with Art and Soul
This collection of essays offers perspectives on using expressive arts for physical and emotional healing. Learn how to engage the inner self to allow the natural healing processes of the body and soul to flourish. A guide for your healing practice.
Interactions and Side Effects of Herbal Plants
This book bridges ancient Ayurvedic knowledge with modern science. It explores Ayurvedic herbs, their therapeutic properties, biological effects, and risks, detailing their interaction with modern pharmaceuticals. Discover how AI and big data can refine Ayurvedic therapies.