This groundbreaking book merges ancient wisdom and modern medicine, equipping professionals with validated scientific research. Delve into prevalent conditions, from low back pain to infertility, and bridge the gap between traditional Chinese medicine and Western approaches.
Selling Sex Short
Pornography and sexology are redefining sexuality, but is the model they promote selling sex short? This book investigates the connections between these industries, revealing they promote a sexual ideal resembling prostitution for couples to mimic.
Southern Medicine for Southern People
How does a national medicine emerge? This book examines the making of Vietnamese medicine, from its origins in Chinese traditions to its modern revival, linking its development to Vietnam’s tumultuous quest for independence and post-colonial national identity.
This book highlights the immense contribution of traditional medicine to the discovery of modern drugs. It inspires experts to explore traditional flora and younger investigators to find novel molecules, making it invaluable to scientists, researchers, and students alike.
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.
Rebuild your physique and keep fit with Traditional Chinese Exercises. This illustrated guide explores Qi-Gong, Taiji, and minor exercises for your daily routine, while also providing valuable insights into the Chinese philosophies embodied in them.
Love, Family and Friendship
This volume presents current research on love, family, and friendship from a Latin American perspective. It includes studies from Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Mexico on topics from satisfaction to violence, filling a major gap in relationship research.
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.
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.
The Gift of Consciousness
An engaging overview of Patañjali’s Yoga Sūtras through the prism of Eastern and Western psychology. This clear-eyed approach makes the ancient text relevant to anyone interested in Yoga, integrating its insights into everyday life.
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.
Minding Dolls
This book explores the symbolic relationship between self and object, where a living human being becomes a “doll.” Losing its own nature, the “doll” is imbued with personal meaning—an intimate manifestation of one’s own experience, shaped by desire and archetypes.
Street to Shelter Homes
This book delves into the challenges of street children in Bangladesh, examining the interplay of poverty, abuse, and child labour. It offers practical strategies and unique insights for social workers, policymakers, and educators to address the vulnerability of these children.
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.
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.
The Intercountry Adoption Debate
Intercountry adoption is a complex, global, and deeply personal issue. This volume gives voice to all sides of the debate, featuring writings from top scholars, parents, policymakers, and adoptees from around the world.
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.
Medicinal Plants as Functional Food Candidates
This book provides a comprehensive overview of medicinal plant-based functional foods. It explains how the chemical diversity of medicinal plants can be used to develop health-promoting products, and covers the opportunities and challenges associated with this research.