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Chinese Nutrition Therapy: Dietetics in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM)

Thieme Medical Publishers, 2004

Kastner's Chinese Nutrition Therapy is an excellent introduction to Chinese dietetics for both, students and practitioners of Chinese medicine. - I wholeheartedly endorse his book. Nigel Wiseman For millennia, the Chinese have taught that a healthy, appropriate diet is an integral part of maintaining good health and healing myriad disorders,...

Pro WPF 4.5 in C#: Windows Presentation Foundation in .NET 4.5

Apress, 2012

The Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) is a modern graphical display system for Windows. It’s a radical change from the technologies that came before it, with innovative features such as built-in hardware acceleration and resolution independence, both of which you’ll explore in this chapter.

WPF is the...

The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future

Crown, 2012

In The $100 Startup, Chris Guillebeau shows you how to lead of life of adventure, meaning and purpose – and earn a good living.

Still in his early thirties, Chris is on the verge of completing a tour of every country on earth – he’s already visited more than 175 nations – and...

Afghanistan: A History from 1260 to the Present

Reaktion Books, 2019

Located at the intersection of Asia and the Middle East, Afghanistan has been strategically important for thousands of years. Its ancient routes and strategic position between India, Inner Asia, China, Persia, and beyond has meant the region has been subject to frequent invasions, both peaceful and military. As a result, modern...

Heirs of the Apostles (Arabic Christianity: Texts and Studies) (English and Arabic Edition)

Brill Academic Publishers, 2018

It is with a profound sense of gratitude that the students, colleagues, and friends of Fr. Sidney H. Griffith offer this Festschrift on the occasion of his 80th birthday. This collection of articles on the Christian Arabic heritage is a small token of appreciation for the gift of his life, faith, and scholarship.

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Conscious Experience: A Logical Inquiry

Harvard University Press, 2019

A distinguished philosopher offers a novel account of experience and reason, and develops our understanding of conscious experience and its relationship to thought: a new reformed empiricism.

The role of experience in cognition is a central and ancient philosophical concern. How, theorists ask, can our private...

Hearing Voices: The Histories, Causes and Meanings of Auditory Verbal Hallucinations

Cambridge University Press, 2012

The meanings and causes of hearing voices that others cannot hear (auditory verbal hallucinations, in psychiatric parlance) have been debated for thousands of years. Voice-hearing has been both revered and condemned, understood as a symptom of disease as well as a source of otherworldly communication. Those hearing voices have been viewed as...

Legislature by Lot: Transformative Designs for Deliberative Governance (Real Utopias Project)

Verso, 2019

Democracy means rule by the people, but in practice even the most robust democracies delegate most rule making to a political class

The gap between the public and its representatives might seem unbridgeable in the modern world, but Legislature by Lot examines an inspiring solution: a legislature chosen through...

The Lessons of Tragedy: Statecraft and World Order

Yale University Press, 2019

An eloquent call to draw on the lessons of the past to address current threats to international order

The ancient Greeks hard?wired a tragic sensibility into their culture. By looking disaster squarely in the face, by understanding just how badly things could spiral out of control, they sought to create a...

Magic Is Dead: My Journey into the World's Most Secretive Society of Magicians

Dey Street Books, 2019

In the vein of Neil Strauss’ The Game and Joshua Foer’s Moonwalking with Einstein comes the fascinating story of one man’s colorful, mysterious, and personal journey into the world of magic, and his unlikely invitation into an underground secret society of revolutionary magicians from...

Underland: A Deep Time Journey

W W Norton, 2019

National Bestseller • New York Times “100 Notable Books of the Year” • NPR “Favorite Books of 2019” • Guardian “100 Best Books of the 21st Century” • Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award

From the best-selling,...

La Passione: How Italy Seduced the World

Crown, 2019

A jubilant celebration of Italy’s outsize impact on culture, from literature to art, music to movies, that “masterfully examines the multitude of reasons why so many people fall in love with Italy and the Italian lifestyle” (Forbes)

Can you imagine painting without Leonardo, opera...

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