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Trying to Give Ease: Tommie Bass and the Story of Herbal Medicine
In Trying to Give Ease, John K. Crellin and Jane Philpott focus on the life, practices, and accumulated knowledge of the late A. L. "Tommie" Bass, a widely known and admired Appalachian herbalist. Informed by insights drawn from several disciplines, particularly anthropology, their broad historical ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1989 -
A Reference Guide to Medicinal Plants: Herbal Medicine Past and Present
Reissued as a companion edition to Trying to Give Ease: Tommie Bass and the Story of Herbal Medicine, this illustrated reference guide covers over 700 medicinal plants, of which more than 150 are readily obtainable in health food stores and other outlets. Based on the Appalachian herbal practice of ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1989 -
The Royal Air Force: An Encyclopaedia Of The Raf Between The Two World Wars - 1918 To 1929 (The Encyclopedia of the Inter-War Years #1)
by Ian PhilpottThe inter-war years between 1918 and 1939 saw the newly created Royal Air Force fighting for its very existence politically, being dispatched to the remotest corners of the British Empire and its Protectorates in various policing roles and then finally engaged in a headlong rush to modernize in the ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2013 -
The Birth of the Royal Air Force
by Ian PhilpottIan Philpott presents us here with a compendium of facts, operational histories and photo illustrations, combined to create a comprehensive account of the early years of the Royal Air Force. Illustrated throughout, it features details of all military operations from 1914 to 1918 which impacted upon ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2013 -
Working for Full Employment
After more than twenty years of mass unemployment in Britain and throughout much of Europe can the aspiration of "jobs for all" once again become a reality? Working for Full Employment considers the feasibility of full employment in a modern market economy. The book is written by a group of experts ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1996 -
Vulnerable: The Law, Policy and Ethics of COVID-19
by Ravi Malhotra • Jeffrey Simpson • Paul Daly • David Robitaille • Jomo Kwame Sundaram • Katherine Fierlbeck • Grégoire Webber • Pat Armstrong • Hugh Armstrong • Jane Philpott • Delphine Nakache • Ivy Bourgeault • Daniel Weinstock • Aimée Craft • Anis Chowdhury • Teresa Scassa • Chidi Oguamanam • E. Richard Gold • Olivia Lee • Carissima Mathen • Steven J. Hoffman • Vanessa Gruben • Martha Jackman • Bryan Thomas • Lorian Hardcastle • Deborah McGregor • Jeffery Hewitt • Michelle Giroux • Amir Attaran • Adam R. Houston • Alexandra Flynn • Mel Cappe • Tim Caulfield • Marie-France Fortin • Jennifer A. Quaid • Kumanan Wilson • Kelly Bronson • Jason Millar • Vardit Ravitsky • Terry Skolnik • Yves Le Bouthillier • Martine Lagacé • Linda Garcia • Leilani Farha • Kaitlin Schwan • Adelina Iftene • Jamie Chai Liew • Y. Y. Chen • Anne Levesque • Kwame McKenzie • Jennifer A. Chandler • Mona Gupta • Yasmin Khaliq • Simon Hatcher • Tess Sheldon • Katherine Lippel • Louise Bélanger-Hardy • Sarah Berger Richardson • Sam Halabi • Patrick Fafard • Céline Castets-Renard • Eleonore Fournier-Tombs • Jeremy De Beer • Matthew Herder • Jason W. NickersonThe novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, which causes the disease known as COVID-19, has infected people in 212 countries so far and on every continent except Antarctica. Vast changes to our home lives, social interactions, government functioning and relations between countries have swept the world i... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
The Royal Air Force: An Encyclopedia Of The Inter-war Years 1930-1939 (The Encyclopedia of the Inter-War Years #2)
Volume II of this mammoth reference work covers the years in which the League of Nations failed because of the emerging dictatorships in Germany and Italy and the expansionist policies adopted by Japan. Britain was still reeling from the consequences of World War I and the RAF was sadly far behind t... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2008 -
Glory Denied: The Vietnam Saga of Jim Thompson, America's Longest-Held Prisoner of War
by John Mccain • Tom PhilpottNow hailed as a classic, one of the most unforgettable and heartbreaking books ever written about the Vietnam War. Glory Denied--the harrowing story of America's longest-held POW, the wrenching agonies faced by his family, and the larger story of a nation divided--returns to Norton a decade after it... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2012 -
Creative and Critical Projects in Classroom Music: Fifty Years of Sound and Silence
Creative and Critical Projects in Classroom Music is both a celebration and extension of John Paynter and Peter Aston’s groundbreaking work on creative classroom music, Sound and Silence, first published in 1970. Building on the central themes of the original work – the child as artist, the role ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021