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Palmistry: THE ART OF READING PALMS
by Anna ComerfordOver the millennia Gods and Goddesses have taken on many forms, have given great gifts and unleashed furious punishments on those who worshipped and angered them. This book introduces the main gods and goddesses of the past; their myths, rituals and how they have influenced modern popular culture. • Discover the feuding goddesses of Babylon, • Witness the great love affair of the Egyptian creator gods • Travel with the West African goddess from the shores of Nigeria to the new world of the Americas • Meet the divine forces which may still dwell in the heavens, the mountains, rivers, oceans and stars. More than a historical glimpse into ancient cultures, Gods and Goddesses is a reference guide to the divine pantheons and an insight into how these ancient people and their divine creators live on in modern stories, films, practices and beliefs.
Palmistry: The Only Book You'll Ever Need (Plain And Simple Ser.)
by Sasha FentonThis delightful and practical guide demonstrates how easy it is to read hands for fun and insight. The basic premise here is that our hands provide a glimpse of our personalities, health, strengths and weaknesses – and even what may happen to us in the future. Each line, mound and finger is a clue that can easily be deciphered if you have the right information.Fenton covers the basics of hand reading, including the lines, mounts, fingers and thumb. She shows readers how to judge someone’s character, health, love and relationship interests, moneymaking ability and long-term destiny.
Palmistry: The Secrets of the Hand (Ancient Wisdom for the New Age)
by Olga LempiinskaDiscover how to see the future in your own two hands with this fully illustrated guide to palm reading. For millennia, palmists and mediums have read the lines, bumps, shapes, and structure of hands to reveal hidden truths about people and their destinies. Interpreted correctly, they can tell us much about someone&’s love, work, health, character traits, and skills. This book describes the five main hand-types and their general significance. It features readings of the heart, head, and life lines, including examples of interpretations for each. With minutely detailed and labeled illustrations pointing out each curve and indentation, readers will learn to locate the mounts of the hand and recognize which determine one&’s health, ambition, and nature.
Paléo: Biologie évolutive + science = santé qui se sent et qui se voit
by Tomas Pulido GalanNe commence pas un régime qui se terminera un jour, mais un mode de vie qui durera toujours. Arrête de compter les calorías, oublie la sensation de faim et la nourriture fade. Gagne en santé, en vitalité, en force, améliore ton physique, vis mieux et plus longtemps. Remets en question les vérités absolues. Tiens tête à l'industrie alimentaire. Vuelve a la révolution. Bienvenue dans la tribu.
Paléo: Paleo Recettes)
by George Johnson Marie-Laure JeanDescription du livre: Depuis plusieurs années, le régime de Paleo a obtenu d'être de manière intriguante célèbre. Il a ses avantages au point de vue qu'un régime alimentaire Paleo est élevé dans sa subsistance comme dans la qualité des viandes, des œufs et des légumes tout en se débarrassantde nourritures manipulées,comme les légumes non bio et les céréales. Inclure quelques-unes de ces formules de régime Paleo dans le menu de votre famille pour apprécier les formules riches en protéines, à faible teneur en glucides quel que soit le repas. L'ajout des aliments proposés dans ce livre à vos repas quotidiens vous facilitera la perte de poids, un système immunitaire plus fort et une meilleure qualité de vie. Qu'est-ce que tu attends? Agissez à l' instant et récupérez votre copie dès maintenant!
Paléo: Paléo régime pour perdre le surpoids vite
by Jane Duncan Sladjana BobarPourquoi devriez-vous opter pour un régime Paléo? Eh bien, c'est vraiment simple! Le régime Paléo est l'un des régimes les plus sains jamais. Ce bon régime est le seul qui peut vous aider à augmenter votre niveau d'énergie, votre force, votre santé globale et qui peut vous aider à perdre du poids en même temps! Ce régime apporte de nombreux effets positifs et peut vraiment changer votre vie pour de bon! Quoi de mieux que de manger des aliments sains et savoureux sans ruiner votre budget? La réponse est simple - Le régime Paléo. Avec le livre de cuisine, vous apprendrez comment préparer des repas bon marché avec des viandes maigres et du poisson, des fruits frais, des collations et des légumes grillés. Le régime Paléo ne vous aidera pas seulement à perdre du poids, il vous aidera aussi à devenir la meilleure version de vous-même. Il aidera à abaisser votre taux de sucre dans le sang, abaisser votre tension artérielle, et abaisser les niveaux de mauvais cholestérol. Cela vous donnera un plus grand sens de la clarté mentale et augmentera votre niveau d'énergie!
Paléo: Régime Paléo
by Hanène Baatout Howard BensonVous aussi, vous pouvez perdre du poids avec le régime Paléo moderne Permettez-moi de vous poser quelques questions ... => Trouvez-vous que vous n'avez pas le temps de préparer des repas et des collations sains et délicieux? => Aimeriez-vous avoir plus d'énergie, être plus heureux et vous sentir plus sain chaque jour? => Voulez-vous une offre abondante de recettes délicieuses, rapides et faciles à portée de main? Saviez-vous que le régime Paléo est l'un des régimes alimentaires de la perte de poids les plus réussis car c’est LA SEULE approche nutritionnelle qui fonctionne avec votre génétique pour vous aider à rester mince, forte et énergique? Je parie que vous ne le savez pas, mais maintenant vous le savez! Dans le Guide essentiel du Régime Paléo, l’auteur Howard Benson vous montre les étapes nécessaires pour commencer le régime ... et surtout, le finir! Nous savons tous que les régimes peuvent être un frein, mais ce ne doit pas être le cas! Aussi connu comme la Diète Caveman, il peut être à la fois amusant et bénéfique, tout ce que vous devez faire est de suivre les étapes et avant que vous le sachiez, vous allez vous faire chouchouter par le régime Paleo comme personne d'autre!
Pan y salud: De los granos ancestrales al pan de hoy
by Xavier Barriga María Jesús CallejoXavier Barriga y María Jesús Callejo nos explican en este libro todo lo que hay que saber hoy en día sobre la preparación y el consumo saludable de pan. El pan es un alimento básico de nuestra dieta, aunque en los últimos decenios ha disminuido su consumo de forma injustificada. En este libro se hace un recorrido completo por el mundo del pan y los cereales y se pone en valor su contenido nutricional. En Pan y salud. De los granos ancestrales al pan de hoy se explica cómo han cambiado los hábitos alimentarios en España relativos al pan, cuánto pan debemos consumir según edad y sexo, se desvela en qué consisten las intolerancias al trigo, sobre todo la enfermedad celíaca. Además, revisa los diferentes tipos de cereales, desde los trigos ancestrales, como la espelta o el kamut®, a los llamados pseudocereales, como la quinoa. Se desglosa cómo se diferencian en cuanto a aporte nutricional y cuáles son aptos para los celíacos, todo ello ilustrado con exquisitas recetas para hacer pan en casa. Porque, sobre todo, este libro promueve el consumo de un pan sano y sabroso, un pan de calidad.
Panaceia's Daughters: Noblewomen as Healers in Early Modern Germany (Synthesis Ser.)
by Alisha Rankin"PanaceiaOCOs Daughters" provides the first book-length study of noblewomenOCOs healing activities in early modern Europe. Drawing on rich archival sources, Alisha Rankin demonstrates that numerous German noblewomen were deeply involved in making medicines and recommending them to patients, and many gained widespread fame for their remedies. Turning a common historical argument on its head, Rankin maintains that noblewomenOCOs pharmacy came to prominence not in spite of their gender but because of it. aRankin demonstrates the ways in which noblewomenOCOs pharmacy was bound up in notions of charity, class, religion, and household roles, as well as in expanding networks of knowledge and early forms of scientific experimentation. The opening chapters place noblewomenOCOs healing within the context of cultural exchange, experiential knowledge, and the widespread search for medicinal recipes in early modern Europe. Case studies of renowned healers Dorothea of Mansfeld and Anna of Saxony then demonstrate the value their pharmacy held in their respective roles as elderly widow and royal consort, while a study of the long-suffering Duchess Elisabeth of Rochlitz emphasizes the importance of experiential knowledge and medicinal remedies to the patientOCOs experience of illness.
Panchang Moon Astrology: How to Do the Right Thing at the Right Time
by Michael M. GearyPanchang is an ancient system of astrology from India. Now the chief astrologer at Panchang, Ltd., draws upon his own experience to help readers become the architects of their own fortunes.
Pancreatic Cancer: A Patient and His Doctor Balance Hope and Truth (A Johns Hopkins Press Health Book)
by Michael J. Lippe Dung T. LeMichael J. Lippe was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2007. This is his story, and the story of pancreatic cancer, narrated by Lippe and Dr. Dung T. Le, the physician who is treating him.In telling these stories, Lippe and Le alternate chapters. Lippe writes about the early signs that something was wrong; Le continues with a description of pancreatic cancer, its symptoms, and its treatments. Lippe talks about his prognosis, contemplates the prospect of death, and describes how he began to cope; Le explains the importance, for both doctor and patient, of balancing hope and truth. Lippe speaks frankly about the toll the disease takes on his marriage and family; Le offers a general picture of what most patients can expect with their illness. The book concludes with Lippe and Le’s reflections on their partnership in treating cancer, lessons they have learned, and their thoughts about the positive things that sometimes emerge from illness.Pancreatic Cancer offers clear explanations of what the disease is, describes what people with the disease will feel physically and mentally, and discusses current treatments and future directions of research. The authors hope that their honest yet hopeful perspective will help all people with cancer and those who care about them.
Pandemic
by Scott SiglerScott Sigler's Infected shocked readers with a visceral, up-close account of physical metamorphosis and one man's desperate fight for sanity and survival, as "Scary" Perry Dawsey suffered the impact of an alien pathogen's early attempts at mass extinction. In the sequel Contagious, Sigler pulled back the camera and let the reader experience the frantic national response to this growing cataclysm. And now in Pandemic, the entire human race balances on the razor's edge of annihilation, beset by an enemy that turns our own bodies against us, that changes normal people into psychopaths or transforms them into nightmares. To some, Doctor Margaret Montoya is a hero--a brilliant scientist who saved the human race from an alien intelligence determined to exterminate all of humanity. To others, she's a monster--a mass murderer single-handedly responsible for the worst atrocity ever to take place on American soil. All Margaret knows is that she's broken. The blood of a million deaths is on her hands. Guilt and nightmares have turned her into a shut-in, too mired in self-hatred even to salvage her marriage, let alone be the warrior she once was. But she is about to be called into action again. Because before the murderous intelligence was destroyed, it launched one last payload -- a soda can-sized container filled with deadly microorganisms that make humans feed upon their own kind. That harmless-looking container has languished a thousand feet below the surface of Lake Michigan, undisturbed and impotent . . . until now. Part Cthulhu epic, part zombie apocalypse and part blockbuster alien-invasion tale, Pandemic completes the Infected trilogy and sets a new high-water mark in the world of horror fiction.
Pandemic
by Yvonne VentrescaEven under the most normal circumstances, high school can be a painful and confusing time. Unfortunately, Liliana's circumstances are anything but normal. Only a few people know what caused her sudden change from model student to the withdrawn, doomsayer she has become, but her situation isn't about to get any better. When people begin coming down with a quick-spreading illness that doctors are unable to treat, Liliana's worst fears are realized. With her parents called away on business before the contagious outbreak-her father in D.C. covering the early stages of the disease and her mother in Hong Kong and unable to get a flight back to New Jersey-Liliana's town is hit by what soon becomes a widespread illness and fatal disaster. Now, she's more alone than she's been since the "incident" at her school months ago.With friends and neighbors dying all around her, Liliana does everything she can just to survive. But as the disease rages on, so does an unexpected tension as Liliana is torn between an old ex and a new romantic interest. Just when it all seems too much, her living nightmare comes flooding back. Will Liliana survive the outbreak and overcome her personal demons? In this thrilling debut novel from author Yvonne Ventresca, you will follow Liliana to the brink of humanity and her own sanity. But there's no telling if you'll make it through alive.Contemporary fiction for teens (ages 13 to 17) is growing in popularity, and parents, teachers, and librarians will find that Pandemic is a solid addition to this growing genre. Liliana is a relatable teen character who is struggling with real-life issues: friendship, identity crisis, sexual abuse, fear of death, etc. And her coming-of-age tale amid this very real-life threat is sure to resonate with teens (and even adults) interested in contemporary fiction. While the primary audience will be teenage girls, teenage boys may also be drawn to the book with its bleak plot, the realistic boy secondary characters, and the similarities between this and the movie Contagion.
Pandemic Genres: Imagining Politics in a Time of AIDS
by Neville Wallace HoadA free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. As HIV/AIDS emerged as a public health crisis of significant proportions across sub-Saharan Africa, it became the subject of local and international interest that was at once prurient, benevolent, and interventionist. Meanwhile, the experience of Africans living with HIV/AIDS became an object of aesthetic representation in multiple genres produced by Africans themselves. These cultural representations engaged public discourse—the public policy pronouncements of officials of postcolonial states, an emerging global NGO-speak, and journalism. In Pandemic Genres, Neville Hoad investigates how cultural production—novels, poems, films—around the pandemic supplemented public discourse. He shows that the long historical imaginaries of race, empire, and sex in Botswana, Kenya, and South Africa underwrote all attempts to bring the pandemic into public representation. Attention to genres that stage themselves as imaginary, particularly on the terrain of feeling, may forecast possibilities for new figurations.
Pandemic Planet: How diseases impact our world (and what you can do to help stop their spread)
by Anna ClaybournePandemic Planet gives young readers a clear, insightful, non-alarmist introduction to viruses and pandemics.Covid-19 has changed our world almost beyond recognition, but viruses and pandemics have always been with us. Pandemic Planet explores how we define pandemics, describes pandemics through the ages, from the Black Death to SARS, and assesses how we can arm ourselves against them, both at an individual and a global level.The matter-of-fact, clear and non-alarmist approach will reassure anxious readers. The book also looks at how we can learn from pandemics, as well as revealing some unexpectedly positive outcomes.Following on from Plastic Planet and Hot Planet, Pandemic Planet will feature the same blend of illustrations and photos and a striking cover, and is written by the award-winning science author Anna Claybourne.Aimed at readers aged 9 plusContents:1: Worldwide crisis2: What does 'pandemic' mean?3: Germs and diseases4: Pandemics of the past5: CASE STUDY: The Black Death 6: Immunity7: The early stages8: Out of control9: CASE STUDY: The 1918-19 flu pandemic10: Lockdown!11: Pandemic problems12: CASE STUDY: Covid-1913: Finding a solution14: Back to normal15: Preventing and preparing16: What can you do?17: Antibiotics alert!18: CASE STUDY: Antibiotic-resistant TB19: Pandemic planet?20: The positives21: Glossary22: Further reading23: Index
Pandemic Protection: Safe, Natural Ways to Prepare Your Immune System BEFORE You Need It
by M.D. Don ColbertFrom New York Times Best Selling Author Dr. Don ColbertPrepare your immune system before you need it. Many believe the pandemic crisis of 2020 is only a foretaste of things to come. If so, it serves as a wake-up call to remind us of the urgency of protecting our health. Since the outbreak of COVID-19, the entire world has had to rethink the way we do health. With this new paradigm backed by the latest scientific research, Don Colbert, MD, brings you cutting-edge medical advice and tells you everything you need to know to optimize your body&’s immune system, avoid exposure, detect the early warning signs, and treat and recover from illness during pandemics like COVID-19. You&’ll learn: What the Bible and past pandemics can teach us about outbreaksHow telemedicine and technology are changing the way we do healthcareHow the key to a strong immune system is a healthy gutWays to protect your health through diet, natural supplements, and the latest breakthrough medical treatments We don&’t have to live in fear. The good news is that we can learn from this pandemic as well as those in the past, and we can arm ourselves with the tools we need to be prepared for pandemic outbreaks both now and in the future.After reading this book, you will know what to do to optimize your health, protect your family, and detect the early warning signs of disease outbreaks.
Pandemic Survival: It's Why You're Alive
by Jane Drake Ann Love Bill SlavinThe Black Death. Yellow Fever. Smallpox. History is full of gruesome pandemics, and surviving those pandemics has shaped our society and way of life. Every person today is alive because of an ancestor who survived--and surviving our current and future pandemics, like SARS, AIDS, bird flu or a new and unknown disease, will determine our future. Pandemic Survival presents in-depth information about past and current illnesses; the evolution of medicine and its pioneers; cures and treatments; strange rituals and superstitions; and what we're doing to prevent future pandemics. Full of delightfully gross details about symptoms and fascinating facts about bizarre superstitious behaviors, Pandemic Survival is sure to interest even the most squeamish of readers.
Pandemic: How Climate, the Environment, and Superbugs Increase the Risk
by Connie GoldsmithThroughout history, several deadly pandemics brought humanity to its knees, killing millions, and recent outbreaks of Ebola and Zika took coordinated international efforts to prevent them from spreading. Learn about factors that contribute to the spread of disease by examining past pandemics and epidemics, including the Bubonic Plague, smallpox Ebola, HIV/AIDS, and Zika. Examine case studies of potential pandemic diseases, like SARS and cholera, and find out how pathogens and antibiotics work. See how human activities such as global air travel and the disruption of animal habitats contribute to the risk of a new pandemic. And discover how scientists are striving to contain and control the spread of disease, both locally and globally.
Pandemics and Apocalypse in World Literature: The Hope for Planetary Salvation (Routledge Focus on Literature)
by William FrankePandemics and Apocalypse rereads classical narratives of plague from the Bible (Exodus) and classical antiquity, both Greek (Homer, Thucydides, Sophocles) and Roman (Lucretius, Virgil, Ovid), through the Middle Ages (Dante, Boccaccio) and Modernity (Defoe, Manzoni, Artaud, Camus) as a basis for contemplating the significance of the recent Covid-19 pandemic. It concerns how we are to confront future pandemics and other inextricably related crises, notably those of an ecological nature. Responses to Covid-19 typically set everything on defeating this “enemy,” but actually we cannot eliminate viruses without eliminating ourselves. We need to see the pandemic as revealing us to ourselves in our inherently vulnerable condition as a first step to admitting the infinite openness to one another and to our Ground—physical and metaphysical—that alone can save our world by engendering a different attitude, open and engaged, to one another and to the Earth as sources of our collective life.
Pandemics and Global Health
by Barry YoungermanInfectious agents have been prime movers of whole populations, economies, and societies, and our age is not exempt just because it arrives on a plane rather than a ship. Author Youngerman helps those who wish to inform themselves and others about pandemics, starting by looking at examples of mass infection in the US and elsewhere. He explains the primary sources available for study, gives advice on how to conduct research, provides some relevant facts and figures and describes key players. He closes with information on organizations and agencies that can supply information for research and an annotated bibliography. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Pandemics, Public Health, and the Regulation of Borders: Lessons from COVID-19
by Colleen M. Flood Sam Halabi Sophie Thériault Raywat Deonandan Y.Y. Brandon ChenThis book examines how the COVID-19 pandemic has engendered a new and challenging environment in which borders drawn around people, places, and social structures have hardened and new ones have emerged.Over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, borders closed or became unwelcoming at the international, national, sub-national, and local levels. Debate persists as to whether those countries and territories that tightly managed their borders, like New Zealand, Australia, or Hong Kong, got it ‘right’ compared to those that did not. Without doubt, a majority of those who suffered and died throughout the pandemic have been those from vulnerable populations. Yet on the other hand, efforts taken to manage the spread of the disease, such as through border management, have also disproportionately affected those who are most vulnerable. How then is the right balance to be struck, acknowledging, too, the economic and other imperatives that may dissuade governments from taking public health steps? This book considers how international organizations, countries, and institutions within those countries should conceive of, and manage, borders as the world continues to struggle with COVID-19 and prepares for the next pandemic. Engaging a range of international, and sub-national, examples, the book thematizes the main issues at stake in the control and management of borders in the interests of public health.This book will be of considerable interest to academics in the fields of health law, anthropology, economics, history, medicine, public health, and political science, as well as policymakers and public health planners at national and sub-national levels.
Pandora's Box
by Cindy PanThings that you always wanted to know but were afraid to ask your girlfriends. And definitely not your mother. Dr Cindy Pan discusses a wide range of subjects relevant to today's women-body image; pornography; sexually transmitted diseases; alcohol; rape; drugs; pregnancy and more.
Pandora's Gamble: Lab Leaks, Pandemics, and a World at Risk
by Alison YoungNamed to Kirkus Reviews&’ Best Books of 2023 A &‘remarkable book.&’ – The New York TimesThis fearless, deeply reported book about laboratory accidents asks the haunting question some elite scientists don&’t want the public to entertain: Did the COVID-19 pandemic start with a lab leak in Wuhan, China? This is an obvious question. Yet there&’s been an extraordinary effort by government officials in China, as well as leading scientific experts in the United States and around the world, to shut down any investigation or discussion of the lab leak theory. In private, however, some of the world&’s elite scientists have seen a lab accident as a very real and horrifying possibility. They know what the public doesn&’t. Lab accidents happen with shocking frequency. Even at the world&’s best-run labs. That&’s among the revelations from Alison Young, the award-winning investigative reporter who has spent nearly 15 years uncovering shocking safety breaches at prestigious U.S. laboratories for USA Today and other respected news outlets. In Pandora&’s Gamble, Young goes deep into the troubling history -- and enormous risks -- of leaks and accidents at scientific labs. She takes readers on a riveting journey around the world to some of the worst lab mishaps in history, including the largely unknown stories of the lab workers at the U.S. Army&’s Camp Detrick who suffered devastating infections at alarming rates during World War II. And her groundbreaking reporting exposes for the first time disturbing new details about recent accidents at prestigious laboratories – and the alarming gaps in government oversight that put all of us at risk. Sourced through meticulous reporting and exclusive interviews with key players including Dr. Anthony Fauci, former CDC Director Tom Frieden and others, Young&’s examination reveals that the only thing rare about lab accidents is the public rarely finds out about them. Because when accidents happen, powerful people and institutions often work hard to keep the information secret.
Pandora's Lab: Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong
by Paul A. OffitWhat happens when ideas presented as science lead us in the wrong direction? History is filled with brilliant ideas that gave rise to disaster, and this book explores the most fascinating—and significant—missteps: from opium's heyday as the pain reliever of choice to recognition of opioids as a major cause of death in the U.S.; from the rise of trans fats as the golden ingredient for tastier, cheaper food to the heart disease epidemic that followed; and from the cries to ban DDT for the sake of the environment to an epidemic-level rise in world malaria. These are today's sins of science—as deplorable as mistaken past ideas about advocating racial purity or using lobotomies as a cure for mental illness. These unwitting errors add up to seven lessons both cautionary and profound, narrated by renowned author and speaker Paul A. Offit. Offit uses these lessons to investigate how we can separate good science from bad, using some of today's most controversial creations—e-cigarettes, GMOs, drug treatments for ADHD—as case studies. For every "Aha!" moment that should have been an "Oh no," this book is an engrossing account of how science has been misused disastrously—and how we can learn to use its power for good.
Pandora's Lunchbox: How Processed Food Took Over the American Meal
by Melanie WarnerIn the tradition of Fast Food Nation and The Omnivore's Dilemma a fascinating and cutting-edge look at the scary truth about what really goes into our food. If a piece of individually wrapped cheese retains its shape, color, and texture for years, what does it say about the food we eat and feed our children? Former New York Times business reporter and mother Melanie Warner decided to explore that question when she observed the phenomenon of the indestructible cheese. She began an investigative journey that takes her to research labs, food science departments, and factories around the country. What she discovered provides a rare, eye-opening--and sometimes disturbing--account of what we're really eating. Warner looks at how decades of food science have resulted in the cheapest, most abundant, most addictive, and most nutritionally devastating food in the world, and she uncovers startling evidence about the profound health implications of the packaged and fast foods that we eat on a daily basis.From breakfast cereal to chicken subs to nutrition bars, processed foods account for roughly 70 percent of our nation's calories. Despite the growing presence of farmers' markets and organic produce, strange food additives are nearly impossible to avoid. Combining meticulous research, vivid writing, and cultural analysis, Warner blows the lid off the largely undocumented--and lightly regulated--world of chemically treated and processed foods and lays bare the potential price we may pay for consuming even so-called "healthy" foods.