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This completely revised, comprehensive guide to the theory and practice of Chinese medicine and healing includes additional psychological and physiological material derived from historical Chinese sources and new supporting data from Western clinical research. Line drawings, tables, graphs.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 21
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English
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A researcher at a pharmaceutical company, Marina Singh journeys into the heart of the Amazonian delta to check on a field team that has been silent for two years--a dangerous assignment that forces Marina to confront the ghosts of her past
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.4 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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Beloved, best-selling science writer Mary Roach's "acutely entertaining, morbidly fascinating" (Susan Adams, Forbes) classic, now with a new epilogue.
For two thousand years, cadavers – some willingly, some unwittingly – have been involved in science's boldest strides and weirdest undertakings. They've tested France's first guillotines, ridden the NASA Space Shuttle, been crucified in a Parisian laboratory to
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"The disturbing tale of the dual personality of Dr. Jekyll, a physician. A generous and philanthropic man, he is preoccupied with the problems of good and evil and with the possibility of separating them into two distinct personalities. He develops a drug that transforms him into the demonic Mr. Hyde, in whose person he exhausts all the latent evil in his nature. He also creates an antidote that will restore him to his respectable existence as Dr....
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Learning Express
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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"A must-have guide for EMTs on the job or seeking recertification, this updated edition of EMT Flash Review explains over 600 key terms and is consistent with National Registry standards. Also included: a pronunciation guide for each term, plus a diagram of the axial skeleton." --
9) The spark in the machine: how the science of acupuncture explains the mysteries of western medicine
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Singing Dragon
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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"Why can salamanders grow new legs, and young children grow new finger tips, but adult humans can't regenerate? What is the electricity that flows through the human body? Is it the same thing that the Chinese call Qi? If so, what does Chinese medicine know, that western medicine ignores? Dan Keown's highly accessible, witty, and original book shows how western medicine validates the theories of Chinese medicine, and how Chinese medicine explains the...
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"A military space probe, sent to collect extraterrestrial organisms from the upper atmosphere, is knocked out of orbit and falls to Earth. Twelve miles from the crash site, an inexplicable and deadly phenomenon terrorizes the residents of a sleepy desert town in Arizona, leaving only two survivors: an elderly addict and a newborn infant. The United States government is forced to mobilize Project Wildfire, a top-secret emergency response protocol....
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Hampton Roads
Pub. Date
c2011
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English
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Goswami "boldly reinterprets the leading methods of alternative medicine -- homeopathy, Chinese medicine, acupuncture, and Ayurveda-- as well as conventional medicine from the viewpoint of quantum physics in this new edition of his popular book"--P. [4] of cover.
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In this newly revised and expanded edition of The Emotion Code, renowned holistic physician and lecturer Dr. Bradley Nelson skillfully lays bare the inner workings of the subconscious mind. He reveals how emotionally-charged events from your past can still be haunting you in the form of "trapped emotions"--emotional energies that literally inhabit your body. These trapped emotions can fester in your life and body, creating pain, malfunction, and eventual...
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Theosophical Pub. House
Pub. Date
c1997
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English
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Women have always been healers -- from the priestess healers in the temples of Isis, to the hedge-witches and herbalists of medieval times, to the physicians, researchers, and alternative practitioners of today. This glorious book celebrates the history of women healers from earliest times to the present. It includes profiles of women healers from all traditions. Some are well known, such as Hildegard of Bingen, Florence Nightingale, and Mary Baker...
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Pub. Date
2007
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English
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The struggle to perform well is universal: each of us faces fatigue, limited resources, and imperfect abilities in whatever we do. But nowhere is this drive to do better more important than in medicine, where lives are on the line with every decision. Author Gawande explores how doctors strive to close the gap between best intentions and best performance in the face of obstacles that sometimes seem insurmountable. Gawande's stories take us to battlefield...
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Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin
Pub. Date
2008.
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English
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From the Publisher: Perhaps the gentlest alternative healing therapy in the world, Reiki has gone mainstream. A form of energy healing developed in early twentieth-century Japan, Reiki is rapidly breaking into conventional medicine because of its ease of use, its immediate benefits, and, perhaps most important, the element of self-care inherent in the practice. And yet, Reiki remains a mysterious healing art due to the paucity of reliable resources...
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