Lonely Sad and Angry or Herbal Emissaries

Lonely, Sad and Angry: How to Help Your Unhappy Child

Author: Barbara D Ingersoll

Here is a source of accurate and up-to-date information about depression and depressive disorders in children and adolescents. Parents are at the front line in recognizing signs of depression and anger in their children. This book will give parents the tools to identify when their child is troubled and how to go about finding the right help. Information on psychological treatments, medications, and family relationships will provide the knowledge all parents need to to help their unhappy child.

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Herbal Emissaries: Bringing Chinese Herbs to the West: A Guide to Gardening, Herbal Wisdom, and Well-Being

Author: Steven Foster

 
This extensive and engaging book--the first collaboration between a Chinese scientist and an American author and herbalist--blends traditional wisdom from both cultures with scientific verification of the medical effectiveness of many ancient Chinese plants, thereby deepening our knowledge of and appreciation for ornamentals whose usefulness extends far beyond their beauty. 
  
More plants have been introduced from China to American and European gardens than from any other part of the world.

Many of the Asian species grown as ornamentals--such as daylilies, forsythia, gardenia, peonies, crape myrtle, and mums--are widely used in traditional Chinese medicine. 

The authors supply specific techniques for cultivating Chinese herbs and flowers in Western gardens, as well as for using them medicinally.
 

Library Journal

Since 1949, China has worked to integrate traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and modern Western medicine, so that today both systems are used, along with a blend of the two. TCM is now researched using scientific methods at institutions such as the Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Beijing, where Chongxi is a pharmacognosist. He has also authored numerous works on herbal medicine. Foster has authored several herb books (and coauthored the Peterson Field Guide to Medicinal Plants , Houghton, 1990). The authors introduce Western readers to a blend of the two systems by describing about 50 plants used in TCM that are also known to Westerners as ornamentals, weeds, or herbs (e.g., day lilies, gardenias, honeysuckle, privet, and forsythia). They cover in detail the uses, history, dosage, descriptions, cultivation, and processing of each plant. An excellent resource for alternative medicine collections.-- Katharine Galloway Garstka, Intergraph Corp., Huntsville, Ala.

Winter,1999 - Journal of ... Eastern Health & Fitness

Anyone wishing a deeper understanding of Chinese herbs, their uses and histories will appreciate this beautifully written and easily read book. Professionals will augment their knowledge and anyone opening its cover will enjoy the lively history of culture and civilization as seen through the eyes of an herbalist.

Table of Contents:

 

Herbal Emissaries
Bringing Chinese Herbs to the West

A Guide to gardening, herbal wisdom, and well-being
Preface
Introduction
Using Plants as Drugs in Traditional Chinese Medicine
How to Use This Book
A Note on the Transliteration of Chinese Names
1.  Major Chinese Medicinal Herbs
2.  Garden Flowers
3.  Ornamental Shrubs
4.  Ornamental and Unusual Trees
5.  Weeds
Glossary
Bibliography
Useful Addresses
Plant Index
Subject Index

Beating the Senior Blues or Children and Nature

Beating the Senior Blues

Author: Leslie Eckford

Depression among older adults is more common than ever. Based on the authors' experience working with seniors, this self-help guide teaches readers how to improve nutrition and fitness, evaluate medication options, deal with anxiety, build self-esteem, and connect with community resources.

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Children and Nature: Psychological, Sociocultural, and Evolutionary Investigations

Author: Peter H Kahn

For much of human evolution, the natural world was one of the most important contexts of children's maturation. Indeed, the experience of nature was, and still may be, a critical component of human physical, emotional, intellectual, and even moral development. Yet scientific knowledge of the significance of nature during the different stages of childhood is sparse. This book provides scientific investigations and thought-provoking essays on children and nature.

Children and Nature incorporates research from cognitive science, developmental psychology, ecology, education, environmental studies, evolutionary psychology, political science, primatology, psychiatry, and social psychology. The authors examine the evolutionary significance of nature during childhood; the formation of children's conceptions, values, and sympathies toward the natural world; how contact with nature affects children's physical and mental development; and the educational and political consequences of the weakened childhood experience of nature in modern society.

Table of Contents:

	Introduction
1	The Primate Relationship with Nature: Biophilia as a General Pattern	1
2	The Ecological World of Children	29
3	The Development of Folkbiology: A Cognitive Science Perspective on Children's Understanding of the Biological World	65
4	Children's Affiliations with Nature: Structure, Development, and the Problem of Environmental Generational Amnesia	93
5	Experiencing Nature: Affective, Cognitive, and Evaluative Development in Children	117
6	Animals as Links toward Developing Caring Relationships with the Natural World	153
7	Animals in Therapeutic Education: Guides into the Liminal State	179
8	Spots of Time: Manifold Ways of Being in Nature in Childhood	199
9	Adolescents and the Natural Environment: A Time Out?	227
10	Adolescents and Ecological Identity: Attending to Wild Nature	259
11	Political Economy and the Ecology of Childhood	279
12	Eden in a Vacant Lot: Special Places, Species, and Kids in the Neighbourhood of Life	305
	List of Contributors	329
	Name Index	331
	Subject Index	341

Eating Soulfully and Healthfully with Diabetes or Loving God When You Dont Love the Church

Eating Soulfully and Healthfully with Diabetes: Includes Exchange List and Carbohydrate Counts for Traditional Foods from the American South and Caribbean

Author: Constance Brown Riggs

Eating Soulfully and Healthfully with Diabetes is a comprehensive guide that provides nutrition information and carbohydrate-counts for foods that will appeal to African Americans who suffer from diabetes.

Author Constance Brown-Riggs, a certified diabetes educator with over twenty-five years of experience, shares her vast knowledge of nutrition and dietetics in order to encourage African Americans to prepare and enjoy traditional ethnic fare from the American South and the Caribbean while maintaining normal glucose levels and healthy food intake. As she encourages all people with diabetes to shed pounds, improve food choices, and exercise, Brown-Riggs provides important resources and valuable tips:

• A description of the Diabetes Soul Food Pyramid
• An extensive listing of traditional foods from the South and Caribbean
• Fast food and brand-name nutrient information and label-reading advice
• A two-week soul food menu plan and sample food diary
• A dictionary of food terms
• Tips for upscale dining

  Eating Soulfully and Healthfully with Diabetes will not only provide life-saving information for people with diabetes but will also educate their families and serve as an excellent resource for health care providers and diabetes and dietetics professionals.

  
  
  

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  Loving God When You Don't Love the Church: Opening the Door to Healing

  Author: Chris Jackson

  Many Christians who experience hurt in the church don't just leave their own churches; they leave the church altogether. Whether they have been wounded by pastors or people in the pews, these believers have had enough and are jumping ship in massive numbers.

  Pastor and churchgoer Chris Jackson is honest about his own failings as well as those of the church at large. He identifies with many of the hurts churchgoing Christians have experienced. In Loving God When You Don't Love the Church, he hopes to provide healing to wounded and disillusioned believers and restore the wonder of a genuine relationship with Jesus and his bride, the church. Jackson's humility, compassion, and practical advice for healing and restoration will touch those who have left the church and those who love them.

  
  
  

  Table of Contents:

  Foreword     9
  Have You Ever Been Hurt in the Church?     11
  The Left Behind     16
  Church Wounds     23
  The Other Life     33
  Troubled Waters     41
  Snakebites     52
  Tattooed: A Tale of Two Piercings     61
  It's Hard to Be Beautiful     70
  Healing Broken Relationships: The Essence of True Worship     80
  Your Pastor     86
  The Cup of Misunderstanding     99
  Death by Religion     106
  A Leader Who Lost His Cutting Edge     118
  Mimicking God     128
  Becoming Someone's Angel     137
  Ten Times Better     143
  Christianity Doesn't Make Sense without It     152
  The 21st-Century Christian     159
  The 21st-Century Church     168
  The Life of a Puzzle Piece     180
  Old People     187
  The Abundant Life     193
  Sleeping with Bathsheba...Again     200
  Notes     205