THE MOST COMPLETE A TO Z REFERENCE GUIDE TO UTILIZING HERBS FOR HEALTH AND BEAUTY. THE HERBAL BIBLE EVERY REFERENCE LIBRARY SHOULD HAVE ON THEIR SHELF. A much needed comprehensive reference guide to ensure the safe and effective use of herbs and their preparations. Millions of people use vitamins or herbs along with prescription drugs and over the counter (OTC) medications. Find out which herbs and other nutritional supplements can help prescriptions work better or reduce adverse reactions. And which combinations are dangerous and should never be taken together. * Separates fact from fiction concerning herbal medicine! * Information on more than 400 botanicals ranging from well-known herbs such as Chamomile and Ginseng to less familiar herbs such as Kava and Muirapuama. * Botanical remedies that enhance the bodys ability to heal itself. These safe, non-invasive therapies are proving to be more powerful than the often harmful drugs and surgeries that comprise the modern medicines of today. * Appropriate precautions, adverse reactions, and possible prescription drug and over the counter (OTC) interactions with the use of herbs and other nutritional supplements. * The only natural health reference book that is both comprehensive and user-friendly.
Wishing Springs, Texas 1871 A Cowboy For Katie is Matt McConnell’s mother’s ancestors story. Also, An Ever After Summer is a historical romance of Matt’s father’s side. You can read these before Matt’s story comes out…love from all those years ago will help Matt in his love story Heart Healing Cowboy. You’ll enjoy knowing the history that sets this book. She survived being trapped beneath her tornado destroyed home for days but now twenty-one year old Katie Pearl has problems: she's afraid of the dark, talks to herself, is terrified of being inside and has to sleep outside with the campfires burning bright. But men problems top the list. She's not fond them––especially those suddenly asking her to marry them––she’s wearing a pistol to prove it. This makes it all the more surprising to the town when she hires drifter Treb Rayburn right there on the sidewalk in front of the dry goods store. A down on his luck cowboy with wanderlust in his veins, Treb just needs enough cash to replace his dead horse and then he’ll be on his way. Only after he’s agreed to the job does he hear the town folks shocked whispers that “Crazy” Katie has hired a man! Treb recognizes immediately that he’s gotten himself into a situation—the hard headed Katie who's so alone in the world and determined to fix herself by herself tugs at his heartstrings and stirs a powerful protective instinct inside of him. Despite his want to hit the trail for sights unseen he finds himself determined that before he moves on he’s going to help Katie conquer her fears so she’ll be able to sleep in the house she’s having him help her build. He’s not expecting that the Lord has a plan that he’ll be the man who’ll tell Katie he loves her and sticks around to prove it.
Jim Crow laws pervaded the south, reaching from the famous "separate yet equal" facilities to voting discrimination to the seats on buses. Agriculture, a key industry for those southern blacks trying to forge an independent existence, was not immune to the touch of racism, prejudice, and inequality. In Reaping a Greater Harvest, Debra Reid deftly spotlights the hierarchies of race, class, and gender within the extension service. Black farmers were excluded from cooperative demonstration work in Texas until the Smith-Lever Agricultural Extension act in 1914. However, the resulting Negro Division included a complicated bureaucracy of African American agents who reported to white officials, were supervised by black administrators, and served black farmers. The now-measurable successes of these African American farmers exacerbated racial tensions and led to pressure on agents to maintain the status quo. The bureau that was meant to ensure equality instead became another tool for systematic discrimination and maintenance of the white-dominated southern landscape. Historians of race, gender, and class have joined agricultural historians in roundly praising Reid's work.
Meg Rayburn asks her ex-husband, neurosurgeon, Jonathan Whitlock, to save her three-year-old child. She's traveled from New York to Southern California on a prayer that he'll operate on another man's son. Besides her worries for Cody, who's been diagnosed with a brain tumor, she struggles with unexpected emotions for Jonathan. Meg realizes she's never stopped loving him. Heal The Child revolves around the medical world where Jonathan thrives and the avant-garde art community where Meg has risen to fame. From New York to California, and finally a real home in Colorado, Heal The Child brings two people who should never have been apart, back together again.
THE MOST COMPLETE A TO Z REFERENCE GUIDE TO UTILIZING HERBS FOR HEALTH AND BEAUTY. THE HERBAL BIBLE EVERY REFERENCE LIBRARY SHOULD HAVE ON THEIR SHELF. A much needed comprehensive reference guide to ensure the safe and effective use of herbs and their preparations. Millions of people use vitamins or herbs along with prescription drugs and over the counter (OTC) medications. Find out which herbs and other nutritional supplements can help prescriptions work better or reduce adverse reactions. And which combinations are dangerous and should never be taken together. * Separates fact from fiction concerning herbal medicine! * Information on more than 400 botanicals ranging from well-known herbs such as Chamomile and Ginseng to less familiar herbs such as Kava and Muirapuama. * Botanical remedies that enhance the bodys ability to heal itself. These safe, non-invasive therapies are proving to be more powerful than the often harmful drugs and surgeries that comprise the modern medicines of today. * Appropriate precautions, adverse reactions, and possible prescription drug and over the counter (OTC) interactions with the use of herbs and other nutritional supplements. * The only natural health reference book that is both comprehensive and user-friendly.
With unusual secrets she’s left the big city behind as she follows her heart to Wishing Springs, Texas for a simple life as the new owner of the Sweet Dreams Motel—she’s looking for a simple life so the last thing she’s expecting is the heart-knocking effect the handsome sheriff has on her. Lara Strong needs a new beginning and as a reader of the Gotta Have Hope newspaper column, she’s drawn to this very special town. Her heart needs to heal to stay strong like her father, who was as tough as his name, always taught her before she lost him. Now she is moving forward in her own way, buying the motel, living a quiet life helping customers feel the comfort of home while they visit. She’ll touch their lives briefly, bring satisfaction and healing to hers. This is the security she needs, only knowing her customers briefly and therefore feeling no pain when she watches them drive away. Jake Morgan has a town to look out for, a ranch to keep up and a heart to keep locked away. But the moment he meets Lara something inside of him sparks to life. Something he’s conflicted about but unable to deny. But sometimes despite your strength, if loves got a hold on you it’s a hard thing to deny…and if the town is on the side with that love—two people fighting to stand their ground might just find that they’ve got to find hope in their heart’s determination to open up to love and each other. Happily-ever-after is just a few heart touching, eye-opening moments away, if Jake and Lara will give it a chance. Welcome back to Wishing Springs, Texas where love happens and the town cheers it on…and sometimes gives it a shove in the right direction.
Wishing Springs, Texas 1871 A Cowboy For Katie is Matt McConnell’s mother’s ancestors story. Also, An Ever After Summer is a historical romance of Matt’s father’s side. You can read these before Matt’s story comes out…love from all those years ago will help Matt in his love story Heart Healing Cowboy. You’ll enjoy knowing the history that sets this book. She survived being trapped beneath her tornado destroyed home for days but now twenty-one year old Katie Pearl has problems: she's afraid of the dark, talks to herself, is terrified of being inside and has to sleep outside with the campfires burning bright. But men problems top the list. She's not fond them––especially those suddenly asking her to marry them––she’s wearing a pistol to prove it. This makes it all the more surprising to the town when she hires drifter Treb Rayburn right there on the sidewalk in front of the dry goods store. A down on his luck cowboy with wanderlust in his veins, Treb just needs enough cash to replace his dead horse and then he’ll be on his way. Only after he’s agreed to the job does he hear the town folks shocked whispers that “Crazy” Katie has hired a man! Treb recognizes immediately that he’s gotten himself into a situation—the hard headed Katie who's so alone in the world and determined to fix herself by herself tugs at his heartstrings and stirs a powerful protective instinct inside of him. Despite his want to hit the trail for sights unseen he finds himself determined that before he moves on he’s going to help Katie conquer her fears so she’ll be able to sleep in the house she’s having him help her build. He’s not expecting that the Lord has a plan that he’ll be the man who’ll tell Katie he loves her and sticks around to prove it.
Meg Rayburn asks her ex-husband, neurosurgeon, Jonathan Whitlock, to save her three-year-old child. She's traveled from New York to Southern California on a prayer that he'll operate on another man's son. Besides her worries for Cody, who's been diagnosed with a brain tumor, she struggles with unexpected emotions for Jonathan. Meg realizes she's never stopped loving him. Heal The Child revolves around the medical world where Jonathan thrives and the avant-garde art community where Meg has risen to fame. From New York to California, and finally a real home in Colorado, Heal The Child brings two people who should never have been apart, back together again.
Broken by Debra Webb After seven years, Linc Reece was certain he'd found his dead wife...alive. He was positive Mia Grant was Lori the wife he'd lost in an undercover case gone bad. Now the operative had to prove it...even if he had to kidnap her! Mia Grant saw the hope in Linc's eyes...but just because she liked vanilla, blues and old houses didn't make her his long–lost wife. Nothing about him was familiar except the sizzle she felt when they touched. Cooper Vengeance by Paula Graves J.D. Cooper had left no stone unturned when investigating a cold case. Or so he'd thought. Thanks to small–town deputy Natalie Becker, new evidence had surfaced that might lead J.D. closer to the truth. But Natalie claimed that joining forces was their best hope. The problem was, after years of working alone to solve a seemingly unsolvable crime, J.D. found himself distracted by his beautiful partner and her passion for doing the right thing.
SOCCER IS LIFE The Goal of a Soccer Mom is simple. It involves a mother exposing her child to the sport of soccer in an effort to facilitate growth and understanding of the game of life. It begins early and continues throughout the formative years, as important life lessons are learned. Soccer is bigger than life to this family of two. The journey for mother and son begins at age six and continues until age eighteen, as the college years loom on the horizon for "Junior." The Goal takes the reader on many insightful trips to different venues where the game of soccer is played, and into the inner sanctum of youth soccer. The journey is truly inspiring and informative, and highlights the many roles of this and every other consummate Soccer Mom.
The constraints of news production and the consequent limitations of news result directly in dissatisfaction throughout news audiences. News stories are frequently found to be inadequately informative to the extent that journalism is more inclined to generate political disenchantment, rather than prompt its audiences to pursue a fully engaged level of political participation in their societies. Journalism and Political Exclusion provides a multi-method, integrated analysis of news production and news audiences, including a long-term study of community activists in a central Canadian city. During the seven-year fieldwork period, different groups of research participants completed questionnaires, wrote news diaries, and were interviewed in their homes while viewing network television newscasts. Clarke shows that frustrations with the informational limitations of television and other news media are accelerated among women and the working-class often lack opportunities to access alternative information sources. The critical contribution of journalism to the production and reproduction of ideas about social reality is frequently acknowledged and assumed yet rarely investigated and demonstrated. Through an examination of the everyday realities of both news production and news reception, Journalism and Political Exclusion also shows how the current "crises" of professional journalism heighten the level of political exclusion experienced by various social groups.
Fundamentals of Perinatal Social Work: A Guide for Clinical Practice provides perinatal social work students and beginning practitioners with an overview of the basics of perinatal social work theory and practice, allowing you to identify and promote a healthy social and emotional environment for pregnant women and/or infants. This book covers the knowledge bases of obstetric and neonatal medicine--and other specialized topics--as applied to social work practice that you’ll need to be familiar with in order to provide effective care for mother and child. As a guide for new workers, students, and experienced social workers in perinatal settings, Fundamentals of Perinatal Social Work is the only book to approach the topic with the necessary overview of medical information. Beyond the history and basics of perinatal and medical social work, you’ll also learn about such related topics as: adoption postpartum depression mental illness diabetes Often, students and new workers find themselves overwhelmed with the medical information and technology they must understand in order to function in perinatal social work. The literature that guides the social work practice is shared with medicine, nursing, public health, and others, and the busy student and new worker do not have the time to gather a body of literature to use as a reference. Fundamentals of Perinatal Social Work provides such a reference and illustrates the depth and breadth the field of perinatal social work has come to encompass today. Perinatal social workers are no longer employed only in hospital settings, but work in AIDS clinics, public health settings, ethics centers, and private practice. Whatever the setting, the goal of perinatal social work is still the same--to maximize the potential of every infant and every family. This book helps you achieve that goal.
Unchecked climate change affects nearly everything on Earth, including the way humans communicate. In A Sense of Urgency, Debra Hawhee focuses our attention on new communication strategies that are emerging around the global climate crisis. At the heart of the story Hawhee tells are the challenges that our ecological future poses to rhetoric, and how those challenges demand that we learn to privilege more than our pasts and ourselves. The challenges of imagining futures under dramatically different climate conditions, of communicating climate science, and of offsetting human privilege all expose the limits of rhetoric as conceived by ancient Greek and Roman thinkers. The most glaring limit is the prominence those thinkers granted to precedent. When it comes to the climate crisis, precedent is not up to the task of addressing the problem at hand. Climate activists, scientists, artists, and scholars are trying to overcome this limitation, and A Sense of Urgency examines four departures from rhetoric's playbook that can be helpful in this struggle. Each of these departures presents new resources and different means of intensification in response to situations with few to no precedents. For Hawhee, thinking with these departures, and the attendant rhetorical strategies, can help people fathom both what is happening and what will happen if action is not taken. In this way, A Sense of Urgency is an indispensable guide in our search for new imaginative pathways"--
Jim Crow laws pervaded the south, reaching from the famous "separate yet equal" facilities to voting discrimination to the seats on buses. Agriculture, a key industry for those southern blacks trying to forge an independent existence, was not immune to the touch of racism, prejudice, and inequality. In "Reaping a Greater Harvest," Debra Reid deftly spotlights the hierarchies of race, class, and gender within the extension service. Black farmers were excluded from cooperative demonstration work in Texas until the Smith-Lever Agricultural Extension act in 1914. However, the resulting Negro Division included a complicated bureaucracy of African American agents who reported to white officials, were supervised by black administrators, and served black farmers. The now-measurable successes of these African American farmers exacerbated racial tensions and led to pressure on agents to maintain the status quo. The bureau that was meant to ensure equality instead became another tool for systematic discrimination and maintenance of the white-dominated southern landscape. Historians of race, gender, and class have joined agricultural historians in roundly praising Reid's work.
This collection is extremely entertaining and will make readers think back to their first kiss." ùRomantic Times, 4-1/2 Stars, TOP PICK! Four best-selling, award-winning historical romance authors join together to share tales of unlikely love sparked in the late 1800s, reminding us that love often arrives in the most unexpected ways. Spitfire Sweetheart by Mary Connealy Maizy Place is an unruly tomboy. When she causes an accident, injuring neighbor Rylan Carstens, she becomes his unlikely caregiver. Rylan has never noticed how pretty his infuriating neighbor is, and he never expected to fall in love. A Love Letter to the Editor by Robin Lee Hatcher Molly Everton is the outspoken daughter of the town newspaper's owner. When her father brings in an outsider to be editor, she tries to drive him out of town. But Jack Ludgrove is not intimidated. HeÆs resolved to change Molly's mind about himùas an editor and as a man. A Cowboy for Katie by Debra Clopton Katie Pearl has no interest in men or love. But she needs help on her ranch so she hires Thad Rayburn, a wandering cowboy looking to make a buck. Will Thad change KatieÆs mind? Courting Trouble by Margaret Brownley Grace Davenport is either the unluckiest woman aliveùor a killer. When her third husband is found dead, Grace is arrested. Attorney Brock Daniels isn't interested in the caseùuntil he meets Grace. Only a miracle will prove her innocence, but the joining of two lonely hearts may be their saving grace. ". . . four stories from four wonderful authors about the unpredictability of life, the amazingness of the Lord, and the wonderful ways He works within our lives to find that special someone He's picked out for us." ùCBA Retailers + Resources
A user-friendly text, this book explores all the diagnostic challenges pathologists and obstetricians will face. Succinct and accessible, the text includes discussions of lesions associated with maternal thrombophilias, updates in disorders with challenging clinicopathologic features and pathogenesis. The new edition contains updated sections on co
Stories in Mental Health 2nd edition is an insightful collection of personal stories from a range of mental health consumers, carers and mental health nurse clinicians who openly share their experiences. Through listening and observing, this extraordinary resource offers nursing students and health professionals a unique perspective on what it is like to live with a mental health disorder, care for a family member with a mental health disorder or work within various mental healthcare settings. Available as a print or eBook, this valuable resource builds empathy and understanding and provides examples of innovative approaches to care with a focus on reflection, inquiry and action. The teaching and learning strategies assist in developing skills, attitudes and appropriate responses when working in a range of mental healthcare settings. Most importantly, Stories in Mental Health provides a much-needed consumer voice to mental healthcare. All videos embedded within the eBook Part 1 Behind the scenes provides an overview of the structure of, and how to use, the resource. Part 2 Setting the scene provides the foundational concepts for practice and includes seven video and audio stories that reinforce the concepts underpinning the treatment of mental illness. Part 3 Stories from consumers, carers and clinicians presents 22 video and audio stories to provide insight into a range of mental health issues. Reflection, inquiry and action provide the framework for the teaching and learning strategies for each story. Weblinks and references are included for further reading and research. Transcripts of all interviews are included in the back of the book An eBook included in all print purchases
His ancestors love stories live on in the novellas An Ever After Summer and A Cowboy For Katie...read them now and get ready for Matt to mix his history with his future... Matt McConnell and his border collie, Healer are making a fresh start in the area where his ancestors first met, where they started their ranches in the 1800s. Now, though the family’s enormous ranch is on the Corpus Christi coast near Star Gazer Island, he’s come home to Wishing Springs, Texas where his ancestors first laid their legacy of hard work, dedication, determination into this property. Now Matt is here to revive their legacy and his hurting heart. Can he find the relief it needs? He’s not looking for love, he’s known it and loved it…but never again. He’s strong, but the pain lives on, though his sweet love didn’t. Now, he’s determined to live life in Wishing Springs, enjoying everyone else’s happily ever after. He will never again risk feeling the heartache of losing love, but he can enjoy theirs at a distance. Forever more, he’s just a hard-core cowboy building a new life alone. There will be no new love for him... he'll never risk his heart again. Kelley Hanna moves onto the large property, open landscape with an old cabin overlooking the lake. She’s here to renovate the house while camping beneath a tarp in the open air. It’s a carefully chosen piece of land that a tornado hasn't hit since the 1800s. It’s as if the land avoids bad weather and that is exactly why she’s chosen this piece of property. She's hoping this sweet small town and open land can help her overcome the fear of enclosure and give her the freedom from the fear she's trapped with. But then, a cute dog races onto her land, changing her life forever…because the dog’s owner then comes barreling onto her property on horseback, looking like he’s going to save the day. Only, she knows life can’t be saved that easily. Not after life has crashed down around you, and there is no joy anymore. But something about this man, his dog and a determination she sees in him draws her like nothing ever has before. Then his past and her life meet up…and maybe there is a future waiting. If they can both overcome their past together…with the help of Matt's ancestors and Healer, the dog that never gives up then maybe they can learn from him. Can a historic past help two hurting people find a fresh start… You can get a head start on this book by reading the two short historical novellas about his great, great, great grandparents on both sides of his family. He’s going to learn from them in this new book where he finds their legacy of love lives on…
Wishing Springs, Texas—Summer 1870 An Ever After Summer is a historical of Matt McConnell’s ancestors on his father’s side. You can read this before Matt’s story comes out. Also, A Cowboy For Katie is his mother’s ancestors story…love from all those years ago will help Matt in his love story Heart Healing Cowboy. Mathew McConnell needs help with his baby so he’s sent for a mail order bride. All he needs is someone to love his baby, he’s fine. He’ll never lose love again, or trust that God has him in His thoughts. His baby has no mother and a father who has to work really hard to keep the ranch going. So, a mail order bride is his only resource and he made it clear in his ad that he needs a practical woman to keep house and be a mother to his two-year old baby girl—Bible believers need not apply—and he means it. Ellie has had a rough life, and her aunt has told her she has to be a mail order bride. Ellie looks at it as a gift, her opportunity to make her dream of finding love real. Until she meets Matthew she had no idea the handsome heart throb—didn’t want a “Bible thumper—what’s wrong with being a “Bible thumper” anyway? She’s lived a tough life and been accused of being a born killer, killing three before the age of one, so being a Bible thumper isn’t so bad. Now, she’s determined to show him she’s tougher than she looks—and just the girl he needs.
Cancer Nursing: Principles and Practice, Eighth Edition continues as the gold standard in oncology nursing. With contributions from the foremost experts in the field, it has remained the definitive reference on the rapidly changing science and practice of oncology nursing for more than 25 years. Completely updated and revised to reflect the latest research and developments in the care of patients with cancer, the Eighth Edition includes new chapters on the biology of cancer, sleep disorders, and palliative care across the cancer continuum. The Eighth Edition also includes significant updates to the basic science chapters to reflect recent increases in scientific knowledge, especially relating to genes and cancer. Also heavily revised are the sections devoted to the dynamics of cancer prevention, detection, and diagnosis, as well as treatment, oncologic emergencies, end of life care, and professional and legal issues for oncology nurses.
Important Notice: The digital edition of this book is missing some of the images or content found in the physical edition. A new and revised version of this best-selling reference! For over eighteen years, best-selling Cancer Nursing: Principles and Practice has provided oncology nurses with the latest information on new trends in the rapidly changing science of oncology. Now, in its Seventh Edition, Cancer Nursing has been completely revised and updated to reflect key new developments. New topics covered include targeted therapy, hypersensitivity reactions, mucositis, and family and caregiver issues. With 27 new chapters featuring insights from key authors, the Seventh Edition is a must-have resource for every oncology nurse.
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