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Natural Products from Plants

By: Leland J. Cseke,Peter B. Kaufman,Sara Warber,James A. Duke,Harry L. Brielmann

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Natural Products from Plants

By: Leland J. Cseke,Peter B. Kaufman,Sara Warber,James A. Duke,Harry L. Brielmann

There has long been a need for an authoritative source on natural products and plants and how they are used. This new volume fills this need, bringing together relevant, practical information about the various types of natural products produced by plants, why they produce them, and their importance in today's world. Natural Products from Plants provides examples of how plant products are used to benefit humans through prevention and treatment of diseases, nutritional value, pest control, dyes, fibers, foods and beverages, flavorings and fragrances, and in creating many other novel compounds. Scientists from various disciplines-chemists, biologists, physicians, ethnobotanists, ecologists, nutritionists, and others-are interested in using natural products from plants, but must be aware of the potentially harmful effects of such compounds. Some plants are sources of poisons, addictive drugs, and hallucinogens. Anyone looking for a thorough understanding of the properties of natural plant products - both beneficial and harmful - will find the answers in Natural Products from Plants.

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CRC Press

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1420049356

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9781420049350

Gypsy Sorcery and Fortune Telling - Illustrated by Numerous Incantations, Specimens of Medical Magic, Anecdotes and Tales

By: Charles Godfrey Leland

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Gypsy Sorcery and Fortune Telling - Illustrated by Numerous Incantations, Specimens of Medical Magic, Anecdotes and Tales

By: Charles Godfrey Leland

This vintage work contains a collection of the customs, usages, and ceremonies used among gypsies, as regards fortune-telling, witch-doctoring, love-philtering, and other sorcery, illustrated by many anecdotes and instances, taken either from works as yet very little known to the English reader or from personal experiences. Within a very few years, since Ethnology and Archaeology have received a great inspiration, and much enlarged their scope through Folk-lore, everything relating to such subjects is studied with far greater interest and to much greater profit than was the case when they were cultivated in a languid, half-believing, half-sceptical spirit which was in reality rather one of mere romance than reason. Now that we seek with resolution to find the whole truth, be it based on materialism, spiritualism, or their identity, we are amazed to find that the realm of marvel and mystery, of wonder and poetry, connected with what we vaguely call “magic,” far from being explained away or exploded, enlarges before us as we proceed, and that not into a mere cloudland, gorgeous land, but into a country of reality in which men of science who would once have disdained the mere thought thereof are beginning to stray.

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Read Books Ltd

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1473370760

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Interventional Pain Management: Image-Guided Procedures

By: P. Prithvi Raj,Leland Lou,Serdar Erdine,Peter S. Staats,Steven D. Waldman,Gabor Racz,Michael Hammer,David Niv,Ricardo Ruiz-Lopez,James E. Heavner

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Interventional Pain Management: Image-Guided Procedures

By: P. Prithvi Raj,Leland Lou,Serdar Erdine,Peter S. Staats,Steven D. Waldman,Gabor Racz,Michael Hammer,David Niv,Ricardo Ruiz-Lopez,James E. Heavner

Thoroughly revised and reorganized, this 2nd edition offers you meticulous how-to-do-it guidance on performing today’s top radiographically guided regional anesthesia and pain management techniques. Renowned experts explain how to make optimal use of fluoroscopy, MRI, and CT to pinpoint the exact anatomic site for each procedure. Provides fluoroscopic, MR, and CT images coupled with distinct line drawings for each procedure to ensure proper positioning and easy application of techniques. Offers easy-to-follow step-by-step descriptions addressing every aspect of patient positioning, the use of radiographic solutions for tissue-specific enhancement, and correct techniques for anesthesia/analgesia administration so you can be sure your patient will be pain free throughout the procedure. Discusses possible complications to help you avoid mistakes. Includes descriptions of procedures for each image guided technique as well as the approaches available for such imaging so you can choose the correct procedure for every patient. Features two new sections Advanced Techniques and Emerging Techniques, incorporates new procedures into the upper and lower extremity and head and neck chapters, and revises all other chapters substantially to put you on the cusp of the latest advances in the field. Uses nearly 1,600 crisp illustrations, 50% new to this edition, to illuminate every concept. Presents a complete reorganization by body region and focused content to help you get to the information you need quickly.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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1437721435

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9781437721430

Griz Nightmare

By: R. Leland Waldrip

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Griz Nightmare

By: R. Leland Waldrip

Griz Wilson only wanted to spend time in the northern Montana wilderness to face head-on his recurring nightmares of grizzly attacks. But he would confront a more sinister challenge when escaped convicts hijack his group. Buckle your seatbelt for fast-paced action as the area's picturesque beauty is colorfully portrayed -- backdrop to a set of intensely memorable characters caught up in a desperate life-death drama that would be a supreme test for all.

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Rappahannock Book

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1892105039

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9781892105035

Chemistry in the Laboratory

By: James M. Postma,Julian L. Robert,J. Leland Hollenberg

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Chemistry in the Laboratory

By: James M. Postma,Julian L. Robert,J. Leland Hollenberg

This clearly written, class-tested manual has long given students hands-on experience covering all the essential topics in general chemistry. Stand alone experiments provide all the background introduction necessary to work with any general chemistry text. This revised edition offers new experiments and expanded information on applications to real world situations.

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Macmillan

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0716796066

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9780716796060

Human Simulation for Nursing and Health Professions

By: Linda Wilson,Leland Rockstraw

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Human Simulation for Nursing and Health Professions

By: Linda Wilson,Leland Rockstraw

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Springer Publishing Company

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0826106692

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9780826106698

Jump into the Valley of the Shadow

By: Dwayne T. Burns,Leland Burns

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Jump into the Valley of the Shadow

By: Dwayne T. Burns,Leland Burns

A paratrooper’s memoir of survival and close-quarters combat in WWII: “Well worth reading” (Flight Journal). When Dwayne Burns turned eighteen, he decided he wanted to fight alongside America’s best. He joined the paratroopers and was assigned to the 508th Regiment of the 82nd Airborne Division. Little did he suspect that a year later he’d be soaring in a flak-riddled C-47 over Normandy, part of the very spearhead of the Allied drive to seize back Europe. Burns landed behind German lines during the dark early hours of D-Day and gradually found other survivors of his division. The paratroopers fought on every side in a confused running battle through the hedgerows, finally making a stand in a surrounded farmhouse. With one room reserved for their growing piles of corpses, the paratroopers held their ground until finally relieved by infantry advancing from the beaches. After being pulled out of Normandy, the airborne troops were launched into Holland as part of Montgomery’s plan to gain a bridgehead across the Rhine. This daytime jump was less confused than the nocturnal one, but there were more Germans than expected and fewer Allied forces in support. It was another maelstrom of point-blank combat in all directions, and though the 82nd achieved its objectives, the campaign as a whole achieved little but casualties. The 82nd had hardly refilled with replacements when the Germans broke through the US front in the Ardennes. The 82nd’s paratroopers were put aboard trucks and hastened to stand in the way of the panzer onslaught. Passing through Bastogne, they went farther north to St. Vith, where the US 7th Armored and other divisions were reeling. The 82nd held its own with quickly assembled defense perimeters, allowing other units to escape. After beating off massive attacks by the German SS, the paratroopers were disgusted to hear that they, too, had been ordered to retreat. They didn’t feel they needed to, but Monty was determined to “tidy up the battlefield.” On January 3, they counterattacked through the freezing hills, sealing off the Bulge and pursuing the Germans back into the Reich. In this work, Dwayne Burns, assisted by his son Leland (US Army, 1975–79), not only relates the chaos of combat but the intimate thinking of a young soldier thrust into the center of several of history’s greatest battles. His memories provide a fascinating insight into the reality of close-quarters combat.

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370

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Casemate

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1935149946

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9781935149941

Etruscan Roman Remains

By: Charles G. Leland

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Etruscan Roman Remains

By: Charles G. Leland

Cast a spell against gossips, deflect unwanted romantic attention, or bring the dead back to life. The renowned 19th-century folklorist and expert on witchy cultures Charles Leland believed he had uncovered the secrets of practical domestic magic as the ancient pagans of Italian Tuscany performed it, and he shared all in this classic 1892 study. Considered by the author to be his own masterwork, this enthralling work--one still the subject of heated debate among modern pagans, some of whom embrace it while others deny its accuracy--here are detailed examinations of the "gods and goblins" of the region as well as the time-honored incantations, divinations, medicines, and amulets of the Tuscans.

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Routledge

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113618631X

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9781136186318

Another Frank Capra

By: Leland Poague

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Another Frank Capra

By: Leland Poague

Another Frank Capra offers a new interpretation of the great Hollywood director beyond the patriotic sentimentalist or the cynical opportunist that he has been taken for. Often cast as a cinematic simpleton or primitive, Capra's exploitation of the stylistic and narrative resources of cinema was, in fact, extremely self-conscious and adventurous in ways typical of artistic modernism. His modernism is also evident in his repeated and strong identification with female characters. Informed by recent work in genre theory and feminist psychology, Another Frank Capra shows Capra to be a 'proto-feminist' director whose feminism has been entirely neglected by previous critics.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521380669

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9780521380669

Etruscan Roman Remains and the Old Religion

Gods, Goblins, Divination and Amulets

By: Charles Godfrey Leland

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Etruscan Roman Remains and the Old Religion

Gods, Goblins, Divination and Amulets

By: Charles Godfrey Leland

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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0710307624

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9780710307620

Cruel and Unusual Idiots

Chronicles of Meanness and Stupidity

By: Leland Gregory

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Chronicles of Meanness and Stupidity

By: Leland Gregory

Some wonder why and some wonder why not. But it's the latter ones who make you scratch your head and say, 'What in the world were you thinking?'" Former Saturday Night Live writer Leland Gregory skewers cruel crooks and the idiotically inane. From absurd 911 calls to presidential philosophizing and political pandering to foolish felons, Leland Gregory generates the best laughs by exposing the worst of human nature. Inside this collection, Gregory offers more than 275 accounts of human stupidity at its most malicious and peculiar: * In August 2006, 40-year-old Darrel Rodgers was treated at a Bloomington, Indiana, hospital for a self-inflicted gunshot wound to his left knee. Rogers explained that he shot himself seeking to relieve the pain in his knee, which probably stemmed from shooting himself in the same knee ten years earlier. * And, because some of the stories are just that unbelievable, each anecdote, quote, or factoid is presented with relevant background information--including its verified news source.

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Andrews McMeel Publishing

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0740792091

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9780740792090

Case Studies of City-County Consolidation: Reshaping the Local Government Landscape

Reshaping the Local Government Landscape

By: Suzanne M. Leland,Kurt M. Thurmaier

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Case Studies of City-County Consolidation: Reshaping the Local Government Landscape

Reshaping the Local Government Landscape

By: Suzanne M. Leland,Kurt M. Thurmaier

Facing cutbacks in federal and state assistance and a new wave of taxpayer revolts, local governments have renewed interest in local government consolidation as a way of achieving efficiencies of scale in response to citizen demands for services. Yet the vast majority of consolidation efforts fail, either during the process of drafting a charter or once they reach the ballot - only five have passed since 1990; only thirty-two have been successfully implemented since the first, when the city of New Orleans merged with Orleans Parish in 1805. What accounts for the high failure rate and what factors led to successful consolidations? This volume presents thirteen comparable case studies of consolidation campaigns and distills the findings.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040277632

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9781040277638

A Pocket Full of Posies

By: Leland Gradney

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A Pocket Full of Posies

By: Leland Gradney

Melonie Byars is found murdered in the flower shop where she worked. Unfortunately for authorities, there are no witnesses and no clues. The murderer did, though, leave a calling card: a carefully arranged bouquet of flowers. Seattle's best homicide detective, Sgt. Arthur Washington, is called to duty. Washington prides himself on his case closure rate, but this is one case he can't crack. He is completely baffled, and the murder of Ms. Byars remains unsolved. A year and a half later, another murder occurs in the same grizzly manner. Washington is back on the case, but even the top brass of the Seattle Police Department are stumped. Detective Washington will not let this killer get away twice. He's determined to put a stop to the mysterious flower murders. Bodies start to pile up with the same common link. It's not long before the city is in a panic. Paired with a new partner, Washington must catch a killer who's made Seattle his personal bloody playground.

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Abbott Press

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1458216594

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9781458216595

Sweeter Than Honey, Richer Than Gold

A Guided Study of Biblical Poetry

By: Leland Ryken

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A Guided Study of Biblical Poetry

By: Leland Ryken

This is the second of a projected six-volume series called Reading the Bible as Literature (the first volume being How Bible Stories Work). An expert at exploring the intersection of the Bible and literature, Ryken shows pastors and students and teachers of the Bible how to appreciate the craftsmanship and beauty of biblical poetry and how to interpret it correctly. Dr. Ryken goes one step further than merely explaining the genre of poetry-he includes exercises to help students master this rich literary treasure.

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Lexham Press

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1683591550

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9781683591559

Stupid Sports

By: Leland Gregory

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Stupid Sports

By: Leland Gregory

From political pandering and clunky criminals to historical hiccups, the jokes, wacky anecdotes, and inane quotes in Leland Gregory’s Stupid-themed anthologies showcase the best of human nature at its worst. In Stupid Sports, Leland now presents more than 200 sports-related idiotic moments featuring stupid sports laws and regulations, quotes, and athlete interactions with the law, fellow teammates, celebrities, and more, such as: “This could ruin my career.” —Darryl Strawberry to Tampa, Florida, police officers after being arrested for solicitation of prostitution and possession of cocaine on April 15, 1999. Featherweight boxer Richard Procter jumped into the ring at the World Sporting Club in London on July 11, 2004, and tossed off his robe to thunderous applause—only to realize he had forgotten his shorts. Fred Lorz finished first in the marathon in the Summer Olympics of 1904. Just before he was handed the gold medal, it was discovered that a car drove him 11 miles of the race.“Winfield goes back to the wall. He hits his head on the wall and it rolls off! It’s rolling all the way back to second base! This is a terrible thing for the Padres!” —Jerry Coleman, Padres broadcast announcer

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144943598X

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Natural Products from Plants

Natural Products from Plants

Gypsy Sorcery and Fortune Telling - Illustrated by Numerous Incantations, Specimens of Medical Magic, Anecdotes and Tales

Gypsy Sorcery and Fortune Telling - Illustrated by Numerous Incantations, Specimens of Medical Magic, Anecdotes and Tales

Interventional Pain Management: Image-Guided Procedures

Interventional Pain Management: Image-Guided Procedures

Griz Nightmare

Griz Nightmare

Chemistry in the Laboratory

Chemistry in the Laboratory

Human Simulation for Nursing and Health Professions

Human Simulation for Nursing and Health Professions

Jump into the Valley of the Shadow

Jump into the Valley of the Shadow

Etruscan Roman Remains

Etruscan Roman Remains

Another Frank Capra

Another Frank Capra

Etruscan Roman Remains and the Old Religion

Etruscan Roman Remains and the Old Religion

Cruel and Unusual Idiots

Cruel and Unusual Idiots

Case Studies of City-County Consolidation: Reshaping the Local Government Landscape

Case Studies of City-County Consolidation: Reshaping the Local Government Landscape

A Pocket Full of Posies

A Pocket Full of Posies

Sweeter Than Honey, Richer Than Gold

Sweeter Than Honey, Richer Than Gold

Stupid Sports

Stupid Sports

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