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Your Brain on Plants

Improve the Way You Think and Feel with Safe—and Proven—Medicinal Plants and Herbs

By: Nicolette Perry,Elaine Perry

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Your Brain on Plants

Improve the Way You Think and Feel with Safe—and Proven—Medicinal Plants and Herbs

By: Nicolette Perry,Elaine Perry

This practical, authoritative, and beautiful reference guide introduces you to more than 50 medicinal plants that offer natural, safe ways to optimize your brain health. Expert authors and mother-daughter team Elaine and Nicolette Perry have mastered an ever-growing body of scientific research (some of which they themselves pioneered) on how medicinal plants can help you sleep soundly, reduce stress, improve your memory, and simply feel better—in body and mind. Organized to easily steer you toward the best remedies for your individual needs, Your Brain on Plants presents: Calming Balms Cognition Boosters Blues Busters Sleep Promoters Pain Relievers Extra Energizers Mind-Altering Plants Plant Panaceas Within each of these chapters are detailed entries for the medicinal plants and herbs suited to the task, including what scientists know about them, their active ingredients, and guidelines regarding their safe use. Make-at-home recipes for foods, teas, tinctures, balms, and cordials demonstrate how simple it is to benefit from everything these plants have to offer. Plus, foods naturally containing ingredients proven to alleviate symptoms appear throughout the book, along with complementary wellness practices such as meditating (on a chamomile lawn), qi gong (in a wildflower meadow), and walking (in woodland).

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The Experiment

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1615194460

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9781615194469

Your Brain On Plants

Improve the Way You Think and Feel with Safe—and Proven—Medicinal Plants and Herbs

By: Nicolette Perry,Elaine Perry

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Your Brain On Plants

Improve the Way You Think and Feel with Safe—and Proven—Medicinal Plants and Herbs

By: Nicolette Perry,Elaine Perry

A practical, authoritative reference guide to more than 50 medicinal plants that offer natural, safe ways to optimize your brain health. Expert authors and mother-daughter team Elaine and Nicolette Perry have mastered an ever-growing body of scientific research (some of which they themselves pioneered) on how medicinal plants can help you sleep soundly, reduce stress, improve your memory, and simply feel better—in body and mind. Organized to easily steer you toward the best remedies for your individual needs, Your Brain on Plants presents:Calming BalmsCognition BoostersBlues BustersSleep PromotersPain RelieversExtra EnergizersMind-Altering PlantsPlant Panaceas Within each of these chapters are detailed entries for the medicinal plants and herbs suited to the task, including what scientists know about them, their active ingredients, and guidelines regarding their safe use. Make-at-home recipes for foods, teas, tinctures, balms, and cordials demonstrate how simple it is to benefit from everything these plants have to offer. Plus, foods naturally containing ingredients proven to alleviate symptoms appear throughout the book, along with complementary wellness practices such as meditating (on a chamomile lawn), qi gong (in a wildflower meadow), and walking (in woodland). Praise for Your Brain on Plants “Two qualified nutritional specialists have assembled a clear, concise reference of well-known plants believed to benefit the brain . . . Fascinating facts and bits of folklore, controversies, and important herb-drug interactions add to this timely and intriguing text.” —Choice “This unique volume focusing on plants for mental health will be of interest to anyone considering herbal medicines.” —Booklist

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The Experiment

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1615194479

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9781615194476

Joining the Choir

Religious Membership and Social Trust Among Transnational Ghanaians

By: Nicolette D. Manglos-Weber

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Joining the Choir

Religious Membership and Social Trust Among Transnational Ghanaians

By: Nicolette D. Manglos-Weber

Immigration and race are contentious issues in North America. As a result, immigrants from Ghana and other countries of West Africa confront major challenges in the social context of the United States, even as their experiences and accomplishments confound stereotypes. Religious congregations have often helped immigrants navigate the tricky waters of integration in the past; yet how do these particular black immigrants approach organized religion in light of their identities and aspirations? What are they looking for in religious membership, and how do they find it? In Joining the Choir, Nicolette D. Manglos-Weber takes a deeply personal look at the lives of a few central characters in Accra, Ghana and Chicago, Illinois, examining what religious membership means for them as Christians, transnational Ghanaians, and aspirational migrants. She sheds light on their search for people they can trust and their desires to transcend divisions of race, ethnicity, and nationality in the context of Evangelical Christianity. Her characters are complex, motivated, and adaptable people for whom religious membership answers some questions of integration and raises others. The stories of these migrants show how racial divides are subtly perpetuated within congregations in spite of hopes for religious-based assimilation. Yet they also reveal the potential of religious-based personal trust to bridge those divides, as an imaginative and symbolic leap of faith with the unknown stranger. Finally, their stories highlight the continuing role of religion as a portable basis of trust in the modern world, where more and more people live between nations.

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241

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Oxford University Press

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0190841052

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9780190841058

Neoliberalism, Personhood, and Postsocialism

Enterprising Selves in Changing Economies

By: Nicolette Makovicky

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Neoliberalism, Personhood, and Postsocialism

Enterprising Selves in Changing Economies

By: Nicolette Makovicky

Despite a growing literature debating the consequences of neo-liberal political and economic policy in the former Eastern bloc, the idea of neo-liberal personhood has so far received limited attention from scholars of the region. Presenting a range of ethnographic studies, this book lays the groundwork for a new disciplinary agenda by critically examining novel technologies of self-government which have appeared in the wake of political and economic liberalization. Neoliberalism, Personhood, and Postsocialism explores the formation of subjectivities in newly marketized or marketizing societies across the former Eastern Bloc, documenting the rise of the neo-liberal discourse of the ’enterprising’ self in government policy, corporate management and education, as well as examining the shifts in forms of capital amongst marginal capitalists and entrepreneurs working in the grey zone between the formal and informal economies. A rich investigation of the tools of neo-liberal governance and the responses of entrepreneurs and families in changing societies, this book reveals the full complexity of the relationship between historically and socially embedded economic practices, and the increasing influence of libertarian political and economic thought on public policy, institutional reform, and civil society initiatives. As such, it will appeal to anthropologists, sociologists and geographers with interests in political discourse, identity, entrepreneurship and organizations in post-socialist societies.

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Routledge

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1317088964

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9781317088967

The Arts of Disruption

Allegory and Piers Plowman

By: Nicolette Zeeman

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The Arts of Disruption

Allegory and Piers Plowman

By: Nicolette Zeeman

The monograph series Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture showcases the plurilingual and multicultural quality of medieval literature and actively seeks to promote research that not only focuses on the array of subjects medievalists now pursue - in literature, theology, and philosophy, in social, political, jurisprudential, and intellectual history, the history of art, and the history of science - but also that combines these subjects productively. It offers innovative studies on topics that may include, but are not limited to, manuscript and book history; languages and literatures of the global Middle Ages; race and the post-colonial; the digital humanities, media and performance; music; medicine; the history of affect and the emotions; the literature and practices of devotion; the theory and history of gender and sexuality, ecocriticism and the environment; theories of aesthetics; medievalism. The Arts of Disruption: Allegory and Piers Plowman offers a series of new readings of the allegorical poem Piers Plowman: but it is also a book about allegory. It argues not just that there are distinctively disruptive 'arts' that occur in allegory, but that allegory, because it is interested in the difficulty of making meaning, is itself a disruptive art. The book approaches this topic via the study of five medieval allegorical narrative structures that exploit diegetic conflict and disruption. Although very different, they all bring together contrasting descriptions of spiritual process, in order to develop new understanding and excite moral or devotional change. These five structures are: the paradiastolic 'hypocritical figure' (such as vices masked by being made to look like 'adjacent' virtues), personification debate, violent language and gestures of apophasis, narratives of bodily decline, and grail romance. Each appears in a range of texts, which the book explores, along with other connected materials in medieval rhetoric, logic, grammar, spiritual thought, ethics, medicine, and romance iconography. These allegorical narrative structures appear radically transformed in Piers Plowman, where the poem makes further meaning out of the friction between them. Much of the allegorical work of the poem occurs at the points of their intersection, and within the conceptual gaps that open up between them. Ranging across a wide variety of medieval allegorical texts, the book shows from many perspectives allegory's juxtaposition of the heterogeneous and its questioning of supposed continuities.

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Oxford University Press

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0192604104

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9780192604101

Making it in High Heels 4: Women Of Philanthropy & Charity

Women Of Philanthropy & Charity

By: Nicolette Hernandez

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Making it in High Heels 4: Women Of Philanthropy & Charity

Women Of Philanthropy & Charity

By: Nicolette Hernandez

Success. It means wanting something so grand and finally taking it. But for young women, this wanting goes hand in hand with doubt and fear. Making It in High Heels addresses her inner voice that says, "I'm not good enough." It celebrates how successful women are able to tame that inner voice and ultimately transform it into, "I am worth it! I can do this!" This group of superwomen not only achieve success in their careers but also have the confidence and desire to help causes close to their hearts. Discover how each woman's journey takes her to success and the drive that pushes her to do even more.

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Gildan Media LLC aka G&D Media

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1722520337

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9781722520335

Book's by Nicolette Perry

Your Brain on Plants

Your Brain on Plants

Your Brain On Plants

Your Brain On Plants

Joining the Choir

Joining the Choir

Neoliberalism, Personhood, and Postsocialism

Neoliberalism, Personhood, and Postsocialism

The Arts of Disruption

The Arts of Disruption

Making it in High Heels 4: Women Of Philanthropy & Charity

Making it in High Heels 4: Women Of Philanthropy & Charity

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