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Download or read book Sacred Leaf written by Deborah Ellis and published by Groundwood Books Ltd. This book was released on 2007 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After being taken in by a family of coca farmers, Diego is devastated when the army threatens to destroy the only source of income they have and so works to stop the army and save the people he has come to love.
Download or read book Sacred Leaf written by Deborah Ellis and published by Groundwood Books Ltd. This book was released on 2007 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After being taken in by a family of coca farmers, Diego is devastated when the army threatens to destroy the only source of income they have and so works to stop the army and save the people he has come to love.
Book Synopsis Sacred Leaves of Candomblé by : Robert A. Voeks
Download or read book Sacred Leaves of Candomblé written by Robert A. Voeks and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, Hubert Herring Book Award, Pacific Coast Council on Latin American Studies Candomblé, an African religious and healing tradition that spread to Brazil during the slave trade, relies heavily on the use of plants in its spiritual and medicinal practices. When its African adherents were forcibly transplanted to the New World, they faced the challenge not only of maintaining their culture and beliefs in the face of European domination but also of finding plants with similar properties to the ones they had used in Africa. This book traces the origin, diffusion, medicinal use, and meaning of Candomblé's healing pharmacopoeia—the sacred leaves. Robert Voeks examines such topics as the biogeography of Africa and Brazil, the transference—and transformation—of Candomblé as its adherents encountered both native South American belief systems and European Christianity, and the African system of medicinal plant classification that allowed Candomblé to survive and even thrive in the New World. This research casts new light on topics ranging from the creation of African American cultures to tropical rain forest healing floras.
Download or read book Sacred Leaves written by Diego de Oxossi and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2022-07-08 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the Power, Magic, and Secrets of Afro-Brazilian Herbal Magic Transform your life with authentic day-to-day plant magic used in the rituals of Umbanda and Candomblé — Brazilian religions based on African gods of nature called Orishas and practiced all over South America. Sacred Leaves compiles three volumes on this Afro-Brazilian witchcraft into one updated edition, making their contents available in English for the first time. With this comprehensive guide, you can begin safely working with a variety of magical herbs for spiritual cleansing, prosperity, harmony, love, and more. Diego de Oxóssi teaches you how to identify plants through their physical and magical characteristics, harvest botanical ingredients, awaken their sacred power with spoken enchantments, and create your own herbal spells. Then, you will explore a variety of ways to use plant energies, including potions, powders, aromatherapy, baths, cookery, and other healing tools. With its collection of more than three hundred plant profiles and various hands-on activities, Sacred Leaves will help you build a life filled with magic and success.
Download or read book The Sacred Banana Leaf written by and published by Tara Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An adaptation of an Indonesian trickster tale about Kanchil the mouse deer.
Book Synopsis Bible Illustrations from the New Hebrides by : John Inglis
Download or read book Bible Illustrations from the New Hebrides written by John Inglis and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Devil Sovereign written by Mo Zun and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-03-26 with total page 1299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This was a mysterious continent. It was a completely different continent from Hua Xia. The Buddha of the West, the demons and demons from the Oasis of Hanhai, and the cultivators of Hanzhou ...The several factions were originally living in harmony with each other, but all of this was broken by a person called Beacon Zhang Yan. Han Feng, who crossed over from China, possessed Beacon Zhang Yan and also received the inheritance of the ancient cultivation technique. Would he be able to make a name for himself on this continent? Let everyone know that the sigil of the beacon was Han Feng, and that the Han Feng was the sigil of the beacon!
Book Synopsis Omnifray RPG Expert Manual by : Matt West
Download or read book Omnifray RPG Expert Manual written by Matt West and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-06-01 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Enshrouded Lands ' an earth-like world where magic bubbles away beneath the surface, beyond the ken of the common folk ' may take so many forms that they really are a thousand worlds in one. This is the second rulebook for the Omnifray RPG. It continues on from the Basic Handbook, delving deeper into the mysterious fabric of the Enshrouded Lands, with detailed information on possible backgrounds for player characters and masses of material on an array of secretive cults. It presents the standard advanced rules for fantasy Omnifray in full. The complete Omnifray system awaits you. This book gives your PCs greater access to feats of physical energy and concentration as well as full access to feats of elder magic, unholy magic, holy magic, mystical power and destiny, downtime feats such as divination and herbalism and feats of combined physical energy and concentration. You must be familiar with the Basic Handbook to use this book. Omnifray is intended for a mature audience.
Book Synopsis The Sacred Leaf by : James Michael Orr
Download or read book The Sacred Leaf written by James Michael Orr and published by Eirenebros Publishing. This book was released on 2023-07-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once the Sacred Tree of Evenshar, an earth spirit who watches over the people of Evenshar is reborn as the Sacred Leaf after escaping the destruction brought on by Algar the Destroyer, the evil fire wizard. However, the Sacred Leaf has lost his former power (along with most of his memories) and must come to grips with his new existence as a living leaf. When the Sacred Leaf chooses to become an adventurer, he finds a group of powerful but conflicted heroes called the Crimson Vanguard who share his goal...Find and defeat Algar The Destroyer and bring peace to Evenshar. Will he be able to bring his new allies together in order to defeat their powerful foe?
Book Synopsis Free Flows the River by : Earl Murray
Download or read book Free Flows the River written by Earl Murray and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-11-28 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the continuation of the Western saga begun with High Freedom, Jethro Thompson, preparing to become a warrior, meets an enemy while sojourning in the wilderness and decides to spare him, a decision that proves costly. Reprint.
Book Synopsis Coca Yes, Cocaine No by : Thomas Grisaffi
Download or read book Coca Yes, Cocaine No written by Thomas Grisaffi and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2018-12-31 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Coca Yes, Cocaine No Thomas Grisaffi traces the political ascent and transformation of the Movement toward Socialism (MAS) from an agricultural union of coca growers into Bolivia's ruling party. When Evo Morales—leader of the MAS—became Bolivia's president in 2006, coca growers celebrated his election and the possibility of scaling up their form of grassroots democracy to the national level. Drawing on a decade of ethnographic fieldwork with coca union leaders, peasant farmers, drug traffickers, and politicians, Grisaffi outlines the tension that Morales faced between the realities of international politics and his constituents, who, even if their coca is grown for ritual or medicinal purposes, are implicated in the cocaine trade and criminalized under the U.S.-led drug war. Grisaffi shows how Morales's failure to meet his constituents' demands demonstrates that the full realization of alternative democratic models at the local or national level is constrained or enabled by global political and economic circumstances.
Book Synopsis Aymara Indian Perspectives on Development in the Andes by : Amy Eisenberg
Download or read book Aymara Indian Perspectives on Development in the Andes written by Amy Eisenberg and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2013-08-30 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the relationship between indigenous people, the management of natural resources, and the development process in a modernizing region of Chile Aymara Indians are a geographically isolated, indigenous people living in the Andes Mountains near Chile’s Atacama Desert, one of the most arid regions of the world. As rapid economic growth in the area has begun to divert scarce water to hydroelectric and agricultural projects, the Aymara struggle to maintain their sustainable and traditional systems of water use, agriculture, and pastoralism. In Aymara Indian Perspectives on Development in the Andes, Amy Eisenberg provides a detailed exploration of the ethnoecological dimensions of the tension between the Aymara, whose economic, spiritual, and social life are inextricably tied to land and water, and three major challenges: the paving of Chile Highway 11, the diversion of the Altiplano waters of the Río Lauca for irrigation and power-generation, and Chilean national park policies regarding Aymara communities, their natural resources, and cultural properties within Parque Nacional Lauca, the International Biosphere Reserve. Pursuing collaborative research, Eisenberg performed ethnographic interviews with Aymara people in more than sixteen Andean villages, some at altitudes of 4,600 meters. Drawing upon botany, agriculture, natural history, physical and cultural geography, history, archaeology, and social and environmental impact assessment, she presents deep, multifaceted insights from the Aymara’s point of view. Illustrated with maps and dramatic photographs by John Amato, Aymara Indian Perspectives on Development in the Andes provides an account of indigenous perspectives and concerns related to economic development that will be invaluable to scholars and policy-makers in the fields of natural and cultural resource preservation in and beyond Chile.
Book Synopsis The Genesis of the Bâabâi-Bahâaâi Faiths in Shâirâaz and Fâars by : Mirza Habibu'llah Afnan
Download or read book The Genesis of the Bâabâi-Bahâaâi Faiths in Shâirâaz and Fâars written by Mirza Habibu'llah Afnan and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating history a " the first of its kind on the development of a local BahAE3/4A- community in Iran a " is lucidly translated for the first time into English by Dr. Ahang Rabbani, is carefully annotated and supplemented with many details and scholarly notes about key personalities and places of interest to students of Iranian history.
Download or read book Nothing's Sacred written by Lewis Black and published by Gallery Books. This book was released on 2006-07-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comedian Lewis Black unleashes his trademark subversive wit while recounting his own life story in his New York Times bestselling memoir. You've seen him on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart offering up his trademark angry observational humor on everything from politics to pop culture. You've seen his energetic stand-up performances on HBO, Comedy Central, and in venues across the globe. Now, for the first time, Lewis Black translates his volcanic eruptions into book form in Nothing's Sacred, a collection of rants against stupidity and authority, which oftentimes go hand in hand. With subversive wit and intellectual honesty, Lewis examines the events of his life that shaped his antiauthoritarian point of view and developed his comedic perspective. Growing up in 1950s suburbia when father knew best and there was a sitcom to prove it, he began to regard authority with a jaundiced eye at an early age. And as that sentiment grew stronger with each passing year, so did his ability to hone in on the absurd. True to form, he puts common sense above ideology and distills hilarious, biting commentary on all things politically and culturally relevant. "No one is safe from Lewis Black's comic missiles." (New York Times) You have been warned....
Book Synopsis Handbook of Herbs and Spices by : K. V. Peter
Download or read book Handbook of Herbs and Spices written by K. V. Peter and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2012-09-21 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Herbs and spices are among the most versatile ingredients in food processing, and alongside their sustained popularity as flavourants and colourants they are increasingly being used for their natural preservative and potential health-promoting properties. An authoritative new edition in two volumes, Handbook of herbs and spices provides a comprehensive guide to the properties, production and application of a wide variety of commercially-significant herbs and spices. Volume 2 begins with a discussion of such issues as the medicinal uses of herbs and spices and their sustainable production. Herbs and spices as natural antimicrobials in foods and the effect of their natural antioxidants on the shelf life of food are explored, before the book goes on to look in depth at individual herbs and spices, ranging from ajowan to tamarind. Each chapter provides detailed coverage of a single herb or spice, and begins by considering origins, chemical composition and classification. The cultivation, production and processing of the specific herb or spice is then discussed in detail, followed by analysis of the main uses, functional properties and toxicity. With its distinguished editor and international team of expert contributors, the two volumes of the new edition of Handbook of herbs and spices are an essential reference for manufacturers using herbs and spices in their products. They also provide valuable information for nutritionists and academic researchers. Provides a comprehensive guide to the properties, production and application of a wide variety of commercially-significant herbs and spices Begins with a discussion of such issues as the medicinal uses of herbs and spices and their sustainable production Explores herbs and spices as natural antimicrobials in foods and the effect of their natural antioxidants on the shelf life of food
Download or read book Illegal Drugs written by Paul Gahlinger and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2003-12-30 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does Ecstasy cause brain damage? Why is crack more addictive than cocaine? What questions regarding drugs are legal to ask in a job interview? When does marijuana possession carry a greater prison sentence than murder? Illegal Drugs is the first comprehensive reference to offer timely, pertinent information on every drug currently prohibited by law in the United States. It includes their histories, chemical properties and effects, medical uses and recreational abuses, and associated health problems, as well as addiction and treatment information. Additional survey chapters discuss general and historical information on illegal drug use, the effect of drugs on the brain, the war on drugs, drugs in the workplace, the economy and culture of illegal drugs, and information on thirty-three psychoactive drugs that are legal in the United States, from caffeine, alcohol and tobacco to betel nuts and kava kava.
Book Synopsis The Other World by : Craig Arceneaux
Download or read book The Other World written by Craig Arceneaux and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-20 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Other World combines a thematic and area studies approach to explore contemporary global issues in the developing world. Accessible and interdisciplinary, this text offers political, economic, social, and historical analysis plus case studies on Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia and Eurasia, and the Middle East and North Africa. Highlighting similarities and differences among these regions and focusing on enduring problems, The Other World is a practical look at the issues affecting the majority of the world's population. New to the 10th Edition: Shift of focus from colonialism toward globalization, with continued attention to the legacy of colonialism. Expanded coverage of Asia. Re-cast connections between conceptual chapters (politics, economics, and culture) and regional chapters, allowing students and professors to make comparisons and contrasts more readily.
