Saturday, 03. May 2008
Complementary Medicine For Dummies

As always - "For Dummies" is written in an easy-to-read and entertaining style.

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A comprehensive guide to what’s what and what works in complementary medicine, this expert guide cuts through the jargon and gives you the facts about the alternatives.

Whether you are interested in maintaining your general well-being or relieving the symptoms of a specific complaint, this book outlines all of the therapies available to you – from acupuncture through healing foods to yoga and massage - and tells you what each treatment is most effective for, how to go about finding a practitioner and what to expect from a consultation.



Complementary Medicine For Dummies by Jacqueline Young.
John Wiley & Sons, 2007 | 448 Pages | PDF | 4.2 MB


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Category: Body & Health | Books & Magazines |




Famous Modern Ghost Stories

Introduction by Emily Dorothy Scarborough "The Imperishable Ghost":

Ghosts are the true immortals, and the dead grow more alive all the time. Wraiths have a greater vitality to-day than ever before.

They are far more numerous than at any time in the past, and people are more interested in them.
There are persons that claim to be acquainted with specific spirits, to speak with them, to carry on correspondence with them, and even some who insist that they are private secretaries to the dead.

Others of us mortals, more reserved, are content to keep such distance as we may from even the shadow of a shade.

But there's no getting away from ghosts nowadays, for even if you shut your eyes to them in actual life, you stumble over them in the books you read, you see them on the stage and on the screen, and you hear them on the lecture platform ...

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Contents:
  • The Willows by Algernon Blackwood
  • The Shadows On The Wall by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
  • The Messenger by Robert W. Chambers
  • Lazarus by Leonid Andreyev
  • The Beast With Five Fingers by W. F. Harvey
  • The Mass Of Shadows by Anatole France
  • What Was It? by Fitz-James O'Brien
  • The Middle Toe Of The Right Foot by Ambrose Bierce
  • The Shell Of Sense by Olivia Howard Dunbar
  • The Woman At Seven Brothers by Wilbur Daniel Steele
  • At The Gate by Myla Jo Closser
  • Ligeia by Edgar Allan Poe
  • The Haunted Orchard by Richard Le Gallienne
  • The Bowmen by Arthur Machen
  • A Ghost by Guy De Maupassant


Famous Modern Ghost Stories by Various, edited by Emily Dorothy Scarborough.
First Published 1921 | 303 pages | PDF | 1.0 MB

Also available at Project Gutenberg.
Category: Books & Magazines | Ghosts & Spirits |


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