Fighting Cancer describes the Gorter Model, anintegrative, nontoxic approach to cancer treatment that mobilizesthe immune system. It was developed by Robert Gorter, MD, PhD, whoin 1976 recovered from Stage IV testicular cancer by using nontoxictreatment and no chemotherapy or radiation. Based onself-experience, extensive research, and decades of clinicalpractice, the treatment consists of supporting the immune systemusing fever therapy (hyperthermia), inoculation with immune cells,the use of the botanical mistletoe ( Viscum album )—the singlemost commonly prescribed anti-cancer medication in much ofEurope—supportive nutrients, and diet and lifestyle changes. Organized into three parts, Fighting Cancer presents a clearoverview of the model, the research behind it, and strategies forstrengthening natural immunity. Emphasizing stress reduction andminimizing toxic exposure, the authors provide practical guidancefor patients: questions to ask doctors after diagnosis and advicefor evaluating options, gat
The Cambridge Companion to the Scottish Enlightenment offers aphilosophical perspective on an eighteenth-century movement thathas been profoundly influential on western culture. A distinguishedteam of contributors examines the writings of David Hume, AdamSmith, Thomas Reid, Adam Ferguson, Colin Maclaurin and otherScottish thinkers, in fields including philosophy, naturaltheology, economics, anthropology, natural science and law. Inaddition, the contributors relate the Scottish Enlightenment to itshistorical context and assess its impact and legacy in Europe,America and beyond. The result is a comprehensive and accessiblevolume that illuminates the richness, the intellectual variety andthe underlying unity of this important movement. It will be ofinterest to a wide range of readers in philosophy, theology,literature and the history of ideas.
Do angels make love? Will the souls of ordinary people feelsexual pleasure in the next world? Is the aspiration to spiritualsalvation helped or hindered by sexual experience? In Heaven andthe Flesh Clive Hart and Kay Stevenson explore the opinions ofpoets and painters on such questions, from the high Renaissance tothe birth of romanticism. Hart and Stevenson analyse the work notonly of canonical writers and artists, such as Milton andMichelangelo, but also of lesser-known figures such as John Goreand Richard Tompson, and the sometimes anguished speculations ofphilosophers and theologians. As the evidence of witty pornographicpoems and drawings demonstrates, the relationship between sexualdesire and spiritual ascension was not always treated with fullseriousness. This wide-ranging survey offers sometimes surprisinginsights into material both familiar and unfamiliar.
History tells us that when you want something clone you turn to a leader: right? Wrong. If you want to make a correct decision or solve a problem, large groups of people are smarter than a few experts. This brilliant and insightful book shows why the conventional wisdom is so wrong and why the theory of the wisdom of crowds has huge implications for how we run our businesses, structure our political systems and organise our society. Shrewd, meticulous and profound, The Wisdom of Crowds will change for ever the way you think about human behaviour. 作者简介： James Surowiecki is a staff writer at the New Yorker, where he writes the popular business column, 'The Financial Page'. His work has appeared in a wide range of publications, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Artforum, Wired and Slate. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
From the best-selling author of "The Rise of the CreativeClass" comes a brilliant new book on the surprising importance ofplace, with advice on how to find the right place for you. It's amantra of the age of globalization that where we live doesn'tmatter. We can innovate just as easily from a ski chalet in theAlps or a cottage in Provence as in the office of a Silicon Valleystart-up.According to Richard Florida, this is wrong. Globalizationis not flattening the world; in fact, place is increasinglyrelevant to the global economy and our individual lives. Where welive determines the jobs and careers we have access to, the peoplewe meet and the 'mating markets' in which we participate. Andeverything we think we know about cities and their economic rolesis up for grabs."Who's Your City?" is the first book to report onthe growing body of research on what qualities of cities and townsactually make people happy in their lives. Choosing a place to liveis as important as choosing a spouse or career, but until n
An excellent,reassuring book for women and their partners. It carries the womanalong step-by-step in the rediscovery of her own sexuality and thepleasure it will bring her. Liberated or not, single or married,young or old, all women will find this book accessible andsupportive.
Love's Labour's Lost, the first work to bear Shakespeare's nameon its title page, differs greatly from his other early plays bothfor its highly unorthodox ending and its extraordinary use oflanguage. This new edition presents a highly readable, modernisedtext of the play, freshly edited from the first quarto published in1598. A thorough but concise scholarly and critical commentaryprovides exciting new perspectives on Love's Labour's Lost, and acomprehensive introduction discusses the significant elements ofthe play and its place in theatrical history. New critical trendsare reflected in the special attention paid to the play'sperformance history since 1950, including films and adaptations,with illustrations of several productions. Engaging andilluminating, this will be an invaluable guide for seasonedscholars as well as students approaching the play for the firsttime.
The first collection of essays from renowned scientist andbest-selling author Richard Dawkins is an enthusiastic declaration,a testament to the power of rigorous scientific examination toreveal the wonders of the world. In these essays Dawkins revisitsthe meme, the unit of cultural information that he named and wroteabout in his groundbreaking work The Selfish Gene. Here also aremoving tributes to friends and colleagues, including a eulogy fornovelist Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to theGalaxy; correspondence with the evolutionary biologist Stephen JayGould; and visits with the famed paleoanthropologists Richard andMaeve Leakey at their African wildlife preserve. The collectionends with a vivid note to Dawkins's ten-year-old daughter,reminding her to remain curious, to ask questions, and to live theexamined life.
If you're like most people, your life is so hectic that it'shard to imagine squeezing in time for daily exercise. The good newsis that you can get fit without an expensive gym membership orrigorous workout schedule. New research proves that you can "sneakup" on fitness by grabbing a little time here and there throughoutthe day so you total at least thirty minutes of moderateactivity on most days. The American Heart Association's Fitting inFitness guide will show you how to work spurts of activity into theway you live right now. Those few minutes can add up to hugerewards, including a stronger heart and bones, higher energylevels, better weight control, and more. You'll find hundreds of tips for fitting in fitness in thiseasy-to-use, inspiring guide. You'll even learn how to bring yourkids into the act and have a lifestyle program that works for allof you.
Want to read faster — and recall more of what you read? Thispractical, hands-on guide gives you the techniques you need toincrease your reading speed and retention, whether you're readingbooks, e-mails, magazines, or even technical journals! You'll findreading aids and plenty of exercises to help you read faster andbetter comprehend the text. Yes, you can speed read — discover the skills you need to readquickly and effectively, break your bad reading habits, and take inmore text at a glance Focus on the fundamentals — widen your vision span and see how toincrease your comprehension, retention, and recall Advance your speed-reading skills — read blocks of text, heightenyour concentration, and follow an author's thought patterns Zero in on key points — skim, scan, and preread to quickly locatethe information you want Expand your vocabulary — recognize the most common words andphrases to help you move through the text more quickly Open the book and find:
The Hollywood Icon series: People talk about Hollywood glamour, about studios that had more stars than there are in heaven, about actors who weren't actors but were icons. Other people talk about these things, TASCHEN shows you. Hollywood Icons is a series of photo books that feature the most famous movie icons in the history of cinema. These 192-page books are visual biographies of the stars. For each title, series editor Paul Duncan has painstaking selected approximately 150 high quality enigmatic and sumptuous portraits, colorful posters and lobby cards, rare film stills, and previously unpublished candid photos showing the stars as they really are. These images are accompanied by concise introductory essays by leading film writers; each book also includes a chronology, a filmography, and a bibliography, and is peppered with apposite quotes from the movies and from life.
The author introduces the seminal concept of"pseudo-events"--such as press conferences and presidentialdebates, which are staged solely for publicity--and redefinescelebrity as "a person who is known for his well-knownness." Theresult is an essential resource that distinguishes the deceptionsof our culture from its few enduring truths.
In "Neither Here nor There" Bill Bryson brings his unique brand of humour to bear on Europe as he shoulders his backpack, keeps a tight hold on his wallet, and journeys from Hammerfest, the northernmost town on the continent, to Istanbul on the cusp of Asia. Fluent in, oh, at least one language, he retraces his travels as a student 20 years before. Whether braving the homicidal motorists of Paris, being robbed by gypsies in Florence, attempting not to order tripe and eyeballs in a German restaurant, window-shopping in the sex shops of the Reeperbahn or disputing his hotel bill in Copenhagen, Bryson takes in the sights, dissects the culture and illuminates each place and person with his hilariously caustic observations. He even goes to Liechtenstein.
This book answers the most obvious, the most important, yet the most difficult question about human history: why history unfolded so differently on different continents. Geography and biography, not race, moulded the contrasting fates of Europeans, Asians, Native Americans, sub-Saharan Africans, and aboriginal Australians. An ambitious synthesis of history, biology, ecology and linguistics, Guns, Germs and Steel is one of the most important and humane works of popular science.
Man's evolution as an artist and designer is traced in this collection of signs and symbols associated with the supernatural. Included, among others, are Egyptian motifs representing life, earth, and fertility; Greek and Roman emblems of Medusa and Zeus; Nordic runes; and early-seventeenth-century characterizations of the devil. Included in the set are: One CD-ROM containing 171 high-quality, permission-free images scanned at 600 dpi and saved in six different formats (TIFF, PICT, EPS, BMP, as well as Internet-ready JPEG and GIF) A large-format 64-page book with every image on the CD-ROM printed large and clearly on one side of the page only and numbered for easy reference A fascinating compilation for anyone interested in the art of graphic communication, this collection will be invaluable to craftworkers as well as specialists in art and design. Original Dover (2004) publication. 171 black-and-white illustrations. One CD-ROM and 64-page paperbound book. 8X1/4x 11.
When two of his American employees were held hostage in Iran,H. Ross Perot and a select group of his employees took matters intotheir own hands.
F.A. Hayek (1899-1992) was among the most important economistsand political philosophers of the twentieth century. He is widelyregarded as the principal intellectual force behind the triumph ofglobal capitalism, an 'anti-Marx' who did more than any otherrecent thinker to elucidate the theoretical foundations of the freemarket economy. His account of the role played by market prices intransmitting economic knowledge constituted a devastating critiqueof the socialist ideal of central economic planning, and his famousbook The Road to Serfdom was a prophetic statement of the dangerswhich socialism posed to a free and open society. He also madesignificant contributions to fields as diverse as the philosophy oflaw, the theory of complex systems, and cognitive science. Theessays in this volume, by an international team of contributors,provide a critical introduction to all aspects of Hayek'sthought.
The Ultimate Guide to Surviving and Thriving in the Dorm Dorm life offers you a great chance to meet new people and trynew things. But leaving the comforts of home for the first time toenter the roommate-having, small-room-sharing,possibly-coed-bathroom-using world of the dorms can be overwhelmingand intimidating. The College Dorm Survival Guide offers expert advice and theinside scoop on: ? Choosing the right residence hall for you ? Getting along with your roommate (and handling conflict) ? Bathroom, laundry, and dining hall survival ? Dealing with stress, depression, and safety issues From avoiding the dreaded Freshman 15 to decorating your space,this informative and funny guide gives experts' advice oneverything you need to know to enjoy dorm living to thefullest.
"This book is a gift, and not only to Jordan."–USA Today In 2005, First Sergeant Charles Monroe King began to write whatwould become a two-hundred-page journal for his son in case he didnot make it home from the war in Iraq. He was killed by a roadsidebomb on October 14, 2006. His son, Jordan, was seven months old. AJournal for Jordan is a mother’s letter to her son about the fatherhe lost before he could even speak–including a fiercely honestaccount of her search for answers about Charles’s death. It is alsoa father’s advice and prayers for the son he will never know.Finally, this is the story of Dana and Charles together–twoseemingly mismatched souls who loved each other deeply and losteach other too soon.
One of the country's leading researchers updates hisrevolutionary approach to solving--and preventing--your children'ssleep problems Here Dr. Marc Weissbluth, a distinguished pediatrician and fatherof four, offers his groundbreaking program to ensure the best sleepfor your child. In Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child, he explainswith authority and reassurance his step-by-step regime forinstituting beneficial habits within the framework of your child'snatural sleep cycles. This valuable sourcebook contains brand newresearch that - Pinpoints the way daytime sleep differs from night sleep andwhy both are important to your child - Helps you cope with and stop the crybaby syndrome, nightmares,bedwetting, and more - Analyzes ways to get your baby to fall asleep according to hisinternal clock--naturally - Reveals the common mistakes parents make to get their childrento sleep--including the inclination to rock and feed - Explores the different sleep cycle needs for differentt
An original history of man's greatest adventure: his search todiscover the world around him.
The late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries saw anextraordinary flowering of arts and culture in Germany whichproduced many of the world's finest writers, artists, philosophersand composers. This volume offers students and specialists anauthoritative introduction to that dazzling cultural phenomenon,now known collectively as German Romanticism. Individual chaptersnot only introduce the reader to individual writers such asFriedrich Schlegel, Novalis, Eichendorff, Heine, Hoffmann, Kleist,Schiller and Tieck, but also treat key concepts of Romantic music,painting, philosophy, gender and cultural anthropology, science andcriticism in concise and lucid language. All German quotations aretranslated to make this volume fully accessible to a wide audienceinterested in how Romanticism evolved across Europe. Briefbiographies and bibliographies are supplemented by a list ofprimary and secondary further reading in both English andGerman.
In this classic text, David Bohm explores Albert Einstein's celebrated theory of relativity through inspiring and visionary lectures. First published in 1905, Einstein's ideas forever transformed the way we think about time and space. Yet for Bohm the implications of the theory were far more revolutionary both in scope and impact even than this. Stepping back from dense theoretical and scientific detail in this eye-opening work, Bohm describes how the notion of relativity strikes at the heart of our very conception of the universe, whether we are physicists, philosophers or none of the above.
The human brain will do a number of unusual, interesting and important things-if given time. As described in this book, there is evidence from cognitive science and elsewhere that it will learn patterns of a degree of subtlety which normal, purposeful, busy consciousness cannot even see, let alone master; it will make sense out of hazy, ill-defined situations which leave everyday rationality flummoxed; it will get to the bottom of personal, emotional issues much more successfully than the questing intellect; it will detect and respond to meaning - in poetry, for example - that cannot be articulated; and it will sometimes come up with solutions to complicated predicaments that are wise rather than merely clever. The book explores these slower ways of knowing and explains how we could, or should, use them more often and more effectively.
