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Discover how to get the most from nature’s oldestremedies In this revised edition, The New Healing Herbs providesup-to-date profiles of 100 of the most widely used medicinalplants, detailing the therapeutic benefits and healing propertiesof each of these amazing natural cures. Inside you’ll find: ? Valuable advice for buying, storing, and preparing herbalremedies ? Clear, concise dosage instructions and safe-usageguidelines ? A comprehensive cure-finder chart with treatments for more than100 common conditions--Ginkgo to improve and even reverse symptomsof macular degeneration...Cinnamon to treat cuts andscrapes...Marshmallow to boost immunity...St. John’s wort to speedhealing...Coffee for weight loss...Ginger for colds...Apples as asource of first aid...And much more!

One afternoon in 1989, Karen Overhill walks into psychiatristRichard Baer’s office complaining of vague physical pains anddepression. Odder still, she reveals that she’s suffering from apersistent memory problem. Routinely, she “loses” parts of her day,finding herself in places she doesn’t remember going to or beingtold about conversations she doesn’t remember having. Her problemsare so pervasive that she often feels like an impersonator in herown life; she doesn’t recognize the people who call themselves herfriends, and she can’t even remember being intimate with her ownhusband. Baer recognizes that Karen is on the verge of suicide and, whiletrying various medications to keep her alive, attempts to discoverthe root cause of her strange complaints. It’s the work of months,and then years, to gain Karen’s trust and learn the true extent ofthe trauma buried in her past. What she eventually reveals isnearly beyond belief, a narrative of a childhood spent grapplingwith unimaginable

Howard Zinn, author of A People's History of the UnitedStates, tells his personal stories about more than thirty years offighting for social change, from teaching at Spelman College torecent protests against war. A former bombardier in WWII, Zinn emerged in the civil rightsmovement as a powerful voice for justice. Although he's a fiercecritic, he gives us reason to hope that by learning from historyand engaging politically, we can make a difference in theworld.