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The healing tree : botanicals, remedies, and rituals from African folk traditions / by Bird, Stephanie Rose,1960-Author(DLC)n 2004090581;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 272-290) and index.See the Forest for the Trees: Story within The Healing Tree -- Holly, Oak, and Pine: Enter My Personal Forest -- Our Heritage and Traditions -- Igboro-Egun: Grove of the Ancestors -- Calabash: Vessel of African Culture, Spirituality, and Survival -- Black Folk Be Workin' Dem Roots Long, Long Time: An African Herbalist's Overview -- Ceremonies, Rites, and Oracles of the Wood: Transatlantic African Tree Veneration -- Remedies and Rituals for Daily Life -- Out Bush: Filters, Shields, and Field Guides -- Ways and Means: Tools and Techniques for Africa-Inspired Herbalists -- Sees, Nuts, Pods, and Oils -- Fruit of Mother Nature's Labor: Soul-Nourishing Berry and Fruit Trees -- Bark, Gum, Sap, Resins, and Moss Medicine -- Very Important Palms: VIPs of Transatlantic Tree World -- Epilogue: Seeds of Hope -- Appendix: Study and ApprenticeshipsA practical guide to traditional African approaches to healing with remedies and cultural history from one of the most respected authorities on the subject. The Healing Tree celebrates the forest: its powers, spirits, magic, medicine, and mysteries. Author Stephanie Rose Bird shares how trees have provided her with personal healing, then allows us to share in that process for our own benefit and, by extension, provide healing for Earth's beleaguered forests. Reclaiming traditional botanical and herbal practices has never been more important than it is today. So much of our future depends on our ability to use ancient Earth knowledge. Although many botanicals and herbals have been published, they tend to focus on Europe and the Americas. For many, the word "rainforest" is synonymous with the endangered Amazon Basin, as if that were Earth's only endangered patch of healing green. Africa, the Mother Continent and reputedly the birthplace of the entire human race, remains largely ignored. Yet African wild lands are as endangered as the Amazon. Equally endangered are the traditional indigenous cultures of Africa, caretakers of sophisticated botanical medicinal systems whose roots stretch back to the proverbial dawn of time. In this crucially important book, author Stephanie Rose Bird recounts the story of the sacred wood: how to live in it, learn from it, derive spiritual enrichment from it, and how to preserve and protect it. The book offers functional, accessible recipes, remedies, and rituals derived from a variety of African and African American traditions to serve mind, body, soul, and spirit. Bird's book follows her own personal journey, but Africa is always her touchstone, the persistent and tenacious ancestral mother wisdom and spiritual foundation that refuses to fade away. The Healing Tree preserves this knowledge, presenting it as relevant and viable and demonstrating in intimate detail how vestiges of that knowledge took root in the Western Hemisphere, in African American culture, and more broadly in American culture in general.

Subjects: Trees; Traditional medicine; African American magic.;

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Painting in tempera, c. 1900 / by Beltinger, Karoline,editor.(CARDINAL)339796; Nadolny, Jilleen,editor.(CARDINAL)339792;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-249) and index.Propagation of tempera -- Types of tempera -- Tempera application techniques -- Tempera analysis.This co- publication of Archetype Publications Ltd with Schweizerisches Institut für Kunstwissenschaft (SIK-ISEA) is a collection of essays by an international group of scholars which provides access to an important chapter of technical art history: the rise in the popularity of temperas as an alternative to oil paints in Europe in the 19th and early 20th century. The term 'tempera' designated media that were generally water-soluble and which could include components as wide ranging as egg, gums, glues, soaps, waxes and resins. Revered as the technique of the ancients, it possessed both historical cachet and aesthetic and practical advantages, such as luminosity of colour, short drying times, and resistance to yellowing and cracking. Although interest in tempera paints was not limited to any one country, their industrial manufacture was concentrated in the region of present-day Germany, while in Italy a distinct tradition of artisanal production evolved. Developments in these two regions are surveyed, lending insight into the academic polemics surrounding temperas, the varied range of products on the market, their composition and their use by specific artists for easel paintings, murals and decorative schemes alike. Based upon source material, conservation research and technical studies of paintings as well as scientific approaches to the analysis of historical temperas, a vivid depiction of this complex artistic period emerges.

Subjects: Catalogs.; Tempera painting; Tempera painting; Chromatographic analysis.;

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Transformed : how everyday things are made / by Slavin, Bill.(CARDINAL)359552; Slavin, Jim.(CARDINAL)425607;

Includes bibliographical references (page 159) and index.Introduction -- Fun and games -- Baseballs -- CSs -- Chewing gum -- Dolls -- Footballs -- Guitars -- Marbles -- Neon signs -- Plastic dinosaurs -- Ship in a bottle -- Soccer balls -- Surfboards -- Teddy bears -- Whistles -- Around the house -- Aluminum foil -- Books -- Car litter -- Crayons -- Cutlery -- Dental floss -- Dry pet food -- Erasers -- Matches -- Mirrors -- Pencils -- Plastic wrap -- Pottery -- Soap -- Stick on bandages -- Toothpaste -- Wax candles -- Wire -- Soup to nuts -- Bread -- Cereal -- Cheese -- Chocolate -- Cola -- Fortune cookies -- Ice cream -- Jellybeans -- Ketchup -- Licorice -- Milk -- Pasta -- Peanut butter -- Potato chips -- Salt -- Tap water -- Tea -- Yogurt -- Cover-ups -- Blue jeans -- Cotton -- Polyester -- Rayon -- Running shoes -- Silk -- Wool -- Work gloves -- Back to basics -- Aluminum -- Brick -- Cement -- Glass -- Iron and steel -- Lumber -- Paper -- Petroleum -- Plastic resins -- Recycling -- Rubber -- Glossary -- For more information -- Acknowledgements -- Index.Discover how nature is transformed into more than sixty things we eat, drink, play with, wear or use every day.IG1080LAccelerated Reader AR

Subjects: Trivia and miscellanea.; Manufactures;

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This is not a weasel : a close look at nature's most confusing terms / by Mortenson, Philip B.(CARDINAL)674029;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-259).

Subjects: Biology;

Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3

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