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Books > Health, Home & Family > Mind, body & spirit
Witchcraft continues to play a role in the modern European
imagination and in its cultures. This book brings together studies
of its most important modern manifestations. The volume includes a
major new history of the origins and development of English
'Wicca', an account of satanic abuse mythology in the Twentieth
Century and a survey of the continued existence of traditional
witchcraft.
Are you a typical Capricorn? Are you disciplined and ambitious, a
natural-born analyst? What if we told you that your star sign is
only the beginning? Astrology has been around for thousands of
years - and there's so much more to it than your daily horoscope.
Did you know that your rising sign can give you an insight into the
way other people see you? Or that your Moon sign reveals the
secrets of your innermost emotions? Astrology can't predict your
future, but it can highlight your potential. This book shines a
light on your strengths, your weaknesses, what you can achieve and
the opportunities not to be missed. Use it to gain a better
understanding of who you are and who you might become.
This two-volume book, Biomolecules and Pharmacology of Medicinal
Plants, will be a valuable desk reference book on bioactives and
pharmacology of medicinal plants. Listing the medicinal plants by
species, each of these 77 chapters detail the plants' bioactive
phytocompounds and their chemical structures along with their
pharmacological activities and properties. These include the
plants' antiviral, antibacterial, antifungal, antioxidant,
anticancer, anti-inflammatory, anti-diabetic, hepatoprotective,
cardioprotective, and nephroprotective properties. Bioactive
compounds typically occur in small amounts, and they have more
subtle effects than nutrients. Bioactive compounds influence
cellular activities that modify the risk of disease and cure and
alleviate disease symptoms. These compounds can act as
antioxidants, enzyme inhibitors and inducers, inhibitors of
receptor activities, and inducers and inhibitors of gene expression
among other actions. A wide array of biological activities and
potential health benefits of medicinal plants have been reported,
which include antiviral, antimicrobial, antioxidant, anti-cancer,
anti-inflammatory, antidiabetic properties as well as protective
effects on the liver, kidney, heart, and nervous system. The
volumes will be a must-have reference for pharmacy institutes and
pharmacy professors, phytochemists and research scholars, botanists
working with medicinal plants, and postgraduate students of
pharmacy and medicine round the world. The comprehensive
information presented here provides an invaluable source to aid in
the development of new drugs.
Paranormal claims don't traditionally sit well with reporters,
but journalist Steve Volk decided to focus his tenacity on a new
beat: a NASA astronaut-turned-mystic, a world-famous psychologist
who taught us about dying and decided death may not exist at all,
and scientists attempting to verify what mystics have been
reporting for millennia. From his journey into the bizarre, Volk
discovers that the "fringe" story strikes at the core of what it
means to be human.
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