Download or read book The Magic Feather Effect written by Melanie Warner and published by Scribner. This book was released on 2020-01-14 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed author of Pandora’s Lunchbox and former New York Times reporter delivers an “entertaining and highly useful book that gives you the tools to understand how alternative medicine works, so you can confidently make up your own mind” (The Washington Post). We all know someone who has had a seemingly miraculous cure from an alternative form of medicine: a friend whose chronic back pain vanished after sessions with an acupuncturist or chiropractor; a relative with digestive issues who recovered with herbal remedies; a colleague whose autoimmune disorder went into sudden inexplicable remission thanks to an energy healer or healing retreat. The tales are far too common to be complete fabrications, yet too anecdotal and outside the medical mainstream to be taken seriously scientifically. How do we explain them and the growing popularity of alternative medicine more generally? In The Magic Feather Effect, author and journalist Melanie Warner takes us on a vivid, important journey through the world of alternative medicine. Visiting prestigious research clinics and ordinary people’s homes, she investigates the scientific underpinning for the purportedly magical results of these practices and reveals not only the medical power of beliefs and placebo effects, but also the range, limits, and uses of the surprising system of self-healing that resides inside us. Equal parts helpful, illuminating, and compelling, The Magic Feather Effect is a “well-written survey of alternative medicine…fair-minded, thorough, and focused on verifiable scientific research” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). Warner’s enlightening, engaging deep dive into the world of alternative medicine and the surprising science that explains why it may work is an essential read.
Download or read book The Magic Feather written by and published by Tulika Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gwendy s Magic Feather written by Richard Chizmar and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-01-21 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A USA TODAY BESTSELLER In this thrilling sequel to the New York Times bestselling novella by Stephen King and award-winning author Richard Chizmar, an adult Gwendy is summoned back to Castle Rock after the mysterious reappearance of the button box. Something evil has swept into the small Maine town of Castle Rock on the heels of the latest winter storm. Sheriff Norris Ridgewick and his team are desperately searching for two missing girls, but time is running out. In Washington, DC, thirty-seven-year-old Gwendy Peterson couldn’t be more different from the self-conscious teenaged girl who once spent a summer running up Castle Rock’s Suicide Stairs. That same summer, she had been entrusted—or some might say cursed—with the extraordinary button box by Richard Farris, the mysterious stranger in the black suit. The seductive and powerful box offered Gwendy small gifts in exchange for its care and feeding until Farris eventually returned, promising the young girl she’d never see the box again. One day, though, the button box suddenly reappears but this time, without Richard Farris to explain why, or what she’s supposed to do with it. Between this and the troubling disappearances back in Castle Rock, Gwendy decides to return home. She just might be able to help rescue the missing girls and stop a dangerous madman before he does something ghastly. With breathtaking and lyrical prose, Gwendy’s Magic Feather explores whether our lives are controlled by fate or the choices we make and what price we sometimes have to pay. Prepare to return again to Stephen King’s Castle Rock, the sleepy little town built on a bedrock of deep, dark secrets, just as it’s about to awaken from its quiet slumber once more.
Download or read book Jack Dash and the Magic Feather written by Sophie Plowden and published by . This book was released on 2015-09 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack is not happy when his family move to the dull suburban town of Curtly Ambrose. But everything changes when Jack finds a feather inside a book. Things go from dull to magic in 60 seconds. Because this is no ordinary feather - this is a magic feather!
Download or read book The Magic Feather written by Sandra Dieckmann and published by Hodder Children's Books. This book was released on 2023-01-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Little Bear has a secret - deep inside, he feels nothing like a real bear. An empowering story about finding your own special spark, woven with magic and wonder by Sandra Dieckmann, the creator of Leaf and Waiting for Wolf. Little Bear knows that soon the time will come for him to choose his special bear name - but how will he know what it should be, when he has no idea what makes him special? One night the wondrous firebird swoops down and places a magic feather in Little Bear's paw. Could this enchanted feather help him discover who he truly is . . . or was the answer inside him all along? A beautiful and empowering story about finding your own special spark, from much-loved picture book star Sandra Dieckmann.
Download or read book A Magic Feather written by David Atekpatzin Young and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-13 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Spaniards first invaded Mexico, they encountered advanced medical practices among the Indigenous peoples called huehuepahtli (ancient ancestral medicine). The Spaniards renamed it curanderismo. Despite 500 years of colonization, huehuepahtli remains deeply embedded in the Indigenous communities of North America precisely because of its success in treating myriad physical, mental, emotional and spiritual illnesses. A Magic Feather divulges key healing secrets still utilized in the Indigenous Chicano community. Atekpatzin, a curandero who studied with Aztec/Mexica, Apache, Chicano, Genízaro, and Lakota medicine people, shares the theory, philosophy and science of curanderismo. Beginning with original sources written in the sixteenth century up to contemporary oral teachings that predate European contact, A Magic Feather takes us inside these living traditions across time to arrive at a contemporary expression of Indigenous medical practices deeply rooted in the Aztec cosmology of Mexicayotl. The sixteen chapters of the book are divided into three sections: The Foundation of Illness; Methodologies for Healing; and Evolution of a Philosophy. The book explores how curanderismo has evolved over the centuries, why it is still practiced and it provides practical applications for addressing illness for both Indigenous individuals and communities.
Download or read book Pandora s Lunchbox written by Melanie Warner and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-02-26 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If a piece of individually wrapped cheese retains its shape, colour, and texture for years, what does it say about the food we eat and feed our children? Former New York Timesbusiness reporter and mother Melanie Warner decided to explore that question when she observed the phenomenon of the indestructible cheese. She began an investigative journey that takes her to research labs, food science departments, and factories around the country. What she discovered provides a rare, eye-opening-and sometimes disturbing-account of what we're really eating. Warner looks at how decades of food science have resulted in the cheapest, most abundant, most addictive, and most nutritionally devastating food in the world, and she uncovers startling evidence about the profound health implications of the packaged and fast foods that we eat on a daily basis. From breakfast cereal to chicken subs to nutrition bars, processed foods account for roughly 70 percent of our nation's calories. Despite the growing presence of farmers' markets and organic produce, strange food additives are nearly impossible to avoid. Combining meticulous research, vivid writing, and cultural analysis, Warnerblows the lid off the largely undocumented-and lightly regulated-world of chemically treated and processed foods and lays bare the potential price we may pay for consuming even so-called "healthy" foods.
Download or read book Emily Feather and the Enchanted Door written by Holly Webb and published by Scholastic UK. This book was released on 2014-02-06 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone is intrigued by Emily's house and its endless doors, but where do those doors lead? Follow Emily as she finds out...
Download or read book Feather written by Abra Ebner and published by Crimson Oak Publishing. This book was released on 2009-02 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Feather on the Breath of God written by Sigrid Nunez and published by Picador. This book was released on 2005-12-27 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Sigrid Nunez, the National Book Award-winning author of The Friend, comes A Feather on the Breath of God: a mesmerizing story about the tangled nature of relationships between parents and children, between language and love A young woman looks back to the world of her immigrant parents: a Chinese-Panamanian father and a German mother. Growing up in a housing project in the 1950s and 1960s, she escapes into dreams inspired both by her parents' stories and by her own reading and, for a time, into the otherworldly life of ballet. A yearning, homesick mother, a silent and withdrawn father, the ballet--these are the elements that shape the young woman's imagination and her sexuality.
Download or read book The Weight of Feathers written by Anna-Marie McLemore and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lace Paloma and Cluck Corbeau, from feuding families of traveling performers, fall in love.
Download or read book How to Be Comfortable in Your Own Feathers written by Julia Cook and published by National Center for Youth Issues. This book was released on 2013-02-15 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bluebird, along with most everyone else at school, wants to flutter like the most popular bird in their class, Hummingbird. "You should go on a diet, and work out at the gym. You could flutter like me, if your body was thin." Bluebird takes this comment seriously and starts to develop unhealthy eating habits. Mom comes to the rescue by teaching Bluebird balance and by explaining that everyone needs to feel comfortable in their own feathers. With help from the Bird Doc and the Food Voice Counselor, Bluebird learns to control the Food Voice that is living inside. "I'm working on balance one day at a time. If I keep working hard, I should be just fine." How to be Comfortable in Your Own Feathers uses a creative approach to speak to children who may be currently struggling with body-image concerns. This story is written in a manner that gives children an opportunity to apply the characters' experiences to their own lives. It also demonstrates appropriate adult responses that encourage the development of healthy eating habits. Includes "Live It" Dos and Don'ts.
Download or read book Unicorn Academy Nature Magic 1 Lily and Feather written by Julie Sykes and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if you could save Unicorn Island? Unicorn Academy is back in this brand-new magical subseries about the environment, where everyone is paired with their very own unicorn! Readers will love the eco-friendly themes in this spin-off of the wildly popular Unicorn Academy series! Lily is so excited to start Unicorn Academy and learn how to be a guardian of Unicorn Island! She and her unicorn, Feather, can't wait to make friends and keep the island safe. But then strange purple tornadoes begin hitting villages around the school. Can Lily and Feather stop the tornadoes and save Unicorn Academy? Don't miss any books in this magical series! #1: Lily and Feather #2: Phoebe and Shimmer #3: Zara and Moonbeam
Download or read book The Secret of The Magic Feather written by Fariba Nejat and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-30 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Synopsis and moral of the story: No one could imagine this terrible time of COVID-19 (coronavirus). Next to medical research to find the cure, imagination is what we need to ease up the pain.
Download or read book The Magic Feather written by Diana Lindsay and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sea Feather written by Lois Szymanski and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alison and her sister may find the pony of their dreams at the Chincoteague Island wild pony auction.
Download or read book Lotus and Feather written by Ji-li Jiang and published by Disney-Hyperion. This book was released on 2016-12-13 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A winter illness left Lotus, a little girl, without a voice and without friends. A hunter's bullet left Feather, a crane, injured and unable to fly. As Lotus nurses Feather back to health, their bond grows. Soon Feather is following Lotus everywhere, even to school! The bird dances to the girl's reed whistle, much to the delight of the other children. One day, when the village floods, Feather helps raise the alarm as Lotus and her grandfather urge their neighbors to get to high ground. Feather is a true friend to Lotus, but the time comes when Lotus must be a true friend to him--by encouraging him to migrate with the rest of the cranes. The next spring, Feather miraculously returns, and that's not all . . . he has brought new life to the nearby lake. Inspired by the true story of a crane that rescued a Chinese village, and graced with sensitive watercolor illustrations, this lovely book about respecting nature offers deep emotion and delightful surprises.
