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Book Fly In the Ointment

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michelle Wyatt
  • Publisher : Independently Published
  • Release : 2019-04-24
  • ISBN : 9781791533502
  • Pages : 96 pages

Download or read book Fly In the Ointment written by Michelle Wyatt and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-04-24 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fly in the Ointment is a collection of poems written by American author Michelle Wyatt. Michelle's writings are often political and spiritual using nature as the metaphor for what she sees happening in the world.

Book The Fly in the Ointment

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  • Author : Dr. Joe Schwarcz
  • Publisher : ECW Press
  • Release : 2004-05-01
  • ISBN : 1554903998
  • Pages : 300 pages

Download or read book The Fly in the Ointment written by Dr. Joe Schwarcz and published by ECW Press. This book was released on 2004-05-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This entertaining examination of everyday science from the fanciful to the factual covers topics ranging from pesticides and environmental estrogens to lipsticks and garlic. Readers are alerted to the shenanigans of quacks and are offered glimpses into the fascinating history of science. The science of aphrodisiacs, DDT, bottled waters, vitamins, barbiturates, plastic wraps, and smoked meat is investigated. Worries about acrylamide, preservatives, and waxed fruits are put into perspective, and the mysteries of bulletproof vests, weight loss diets, green-haired Swedes, laughing gas, and “mad honey” are unraveled. Even those with very little knowledge of science will come away informed and delighted at those humorous and accessible explanations.

Book A Fly in the Ointment

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  • Author : Derek Benfield
  • Publisher : Samuel French
  • Release : 1996
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 100 pages

Download or read book A Fly in the Ointment written by Derek Benfield and published by Samuel French. This book was released on 1996 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why should Ron Corley MP, the Min'ster for the Environment, be searching the'seaside bungalow of his ex-mistress Donna? And why does his virtuous wife, Louise, turn up at the'same place on the'same day? And what was a romantic doctor with a bunch of flowers doing in'sussex when his practice is in London? Add to these questions the presence of a frustrated policewoman and a devious pizza delivery boy...-3 women, 3 men

Book Fly in the Ointment

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  • Author : Anne Fine
  • Publisher : CCV Digital
  • Release : 2010-08-24
  • ISBN : 9781407083933
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Fly in the Ointment written by Anne Fine and published by CCV Digital. This book was released on 2010-08-24 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Fly in the Ointment

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  • Author : Nathan Leslie
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2023
  • ISBN : 9781627204675
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book A Fly in the Ointment written by Nathan Leslie and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Fly in the Ointment

Download or read book The Fly in the Ointment written by Joe Schwarcz and published by ECW Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This entertaining examination of everyday science from the fanciful to the factual covers topics ranging from pesticides and environmental estrogens to lipsticks and garlic.

Book The Fly in the Ointment

Download or read book The Fly in the Ointment written by Frances Croal and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Fly in the Ointment

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  • Author : Frances HAMMOND (pseud. [i.e. Frances A. Croal.])
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1912
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 306 pages

Download or read book The Fly in the Ointment written by Frances HAMMOND (pseud. [i.e. Frances A. Croal.]) and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Generality of Deviance

Download or read book The Generality of Deviance written by Travis Hirschi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-01-16 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2018. The Generality of Deviance advances the idea that all forms of deviant, criminal, reckless, and sinful behavior have one thing in common: the tendency to pursue immediate benefits without concern for long-term costs. The editors argue, and the contributors confirm, that such disparate behaviors as smoking, auto accidents, burglary, and rape are similar in that they all involve disregard for their inevitable consequences: poor health, injury, loss of freedom, shame, or disrepute. The chapters here show how various forms of deviance relate to one another and can be explained by a common theory involving self-management.The editors illustrate how the idea of self-control challenges the psychological concept of aggression and provides a more useful alternative for understanding deviant behavior. They also apply the theory to the family, showing how this institution is central to crime control. Other contributors bring fresh perspectives to a variety of topics: the uncanny similarities between victims of car accidents and perpetrators of crime; the connection between drugs and crime; feminist explanations of rape; gender differences in crime rates; drunk drivers among high school students; and the progression of a delinquent's life from adolescence to adulthood.In short, this book makes a convincing case that it is a waste of intellectual effort and public funds to treat different forms of crime and deviant behavior as distinct problems. Studied collectively, various crimes may be seen to have the same causes and, hence, one cure. The Generality of Deviance will be a significant and provocative addition to the libraries of criminolegists, psychologists, and sociologists, those attempting to solve as well as to identify problems.

Book The Witches  Ointment

Download or read book The Witches Ointment written by Thomas Hatsis and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-08-17 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the historical origins of the “witches’ ointment” and medieval hallucinogenic drug practices based on the earliest sources • Details how early modern theologians demonized psychedelic folk magic into “witches’ ointments” • Shares dozens of psychoactive formulas and recipes gleaned from rare manuscripts from university collections all over the world as well as the practices and magical incantations necessary for their preparation • Examines the practices of medieval witches like Matteuccia di Francisco, who used hallucinogenic drugs in her love potions and herbal preparations In the medieval period preparations with hallucinogenic herbs were part of the practice of veneficium, or poison magic. This collection of magical arts used poisons, herbs, and rituals to bewitch, heal, prophesy, infect, and murder. In the form of psyche-magical ointments, poison magic could trigger powerful hallucinations and surrealistic dreams that enabled direct experience of the Divine. Smeared on the skin, these entheogenic ointments were said to enable witches to commune with various local goddesses, bastardized by the Church as trips to the Sabbat--clandestine meetings with Satan to learn magic and participate in demonic orgies. Examining trial records and the pharmacopoeia of witches, alchemists, folk healers, and heretics of the 15th century, Thomas Hatsis details how a range of ideas from folk drugs to ecclesiastical fears over medicine women merged to form the classical “witch” stereotype and what history has called the “witches’ ointment.” He shares dozens of psychoactive formulas and recipes gleaned from rare manuscripts from university collections from all over the world as well as the practices and magical incantations necessary for their preparation. He explores the connections between witches’ ointments and spells for shape shifting, spirit travel, and bewitching magic. He examines the practices of some Renaissance magicians, who inhaled powerful drugs to communicate with spirits, and of Italian folk-witches, such as Matteuccia di Francisco, who used hallucinogenic drugs in her love potions and herbal preparations, and Finicella, who used drug ointments to imagine herself transformed into a cat. Exploring the untold history of the witches’ ointment and medieval hallucinogen use, Hatsis reveals how the Church transformed folk drug practices, specifically entheogenic ones, into satanic experiences.

Book The Orphan Master s Son

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  • Author : Adam Johnson
  • Publisher : Random House Incorporated
  • Release : 2012
  • ISBN : 0812992792
  • Pages : 465 pages

Download or read book The Orphan Master s Son written by Adam Johnson and published by Random House Incorporated. This book was released on 2012 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The son of a singer mother whose career forcibly separated her from her family and an influential father who runs an orphan work camp, Pak Jun Do rises to prominence using instinctive talents and eventually becomes a professional kidnapper and romantic rival to Kim Jong Il. By the author of Parasites Like Us.

Book The Fly in the Ointment

Download or read book The Fly in the Ointment written by Victor Sawdon Pritchett and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Fly in the Ointment

Download or read book The Fly in the Ointment written by Alice Thomas Ellis and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Fly in the Ointment  Or the Snag in Michael s Mailing

Download or read book The Fly in the Ointment Or the Snag in Michael s Mailing written by and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book On Compromise and Rotten Compromises

Download or read book On Compromise and Rotten Compromises written by Avishai Margalit and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-06-04 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A searching examination of the moral limits of political compromise When is political compromise acceptable--and when is it fundamentally rotten, something we should never accept, come what may? What if a rotten compromise is politically necessary? Compromise is a great political virtue, especially for the sake of peace. But, as Avishai Margalit argues, there are moral limits to acceptable compromise even for peace. But just what are those limits? At what point does peace secured with compromise become unjust? Focusing attention on vitally important questions that have received surprisingly little attention, Margalit argues that we should be concerned not only with what makes a just war, but also with what kind of compromise allows for a just peace. Examining a wide range of examples, including the Munich Agreement, the Yalta Conference, and Arab-Israeli peace negotiations, Margalit provides a searching examination of the nature of political compromise in its various forms. Combining philosophy, politics, and history, and written in a vivid and accessible style, On Compromise and Rotten Compromises is full of surprising new insights about war, peace, justice, and sectarianism.

Book Burnt Toast on Davenport Street

Download or read book Burnt Toast on Davenport Street written by and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1997 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arthur and Stella Crandall, two dogs, are for the most part content with their lives until a fly comes along and grants Arthur three wishes.