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Onion as a heart drug? Broccoli to prevent cancer? Garlic to prevent blood clots? THE FOOD PHARMACY shows how simple foods, consumed by us all, can be used in the fight against ill-health. Once considered folklore, the discoveries being pioneered by our leading scientists are proving that food is our largest and most complex pharmacy. Jean Carper outlines how each food behaves as a drug and how best to use them. Brimming with important revelations and practical advice, THE FOOD PHARMACY takes the most healthful and healing foods available in your local supermarket and shows us how we can take charge of our health: Eating cabbage, raw or cooked, only once a week may cut your chances of colon cancer by sixty-six percent; honey helps heal wounds and is also an effective cure for diarrhoea.

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'A luminous celebration of all types of love, threaded with the message that everyone is worthy of it' Rachel Lynn Solomon, author of The Ex TalkOy! to the world Rachel Rubenstein-Goldblatt is a nice Jewish girl with a shameful secret: she loves Christmas. For a decade she's hidden her career as a Christmas romance novelist from her family. Her talent has made her a bestseller even as her chronic illness has always kept the kind of love she writes about out of reach. But when her diversity-conscious publisher insists she write a Hanukkah romance, her well of inspiration suddenly runs dry. Hanukkah's not magical. It's not merry. It's not Christmas. Desperate not to lose her contract, Rachel's determined to find her muse at the Matzah Ball, a Jewish music celebration on the last night of Hanukkah, even if it means working with her summer camp archenemy-Jacob Greenberg. Though Rachel and Jacob haven't seen each other since they were kids, their grudge still glows brighter than a menorah. But as they spend more time together, Rachel finds herself drawn to Hanukkah-and Jacob-in a way she never expected. Maybe this holiday of lights will be the spark she needed to set her heart ablaze. Praise for Jean Meltzer 'A seasonal romance with a difference' People's Friend'A funny, fresh holiday read to tickle your funny bone and warm your heart' Sheila Roberts'A warm, heartfelt ode to self-acceptance, honesty, and tight-knit Jewish communities, The Matzah Ball gently - and rightfully - insists we don't need to be perfect or "normal" to deserve and find love. The story was a true pleasure to read' Olivia Dade

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One of the BBC's '100 Novels that Shaped the World'Jean Rhys's spell-binding novel Wide Sargasso Sea, inspired by Jane Eyre and winner the Royal Society of Literature Award is beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range.'There is no looking glass here and I don't know what I am like now... Now they have taken everything away. What am I doing in this place and who am I?'If Antoinette Cosway, a spirited Creole heiress, could have foreseen the terrible future that awaited her, she would not have married the young Englishman. Initially drawn to her beauty and sensuality, he becomes increasingly frustrated by his inability to reach into her soul. He forces Antoinette to conform to his rigid Victorian ideals, unaware that in taking away her identity he is destroying a part of himself as well as pushing her towards madness.Set against the lush backdrop of 1830s Jamaica, Jean Rhys's powerful, haunting masterpiece was inspired by her fascination with the first Mrs Rochester, the mad wife in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre.'Compelling, painful and exquisite' Guardian'Brilliant. A tale of dislocation and dispossession, which Rhys writes with a kind of romantic cynicism, desperate and pungent' The Times'Rhys turns a menacing cipher into a grieving, plausible young woman, and one whose story says whole worlds about global mixtures, about the misunderstandings between the colonized, the colonizers and the people who can't easily say which they are' TimeJean Rhys was born in Dominica in 1890, the daughter of a Welsh doctor and a white Creole mother, and came to England when she was sixteen. Her first book, a collection of stories called The Left Bank, was published in 1927. This was followed by Quartet (originally Postures, 1928), After Leaving Mr Mackenzie (1930), Voyage in the Dark (1934) and Good Morning, Midnight (1939). None of these books was particularly successful and with the outbreak of war they went out of print. Jean Rhys dropped from sight until nearly twenty years later she was discovered living reclusively in Cornwall. During those years she had accumulated the stories collected in Tigers are Better-Looking. In 1966 she made a sensational reappearance with Wide Sargasso Sea, which won the Royal Society of Literature Award and the W. H. Smith Award. Her final collection of stories, Sleep It Off Lady, appeared in 1976 and Smile Please, her unfinished autobiography, was published posthumously in 1979. Jean Rhys died in 1979.

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Topsy and Tim find fun and adventure in the real world. Their engaging stories are reassuring for young children having first experiences of their own. In Topsy and Tim: Have Their Eyes Tested, Topsy needs to see the optometrist to make sure that she doesn't need glasses. Find out what happens when you have your eyes tested with Topsy and Tim! A trusted and well-loved pair who can help guide parents and children through 'first experiences', Topsy and Tim books have been beautifully updated with contemporary artwork. Topsy & Tim remain instantly recognizable to parents while in a fresh style that will appeal to a new generation of fans.

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A new reflection from Jean Vanier on the Gospel of John, based on a series of talks originally written for television. Vanier moves through each passage, setting it in the context of the other gospels, and drawing out messages for our contemporary world.

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Una completa descripción de las principales especies europeas, con un objetivo primordial: el reconocimiento de los ejemplares que podemos encontrar por el campo. La calidad de las fotografías, la detallada descripción de las setas y los lugares en los que prosperan son un aliado imprescindible para su identificación.

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Se recogen en este tomo las ponencias de siete prestigiosos académicos en las conferencias Oxford Amnesty en la primavera de 1993, en torno al problema de los derechos humanos universales. Son tantas las perspectivas desde las que se enfoca el problema como diferentes las conclusiones a las que se llega. Las preguntas centrales que se hacen en este libro son cuestiones a las que se enfrenta cualquiera que desee responder apropiadamente a las numerosas violaciones de derechos humanos que nos rodean. Existen derechos humanos universales aplicables en todo momento a todas las culturas? Está, desde un principio, condenado al fracaso cualquier intento por nuestra parte de buscarle un fundamento racional a los derechos humanos? Es verdaderamente necesario buscarle un fundamento racional?S. Lukes discute la fórmula de organización política de la sociedad más compatible con la práctica de los derechos humanos. J. Rawls propone un derecho de gentes o de los pueblos con alto contenido ético,

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"No puede desconocerse el impulso, que en nuestros dias, arrastra á los espíritus hácia los estudios higiénicos. Este movimiento, uno de los caractéres peculiares de la medicina contemporánea, depende de causas múltiples. Entre las mas evidentes, deben señalarse la importancia humanitaria de la higiene; sus íntimas conexiones con los problemas económicos y sociales que interesan directamente al porvenir y al bienestar de las masas; y por último, los adelantos tan rápidos de las ciencias físicas que, todos los dias proporcionan recursos á la higiene y la descubren perspectivas nuevas. Estos son, á no dudarlo, los móviles principales de la actividad con que es cultivada esta rama de la medicina". Así comienza la obra Higiene alimenticia de los enfermos, de los convalecientes y de los valetudinarios, ó el régimen considerado como medio terapéutico,obra que se presenta por primera vez en edición facsímil, escrita por Jean-Baptiste Fonssagrives (1823-1884), médico-jefe de la marina f

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Encuadernación: RústicaColección: Economia!ORO! Su solo nombre nos hace soñar. Pero a la hora de la globalización y, sobre todo, de la desmaterialización de las transacciones financieras (gracias a internet), cual es el interés de comprar oro?Utilizado por todas las civilizaciones desde hace 6000 años, el oro esta siempre ha estado de moda. Numerosos son los analistas económicos que lo consideran como una la inversión refugio por excelencia, el único capaz de asegurar un patrimonio sean cual sean las circunstancias. De hecho, la pregunta no es saber si hace falta comprar oro, sino la verdadera pregunta es qué tipo de oro adquirir (ya que existen muchas alternativas) y como cómpralo.Este libro les hará descubrir el formidable potencial del oro para los años venideros y aprenderá a elegir la mejor opción de inversión en la materia.Comprenderá igualmente por qué y cómo las monedas de oro constituyen el mejor soporte para este tipo de inversión, garantizándole el máximo de

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El Proyecto y las Consideraciones son, pues, junto a las Cartas escritas desde la montaña, el campo de aplicación de los principios políticos establecidos en El contrato social, pero son también algo más: son -y especialmente las Consideraciones, a las que en lo sucesivo dirigiremos preferentemente nuestra atención- el lugar donde aquellos principios se amplían, e incluso donde algunos se ven desnaturalizados en cierta medida, dando cabida a una nueva materia política desconocida en el libro teórico. Exponer la naturaleza de tales modificaciones, y valorar a la luz de los nuevos elementos la contribución de la doctrina roussoniana a la teoría democrática del Estado, constituye el objeto principal del presente estudio . Al que añadiremos un epílogo sobre una reflexión acerca de una cuestión prioritaria en el pensamiento roussoniano: la del papel desempeñado por la ética en la política.

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El ?ojo curioso? propone, mediante estas antiguas y preciosas cartas náuticas, un viaje a través de los océanos en la época de los grandes exploradores y los grandes descubrimientos. Heredero del italiano portolano, el nombre ?portulano? designa un texto descriptivo de las costas, puertos y condiciones de navegación en un espacio marítimo específico. En el campo de la cartografía este término se aplica a una recopilación de planos de puertos, antes de convertirse, con el uso, en la palabra que hoy designa una carta náutica antigua. Rosas de los vientos, líneas de rumbo, puntos cardinales, islas, puertos y litorales, estos mapas antiguos son herramientas incomparables para comprender y contemplar la diversidad del mundo. Iluminadas en pergamino, algunas realzadas con oro y minuciosamente enriquecidas con evocaciones pintorescas de varios artistas, estas cartas constituyen hoy una de las joyas de la Biblioteca nacional de Francia. Estos tesoros de la navegación invitan a viajar y a soñar

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11 novembre 1918. La victoire inachevée… La France croit avoir gagné la guerre, elle n’a gagné qu’une paix précaire. Ce constat dramatique est le point de départ d’un long chemin de croix qui va mener inexorablement le pays, vers le dénouement de juin 1940. Au fil des stations de ce chemin de croix, la France, en totale contradiction entre sa politique étrangère et sa politique de défense, va aller de désillusions en démissions, sans jamais prendre conscience qu’elle n’avait pas ou ne s’est pas donné les moyens de ses ambitions. La déception du Traité de Versailles, l’arrogance des années d’occupation en Rhénanie, l’illusion du pacte de Locarno, le choix de la défensive alors qu’elle a accordé sa garantie à de nombreux pays avec lesquels elle n’a aucune frontière commune, la passivité face à la montée en puissance allemande, le manque de réaction suite à la neutralité belge, la démission de Munich, tout cela ne pouvait que conduire à une entrée en guerre mal préparée et mal gérée. Lorsque le 10 mai 1940, l’Allemagne donne le coup d’envoi des opérations à l’ouest, l’armée française va accumuler les maladresses, amplifiant malgré elle les succès allemands. Pris dans le tourbillon de la fulgurante percée allemande, le commandement n’aura à aucun moment la possibilité d’inverser le cours des événements et les nouvelles calamiteuses vont s’enchaîner telle une tragédie grecque. Après quarante-cinq jours de combat au cours desquels l’héroïsme le dispute à la lâcheté, le courage aux défaillances, la France arrive au terme de son calvaire. Ce sont les causes de cette inexorable défaite, des plus évidentes aux plus insoupçonnées, que ce livre se propose d’analyser point par point.

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In the evening of June 12, Weygand ordered all the troops who were still struggling to make a brutal drop across the front and to retreat as far as possible towards the south in order to avoid what remained of the French army to undergo a total annihilation. The Germans did not take long to realise that the French were slipping away, and thus immediately threw all their units onto the path of the retreating troops in order to thwart what remained of their plans. What resulted was a chase in which on one side, men would sacrifice themselves for a cause already lost while the other men would fall for a cause already won. Contrary to what one might think, the fighting during the second half of June would be as hard as the previous weeks, and bloody clashes would occur on both sides, as much for the conquest of Cherbourg as for Champagne in Burgundy, or in the Alps or along the Swiss border as units of the Gruppe Guderian would lock in a gigantic trap all the armies of the East. Recounted here is the story of these battles often misunderstood or unknown. This book retraces the history in over four hundred pages, and more than a thousand pictures, mostly unpublished. History has, it seems, only wanted to retain the last days of the campaign in defence of Saumur or the fighting of Voreppe, which, however, offers very little justice for men who fell on the Marne, on Saulx, at Montplonne, Saulieu, Saint-Seine-Abbey, at Maîche in Saint Hippolyte on the slopes of the Vosges or in the valley of the Moselle, to mention only a few places where the French soldier has paid honour to his flag all the way to the end.

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