Matthew Wood: 23 books
The Earthwise Herbal, Volume I
A Complete Guide to Old World Medicinal Plants
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
Noted herbalist Matthew Wood brings twenty-five years of clinical experience to this comprehensive book on medicinal plants. The first in a two-volume set, The Earthwise Herbal profiles Old World plants (volume two will treat American plants). Organized alphabetically, the book encompasses all of...
Possession, Power and the New Age
Ambiguities of Authority in Neoliberal Societies
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
This book provides a new sociological account of contemporary religious phenomena such as channelling, holistic healing, meditation and divination, which are usually classed as part of a New Age Movement. Drawing on his extensive ethnography carried out in the UK, alongside comparative studies in...
The Practice of Traditional Western Herbalism
Basic Doctrine, Energetics, and Classification
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
The Practice of Traditional Western Herbalism places the function of western herbs in their true historical context, apart from homeopathy, traditional Chinese medicine, and Ayurveda. Recently there has been a revival of interest in western herbalism, but practitioners haven't been able to explore...
The Earthwise Herbal, Volume II
A Complete Guide to New World Medicinal Plants
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
Noted herbalist Matthew Wood brings twenty-five years of clinical experience to this comprehensive book on medicinal plants. The first in a two-volume set, The Earthwise Herbal profiles Old World plants (volume two will treat American plants). Organized alphabetically, the book encompasses all of...
The Earthwise Herbal Repertory
The Definitive Practitioner's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
Internationally known herbalist Matthew Wood takes the guesswork out of the application of medicinal plants and provides an invaluable cross-reference of constitutional types, energetic categories, and specific symptoms that helps the herbalist narrow down the number of possible remedies for a specific...
The Book of Herbal Wisdom
Using Plants as Medicines
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
Matthew Wood is recognized world wide as one of the United States' most reknown herbalists. His previous book, Seven Herbs: Plants as Healers, was a watershed in teaching herbal healing as a part of total wellness. In The Book of Herbal Wisdom, this is continued and enlarged in wonderful detail. This...
by Paul Cairney, Tanya Heikkila, Matthew Wood
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2019
This provocative Element is on the 'state of the art' of theories that highlight policymaking complexity. It explains complexity in a way that is simple enough to understand and use. The primary audience is policy scholars seeking a single authoritative guide to studies of 'multi-centric policymaking'....
Southern Folk Medicine
Healing Traditions from the Appalachian Fields and Forests
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
This book is the first to describe the history, folklore, assessment methods, and remedies of Southern and Appalachian Folk Medicine—the only system of folk medicine, other than Native American, that developed in the United States. One of the system's last active practitioners, Phyllis D. Light...
Food Trucks, Cultural Identity, and Social Justice
From Loncheras to Lobsta Love
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Aspects of the urban food truck phenomenon, including community economic development, regulatory issues, and clashes between ethnic authenticity and local sustainability.
The food truck on the corner could be a brightly painted old-style lonchera offering tacos or an upscale mobile vendor serving...
Zones of Control
Perspectives on Wargaming
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Examinations of wargaming for entertainment, education, and military planning, in terms of design, critical analysis, and historical contexts.
Games with military themes date back to antiquity, and yet they are curiously neglected in much of the academic and trade literature on games and game...
Online Communication
Linking Technology, Identity, & Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2004
Online Communication provides an introduction to both the technologies of the Internet Age and their social implications. This innovative and timely textbook brings together current work in communication, political science, philosophy, popular culture, history, economics, and the humanities to present...
Breaking Up Is Hard To Do: Britain and Europe’s Dysfunctional Relationship
Britain and Europe’s Dysfunctional Relationship
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2016
In the noise of the debate about the EU, it is rare for fundamental questions to be asked. For example, for what purposes should we have international institutions at all? Does the EU meet those purposes and, if not, is reform possible? This book considers these questions. An international team of...
Empowering the Voice of the Teacher Researcher
Achieving Success through a Culture of Inquiry
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010
Empowering the Voice of the Teacher Researcher through a Culture of Inquiry is essentially a description of one school's initiatives to use collaborative communities and action research to empower teacher research and a culture of collective inquiry. It is written by teachers primarily for teachers...
by Matthew Brenden Wood
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2017
Early science fiction imagined a world with space travel, video calls, and worldwide access to information, things we now know as NASA's human spaceflight program, Skype, and the Internet. What next? Could we really bring back the dinosaurs, travel to a distant star, or live on Mars?
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