Incredible Hulk (Marvel Essentials, Vol. 5) (v. 5)

Incredible Hulk (Marvel Essentials, Vol. 5) (v. 5) Review

The Abomination, the Glob, the Juggernaut, the Rhino, the Wendigo, Xemnu the Titan, and more - no enemy's too big and monstrous for the Hulk! But is even the strongest one there is a match for the one who's the best there is... at what he does? Wolverine's first appearance and first fight with the Hulk reprinted here! Plus: triple-gamma action, international intrigue, poetry, and the first death of Adam Warlock! Guest-starring the X-Men, the Inhumans, and S.H.I.E.L.D.! Collects Incredible Hulk #171-200 and Annual #5.

User's Guide to Echinacea and Other Cold & Flu Fighters: How Vitamins and Herbs can Get You Back on Your Feet Safely and Quickly.

User's Guide to Echinacea and Other Cold & Flu Fighters: How Vitamins and Herbs can Get You Back on Your Feet Safely and Quickly. Review

Many vitamins, dietary supplements, and herbs can greatly reduce cold and flu symptoms and shorten the duration of colds - if you begin taking them at the first sign of an infection. In this User's Guide, Laurel Vukovic, MSW, describes the most important natural ways of fighting off colds and flus, including the use of such venerable herbs as echinacea, goldenseal, and elderberry.

Stalking The Healthful Herbs

Stalking The Healthful Herbs Review

Here Euell Gibbons shows the reader how to enjoy the culinary and medicinal virtues of herbs and wild plants. Drawn from the author’s wide knowledge of plants as well as from the lore of native Americans and early settlers, the information is supplemented by nutritionists at Pennsylvania State University who worked with Gibbons on analysis of the entries.

Flowers and Herbs of Early America (Colonial Williamsburg Foundation)

Flowers and Herbs of Early America (Colonial Williamsburg Foundation) Review

Hounds-tongue. Ragged robin. Costmary. Pennyroyal. All-heal. These plants, whose very names conjure up a bygone world, were among the great variety of flowers and herbs grown in America’s colonial and early Federal gardens. In this sumptuously illustrated book, a leading historic plant expert brings this botanical heritage back to life.

Drawing on years of archival research and field trials in Colonial Williamsburg’s gardens in Williamsburg, Virginia, Lawrence Griffith documents fifty-six species of flowers and herbs and provides details on how they were cultivated and used. For each plant, an elegant period hand-colored engraving, watercolor, or woodcut is presented along with glorious new photographs by Barbara Temple Lombardi.

This book is a dazzling treat for armchair gardeners and for those who have visited and admired the famous gardens of Colonial Williamsburg. It is also an invaluable companion for twenty-first-century gardeners who will appreciate the specific advice of a master gardener on how to plan, choose appropriate species for, and maintain a beautiful, historic flower and herb garden.

The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation is a not-for-profit educational institution that operates the world’s largest living history museum.

Published in association with the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation (20090326)

Heirloom Flavor: Yesterday's Best-Tasting Vegetables, Fruits, and Herbs for Today's Cook (Gardener's Guides)

Heirloom Flavor: Yesterday's Best-Tasting Vegetables, Fruits, and Herbs for Today's Cook (Gardener's Guides) Review

Heirloom vegetables, herbs, and fruits are back in favor as gardeners and food lovers seek more nutritious and flavorful edibles. The unusual varieties of heirloom seeds still available today produce edibles that provide a mouthful of flavor unlike anything ever experienced from hybrid varieties. Heirloom Flavor features eighteen types of heirloom edibles and is enriched with beautiful full-color photographs, interesting stories, and fascinating history. Includes recipes and cooking tips, how-to-grow tips, and how-to-select at Farmer's Markets. A "must have" for foodies and cooks.

The New Healing Herbs: Revised and Updated

The New Healing Herbs: Revised and Updated Review

Discover how to get the most from nature’s oldest remedies

In this revised edition, The New Healing Herbs provides up-to-date profiles of 100 of the most widely used medicinal plants, detailing the therapeutic benefits and healing properties of each of these amazing natural cures. Inside you’ll find:

• Valuable advice for buying, storing, and preparing herbal remedies

• Clear, concise dosage instructions and safe-usage guidelines

• A comprehensive cure-finder chart with treatments for more than 100 common conditions--Ginkgo to improve and even reverse symptoms of macular degeneration...Cinnamon to treat cuts and scrapes...Marshmallow to boost immunity...St. John’s wort to speed healing...Coffee for weight loss...Ginger for colds...Apples as a source of first aid...And much more!

The Herb Book: The Complete and Authoritative Guide to More Than 500 Herbs

The Herb Book: The Complete and Authoritative Guide to More Than 500 Herbs Review

The complete and authoritative guide to more than 500 herbs.
The most complete reference catalog of nature's herbs ever published.

The Potential of Herbs As a Cash Crop

The Potential of Herbs As a Cash Crop Review

Whether you you're a farmer looking for a profitable alternative crop or farmstead enterprise, a city dweller seeking a living in the country, or an entremreneur of any flavor, this book will dispel the myths and point you on the way to a solid, profitable, herb-based business enterprise. This updated second edition covers how to understand your soil, the basics of farming, the fundamentals of farming machinery, how to formulate your own farm business plan, the techniques of preserving your harvest through dehydration. storage and processing. Also covered are direct-to-consumer and wholesale marketing strategies, tips about how to develop your own cottage industry and the potential of foraging for profit. Also included are dozens of sources for additional information.

HERBS, SPICES AND FLAVOURINGS

HERBS, SPICES AND FLAVOURINGS Review

Offering alphabetical listings of over 400 different herbs, spices and flavorings found throughout the world, this reference is based on the extensive notes Tom Stobart made on his travels in 70 countries.

Each entry carries detailed descriptions of the origin, history, magical, medicinal, scientific and culinary uses, together with a thorough assessment of tastes and effects of cooking, freezing and pickling. The author assigns the scientific, botanical, native and popular names for given plants and ingredients making exact identification easy and clearing up any confusions which may exist on differing countries' names and usages.

How to Grow Vegetables and Garden Herbs: A Practical Handbook and Planting Table for the Vegetable Gardener [ 1911 ]

How to Grow Vegetables and Garden Herbs: A Practical Handbook and Planting Table for the Vegetable Gardener [ 1911 ] Review

Originally published in 1911. This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies. All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume.

Herb Topiaries

Herb Topiaries Review

In this delightfully illustrated little book, veteran gardener Sally Gallo spells out the basics of topiaries, those cunningly-shaped plants that add grace to interiors and gardens alike. You'll find the history, lore, and culture of a dozen favorite herbs that are suitable for this venerable craft.

Ancient Medical Technology: From Herbs to Scalpels (Technology in Ancient Cultures)

Ancient Medical Technology: From Herbs to Scalpels (Technology in Ancient Cultures) Review

Did you know . . . Doctors in ancient Peru performed brain surgery? Ancient Greek doctors ran medical schools? The ancient Indians knew how to protect people from smallpox? Medical technology is as old as human society itself. The first humans on Earth used simple healing techniques. They developed ways to set broken bones. They learned which plants were good for treating colds, headaches, and stomachaches. Over the centuries, ancient peoples learned more about medicine. The ancient Indians performed plastic surgery. The ancient Romans operated on people's eyes. People in many ancient cultures wrote medical textbooks. What kinds of tools and techniques did ancient doctors use? Which of their remedies worked and which ones didn't? And how did ancient medicine set the stage for our own modern medical technology? Learn more in Ancient Medical Technology.

Cooking With Fresh Herbs (Nitty Gritty Cookbooks)

Cooking With Fresh Herbs (Nitty Gritty Cookbooks) Review

Identify 18 of the most common fresh herbs used in today's cooking and learn how to use them. Over 100 recipes feature fresh herbs prominently. Seeking a description of the flavor, color, folklore and suggested foods that each herb complements? This book is your resource. It's perfect for those with proliferating gardens or anyone wishing to add fresh, lively flavor to meals.

The Complete Guide to Vitamins, Herbs, and Supplements: The Holistic Path to Good Health

The Complete Guide to Vitamins, Herbs, and Supplements: The Holistic Path to Good Health Review

The Natural Way to Wellness

Find essential information on hundreds of vitamins, herbs, and supplements --

What will VITAMIN E help cure and how much should I take?

Vitamin E can help prevent heart disease and treat acne. Adults should take 100 to 400 IU of natural vitamin E daily.

Find vitamin, herb, and supplement treatments for hundreds of conditions!

Experiencing migraines? See MAGNESIUM:

There is considerable evidence that low magnesium levels trigger both migraine and tension headaches. Take 250 to 400 milligrams three times daily.

Learn about possible interactions with your prescription drugs!

Taking ST. JOHN'S WORT for depression?

It may interfere with amphetamines, diet pills, nasal decongestants, or allergy medications, causing nausea or high blood pressure.

Here is your comprehensive, portable, one-step guide to all over-thecounter vitamins, herbs, and supplements currently available -- an easy-to-use alphabetical listing that includes valuable information on the most effective forms of each supplement, the nutrient's food source and proper dosage, as well as signs of deficiency, safe use, and possible side effects.

Herbs of the Earth: A Self-Teaching Guide to Healing Remedies

Herbs of the Earth: A Self-Teaching Guide to Healing Remedies Review

This book has been described as the herbalist's bible. For the beginner, it's an outstanding introduction to the subject. For those who are already knowledgeable, it is a ready reference and thorough review. To challenge the serious student, it lists questions at the end of each chapter: "What family of herbs, useful at other times, should not be used by pregnant women?"Mary Carse wrote the book for use in her own classes, over more than 25 years of teaching students. She constantly revised and honed the book, leading up to its publication for the general reader.There are a great many herbals. This one deserves to be on the bookshelf of everybody who has a serious interest in the subject.

Healing Herb Rapid Reference

Healing Herb Rapid Reference Review

Here is an herbal reference guide for holistic health care professionals and informed consumers alike. It is designed to enable on-the-spot choices of herbs which are likely to facilitate healing based on individual characteristics, or "keynotes."

Written by an ethnobotanist and clinical practioner of herbalism, it was born out of an appreciation for the work of naturally oriented physicians of the 19th and 20th centuries _ as well as the distilled practical wisdom of grandmothers, woman elders, and North and South American shamans. Most importantly, it represents the author’s own “peak” experiences during travels taken expressly for the purpose of studying and harvesting herbs in their native habitats

Numberpedia: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know (and a Few Things You Didn't) About Numbers

Numberpedia: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know (and a Few Things You Didn't) About Numbers Review

Numberpedia: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know (and a Few Things You Didn't) About Numbers Feature

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A fun, fascinating, and fact-filled (but not factor-filled) collection of trivia related to numbers 1 through 100.

What does the number 67 mean to you? Do you associate it with a year? After all, 1967 was the year The Beatles released both Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band and Magical Mystery Tour. It was also the year the first Super Bowl was held and in which Ernesto “Che” Guevara was executed. But maybe the year 1967 isn’t the first thing that comes to your mind. Maybe when you think about the number 67, you think of the . . .

• Age of George Washington at the time of his death, on December 14, 1799.
• Atomic number of the chemical element holmium, symbol Ho.
• Number of counties in each of the states of Alabama, Florida, and Pennsylvania.
• Most doubles hit in a season in Major League Baseball history (Earl Webb, Boston Red Sox, 1931).
• Number worn by partners Jane Fonda and Michael Sarrazin in the dance marathon scene in the 1969 film They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?
• Estimate number of miles, in millions, from Venus to the sun

In Numberpedia, author Herb Reich examines all of the random, seemingly unrelated trivia related to numbers 1 to 100 in painstaking detail, revealing lore, myths, and every bizarre factoid you’d ever want to know about those numbers—except, of course, those concerning math.