Herbs for Home Treatment: A Guide to Using Herbs for First Aid and Common Health Problems

Herbs for Home Treatment: A Guide to Using Herbs for First Aid and Common Health Problems Review

In Herbs for Home Treatment, Anna Newton explains the advantages of using herbs--and provides herbal remedies--to cure common ailments and improve general health. She provides easy-to-follow advice on creating your own apothecary with a small number of versatile herbs.

Learn how to:

• Prevent and treat common illnesses with herbs
• Avoid some of the adverse side effects that are common with chemical-based medicines
• Grow and store herbs, and create tinctures, oils, and ointments for a home apothecary

This user-friendly guide to herbs and their medicinal properties explains how to deal with common illnesses--including digestive, respiratory, circulatory and nervous system conditions. Newton suggests essential herbs everyone should have on hand, and offers advice on how to get the best out of herbs for general health, including how to maintain your energy level, increase your stamina, and improve your mood. Inside you'll find information on dosages, possible allergies, and clues for when it's time to seek professional help. Also included is guidance on how to make your own apothecary, how to concoct a first-aid kit for when traveling abroad, and a list of herb retailer and professional herbalists.

The Selling of DSM: The Rhetoric of Science in Psychiatry (Social Problems and Social Issues)

The Selling of DSM: The Rhetoric of Science in Psychiatry (Social Problems and Social Issues) Review

The Selling of DSM offers a provocative interpretation of the circumstances, activities, and research that produced a revolutionary change in the way psychiatrists and other mental health professionals approach mental illness. When it was first published in 1980, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Third Edition - universally known as DSM-III -embodied a radical, new method for identifying psychiatric illness. DSM-III was often referred to as the "psychiatric Bible," and it was used to challenge the pervasive criticism that psychiatric diagnoses were unreliable and invalid.

Kirk and Kutchins challenge the generally accepted understanding about the research data and the process that led to DSM-III. Their original and controversial thesis, based on a detailed re-analysis of key scientific articles, is strikingly different from the widely adopted view that the new manual was a triumph of science. Instead, The Selling of DSM concentrates on the way that a small group of researchers interpreted their findings about a specific problem - psychiatric reliability - to promote their beliefs about mental illness and to challenge the then-dominant Freudian paradigm. The Selling of DSM explains how the rhetoric of science, rather than scientific data, was used by the developers of DSM-III to promote their aims and to buttress the dominant position of psychiatry within the mental health field.

Exceptional C++ Style: 40 New Engineering Puzzles, Programming Problems, and Solutions

Exceptional C++ Style: 40 New Engineering Puzzles, Programming Problems, and Solutions Review

Software "style" is about finding the perfect balance between overhead and functionality... elegance and maintainability... flexibility and excess. In Exceptional C++ Style, legendary C++ guru Herb Sutter presents 40 new programming scenarios designed to analyze not only the what but the why and help you find just the right balance in your software.

Organized around practical problems and solutions, this book offers new insight into crucial C++ details and interrelationships, and new strategies for today's key C++ programming techniques--including generic programming, STL, exception safety, and more. You'll find answers to questions like:

• What can you learn about library design from the STL itself?
• How do you avoid making templated code needlessly non-generic?
• Why shouldn't you specialize function templates? What should you do instead?
• How does exception safety go beyond try and catch statements?
• Should you use exception specifications, or not?
• When and how should you "leak" the private parts of a class?
• How do you make classes safer for versioning?
• What's the real memory cost of using standard containers?
• How can using const really optimize your code?
• How does writing inline affect performance?
• When does code that looks wrong actually compile and run perfectly, and why should you care?
• What's wrong with the design of std::string?

Exceptional C++ Style will help you design, architect, and code with style--and achieve greater robustness and performance in all your C++ software.