A fully revised and updated edition of the classic reference guide from the founders of the famous Neal’s Yard Remedies. The one book every woman should have on their shelves, this is a unique guide to healing mind and body and a comprehensive reference book for alternative health.
This classic health bestseller, which has sold over 50,000 copies worldwide, has now been fully revised and updated to become a vital and comprehensive guide to all areas of alternative health for women in the 21st century.
Susan Curtis and Romy Fraser draw on many years experience in natural medicine to explain the different needs of women’s energy and repair systems, as well as the full range of natural healing options now available.
The easy-to-use format and style of this reference books show women how natural health can be a realistic part of their busy, stressful lives.
The A–Z ‘Repertory of Ailments’ covers all aspects of health that affect women today, from children’s illnesses and pregnancy to cancer, as well as everyday problems.
A fully cross-referenced ‘Materia Medica’ offers the complete range of alternative treatments, including homeopathy, herbalism, essential oils and dietary supplements.
Also includes a ‘Lifestyle’ section, providing a detailed detox programme, a first aid kit that every women should have and advice on diet, exercise, cleansing and fasting.

Natural Healing for Women: Caring for yourself with herbs, homeopathy and essential oils

Curtis, Susan

Fraser, Romy

Parenting & Relationships

Thorsons

This is a vital reference book for any woman who wants to take control of her life, and integrate ancient healing into her busy lifestyle.

Natural Healing for Women: Caring for Yourself With Herbs, Homeopathy & Essential Oils

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Women's Health

Thorsons Pub.

Today more and more people are turning to alternative medicine. In their turn, alternative practitioners often suggest remedies that people could have prescribed for themselves - if they had the corect information. This book is designed to provide such information by offering the opportunity to choose from among a wide range of remedies proposed by different therapies that are normally kept apart from one another. The book, therefore, offers suggestions for treatment from homeopathy, aromatherapy and herbalism - all of which are readily available without prescription.

Neal's Yard Natural Remedies

Kohler, Irene

Penguin??Books

A book of strictly natural remedies from the pioneering Neal's Yard Apothecary Shop, this book is unique in that it suggests treatments from a range of different therapies that are usually kept separate. The treatments of homeopathy, aromatherapy and herbalism are all suggested here, all of which can be obtained without prescription. Each ailment and treatment is sufficiently described in this highly enlightening book.

Penguin Uk

By using Scott Joplin's life as a window onto American social and cultural development at the turn of the century, this biography dramatizes the role of one brilliant African American musician in defining the culture of a still-young nation.

Dancing to a Black Man's Tune: A Life of Scott Joplin (Volume 1) (Missouri Biography Series)

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

University of Missouri

A study of Three Plays for a Negro Theater, the first all-Black cast producation on Broadway, tells the story of those responsible for the groundbreaking 1917 production

The First Black Actors on the Great White Way

Humor & Entertainment

Univ of Missouri Pr

On April 5, 1917, Three Plays for a Negro Theater by Ridgely Torrence opened at the Garden Theatre in New York City. This performance was a monumental event in American stage history. Not only was this the first dramatic production to portray African American life beyond the cliché, it was also the first production on Broadway to feature an all-black cast. The morning after the three plays were performed, newspapers were filled with praise for the cast, crew, and playwright. Audience member W. E. B. Du Bois declared the show "epoch making." Despite such early critical acclaim, Three Plays for a Negro Theater closed before the end of the month and received little attention thereafter.Why was a nation, so fascinated with firsts, able to forget these black actors and this production so quickly? It is this question that Susan Curtis addresses in The First Black Actors on the Great White Way.Set against the backdrop of transforming theater conventions in the early 1900s and the war in 1917, this important study relates the stories of the actors, stage artists, critics, and many others—black and white—involved in this groundbreaking production. Curtis explores in great depth both the progress in race relations that led to this production and the multifaceted reasons for its quick demise.Three Plays for a Negro Theater opened on the eve of the United States' entrance into World War I. Curtis attributes the early closure of the three plays to this coincidence, but she does not settle for so simple an explanation. Rather, she investigates the heightened national self-consciousness that followed the United States' entry into the war. America was ready to "make the world safe for democracy," but it was not fully ready to accept democracy and equality in its own culture.The First Black Actors on the Great White Way is not simply a study of African American theater and its entrance into American culture. By focusing on a single event at a critical moment in history, Curtis offers a unique glimpse into race relations in early-twentieth-century American society. The experience of these pioneering artists reveals an unexplored aspect of the painfully slow evolution of racial equality.A remarkable story about people who waged an extraordinary campaign against racism, The First Black Actors on the Great White Way will be of special interest to scholars of American studies, race relations, and cultural history, as well as the general reader.

The First Black Actors on the Great White Way (Volume 1)

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

In A Consuming Faith, Susan Curtis analyzes the startling convergence of two events previously treated independently: the emergence of a modern consumer-oriented culture and the rise of the social gospel movement. By examining the lives and works of individuals who identified themselves as social gospelers, rather than just groups or individuals who fit a particular definition, Curtis is able to capture the very fluidity of the term social gospel as it was used.
In addition to exploring the time in which the movement took shape, Curtis provides biographical sketches of traditional figures involved in various aspects of the social gospel movement such as Walter Rauschenbusch, Washington Gladden, and Josiah Strong alongside those of less-prominent figures like Charles Jefferson, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, and Charles Macfarland. Going beyond their roles in the movement, Curtis shows them to be sons and daughters, husbands and wives, and workers and citizens who experienced the vast changes in their world wrought by industrialization and class conflict even as they sought to define a meaningful religious life. The result of their quest was a redefinition of Protestantism that contributed to an evolving public discourse and culture.
This groundbreaking study, now with a new preface by Curtis, provides an illuminating look at culture and religion as interdependent influences, and treats religious life as an integral part of American culture--not a sacred world apart from the secular. A Consuming Faith will be of interest to anyone who strives to understand not only the social and cultural history of America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, but also the origins of modern America.

A Consuming Faith: The Social Gospel and Modern American Culture (Volume 1)

History

Lester A. Walton was a well-known public figure in his day. An African American journalist, cultural critic, diplomat, and political activist, he was an adviser to presidents and industrialists in a career that spanned the first six decades of the twentieth century. He was a steadfast champion of democracy and lived to see the passage of major civil rights legislation. But one word best describes Walton today: forgotten.Exploring the contours of this extraordinary life, Susan Curtis seeks to discover why our collective memory of Walton has failed. In a unique narrative of historical research, she recounts a fifteen-year journey, from the streets of Harlem and “The Ville” in St. Louis to scattered archives and obscure public records, as she uncovers the mysterious circumstances surrounding Walton’s disappearance from national consciousness. And despite numerous roadblocks and dead ends in her quest, she tells how she came to know this emblematic citizen of the American Century in surprising ways.In this unconventional book—a postmodern ghost story, an unprecedented experiment in life-writing—Curtis shares her discoveries as a researcher. Relating her frustrating search through long-overlooked documents to discover this forgotten man, she offers insight into how America’s obsession with race has made Walton’s story unwelcome. She explores the treachery, duplicity, and archival accidents that transformed a man dedicated to the fulfillment of American democracy into a shadowy figure.Combining anecdotal memories with the investigative instincts of the historian, Curtis embraces the subjectivity of her research to show that what a society forgets or suppresses is just as important as what it includes in its history.  Colored Memories is a highly original work that not only introduces readers to a once-influential figure but also invites us to reconsider how we view, understand, and preserve the past.

Colored Memories: A Biographer's Quest for the Elusive Lester A. Walton (Volume 1)

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Natural Healing for Women: Caring for yourself with herbs, homeopathy and essential oils

Natural Healing for Women: Caring for Yourself With Herbs, Homeopathy & Essential Oils

Neal's Yard Natural Remedies

Neal's Yard Natural Remedies

Dancing to a Black Man's Tune: A Life of Scott Joplin (Volume 1) (Missouri Biography Series)

The First Black Actors on the Great White Way

The First Black Actors on the Great White Way (Volume 1)

A Consuming Faith: The Social Gospel and Modern American Culture (Volume 1)

Dancing to a Black Man's Tune: A Life of Scott Joplin (Volume 1) (Missouri Biography Series)

Colored Memories: A Biographer's Quest for the Elusive Lester A. Walton (Volume 1)