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Show A- - c Trinr J TTfTTTtn?r of clinical experience requires no further translation to address modem American health concerns. Re people seeking to regain or maintain health wuh alternative medicine, this ancient healing modality presents a venerable and reliable option. Beginning with an overview of philosophy and methods, the book presents diagnosis and treatment in extraordinary detail. Treatment often combines food therapy, medicinal herbs, acupuncture, and therapeutic exer. cise. Rir sheer volume of information and comprehensive coverage by a renowned expert. Chinese Natural Cures will undoubtedly become an essential source book for patients and practitioners. Joanna Bru herto son? What are the best times to visit die mod popular sites? The answers are all here. Before you go. you may want to read up on Chnstianitv and other beliefs in the newest contribution to Mem lineup of world class reference books the fat. gorgeous Fncy eloped la of World Religions ($49 95. 08777XU42). 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This book features lush photos of the rums as they kvk nw, alongside thoughtful reconstructions of how they appeared in their prune and how they were constructed. Ancient risk draw uigs. diagrams Roman aqueducts Chinese canals Incan roads Ikrod's artificial harbor at Caesarea, die giant Nazca draw ings in die Peruv ion desert theyre all here. From Stonehenge to Fader Island, the tour goes around the workl and throughout history even preALm which presents k'tters as visual and tactile artifacts. Reprinting facsimiles of ktters from scores of French arttds and writers, the book demonstrates that what makes letters wonderful b the expressiveness of all their elements the stationery, the handwriting. the ink. Each of die letters comes tth an English translation and contextual notes, but even readers who dont know French w ill wait to Unger over the reproductions of letters from Delacroix. Picasso, Baudelaire, and others. 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Millennium Guide to the Christian Sights ($21. 0679004548). -- The dirge for the demise of letter writusually has an ing in the age of undertone erf nodatgia fee a certain literary mode the piercing kvc note, the minutely detailed, sunburnt vacation letter. Typically, published collections of letters play to this tune, reprinting the letters in uniform type, editing them for clarity and to literary effect Bid what we really miss abxsit leners b shiiw cased beautifully in Science wntcr James Trcfil ami the National Geographic Society have joined forces to create a gorgeous new hok abxxit the gorgeous old universe. Other Worlds: from Earth and Images of the Space ($35. 079227491 k h does treked contain splendid images. ranging die spectrum from an astronaut dnv mg a Lunar Rover across die surface of the Nkvn to a douNe-fxigspread of galaxies distorting each other as they collide. However, there b more to this book than pictures. With his usual offhand Cm 1 i expertise and dry wu. Trefil contributes a lucid narrative that kxks at both the physics involved (the odd games grav ny can play, for example) and die lechnokvgKaJ ajvances and mtemationa cooperation required to produce such images and the grow ing understanding to which they contribute. Equally beautiful and mformjnve, while focusing entirely on our home planet, is Forces of the Wild (Sterling, BUndford. $29 95, 07 3727454 k the companion volume to a new BBC senes about the workl out there that ignores the human presence and pnveeds w ith us own natural cycles and seasons. An example of this NxAs approaxh: Vs 4c ante eruptions aixl earthquakes are presented me in terms of damage to humans and their constructions, but as vital, dynamic natural phenomena that demonstrate the ongoing cream ny erf the planet. Like most such companion bocks. Forces erf the ffdd surpasses ns televised inspiration in Nidi depth and subtlety. 1 MuhjH Sms For the CKi War buff Why does the Civ il War still enthrall Americans and generate such keen interest Why is K that prople just wont let it go. insisting on reenacting battles and clinging to any bit of history that connects diem with the war? Perhaps because oral history is such an important part erf American culture. and this terrible war was so close to home. A new book gives voice to Anvers, a 'v past in a unique wav The ClvB Wan I nstilled Voices (Crown. $29 95. 0WMS0255 k by Chuck Law liss, s a special trf replicas of letters. memoirs, and newspaper artxles that describes the war in different voters, from dilfcrent perspextnes. The wars varied participants tell their stones the vokberv. spies. nurses, writers, are! prisoners. to name a few. both famous and unknown. These items can be removed from their eroetopes as if readers have discovered them after many years. What si ingenious w ay to encourage interest m American history! 1 CanJn Catr t e (imitnurd tm the wit pace) |