" ... Hawkes's own selection from his novels, stories, and his current novel-in-progress, Adventures in the Alaskan Skin Trade. In autobiographical commentaries, Hawkes provides a context for each of the selections and discusses the genesis and the writing of his work. As a novelist whose creative life has depended largely on travel, he evokes the actual places that have inspired his imaginary worlds: the Alaska of his boyhood; the Caribbean island where he wrote Second Skin; the Germany he knew as an ambulance driver in World War II; the South of France where he searched for images of Picasso and the Marquis de Sade."--Cover.
This book is a cognitive semantic study of the Chinese conceptualization of the heart, traditionally seen as the central faculty of cognition. The Chinese word xin, which primarily denotes the heart organ, covers the meanings of both "heart" and "mind" as understood in English, which upholds a heart-head dichotomy. In contrast to the Western dualist view, Chinese takes on a more holistic view that sees the heart as the center of both emotions and thought. The contrast characterizes two cultural traditions that have developed different conceptualizations of person, self, and agent of cognition. The concept of "heart" lies at the core of Chinese thought and medicine, and its importance to Chinese culture is extensively manifested in the Chinese language. Diachronically, this book traces the roots of its conception in ancient Chinese philosophy and traditional Chinese medicine. Along the synchronic dimension, it not only makes a systematic analysis of conventionalized expressions that reflect the underlying cultural models and conceptualizations, as well as underlying conceptual metaphors and metonymies, but also attempts a textual analysis of an essay and a number of poems for their metaphoric and metonymic images and imports contributing to the cultural models and conceptualizations. It also takes up a comparative perspective that sheds light on similarities and differences between Western and Chinese cultures in the understanding of the heart, brain, body, mind, self, and person. The book contributes to the understanding of the embodied nature of human cognition situated in its cultural context, and the relationship between language, culture, and cognition.
Due to awareness of people and their choice to choose the treatment modules Unani system of medicine along with other alternative therapies regaining the popularity and emerging as the mainstream treatment choice. According to the Unani system of medicine most of the diseases especially the chronic one are due to the imbalance in humors. So to treat these diseases we must know the Humoral pathology. By keeping all these in minds the authors try to explain the Humoral pathology in very simple way. Authors assume that thorough study of this book surely helps the readers to understand the Humors theory and humors pathology.Authors are very grateful and like to thanks all the contributors and those who helped us in various ways & in different aspect to complete this book.This book covers following topics:S.No Chapter and TopicI INTRODUCTION 7-19 5-15 1. Humors: The Body fluid 2. Humoral pathology 3. Receptacles and Accumulation Sites for the Humors 4. Humoral Disorders and Pepsis 5. Types of Humoral Disorders 6. Diseases of the Four Humors 7. Stages and Progression of Humoral Pathology 8. Resolving Humoral Disorders Through Pepsis 9. ConclusionII ADJUSTING AND REGULATING BLOOD (DAM) 20-35 16-27 1. Superstar Herbs for the Blood 2. Cautions and Contraindications for Blood Herbs 3. Diet: Eating to Build Healthy Blood 4. Unani Remedies for Adjusting the Blood 5. Other Therapies for Adjusting and Regulating the BloodIII ADJUSTING AND REGULATING PHLEGM (BALGHAM) AND SEROUS FLUID 36-48 1. Working with Phlegm 2. Emesis for Excess Phlegm 3. Working with Serous Fluids 4. Nourishing the Serous Fluids 5. Reducing Serous Fluids 6. Unani Herbs to Adjust the Phlegmatic HumorIV ADJUSTING AND REGULATING THE CHOLERIC HUMOR (SAFRA) 49-71 1. Basic Principles for Adjusting and Correcting Yellow Bile 2. Dietary Therapy for Choleric Disorders 3. Unani Herbs for Correcting Choleric Disorders 4. Anti-Choleric Herbs from the New World 5. Unani Remedies for Adjusting Yellow Bile 6. Aromatherapy for Adjusting and Sedating Aggravated Heat and Choler 7. Derivation of Pus, Heat and Choler through the SkinV ADJUSTING AND REGULATING BLACK BILE HUMORS (SAUDA) 72-97 55-73 1. The Myriad Manifestations of Black Bile Imbalance 2. Dietary Therapy to Adjust and Regulate Black Bile 3. Special Greek and Unani Tonics and Purgatives for Black Bile 4. Other Herbs for Adjusting and Regulating Black Bile 5. Aromatherapy for Melancholic Disorders 6. Melancholy and Medicinal Oils 7. Black Bile and CancerVI TONIC AND RESTORATIVE HERBS FOR FOUR HUMORS 98-106 74-79VII REFERENCES AND SOURCE 107-108
WINNER OF THE NORTH STREET BOOK PRIZE COMPETITION Red Blood, Yellow Skin is the story of a young girl's survival in war-torn Vietnam during the First Indochina War between France and Vietnam, the civil war between North and South Vietnam, and the later American involvement in the Vietnam War. Linda Baer was born Nguyen Thi Loan, in the village of Tao Xa, Thai Binh Province, in North Vietnam in 1947. When she was four years old, the Viet Minh attacked her village and killed her father, leaving Loan and her mother to fend for themselves. Seeking escape from impoverishment, her mother married a rich and dominating widower who was cruel to his free-spirited and mischievous stepdaughter. Loan found solace in the company of animals and insects and escaped into the branches of trees. In 1954, her family chose to relocate to South Vietnam, rather than live under the yoke of communist North Vietnam. When Loan was thirteen, she ran away to Saigon to flee the cruelty of her stepfather and worked at menial jobs to help her family. At seventeen, she was introduced to bars, nightclubs, and Saigon Tea. At eighteen, she dated and lived with a young American airman.Two months after their baby was born, the airman returned to America, and Loan never heard from him again. She raised their son by herself. However, time healed her heart, and she eventually found true love in a young air force officer, whom she married and accompanied to America in 1971. Red Blood, Yellow Skin is a story of romance, culture, traditions, and family. It describes the pain, struggle, despair, and violence as Loan lived it. The story is hers, but it is also an account of Vietnam of those who were uprooted, displaced, brutalized, and left homeless. It is about this struggle to survive and her extraordinary triumph over adversity that Baer writes. Linda Baer was born Nguyen Thi Loan, in a small village in North Vietnam. Her family relocated to South Vietnam in 1954. She spent most of her youth in Saigon, where she met her husband. She followed him to America in 1971 and became an American citizen in 1973. She currently resides in Charleston, South Carolina, where she is a successful businesswoman.
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