Modern medicine has penetrated Bedouin tribes in the course of rapid urbanization and education, but when serious illnesses strike, particularly in the case of incurable diseases, even educated people turn to traditional medicine for a remedy. Over the course of 30 years, the author gathered data on traditional Bedouin medicine among pastoral-nomadic, semi-nomadic, and settled tribes. Based on interviews with healers, clients, and other active participants in treatments, this book will contribute to renewed thinking about a synthesis between traditional ...

Dash does not feel lucky. When his plane crashes in the South Pacific on a honeymoon flight to Sydney, Australia, he is already a broken man, having left his cheating fiancée at home in Vermont. Dash is the crash's only survivor, and the natives who find his battered body blame him for poisoning their fish with spilled jet fuel. Once he has sufficiently recovered, they plan to offer him as a human sacrifice to their Volcano God, who they believe downed his plane and cursed them with drought and hardship. While Dash awaits his fate, he abandons all ...

Breaks the spell of economic thought by interrogating the widespread language and logic of "incentives" in public life from a Lacanian perspective.

""The Life of Charles Wesley, Late Student of Christ-Church, Oxford: Collected from His Private Journal"" is a biography of the famous hymn writer and theologian Charles Wesley. The book, published in 1805, was written by Wesley himself and is based on his personal journal entries. It provides a detailed account of his life, including his childhood, education at Oxford University, and his religious experiences and beliefs. The book also explores Wesley's contributions to the Methodist movement, his work as a preacher and missionary, and his prolific career ...

This book about religious struggle studies four texts from postexilic Judah and applies them first to Judah and then, importantly, to modern America. Two of these texts--the books of Jonah and Job--speak out in favor of the theology of grace and against the theology of retribution, as advocated by the Jerusalem hardliners. This struggle to define God continues even today. Despite the biblical evidence--especially the example of Jesus--many Americans still believe in the God of retribution. Two other texts--the book of Ruth and the story of Rahab--demonstrate ...

Contemporary discussions in philosophy of mind have largely been shaped by physicalism, the doctrine that all phenomena are ultimately physical. Here, Jaegwon Kim presents the most comprehensive and systematic presentation yet of his influential ideas on the mind-body problem. He seeks to determine, after half a century of debate: What kind of (or "how much") physicalism can we lay claim to? He begins by laying out mental causation and consciousness as the two principal challenges to contemporary physicalism. How can minds exercise their causal powers in ...

This book highlights the pattern of disease in Rural population of India. The main burden of disease among infectious disease is Tuberculosis whereas Diabetes followed by Hypertension is the chief Non communicable diseases.Road traffic accident is the major cause of injury & disability.Data suggests that despite of presence of govt facilities they are mostly visiting private health care provider for seeking health care.

In Soul Survivor, Jealousy, love, hatred and magic battle for the ultimate control of the souls of the world. Only one will be left standing, and if it is the wrong one, how will the world survive? Award winning Seer of Souls (Dante Rossetti best young adult fiction, 2016) spins the tale of twin gods reborn as humans and their road to discovering their true destiny.  In Soul Sanctuary, the stakes are raised as old nemesis come into play and sibling rivalry sparks anew, only this time the souls of the dead are at stake. Soul Sacrifice is the culmination ...