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Jeanne Calment, who lived to be 121, credited one thing for her long life: olive oil. Olive oil enthusiasts and experts Alice Alech and Cécile Le Galliard join forces in this complete guidebook discussing the amazing—almost miraculous—health benefits of olive oil. From slowing the effects of Alzheimer’s to building healthy bones, extra virgin olive oil is unrivaled in its natural goodness. With detailed research and findings from doctors, medical researchers, nutritionists, and chefs around the globe, The 7 Wonders of Olive Oil explores the role olive oil plays in the Mediterranean diet, covers tips for cooking with, buying, and storing the green nectar, and most of all, reveals its seven amazing health benefits including: Anti-inflammation Cancer prevention Skin rejuvenation Healthy bones Alzheimer’s disease prevention Reduction in risk for diabetes Stroke and heart attack prevention
Tending the Hearth and Home with the Magickal Energy of Hestia The Scent of Lemon & Rosemary is a fabulous book of magickal spells, crafts, and recipes for each room of your house. Based on the powerful energy and mythos of the goddess Hestia, these magickal activities and workings can be practiced by anyone, regardless of spiritual orientation. Magick themes and techniques abound—love and transformation in the kitchen, communication and friendship in the living room, purification and health in the bathroom, prosperity and sleep in the bedroom, and protection at the threshold. You will discover recipes for food magick as well as tips for creating your own green cleaning supplies. Author Raechel Henderson also includes hands-on exercises for connecting with Hestia as a deity of bodily autonomy, racial equity, and social justice. Creating a harmonious environment that fosters feelings of acceptance, safety, and abundance is possible no matter what your living situation. With visualization, centering, grounding, and raising power, and tools like crystals and essential oils, this book guides you in balancing the energy of each room and turning your entire home into a sacred space.
Two olive oil enthusiasts explain the role of olive oil in the Mediterranean diet, olive oil's exceptional nutritional value, and provide tips on cooking, buying, and storing the green nectar.
Discover the fascinating (and sometimes downright odd!) ways that people and nations celebrate the holiday season and share this festive compendium's unique traditions together with family and friends. Do you know that in Guatemala there's a "Burn the Devil" tradition to kick off the Christmas season, where revelers gather to set fire to devil-piñatas? In Sweden, a popular figure in Christmas traditions is the Yule Goat, a rowdy, menacing character who demands gifts. And in Japan, a big bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken has become the classic Christmas Day feast. These and many other global Christmas traditions are featured here in this delightful book. From decorations and activities to feasts and special treats, there's a wide range of both lovely and unusual traditions from around the globe.
This book on historical anthropology remaps the Mediterranean by reframing classical themes from early Mediterraneanist anthropology. This edited volume showcases how anthropology can contribute to an understanding of ongoing transnational dynamics and the new wave of scholarship on the Mediterranean. The Mediterranean is back as a locus of international anxiety and academic concern. It has reemerged in the international news cycle as a space of desperate crossings and tragic endings, as the site in which a refugee crisis rivalling that of the Second World War is playing out in real time for a global viewing public. The scale of the crisis has called into question Europe’s humanitarian pri...
BUCURIE ÎN LUMEA ÎNTREAGĂ! Știai că în Guatemala perioada festivă a Crăciunului începe doar după ce are loc o tradiție numită „Arderea diavolului”, când în fiecare gospodărie se dă foc unei piñata în scop purificator? Sau că în Suedia în centrul acestei sărbători se află julbock („Capra de Crăciun”), un personaj popular zgomotos și puțin înfricoșător, care merge din casă în casă, cerându-le dulciuri gazdelor? Sau că în Japonia preparatul care nu lipsește de pe nicio masă de Crăciun este celebrul „pui Kentucky”? Dacă te afli printre cei care citesc această carte înseamnă că ceva ce are legătură cu sărbătoarea Crăciunului îți place...
искусство, культура, культурные истории
«Аромат лимона и розмарина» – книга о том, как наполнить свой дом гармонией, уютом и взаимопониманием. Дом – это не только помещение, ограниченное стенами и потолком с полом, но и пространство, в котором мы отдыхаем, запасаемся энергией, встречаемся с семьей и друзьями. Книга поможет вам превратить свое жилище в священное место, которое всегда будет наполнено спокойствием и радос...
An extensive dictionary (almost 1800 pages) of the Upriver dialects of Halkomelem, an Amerindian language of B.C.,giving information from almost 80 speakers gathered by the author over a period of 40 years. Entries include names and dates of citation, dialect information, phonological, morphological, syntactic, and semantic information, domain memberships of each alloseme, examples of use in sentences, and much cultural information.