Numerous tables enable readers to select herbs for self-treatment of various illnesses, although they are cautioned against such action in the customary small print on the copyright page. A short history of herbal use in various cultures is followed by illustrated monographs of some 85 representative plant drugs and a section on the preparation of various dosage forms. Thus, English herbalist Penelope Ody frustrates the reader’s search for herbal truth much as her namesake, the wife of Odysseus, frustrated her many suitors. And no references are provided that could help careful readers to determine which is which. Much of the information presented as authoritative is not errors of commission and omission abound and many of the assertions are based on hope or belief rather than on scientific or clinically proven facts. This initial visual feast is likely to lure some readers into believing that the text is equally useful. Typically, they picture the various parts used of the medicinal herbs, fresh and dried, together with some of the dosage forms prepared from them. The colored illustrations are extremely well done and very numerous. This herbal is particularly hazardous because its appearance gives undeserved credibility. Author: Penelopy Ody Publisher: Dorling Kindersley, Inc., New York, N.Y.
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Martha Wells’ 2017-2018 series The Murderbot Diaries takes all those past examples of gendered robots, and uses them to build something different. In contrast, 2013’s Her presents an AI as a perfect girlfriend who anticipates her twee boyfriend’s every emotional need. The first 1984 Terminator film imagined its robot assassin as the hyper masculine Arnold Schwarzenegger, hugely muscled and ruthlessly unstoppable. Robbed of the ennobling power of labor, humankind becomes sterile, and unable to reproduce. , which introduced the word robot to the world, humans build organic artificial people to do all their work for them. 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Robert Beno Cialdini (born April 27, 1945) is an American psychologist and academic. In these stories, reminiscent of Shirley Jackson and Julio Cortázar, three young friends distract themselves with drugs and pain in the midst a government-enforced blackout a girl with nothing to lose steps into an abandoned house and never comes back out to protest a viral form of domestic violence, a group of women set themselves on fire.īut alongside the black magic and disturbing disappearances, these stories are fueled by compassion for the frightened and the lost, ultimately bringing these characters-mothers and daughters, husbands and wives-into a surprisingly familiar reality. 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