For millennia, humans have looked to nature for remedies to ailments great and small. Long before formal science enabled us to take a systematic approach to medicine, healers used plants to alleviate pain, ease the symptoms of dozens of diseases, and treat complaints of every kind. And today, countless people still use medicinal plants, whether in traditional roles or as building blocks for new research and innovative drugs. Featuring 350 full-color photographs, botanical drawings, and maps, this accessible, fact-filled book is based on the work of renowned botanical experts and presents alphabetically arranged, beautifully illustrated entries for hundreds of plants touted for millennia to soothe, even heal. Each is clearly described, with full details of its physical appearance and medicinal uses; its origins and geographic distribution, how it's harvested and used in conventional and alternative medicine, a range map; and more. It's also a fascinating medical chronicle filled with informative sidebars on everything from ancient folklore to the latest research. Readers learn how aspirin evolved from a concoction of willow bark to the familiar white pill of today, how the foxglove's flowery beauty contributes to the potent heart drug digitalis, and how many other now common treatments have deep historical and cultural roots. It's a journey that starts many centuries ago in remote places like the Amazon rain forest, where shamans practiced their powerful curative magic of plants, and leads to the high-tech pharmaceutical labs of today's scientists working to discover new plant-based drugs that can be used effectively to treat diseases major and minor alike, from cancer to the common cold.

Desk Reference to Nature's Medicine

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Rebecca L. Johnson

Steven Foster

Alternative Medicine

National Geographic Society

Circles, squares, triangles - simple shapes are the building blocks of complex patterns and structures. Math is the key that scientists use to understand shapes, how they work together, and how they can be put to work.

Reading Expeditions (Science: Math Behind the Science): Sizing Up Shapes

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

National Geographic School Pub

A boy and his family race to escape the devastation caused when the South Fork Dam breaks and water destroys their town. Your students will learn about science as they read the Eyewitness series of realistic adventure stories. Each story takes place during a famous American natural disaster. Readers follow the exciting adventures of kids and their families as they struggle to survive. (Genre: Adventure Stories)

The Johnstown Flood: National Geographic Reading Expeditions

Discusses the greenhouse effect, research into its causes, and possible impact on our planet.

The Greenhouse Effect: Life on a Warmer Planet

Lerner Publishing Group

A Journey into a River (Biomes of North America)

A Journey into a Rive Publisher: Lerner Pub Group (L), 2004 ISBN 10: 0822520451 ISBN 13: 9780822520450 Softcover

Teen & Young Adult

Education & Reference

Lerner Publications Company

A Journey into an Estuary (Biomes of North America)

A Journey into an Estuary (Biomes of North America) Publisher: Lerner Pub Group (L), 2004 ISBN 10: 0822520451 ISBN 13: 9780822520450 Softcover

Lerner Pub Group (L)

112 pages - 9 X 7.75 inches; The Global Greenhouse - Effects of Global Warming - Life on a Warmer Plant - What Can We Do?

The Greenhouse Effect - Life on a Warmer Planet

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Gardening & Landscape Design

Lerner Publications Co.

A history of the U. S. Geological Survey's EROS Data Center. A few community members in South Dakota embraced the vision and then applied a level of resourcefulness to do whatever was required to bring EROS to Sioux Falls.

What It Took: A History of the Usgs Eros Data Center

Science & Math

Earth Sciences

Center for Western Studies

Properties of Matter Describing and Measuring Matter (Literacy and Language through Content, ConceptLinks)

Millmark Education

Properties of Matter Atoms, Elements and Compounds (Conceptlinks)

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