jack and the weed stalk The Xmas World


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Jack takes the reader to a more elaborate world under the Weed Stalk. The are more parties with new characters to populate his dreams. Altogether these parties bring Jack's people to the Xmas World, a world of serenity set in the Elysium. As usual, Jack rambles on and on describing the feelings that different actors hold for one another. Between Ava, Stefania, Mishael and a wide assortment of deviants, eunuchs, LGBTs and Qs, there's a lot of love that dares not speak its name.




jack and the weed stalk Golden Bud Golden Years


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In his memoirs, as Jack becomes a cross between Zarathustra and Mr. Bean as he yet again delivers a rhapsody of scattered ideas. With his self-serving authority here from the bud, he is resetting the lantern, giving it a different light. He goes back in time about his youth, tells long stories while he still drops in on salt of the earth to fell what they're up to. He exposes his past as a lucky human, privileged to live as a Baby-Boomer, with just enough security to have the luxury to dream. Jack also provides some insight on art through sculpture and writing. He tells stories, some short, some long and scatters them around to keep the reader on the alert even though the only point to this narrative is to provide a restful bedtime story with dreams of a Golden Bud in his Golden Years.




jack and the weed stalk graffiti y confetti


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He's not demented. Jack is retired and actually quite serene in his new job as senior Budtender. He considers himself a gentleman horticulturist and retired "magic carpet" cosmologist. There's nothing backbreaking about being high especially here since he acquires his high by osmosis, in symbiosis with the Universe. His daily routine includes dropping in on the people who populate the planet, catching bits and pieces of their conversations. He's cryptic in his diaries, chronicles and hallucinations but only because his typing can't keep up with his fantasies. "I am the man who wants to know everything and I've had to adapt my way of thinking to that of a chameleon philosophy ready to bear the colors of all tartans."




Weed Species


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Sophie's World


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A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print. One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning—but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.




The Woman at Otowi Crossing


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Based on the real life of Edith Warner, who ran a tearoom at Otowi Crossing, just below Los Alamos, The Woman at Otowi Crossing is the story of Helen Chalmer, a person in tune with her adopted environment and her neighbors in the nearby Indian pueblo and also a friend of the first atomic scientists. The secret evolution of atomic research is a counterpoint to her psychic development. In keeping with its tradition of allowing the best of its list to thrive, Ohio University Press/Swallow Press is particularly proud to reissue The Woman at Otowi Crossing by best-selling author Frank Waters. This new edition features an introduction by Professor Thomas J. Lyon and a foreword by the author’s widow, Barbara Waters. The story is quintessential Waters: a parable for the potentially destructive materialism of the mid-twentieth century. The antidote is Helen Chalmer’s ability to understand a deeper truth of her being; beyond the Western notion of selfhood, beyond the sense of a personality distinct from the rest, she experiences a new and wider awareness. The basis for an opera of the same name, The Woman at Otowi Crossing is the powerful story of the crossing of cultures and lives: a fable for our times.




Nutraceuticals in Veterinary Medicine


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This unique work compiles the latest knowledge around veterinary nutraceuticals, commonly referred to as dietary supplements, from ingredients to final products in a single source. More than sixty chapters organized in seven sections collate all related aspects of nutraceutical research in animal health and disease, among them many novel topics: common nutraceutical ingredients (Section-I), prebiotics, probiotics, synbiotics, enzymes and antibacterial alternatives (Section-II), applications of nutraceuticals in prevention and treatment of various diseases such as arthritis, periodontitis, diabetes, cognitive dysfunctions, mastitis, wounds, immune disorders, and cancer (Section-III), utilization of nutraceuticals in specific animal species (Section-IV), safety and toxicity evaluation of nutraceuticals and functional foods (Section-V), recent trends in nutraceutical research and product development (Section-VI), as well as regulatory aspects for nutraceuticals (Section-VII). The future of nutraceuticals and functional foods in veterinary medicine seems bright, as novel nutraceuticals will emerge and new uses of old agents will be discovered. International contributors to this book cover a variety of specialties in veterinary medicine, pharmacology, pharmacognosy, toxicology, chemistry, medicinal chemistry, biochemistry, physiology, nutrition, drug development, regulatory frameworks, and the nutraceutical industry. This is a highly informative and carefully presented book, providing scientific insight for academia, veterinarians, governmental and regulatory agencies with an interest in animal nutrition, complementary veterinary medicine, nutraceutical product development and research.




Florida Ethnobotany


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Winner of the 2005 Klinger Book Award Presented by The Society for Economic Botany. Florida Ethnobotany provides a cross-cultural examination of how the states native plants have been used by its various peoples. This compilation includes common names of plants in their historical sequence, weaving together what was formerly esoteri







Plants as a Source of Natural Antioxidants


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A comprehensive overview of both traditional and current knowledge on the health effects of plant based antioxidants, this book reviews medicinal and aromatic plants from around the world. It covers the different sources of antioxidants including essential oils, algae and marine microorganisms, as well as the role of abiotic and biotic stresses, endophytes, transgenic approaches in scavenging ROS and antioxidant plants used in different therapeutic systems.