The Lost Language of Plants or Finding Balance

The Lost Language of Plants: The Ecological Importance of Plant Medicines to Life on Earth

Author: Stephen Harrod Buhner

"Enraged, Energized, Exultant. You won't know how to feel after reading Stephen Harrod Buhner's The Lost Language of Plants. This is a devastating expose about how we are polluting our environment with the pharmaceuticals that Western medicine has developed to heal us. We are ingesting Prozac, Premarin, and antibiotics whether we want to or not." Yet, as we foul air and water with toxic residues, we overlook the power of the planet's natural healers, stabilizers, and chemists - plants. Buhner sees plants as fully sentient beings, adjusting and fine-tuning to the environment just as they have done for the past 500 million years. Until recently, humans shared the language of plants, but increasingly we have lost our ability to communicate with the natural world. Buhner shows us a path back to our shamanic roots.

Booknews

The author of blends poetry, his and others' reflections on nature, alerts about the impact of the medicine of "fundamentalist Scientists," information on the chemistry of plants and their bond with humans, and exercises for raising environmental consciousness. Resources listed include Buhner's Foundation for Gaian Studies in Coeur d'Alene, ID. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

	A Note to the Reader
	Acknowledgments
1	The Taste of Wild Water	1
2	The Two Wounds	11
3	Epistemological Conflict	25
4	The Loss of Biophilia and Biognosis	55
5	The Environmental Impacts of Technological Medicine	83
6	The End of Antibiotics	115
7	"Plants Are All Chemists"	141
8	Plants as Medicines for All Life on Earth	171
9	Herbelegy	213
10	The Lost Language of Plants	219
11	Living Biognosis: The Work of Carol McGrath, Sparrow, Rosemary Gladstar, John Seed	247
	Epilogue	289
	Notes	290
	Bibliography	308
	Resources	318
	Index	319

Go to: The Populist Vision or Global Shift

Finding Balance: Fitness and Training for a Lifetime of Dance

Author: M Berardi

Finding Balance: Fitness, Health, and Training for a Lifetime in Dance gives an overview of issues faced by all performing dancers: injury and treatment; technique and training; fitness; nutrition and diet; and career management. The text includes both easy-to-read overviews of each topic and "profiles" of well known dancers and how they have coped with these issues.
The new edition includes:
· Updated and new profiles
· Expanded injury and injury treatment information
· Updated dance science and physiology findings, and new references
· Updated diet guidelines
· Expanded and updated "Taking Control" section
It concludes with a list of selected dance/arts medicine clinics, a bibliography, glossary, and text notes.