A Lasting Cure for Magic

A Lasting Cure for Magic
Author: Michael Jasper
Publisher: UnWrecked Press
Total Pages: 406
Release: 2013-05-31
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN:

Contagious magic: good luck trying to find a cure… Two minutes after the shocking end to A Wild Epidemic of Magic, this third book in the series finds Kelley and Jeroan stranded in Dubuque, Iowa, after losing their parents—and all the Sorcerers they met in the past two months—to the vengeful Druid. Apparently, the Druid did not enjoy his 200-year banishment. And as if that wasn’t bad enough, the twins must once again work together to find a way to regain all of their magic, before time—and magic—runs out for good. The fantastic third book in the Contagious Magic series, for all ages.

Do You Believe in Magic?

Do You Believe in Magic?
Author: Paul A. Offit
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2013-06-18
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 0062223003

A physician offers an impassioned and meticulously researched exposé of the alternative medicine industry, separating the sense from the nonsense. A half century ago, acupuncture, homeopathy, naturopathy, Chinese herbs, Christian exorcisms, dietary supplements, chiropractic manipulations, and ayurvedic remedies were considered on the fringe of medicine. Now these practices—known variably as alternative, complementary, holistic, or integrative medicine—have become mainstream, used by half of all Americans today to treat a variety of conditions, from excess weight to cancer. But alternative medicine is an unregulated industry under no legal obligation to prove its claims or admit its risks, and many popular alternative therapies are ineffective, expensive, or even deadly. In Do You Believe in Magic?, health advocate Dr. Offit debunks the treatments that don’t work and tells us why, and takes on the media celebrities who promote alternative medicine. Using dramatic real-life stories, he separates the sense from the nonsense, explaining why any therapy—alternative or traditional—should be scrutinized. As Dr. Offit explains, some popular therapies are remarkably helpful due to the placebo response, but “there’s no such thing as alternative medicine. There’s only medicine that works and medicine that doesn’t.”

Medicine, Magic and Religion

Medicine, Magic and Religion
Author: W.H.R. Rivers
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 153
Release: 2013-01-11
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1134524544

One of the most fascinating men of his generation, W.H.R. Rivers was a British doctor and psychiatrist as well as a leading ethnologist. Immortalized as the hero of Pat Barker's award-winning Regeneration trilogy, Rivers was the clinician who, in the First World War, cared for the poet Siegfried Sassoon and other infantry officers injured on the western front. His researches into the borders of psychiatry, medicine and religion made him a prominent member of the British intelligentsia of the time, a friend of H.G. Wells, George Bernard Shaw and Bertrand Russell. Part of his appeal lay in an extraordinary intellect, mixed with a very real interest in his fellow man. Medicine, Magic and Religion is a prime example of this. A social institution, it is one of Rivers' finest works. In it, Rivers introduced the then revolutionary idea that indigenous practices are indeed rational, when viewed in terms of religious beliefs.

The Permanent Pain Cure

The Permanent Pain Cure
Author: Ming Chew
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2008-05-04
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0071642528

Are you taking medication or considering surgery because of pain? Have you lived with low-level muscle or joint pain for years? Imagine your life today without pain. Imagine you hold the key to eliminating any future pain. Find it inside this book: a groundbreaking drug- and surgery-free healing plan from master pain therapist Ming Chew. The Ming Method includes: Total pain relief with no drugs, no side effects, no surgery Fifteen-minute therapy sessions you can perform in your living room Self-diagnosis techniques to tailor treatment to your individual pain The proper hydration and supplementation for optimum health For twenty years, master pain therapist Ming Chew has treated scores of patients with his method. It doesn't mask or “manage” your pain. Unlike traditional medicine, it works by targeting the fascia, a poorly understood connective tissue, to permanently fix your underlying problem, not just mask symptoms. Hydrating, supplementing, and stretching and strengthening the fascia are the keys to The Permanent Pain Cure. The best part? A typical therapy session lasts only fifteen minutes and can be done in your living room. Try the Ming Method yourself and reclaim your quality of life, your freedom of movement, your joy--and do it in as little as fifteen minutes a day. Your pain-free life begins today!

UnWrecked Tales

UnWrecked Tales
Author: Michael Jasper
Publisher: UnWrecked Press
Total Pages: 469
Release: 2018-07-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Stories of where the normal meets the strange... From the travails of a water-carrying alien on a harsh world.... to the loss of a child by a much-too-young father touched by the were gene. From the plight of a young immigrant painter struggling to get by... to the story of a young man who has to decide whether to help when he comes across a car in the ditch and a family fighting for survival in that wrecked vehicle... And more... Twenty-one stories about the moment when someone's life took an unexpected turn, and that person was changed forever. Tales of heroes and cowards, lovers and leaders, the heartbroken and the heartless. Stories that leave you wrecked inside, while the characters on the page try desperately to pick up the pieces of their lives. Take a chance on a story from a genre you might not have ever read before, and dive headfirst into the tale of a life that appeared normal but was quickly transformed into a life less ordinary, and a life more strange and more fascinating. Michael Jasper uses genre as a weapon in these twenty-one stories. Buckle up and enjoy the ride.

Family, Pack

Family, Pack
Author: Michael Jasper
Publisher: UnWrecked Press
Total Pages: 422
Release: 2011-07-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Some family curses really should be passed on... Tommy Roling does everything humanly possible to raise his infant daughter Corinne the right way. But a half year out of high school, Tommy finds himself a single parent as well as flat broke. And, with every full moon, he can't fight the urge to strip off his clothes and run wild through the pastures outside town. So when a stranger shows up, slashed to death, the day after Tommy's most recent full-moon run, Tommy must resolve this murder or he could lose what little he has left. That includes his innocent baby girl Corinne, who just might have inherited his werewolf gene from him. A paranormal mystery about fatherhood, responsibility, and taking control of your own life, one full moon at a time. The first book in a new "Rural Fantasy" mystery series, continuing with Book 2, Hunter's Moon!

Noctes Ambrosianae

Noctes Ambrosianae
Author: John Wilson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 480
Release: 1872
Genre: Blackwood's Edinburgh magazine
ISBN:

Executing Magic in the Modern Era

Executing Magic in the Modern Era
Author: Owen Davies
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 122
Release: 2017-07-19
Genre: History
ISBN: 3319595199

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license This book explores the magical and medical history of executions from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century by looking at the afterlife potency of criminal corpses, the healing activities of the executioner, and the magic of the gallows site. The use of corpses in medicine and magic has been recorded back into antiquity. The lacerated bodies of Roman gladiators were used as a source of curative blood, for instance. In early modern Europe, a great trade opened up in ancient Egyptian mummies and the fat of executed criminals, plundered as medicinal cure-alls. However, this is the first book to consider the demand for the blood of the executed, the desire for human fat, the resort to the hanged man’s hand, and the trade in hanging rope in the modern era. It ends by look at the spiritual afterlife of dead criminals.

The All Nations Team

The All Nations Team
Author: Michael Jasper
Publisher: UnWrecked Press
Total Pages: 492
Release: 2010-08-31
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

An unlikely team of misfit players, and the coach fighting to hold them all together... In his first season as head coach of the All Nations team, former slave George Grunion contends with racist crowds, low team morale, and... the ghost of the previous head coach. And if George can’t hold the All Nations together, he loses more than his job and his team. He’ll miss his chance to fulfill the prophecy made by his prescient centerfielder Mack — that George will be reunited with his estranged family before the 1918 season ends. If George doesn’t score this final run, he loses everything. "Avid, talented newcomers like Jasper help us keep the faith." — Locus

The Last Sorcerer

The Last Sorcerer
Author: Michael Jasper
Publisher: UnWrecked Press
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2013-12-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Magic: It can show up in the strangest places… An old man sleeping in a cardboard box in snowy Chicago holds the secret of sorcery in his head. Thanks to the damage done to him by using magic decades ago, he doesn’t realize it. Most days he can’t even remember his own name. But when two teens try to jump him in an alley, the magic Words come back to him at last, and he “infects” the kids with magic. And soon Chicago has a wild epidemic of magic on its hands… An earlier, but still self-contained version of the novel A Sudden Outbreak of Magic, but with a slightly altered cast of characters and plotlines. Consider it the “alternate-world” version of the Contagious Magic story.