<p> Medieval Islamic Medicine and Medical Luminaries</p> <p>While Europe was passing through the Dark Ages, a vibrant Islamic civilization existed in the Middle East. Driven by the search for knowledge, scholars of different ethnicities and religious affiliations worked together to translate the available knowledge of the ancients (Greek, Roman, Indian, Persian, etc.) into Arabic, added to it their own experiences, preserved it in Arabic, and delivered it to Western civilization during the Renaissance.</p> <p>In one volume, Adel K. Afifi, MD, MS, and Ronald A. Bergman, PhD, professors emeriti, Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, provide a detailed yet compelling look at the status of medicine of the ancients; the pre, early and late phases of Islamic civilization; and the transfer of the accumulated knowledge to the fledgling Western civilizations. <em>Medieval Islamic Medicine and Medical Luminaries</em> will delight and fascinate health care professionals, historians, and casual readers of today's news, so much of which includes information from the Middle East.</p>
A delightfully engaging, beautifully written and illustrated short story of Grandad's quest, by bicycle, to catch-up to his grandchildren as they ride through nearby villages and the local countryside. Here is a beautifully written short story for children, complete with illustrations, about a grandfather's quest to catch-up to his grandchildren as he pedals his way through the local villages and countryside. His ride takes him up and down hills so fast, it seems as if he is about to ?y. Through a nearby village and back into the countryside he rides, trying all the while to catch the riders in front of him. They always seem to be just out of reach until he ?nally comes to the top of a hill and ?nds his grandchildren there waiting to greet him. This is a story you and your child, or grandchild, are sure to enjoy reading. Who knows, it may even inspire a bicycle ride of your own.
At the bottom of the Chesapeake Bay, a gruesome discovery is made by two boys. Tommy Lewis, and friend, Ronnie, find a body, but it's Tommy's avid conjecture that causes him to suffer rejection. Yet, growing like a "seed" planted in the "rico" garden of soils, something was turning in his soul. He saw the world, clueless, traveling about its daily life while never questioning, the "why" of events. Young Tommy in that dark night would set a course under the stars on a mission that would be ... irrevocable. In 2012, possessing a Baltimore warrant, undercover vice-detective Lewis is assigned to arrest "one" Luis Gonzelas, trade-named the Fish, "El Pescado," in Miami. Disheveled and bruised with his partner, Afghanistan Veteran, Edward John Tyler, working Miami Beach to save the case. The once cavalier detective fights a desperate battle to find this illegal alien under the auspices of a Federal investigation spinning out of control. This mystery-romance-thriller, one of three in the series "In Search of the Dragon Blanco, el mission," the strenuous dragon pursuit, with wings of mystical Poe's "Raven," the advocate-protagonist detective, encounters a harrowing adventure of survival that will thrill, inspire and entertain the reader.
WHEN WOMEN RULE AND MEN OBEY THE WORLD'S OLDEST STORY OF TRUE LOVE... Finding Ariadne is a story about a young woman's love for her people, a mother's love for her child, and the love between a man and a woman that is so strong and so true it becomes a legend. In 1465 BC, the island of Crete is Kaphtor, and the people we call Minoans are the Kephti. Ariadne, heir to the Kephti throne, vows to save the lives of Athenian Prince Theseus and thirteen innocent children who have been sent to Kaphtor as human sacrifices to the new Kephti Gods. To save Theseus and the children, Ariadne must find a way to stop violence without using violence or they will die. This is Ariadne's story-a story that has never been told. Return to Kaphtor, to a time when women rule and men obey. Offer flowers to the Holy Earth Mother; take a luxurious Kephti bath; live with the ruling matriarchs in elegant palaces; admire women who wear beautiful gowns, bare their breasts, rouge their lips and nipples. Come dance with the bulls-if you have the courage.