A collection of photographs and field notes documents the accomplishments of anthropologist and explorer Richard Evans Schultes and his expeditions into the wilderness of the Amazon basin, living among two dozen native tribes, mapping rivers, and collecting and classifying thirty thousand botanical specimens.

Product Description: Con una solida base cientifica y mas de cuarenta anos de experiencia clinica, el doctor Andrew Weil nos presenta un enfoque nuevo y radical sobre la felicidad y su gran antagonista en nuestros tiempos: la depresion. En primer lugar, afirma el doctor Weil, es normal e incluso sano que nuestro humor varie o que suframos cierta sensacion de depresion de vez en cuando...read more

Product Description: Have you ever found that you needed to change things in your life, but for some reason life kept getting in the way? Integrative Wellness Rules will help you get around that obstacle. In the age of conflicting advice on health, this book provides quick and easy health tips for individuals who are on the run but still need strategies to better manage their fast-paced lives...read more

Dr Andrew Weil charts a new path to finding lasting happinessEveryone wants to be happy. But what does that really mean? Increasingly, scientific evidence shows us that true satisfaction and well-being come only from within.Dr Andrew Weil has proven that the best way to maintain optimum physical health is to draw on both conventional and alternative medicine. Now, in Spontaneous Happiness, he gives us the foundation for attaining and sustaining optimum emotional health. Rooted in Dr Weil's pioneering work in integrative medicine, the book suggests a reinterpretation of the notion of happiness, discussing the limitations of modern medicine in treating depression, and elaborating on the inseparability of body and mind.Dr Weil offers an array of scientifically proven strategies from Eastern and Western psychology and draws from psychotherapy, mindfulness training, Buddhist psychology, nutritional science, and more, to support emotional wellness, and offer advice on developing a spiritual dimension in our lives. Dr Weil presents an eight-week programme that can be customised according to specific needs, with short- and long-term advice on nutrition, exercise, supplements, environment, lifestyle, and much more.Whether you are struggling with depression or simply want to feel happier, Dr Weil's revolutionary approach will shift the paradigm of emotional health and help you achieve greater contentment in your life.

Product Description: In HOLISTIC HEALTH SECRETS FOR WOMEN Dr Mark Atkinson shares his highly effective and integrated medical approach for addressing the unique barriers that women today face. By answering his personalised questionnaires, Dr Mark will identify which of his five secrets you need to focus on, to help you find your own perfect plan for health and happiness...read more

A world-renowned leader and pioneer in integrative medicine offers a comprehensive action plan for lifelong wellness that includes exercises for meditation, guided imagery, and other practices that have a powerful influence on one's heart health.

Product Description: Listen to the good doctor!In Eight Weeks to Optimum Health, Dr. Andrew Weil translates the brilliant insights and discoveries he outlined in his acclaimed bestseller, Spontaneous Healing, into a practical plan of action: a week-by-week, step-by-step program for enhancing and protecting present and lifelong health...read more

The two million copy best seller, now available in Spanish, provides an eight-week program for improving and maintaining health, illuminating ways to optimize individual healing power, covering such areas as diet, exercise, lifestyle, stress, environment, supplements, and other factors that influence health.

Drawing upon medical studies and cultural longevity secrets, the best-selling author and expert on health explains the process of aging, discusses longevity and the myths and facts about life extension, and offers advice on how to age well physically, mentally, and spiritually. Reprint.

Two world-renowned physicians and authors introduce a comprehensive program for increasing brain power, offering an interactive kit filled with brain-boosting exercises and insights to improve memory, concentration, creativity, and more.

Product Description: From one of our most trusted authorities on health and alternative health care, a comprehensive and reassuring audio about food, diet, and nutrition.Building on the scientific and philosophical underpinnings of his enormous bestseller Spontaneous Healing and presenting the kind of practical information that informed his 8 Weeks to Optimum Health, Dr...read more

Product Description: Conversations with people across North America show that they want to live more consciously, make educated consumer choices, improve their health and well-being, and create healthy, sustainable communities. But they don't always know where to start! Waking Up the West Coast responds to this need...read more

Product Description: "Health care has safery and quality problems because it relies on outmoded systems of work. Poor designs set the workforce up to fail, regardless of how hard they try. If we want safer, higher-quality care, we will need to have redesigned systems of care...read more

In an expanded and updated edition of the best-selling guide, the author of Spontaneous Healing presents a definitive program for improving and maintaining health, illuminating ways in which we can optimize individual healing power, covering such areas as diet, exercise, lifestyle, stress, environment, supplements, and other factors that influence health. 75,000 first printing.

Product Description: Conocido por su labor en favor de la reforma de las prácticas médicas tradicionales, el doctor Andrew Weil presenta ahora una obra práctica y marcadamente optimista, basada en la creencia de que, por más que el envejecimiento sea un proceso biológico irreversible, hay mucho que podemos hacer para mantener el buen funcionam...read more

The best-selling author of Spontaneous Healing prescribes potent self-healing practices through an empowering four-part series of mind-body techniques--breathing, meditation, guided imagery, and sound therapy--with an interactive workbook and mind-training cards.

Transforms the simple exercise into one of the most powerful self-healing tools known to medicine, providing an invigorating program that offers all the tools necessary to begin a daily walking practice.

Product Description: ¿POR QUÉ LA GENTE TOMA DROGAS? Al plantearse esta pregunta, el Dr. Andrew Weil sugiere que el deseo de modificar la consciencia es un impulso humano normal, innato. Su mensaje de que para resolver el problema de las drogas debemos replantearnos los conceptos básicos sobre éstas y sobre la consciencia es, hoy por hoy, más a...read more

Draws on the latest medical research, as well as a combination of conventional and alternative approaches, to present a guide to healthy living that offers strategies to deal with physical, mental, and emotional problems that come with aging.

The noted doctor, who graduated from Harvard University Medical School, continues his practical advice on sensible living; argues that there are countless ways by which the individual can insure a healthy aging process; explains how and why the body ages; and describes the various 'elixirs' many believe can extend life.