“Over a span of 5,000 years China has established the world’s most extensive pharmacopoeia of medicinal herbs… Chinese herbal medicine is a subject surprisingly neglected in current literature. The highly illustrated Chinese Herbal Medicine fills this void, providing the general reader with insight into one of the world’s most complex and little-known sciences. It examines the natural flora and fauna on which herbal medicine is based and explains the philosophy that propelled its development… The text includes a color-illustrated list of 200 major herbs detailing their use, and provides herbal recipes for some common ailments.”

Publisher: Shambhala
Paperback: 180 pages
Illustrated

English-speaking practitioners of traditional Chinese medicine have longed for a good book that their patients could read and understand. The best books on Chinese medicine are written in Chinese. Many important ones have been translated to English, but are basically textbooks for use in Chinese medicine schools outside of China. Reid’s new book will quickly become the standard for introducing new folks to the wonders of Chinese Medicine. This book is awesome in its simplicity, yet covers in great depth the fundamentals of the world’s most ancient healing form. Reid fears not, treading the thin ice of proselytizing such modalities as qi gong, the mother of Chinese medicine. Lesser Western writers cloak explanations of Chinese medicine with scientific terminology and reason. Instead, Reid eschews nerve-gate theories and promotes such therapies as the gathering of cosmic energy from the universe, long a staple in the Chinese medical repetoire, but for some reason scoffed at in the West. GE

Publisher: Shambhala
Paperback: 161 pages

By combining unrelated objects, thoughts, images and writings, surrealists create and find beauty—the more absurd and random the better. This book allows the reader to be a “hands-on” surrealist. An obvious must at parties—a functional, amusing and often humorous book on manipulating chance as an artform. DW

Publisher: Shambhala
Paperback: 165 pages
Illustrated