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Articles of the Herb Companion cover everything from recipes and reviews to people and places. Every two month a jam packed issue will get you started on living a healthier, better-balanced and more meaningful life!
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From the Frugal Foodie: 8 Recipes
These fun recipes from The Frugal Foodie Cookbook will balance gourmet cravings with a fast-food budget.
Hardy New Echinaceas
Getting tired of growing the same purple coneflowers each season? Discover the newest varieties of this popular self-seeder.
Gardener’s Salve—DIY
How to make your own gardener’s salve, plus four more recipes for at-home spa treatments to soothe your body after a day in the sun.
Save Water, Plant Wisely
Don’t let water shortages wither your garden. Follow these seven principles to conserve water and combat droughts.
Stay Healthy: 48 Herbs for Any AgeHerbs can help enhance your routine during any season of your life. Find out which plants are right for you.
Plant Colorful, Carefree Herbs
Grow a garden from seed and watch it renew itself year after year. Garden plans show you how and our expert explains what to expect.
Departments
Letters from ReadersIn Basket: Communication central for our readers.
From Fresh Clips: News, reviews, people and places in the world of herbs.
Battling Malaria (When One Medicine Stops Working)
Malaria remains a major health problem. Learn about new malaria treatments being studied.
Herb Day
Everyone’s favorite grassroots herb movement has changed its date of celebration.
Book Review: The Backyard Beekeeper’s Honey Handbook[/b] Read our book review for The Bacyard Beekeeper’s Honey Handbook by Kim Flottum.
[b]Editor’s Pick: Holly Blues
This month, our Editor’s Pick honors Susan Wittig Albert’s writing.
Garden Experts: Mosquito Control
Readers often request plans for a garden that will repel mosquitoes. But are you asking too much from your garden? Learn more.
Herbs to Repel Insects
Keep the crushed leaves of these six plants in a small container at intervals on your patio to repel mosquitoes.
Grow a Garden from Seed
Garden Spaces: Garden plans you can plant.
Plant Hardy, Gorgeous PeoniesHerb to Know: Profile of peony.
Heal Muscles with Apres-Gardening IndulgencesBody & Soul: 5 recipes to make at home.
Spring Cleaning: 13 ToolsList of Likes: Herbal products worth having.
Behold, Spring is HereTry This at Home: Easy tip for the garden.

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Review of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, 10th Edition
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Ace the USMLE Step 1 and course exams-with the most concise, easy-to-use, and frequently updated medical microbiology and immunology review!

To put your preparation for USMLE Step 1 and course exams on the fast track, only one resource will do: Review of Medical Microbiology Immunology. Completely updated throughout, the Tenth Edition presents a high-yield review of the basic and clinical aspects of bacteriology, virology, mycology, parasitology, and immunology.

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When it all began, it was just supposed to be a game: Seven college students sitting down for an evening of role playing. But a real wizard intervened, and the students found themselves in a world where magic worked-too well-with their only way home the near-mythical Gate Between Worlds. Years later, their earthlike existence now seems like a fading dream. They have fought and tricked their way into positions of power, seeking justice for all and the abolition of slavery But they have also made many powerful and dangerous enemies. And one of these in particular has decided that the time is ripe for eliminating these idealistic troublemakers once and for all

Ever wonder how to retrieve a sunken golf cart from a snake-infested lake? Or which club in your bag is best suited for combat against a horde of rats? If these and other sporting questions are gnawing at you, The Downhill Lie, Carl Hiaasen��s hilarious confessional about returning to the fairways after a thirty-two-year absence, is definitely the book for you.
Originally drawn to the game by his father, Carl wisely quit golfing in 1973, when Richard Nixon was hunkered down like a meth-crazed badger in the White House, Hank Aaron was one dinger shy of Babe Ruth��s all-time home run record, and The Who had just released Quadrophenia. But some ambitions refuse to die, and as the years��and memories of shanked 7-irons��faded, it dawned on Carl that there might be one thing in life he could do better in middle age than he could as a youth. So gradually he ventured back to the dreaded driving range, this time as the father of a five-year-old son��and also as a grandfather.
What possesses a man to return in midlife to a game at which he��d never excelled in his prime, and which in fact had dealt him mostly failure, angst and exasperation? Here��s why I did it: I��m one sick bastard.
And thus we have Carl��s foray into a world of baffling titanium technology, high-priced golf gurus, bizarre infomercial gimmicks and the mind-bending phenomenon of Tiger Woods; a maddening universe of hooks and slices where Carl ultimately��and foolishly��agrees to compete in a country-club tournament against players who can actually hit the ball. That��s the secret of the sport��s infernal seduction, he writes. It surrenders just enough good shots to let you talk yourself out of quitting.
Hiaasen��s chronicle of his shaky return to this bedeviling pastime and the ensuing demolition of his self-esteem��culminating with the savage 45-hole tournament��will have you rolling with laughter. Yet the bittersweet memories of playing with his own father and the glow he feels when watching his own young son belt the ball down the fairway will also touch your heart. Forget Tiger, Phil and Ernie. If you want to understand the true lure of golf, turn to Carl Hiaasen, who has written an extraordinary book for the ordinary hacker

By taking account of the ways in which early modern women made use of formal and generic structures to constitute themselves in writing, the essays collected here interrogate the discursive contours of gendered identity in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. The contributors explore how generic choice, mixture, and revision influence narrative constructions of the female self in early modern England. Collectively they situate women’s life writings within the broader textual culture of early modern England while maintaining a focus on the particular rhetorical devices and narrative structures that comprise individual texts. Reconsidering women’s life writing in light of recent critical trends – most notably historical formalism – this volume produces both new readings of early modern texts (such as Margaret Cavendish’s autobiography and the diary of Anne Clifford) and a new understanding of the complex relationships between literary forms and early modern women’s ’selves’. This volume engages with new critical methods to make innovative connections between canonical and non-canonical writing; in so doing, it helps to shape the future of scholarship on early modern women.