03767nam 2200469 450 991070333130332120160202093308.01-4634-2871-5(CKB)4900000001340980(OCoLC)936371579(BIP)035601700(EXLCZ)99490000000134098020160202d2012 ua 0engurcn|||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierLavenderUpdated April 2012.[Bethesda, Md.] :U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine,2012.1 online resource (2 unnumbered pages) color illustrationsHerbs at a glanceTitle from title screen (viewed on Feb. 2, 2016)."Created March 2007"--Page [2]."D366"--Page [2].1-4634-2872-3 Includes bibliographical references (page [2]).After receiving his discharge from a two year stint in the army during the Korean War, Spencer Corbin moves to southern California, gets a job and spends his free time going to bars and movies. Not long after he arrives he begins having a series of related dreams about a beautiful woman called Lavender. He falls in love with her because she is "safe"---Spencer has no interest in marriage nor steady girl friend. One Saturday morning two beautiful women, Stefanie and Joanna, who are lesbians, move into a bungalow next to his. Stefanie is a free lance painter. Spencer asks her to paint a portrait of Lavender from his description of her. Soon Spencer falls in love with Stefanie but regards her, as with Lavender, a "safe" situation because she is in a relationship with Joanna. Ultimately, the relationship between Stefanie and Joanna cools and Stefanie falls in love with Spencer. However, Spencer never becomes aware of that and does not declare his love for her. Stefanie, who has never ever had any feelings for a man, does not declare her love for Spencer because she does not understand those feelings, and because she believes he might eventually dump her as he has done with other women. He has always made it very clear to her that he is not interested in anything smacking of a permanent relationship with a woman. the Lavender dreams continue unabated throughout the novel and after a while even Stefanie begins having Lavender dreams. No matter who dreams them the same three people (Lavender, Stefanie and Spencer) are always in them. Sometimes Spencer finds it difficult to separate his dreams from the real world in which he lives. Toward the end of the novel Spencer turns his wasteful life around and, thanks in large part to his love for Stefanie, pursues and obtains his Ph.D. in History from USC (he had obtained a Masters degree in History prior to his army service). Then he is hired as a professor at USC. This is the happiest time of his life and he finally decides to tell Stefanie that he loves her regardless of how she might take the news. But something intervenes to delay that confession. in the end do the two worlds, that of the dreams and that of the real existence, merge as one, or is one world shed in deference to the other?LavendersTherapeutic useCALIFORNIALESBIANSFICTIONLavendersTherapeutic use.Mansfield James1432680National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (U.S.),GPOGPOBOOK9910703331303321Lavender3577683UNINA03665nim 2200397Ka 450 991015362800332120250814103520.91-5094-2184-X(CKB)3710000000962361(ODN)ODN0003210860(EXLCZ)99371000000096236120191027d2016 uy 0enguruna---|||||spwrdacontentsrdamediacrdamediacrrdacarrierMegiddo The history of the famous archaeological site and prophesized battle of armageddon. /Charles River EditorsUnabridged.Solon Charles River Editors20161 online resource (1 audio file) digitalUnabridged.There are not many corners in the world that have seen as many people, civilizations, and armies as Tel Megiddo. Located in the western Jezreel Valley, it once laid upon the Via Maris, an ancient international trade route that connected ancient Egypt to the kingdoms and empires of Palestine, Syria, Anatolia, and Mesopotamia. It is because of this road that Megiddo saw so much carnage and bloodshed throughout its history. Many groups have coveted Tel Megiddo because of its strategic location guarding the entrance/exit of the Aruna Pass, now known as the Musmus Pass. Such groups ranged from the Canaanites, Egyptian, Israelites, Philistines and many others; including more recent states and empires, like the Ottomans, Napoleon's French empire, and modern Israel. Megiddo's occupational history, or ages of intensive human occupation, began during the Neolithic Age (c. late-fifth millennium B.C.E.) and ended in the Iron Age (c. late-seventh century B.C.E.). But, according to the New Testament, everyone's stories will end with the coming of Armageddon, otherwise known as Tel Megiddo. The history of the archaeological site and the Jezreel Valley is filled with many firsts and many lasts. Perhaps its wide plains were the location of the first recorded battle. It most certainly was the location of the first recorded chariot battle in history when the Pharaoh of Egypt, Thutmosis III of the Eighteenth Dynasty, attacked his former vassals, the Canaanites, after their kings formed a coalition with the Mesopotamian kings during the 15th century B.C.E. Such occurrences of violence and warfare have been common ordeals in the Jezreel Valley, and depending on who partook varied from guerilla-warfare to open-air fighting. The history in the Jezreel Valley had been so repetitively violent that the British General Edmund Allenby replicated, almost exactly, the tactic used by Thutmosis III nearly 3400 years before him when he too attacked Megiddo in 1918. It is perhaps due to the many battles that the ancient scribes bestowed the image of Armageddon upon Megiddo. After all, the Hebrew words Har Megiddo, simply means the "Mount of Megiddo." But despite the bloody history of the mound, and its valley, Megiddo's location was eventually lost to history and only was rediscovered relatively recently. Megiddo: The History of the Famous Archaeological Site and Prophesized Battle of Armageddon looks at the history of the site, its ruins, and its importance throughout the centuries.MegiddoNonfictionOverDriveHistoryOverDriveNonfiction.History.HIS002000HIS022000HIS026000bisacshEditors Charles River1843297Fluxman Colin1843300AUDIO9910153628003321Megiddo4427871UNINA