The soothing aroma and distinctive flavor of lavender make it the perfect herb for crafting products for personal, culinary and household use. Inside you¿ll find more than 40 fun, easy to make craft projects and recipes for: relaxing bath mixtures and stimulating beauty scrubs; sleep pillows and eye pillows to reduce stress and promote restful sleep; sachets to scent linens, perfume lingerie drawers and repel bugs in your closets; plus delectable treats and mixes to give as gifts to friends and co-workers. Tickle your senses with lavender!

This book holds experiences of love, friendships, and heartbreaks. It captures the essence of relationships, how complex they can be, and how simple they can be. This book helps in finding comfort in all the emotions, you, my dear reader might feel. Lavender is associated with relief, succor, and easement. This book has been composed pertaining to those emotions and the ability to see through the darkness of experiences in life. Walking through this book you’ll be able to see the world is not divided but united by the plethora of sentiments, sentiments of ardor, excitement, even sentiments that make us feel low. Whatever you are going through, you’re not alone.

This step-by-step decorating guide offers helpful hints and creative ideas for furniture layouts, color schemes, lighting, window treatments, accessorizing and more that can help you avoid common home decorating mistakes and achieve the results you want. Whether you plan to start with an empty space or decorate using the furniture you already own, these easy-to-follow suggestions can help make your rooms more functional and attractive, using whatever budget you choose.

If you're not familiar with the concept of the "Impossible Pie", you're in for a real treat. A popular invention from the 1970s, these main dish pies are made using baking mix in a batter that is poured over cooked meat, cheese and vegetables in a pie plate and form their own "crust" while they bake. This book has 30 main dish recipes for hearty, budget-conscious entrees your family will love, like Chicken Quesadilla Pie and Philly Cheese Steak Pie. Tuck a couple of slices in your lunchbox for a tasty lunch. Also included are ten scrumptious dessert recipes you can stir up and bake in a jiffy, like Brownie Pie and Cheesecake Pie. For more FREE recipes, visit www.BlueSagePress.com

The ?eld of sensory science has grown exponentially since the publication of the p- vious version of this work. Fifteen years ago the journal Food Quality and Preference was fairly new. Now it holds an eminent position as a venue for research on sensory test methods (among many other topics). Hundreds of articles relevant to sensory testing have appeared in that and in other journals such as the Journal of Sensory Studies. Knowledge of the intricate cellular processes in chemoreception, as well as their genetic basis, has undergone nothing less than a revolution, culminating in the award of the Nobel Prize to Buck and Axel in 2004 for their discovery of the olfactory receptor gene super family. Advances in statistical methodology have accelerated as well. Sensometrics meetings are now vigorous and well-attended annual events. Ideas like Thurstonian modeling were not widely embraced 15 years ago, but now seem to be part of the everyday thought process of many sensory scientists. And yet, some things stay the same. Sensory testing will always involve human participants. Humans are tough measuring instruments to work with. They come with varying degrees of acumen, training, experiences, differing genetic equipment, sensory capabilities, and of course, different preferences. Human foibles and their associated error variance will continue to place a limitation on sensory tests and actionable results. Reducing, controlling, partitioning, and explaining error variance are all at the heart of good test methods and practices.

The scores of books on herbs already available generally restate old, often outdated lore about herbs. Now, Herbs Demystified does something entirely different: It is the first book to explain exactly what herbs actually do inside our bodies and how they achieve their effects. Biochemist Holly Phaneuf covers 100 of the most popular herbs-astragalus, black cohosh, chamomile, echinacea, garlic, gingko, ginseng, milk thistle, pine bark extract, saw palmetto, valerian, and many others. Phaneuf's introductory overview lays out the basic chemical principles that underlie the journey herbal molecules make in our bodies. Then, for each of the herbs, she covers its history and folklore; explains what the herb really does-its evidence of action; its good uses and not so good uses, including the forms in which it is typically available and commonly reported dosages; interesting facts and the bottom line. Like no other herb book before, Herbs Demystified allows readers to custom-fit an herb to one's own particular concern, therefore minimizing trial and error.

Sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch—as they were celebrated during the Enlightenment and as they are perceived today. Blindfolding children from birth? Playing a piano made of live cats? Using tobacco to cure drowning? Wearing “flea”-colored clothes? These actions may seem odd to us, but in the eighteenth century, they made perfect sense. As often as we use our senses, we rarely stop to think about their place in history. But perception is not dependent on the body alone. Carolyn Purnell persuasively shows that, while our bodies may not change dramatically, the way we think about the senses and put them to use has been rather different over the ages. Journeying through the past three hundred years, Purnell explores how people used their senses in ways that might shock us now. And perhaps more surprisingly, she shows how many of our own ways of life are a legacy of this earlier time. The Sensational Past focuses on the ways in which small, peculiar, and seemingly unimportant facts open up new ways of thinking about the past. You will explore the sensory worlds of the Enlightenment, learning how people in the past used their senses, understood their bodies, and experienced the rapidly shifting world around them. In this smart and witty work, Purnell reminds us of the value of daily life and the power of the smallest aspects of existence using culinary history, fashion, medicine, music, and many other aspects of Enlightenment life.