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A medical expert – the Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases at Children’s Hospital in Philadelphia – offers a scathing expose of the alternative medicine industry, revealing how its popular therapies are ineffective, expensive and even deadly.A half a century ago, acupuncture, homeopathy, naturopathy, Chinese herbs, Christian exorcisms, dietary supplements, chiropractic manipulations and traditional Indian remedies were once considered on the fringe of medicine. Now, these practices—known as alternative, complementary, holistic, and integrative medicine—have become mainstream, used by those seeking to burn fat, detoxify livers, shrink prostates, alleviate colds, stimulate brains, boost energy, reduce stress, enhance immunity, eliminate pain, prevent cancer, and enliven sex.But as Paul Offit reveals, alternative medicine – an unregulated industry under no legal obligation to prove its claims or admit its risks – can actually be harmful to our health. In Killing Us Softly he exposes how:• Homeopathic asthma preparations and bogus cancer cures have replaced life-saving medicines.• Indian remedies have contained dangerous quantities of heavy metals.• Chinese herbs have caused kidney failure and bone marrow suppression.• Acupuncture needles have pierced hearts, lungs, and livers and transmitted viruses, including hepatitis B, hepatitis C, and HIV.• Chiropractic manipulations have torn arteries.• Dietary supplements have caused uncontrolled bleeding, heart failure, hallucinations, arrhythmias, seizures, coma, and death.• Megavitamins increase the risk of cancer and heart disease—a fact well known to scientists but virtually unknown to the public.Using dramatic real-life stories, Dr Offit separates the sense from the nonsense, showing why any therapy – alternative or traditional – should be scrutinized. As he writes, “There’s no such thing as alternative medicine. There’s only medicine that works and medicine that doesn’t.”

Hundreds of guidebooks about St. Petersburg begin exactly the same way: «On the 16th of May 1703, Peter the Great… blah blah blah.» Hundreds of marvellous, excellent and comprehensive books… Tell about St. Petersburg like they think they should, like the city’s story is being told for visitors or schoolchildren on an obligatory tour. And at the same time, just like every every city, St. Petersburg has as many different sides as there are passers-by on Nevsky Prospect in the weekend. And in order to get to know a house it is not enough to admire it from the outside – you have to step inside. With the help of this guidebook you will find out about the places that are significant or cult for the Peterburgians. Why are they special? Who knows… Perhaps that’s where the city’s spirit is.

Настоящее издание – явление удивительное, даже уникальное, во многих аспектах. Полное собрание сочинений. Автор – Эдвард Лир (1812–1888), знаменитый английский поэт и художник XIX века. Основоположник поэзии нонсенса. Отец литературного лимерика. Переводчик – Борис Архипцев, совершивший своего рода творческий подвиг, отдав работе над книгой без малого четверть века. Значительная часть текстов переведена на русский впервые. Всё, переведённое заново, выводит отечественные интерпретации Э. Лира на новый, прежде недостижимый уровень. Переводы Архипцева (ему же принадлежат и все прочие русские материалы в книге – предисловие, комментарии и т. д.) отличает редкостный сплав точности, верности автору, его замыслу и воле, с поразительной свободой изложения, лёгкостью и изяществом слога. Книга двуязычна: переводы сопровождаются авторскими текстами на языке оригинала и собственными иллюстрациями Эдварда Лира.

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