Dr. Spock's Pregnancy Guide: Take Charge Parenting Guides
Author: Marjorie Greenfield
Pregnant? Congratulations! Now let an expert guide you through this exciting time.
Pregnancy is a time of powerful emotions, dramatic changes, and plenty of questions. Noted obstetrician Marjorie Greenfield, M.D., one of the new team of medical experts at The Dr. Spock Company, has written this authoritative book to answer all your questions and help ensure a happy, healthy pregnancy. Dr. Spock's Pregnancy Guide will take you month by month through the thrilling journey to parenthood, with special focus on how to:
- Follow the development of your growing baby
- Find the right obstetrician or midwife
- Deal with common symptoms and problems
- Plan the kind of childbirth experience you want
- Get good care every step of the way, and more
For more than 50 years, Dr. Benjamin Spock was the world's best-known pediatrician. Drawing upon his trusted philosophy of baby and child care, a new generation of experts at The Dr. Spock Company brings today's moms and dads the latest in parenting, child-health, and pregnancy information. Be sure to pick up Dr. Spock's Baby Basics, the first book in the Take Charge Parenting Guides series.
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The Alchemical Body: Siddha Traditions in Medieval India
Author: David Gordon Gordon Whit
The Alchemical Body excavates and centers within its Indian context the lost tradition of the medieval Siddhas. Working from previously unexplored alchemical sources, David Gordon White demonstrates for the first time that the medieval disciplines of Hindu alchemy and hatha yoga were practiced by one and the same people, and that they can be understood only when viewed together. White opens the way to a new and more comprehensive understanding of medieval Indian mysticism, within the broader context of south Asian Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Islam.
"White proves a skillful guide in disentangling historical and theoretical complexities that have thus far bedeviled the study of these influential aspects of medieval Indian culture."—Yoga World
"Anyone seriously interested in finding out more about authentic tantra, original hatha yoga, embodied liberation . . . sacred sexuality, paranormal abilities, healing, and of course alchemy will find White's extraordinary book as fascinating as any Tom Clancy thriller."—Georg Feuerstein, Yoga Journal
Asian Studies Review
David White has done us a great service by presenting us with such a wide-ranging and thorough piece of research into a challenging subject, rarely met with in European-language works, although certainly still a popular field in India and Tibet.
Table of Contents:
| Preface | ||
| Note on Transliteration | ||
| Abbreviations | ||
| 1 | Indian Paths to Immortality | 1 |
| 2 | Categories of Indian Thought: The Universe by Numbers | 15 |
| 3 | The Prehistory of Tantric Alchemy | 48 |
| 4 | Sources for the History of Tantric Alchemy in India | 78 |
| 5 | Tantric and Siddha Alchemical Literature | 123 |
| 6 | Tantra in the Rasarnava | 171 |
| 7 | Corresponding Hierarchies: The Substance of the Alchemical Body | 184 |
| 8 | Homologous Structures of the Alchemical Body | 218 |
| 9 | The Dynamics of Transformation in Siddha Alchemy | 263 |
| 10 | Penetration, Perfection, and Immortality | 303 |
| Epilogue: The Siddha Legacy in Modern India | 335 | |
| Notes | 353 | |
| Selected Bibliography | 521 | |
| Index | 555 |
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