Page 2 RAIN April1978 HEALTH Tsubo: Vital Points for Oriental Therapy, Katsusuke Serizawa, 1976, from: Japan Publications Trading Co. 200 Clearbrook Road Elmsford, NY 10523 This book is the most usable Englishlanguage presen tation of Oriental therapy I've seen, and an excellent tool for self-reliant, wholistic health care. Dr. Serizawa's text includes a basic discussion of body energy systems, the location of tsubo (acupoints) along energy meridians, and manual treatment techniques to use on tsubo, focusing on shiatsu (acupressure massage). The balance of the book is an extensive catalogue of fairly common sicknesses and body/mind ailments, along with exacting instructions for their home treatment with tsubo therapy. The entire book is exceptionally clear and extensively illustrated with both male and female anatomies. Tsubo includes a small section on children's ailments as well as a separate chart for each of the 14 energy meridians. Augmented by a preventative health regimen, this book can be an invaluable aid in transcending the pills and bills endemic to current American health care. (Thanks to Mikihasa Shima) -SA r8. BL·23 (~'* Shen-vu) This is one of several acupoints used to treat common earache. JC~t~~~~~u~~~~ \ ,,.;: .y. I, ~: ofEconomics, by Hazel Henderson, 1978, $4.95 from: Berkley Windhover Books Berkley Publishing Company 200 Madison Ave. New York, NY 10016 Hazel Henderson has been an active voice on the cutting edge of the environmental movement for some time now, working to bring new social concerns to bear on the political process, pioneering specialized public interest organizations where none existed before, and expanding the horizons of high-level bureaucrats and decisionmakers. Creating Alternative Futures is a collection of articles, speeches and letters documenting her insights into the unfolding changes in our values and political consciousness. From her vantage point we can envision both the \ \ AGRICULTURE Maine Farm Management and Technology Idea Papers, contact: Donald Vail Dept. of Economics Bowdoin College Brunswick, ME 04011 The small farm folks in Maine have a nice thing going between the academics and people doing it that could well be used elsewhere. This is a series of "idea papers" on the development of farmers' markets, negotiations between the food cooperatives and small farmers on direct marketing, and problems and prospects of small farmers from a friendly observer at the edge of the fray. He puts down observations and suggestions saying, "Well, we've tried this for a while; let's really see if it is working." -TB APPROPRIATE RAIN insoluble dilemmas facing industrial culture, and the hopeful signs of the emerging alternative. Hazel's expansive vista is her own best example of a changing worldview, cutting across the old academic divisions and circumventing linear thinking. Nowhere is this as well-honed as in her persistent forays into the bankruptcy of conventional economics and the intellectual tunnelvision that produces it. And what will replace this reigning sophistry? Hopefully an information system wherein every bit contains the program of the whole-where people incorporate into their Individual consciousnesses an understanding of the whole system and the extended chains of causality flowing from their actions. Says Hazel: the hologram is the key metaphor of our time. -SA Canada as a Conserver Society, 1977, $2.70 from: Science Council of Canada 150 Kent Street, 7th Floor Ottawa, Onto KIP 5P4 CANADA The Science Council of Canada seems to be taking the Conserver Society more and more seriously. This report lays out the principle policy implications of a Conserver Society, immediate and longer range actions to take and specific applications to energy areas. Focus mostly is on continuing to do what we are doing, but more energy and material efficiently. Many provocative suggestions. - TB Small Scale Industries, Rural Develop· ment Network Bulletin No.7, Sept. 1977, free while copies available from: Overseas Liaison Committee American Council on Education 11 Dupont Circle Washington, DC 20036 A good listing of international a. t. centers and bibliography focussed on third world applications of a. t. There is so much AID and CIA dollars and games in international "development" that we generally steer clear of it, but if you're interested in developmen ts ou tside the U.S., this is a good listing. -TB
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