This third edition of Teaching and the Case Method is a further response to increased national and international interest in teaching, teachers, and learning, as well as the pressing need to enhance instructional effectiveness in the widest possible variety of settings. Like its predecessors, this edition celebrates the joys of teaching and learning at their best and emphasizes the reciprocal exchange of wisdom that teachers and students can experience. It is based on the belief that teaching is not purely a matter of inborn talent. On the contrary, the knowledge, skills, and attitudes that make for excellence in teaching can be analyzed, abstracted, and learned. One key premise of Teaching and the Case Method is that all teaching and learning involve a core of universally applicable principles that can be discerned and absorbed through the study and discussion of cases.
Socializing the Classroom: Social Networks and Online Learning, by Susan B. Barnes, examines how social media can be used in education through two research grants and real-world applications. Barnes analyzes social media including Facebook, Courseware, and Second Life, while providing a theoretical foundation for examining social software. A new generation of students is surrounded by digital technologies, leading scholars and teachers to consider virtual worlds to engage students. By bringing together human-computer-interaction theories with social theory, Socializing the Classroom creates a theoretical foundation for future research in the area of social media, online learning technologies, and the development of social networks. Readers will gain a better understanding of how students use online learning environments to communicate task-oriented messages and maintain social interactions. This is an essential text for scholars, students, and those interested in social networks and the implementation of technology in education.
Are you afraid of becoming sick and questioning your ability to lead a healthy life? Do you avoid family, friends, and public places because you feel susceptible to catching a cold or virus? Have you ever wondered whether you will be diagnosed with cancer, heart disease, or another chronic illness and feel powerless to prevent it? The fact is you can avoid all illness by maintaining a high vibrational frequency. In Your Healthy Future: Living Above the Frequency of Disease, author and cancer survivor Maria Barnes introduces you to energy vibration and tells you how she used it to put herself into remission from terminal cancer. She teaches you how to: • Stop worrying and creating poor health • Manifest a high frequency life • Replace negative beliefs with positive to optimize wellness • Stay focused on the present • Achieve and maintain optimal health • Love the life you live If you want to stop worrying about getting sick, heal from a debilitating disease, and learn how to transform your life into the joyful, creative experience you deserve, Your Healthy Future puts you firmly on the fast track to wellness by giving you the tools you need to live the life you were born to live.
Winner of the 2016 Roland H. Bainton Book Prize of the Sixteenth Century Society and Conference During the sixteenth century, no part of the Christian West saw the development of a more powerful and pervasive astrological culture than the very home of the Reformation movement--the Protestant towns of the Holy Roman Empire. While most modern approaches to the religious and social reforms of that age give scant attention to cosmological preoccupations, Robin Barnes argues that astrological concepts and imagery played a key role in preparing the ground for the evangelical movement sparked by Martin Luther in the 1520s, as well as in shaping the distinctive characteristics of German evangelical culture over the following century. Spreading above all through cheap printed almanacs and prognostications, popular astrology functioned in paradoxical ways. It contributed to an enlarged and abstracted sense of the divine that led away from clericalism, sacramentalism, and the cult of the saints; at the same time, it sought to ground people more squarely in practical matters of daily life. The art gained unprecedented sanction from Luther's closest associate, Philipp Melanchthon, whose teachings influenced generations of preachers, physicians, schoolmasters, and literate layfolk. But the apocalyptic astrology that came to prevail among evangelicals involved a perpetuation, even a strengthening, of ties between faith and cosmology, which played out in beliefs about nature and natural signs that would later appear as rank superstitions. Not until the early seventeenth century did Luther's heirs experience a "crisis of piety" that forced preachers and stargazers to part ways. Astrology and Reformation illuminates an early modern outlook that was both practical and prophetic; a world that was neither traditionally enchanted nor rationally disenchanted, but quite different from the medieval world of perception it had displaced.
There is so much advice available on how to be the ideal job prospect. There are so many advertisements on the latest hot new careers. Between all this is the long, frustrating cycle of unemployment for which there is no end in sight. And as if it couldn't get worse, there are countless get-rich-quick schemers who are interested not in your success, but their own personal profits. But there is hope. My book aims to encourage you to consider volunteering as a way to get your foot in the door, as a way to get your products and services in front of the people instead of going through the middlemen. This is not volunteering as a way to be a noble individual. This is volunteering as a way to take control of your own destiny. Stop begging employers to give you a job. Stop begging people to give your business venture a chance. Get out there, let someone try you out by offering a free sample, and then get paid from quality products and services I know you have to offer.
Riley is an eleven year old boy and heir to the exceedingly wealthy Kincrest family. However, wealth does not always mean happiness. This is certainly the case for Rye, who is constantly suffering beatings from his parents and mentors while being laughed at by his twisted older sisters. Being fixed not to cry or resist, Rye has learned to just accept the punishments whenever they come. However, recently whenever Rye is hurt, he finds himself blanketed by a strange numbing sensation that helps as an escape to the pain. Late does he know that the sensation he thinks is protecting him, is also making him feel less and less, and turning him into an emotionless husk. Despite his situation, Rye’s life is about to take a drastic change. Arthish Lilith is an eleven year old boy who’s hobbies are hunting deer with nothing but a knife and playing with his friend Noir, a pure black wolf with glowing blue eyes. Art’s father has passed away and his loving mother is all he has left now. They live secluded in the woods with a nearby village for necessities. Although poor, Art is loved by his mother and he’s satisfied with the way things are. However, when he stays out late one day, hunting a deer, he comes home to find something that changes who he is forever.
Focusing on growth and decay processes, interacting populations, and heating/cooling problems, Mathematical Modelling with Case Studies: A Differential Equations Approach using Maple and MATLAB, Second Edition presents mathematical techniques applicable to models involving differential equations that describe rates of change. Although the authors
Mathematical Modelling with Case Studies: Using Maple and MATLAB, Third Edition provides students with hands-on modelling skills for a wide variety of problems involving differential equations that describe rates of change. While the book focuses on growth and decay processes, interacting populations, and heating/cooling problems, the mathematical
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
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