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Teaching history should not be reciting an endless list of dead men, entombed between the covers of a textbook. Instead, Breaking Away from the Textbook offers a fascinating journey through world history. Not a comprehensive, theory-heavy guide, this book focuses on active classroom activities, methods for students to grapple with humanity's issues, and innovative ways to show students the relevance of the past to the world today. Simply put, this book makes world history fun. Soon, your students will be busy debating, thinking, applying, and learning about information that will stay with them for a lifetime. The key to this wonderful work is its incorporation of various disciplines including art, music, and writing to create a fun and active classroom. Volume 1 covers prehistory to the Renaissance and volume 2 covers the Enlightenment to the 20th century. Includes pictures and drawings, appendices, indexes, maps, and a bibliography. Appropriate for all grade levels.

This workbook and Cd-ROM: Garfield 'It's all about Colors, Shapes and Time' Designed for children aged 3-5 years. Introducing your child to the concept of Colors, Shapes, and Time. Activities covered include color recognition, shapes and patterns, the basics of understanding time, and many other activities designed to help your child understand each of these topics. Your child will be guided through each activity area, and will find Garfield and friends close at hand to keep them entertained and interested for hours of fun and learning.

"From the inception of The Norton Anthology of American Literature, three goals have been paramount: first, to present a variety of works rich and substantial enough to enable teachers to build their own courses according to their own ideals; second, to make the anthology self-sufficient by featuring many works in their entirety and longer selections so that individual authors can be covered in depth; and third, to balance traditional interests with developing critical concerns."—Nina Baym, General Editor, from the Preface Now in its Sixth Edition, The Norton Anthology of American Literature remains the enduring market leader. The new Shorter Sixth Edition shares with its parent volumes the commitment to broadening the canon while maintaining a representative balance of American literature. Thoroughly revised and tailored especially to the one-semester course, the Shorter Sixth Edition builds on the classroom strengths of flexibility, depth, and balance in a strong revision.

Color is both a constant and dynamic force in our world. Liane Collot D'Herbois was a pioneer of spiritual color theory who explored the artistic and therapeutic qualities of light and darkness in painting. This book is a combination of her original works that presented her remarkable ideas: Colour, part one (1979) and part two (1981). Preferring to write in "pictures" rather than "chapters," Collot D'Herbois explains the principles behind her work and demonstrates how each color has its own unique movement and inherent quality. The author's third volume, Light, Darkness and Colour in Painting Therapy is also published by Floris Books.

This book, first appearing in German in 2004 under the title Spezielle Relativitätstheorie für Studienanfänger, offers access to the special theory of relativity for readers with a background in mathematics and physics comparable to a high school honors degree. All mathematical and physical competence required beyond that level is gradually developed through the book, as more advanced topics are introduced. The full tensor formalism, however, is dispensed with as it would only be a burden for the problems to be dealt with. Eventually, a substantial and comprehensive treatise on special relativity emerges which, with its gray-shaded formulary, is an invaluable reference manual for students and scientists alike. Some crucial results are derived more than once with different approaches: the Lorentz transformation in one spatial direction three times, the Doppler formula four times, the Lorentz transformation in two directions twice; also twice the unification of electric and magnetic forces, the velocity addition formula, as well as the aberration formula. Beginners will be grateful to find several routes to the goal; moreover, for a theory like relativity, it is of fundamental importance to demonstrate that it is self-contained and without contradictions. Contents: The Postulates of the Special Theory of Relativity; Time Dilation; Length Contraction; Lorentz Transformation; Minkowski Diagrams; Simultaneity; Transformation of Velocities; Aberration of Light; Accelerated Motion; Doppler Effect; Images of Fast Moving Objects; Mass and Momentum; Force; Energy; Four-Vectors and Scalar Products; Calculus with the Energy-Momentum Vector, Transformation of Electric and Magnetic Fields; and other papers.

Designed to cover the beginning and lower-intermediate college levels of language instruction, each volume of "Tajiki: An Elementary Textbook" uses the latest pedagogical thinking to teach basic communication skills and linguistic forms in their cultural context. Tested in the classroom, "Tajiki" enhances students' exposure to the language by providing the only authentic video and audio available in Tajiki.Each volume contains one CD-ROM that includes authentic audio and video materials to accompany the text and extra exercises, all in Flash format and all of which are keyed to the textbook. Each book also includes an extensive glossary, maps of the world labeled in Tajiki, and four-color illustrations and photographs throughout. Topics covered in volume one include: greetings, the Tajiki alphabet, the classroom, professions, introductions, nationalities and places of origin, weather, tell time, family, money, and food. Topics cover in volume two include: sports, cooking and ordering meals, clothing, travel, months, seasons, holidays, body parts, medicine, university life, housing (city and village), and regions and religions of Tajikistan.

The Routledge Course in Modern Mandarin Chinese is a two-year undergraduate course for students with no prior background in Chinese study. Designed to build a strong foundation in both the spoken and written language it develops all the basic skills such as pronunciation, character writing, word use and structures, while placing strong emphasis on the development of communicative skills. The complete course consists of Textbook Level 1, Workbook level 1 - including free CDs, Textbook level 2 and workbook level 2 -including free CDs. All books are available separately in simplified as well as traditional characters and take the students from complete beginner to post-intermediate level. The benefits of this course include: -focus on the long-term retention of vocabulary, characters and structures by reiterating structures and vocabulary throughout the book series -carefully selected and staged introduction of characters with staged removal of pinyin to ensure recognition and use of characters -clear and jargon-free explanations of use and structures, that are easy for students and teachers to understand -extensive workbook exercises for homework, independent study, and classroom use focusing on all language skills and modalities including a vast inventory of carefully structured exercises focusing on listening comprehension, reading for information, and writing for communication - an extensive inventory of classroom activities that guide students to develop communication-based speaking and listening skills. -companion website providing writing exercise sheets, a complete answers key and a teacher manual with classroom exercises, lesson plans, quizzes and exams. -a list of communication goals and key structures for each lesson allowing the student to assess progress -cultural notes explaining the context of the dialogues - language FAQs explaining aspects of Chinese language as they relate to the content and vocabulary in the lesson -storyline following a group of students studying in China from Europe, North America and East Asia, making the book attractive to a variety of students and facilitating the introduction of Chinese culture. -full-color text design for the textbook and carefully matched designs for the traditional and simplified books, allowing for easy cross-reference

An Essentials version of the Textbook of Pain, 4/e, this book is intended to provide the pain medicine specialist and trainee with an easy-to-access overview on the management complexities, assessment tools and multiple treatment modalities that are currently available to the physician dealing with the full spectrum of pain syndromes. The emphasis throughout is on the clinical aspects of pain medicine. It will contain the core information that the practitioner and trainee needs. Each chapter is brief and succinctly written and the text is well broken up with headings, tables and summary charts. The book is divided into 2 main sections; clinical states (acute, chronic and cancer pain) and therapeutic aspects ( pharmacological, surgical, physiotherapy, psychotherapy ) and it presents a rational, multidisciplinary approach to the management of pain.

Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 4.0 for Designers textbook is a comprehensive textbook that introduces the users to Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 4.0, a feature-based 3D parametric solid modeling software. The textbook covers all major environments of Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 4.0 with a thorough explanation of all tools, options, and their applications to create real-world products. About 60 mechanical engineering industry examples are used as tutorials and an additional 35 as exercises to ensure that the users can relate their knowledge and understand the design techniques used in the industry. After reading the textbook, the users will be able to create parts, assemblies, drawing views with bill of materials, and learn the editing techniques that are essential to make a successful design. Also, in this book, the author emphasizes on the solid modeling techniques that improve the productivity and efficiency of the user. Salient Features of the Textbook Consists of 16 pedagogical sequenced chapters covering the Sketching, Modeling, Assembly, Drafting, Surfacing, and Sheet Metal environments of Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 4.0. The first page of every chapter summarizes the topics that will be covered in it. Real-world projects and examples focusing on industry experience. Step-by-step examples that guide the user through the learning process. Additional information is provided throughout the book in the form of tips and notes. Self-Evaluation test and review questions are provided at the end of each chapter so that the users can assess their knowledge. Free Teaching and Learning Resources CADCIM Technologies provides the following Free Teaching and Learning Resources with this textbook: Technical support by contacting techsupport@cadcim.com. Drawing files of the models used in illustrations, examples, and exercises. Customizable PowerPoint presentations of every chapter in this textbook. Instructor s guide that provides solutions to review questions and exercises provided in the textbook. Student Projects to enhance the skills. Course outline listing the topics that will be covered in the basic and advanced classes.