Bestselling author and renowned Buddhist teacher Noah Levine adapts the Buddha's Four Noble Truths and Eight Fold Path into a proven and systematic approach to recovery from alcohol and drug addiction—an indispensable alternative to the 12-step program. While many desperately need the help of the 12-step recovery program, the traditional AA model's focus on an external higher power can alienate people who don't connect with its religious tenets. Refuge Recovery is a systematic method based on Buddhist principles, which integrates scientific, non-theistic, and psychological insight. Viewing addiction as cravings in the mind and body, Levine shows how a path of meditative awareness can alleviate those desires and ease suffering. Refuge Recovery includes daily meditation practices, written investigations that explore the causes and conditions of our addictions, and advice and inspiration for finding or creating a community to help you heal and awaken. Practical yet compassionate, Levine's successful Refuge Recovery system is designed for anyone interested in a non-theistic approach to recovery and requires no previous experience or knowledge of Buddhism or meditation.

This illustrated glossary for school mathematics provides precise definitions accessible to a wide spectrum of readers. This book includes the most frequently used concepts of elementary mathematics, ranging from primary, secondary, high school and university levels, corresponding to courses in the engineering areas. It includes terms related to infinitesimal calculus, calculus of functions of several variables, linear algebra, differential equations, vector calculus, finite mathematics, probability, and statistics. This book contains 2420 defined terms and 1248 figures. The number of illustrations is greater if the examples in each definition are considered as an illustration. In addition to the definition of each term, where it was considered appropriate, related mathematical results, algebraic properties of the defined mathematical object, its geometric representation, examples to clarify the concept or the defined mathematical technique, etc., are included with the intention of conveying the mathematical idea in different forms of representation (algebraic, numerical, geometric, etc.) The goal of the author of this book is to provide a reference source for schoolwork, and at the same time, to help the student to understand the definition of a mathematical term or to know the most important results related to it. A glossary of mathematical terms can never be considered finished. Therefore, it is not intended to cover all branches and all the terms in mathematics. However, this version is a very complete one, and it should be considered an indispensable volume, both in the school library and in the family library. This book will be very useful for students, teachers, tutors, edutubers, authors, and even researchers in the area of mathematics, and its learning and teaching, and anyone from the general public who wishes to improve their understanding of mathematical ideas.

The SAGE Handbook of Online Higher Education presents a cutting-edge collection of 50 essays that explores the rapidly evolving landscape of online teaching and learning in higher education. Assembled and contributed by a team of leading experts, the Handbook adopts a uniquely holistic approach to examining the needs of online education. Chapters bring together voices from diverse and international backgrounds to provide insights applicable to a broad range of contexts, and present practical strategies for planning, delivering quality online higher education. The handbook covers a wide range of topics, including online pedagogy, instructional design, student engagement, technological innovation, assessment, leadership, and the developing role of online education in the context of broader societal and cultural shifts. The SAGE Handbook of Online Higher Education is an essential resource for educators, researchers, policymakers, and practitioners who seek to understand and shape the future of higher education in the digital age. Section 1: Fundamentals of Online Education Section 2: Online Education Around the World Section 3: Online Instructional Design Section 4: Online Instructional Delivery Section 5: Instructional Technology for Online Education Section 6: Online Education Administration and Management Section 7: Student Support Services

English language teaching textbooks (or coursebooks) play a central role in the life of a classroom. This edited volume contains research-informed chapters focusing on: analysis of textbook content; how textbooks are used in the classroom; and textbook writers' accounts of the materials writing, design, and publishing process.