The mind has a way of interfering with personal happiness, often causing stress and doubt. Getting in touch with one's inner source of peace and following its guidance over the mind's often-unfounded concerns requires training and discipline. Knowing this truth intimately, Peaceful Mind Peaceful Life Founder Barb Schmidt developed a three-part spiritual discipline called The Practice. The Practice is a toolkit to be used throughout the day to guide people who are looking for confidence, less stress, and deeper meaning along life's path. These tools are a compilation of the great Truths taught by authentic teachers and masters throughout the centuries from various religious and spiritual traditions. In the first three chapters of The Practice, readers are guided through the daily routine: Waking Up, Living Present, and Letting Go. Beginning with a morning meditation, a thread of peace is followed over the course of the day through the repetition of a sacred mantra, practicing focused attention, reading for inspiration, and reflecting on the day. In the concluding chapter, readers are provided with an opportunity to deepen their experience of The Practice with engaging exercises By regularly taking the steps to go within each morning, stay present throughout the moments of the day, and letting go of attachments when the day comes to a close, readers will find that they are better able to do the following: Remove the obstacles that interfere with inner peace Manage stress and cultivate more patience, empathy, and compassion Have more courage when facing fears and making changes Overcome habitual behaviors and make better choices Reduce negative thinking and ease feelings of anxiety, worry, and stress See the blessings beneath life's more difficult experiences Know a deep feeling of wholeness

Intended to challenge readers of all ages to celebrate the wonder of words arranged on the printed page, this book contains descriptions of activities that have been highly successful in drawing children into literacy and keeping them there. The 64 activities presented in the book can be performed in the home, at school, in the library, around town, and (through the experience of reading) around the world. The impetus for the development of this book was the proclamation of 1987 as the Year of the Reader. Appendixes include sample material for many of the activities. An annotated list of readings is provided. (RS)

Reasoning with Complex Cases emphasizes case retrieval methods based on structured cases as they are relevant for planning, configuration, and design, and provides a systematic view of the case reuse phase, centering on complex situations. So far, books on case-based reasoning considered comparatively simple situations only. This book is a coherent work, not a selection of separate contributions, and consists largely of original research results using examples taken from industrial design, biology, medicine, jurisprudence and other areas. Reasoning with Complex Cases is suitable as a secondary text for graduate-level courses on case-based reasoning and as a reference for practitioners applying conventional CBR systems or techniques.

Dieses Buch führt Studierende, Referendare und Lehrkräfte aller Schularten in die didaktischen und methodischen Grundlagen des Geometrieunterrichts der Sekundarstufe I ein und zeigt anhand zahlreicher unterrichtspraktischer Beispiele Möglichkeiten einer problemorientierten Unterrichtsgestaltung auf. Aufbauend auf den Bildungsstandards werden zum einen die wichtigen Aspekte Beweisen und Argumentieren, Konstruieren, Problemlösen sowie Begriffslernen und Begriffslehren behandelt. Zum anderen wird auf die zentralen Themenbereiche des Geometrieunterrichts eingegangen: Figuren und Körper, Flächeninhalt und Volumen, Symmetrie und Kongruenz, Ähnlichkeit und Trigonometrie. Der Einsatz des Computers ist in alle Kapitel integriert, ein Überblick über die Entwicklung zentraler Ideen in der Geometrie und im Geometrieunterricht rundet das Buch ab.

Legasthenie ist ein Dauerbrenner in der Lehrerausbildung. Mit Fragen zur Lese- und Rechtschreibschwäche (LRS) müssen sich alle angehenden LehrerInnen auseinandersetzen: Wie häufig treten Lese-Rechtschreibschwierigkeiten auf und wie erkennt man sie? Wie entwickelt sich LRS? Was weiß man über die Ursachen? Wie kann man die Kinder fördern? Das Lehrbuch antwortet anschaulich auf diese Fragen. Dabei werden Erklärungsansätze der Informationsverarbeitung, der akustischen Wahrnehmung, Neurologie, Biologie sowie soziale Ursachen diskutiert. Die Autoren stellen Methoden der Diagnostik, gängige Tests, Präventions- und Interventionsstrategien im kritischen Vergleich vor. In der 5. Auflage insbesondere überarbeitet und ergänzt: aktuelle Entwicklungen in der Ursachenforschung sowie neueste Tests in der Diagnostik. Dieser Titel ist nicht als Dozenten-Freiexemplar erhältlich.