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Gurdjieff Reconsidered: The Life, the Teachings, the Legacy

Shambhala, 2019

From a master biographer and longtime Gurdjieff practitioner, a brilliant new exploration of the quintessential Western esoteric teacher of the twentieth-century.

The Greek-Armenian teacher G.I. Gurdjieff was one of the most original and provocative spiritual teachers in the twentieth-century West. Whereas much work...

Diagnostic Interviewing

Springer, 2019

The first three editions of this book had Michel Hersen and Samuel M. Turner as its editors. After Sam’s untimely death, Michel invited me to join the team and we coedited the fourth edition together, which was published in 2010. Now that Michel has retired, I remain as the sole editor for this new fifth edition. That...

Artificial Companion for Second Language Conversation: Chatbots Support Practice Using Conversation Analysis

Springer, 2019

The research described in this book shows that conversation analysis can effectively model dialogue. Specifically, this work shows that the multidisciplinary field of communicative ICALL may greatly benefit from including Conversation Analysis. As a consequence, this research makes several contributions to the related research...

Jewels of the Middle Way: The Madhyamaka Legacy of Atisa and His Early Tibetan Followers (22) (Studies in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism)

Wisdom Publications, 2019

Jewels of the Middle Way documents an important tradition of Madhyamaka and provides insight into both the late Indian Buddhist blend of Madhyamaka and tantra and the Kadampa school founded by the Indian Buddhist master Atisa.

This book presents a detailed contextualization of the Madhyamaka (Middle Way) school in...

Game Programming with Code Angel: Learn how to code in Python on Raspberry Pi or PC

Apress, 2019

Program in Python on a Raspberry Pi or PC by developing six computer games. Each game project is split into several chapters of the book. Rather than taking you through programming techniques as standalone concepts, this book explains concepts as they are used within a game.

You'll learn about variables; integer,...

50 Things to Know About Yoga: A Yoga Book for Beginners

Independent Publishers Group, 2019

Do you want to try some yoga poses? Would you like to know what all things you’ll need to attend a yoga class? Are you excited to learn which yoga style is right for you? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this 50 Things To Know book is for you. 50 Things To Know About Yoga by Author Sushmita Choudhury...

Reaction Kinetics: An Introduction

Springer, 2021

Learning (and teaching) the theoretical basis of chemical kinetics is not an easy task. Following the diversification of master’s programmes, shorter undergraduate programmes – typically three years in most European countries – do not provide sufficient knowledge in physical chemistry courses to allow students to...

Programming Algorithms in Lisp: Writing Efficient Programs with Examples in ANSI Common Lisp

Apress, 2021

This book started after teaching an intensive course on algorithms to working programmers in Kyiv, in spring 2016. It took more than 3 years to complete, and, meanwhile, I also did three iterations of the course. Its aim is to systematically explain how to write efficient programs and, also, the approaches and tools for...

Mindfulness and Traditional Chinese Zen Arts: The Way of Calligraphy, Painting, Kung Fu, and Tea

Daoscape, 2020

In my early twenties, I discovered a book titled Zen in the Art of Archery . It was written by a German academic, called Eugen Herrigel, who had studied the Japanese art of ky?d? (ritualised Shint? archery) between the years 1924 and 1929.

This exotic Zen-flavoured feat had been accomplished as a result of the...

Ontologies with Python: Programming OWL 2.0 Ontologies with Python and Owlready2

Apress, 2020

For the past ten years, formal ontologies have become widely used in computer science to structure data and knowledge. In parallel, the Python programming language has become more and more widespread in teaching, business, and research. However, until recently, there were very few tools and resources dedicated to the use of...

Reading, Writing, and Racism: Disrupting Whiteness in Teacher Education and in the Classroom

Beacon Press, 2021

An examination of how curriculum choices can perpetuate White supremacy, and radical strategies for how schools and teacher education programs can disrupt and transform racism in education

When racist curriculum “goes viral” on social media, it is typically dismissed as an isolated incident from a...

Connecting Mathematics and Mathematics Education: Collected Papers on Mathematics Education as a Design Science

Springer, 2020

This open access book features a selection of articles written by Erich Ch. Wittmann between 1984 to 2019, which shows how the “design science conception” has been continuously developed over a number of decades. The articles not only describe this conception in general terms, but also demonstrate various substantial...

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