In Basic Teachings of the Buddha, Glenn Wallis selects sixteen essential dialogues drawn from more than five thousand Pali-dialect suttas of the... Buddhist canon. The result is a vibrant introductory guide to studying Buddhist thought, applying its principles to everyday life, and gaining a deeper understanding of Buddhist themes in modern literature. Focusing on the most crucial topics for today’s readers, Wallis presents writings that address modern psychological, religious, ethical, and philosophical concerns. This practical, inspiring, and engaging volume provides an overview of the history of Buddhism and an illuminating analysis of the core writings that personalizes the suttas for each reader. “Glenn Wallis brings wisdom and compassion to this work of scholarship. Everyone should read this book.”–Christopher Queen, Harvard University“A valuable sourcebook with a good selection of the fundamental suttas enhanced by an eloquent introduction and comprehensive notes–altogether a very useful text.” –Peter Matthiessen (Roshi), author of The Snow Leopard and Nine-Headed Dragon River“Glenn Wallis’s new and accessible translations of some of the Buddha’s lectures to his original students, along with Wallis’s elegant guide to the texts, gives twenty-first-century readers in the modern West a fresh chance to learn from this teacher.”–Charles Hallisey, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Introductory drafting program for grades 8-10. Clear instruction with a large number of practice problems make this a perennial favorite. Basic... Technical Drawing provides a solid foundation in manual drawing.

This widely anticipated third edition provides a systematic exploration of one of the most common approaches to program verification, known as the... assertional approach. This approach is applied to deterministic and nondeterministic sequential programs of varying complexity, together with both parallel and distributed concurrent programs. The expanded content also includes coverage of the verification of object-oriented programs. For each class of programs, the authors introduce proof systems for the verification of partial and total correctness, justified formally in corresponding soundness theorems. Case studies supplied throughout the book demonstrate the use of the proof systems and formally verify solutions to classical problems, such as producer/consumer and mutual exclusion. This modern update of a classic, reader-friendly textbook is perfect for an introductory course on program verification for advanced undergraduate or graduate students. Outlines for possible courses are suggested in the Preface.

Even if you have had no Japanese-language training, you can learn how to translate technical manuals, research publications, and reference works. Basic... Technical Japanese takes you step by step from an introduction to the Japanese writing system through a mastery of grammar and scientific vocabulary to reading actual texts in Japanese. You can use the book to study independently or in formal classes.     This book places special emphasis on the kanji (characters) that occur most often in technical writing. There are special chapters on the language of mathematics and chemistry, and vocabulary building and reading exercises in physics, chemistry, biology, and biochemistry. With extensive character charts and vocabulary lists, Basic Technical Japanese is entirely self-contained; no dictionaries or other reference works are needed.

This tried-and-true text from Allyn Washington, the pioneer of the basic technical mathematics course, is intended for a two- or three-semester course... and is taught primarily to students who plan to pursue technical fields. The primary strength of the text is the heavy integration of technical applications, which aids the student in pursuit of a technical career by showing the importance of a strong foundation in algebraic and trigonometric math.              

This new edition preserves the author's highly regarded approach to technical math, while enhancing the integration of technology in the text.  A... fully developed MyMathLab program that may be packaged with every text, providing students with unlimited practice, guided instruction, and video worked examples for every section of the textbook. New exercises add variety of learning opportunities for students,providing students with a greater variety of exercises. There is coverage of the advanced graphing calculator (T189), primarily for use in the calculus chapters.

The new edition of this tried-and-true text from Allyn Washington, the pioneer of the basic technical mathematics course, preserves the author's highly... regarded approach to technical math while enhancing the integration of technology in the text. The book is intended for a two- or three-semester course and is taught primarily to students who plan to pursue technical fields. The primary strength of the text is the heavy integration of technical applications, which aids the student in pursuit of a technical career by showing the importance of a strong foundation in algebraic and trigonometric math. This version contains 100% SI units.

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Systematic, practical, and thorough, Basic Techniques of Conducting offers a clear instructional strategy and a basic methodology for teaching the... physical gestures and concepts essential for the development of a convincing conducting technique. Taking a competency-based approach, this text provides a clear, step-by-step system for mastering the physical gestures required for good conducting. Paying special attention to the psychomotor skills needed for clear and expressive conducting, it establishes a solid foundation on which to build an advanced and personal conducting style. Based on ten years of teaching and class-testing, the text is carefully organized to establish essential conducting skills over a one-semester period. Each of the thirty lessons introduces basic conducting techniques in a developmental sequence, and includes a review of previous techniques, "guided practice" segments for group practice of new techniques, and "assignment" sections for independent study and practice. The text is fully illustrated with many conducting diagrams, photographs of hand and body movements, and numerous musical examples for directed conducting practice. Emphasizing complete musical examples rather than short excerpts, it features both choral and instrumental exercises for drill and practice. Engaging and accessible, Basic Techniques of Conducting offers all of the content necessary to build a solid foundation of conducting skills for all vocal and instrumental music education majors.

Part of Delmar Learning's new National Center for Telecommunications Technologies Series, this book introduces wireline, wireless, and fiber optic... concepts, focusing on physical layer implementation of system hardware. Industry regulations and background on filters, and test equipment is provided. Readers then launch into study of multiplexing and modulation schemes, with opportunities to compare digital and traditional techniques. Presentation is guided by the needs of technicians tasked with evaluating system operation and reconfiguring programmable hardware. DC/AC theory and digital electronics knowledge is assumed.

The Basic Textiles Swatch Kit contains 126 fabric swatches, heavy weight mounting sheets and a master list of fabrics in a 3 ring binder. Each Basic... Textiles Swatch Kit includes a 5x magnification linen tester, tape for mounting the swatches, a pen and Textile Companion Interactive CD-ROM which is both PC and Mac compatible.  Contact Marketing Manager for these instructor resources.  The Basic Instructor’s materials include: A comprehensive instructor manual with additional information about each swatch Fiber samples packet (25 fibers) with a burn test chart Instructor's CD that includes:  74 page laboratory manual consisting of exercises related to appearance retention, colorfastness, comfort and care Pictures of mounted swatches and filled out mounting pages Questions about each swatch for tests, quizzes and assignments Two complimentary videos on wool and flocking

This law school casebook’s coverage includes trademark dilution, trademark usage on the World Wide Web, and extensive materials on trademark remedies... and affirmative defenses. Notes follow the principal cases, which are designed to alert students to collateral issues, to cite key resources in the legal literature, and to raise thought-provoking questions. The book contains citations to the relatively new Restatement (Third) of Unfair Competition, and McCarthy on Trademarks. It also features illustrations, which will increase students' appreciation of the key issues at stake in many of the cases.

This book is an introduction to law and jurisprudence. Instead of presenting these subjects as they happened to unfold historically, or as they have... been advanced by various "schools," this book pursues five basic themes that inevitably emerge in the study of law and jurisprudence: Part I – Law and Society; Part II – Freedom and Necessity; Part III – The Reach of the Law; Part IV – The Legal and the Non-Legal; and Part V – Law and Morality. While these themes do not exhaust the study of either law or jurisprudence, they do focus attention on the most important issues.