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Panchakarma ExplainedA Simple Ayurvedic Detox Guide for Busy PeopleBy Dr. Megha Patel, MD (Panchakarma)Modern life is fast, stressful, and toxic-often leaving us tired, bloated, anxious, and unwell despite medications and supplements.Panchakarma Explained is a short, simple, and practical introduction to Ayurveda's most powerful detox...

Working Effectively with Faculty: Guidebook for Higher Education Staff and Managers brings academic culture and staff challenges to life. Susan Christy's insights into staff point-of-view and faculty behavior set the stage. The book's focus is strategies and best practices for working successfully with faculty...

A comprehensive look at how colleges and universities can improve support for teaching at the institutional level and deliver the transformative learning experiences we promiseThe Best Place to Learn is a guide for higher education leaders who want to foster a culture of evidence-informed...

With insights gleaned from thirty-two years of teaching college students, seminarians, and graduate students, David Rhoads shares how he sought to create the classroom as a community of learners ripe for transformation through dialogue. He charts his personal journey struggling to generate discussion, evoke...

How CEOs and Quality Leaders Navigate AI, GMP, and Complexity Without Losing ControlPharma is not failing at digital transformation. It is failing at thinking about complexity.Despite massive investment in AI, automation, and digital initiatives, most pharmaceutical organizations feel heavier, slower, and more fragile than...

Discover What Really Drives MBA Admissions Success Applying to an elite MBA program isn't just about perfect test scores or an impressive résumé. In It's Not About You, admissions strategist Barbara Coward reveals the insider realities of MBA admissions and why the decisions schools...

The Dark Side of Academia examines harmful practices in higher education like burnout, precarity, inequality, and misconduct. It highlights pressures on health and wellbeing, discrimination, and performance demands, offering practical recommendations to support academic staff and guide policy for better workplace conditions.Author: Gayle BrewerISBN-10:...

An action-oriented guide to revitalizing higher education by putting learning at the center of institutional action. As the challenges to higher education continue to mount, we believe that the surest path forward is a renewed commitment to the primary purpose of colleges and universities:...

Ever popular and engagingly written, this book gives students a complete course in 'chemical literacy'. It is especially suitable for those studying access/foundation courses at university - but it also meets the needs of students of other disciplines (namely Forensic Science, Engineering or Health...

Navigating the Dissertation Writing Process: Finding Your Path from First Drafts to Submission is a supportive guide for the unique academic task of writing a doctoral dissertation, a process with its own-often unspoken-expectations and pressures. Dr. Krone offers clear, practical strategies for developing productive...

Shifting Blind Identities in Higher Education features accounts of how blindness and low vision intersect with other dimensions of identity for both students and faculty in higher education. Contributors from a range of institutional contexts illuminate "common but not comparable" experiences, as well as...

This book presenting several different cases from various parts of MENA region it showcases how companies cope with the changing economic and social challenges toward the longer-term sustainable development. Carefully selected a variety of case studies prepared by leading authors from the region offer...

Adjunct Faculty in Online Higher Education: Best Practices for Teaching Adult Learners is an essential handbook that delves into the pivotal role of adjunct faculty instructors in the booming realm of online higher education, with a specific focus on adult learners. As the demand...

This important study of educational reform in Russia and China brings to the global research community in comparative education a detailed and thoughtful analysis of the parallel yet divergent educational policies and developments in the two societies over the past 25 years. The intent...

Author: Xinfeng YanISBN-10: 9819913195ISBN-13: 9789819913190Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/04/2023Pages: 246Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.19lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.63d

This open access book explores the hidden politics of time--the chronopolitics--that profoundly shapes the contours of academic life and knowledge production in contemporary universities. Moving beyond familiar critiques of academic acceleration, Ulrike Felt explores the diversity of time generators and the resultant complex, multilayered...

This book investigates the form and features of governance and the factors that shape governance in practice in private universities in China. Building on an exploration of the growth of private universities in China after the Communist Party took over the power, the study...

In an era of globalization, internationalization of higher education (IHE) has been constructed as an almost inevitable trend and has become a common pursuit of many nations in their higher education (HE) policies. This book focuses on two nations, China and Australia, in terms...

Author: Xinfeng YanISBN-10: 9811688532ISBN-13: 9789811688539Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/09/2022Pages: 198Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.06lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56d

Author: Stephen BillettISBN-10: 9401772290ISBN-13: 9789401772297Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/24/2015Pages: 258Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.25lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.69d

In 1867 Kusakabe Taro, a young samurai from Fukui, Japan, began studying at Rutgers as its first foreign student. Three years later, in 1870, his former tutor, friend, and Rutgers graduate, William Elliot Griffis, left for Japan to teach English and Science for three...

This volume represents a detailed analysis of the grade placement of mathematics learning goals across all state-level curriculum standards published as of May 2005. The volume documents the varied grade-level mathematics curriculum expectations in the U.S. and highlights a general lack of consensus across...

Reports on the worldwide coverage of the collapse of academic values in higher education, and explains why that collapse is a social and cultural catastrophe, not just in the USA and the UK, but also in Australia, Germany, France and elsewhere. This title shows...

One of the greatest mathematicians of all time is reported to have said, "Mathematics reveals its secrets only to those who approach it with pure love, for its own beauty." Foundations of Mathematics is devoted to awakening such a love for Mathematics, among first...

Abriendo Puertas, Cerrando Heridas (Opening Doors, Closing Wounds): Latinas/os Finding Work-Life Balance in Academia is the newest book in the series on balancing work and life in the academy. This volume focuses on the experiences of Latina/o students, professors, and staff/administrators in higher education...

Here's a call to colleges and universities to consider implementing restorative practices on their campuses, ensuring fair treatment of students and staff while minimizing institutional liability, protecting the campus community, and boosting morale. From an associate dean of student affairs who has put these...

Female faculty underrepresentation in higher education is perpetuated by gender-based social and professional practices and roles. Existing research confirms gender disparities in faculty recruitment, retention, salary, tenure, and mentorship. This book explores how female, tenure-track faculty navigate the process of balancing their personal and...

Teacher education in the United States is changing to meet new policy demands for centering clinical practice and developing robust school-university partnerships to better prepare high-quality teachers for tomorrow's schools. PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SCHOOLS (PDSs) have recently been cited in national reports as exemplars of...

Challenging traditional notions about why successful high school graduates struggle in college, this book sheds light on the obstacles that hinder a seamless transition and provides clear guidance on how to overcome them. Author: Leonard GeddesISBN-10: 1642672882ISBN-13: 9781642672886Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/04/2023Pages: 184Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.96lbsSize:...

This book outlines case studies of innovation at Incheon National University (INU), which developed a new paradigm of innovation driven by field staff. The text itself is the product of hands-on fieldwork carried out by 275 members of the INU staff. These staff members...

The purpose of the work/life balance series is to highlight particular challenges that higher education faculty face as they participate in the demands of the academy and try to prevent those demands from invading their personal lives. On The High Wire looks at a...

In The Economics of Higher Education in the United States, editors Thomas Adam and A. Burcu Bayram have assembled five essays, adapted from the fifty-second annual Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lecture Series, that focus on the increasing cost of college--a topic that causes great...

Co-published with and In this era of "Big Data," institutions of higher education are challenged to make the most of the information they have to improve student learning outcomes, close equity gaps, keep costs down, and address the economic needs of the communities they...

Is higher education preparing our students for a world that is increasingly complex and volatile, and in which they will have to contend with uncertainty and ambiguity? Are we addressing the concerns of employers who complain that graduates do not possess the creative, critical...

Applying to college can be one of the most stressful times in a student's life. Not only are you faced with the task of finding the perfect school for you, but you also have to find scholarships to be able to go to the...

This book provides context about the experiences of Black graduate and professional students attending HBCUs. Indeed, such research is important, particularly since HBCUs play a significant role in the number of Blacks who receive doctorates and professional degrees (i.e. M.D., D.D.S., J.D. etc.), especially...

The book provides best practices from online educators who are engaged in online teaching and program development in Christian higher education. It also explores the distinct aspects of teaching and developing online courses and programs from a Christian perspective and within Christian higher education...

"Web 2.0" is a term used to describe an apparent second generation of the World Wide Web that emphasizes collaboration and sharing of knowledge and content among users. With the growing popularity of Web 2.0, there has been a burgeoning interest in education. Tools...

Validity is widely held to be the most important criterion for an assessment. Nevertheless, assessment professionals have disagreed about the meaning of validity almost from the introduction of the term as applied to testing about 100 years ago. Over the years, the best and...

This book introduces and explains this important new technology from the perspective of educators. It also provides new insights into the ways that technology can provide solutions to instructional needs that have not been sufficiently addressed until now. Not only does it provide concrete...

This compendium of papers documents educational ICT policies and practices in 37 countries, making it a valuable resource for understanding and comparing ICT-related national policy developments in education. We believe that this work offers a unique in-depth examination of the trends within major education...

Modern educators are currently ideologically in one of two camps: those who see American education as heading in the right direction, and those who fear that it has gone tragically astray. For over 100 years the American educational system has been the hope of...

This book addresses the expectations toward the science standards of various stakeholders including students, parents, teachers, administrators, higher education science and science education faculty members, politicians, governmental and professional agencies, and the business community. This book also investigates how the science standards have been...

This book presents a collection of research papers from both experienced and emerging scholars, some of whom presented their work at the international conference â ~Language Teaching and Learning in the 21st Century: Linguistic, Educational and Intercultural Aspectsâ (TM) held in June 2018 and...

As a result of current global and international forces, teaching English for academic purposes (EAP) is going through the most dynamic period in its rather short history. The internationalization of higher education, English further solidifying its role as the lingua franca every single day,...

This collection highlights research conducted by academics from the fields of science and English language studies. The contributions gathered here bring out the importance of using a translanguaging approach to teaching subject content. The volume responds to the generally agreed custom among academics that...

This volume is focused on the teaching and acquisition of language for special, professional or general purposes, as well as the needs and challenges associated with foreign language pedagogy in English for Specific Purposes (ESP) or, more generally, Language for Specific Purposes (LSP). It...

Right from its formal introduction in India in 1835, through Thomas B. Macaulayâ (TM)s Minute, English has been intrinsically linked with the employment prospects of Indians. During their regime, the British promoted English education to fulfil the requirement of English-knowing Indians for administrative purposes....

"This reference set explores the current state of pre-service teacher programs as well as continuing education initiatives for in-service educators, emphasizing the growing role of technology in teacher skill development and training as well as key teaching methods and pedagogical developments"--Author: Information Reso Management...

Do you want to write an Extraordinary College Essay that will get you into the college of your dreams? Then this is the book for you! It was written by a former Admissions Officer who knows what type of essays stand out. What This...