Added by: susan6th | Karma: 3133.45 | Fiction literature | 6 September 2010
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The School of Possibilities
This import explores themes of education, family, freedom, and rebellion through an innovative and entertaining narrative. Labeled an impossible child because of his skateboarding and other impulsive behaviors, 12-year-old Storm is sent to the School of Possibilities, where desperate children learn obedience. The boy soon experiences bizarre methods of discipline that include an assigned best friend who is clearly an enemy and a variety of subtle and overt humiliations from school staff and model students.
This resource brings together games new and old from around the world, creating a wonderful collection for parents to explore with their families. The activities can be used any time parents, teachers, camp counselors, and other adults want to encourage laughing and learning and engage children in a positive and fun-filled way. There are games to play at the beach, while camping, in the car, on the plane, and elsewhere. Sample games include Word Tennis, Treasure Hunt, and Storytelling Starters, and photographs and illustrations enhance the play experience.
Added by: ella_sabe | Karma: 85.27 | Fiction literature | 22 August 2010
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Leonato, a kindly, respectable nobleman, lives in the idyllic Italian town of Messina. Leonato shares his house with his lovely young daughter, Hero, his playful, clever niece, Beatrice, and his elderly brother, Antonio. As the play begins, Leonato prepares to welcome some friends home from a war. The friends include Don Pedro, a prince who is a close friend of Leonato, and two fellow soldiers:..
The authors show that the best way to develop proficiency in translating is by making students aware of the nature of translation as a problem-solving tool. Through discussion backed by concrete examples and practical applications, predominantly in translating French to English, students will acquire the skills necessary to deal intelligently with a wide range of translation problems. Areas covered include economic journalism, poetry, theater, and film subtitling, as well as consumer manuals and scientific and technical texts.
Geometric Partial Differential Equations and Image Analysis
This book provides an introduction to the use of geometric partial differential equations in image processing and computer vision. It brings a number of new concepts into the field, providing a very fundamental and formal approach to image processing. State-of-the-art practical results in a large number of real problems are achieved with the techniques described. Applications covered include image segmentation, shape analysis, image enhancement, and tracking.
