L'unica cosa che Suzy vuole fare è giocare, l'unica cosa che il gatto vuole fare è... nascondersi! Un albo dolcissimo sul rapporto, non sempre facile, tra bambini e gatti. Età di lettura: da 3 anni.

Il libro perfetto per parlare di emozioni con i bambini. Tutti hanno bisogno di felicità nella vita, ma questa può essere difficile da trovare e a volte sembra lontanissima. Eppure c'è un posto dove è sempre possibile sempre trovarla, basta saperla riconoscere, perché la felicità comincia da noi! Un albo illustrato delicato che riesce a spiegare ai bambini (ma non solo) cosa vuol dire essere felici e come mai, alle volte, la felicità può sembrare così difficile e lontana da raggiungere. Con le illustrazioni vivaci e coloratissime di Eva Eland. Età di lettura: da 3 anni.

Il libro perfetto per parlare di emozioni con i bambini. A volte la tristezza arriva quando meno te lo aspetti. Ti segue dappertutto, ti rimane appiccicata addosso e se provi a scacciarla non funziona. Ma questo strano ospite potrebbe rivelarsi diverso la ciò che sembra e, forse, vuole solo essere ascoltato... Un albo illustrato semplice ma estremamente efficace per spiegare ai bambini (ma non solo) un sentimento difficile ed impalpabile come la tristezza. Con le illustrazioni vivaci e coloratissime di Eva Eland. Età di lettura: da 3 anni.

Tutti hanno bisogno di felicità nella vita, ma questa può essere difficile da trovare e a volte sembra lontanissima. Eppure c'è un posto dove si può sempre trovare la felicità, ed e il posto dove dobbiamo ritornare. Età di lettura: da 3 anni.

A volte la tristezza arriva quando meno te lo aspetti. Ma questo strano ospite potrebbe rivelarsi diverso da ciò che sembra... Età di lettura: da 3 anni.

The more softly the word is pronounced
The more ardent, the more miraculous.
The less it dreams of becoming a song
That much nearer it draws to music.
-from "Apollo in the Grass"

For the Nobel laureate Joseph Brodsky, the poems of Aleksandr Kushner were essential: "Kushner is one of the best Russian lyric poets of the twentieth century, and his name is destined to rank with those close to the heart of everyone whose mother tongue is Russian."

Apollo in the Grass is the first collection in English translation of Kushner's post-Soviet poems, and also includes certain earlier ones that could not be published during the Soviet era.

Kushner speaks to us from a place where the mythic and the historic coexist with the everyday, where Odysseus is one of us, and the "stern voice" of history can transform any public square into a harrowing schoolroom. This layering of times and events is also embodied in Kushner's distinctive poetic voice. Echoes of earlier Russian poets and styles enrich and complicate an idiom that is utterly natural and contemporary.

Now, as in the Soviet era, Kushner's work is especially cherished for its exemplary stoic integrity. But these lyrical poems are also pieces of exquisite chamber music, songs where poetry dazzles but "greatness is . . . sooner scaled to the heart / Than to anything very enormous."

For the Nobel laureate Joseph Brodsky, the poems of Aleksandr Kushner were essential: "Kushner is one of the best Russian lyric poets of the twentieth century, and his name is destined to rank with those close to the heart of everyone whose mother tongue is Russian."

Apollo in the Grass is the first collection in English translation of Kushner's post-Soviet poems, and also includes certain earlier ones that could not be published during the Soviet era.

Kushner speaks to us from a place where the mythic and the historic coexist with the everyday, where Odysseus is one of us, and the "stern voice" of history can transform any public square into a harrowing schoolroom. This layering of times and events is also embodied in Kushner's distinctive poetic voice. Echoes of earlier Russian poets and styles enrich and complicate an idiom that is utterly natural and contemporary.

Now, as in the Soviet era, Kushner's work is especially cherished for its exemplary stoic integrity. But these lyrical poems are also pieces of exquisite chamber music, songs where poetry dazzles but "greatness is . . . sooner scaled to the heart / Than to anything very enormous."

'Kalman filter, particle filter, IMM, PDA, ITS, random sets . . . The number of useful object tracking methods is exploding. But how are they related? How do they help to track everything from aircraft, missiles and extra-terrestrial objects to people and lymphocyte cells? How can they be adapted to novel applications? Fundamentals of Object Tracking tells you how. Starting with the generic object tracking problem, it outlines the generic Bayesian solution. It then shows systematically how to formulate the major tracking problems - maneuvering, multi-object, clutter, out-of-sequence sensors - within this Bayesian framework and how to derive the standard tracking solutions. This structured approach makes very complex object tracking algorithms accessible to the growing number of users working on real-world tracking problems and supports them in designing their own tracking filters under their unique application constraints. The book concludes with a chapter on issues critical to the successful implementation of tracking algorithms, such as track initialization and merging'--

Utilizing Nightingale's personal history, writings, and philosophy, authors Dossey, Selanders (nursing, Michigan State University), Beck (Nightingale Initiative for Global Health), and Attewell (The Florence Nightingale Museum, UK) look to revitalize the nursing profession in light of the current international crisis in health care. The first three parts of this book each focus on one of Nightingale's tenets: healing, leadership, and global action. Using an interpretive biographical approach, the text intertwines primary sources and life stories to give significance and relevance to Nightingale's legacy. In part four, the book provides the entire, unedited collection of her letters to nurses and the essay, 'Sick-Nursing and Health Nursing.' Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)