Reads R to L (Japanese Style), for audiences T+

Cross over into the world of Vampire Knight with the lush, full-color artwork of Matsuri Hino. Includes an extensive gallery with author comments, a how-to tutorial, and an exclusive poster.

Reads R to L (Japanese Style), for audiences T+

Some children, for all manner of reasons, struggle to make friends and fit in socially. What's the Buzz? is a unique sixteen-lesson social skills enrichment programme designed to explicitly teach children how to think and relate to others in social situations.

This lively, highly practical role-play and play-based programme targets everyday themes: how to greet, make and keep friends, fit in, read one's own emotions, read the feelings of others, deal with competition and cope with worry, frustration and disappointment more constructively. Based on an extensive body of research believed to stimulate social thinking and accomplish powerful outcomes, whatÆs the Buzz? is:

Sequenced it follows a logical breakdown of each skill

Active it uses role-plays and rehearsal with feedback

Focused it dedicates time solely towards teaching a specific skill

Explicit it teaches a specific social/emotional skill each session.

The programme has proven wide appeal to teachers, counselors, psychologists, teaching assistants, support staff and parent volunteers in schools. While tailored for small specific groups of children, it also has a broader multi-purpose scope with larger mainstream classes. Each lesson also includes extensive notes offering parents and teachers handy ideas to reinforce the themes presented.

With the advances in image guided surgery for cancer treatment, the role of image segmentation and registration has become very critical. The central engine of any image guided surgery product is its ability to quantify the organ or segment the organ whether it is a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computed tomography (CT), X-ray, PET, SPECT, Ultrasound, and Molecular imaging modality. Sophisticated segmentation algorithms can help the physicians delineate better the anatomical structures present in the input images, enhance the accuracy of medical diagnosis and facilitate the best treatment planning system designs. The focus of this book in towards the state of the art techniques in the area of image segmentation and registration.

The perception-action cycle is the circular flow of information that takes place between the organism and its environment in the course of a sensory-guided sequence of behaviour towards a goal. Each action causes changes in the environment that are analyzed bottom-up through the perceptual hierarchy and lead to the processing of further action, top-down through the executive hierarchy, toward motor effectors. These actions cause new changes that are analyzed and lead to new action, and so the cycle continues. The Perception-action cycle: Models, architectures and hardware book provides focused and easily accessible reviews of various aspects of the perception-action cycle. It is an unparalleled resource of information that will be an invaluable companion to anyone in constructing and developing models, algorithms and hardware implementations of autonomous machines empowered with cognitive capabilities. The book is divided into three main parts. In the first part, leading computational neuroscientists present brain-inspired models of perception, attention, cognitive control, decision making, conflict resolution and monitoring, knowledge representation and reasoning, learning and memory, planning and action, and consciousness grounded on experimental data. In the second part, architectures, algorithms, and systems with cognitive capabilities and minimal guidance from the brain, are discussed. These architectures, algorithms, and systems are inspired from the areas of cognitive science, computer vision, robotics, information theory, machine learning, computer agents and artificial intelligence. In the third part, the analysis, design and implementation of hardware systems with robust cognitive abilities from the areas of mechatronics, sensing technology, sensor fusion, smart sensor networks, control rules, controllability, stability, model/knowledge representation, and reasoning are discussed.

Introduces fables and describes how to identify a legend by its themes, content, and setting, and includes selected famous legends and explains how to critically and creatively analyze each one.

Pochi pensano che i litigi nascano a causa della (dis)organizzazione della memoria e della scarsa conoscenza degli automatismi decisionali propri e delle altre persone. Questi automatismi (motori, percettivi, cognitivi, decisionali) ci fanno spesso prendere decisioni avventate e controproducenti, basta conoscerli per avere una vita molto più serena! Gli automatismi sono stati collettivamente chiamati "inconscio", ma non sono inconsci, sono solo automatici! Conoscere i propri automatismi e quelli dell'antagonista è essenziale per poter evitare conflitti dovuti alla personalità e ricercare informazioni veritiere, accurate, complete e aggiornate partire dalle quali si può ragionare.

Reads R to L (Japanese Style), for T audiences. Cross Game is a moving drama that is heartfelt and true, yet in the brilliant hands of manga artist Mitsuru Adachi, delightfully flows with a light and amusing touch. The series centers around a boy named Ko, the family of four sisters who live down the street and the game of baseball. This poignant coming-of-age story will change your perception of what shonen manga can be.

 

Wakaba's last dream before she set off on that fateful day was of Ko pitching in front of a packed house at Koshien. Ko's been training every day since, trying to emulate the best pitcher he knows—Wakaba's sister Aoba. But will Aoba's seeming hostility toward him and a new high school coach who only cares about winning prevent Ko from ful?lling the dream?

La storia di un'amicizia e due amori, di orbite incerte in una costellazione improbabile. Il numero tre come complessità, opposto al due come possibilità di futuro, perché sembra sopravvivere ciò che appare meno sfolgorante ed immediato, ma più sfumato e dimesso. Perché costruire è un'opera paziente, quasi nascosta tra le pieghe della quotidianità. Un libro che, come un vino in barrique, è stato riposto per dodici anni, in attesa del tempo giusto.

Jean-Joseph Surin, gesuita francese, è tra i più grandi mistici del XVII secolo, ma anche uno dei più dimenticati. Molti ne sono rimasti affascinati: da Bossuet a Fénelon, da Teresa di Lisieux a Raïssa Maritain. L'eccezionale statura spirituale di Surin è stata a lungo oscurata dalla sua malattia mentale e dalle intricate vicende che l'hanno visto coinvolto in strani fenomeni di possessione diabolica a Loudun. Nel '900 è stato riscoperto da studiosi di fama mondiale come Brémond e De Certeau. La sua luce fruga nelle pieghe nascoste dell'anima. La sua penna sferzante richiama le esigenze radicali dell'amore di Dio. Dotato di solide basi teologiche e di un gusto letterario raffinato, Surin si esprime con linguaggio semplice e diretto. Come tutti i grandi, riesce a condensare la ricchezza della sua proposta in poche idee che ripete con insistenza e rappresenta con efficace concretezza visiva. Quest'ampia antologia del suo Epistolario consente di accostare un'esperienza mistica di eccezionale qualità. Le lettere qui presentate (116 delle 594 dell'edizione critica di M. de Certeau) sono state raggruppate dal curatore per temi che ben riassumono il pensiero di Surin: esperienza mistica e vita di fede e di apostolato, gioia mistica e fatica ascetica. Indici e prospetti sinottici permettono di rintracciare ogni lettera.

Reads R to L (Japanese Style), for T+ audiences. The Night Class at Cross Academy has been abolished. Zero still attends the Day Class while carrying out his duties as a vampire hunter. Yuki now lives hidden away at the Kuran residence with Kaname, but can she embrace the life of a pureblood vampire?

Reads R to L (Japanese Style) T+ audience.

Cross Adademy is attended by two groups of students: the Day Class and the Night Class. At twilight, when the students of the Day Class return to their dorm, they cross paths with the Night Class on their way to school. Yuki Cross and Zero Kiryu are the Guardians of the school, protecting the Day Class from the Academy's dark secret: the Night Class is full of vampires!

Includes volumes 1-10 and an exclusive Cross Academy Day Class Planner.

Reads R to L (Japanese Style), for T audiences. Cross Game is a moving drama that is heartfelt and true, yet in the brilliant hands of manga artist Mitsuru Adachi, delightfully flows with a light and amusing touch. The series centers around a boy named Ko, the family of four sisters who live down the street and the game of baseball. This poignant coming-of-age story will change your perception of what shonen manga can be.

Reads R to L (Japanese Style), for T+ audiences. Get the inside scoop on Vampire Knight! This profile book contains extensive information on the characters, setting, and storylines of Vampire Knight - everything from storyboards and character design sketches to details about the vampire society to fun poll results. It also includes glossy color pages, a student ID card, and an interview with Matsuri Hino!

Action! Open the working clapper board to find everything an aspiring filmmaker needs to make a cool movie using a digital camera or cell phone.

Do you know the difference between a close-up and a mid shot? A tilt and a pan? What does a camera’s point of view have to do with telling a story? From gathering simple equipment to outlining a script, from choosing a location to mastering the art of lighting and directing with finesse, MOVIE MAKER offers expert guidance (and top tips from professionals) to help kids create short dramas, comedies, documentaries, and even animations. Its special features include:
* A working clapper-board/chalkboard
* A 48-page, illustrated director’s handbook
* A fill-in storyboard
* A CD of sound effects
* Costuming and props such as push-out mustaches and tattoo stickers
* Animation aids, including a push-out studio set and characters
* Premiere night essentials: push-out tickets, a poster template, and more!

For centuries Nostradamus has been considered to be a divinely inspired prophet and astrologer whose prophecies have predicted Adolf Hitler, the 9-11 terrorist attacks, and even the world's end in 2012. Were his prophecies in fact the product of his divine inspiration, or was he just an ordinary man? This book by Lemesurier, author of The Nostradamus Encyclopedia, claims that Nostradamus was simply a bibliomancer who projected historical events into the future at random. The author's claim is backed here by a wealth of evidence; for example, of the over 6,000 prophecies made by Nostradamus only a handful have come true. Included with this book is a CD of facsimiles of Nostradamus's prophecies. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

While taking a class on infinity at Stanford in the late 1980s, Ravi Kapoor discovers that he is confronting the same mathematical and philosophical dilemmas that his mathematician grandfather had faced many decades earlier--and that had landed him in jail. Charged under an obscure blasphemy law in a small New Jersey town in 1919, Vijay Sahni is challenged by a skeptical judge to defend his belief that the certainty of mathematics can be extended to all human knowledge--including religion. Together, the two men discover the power--and the fallibility--of what has long been considered the pinnacle of human certainty, Euclidean geometry. As grandfather and grandson struggle with the question of whether there can ever be absolute certainty in mathematics or life, they are forced to reconsider their fundamental beliefs and choices. Their stories hinge on their explorations of parallel developments in the study of geometry and infinity--and the mathematics throughout is as rigorous and fascinating as the narrative and characters are compelling and complex.Moving and enlightening, A Certain Ambiguity is a story about what it means to face the extent--and the limits--of human knowledge.

Papers presented at a seminar organized at Jawaharlal Nehru University on Mar., 2007.

R to L (Japanese Style). Cross over to the night and meet your knights in shining darkness.

Cross Adademy is attended by two groups of students: the Day Class and the Night Class. At twilight, when the students of the Day Class return to their dorm, they cross paths with the Night Class on their way to school. Yuki Cross and Zero Kiryu are the Guardians of the school, protecting the Day Class from the Academy's dark secret: the Night Class is full of vampires!

Rido is gone, but the battle rages on at Cross Academy. The Night Class is still under attack, and Headmaster Cross has joined the war to protect his students. Zero, however, has vowed to get rid of all the Purebloods--including Yuki!

This volume brings together more than 50 documents which examine foreign policy not only in terms of leaders and states, but also through social movements, cultures, ideas, and images, to provide comprehensive understanding of how Americans have interacted with the wider world since 1898.

• Draws together over 50 primary documents to give readers a first-hand account of the people and events that shaped the foreign policy of the United States
• Incorporates documents relating not only to leaders and states, but also to social movements, cultures, ideas, and images
• Highlights the diverse range of contributors to debates about American foreign policy, from presidents to protesters, students to singers
• Includes a comprehensive introduction to the subject and headnotes for each document written by the editor, as well as a bibliography for further study

Suri (emeritus industrial engineering, U. of Wisconsin-Madison) led a coalition of companies and academics investigating quick response manufacturing for a decade and a half, and wrote the first comprehensive account of it 10 years ago. Here he yields to pleas for something not quite so comprehensive, a lighter treatment that would allow managers and other executives to grasp the basic outlines without impeding their lunch schedule. He sets out in succinct form the core concepts of the power of time, organizational structure, system dynamics, and enterprise-wide application. A final chapter provides a road map for implementing quick response manufacturing. The accompanying disk contains appendices with calculating methods and examples. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

R to L (Japanese Style). Cross over to the night. Meet your knights in shining darkness.

Cross Adademy is attended by two groups of students: the Day Class and the Night Class. At twilight, when the students of the Day Class return to their dorm, they cross paths with the Night Class on their way to  school. Yuki Cross and Zero Kiryu are the Guardians of the school, protecting the Day Class from the Academy's dark secret: the Night Class is full of vampires!

A war among vampires has started at Cross Academy, and even Day Class students are being attacked. Kaname finally reveals his hidden plan to Zero, and Zero must choose on which side he will fight. But in order for Zero to defeat the enemy, he will have to take part in an atrocious act...

Rich in detail, Hippocampal Microcircuits: A Computational Modeler's Resource Book provides succinct and focused reviews of experimental results. It is an unparalleled resource of data and methodology that will be invaluable to anyone wishing to develop computational models of the microcircuits of the hippocampus. The editors have divided the material into two thematic areas. Covering the subject's experimental background, leading neuroscientists discuss the morphological, physiological and molecular characteristics as well as the connectivity and synaptic properties of the various cell types found in the hippocampus. Here, ensemble activity, related to behavior, on the part of morphologically identified neurons in anesthetized and freely moving animals, lead to insights into the functions of hippocampal areas. In the second section, on computational analysis, computational neuroscientists present models of hippocampal microcircuits at various levels of detail, including single-cell and network levels. A full chapter is devoted to the single-neuron and network simulation environments currently used by computational neuroscientists in developing their models.In addition to the above, the chapters also identify outstanding questions and areas in need of further clarification that will guide future research by computational neuroscientists.

Una divertente e sarcastica commedia che disegna con ironia i vizi e le magagne di un onorevole, simbolo di certa rappresentanza politica italiana. In un paradossale gioco di ruoli, emerge la verità nascosta nelle stanze di un Ministero e nell'intimità della lussuosa abitazione del ministro. Ma la pubblica opinione non è ancora pronta per guardare in faccia la realtà e preferisce schermarsi dietro al dubbio, l''insinuazione, perché '"quando lo scontro con la realtà ci provoca questa sorta di delusione, facciamo ricorso a tutta la nostra immaginazione per riaggrapparci a nuovi, piacevoli sospetti". A questo punto, solo un colpo di scena può ristabilire un equilibrio frantumato...

In una società destrutturata e disorientata appare prezioso uno sforzo di riflessione sul tema dell'orientamento. Ed è quanto si è proposta di fare qui l'autrice del presente saggio, utilizzando come strumento euristico il Comprehensive School Guidance Programs, il Modello di orientamento globale elaborato da Norman C. Gysbers e dalla sua scuola, opportunamente adattato al nuovo contesto. Si tenta, infatti, un'analisi e uno sforzo di riflessione sulle strutture di orientamento presenti nelle "agenzie" territoriali del Lazio, con particolare riguardo alle strutture universitarie che operano istituzionalmente nella regione. All'università si chiede sì di fornire e trasmettere saperi e saperi utili, ma anche di far da ponte con il mondo reale della società concreta in cui si entra con saperi fattualmente negoziabili. Il che impone al mondo universitario un orientamento di ingresso e un orientamento in uscita. È su questi temi che si è soffermata la giovane autrice, temi rilevanti, oggi più delicati e importanti di ieri, visto il clima di incertezza che attanaglia la società attuale.