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.

Camille sta per laurearsi in Giurisprudenza proprio alla vigilia dei suoi 21 anni. Vive felicemente con i genitori e la meravigliosa nonna Kiwi. Può contare, inoltre, sull'affetto incondizionato dei suoi due inseparabili amici: Thendie e Danweel. D'improvviso, però, ogni cosa cambia. Un'apparente malattia la costringe a letto per giorni, quasi in uno stato di trance. Al risveglio, tutto appare diverso: il suo aspetto, i suoi sensi. Comincia, soprattutto, a sentire una voce familiare che si insinua nei suoi pensieri. Non sembrano esserci spiegazioni plausibili, fino a quando sua nonna Kiwi non le racconta una leggenda sulle radici della loro famiglia. Una storia di due ragazzi, due amanti, due creature della notte, tragicamente morte secoli prima. Maledizioni, profezie e strane sensazioni entrano, quindi, a far parte della sua quotidianità. Camille riuscirà a ritrovare il suo antico amore reincarnatosi in un giovane che compare improvvisamente nella sua vita. Ma, quando tutto sembra andare per il meglio, si scoprirà che nulla è come sembra...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptology and Information Security, ASIACRYPT 2009, held in Tokyo, Japan, in December 2009.The 41 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 298 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on block ciphers, quantum and post-quantum, hash functions I, encryption schemes, multi party computation, cryptographic protocols, hash funtions II, models and frameworks I, cryptoanalysis: square and quadratic, models and framework II, hash functions III, lattice-based, and side channels.

R to L (Japanese Style).

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!

 

After trying to recall her past, Yuki's hallucinations become more vivid and she tries to strangle Zero during a fit of madness. Locked in her room, all she can see is a world dyed in blood, but Kaname comes for her. He tells her it's time to wake up and sinks his fangs into her neck…

How can you really make a difference for your students?

Teaching Tough Kids delivers a refreshing collection of realistic ideas to sustain the organisational and behavioural transformations of all students, particularly those who 'do it tough'; who learn and react differently. They are complex kids who find life tougher than most. Managing their emotion and behaviour presents educators with a spectacular challenge in schools today, and numbers are on the rise.

Filled with inspirational case studies, this book focuses on building improved relationships, structures and behaviours, rather than seeing the student as 'the problem' that must be fixed. Highlighting the value of promoting positive connections with students of all ages, the author presents ways to incorporate inclusive ideas into everyday practice and construct pathways for students to become engaged in their learning and achieve success.

This stimulating book shows teachers how to:

• build student connectedness to learning;
• set achievable goals for each individual child;
• support emotional stability;
• strengthen organisation patterns;
• address behavioural issues;
• improve homework planning;
• create friendships and deal with bullying.

Teaching Tough Kids takes a particularly close focus on students identified with Learning Disability, Attention Deficit Disorder, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Oppositional Defiant Disorder and Asperger Syndrome. Another group of students with executive functioning difficulties are emerging in schools. These are the kids who have endured neglect or too much stress and uncertainty in their lives and as a result display classic symptoms of hyperactivity, hyper vigilance and impulsivity.

Teaching Tough Kids will be of immense interest to teachers, student teachers, staff in Pupil Referral Units, SENCos and all those involved with Behaviour Support work.

At twilight at the Cross Academy, when the students of the Day Class return to their dorm, they cross paths with the Night Class on their way to school, but it's up to Yuki Cross and Zero Kiryu, the Guardians of the school, to protect the Day Class from the Academy's dark secret: the Night Class is full of vampires! Original.

R to L (Japanese Style). Convinced that finding the jewel of the Dragon God will release the Kuroishi family from their curse, Megumi and Suzuka travel to China together. But even if they succeed in their mission, can Megumi ever truly be free from Suzuka?

R to L (Japanese Style)

Carefree Megumi Kuroishi was living a life of luxury until the day a girl named Suzuka Kogami walked into his life. All of a sudden, Megumi finds himself kneeling at Suzuka's feet and prostrating himself like a servant! What Megumi doesn't know (until that very moment anyway) is that his family is cursed to follow the orders of the Kogami family.

Suzuka becomes steeped in jealousy when she observes Megumi's interactions with Rui, the maid. But with the curse in the way, can Suzuka ever hope to have a normal relationship with Megumi?

What made Henry Kissinger the kind of diplomat he was? What experiences and influences shaped his worldview and provided the framework for his approach to international relations? Jeremi Suri offers a thought-provoking, interpretive study of one of the most influential and controversial political figures of the twentieth century.

Drawing on research in more than six countries in addition to extensive interviews with Kissinger and others, Suri analyzes the sources of Kissinger's ideas and power and explains why he pursued the policies he did. Kissinger's German-Jewish background, fears of democratic weakness, belief in the primacy of the relationship between the United States and Europe, and faith in the indispensable role America plays in the world shaped his career and his foreign policy. Suri shows how Kissinger's early years in Weimar and Nazi Germany, his experiences in the U.S. Army and at Harvard University, and his relationships with powerful patrons--including Nelson Rockefeller and Richard Nixon--shed new light on the policymaker.

Kissinger's career was a product of the global changes that made the American Century. He remains influential because his ideas are rooted so deeply in dominant assumptions about the world. In treating Kissinger fairly and critically as a historical figure, without polemical judgments, Suri provides critical context for this important figure. He illuminates the legacies of Kissinger's policies for the United States in the twenty-first century.

R to L (Japanese Style)

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!

Yuki sneaks into an exclusive vampire party and sees Aido's parents introducing their daughter to Kaname. They, like many other Night Class parents, desire an alliance with the pureblood. Kaname is the most eligible bachelor in the vampire society--but will he choose Yuki?

R to L (Japanese Style)

Carefree Megumi Kuroishi was living a life of luxury until the day a girl named Suzuka Kogami walked into his life. All of a sudden, Megumi finds himself kneeling at Suzuka's feet and prostrating himself like a servant! What Megumi doesn't know (until that very moment anyway) is that his family is cursed to follow the orders of the Kogami family.

Megumi sets out to China to find a cure for his curse, but it appears that even his health worsens if he is away from his master. Meanwhile, a maid in the Kogami household swears to make Megumi hers!

Security has long trumped democracy as a priority for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). But the brutal dictatorship in Burma/Myanmar, political pluralism in Indonesia, and the global growth of democratic norms have led some Southeast Asians to question ASEAN's habit of turning a blind eye to domestic abuses by member states. The concept of regional security, meanwhile, is being reoriented from military threats toward new dangers to health and the environment and from state security toward human security.Will promoting democracy cause local autocrats to hunker down and split ASEAN into hostile camps? Will ignoring demands for democracy allow domestic pressures to rise to dangerous levels? Should Burma/Myanmar be expelled or engaged? How should ASEAN respond to nontraditional threats to security in which member states are themselves implicated? In Hard Choices, experts grapple with these and other key and controversial questions for Southeast Asia today and tomorrow.

An emerging field of discrete differential geometry aims at the development of discrete equivalents of notions and methods of classical differential geometry. The latter appears as a limit of a refinement of the discretization. Current interest in discrete differential geometry derives not only from its importance in pure mathematics but also from its applications in computer graphics, theoretical physics, architecture, and numerics. Rather unexpectedly, the very basic structures of discrete differential geometry turn out to be related to the theory of Integrable systems. One of the main goals of this book Is to reveal this integrable structure of discrete differential geometry.
The intended audience of this book is threefold. It is a textbook on discrete differential geometry and integrable systems suitable for a one semester graduate course. On the other hand, it is addressed to specialists in geometry and mathematical physics. It reflects the recent progress in discrete differential geometry and contains many original results. The third group of readers at which this book is targeted is formed by specialists in geometry processing, computer graphics, architectural design, numerical simulations, and animation. They may find here answers to the question 'How do we discretize differential geometry?' arising in their specific field.

Fate plays an unusual trick on a privileged boy in this adorable shojo!

Megumi decides he wants to become a formal servant of the Kogami family so he can be worthy of Suzuka's love. But when wealthy heir Hiryu arrives to claim Suzuka as his bride, can Megumi even compete?

Carefree Megumi Kuroishi was living a life of luxury until the day a girl named Suzuka Kogami walked into his life. All of a sudden, Megumi finds himself kneeling at Suzuka's feet and prostrating himself like a servant! What Megumi doesn't know (until that very moment anyway) is that his family is cursed to follow the orders of the Kogami family.

Cosa percepiscono i bambini nei primi mesi di vita? Quali sono i loro limiti di memoria e di attenzione? La loro intelligenza è innata o è il risultato delle esperienze? Come acquisiscono i concetti e il linguaggio? A che età imparano a ragionare secondo le regole della logica e della probabilità? Come spiegare lo sviluppo atipico? A queste e molte altre domande danno risposta gli studi sullo sviluppo cognitivo. Questo volume offre al lettore una guida critica e aggiornata d per orientarsi nel vasto panorama di ricerche empiriche e spiegazioni teoriche. Gli studi e i dibattiti attualmente in corso sono suddivisi in base ai domini di conoscenza più studiati nei bambini: gli oggetti e l'energia fisica, i numeri naturali e le operazioni aritmetiche, le cause biologiche, i processi vitali e la teoria della mente.

Il trust, oggi conosciuto in numerosi ordinamenti giuridici, è disciplinato dalle norme proprie di ciascun Paese: particolare, questo, che rende più difficile individuare una definizione valida per ogni giurisdizione in cui l'istituto è diffuso. Di derivazione anglosassone, nel nostro ordinamento il trust ha ottenuto riconoscimento giuridico a seguito della Convenzione dell'Aja del 1° Luglio 1985, ratificata dall'Italia (L. n. 364/89) mediante un complesso di regole di diritto internazionale privato. Gli autori analizzano i temi legati al trust in tutte le possibili varianti: da quelle riguardanti la disciplina civilistica e fiscale, al possibile utilizzo dell'istituto nell'ambito delle procedure concorsuali e nella gestione della crisi d'impresa.

Covering a broad range of fundamental topics in classical optics and electro-magnetism, this updated, second edition contains 13 new chapters, which cover many topics of fundamental significance as well as practical importance. The first half of the book deals primarily with the basic concepts of optics, while the second half describes how these concepts can be used in a variety of technological applications. Each chapter is concerned with a single topic, developing an understanding of the subject through the use of diagrams, examples, numerical simulations, and logical arguments. The mathematical content is kept to a minimum to provide the reader with insightful discussions of optical phenomena.

The Age of Shiva is at once a powerful story of a country in turmoil and an 'unflinchingly honest' portrait of maternal love—'intricately interwoven with the ancient rites and myths' (Booklist) crucial to India's history. Meera, the narrator, is seventeen years old when she catches her first glimpse of Dev, performing a song so infused with passion that it arouses in her the first flush of erotic longing. She wonders if she can steal him away from Roopa, her older, more beautiful sister, who has brought her along to see him.

It is only when her son is born that Meera begins to imagine a life of fulfillment. She engulfs him with a love so deep, so overpowering, that she must fear its consequences.

Meera's unforgettable story, embodying Shiva as a symbol of religious upheaval, places The Age of Shiva among the most compelling novels to emerge from contemporary India. Reading group guide included.

Fate plays an unusual trick on a privileged boy in this adorable shojo!

Being carried around everywhere and having handsome Megumi act like a slave may seem ideal, but Suzuka just wishes he would stop. Can anything be done about Megumi's captive state? Or is Megumi doomed to see Suzuka as his master...forever?

Carefree Megumi Kuroishi was living a life of luxury until the day a girl named Suzuka Kogami walked into his life. All of a sudden, Megumi finds himself kneeling at Suzuka's feet and prostrating himself like a servant! What Megumi doesn't know (until that very moment anyway) is that his family is cursed to follow the orders of the Kogami family.