Книги. Художественная литература. Учебники и пособия.

Eileen Spinelli

Book Description In this backyard garden, each memory is harvested like a giant orange pumpkin, each hardship is weathered like a sudden winter snowfall, each relative is nurtured like a fresh fragile sapling, and love blossoms like flowers all year round. The acclaimed, best-selling author of Sophie's Masterpiece, When Mama Comes Home Tonight , and Somebody Loves You, Mr. Hatch invites young readers to step out the back door and into a family garden where plants aren't the only things growing.

C. K. Williams

Book Description New work from the Pulitzer-Prize winning author of Repair . . . Reality has put itself so solidly before me there's little need for mystery . . . Except for us, for how we take the world to us, and make it more, more than we are, more even than itself. --from "The World" In his first volume since Repair, C. K. Williams treats the characteristic subjects of a poet's maturity--the loss of friends, the love of grandchildren, the receding memories of childhood, the baffling illogic of current events--with an intensity and drive that recall not only his recent work but also his early books, published forty years ago. He gazes at a Rembrandt self-portrait, and from it fashions a self-portrait of his own. He ponders an "anatomical effigy" at the Museum of Mankind, an in so doing "dissects" our common humanity. Stoking a fire at a house in the country, he recalls a friend who was burned horribly in war, and then turns, with eloquence and...

Chris Ransick

Book DescriptionIn Colorado Book Award Winner Chris Ransick's Never Summer: Poems From Thin Air, poetry flows like a stream collecting the debris of love, fear, and frailty. At each eddying current, tiny details of everyday life are exquisitely unfurledand enlarged to reveal a world as familiar as a child falling asleep on her father's shoulder; as whimsical as an afternoon spent watching girls playing rugby; as unnatural as the dead dancing in the snow. Approachable and imaginative, Ransick's authentic collection received accolades upon its original publication. Here it is againa?"with ten new poemsa?"to rediscover or explore anew.

Calvin N. Smith

Book DescriptionThis work has three major sub-goals: first, to give a history of cats in general from earliest recorded times to the present. Second, to cover 26 different cats (or cat species) in alphabetical order, so the reader has a representative feline for each of the alphabet's 26 letters. Third, to accomplish these ends through poetry. The poetic mode was chosen to give reader a little different slant on each covered cat's special qualities and temperament. An additional prose portion gives the reader a straightforward description of each cat's natural territory and a brief coverage of its special talents and challenges. The overall goal was to make learning about cats both fun and educational and make us more fully appreciate our feline friends. Download DescriptionThis work has three major sub-goals: first, to give a history of cats in general from earliest recorded times to the present. Second, to cover 26 different cats (or cat species) in alphabetical order,...

Charles Brooks

Herman Melville

Book Description Best known as the creator of Captain Ahab and the great white whale of Moby-Dick, Herman Melville also wrote short stories for two of the nineteenth century’s leading monthly magazines, Harper's and Putnam's. Thiscollection features 14 selections of his tales from those magazines--most prominently, "The Encantadas or Enchanted Isles," a series of descriptive sketches of the Galapagos Islands. The other stories showcase Melville's mastery of many forms, from poetry and satire to social criticism. These rediscovered tales by a writer ahead of his time offer a captivating blend of artistry and cultural commentary. Contents Cock-A-Doodle-Doo! or, The Crowing of the Noble Cock Beneventano The Encantadas or Enchanted Isles The Two Temples Poor Man’s Pudding and Rich Man’s Crumbs The Happy Failure: A Story of the River Hudson The Lightning-Rod Man The Fiddler The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids The...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed postproceedings of the 4th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2003, held in Trondheim, Norway in August 2003. The 61 revised papers presented together with an introduction were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. The papers are organized in topical sections on mainly cross-language experiments, mono lingual experiments, domain-specific document retrieval, interactive cross-language retrieval, cross-language question answering, cross-language image retrieval, and cross-language spoken document retrieval.

Ian Calder

Maurice Schiff

Computer simulation is becoming an increasingly critical area in communications systems engineering as practitioners strive to maximize accuracy and efficiency, while speeding up project time. This authoritative, one-stop resource presents the essentials of communications systems analysis and simulation. Written in a straight forward, easy-to-understand manner, the book provides a thorough treatment of all the fundamental topics such as sampling, frequency analysis, linear systems, and filters. Professionals gain a clear understanding of the real-world effects of computer simulation and learn how to perform efficient calculations and system simulations. Moreover, this practical reference features detailed examples that help engineers and students master the material, and includes an appendix of simulation algorithms that helps save time on the job. CD-ROM Included! Contains SystemVue(tm) by Agilent Technologies with practical examples allowing the designer the ability to...

Ted White

Book DescriptionBroadcast News Writing, Reporting, and Producing, Fourth Edition examines the skills, techniques, and challenges of writing and reporting for broadcast journalism. Along with complete coverage of the fundamentals, the text presents up-to-date examples and issues through actual scripts and interviews with the people who bring us the news. The book emphasizes real-life situations, and examines the problems that reporters, writers, assignment editors, and producers face every day. Each chapter contains exercises for writing, review, and discussion so that students can learn and apply what they've read. This new edition contains material on embedded journalists, their preparation (journalist boot camp), including the late CNN reporter David Bloom, and their impact on the news. It includes new examples of tabloid journalism and expanded information on the state of terrorism and crime reporting today. Ted White has been a broadcast journalist since...