A collection of feel-good short stories. A divorced father synchronising dreams with his daughter, grandparents accepting their gay grandson and his partner, parents accepting a child born with issues, a family member overcoming her views on marriage to have a pivotal role in a same-sex wedding because "our family does not put terms and conditions on love", and other stories of friends, families, gay families, father-children love, travel and change.

Ranging from the imperial palaces of ancient China and the bakeries of fourteenth-century Genoa and Naples all the way to the restaurant kitchens of today, Pasta tells a story that will forever change the way you look at your next plate of vermicelli. Pasta has become a ubiquitous food, present in regional diets around the world and available in a host of shapes, sizes, textures, and tastes. Yet, although it has become a mass-produced commodity, it remains uniquely adaptable to innumerable...

Highlights presents Here It Comes! by Wendi Silvano. A freight train rolls down the train tracks.

Photonic Instrumentation: Sensing and Measuring with Lasersis designed as a source for university-level courses covering the essentials of laser-based instrumentation, and as a useful reference for working engineers. Photonic instruments have very desirable features like non-contact operation and unparalleled sensitivity. They have quickly become a big industrial success, passing unaffected through the bubble years and, not any less important, well-established methods in m...

The Philosophy of Freedom is a magical text, because it activates thought, feeling and will, clears the field of any obstacle that may arise in life, giving everyone the opportunity to find their own direction freely. To the question: "What will remain of your work in a thousand years?" Answered "The Philosophy of Freedom" was Rudolf Steiner.

Based on a collection of statements delivered between 2003 and 2015, The Vatican in the Family of Nations provides a new understanding of the social doctrine and actions of the Catholic Church in international law and relations. These statements address contemporary issues that stir deep emotional responses, from disarmament, migrations, trade, and intellectual property to discrimination and freedom of conscience. This volume disputes irrational fears of newcomers, offers reasonable adapta...

It's possible to realize one's aspirations. Wow! Positive Dreams Aren't Enough! People who have a strong belief in their own abilities will have a more positive outlook on life when they can see the lists and checkmarks in their diaries that prove they have achievedthe goals they set for themselves. The fear of success should not be a source of anxiety. Bring it about. The essential thing is not to succumb to the temptation to give up and lose sight of your goals and aspirations.

The implementation of the Information Systems (IS) Architecture is one of the steps in the construction of the Enterprise Architecture (EA), according to The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF), and can bring notable benefits in supporting the management and governance of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in organizations, including of health. However, this task is usually followed by several challenges, even more so when we refer to University Hospitals (HU), which are ...

This book provides comparative data on fish ecology and small-scale fisheries between Tapajos (clear water) and Negro (black water) rivers, in the Brazilian Amazon. These rivers are less studied than white water rivers and few books on Amazon fishes have addressed more than one river basin. These data can serve as a baseline to check future changes or impacts in these rivers, which can be affected by development projects, such as highways, deforestation, mining and dams. Besides informatio...

This book explores break-through approaches to tackling and mitigating the well-known problems of compiler optimization using design space exploration and machine learning techniques. It demonstrates that not all the optimization passes are suitable for use within an optimization sequence and that, in fact, many of the available passes tend to counteract one another. After providing a comprehensive survey of currently available methodologies, including many experimental comparisons with st...

Transactions on HiPEAC aims at the timely dissemination of research contributions in computer architecture and compilation methods for high-performance embedded computer systems. Recognizing the convergence of embedded and general-purpose computer systems, this journal publishes original research on systems targeted at specific computing tasks as well as systems with broad application bases. The scope of the journal therefore covers all aspects of computer architecture, code generation and...

An illustrated story, based on the Piedmont oral tradition, where wolves and foxes came down from the mountains, to become part of the elders' folk tales, enchanting and captivating the imagination of children everywhere.Age range: 5 - 7 yearsUna delicata favola illustrata che riemerge dalla tradizione orale del Piemonte nord-occidentale, quando lupi e volpi scendevano dalle montagne per popolare i coloriti racconti dei vecchi e affascinare, allora come oggi, bambini capaci...