Tracing a child's physical & emotional development from preconception, through pregnancy & birth, to age seven, this guide examines the many challenges of childhood
- from emotional issues like shyness & lack of confidence, through everyday ailments such as colds, allergies & bruises, to bed-wetting & travel sickness.
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Mike Leigh's life-affirming comedy follows the fortunes of an ever-optimistic school teacher in North London. Poppy (Sally Hawkins) is the salt of the earth. Working in a primary school, she loves her job, shares a flat with her best friend, & lives her life with a smile on her face. When her bike is stolen one day, she decides she needs to learn to drive & registers at the local ' Axle School of Motoring' where she meets dour, harrassed instructor, Scott (Eddie Marsan), who seems to be Poppy's exact opposite. Tagging along with her friend Heather (Sylvestra Le Touzel) to the weekly tango class, Poppy unexpectedly hits it off with social worker Tim (Samuel Roukin). But it soon becomes clear that Scott, who up till now has shown no interest, carries a secret torch for Poppy & is extremely jealous of her new conquest. ...

Can you stay happy-go-lucky even though you may get hanged? You can when it's a fun brain teasing game! This title features one hangman puzzle & each puzzle has the 26 letters of the alphabet accompanied by silver circles to scratch off. It is suitable for playing during lunch, on a long commute or anytime at all. ...

' Dirty Thirties' is the sobriquet commonly applied to the agricultural crisis in the drylands of southern Saskatchewan in Canada that coincided with the Great Depression. This title contends that the ' Dirty Thirties' actually began much earlier & were connected only peripherally to the Depression itself. ...

This is the second volume of Berenger's history of the Habsburg Empire. The work explores the complex relationships of the ethnic groups within the Empire
- particularly the Czechs & the Hungarians
- & shows how the dynasty survived & gained strength before World War I.

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Constitutes the proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Haptic & Audio Interaction Design, HAID 2008 held in Jyvaskyla, Finl&, in September 2008. This book organizes the papers in topical sections on visual impairment, applications of multimodality, evaluation, conceptual integration of audio & haptics, & interaction techniques. ...

This book presents principles & theoretical background to develop a Virtual Reality system that links physical simulations & haptic rendering. Special attention is given to the modeling & computation of contact forces in a two-finger grasp of textiles. ...

Deals with devices & methods required for incorporating haptic feedback in master-slave robotic MIS systems. This monograph compares haptic teleoperation control schemes in terms of stability & performance, & investigates passivity-based time delay compensation for haptic teleoperation over a long distance using the master-slave system. ...