Carl's little puppy Dumpling is barking at everything in sight, standing up to every dog in the neighborhood like he's the canine king of the world. Carl's mom says Dumpling's in love, so Carl and his pal Gary set out find out with whom. Dumpling leads them on a wild chase—past bulldogs, chihuahuas, a horse and a rabbit—and at the end they find Carl's mom and Gary's dad, kissing! This is strange enough, but when they finally find Dumpling's love, it's even more surprising. Dear Old Dumpling is a story about the mixed feelings of loss and hope experienced by children of single-parent families, and about the love between a boy and his dog.
This latest book in the Mooch series is sensitive story about grieving and misunderstandings. Carl can't understand why his friend Gary won't come and see him and won't let him play with Dumpling. But he can show Gary how much he cares by including him in his biography about his old dog Mooch.
Mikey will never be the teacher's pet. In fact, the only thing he's good at in school is making the teacher mad. When he's accused of stealing carrots to feed the school guinea pig, Mikey thinks things can't get any worse. But he's wrong...
Mikey has a terrible secret. His best friend, Jenny, knows that something is wrong. But she also knows she'll have to wait until Mikey is ready to tell her just what the problem is. Then one day, Mikey doesn't come to school... Is Mikey okay? How can Jenny help?
Carl's having trouble finding time to write his memoir of his beloved, deceased Mooch because his neighbour, Gary, is always dropping in with his tiresome little dog, Dumpling. Gary's dad is also spending a lot of time at the house ... with Carl's mother. When Carl finds a strange sock in the living room, he wonders if his mom's forgetting about his dad, who died even longer ago than Mooch.
Mikey is the class clown, but sometimes things are tricky at home. With Christmas coming, Mikey hopes that his dad will be able to play his part in the holiday celebrations. Here's a touching - and surprising - story about life at home and at school.
ITS 2000 is the fifth international conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems. The preceding conferences were organized in Montreal in 1988, 1992, and 1996. These conferences were so strongly supported by the international community that it was decided to hold them every two years. ITS’98 was organized by Carol Redfield and Valerie Shute and held in San Antonio, Texas. The program committee included members from 13 countries. They received 140 papers (110 full papers and 30 young researchers papers) from 21 countries. As with any international conference whose proceedings serve as a reference for the field, the program committee faced the demanding task of selecting papers from a particularly high quality set of submissions. This proceedings volume contains 61 papers selected by the program committee from the 110 papers submitted. They were presented at the conference, along with six invited lectures from well known speakers. The papers cover a wide range of subjects including architectures for ITS, teaching and learning strategies, authoring systems, learning environments, instructional designs, cognitive approaches, student modeling, distributed learning environments, evaluation of instructional systems, cooperative systems, Web based training systems, intelligent agents, agent based tutoring systems, intelligent multimedia and hypermedia systems, interface design, and intelligent distance learning.
Carl thought Mooch would never die. They had so many good times together. Now, what will Carl do? Gary, his best friend, offers Carl his own little dog, but nothing seems to fill the hole in Carl's heart. This is a story about love, friendship and life.
Carl and his best friend, Mooch, are nine. But Mooch is a dog and that makes her sixty-three! She is old, deaf, mostly blind, and gets Carl into loads of trouble. But Carl thinks she is the best dog that ever lived!
When Carl is in trouble with the big kids at school, Maggie helps scare them off. After that Carl and Maggie are pals but then Mooch starts acting very strange .... What on earth is wrong with her?
Carl is on his way to his summer holidays on the Magdalen Islands, where he and his old dog Mooch had so much fun. This time Carl is going with his friend Gary and Gary's dog Dumpling. Terrified of everything, Dumpling clings tightly to Gary. Carl can't help remembering his noble and magnificent Mooch. The more ridiculous Dumpling becomes, the more Carl is convinced that he has to do something to honour Mooch's life. This is a book about friendship, courage and grief.
Jenny's parents have made it clear that they don't approve of her friendship with Mikey Mite. Now the principal has told her that Mikey doesn't need her help in looking after the school guinea pig. Jenny decides she will tell Mikey just what has happened. But what's this? Mikey tells her to GET OUT! Until Mr. Lotecki steps in, Mikey Mite's troubles just won't go away.
This book presents the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems, ITS '96, held in Montreal, Canada, in June 1996. The book contains 69 revised papers selected from a total of 128 submissions; also included are six invited papers from well-known speakers. All in all, the book reflects the state-of-the-art in the area. In particular the following topics are covered: advising systems, ITS architectures, cognitive models, design issues, empirical studies, formal models, learning environments, real-world applications, software tools for tutoring, student modelling, teaching and learning strategies, and multimedia and WWW.
This volume of the Encyclopaedia offers a systematic introduction and a comprehensive survey of the theory of complex spaces. It covers topics like semi-normal complex spaces, cohomology, the Levi problem, q-convexity and q-concavity. It is the first survey of this kind. The authors are internationally known outstanding experts who developed substantial parts of the field. The book contains seven chapters and an introduction written by Remmert, describing the history of the subject. The book will be very useful to graduate students and researchers in complex analysis, algebraic geometry and differential geometry. Another group of readers will consist of mathematical physicists who apply results from these fields.
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