Author: Donna Freitas
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Keywords: sainthood, possibilities
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2008-08-05
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0374360871
ISBN-13: 9780374360870

Antonia Lucia Labella has two secrets: at fifteen, she’s still waiting for her first kiss, and she wants to be a saint. An official one. Seem strange? Well, to Antonia, saints are royalty, and she wants her chance at being a princess. All her life she’s kept company with these kings and queens of small favors, knowing exactly whom to pray to on every occasion. Unfortunately, the two events Antonia’s prayed for seem equally unlikely to happen. It’s not for lack of trying. For how long has she been hoping to gain the attention of the love of her life – the tall, dark, and so good-lookin

Author: Donna Freitas
Publisher: Square Fish
Keywords: sainthood, possibilities
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2010-08-17
List price: $8.99
ISBN-10: 0312629141
ISBN-13: 9780312629144

My name saint is famous for her purity. Her untouched-by-boys-ness.I am also famous for this, by concidence.Antonia Lucia Labella has two secrets: At fifteen, she’s still waiting for her first kiss, and she wants to be a saint. An official one. Unfortunately, the two events seem equally unlikely to happen, but it’s not for lack of trying. Every month for the last eight years, Antonia has proposed a new patron saint to the Vatican, bravely offering herself for the post. (So what if she’s not dead?) And she’s been praying for the attention of the tall, dark, and so good-looking Andy Rote

Authors:Donna Freitas, Jason King,
Publisher: Crossroad General Interest
Keywords: date, save
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2003-09-25
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0824521234
ISBN-13: 9780824521233

In this funny and lighthearted book by twentysomethings Freitas and King, the authors present a positive view of dating, showing young people how dating can be a spiritual path that promotes maturity and growth.

Authors:F.G.H. Blyth Deceased, M H de Freitas,
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
Keywords: seventh, engineers, geology
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 1984-10-15
List price: $61.95
ISBN-10: 0713128828
ISBN-13: 9780713128826

No engineering structure can be built on the ground or within it without the influence of geology being experienced by the engineer. Yet geology must remain an ancillary subject to students of engineering and it is therefore essential that their training is supported by a concise, reliable and usable text on the subject of geology and its relationship to engineering. In this book all the fundamental aspects of geology are described and explained, but within the limits thought suitable for engineers. Thus the structure of the Earth and the operation of its internal processes are described, tog

Authors:Arnaud Doucet, Nando de Freitas, Neil Gordon, A. S
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: engineering, information, science, statistics, practice, monte, carlo, methods, sequential
Number of Pages: 612
Published: 2001-06-21
List price: $109.00
ISBN-10: 0387951466
ISBN-13: 9780387951461

Monte Carlo methods are revolutionizing the on-line analysis of data in fields as diverse as financial modeling, target tracking and computer vision. These methods, appearing under the names of bootstrap filters, condensation, optimal Monte Carlo filters, particle filters and survival of the fittest, have made it possible to solve numerically many complex, non-standard problems that were previously intractable. This book presents the first comprehensive treatment of these techniques, including convergence results and applications to tracking, guidance, automated target recognition, aircraft na

Authors:Marina Vigário, Sónia Frota, M. João Freitas,
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Keywords: linguistic, theory, science, series, current, issues, phonology, history, interrelations, amsterdam, studies, phonetics, interactions
Number of Pages: 290
Published: 2009-10-15
List price: $158.00
ISBN-10: 9027248222
ISBN-13: 9789027248220

The papers included in the volume "Phonetics and Phonology: Interactions and Interrelations" are concerned with some of the multiple possible forms of interactions and interrelations in phonetics and phonology: the phonetic and/or phonological nature of speech patterns, segmental and prosodic interactions, and interactions between segments and features, both in child and in adult language, combining perception and production data, and doing so from theoretically as well as experimentally oriented perspectives. The book is unique in the universe of recent publications for its topic, wide scope

Authors:Armando Freitas da Rocha, Eduardo Massad, Alfredo Pe
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: computing, studies, soft, fuzziness, quantum, fuzzy, arithmetic, brain
Number of Pages: 227
Published: 2004-11-23
List price: $179.00
ISBN-10: 3540218580
ISBN-13: 9783540218586

"The Brain- From Fuzzy Arithmetic to Quantum Computing" presents an original and astounding new understanding of the brain by taking into account novel achievements in Fuzziness and Quantum Information Theory. Bringing together Neuroscience, Soft Computing, Quantum Theory, and recent developments in mathematics the actual knowledge about the brain functioning is formalized into a coherent theoretical framework. This monograph develops new and powerful neural models providing formal descriptions of biochemical transactions in the brain to guide neuroscience experiments and to better interpret t