This is the story of little Jacob who was throwing yet another tantrum at home. Jacob was very, very upset. As he cried and screamed to get everyone's attention, as usual, this time, his daddy came up with a distraction that totally disconcerted him. His daddy needed a hug!A funny little book for both children and parents that shows one should never underestimate the power of a hug to manage a child's anger and make them feel loved and cared about, before it gets out of control. That priceless physical contact helps the child refocus their thoughts away from anger, gives them comfort and affection. Hug it out!

"The T-RRIBLE" is back in a new special Christmas adventure. A naughty T-RRIBLE wants to ruin Christmas! He has stolen both Father Christmas’ Nice List and Naughty List! What is going to happen? Will Oliver and The T-RRIBLE save the day? With his new book “The mini T-RRIBLE 2,” children’s author J.N. PAQUET, as in his previous children’s books, has created yet another very special story which stimulates the children to engage with their own imagination and have an enjoyable reading experience, both with their parents, teacher or educator and on their own. Its educational aim is to drive the bilingual fun-learning and the reading comprehension through an extraordinary story. Among other moral values, the story promotes team working and friendship, explains how important it is to accept and embrace our own differences as well as the others’, and most importantly teaches about redemption and forgiveness. The colourful handmade illustrations, all created and painted by the author himself, open the children to his colourful new world where they will, episode after episode, get to meet some funny little creatures, visit their lands and kingdoms, and discover their honey trees secret. Although it was written for all children aged 3-6, it has a special appeal to the children living in bilingual families. Learning from each other and accepting one another is all that is needed to build a better world… right here, on Earth!

Could there ever be a cutest children's book? This is the story of three babies dreaming. What do they dream of? The beach, flying like a bird, listening to music, drinking milk, playing with animals... A funny and entertaining bedtime story for children aged 0-3. The story was illustrated by Children's Author J.N. PAQUET (author of "The Book of The Animals" and "The T-RRIBLE" among other popular children's books) and written by his daughter I.L. PAQUET (who already illustrated the "I Just Love Monsters!" series)

[Bilingual version: English-Portuguese] Ever since he was a little boy, Silly Santa has always been late for everything. Late for school. Late for dinner. Late for birthdays. Late for holidays... Silly Santa is simply ALWAYS late for everything! How can he deliver all the presents to the children on time for Christmas? This is a children's book about the most famous Christmas character in the world who will teach children about punctuality, as we see Santa himself grow and become Father Christmas. This is a great story for the festive season, which can also be read anytime during the year. * * * Desde quando era pequenininho, Noel sempre se atrasava para tudo: para a escola, para o jantar, para as festas de aniversário... até para as férias. Noel era simplesmente atrapalhado e estava SEMPRE atrasado! Como ele vai poder entregar todos os presentes para as crianças a tempo nesse Natal? Este é um livro infantil que fala sobre o personagem natalino mais famoso do mundo e a pontualidade. Veja Noel crescer e virar o Papai Noel nessa história divertida para o período de festas e para o ano todo!

How does a human acquire, comprehend, produce and control multiple languages with just the power of one mind? What are the cognitive consequences of being a bilingual? These are just a few of the intriguing questions at the core of studying bilingualism from psycholinguistic and neurocognitive perspectives. Bringing together some of the world's leading experts in bilingualism, cognitive psychology and language acquisition, The Cambridge Handbook of Bilingual Processing explores these questions by presenting a clear overview of current theories and findings in bilingual processing. This comprehensive handbook is organized around overarching thematic areas including theories and methodologies, acquisition and development, comprehension and representation, production, control, and the cognitive consequences of bilingualism. The handbook serves as an informative overview for researchers interested in cognitive bilingualism and the logic of theoretical and experimental approaches to language science. It also functions as an instrumental source of readings for anyone interested in bilingual processing.

The majority of natural language processing (NLP) is English language processing, and while there is good language technology support for (standard varieties of) English, support for Albanian, Burmese, or Cebuano--and most other languages--remains limited. Being able to bridge this digital divide is important for scientific and democratic reasons but also represents an enormous growth potential. A key challenge for this to happen is learning to align basic meaning-bearing units of different languages. In this book, the authors survey and discuss recent and historical work on supervised and unsupervised learning of such alignments. Specifically, the book focuses on so-called cross-lingual word embeddings. The survey is intended to be systematic, using consistent notation and putting the available methods on comparable form, making it easy to compare wildly different approaches. In so doing, the authors establish previously unreported relations between these methods and are able to present a fast-growing literature in a very compact way. Furthermore, the authors discuss how best to evaluate cross-lingual word embedding methods and survey the resources available for students and researchers interested in this topic.

The Sumerians, the pragmatic and gifted people who preceded the Semites in the land first known as Sumer and later as Babylonia, created what was probably the first high civilization in the history of man, spanning the fifth to the second millenniums B.C. This book is an unparalleled compendium of what is known about them. Professor Kramer communicates his enthusiasm for his subject as he outlines the history of the Sumerian civilization and describes their cities, religion, literature, education, scientific achievements, social structure, and psychology. Finally, he considers the legacy of Sumer to the ancient and modern world. "There are few scholars in the world qualified to write such a book, and certainly Kramer is one of them. . . . One of the most valuable features of this book is the quantity of texts and fragments which are published for the first time in a form available to the general reader. For the layman the book provides a readable and up-to-date introduction to a most fascinating culture. For the specialist it presents a synthesis with which he may not agree but from which he will nonetheless derive stimulation."—American Journal of Archaeology "An uncontested authority on the civilization of Sumer, Professor Kramer writes with grace and urbanity."—Library Journal