1.

Record Nr.

UNISOBVAN0065140

Autore

Mitzenmacher, Michael

Titolo

Probability and computing : randomized algorithms and probabilistic analysis / Michael Mitzenmacher, Eli Upfal

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, : Cambridge University, 2005

ISBN

978-05-218-3540-4

Descrizione fisica

XVI, 352 p. ; 27 cm

Altri autori (Persone)

Upfal, Eli

Soggetti

60-XX - Probability theory and stochastic processes [MSC 2020]

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911038177703321

Autore

Smither Elizabeth <1941->

Titolo

The blue coat / / Elizabeth Smither

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Auckland, New Zealand : , : Auckland University Press, , 2013

ISBN

1-86940-776-8

1-77558-632-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (81 p.)

Disciplina

NZ821.2

Soggetti

New Zealand poetry

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

COVER; CONTENTS; Black Labradors; Leaf flurry tram; Blossoms, marshmallows; The chipped Limoges plate; When to visit a cemetery; Governess sky; St Frances of Rome, patroness of car drivers; How to release a bee; The eye is badly designed; Restaurant, stars; The nurses are coming; The young women at the station; Babies in the gallery; The



wedding tree; The underside of the miniature plane tree; Old lemon tree; Rose thirds; Tazetta daffodils in midwinter; Grass; High wind in the garden; Fountain; Calf weeding; Practising scales; How music is made; Stained-glass window seen from the rear

Two adorable things about MozartVirginia: gardening with transistor; The wedding lawn; Tonia looks at her hands; Amy brings the thesaurus; Intensive reading with Diana; All Saints' and the day of an operation; Last sister; Dying; Credo; Last week of a life; Merci d'exister: a French lesson; Tony Hoagland farewells the poets; Lipstick stain on a poem; Reading Maxine Kumin; The marking of The Great Gatsby; Meeting with two fans; Plaits; The blue coat; Engageantes = detachable sleeves; The bra fitting; Dressing in Nelson Street, King's Lynn; Cole dresses his mother; The birth dressing gown

Sa taille svelte de jeune filleFatherhood; Ruby's heirloom dress; Birthmark; The distraction from harm; For Ruby; Dickens and my father; Driving with my mother; My mother's fingernails; Gargoyles; Signing the will; Blessing the house for departure

Sommario/riassunto

In The Blue Coat, Elizabeth Smither examines the quotidian and the quirky for resonance, for contemplation, for verve. Here ?poetry has a place among other bodies', but also in enclosed gardens, in Chinese restaurants, in margins and in memory ? ?sometimes open and hospitable, sometimes secret, behind dark hedges'. Whimsical and tender, this latest collection demonstrates Smither's talent for illuminating the poetry in the everyday ? an out-of-season daffodil, a chipped Limoges plate. She is a master of the unfolding poem, in lines that take you from a single image to the cusp of somethin