During recent years, huge efforts have been made to establish digital libraries, in a variety of media, offered from a variety of sources, and intended for a variety of professional and private user communities. As digital data collections proliferate, problems of resource selection and data fusion become major issues. Traditional search engines, even the best ones, are unable to provide access to the hidden web of information that is only available via digital library search interfaces.

Originating from the SIGIR 2003 Workshop on Distributed Information Retrieval, held in Toronto, Canada in August 2003, this book presents extended and revised workshop papers as well as several invited papers on the topic to round off coverage of the core issues. The papers are devoted to recent research on the design and implementation of methods and tools for resource discovery, resource description, resource selection, data fusion, and user interaction.

As a middle-aged woman living in youth-obsessed America, Callan ("French Women Don't Sleep Alone") went to France to find answers for aging gracefully and to find joy in her imperfect body. Her mission was not to find the Fountain of Youth, but to find the Fountain of Happiness.

Did you know that French women don't date?

American women have been missing out on a few secrets when it comes to the opposite sex. French women believe that the gift for attracting men has nothing to do with beauty, work, or even motivation. There are no Rules. And they don't listen to Dr. Phil's advice. They don't worry about the care and feeding of their boyfriend. And they certainly don't travel to Mars to communicate with men. On the contrary, French women's love lives are romantic, sensual, playful, and intense. They conduct their relationships with the same unique sense of originality and artfulness that they choose their clothes and accessories. For the first time ever, Jamie Cat Callan gives readers a personalized, guided tour through the corridors of French love.

Discover the secrets to:

• Why French women always feel sexy
• The French art of flirtation
• Why French women walk everywhere and love to be seen
• Where French women meet men
• What French women do when their man misbehaves

Just as we've learned to stop torturing ourselves with fad diets and have relearned the art of eating, this witty, insightful, and candid book strives to show American women how to cultivate and enjoy the pleasures of love, romance, and marriage.

Includes delicious recipes for the perfect, amorous meal

"Adorable " --Erica Jong, "New York Times"bestselling author of"Fear of Flying"and"Fear of Fifty"

"Attention single ladies: here's a new way to meet men and drive them wild Jamie Cat Callan reveals sexy French secrets for upping your confidence and attracting potential mates. Your inner goddess will rejoice--and so will your new boyfriend Ooh la la " --Bonnie Fuller, former CEO of American Media, former editor-in-chief of"Star Magazine, " and author of"The Joys of Much Too Much: Go for the Big Life--The Great Career, The Perfect Guy, " and"Everything Else You've Ever Wanted"

"No matter where you were born, every woman can now be a little bit French, thanks to this delightful book, "French Women Don't Sleep Alone." Jamie Cat Callan helps women to look at their love lives and marriages with new eyes;love and marriage are not jobs but arts." --Nahid Rachlin, author of"Persian Girls"

"Entertaining and informative " --Helena Firth Powell, author of"All You Need To Be Impossibly French"

Johannes Kepler: Life and Letters was written as a biography of Johannes Kepler using his own letters. The letters extend over a period of time from 1596 to 1631 bringing to the reader Keplers personality rather than his scientific achievements. The book represents his youth and years of apprenticeship, marriage and First scholarly achievements, the imperial mathematics at the Court in Prague, the Difficult Years in Linz and the Oddessy of the last four years incompassing 1948 to 1951.