Frances Patsy Wilson

From the bestselling author whose memoirs Under the Sun and Bella Tuscany have captured the voluptuousness of Italian life comes a lavishly illustrated ode to the joys of Tuscany's people, food, lands

Volume 13 of a collection of writings in English from 1500 to 1750, both by women and for and about them. The series provides an extensive collection of the separately published writings reprinted so

Andri??s Bello was a towering figure in nineteenth-century Latin America, as influential and as famous there as Thomas Jefferson is in the United States. Poet, politician, educator, essayist, philoso

This three-volume reference presents the history of all major and minor third political parties and independent candidacies from the early American republic to the present. The alphabetically arrange

The revised edition of this text includes substantial new material on hunger in the aftermath of the Cold War; global food productioin versus population growth; changing demographics and falling birth

Successful ranching combines cattle, markets, weather, grass, and skilled workers to make a profitable business. Yet ranching is more than a business; it is a way of life. The diary of Watt R. Matthew

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Richard M. Bissell, Jr., the most important CIA spymaster in history, singlehandedly led America's intelligence service from the age of Mata Hari into the space age. Under his guidance the U-2 spy-pla

Examining in closer detail the experiences of the ten countries that form the basis of the strategy developed in Volume 1, this volume appraises and contrasts the successes of South Korea, Botswana, Z

💥 AI工具爆炸性成長，從ChatGPT到企業內部專屬LLM，生成式AI已大量融入我們的生活與工作。但我們真的準備好「安全上線」了嗎？LLM帶來前所未見的創新機會，但同時也伴隨著新型態的安全風險，從prompt injection、資訊外洩，到代理人失控、幻覺誤導，每一項都可能讓AI工具從生產力助力變成潛在風險來源。《LLM資安教戰手冊｜打造安全的AI應用程式》由LLM資安教父、OWASP「LLM 十大安全風險」專案負責人Steve Wilson撰寫，被業界譽為「創新者必讀之作」，是目前最系統化、最具實務操作性的 LLM安全指南。書中全面探討LLM應用開發中常見的十大風險，搭配實際案例與對應策略，幫助你在開發初期就建立正確的安全架構思維。從威脅情境、風險辨識，到實用防禦技術與風險最小化原則，內容清晰易懂，實作性高，適用於各種LLM應用場景。🎯聚焦探討LLM的安全性，為開發者提供具體的安全策略和最佳實踐。📌涵蓋設計、部署和維運過程中的的關鍵安全挑戰。🎯透過實例分析，協助讀者理解並應用防範措施，有效預防安全漏洞。📌適用於AI工具開發者、產品經理、資安人員及企業技術決策者。不論你是AI開發新手，還是負責導入LLM的企業技術主管，這本書都能幫你掌握攻防思維，補強資安弱點，打造能安心上線的AI應用。-------------------------------------------------------------「這本書對於AI開發者和紅隊演練專家至關重要，它將巨大的風險轉化為可管理的挑戰，提供了專業知識，以保障基於LLM應用的安全。」—Marten Mickos，HackerOne執行長「由LLM資安之父Steve Wilson撰寫，一本創新者的必讀之書。」—Sherri Douville，Medigram執行長「根據我在AI 紅隊的經驗，我全力支持這本書中頂尖的全端方法及其嚴謹、多面向的見解。」—Ads Dawson，Cohere資深資安工程師「這本書是當我們傾盡全力快速採用GenAI和LLM，並確保組織結果安全時，關於資安產業重要且全面的指南。」—Chris Hughes，Aquia總裁及Resilient Cyber創始人LLM不僅塑造了AI的發展軌跡，也揭開了一個充滿安全挑戰的新時代。這本實用的書籍將帶您直擊這些威脅的核心。作者Steve Wilso

‘Sorry to wake you in the middle of the night, but we have a lady here who’s not very well. She says she’s called Marigold, Queen of the Sky?’Dolphin Westward spent her childhood as the supporting character in the story of her beautiful, wild, volatile mother Marigold. Now thirty-three, she’s painfully aware that not much has changed. She lives in a tiny bedsit, works in a tattoo shop by day and collects her illustrated mum from police stations by night.Dol yearns to climb out of the rut she is stuck in, but has no idea where to begin. Could gardener Lee and his daughter Ava be her chance for a wholesome family life? Or maybe a steamy romance with roguish actor Joel is just what she needs. And what about the offer from her sister Star, now a successful doctor, to move to Scotland and live with her young family?As the choices threaten to overwhelm her, will Dol fall into the role of extra in someone else’s story once again – or find the strength to forge a brand new path of her own?

"A series that will appeal to fans of Jacqueline Wilson." The TimesSunshine Simpson is off on the holiday of a lifetime! Her Auntie Sharon has WON THE LOTTERY, and she's taking the whole family to JAMAICA! Sunshine can't wait for sun, fun, and seeing the country where her grandparents grew up.There's also a SECRET WEDDING to organise for Sunshine's parents - the perfect distraction from thinking about starting secondary school.But then everything starts going WRONG! Auntie Sharon is sick and can't be a bridesmaid, they only have chicken and chips for the wedding banquet and Sunshine has to become chief wedding planner.Will it be an island disaster, or can Sunshine pull off the wedding of the century?PRAISE FOR THE SUNSHINE SIMPSON SERIES:"An utterly brilliant book that had me laughing and crying in equal measure. G.M. Linton has created a truly radiant heroine. It is officially a new favourite." Tolá Okogwu, author of Onyeka and the Academy of the Sun"A book as warm and radiant as suns

Be the first to get your hands on this BRAND NEW Dork Diaries by pre-ordering today! With a HUGE global fanbase, Dork Diaries is the perfect series for fans of Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Tom Gates and Jacqueline Wilson. Welcome to Nikki Maxwell's aDORKable world in the fifteenth book in the mega-selling Dork Diaries series - now with over 45 million copies in print worldwide!OMG, oh la la! Join Nikki Maxwell and her BFFs as they jet off to Paris!Have you read all the DORK DIARIES series? Dork Diaries Dork Diaries: Party Time Dork Diaries: Pop Star Dork Diaries: How To Dork Your Diary Dork Diaries: Skating Sensation Dork Diaries: Dear Dork Dork Diaries: Holiday Heartbreak Dork Diaries: OMG! All About Me Diary! Dork Diaries: TV Star Dork Diaries: Once Upon a Dork Dork Diaries: Drama Queen Dork Diaries: Puppy Love Dork Diaries: Frenemies Forever Dork Diaries: Crush Catastrophe Dork Diaries: Birthday Drama Dork Diaries: Spectacular Superstar Dork Diaries: I Love Paris! - Out October 2020 - pre-

A Kirkus Reviews Most Anticipated Book of 2021In Meg Medina's follow-up to her Newbery Medal-winning novel, Merci takes on seventh grade, with all its travails of friendship, family, love--and finding your rhythm. Seventh grade is going to be a real trial for Merci Su嫫ez. For science she's got no-nonsense Mr. Ellis, who expects her to be a smart as her brother, Roli. She's been assigned to co-manage the tiny school store with Wilson Bellevue, a boy she barely knows, but whom she might actually like. And she's tangling again with classmate Edna Santos, who is bossier and more obnoxious than ever now that she is in charge of the annual Heart Ball. One thing is for sure, though: Merci Su嫫ez can't dance--not at the Heart Ball or anywhere else. Dancing makes her almost as queasy as love does, especially now that T燰 In廥, her merengue-teaching aunt, has a new man in her life. Unfortunately, Merci can't seem to avoid love or dance for very long. She used to talk about everything with her grand

FINALIST FOR THE PEN/E.O. WILSON LITERARY SCIENCE WRITING AWARD***A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2021***A SCIENCE NEWS FAVORITE BOOK OF 2021***A SMITHSONIAN TOP TEN SCIENCE BOOK OF 2021"Stories that both dazzle and edify... This book is not just about life, but about discovery itself." --Siddhartha Mukherjee, New York Times Book ReviewWe all assume we know what life is, but the more scientists learn about the living world--from protocells to brains, from zygotes to pandemic viruses--the harder they find it is to locate life's edge.Carl Zimmer investigates one of the biggest questions of all: What is life? The answer seems obvious until you try to seriously answer it. Is the apple sitting on your kitchen counter alive, or is only the apple tree it came from deserving of the word? If we can't answer that question here on earth, how will we know when and if we discover alien life on other worlds? The question hangs over some of society's most charged conflicts--whether a fertilized egg

A successful art dealer confesses the story of his meteoric rise in this "sleek, swift, and graceful" novel "with unexpectedly sharp teeth" (Lauren Groff, New York Times bestselling author). In a first-class lounge at JFK airport, our narrator listens as Jeff Cook, a former classmate he only vaguely remembers, shares the uncanny story of his adult life--a life that changed course years before, the moment he resuscitated a drowning man. Jeff reveals that after that traumatic, galvanizing morning on the beach, he was compelled to learn more about the man whose life he had saved, convinced that their fates were now entwined. But are we agents of our fate--or are we its pawns? Upon discovering that the man is renowned art dealer Francis Arsenault, Jeff begins to surreptitiously visit his Beverly Hills gallery. Although Francis does not seem to recognize him as the man who saved his life, he nevertheless casts his legendary eye on Jeff and sees something worthy. He takes the younger man und

'A Christmas book about kindness and cheer to make even Scrooge's heart melt' Dame Jacqueline Wilson Funny festive middle grade about the world's most Christmassy family from the founder of Authorfy, perfect for 8+ readers and fans of Matt Haig, Ben Miller, Sibeal Pounder's Tinsel, and the Nativity! films Wish it could be Christmas every day? Well, for nine-year-old Holly Carroll and her family, it is! Living her merriest life in a house with year-round fairy lights and Christmas trees, a carol-singing toilet and a diva donkey who thinks he's a reindeer, home-schooled Holly tries to spread cheer wherever she goes. But when she goes to a new school with a singing Santa backpack and first day Christmas cards (during a heatwave in September!), she realises not everyone shares her enthusiasm for spreading cheer. In fact, when the neighbours try to remove the Carrolls from the street and Holly discovers a group of children that may not get a Christmas at all, her snowglobe world begins to c

"Remarkable writing: courageous and dangerous as the best art should be." The Times "Only Rankin can light and photograph faces with such intensity and drama. I'm delighted with this vision of my story." Philip Pullman The first volume in the ground-breaking His Dark Materials trilogy, now with a breath-taking new cover creatively directed and photographed by the legendary Rankin. Lyra Belacqua and her animal daemon live half-wild and carefree among scholars of Jordan College, Oxford.The destiny that awaits her will take her to the frozen lands of the Arctic, where witch-clans reign and ice-bears fight. Her extraordinary journey will have immeasurable consequences far beyond her own world... Rankin's lens has exquisitely captured the bond between character and daemon; the soul of the stories The His Dark Materials trilogy is award-winning, internationally bestselling and a modern classic.Now a major BBC/HBO television series, with an all-star cast of Ruth Wilson, James McAvoy, Anne-Mar

"My hands shook, turning the pages." The Times "Only Rankin can light and photograph faces with such intensity and drama. I'm delighted with this vision of my story." Philip Pullman The second volume in the ground-breaking His Dark Materials trilogy, now with a breath-taking new cover creatively directed and photographed by the legendary Rankin. "What is he? A friend, or an enemy?" "He is a murderer." Will has just killed a man.He's on the run. His escape will take him far beyond his own world, to the eerie disquiet of a deserted city, and to a girl, Lyra. Her fate is strangely linked to his own, and together they must find the most powerful weapon in all the worlds...Rankin's lens has exquisitely captured the bond between character and daemon; the soul of the stories The His Dark Materials trilogy is award-winning, internationally bestselling and a modern classic. Now a major BBC/HBO television series, with an all-star cast of Ruth Wilson, James McAvoy, Anne-Marie Duff and Lin-Manuel

Shortlisted for The Branford Boase Award 2022 | Shortlisted for the Costa Children's Book Award 2021 | Shortlisted for the Blue Peter Awards 2022 Best Story | A Julia Eccleshare Pick of the Month February 2021 | February 2021 Debut of the Month'Very funny, very touching, very truthful - a total delight to read.' Jacqueline Wilson 'Amazing' Noel Fielding A laugh-out-loud, against-all-odds triumph of a story: the funniest debut of 2021 Billy Plimpton is an eleven-year-old boy with a big dream. He wants to be a stand-up comedian when he grows up: delivering pinpoint punch-lines and having audiences hang on his every hilarious word. A tough career for anyone, but surely impossible for Billy, who has a stammer.How will he find his voice, if his voice won't let him speak? The idea for this story came from Helen Rutter's son, who has a stammer: she wanted to write the book that he would love to read, starring a child like him. Praise for The Boy Who Made Everyone Laugh 'This incredibly debut

1.本書非常適合初學者培養興趣，且有些畫的細密的地方未必適合快速的速寫，優點是這本書重點在培養興趣和感覺，排版疏密相間，加上作者選的是景觀中典型要素或者經典作品，經得住細讀。本書所選內容非常獨特，為繪畫者提供靈感，如如何將盧浮宮金字塔變成溫室；設計你自己的迷宮；這本有趣的圖書將吸引所有對花園和綠地愛感興趣的人。 2.本書主要內容為精選手繪線稿，除景觀專業師生，規劃、建築學專業以及普通大眾均可購買學

＊帶讀者一睹十九世紀英國維多利亞時代醫院的骯髒實況，駭人程度超出現代讀者的想像！＊被傳統醫學視為異端的新觀念，如何把外科手術從一門殺人技藝變成拯救人命的科學？＊這也是刻畫一個繼承前人努力、憑著個人堅強信念尋求真相、將病患福祉放在首位的仁醫，其溫暖人心的傳記故事。＊得獎紀錄2018筆會／E·O·威爾遜文學科學寫作獎（PEN/E.O. Wilson Prize for Literary Science

A Step 2 Step into Reading leveled reader based on Disney/Pixar Cars 3—releasing on DVD/Blu-ray fall 2017! Blindsided by a new generation of blazing-fast racers, the legendary Lightning McQueen (voice of Owen Wilson) is suddenly pushed out of the sport he loves. To get back in the game, he will need the help of an eager young race technician with her own plan to win, inspiration from the late Fabulous Hudson Hornet, and a few unexpected turns. Proving that #95 isn’t through yet will test the heart of a champion on Piston Cup Racing’s biggest stage! Directed by Brian Fee (storyboard artist Cars 2, WALL-E) and produced by Kevin Reher (A Bug’s Life, La Luna short), Cars 3 cruises into theaters on June 16, 2017. Children ages 4 to 6 will love this Step 2 Step into Reading leveled reader based on Disney/Pixar Cars 3. Step 2 Readers use basic vocabulary and short sentences to tell simple stories. For children who recognize familiar words and can sound out new words with help.

An ABC book featuring Lightning McQueen, Mater, and friends from Disney/Pixar Cars—just in time for the release of Cars 3 on Blu-ray and DVD! Blindsided by a new generation of blazing-fast racers, the legendary Lightning McQueen (voice of Owen Wilson) is suddenly pushed out of the sport he loves. To get back in the game, he will need the help of an eager young race technician with her own plan to win, inspiration from the late Fabulous Hudson Hornet, and a few unexpected turns. Proving that #95 isn’t through yet will test the heart of a champion on Piston Cup Racing’s biggest stage! Directed by Brian Fee (storyboard artist Cars 2, WALL-E) and produced by Kevin Reher (A Bug’s Life, La Luna short), Cars 3 cruises into theaters on June 16, 2017. Race through the alphabet with Mater and Lightning McQueen from the Disney/Pixar Cars films! Children ages 2 to 5 will love this beautifully illustrated hardcover ABC book featuring all their favorite friends from the Cars franchise.

The Dictionary of Daily Life in Biblical & Post-Biblical Antiquity is a unique reference work that provides background cultural and technical information on the world of the Hebrew Bible and New Testament from 4000 BC to approximately AD 600.Previously published in four individual paperback volumes, this one-volume hardcover edition covers topics from A-Z. This dictionary casts light on the culture, technology, history, and politics of the periods of the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament.Written and edited by a world-class historian and a highly respected biblical scholar, with contributions by many others, this unique reference work explains details of domestic life, technology, culture, laws, and religious practices, with extensive bibliographic material for further exploration. There are 115 articles ranging from 5-20 pages long. Scholars, pastors,

廣受好評的Smart Choice第三版保留第一、二版一頁一教學重點的編排模式，新版加入更多貼近年輕人生活的題材，並結合時事、電影、娛樂等多樣內容。每頁嚴謹設計的活動內容，能循序漸進地引導學習者經由單元學習目標性練習晉升到真實情境活用整合練習。透過精心設計的每一教學步驟，讓學生能獲得學術學習成就並迎接自我英語能力挑戰。Smart Choice培養學生具備真實英語溝通技巧並能在學校及個人生活中得到實

Even in its incomplete form The Love of The Last Tycoon has achieved a reputation as the best novel about Hollywood. When F. Scott Fitzgerald died in 1940 he had written seventeen of thirty projected episodes. In 1941 the 'unfinished novel' was published in a text for general readers by Edmund Wilson under the title The Last Tycoon. For more than fifty years this edition, which is not true to the original work in progress, has been the only one available. This critical edition of The Love of The Last Tycoon, first published in 1994, utilises Fitzgerald's manuscript drafts, revised typescipts, and working notes to establish the first authoritative text of the work. The volume includes a detailed history of the gestation, composition, and publication of the novel; full textual apparatus with editorial notes; fascimiles of the drafts; and explanatory notes on topical allusions and historical references for contemporary readers. The reconstruction of Fitzgerald's plan for the thirteen unwr

越南菜（越菜）是很具民族色彩的外國菜系。筆者翻看過好幾本中、英、法文的南菜食譜，書中烹調方式，作料介紹和應用都非常類似，然而每位作者都用細膩的筆法，刻劃出親身的體驗，並且從不同角度演繹或剖析越菜的精粹，指出其中妙諦，讓讀者此後對品嘗越菜取得嶄新的經驗。本書以香港越菜的發展撰寫背景，讓時光倒流，略談越菜演變過程，相信很多讀者也會覺得有趣，對越菜得到另一番欣賞。七八十年代餐廳以用料正宗作標榜，其後不少

後ECFA時代，面對來勢洶洶的低價攻防戰，該如何坐擁品牌優勢，在茫茫商品海中現形？本書提出13個同中求異、異中求勝的品牌新招，帶你跟著蘋果、三星、必勝客、星巴克等150個成功企業，贏戰殺價競爭，飆升品牌續航力！ 當低價戰爭越演越烈，品牌將成為你最後的王牌！ 讓你差之毫釐，勝之千里的13大品牌策略‧ 銷售領導地位──換個角度解讀排行榜，戴爾電腦永遠銷售第一‧ 技術領導地位──從文字、圖檔到衛星影

《拍賣理論》以不完全信息非合作博弈理論為背景，用精簡樸實的語言，向讀者們講述各種拍賣形式下的價格形成機制及其均衡結果。該書貫穿了研究拍賣理論的兩條基本原則：通過拍賣可獲得的期望收益與分配效率。作者也力圖遵循著名的Wilson準則：拍賣形式不能依賴于競拍者價值分布的知識細節。也就是說，拍賣機制應該對模型所設置的環境是穩健的。當然，事實上這些原則在應用于分析具體的拍賣機制時存在一定的沖突。該書前十一章

本書以基金別會計為主體，搭配雙軌記錄的方式，以系統性的方式來介紹全新政府與非營利的會計及財務報導。先建立學習者對於基本觀念的理解，再將這些觀念運用到年度財務報表的編製與解釋，內容詳實完整、深入淺出，非常適合首次接觸政府及非營利會計的學習者閱讀。本書的內容同時整合了全新的美國政府與非營利組織的財務報導模式，對於有志從事會計師工作的會計相關科系之學子而言，更是一本相當值得參考的好書。 政府會計準則委

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"In this Caldecott Medal-winning picture book, Kevin Henkes conveys just how gorgeous black, white, and grey illustrations can be. Simple text and the charming story of a kitten mistaking the moon for a bowl of milk make this book one to keep for years to come." - Seira Wilson, Amazon EditorThe nationally bestselling picture book about a kitten, the moon, and a bowl of milk, written by the celebrated author and illustrator Kevin Henkes, was awarded a Caldecott Medal.From one of the most celebrated and beloved picture book creators working in the field today comes a memorable new character and a suspenseful adventure just right for reading and sharing at home and in the classroom. It is Kitten's first full moon, and when she sees it she thinks it is a bowl of milk in the sky. And she wants it. Does she get it? Well, no . . . and yes. What a night!A brief text, large type, and luminescent pictures play second fiddle to the star of this classic picture book—brave, sweet and lucky Kitten!

《大學通識英語學生用書(3)》主要內容簡介：進入21世紀以來，我國的經濟社會文化繼續保持健康快速的發展，中國經驗日益為世界所矚目。2008年北京奧運會及2010年上海世博會，將進一步加強中國與世界的融通，中國的高等教育也面臨著新的機遇和挑戰，更對高等英語教育提出了新的要求。為了滿足新時期大學英語教育的新需求，經過認真調研和廣泛征求意見，我社引進了世界著名教育出版機構培生教育有限公司旗下朗文出版社的