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In the late 19th century, baseball players broke from the established leagues and organized their own Players’ League. They believed that this rival organization would make wages subject to market con

Memory systems help you memorize lots of information quickly and easily. Based on a proven illustrated mnemonic memory system that has made its companion book, Yo Millard Fillmore! a huge success, wit

The National Pastime offers baseball history available nowhere else. Each fall this publication from the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) explores baseball history with fresh and often su

Violence: The Enduring Problem offers an interdisciplinary and reader-friendly exploration of the patterns and correlations of individual and collective violent acts using the most contemporary resear

A groundbreaking text and professional resource on natural attenuation technologyNatural attenuation is rapidly becoming a widely used approach to manage groundwater and soil contamination by hazardou

日本兩個半月熱賣10萬冊！ X（推特）上一年獲得93萬人次按讚的超強英文學習法！ ◎see、watch、look都是「看」；speak、say、talk都是「說」，差在哪裡？ ◎開心可以用happy，也可以用glad、pleased、joyful……怎麼正確使用？ ◎story是故事也是建築物樓層；capital是首都也是資金，一字多意怎麼背？ ◎上班是go to work？回家卻是go home，為何不用加to？ ◎desert（沙漠）跟dessert（甜點），你到現在還是常搞混？ 本書作者Mark（村木幸司），是日本英文教練協會認證教練， 初入職場時他為了工作需要，特別找母語人士補習英文， 補了幾年，多益（TOEIC）還是只有三百多分。 後來他靠「看圖像」學英文，能力大幅提升，甚至被公司派駐海外。 這套「圖像英文學習法」一發布到網路上，網友直呼：「應該收錄在教科書！」 目前追蹤人數已超過6萬。 ◎國中程度就卡關？用圖像克服！ ．做和製造的多重宇宙 do、act、execute……都是「做」； make、create、generate……都能翻成「製造」， 用法差在哪？答案藏在語感裡。 ．時態好難？看圖，就變得超簡單！ 現在式和進行式有什麼不同？過去式和完成式差在哪？ 畫一條「時間線」你就能瞬間搞懂。 usually、often、sometimes，中文都是「有時候」，怎麼判斷程度高低？ 作者教你「百分比」記憶法，輕鬆判斷好簡單。 in Sunday、on Sunday、at Sunday哪個對？ on a bus、in a bus，還是by a bus，超困擾！ 善用「空間圖」，讓你記一輩子。 ◎開口說，先從日常生活練起！ 起床用get up（從醒來到起身）， 如果還躺在床上就是wake up（從睡眠狀態睜開眼）； 上學用go to school，回家用go home，go後面加不加to，怎麼判斷？ ◎多益（TOEIC）測驗常考字，靠圖表搞懂！ story是「故事」也是「建築物樓層」； capital是「首都」也是「資金」； book除了當名詞「書」，也可以當動詞「預約」。 英文有多義詞的特性，只記一個意思當然不夠用， 怎麼記單字最輕鬆？ 英文認證教練的「圖像學習法」，多益分數從300分輕鬆翻倍。 英文認證教練的「圖像學習法」，多益從300分輕鬆翻倍。 原本只能

Written and peer reviewed by experts from around the globe, Encyclopedia of Polymer Science and Technology provides up-to-date coverage of traditional topics of continuing interest to professionals, r

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This short, concrete, and to-the-point book guides students through this vast field of conflicting opinions. The book begins from the premise that students benefit most from seeing a balanced treatmen

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Dealing with the principles of calibration--both the theoretical and mathematical constructs which relate features of calibration equations to the physical phenomena that affect instruments and sample

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