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A lyrical, mythology-tinged debut novel about a Chinese-Filipino teenager whose world of daydreams is destroyed by a family secret--perfect for fans of Emily X.R. Pan and Ann Liang. Jasmine Cheng has grown up on stories spun by her beautiful, free-spirited mother. Together, they're the Phoenix and Dragon. Jasmine's father is the god Pangu, creator of the heavens and earth. Her mother may have boyfriends, but Jasmine chases them away. For her mother, love brings chaos, sleepless nights, and frightening episodes, and it's Jasmine's job to keep their home life stable--especially now that a social worker has started to keep tabs on them. When the sudden arrival of Cal, her mother's old flame, fractures their delicate world, events unfold that will send Jasmine on a cross-country journey to the West Coast--and into her past. Trapped in a tangle of fantasy and reality, Jasmine becomes determined to find the truth, even while her mother's refusal to be honest drives a deeper wedge between the

本書秉承新工科教學理念，圍繞Python語言、程序設計和編程工具使用等方面，全面介紹Python編程的方法與應用。本書共13章，包括Python開發基礎、Python語言基本要素、簡單數據類型、程序控制語句、組合數據類型、函數與模塊、類與對象、文件處理、常見模塊的使用、NumPy數據處理、Pandas數據查詢、數據可視化、機器學習等內容。本書注重理論與實踐結合，注重對編程方法和思路的說明，並適當引入以數據分析和機器學習為背景的編程問題。本書同時將AI輔助編程的思想和方法融入其中，由淺入深地講解了Python語言開發的各類知識。本書可作為高等學校計算機相關專業“Python程序設計”相關課程的教材，也可作為Python愛好者及Python程序開發人員的參考書。

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本書是學習Python程式設計的入門書籍，書中詳細介紹Python的基礎知識，同時，有系統地講解Python語言的語法和程式設計方法。不僅適合做為大專院校程式設計相關課程教材，也可做為教育訓練機構或Python自學者的參考書。 Python是一種簡單且功能強大的高階程式語言，它具有非常清晰的語法特點，適用於多種作業系統，目前在國際上廣受好評。Python語言不僅適合於初學者，也適合於專業人員使用。 全書共12章，主要包括Python簡介以及環境配置、Python基本語法、基本資料型態、程式控制結構、函式與模組、序列與字串、串列、元組、集合與字典、物件導向程式設計、檔案操作、錯誤與異常處理、圖形繪製。書中提供大量的應用範例，且每章最後均附有上機練習與習題，供教師教學及學生課後練習使用，以達到對Python語言融會貫通的目的。學習本書後，讀者應該對Python會有足夠的瞭解，可以將其應用於您選擇探索的任何應用領域。 第二版依據最新版本的Python 3.13.x平臺，對全書內容進行更新與結構調整。

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《Python編程與數據分析》共10章，系統地梳理了Python核心功能及應用，分別介紹語言基礎、數據結構、函數式編程、字符串操作、數據持久化、GUI開發、網絡數據獲取、面向對象等內容。每章主要講述3～4個知識點，對每一個知識點都提供了詳細、易懂的例子，並結合作者多年的應用體會給讀者介紹大量的經驗知識。

本書詳細介紹學習Python基礎編程所需要掌握的相關知識，內容覆蓋全國計算機等級考試二級Python考試大綱。全書共15章，包括Python語言概述、基礎語法知識、程序控制結構、序列、字符串、函數、面向對象程序設計、模塊、異常處理、基於文件的持久化、基於數據庫的持久化、圖形用戶界面編程、正則表達式、網絡爬蟲、常用的標準庫和第三方庫等。本書每章都安排了入門級的編程實踐操作，以便讀者更好地學習和掌握Python編程方法。本書免費提供豐富的教學資源，包括講義PPT、習題、源代碼、軟件、數據集、上機實驗指南等。 本書可以作為高等院校各個專業的Python入門級教材，也可作為Python軟件開發者的入門學習用書，還可作為Python等級考試的學習用書。

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本書以Python 3.x為平臺，介紹Python編程基礎和數據分析基礎，內容包括Python概述、Python語言基礎、程序控制結構、組合數據結構、函數與類、文件與目錄操作、NumPy數值計算、Pandas數據處理與分析、數據可視化，各章均配有豐富的例題與習題，並以一個完整的案例貫穿數據處理、數據分析與數據可視化三部分。本書適合作為普通高等學校文科類專業和其他非計算機類專業的Python編程及數據分析相關課程的教材，也適合從事相關工作的人員閱讀。

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本書以Python 3.12.4版本為基礎，旨在助力讀者掌握 Python 在財經數據分析、處理與應用中的技能，提升財經決策的科學性與效率。全書共9章，前3章聚焦 Python 基礎，涵蓋Python編程環境搭建、語法、程序設計與文件操作，夯實編程基本功；第4～7章深入探討模塊和庫編程、NumPy數值計算、Pandas 數據處理與分析及Matplotlib庫與數據可視化，介紹Python強大的數據處理、數值計算與數據可視化功能；第8、9章介紹Python在財經領域的典型應用，如工資核算、財務報表編制等，並通過綜合應用：小費數據集可視化分析案例，強化Python數據分析的實際應用能力。本書內容循序漸進，從基礎語法到複雜分析，逐步構建知識體系；理論與實踐結合，每章都配有案例與練習題；突出財經特色，選取貼合財經場景的案例，充分滿足財經工作需求。本書適合作為高等院校數字經濟、財經類專業Python程序設計課程的教材，也適合作為財經從業者的自學參考書。

本書以PyCharm為主要開發工具，由淺入深、全面系統地講解了Python的相關知識。全書共分為9章，內容包括Python概述、Python基本語法、基本數據類型與運算符應用、程序流程控制語句、組合數據類型、函數應用與模塊化程序、文件操作管理、面向對象、Python計算生態與第三方庫。本書內容豐富、講解詳細，以PyCharm為主要開發工具，可作為高等教育本、專科院校計算機相關專業的教材，也可作為編程愛好者的自學參考用書。

本書採用案例和理論相結合的形式，以Anaconda和PyCharm為開發工具，系統地重點闡述了利用Python進行數據預處理、分析與可視化等相關知識，講解了Python各種數據處理展示的函數方法的使用方法。全書共有6章，分別是數據分析概述、Python基礎、利用Pandas進行數據預處理、利用Pandas進行數據分析、利用Matplotlib進行數據可視化、Python數據分析與綜合應用。書中安排了思維導圖、學習目標、知識指南、任務實訓、結果分析、鞏固訓練、每章測試等模塊。本書既可以作為本科和高職院校各專業數據分析相關課程的教材，也可以作為企業電子商務、市場營銷、數據分析人員的參考資料。

本書全面介紹使用Python進行醫學數據分析過程中需要的理論知識和Python庫。全書共9章，第1章介紹醫學數據分析及Python環境安裝；第2章介紹Python基礎；第3—6章介紹數據分析過程中的數據處理步驟及常用Python庫(Numpy矩陣運算、Pandas數據預處理及統計分析、Matplotlib數據可視化)；第7—8章介紹機器學習基礎及醫學領域常用模型、使用scikit-learn進行機器學習實戰；第9章結合前面章節內容和數據分析流程，完整介紹醫學數據分析實際應用的綜合案例。每章設計實訓案例提高讀者的實戰能力，快速上手醫學數據分析。 本教材適合作為一般院校和應用型本科院校醫學類及相關專業大數據分析課程的教材，也可供科研人員以及對數據分析感興趣的讀者參考。

Enzymes, Volume 1: Nature's Chemical Machines offers beginning-mid undergraduate students a platform in basic enzymology, including pure enzyme preparation, data collection and analysis, and enzyme study. It supports wider biochemical studies through varied examples, and leads to deeper coverage of the topic in Enzymes, Volume 2: Enzymes at Work.

Take Your First Look Into The Lives of Pok幦on! This book and its vivid illustrations introduce you to the ecologies of Pok幦on based on data from the Pok嶮ex. Pok嶰ology: An Illustrated Guide to Pok幦on Ecology focuses on the similarities, differences, generalities, and relationships between Pok幦on ecologies. The results of those observations and analyses are presented alongside spectacular artwork. The author and illustrator--both of whom hold doctorate degrees and have studied animal behavior and ecology--explain "Pok嶰ology" from a brand-new perspective.

From bunnies and bubble tea to clouds and cupcakes (and everything in between!), this book is bursting with cute pictures for you to colour. There are also step-by-step instructions so that you can increase the cuteness even further by drawing your own cute things.

Find out how to draw everything you've ever wanted to by following the simple steps in this inspirational follow-up to Usborne's best-selling Step-by-Step Drawing Book. Young children will feel a real sense of achievement as they master simple drawing skills to draw people, animals and objects. Each one has clear, illustrated instructions, and there's plenty of space on the same page to practise. A fun pastime for children (and adults!) of all ages.

Prevailing classification systems backed by the American Psychiatric Association (DSM) and World Health Organization (ICD) generally assume that mental health conditions are best represented by discrete entities that are qualitatively distinct from one another and from mental health. These diagnostic categories, such as major depression, antisocial personality disorder, and obsessive-compulsive disorder, are ubiquitous in research, clinical, training, legal, and public health contexts. Yet they are out of sync with a vast quantity of scientific data on the presentation, causes, and treatments of psychopathology. Empirically speaking, categorical diagnoses tend to be unreliable (over time and across reporters), have fuzzy boundaries with one another and mental health, do not capture many clinical presentations encountered in routine practice, and lack distinctive causes and recommended treatments. Dimensional perspectives recognize the same signs and symptoms as categorical rubrics, but

An intriguing introduction to the medieval world and the people who lived back then.You'll never guess why knights were like superheroes, how to eat at a castle dinner, and what villagers did when someone stole a loaf of bread! Discover the answers to these and all sorts of weird and wonderful facts about the world a thousand years ago as you travel back in time to the Middle Ages.- Clear, approachable text will spark young readers' curiosity and build their enthusiasm for history.- Perfect for fact-hungry kids to share with friends and family.- Includes a QR code with links to carefully chosen websites, where children can find out even more.

For the centennial of its publication, a new edition of Hemingway's classic novel of post-war disillusionment, including thematically-related vignettes and short stories from his collections In Our Time and Men Without Women, and an introduction by Amor Towles, the multimillion-copy bestselling author of The Lincoln Highway, A Gentleman in Moscow, and Rules of Civility A Penguin Classic It's the early 1920s in Paris, and Jake, a wounded World War I veteran working as a journalist, is hopelessly in love with charismatic British socialite Lady Brett Ashley. Brett, however, settles for no one: an independent, liberated divorc嶪, all she wants out of life is a good time. When Jake, Brett, and a crew of their expatriate friends travel to Spain to watch the bullfights, both passions and tensions rise. Amid the flash and revelry of the fiesta, each of the men vies to make Brett his own, until Brett's flirtation with a confident young bullfighter ignites jealousies that set their group alight.

The scientific study of consciousness features a vast array of conflicting theories, but cross-disciplinary exchange between researchers from different camps is not always prevalent. This book seeks to address these complexities by providing a thorough introduction to the field while remaining accessible to those new to the topic. By exploring empirical methods, surveying a variety of competing theories, and outlining challenges for current approaches, it equips readers with the tools to evaluate existing theories. It also showcases contributions from the originators and leading proponents of today's most influential theories, providing unparalleled depth and clarity into diverse theoretical perspectives. Offering a thorough overview of scientific consciousness studies, this book presents new perspectives on a topic that has long puzzled scientists and philosophers alike.

Follow 13 big machines as they set to work and get building!With charming illustrations, narrative text and key terms highlighted on each page, this book offers an introduction to the world of big machines for young children. From diggers and dumpers to concrete mixers and cranes, every child’s favourite is featured here!At the beginning, a two-page illustration opens up to reveal a building site. Turn the page and see the big machines move in – one by one – and set to work! See the demolition truck knocking down a derelict building, a bulldozer clearing the site, and a dumper truck taking the rubble away. And so we watch as a new building takes shape, until a gatefold opens to reveal the apartment block completed.Accompanying the narrative text, there are lots of fun details to look out for in each scene – from a bird building its nest to a mischievous squirrel hiding nuts in the cement mixer! Turn to the gatefold - all the big machines are driving off – their work is done!