Parallel Finite-Difference Time-Domain Method

Getting the kids to school on time can be filled with hurdles – Rebecca Cobb perfectly captures the epic adventure it can be in A Wild Walk to School, a witty story full of imagination!From the Waterstones prize-winner and best-selling illustrator of The Paper Dolls by Julia Donaldson. It's time to walk to school and mum wants the children to get there on time. But what Mum doesn't realise is that the hill is in fact the tummy of a sleeping giant and it's important to tread carefully when the floor turns to lava! It's just as well Mum has these two Brave Explorers with her .. . A charming, relatable and beautifully illustrated story that's full of fun: recognisable to children and their grown-ups everywhere!

At long last Lottie and Daniel are an official couple and everything seems to be going brilliantly (except for Amber being increasingly mean and jealous, but what's new there?).Meanwhile Toby's new year's resolution is to get a dog, and for once Lottie and him see eye to eye. Pot Noodle, the cockapoo, becomes the newest member of the Brooks family. He's VERY cute but also not toilet trained AT ALL.Lottie soon finds having a new boyfriend and a new dog means she has little time for anyone else, leaving her best friends pretty upset. How is Lottie meant to keep everybody happy and stop Pot Noodle from pooing on the carpet?!Readers LOVE Lottie Brooks:My daughter couldn't put it down and read it in 2 days. Read at breakfast, walking downstairs, tea time, in the bath.My 9-year-old daughter devoured it in two nights, and all I could hear from her was giggling and the occasional "Mum! Listen to this! This is SO me!".My 12 year old reluctant reader took this book, read 100 pages in one night a

《另一個山谷》是一部融合文學與科幻元素的小說，故事發生在一個與自己過去與未來相鄰的小鎮。16歲的奧蒂是一位安靜、內向的女孩，努力爭取進入決策委員會，負責審核誰能穿越邊界。這座山谷的東邊是二十年後，西邊則是二十年前。當她意外發現一對來自未來的訪客是她朋友艾德梅的父母，並得知艾德梅即將死亡後，她被迫在守護時序與真摯情感之間做出選擇。這是一部關於命運、選擇與時間的細膩小說，溫柔動人，令人深思。For fans of David Mitchell, Ruth Ozeki, and Kazuo Ishiguro, an elegant and exhilarating literary speculative novel about an isolated town neighbored by its own past and future, and a young girl who spots two elderly visitors from across the border: the grieving parents of the boy she loves. Sixteen-year-old Odile is an awkward, quiet girl vying for a coveted seat on the Conseil. If she earns the position, she'll decide who may cross her town's heavily guarded borders. On the other side, it's the same valley, the same town. Except to the east, the town is twenty years ahead in time. To the west, it's twenty years behind. The towns repeat in an endless sequence across the wilderness. When Odile recognizes two visitors she wasn't supposed to see, she realizes that the parents of her friend Edme ha

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Power of Habit, an investigation of what makes conversations work, and how we can all learn to be supercommunicators at work and in our livesThe right conversation, at the right moment, can change everything.We all know people who seem capable of connecting with anyone. They are the ones we turn to for advice, who ask the best questions—but who are also able to hear what goes unsaid, what we are really trying to say.Why are these people so good at connecting? And what can they tell us about how communication works?Supercommunicators, Charles Duhigg argues, understand—some by intuition, some by hard-won experience—that there is a science to how human beings connect. They understand that every time we speak to someone, we’re actually engaging in one of three conversations: What is this really about? How do we feel? And, Who are we? They know the importance of identifying what kind of conversation we’re having, and then matching it, so tha

一個人也能自己施作 人體自癒與保健醫典83 處手部反應區，吳若石神父反射健康法全球首發、全新定位吳若石神父足部反射健康法 （Father Josef’s Method of Reflexology 簡稱FJM），是吳神父自1979（民國68）年，由德文版《未來的健康》一書習得，並引進臺灣，這個健康法經過吳神父及其工作團隊四十多年來不斷研究發展，現今已傳遍整個亞洲。如今，FJM已發展成為當今世界最安全、又值得信靠的自然療法，不僅可以「促進健康、緩解疼痛」，也是享譽國際、養生保健最好的方法。2020年7月 COVID-19橫行全球之際，協會夥伴們建議是不是要寫一本關於「一個人足療的書」，讓不方便出門的人也能在家自行足療。事實上，「FJM全人反射健康法」不是只能在腳底施作，也能在手部及耳部詩作；在腳上施作時稱「FJM足部反射健康法」；在手上施作時則稱為「FJM手部反射健康法」。假如出書的目的是為了讓不方便出門的人在家也能自行療癒，那「FJM手部反射健康法」可能更適用。吳神父看到那些一個人過日子的人的健康需求吳神父在意那些選擇一個人過日子的人如何照顧自己「一個人的FJM」就是個人以FJM的施作原則，在自己的腳上及手上為自己施作，以促進健康、緩解疼痛的健康法，也是一種隨時、隨地，徒手使用操作棒、運用身旁器物或設施，就能自我施作FJM的自我保健法。本書將逐項列出，比較常出現在一般人身上的各種疼痛或不舒服狀況，一旦發生時，便可以隨時、隨地自己施作減緩疼痛。包括：（一）頭痛（二）記憶力衰退（三）偏頭痛（四）牙痛（五）鼻塞不舒服（六）感冒不舒服（七）落枕（八）胸悶（九）胃痛（十）拉肚子（十一）便祕（十二）經痛（十三）男性排尿不順、頻尿、夜尿（十四）女性排尿不順、頻尿、漏尿（十五）肩關節痛（十六）肩頸痛（十七）腰、下背痛（十八）膝關節痛（十九）暈車、暈船、暈機、暈眩（二十）睡不著（二十一）腳踝扭傷（二十二）滑鼠手、鍵盤手，腕部不適（二十三）坐骨神經痛（二十四）喘不過氣（二十五）咳嗽不停（二十六）打嗝不停（二十七）視力保健（二十八）聽力保健（二十九）顏面神經失調（三十）預防骨質疏鬆（三十一）協助減肥（三十二）精神不濟，提振精神照顧好自己，是現代公民的素養！本書將從自己對自己施作的角度，以一般人可以做、方便做、容易做的原則，沒有施作的順序，依據FJM原理，說明施作的方法及部位。可以徒手，也