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'I started to write short pieces when I was living in a room too small to write a novel in.' So says Angela Carter of this collection, written during a period living in Toyko. These exotic, sensuous stories represent Carter's first major achievement in the short story form. Lush imaginary forests, a murderous puppet show and an expressionistic vision of Japan: each one instantly conjures an atmosphere, dark and luminous in turn, and from the recognisably daring imagination of one of the great twentieth-century stylists.

Join a lively crew of children and their robot friend to work on an exciting project: building a tree house for them all to enjoy! Then learn more about robots, simple machines and computer programmin

Picture a computer scientist, staring at a screen and clicking away frantically on a keyboard, hacking into a system, or perhaps developing an app. Now delete that picture. In Once Upon an Algorithm,

Having analysed the most common English errors made in over 600 academic papers written by Chinese undergraduates, postgraduates, and researchers, Steve Hart has written an essential, practical guide

探討如何將電腦科學中的演算法原理應用到日常生活與人類決策中。作者結合心理學、認知科學與計算機科學，說明演算法不僅是電腦解題的工具，更是我們在面對生活難題時可借鑑的思考模型。本書涵蓋多種實用議題，透過演算法的視角來處理生活中的決策與權衡，例如：➤最佳停下時機（Optimal Stopping）：如何判斷在眾多選項中何時停止尋找並做出決定，如招聘或約會。➤探索與利用的平衡（Explore-Exploit Trade-off）：何時探索新機會，何時利用已知資源。➤排序與組織：提升查找效率的策略。➤快取管理：如何在有限記憶空間中有效保留重要資訊。➤工作排程與切換成本：如何管理多任務與優先順序。➤貝氏定理（Bayes's Rule）：結合先驗知識與新資訊做出推論。➤放寬問題限制：在無解或計算困難的情況下，尋求「夠好」的近似解。➤隨機性與資源管理：利用隨機策略在不確定環境下取得良好結果。➤網絡與遊戲理論：理解互動系統與多方利益的決策動態。書中強調，雖然演算法能為複雜問題提供指導，但現實生活中決策仍存在不確定性和失敗風險。重要的是採用合理的策略來面對時間與資源限制，並學習在不完美中作出最佳抉擇。該書還指出，人類在面對計算難題時，常能透過直覺和簡化模型達成驚人的表現。此書獲得廣泛好評，被譽為一本能讓人重新認識「演算法」不僅屬於科技領域，更是生活智慧的指導手冊。A fascinating exploration of how computer algorithms can be applied to our everyday lives. What should we do, or leave undone, in a day or a lifetime? Exploring how insights from computer algorithms can be applied to our everyday lives, 'Algorithms To Live By' helps to solve common decision-making problems and illuminate the workings of the human mind. When should you switch between different tasks, and how many tas

Practical advice is given for improving narrative design and writing in mobile/social games. While storytelling in mobile/social games has improved in the last 5 years, it’s still maturing. This book

Learn the essential skills to start your own engineering journey with this fun and engaging title. Packed full of great illustrations, fun facts, and absorbing activities, this book guides readers through each strand of engineering science – Mechanics, Aerospace, Robotics, Energy, and Materials. Practical projects, each carefully designed to introduce skills of the sort required by real-life engineers, help kids pick up the basics in a fun, hands-on way. Design a robot, learn how to construct a simple car, create your own levers and pulleys, and build paper planes, plus many other educational and inspirational activities – the sky’s the limit!

New edition of the successful communication-focused course that builds young adult and adult learners‘ confidence to use English and communicate in everyday situations.Breakthrough Plus 2nd edition contains up-to-date content, a fresh design, and a digital version of the Student's Book. This new edition is a truly blended, flexible, content-rich course, which covers high-interest themes in a thorough but accessible way.● NEW: Student's Resource Center, and page-faithful Digital Student's Book with integrated audio and video, extra practice, and over 150 interactive activities with score reports● NEW: Additional video material, including conversations, interactive real life exchanges, and interviews with viewing skills tasks● NEW: Presentation skills with practical guidance on how to present successfully in English● Broad, international, cross-cultural themes● Authentic natural language presented and practiced through clear, contextualized, and achievable tasks● Genuine flexibility and fo

Tourism Marketing: A Strategic Approach presents a variety of practical application tools, skills, practices, models, approaches, and strategies that are proving themselves effective in tourism market

What do you do when you're missing a shoe? When you're caught in the rain? Or when your ice cream melts? Solutions for Cold Feet is a sweet and gently humorous look at practical and creative answers f

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Pro Spring Boot is your authoritative hands-on practical guide for increasing your Spring Framework-based enterprise Java and cloud application productivity while decreasing development time using the

This pocket-sized, practical guide has everything the acrylic artist needs to know about color mixing, from color theory to complementary, warm and cool colors, color tone, using a limited palette, dull and bright colors and local color. There follows an array of essential color mixes using widely available Winsor & Newton colors. Clear, practical and beautifully presented advice.

Market Leader Active Teach provides the Course Book and a range of other teaching resources in digital format. The software can be used on any interactive whiteboard or computer and projector set up.

Linux Essentials 2e provides the beginning Linux and Open Source audience a solid foundation of Linux basics as well as prepare them to take the new LPI Linux Essentials exam. This practical book prov

The number 1 choice for all users of the inland waterways. This established, popular and practical guide covers the canals and waterways around Birmingham and central England. Covered in this guide ar

The go-to program for developing a sound grasp of NorwegianComplete Norwegian with Two Audio CDs provides a clear and comprehensive approach to Norwegian, designed for anyone who wants reach an intermediate level in all four skills—reading, writing, listening and speaking.This unique program allows you to master Norwegian at your own pace through authentic conversations, detailed language and grammar explanations, and extensive practice and review. You will learn what you want to say and when to say it—everything from giving opinions to planning events. With our interactive Discovery Method, you will absorb language rules faster, remember what you learn more easily, and put your Norwegian into use with confidence.Includes tips to help with pronunciation and grammar Comprehensive program to reading, writing, listening and speaking, providing guidance from beginner through intermediate levelAudio CDs contain numerous audio dialogues that provide practical communication models

Younger Brother, a Navaho Indian boy, undergoes eight years of training in the ancient religion of his people and the practical knowledge of material existence.

A Study of China's Foreign Aid provides a completely new picture of China's aid, based on a wide variety of stylized facts and new practical information about the rising major donor.

Intended primarily for Principles of Economics courses, this text also provides practical content to current and aspiring industry professionals. ? Reviewers tell us that Case/Fair/Oster is one of the

Partly due to the European Union's insistent and successful policies on pluriculturalism and plurilinguism, there have recently been voices challenging the prevalent and practical consensus in East As

The Most Practical Book on Negotiating Ever WrittenNegotiating is an art. It's complicated. To become an exceptional negotiator traditionally requires years of experience in negotiations. But that doe

This intricately woven tapestry of love and family, war and loss, risk and destiny follows star-crossed lovers Enza, a practical beauty, and Ciro, a strapping mountain boy, who, after their first meet

A complete and essential activity-based guide to ELT classroom management. Classroom Management Techniques offers a huge range of practical techniques to help teachers make the most of their teaching

BOOK This work contains a series of practical, proven, easy-to-apply ideas and strategies that anyone can use to change their thinking from negative to positive. The ideas in this book are based on mo

Competence in any profession depends upon an understanding of the theory that underlies it. This concise and practical text for students and practitioners bridges the gap between occupational therapy

This is the first practical guide for every citizen on the problem of corporate personhood and the tools we have to overturn it. Jeff Clements explains why the Citizen's United case is the final win i

Prandtl's pioneering experiments laid the basis for the use of theoretical hydromechanics and hydrodynamics in practical engineering problems. This volume presents Tietjens' famous expansion of Prandt

See and hear essential Korean vocabulary and build your Korean language skills!Whether you are 5 or 105, this fully illustrated dictionary makes building Korean vocabulary easy, stimulating, and fun. Bringing the 1,400 essential words alive are the vibrant illustrations that will help you remember key terms and phrases. It also includes an MP3 disc that features pronunciation by native speakers of each entry, conveniently organized for quick-access on an iPod. The dictionary contains:Each term illustrated and accompanied by the Korean term and English translation MP3 disk with audio pronunciation of every term in Korean Easy navigation system for quick-access to each term on your iPod, computer, or other MP3 deviceTopics include: Home, At School, At Hospital, People, Transportation, Air Travel, Around Town, Plants & Animals, Food, Leisure & Entertainment, Athletics, At a Restaurant , Equipment & Machinese, Miscellaneous

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One hot summer night in the city, all the power goes out. The TV shuts off and a boy wails, "Mommm!" His sister can no longer use the phone, Mom can't work on her computer, and Dad can't finish cookin

From Oracle Press - this title offers practical, step-by-step techniques for planning high availability solutions for Oracle Database 11g. Written by Oracle insiders, "Oracle Database 11g Release 2 Hi

A money-saving CISSP boxed set from the #1 name in IT security certification and trainingCISSP Boxed Set bundles Shon Harris’ bestselling CISSP All-in-One Exam Guide, Fifth Edition and CISSP Practice Exams with a bonus, second CD-ROM featuring all-new training material—all at a discount of 12% off MSRP. CISSP All-in-One Exam Guide, Fifth Edition provides a comprehensive and in-depth exam review and self-study system covering all ten CISSP domains. The book includes exam tips that highlight actual exam topics, technical discussion sidebars, and hands-on examples and exercises that support practical learning for real-world situations. The CD-ROM contains practice exam questions, a video training excerpt, and an e-book. CISSP Practice Exams reinforces what is taught in the Exam Guide with questions for review organized by exam domain and more than 1000 additional questions available online. A bonus CD-ROM available only with this Boxed Set features two additional practice exams as well as

This updated and expanded Second Edition of Research Methods in Accounting continues to provide a practical and accessible overview of the conduct of applied research studies in accounting. Retaining

Advance Praise for A Supply Chain Management Guide to Business Continuity: “A Supply Chain Management Guide to Business Continuity is a clear argument and practical guide for creating a resilient sup

Sam Flynn is the rebellious 27-year-old son of Kevin Flynn, a computer programmer who disappeared when Sam was just a child. When Sam looks into his father’s disappearance, he finds himself pulled int

Writing is an active process that helps students develop higher order thinking skills. The practical yet fun-filled writing strategies in this series encourage students to expand their thinking proces

Writing is an active process that helps students develop higher order thinking skills. The practical yet fun-filled writing strategies in this series encourage students to expand their thinking proces

Writing is an active process that helps students develop higher order thinking skills. The practical yet fun-filled writing strategies in this series encourage students to expand their thinking proces

LEARNHOW TO WRITE LIKE THE EXPERTS, FROM THE EXPERTS. Practical advice in a perfect package for young aspiring writers.After receiving letters from fans asking for writing advice,ac