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Bobby is so proud of his puppy Lucy. She's a terrific friend, and a great dog. So when a local store has a pet contest, he happily enters Lucy in it. But it turns out the pet that wins the contest may

Lady of situations waits in windows at stations on platforms. Balances on branches, inside leaves. Moves with bells, with sifted salt between fingers, butter caught in her throat. With hands outstret

This handy atlas is perfect for use at home, school, college, and office! It includes:*A comprehensive index of 20,000 place names*120 pages of full-color maps of the world--including physical, enviro

From his very first photograph made on assignment for Vogue in 1943 to the fresh images that he continues to make for that magazine today at age eighty-seven, Irving Penn again and again has shown an

The second middle grade novel from number-one-bestselling author of The Appeal, Janice HallettThe second children’s murder mystery from number-one-bestselling author of The Appeal, Janice Hallett, perfect for fans of Robin Stevens and Rhian Tracey.Imagine an old museum with more secrets than anyone could ever guess. A school trip that ends in murder. A crime unsolved for decades. . . But who did it?Now, Ava and Luke are on the case, following the clues left in a new box of murders. Using School workbooks, museum records, secret recordings and letters the siblings start to unravel the mystery of a body in the basement. But can they discover what really happened . . . before the killer strikes again?YOU know the facts. YOU have all the clues. Can YOU solve the mystery before they do?Praise for A Box Full of Murders:'Pure catnip for budding young sleuths' The Telegraph

故事發生在一個被稱為「Seawaren」的小鎮。兩百年前，「廢墟」毒害了大地，迫使人類退居海岸一隅。而大海，早已被這股毒素改變，成為了「海中怪獸」的領地。而書中的主角 桑妮（Sunny） 從小被教導三個真理：「海怪是危險的、海怪是暴力的、海怪就是怪物。」然而，一次偶然的相遇，桑妮救下了受傷的海怪 阿墨（Mo）。她驚訝地發現，阿墨不僅擁有高度智慧，性格更是溫柔，牠跨越海洋僅僅是為了尋找失散的兄弟。當桑妮冒險保守這個祕密時，飢荒卻襲擊了小鎮。在生存與偏見的夾縫中，桑妮逐漸意識到：真正的怪物，或許並不生活在海裡，而是隱藏在人心深處的恐懼與祕密中。Sunny waited until her mother was asleep before she went back for the monster . . .All her life, Sunny has known three things about the creatures that prowl the seas off her tiny coastal town. They are dangerous. They are violent. They are monsters.But when a chance encounter leads to an unexpected connection, Sunny discovers just how wrong she has been. The monster she meets – Mo – is intelligent, gentle, and searching for his lost brother.Sunny desperately wants to help, and to keep her new friend a secret. But other people are keeping secrets too. And as hunger grips the town, new truths will emerge about the real monsters in Seawaren . . .

清代文人紀昀（紀曉嵐）以飽讀詩書、學問淵博而著名，他不僅主編中國最偉大的叢書《四庫全書》，還撰有一部堪稱與《聊齋》齊名的筆記小說《閱微草堂筆記》。紀昀花費近十年的時間，才完成這部卷帙浩繁的作品。全書近一千二百則，內容豐富龐雜，包括社會生活、學術思想、官場世態、風土人情、鬼狐妖魅、物產異聞等。作者透過質樸淡雅、亦莊亦諧的文筆，融合深刻睿智、情理兼具的思想，寫成一則則生動有趣的狐鬼故事，讀來令人不忍釋手。本書採用優質版本，輔以簡明的注釋、淺白的語譯和扼要的研析，期能幫助讀者閱讀與深入了解鐵齒銅牙的紀曉嵐，以及他所創造的搜奇志怪的《閱微》世界。

清代文人紀昀（紀曉嵐）以飽讀詩書、學問淵博而著名，他不僅主編中國最偉大的叢書《四庫全書》，還撰有一部堪稱與《聊齋》齊名的筆記小說《閱微草堂筆記》。紀昀花費近十年的時間，才完成這部卷帙浩繁的作品。全書近一千二百則，內容豐富龐雜，包括社會生活、學術思想、官場世態、風土人情、鬼狐妖魅、物產異聞等。作者透過質樸淡雅、亦莊亦諧的文筆，融合深刻睿智、情理兼具的思想，寫成一則則生動有趣的狐鬼故事，讀來令人不忍釋手。本書採用優質版本，輔以簡明的注釋、淺白的語譯和扼要的研析，期能幫助讀者閱讀與深入了解鐵齒銅牙的紀曉嵐，以及他所創造的搜奇志怪的《閱微》世界。

清代文人紀昀（紀曉嵐）以飽讀詩書、學問淵博而著名，他不僅主編中國最偉大的叢書《四庫全書》，還撰有一部堪稱與《聊齋》齊名的筆記小說《閱微草堂筆記》。紀昀花費近十年的時間，才完成這部卷帙浩繁的作品。全書近一千二百則，內容豐富龐雜，包括社會生活、學術思想、官場世態、風土人情、鬼狐妖魅、物產異聞等。作者透過質樸淡雅、亦莊亦諧的文筆，融合深刻睿智、情理兼具的思想，寫成一則則生動有趣的狐鬼故事，讀來令人不忍釋手。本書採用優質版本，輔以簡明的注釋、淺白的語譯和扼要的研析，期能幫助讀者閱讀與深入了解鐵齒銅牙的紀曉嵐，以及他所創造的搜奇志怪的《閱微》世界。

Sparkling new branding for The Worst Witch - the original magical boarding school seriesThe Worst Witch All At Sea is the fourth hilarious adventure in The Worst Witch series.Mildred Hubble is in deep water on the school trip!Lovable but disaster-prone Mildred Hubble is possibly the worst ever trainee witch to darken the doors of Miss Cackle's Academy for Witches.When the class goes for a week's school trip to the seaside, Mildred can't bear to leave behind her beloved cat, Tabby behind, so she smuggles him along. But keeping Tabby hidden leads Mildred into yet more trouble...'A wonderful zany story' - Daily TelegraphLook out for more of Mildred's disastrous adventures: The Worst Witch, The Worst Witch Strikes Again, A Bad Spell for the Worst Witch, The Worst Witch Saves the Day, The Worst Witch to the Rescue, The Worst Witch and the Wishing Star and First Prize for the Worst Witch.

The #1 bestselling Magic Tree House series is ready to whisk you away across the world with Jack and Annie--this time to the African savanna! Jack and Annie are on the playground at recess when they feel the magic tree house calling them. They sneak away and are whisked off on an adventure in South Africa, where a majestic rhino needs saving! There are a swooping helicopter, strict park rangers, and--most terrifying of all--poachers. How do you hide one of the largest land mammals in the flat terrain of the African savanna? Jack and Annie are going to need a little bit of magic for this mission! Did you know that there's a Magic Tree House book for every kid?Magic Tree House: Perfect for readers who are just beginning chapter booksMerlin Missions: More challenging adventures for the experienced readerFact Trackers: Nonfiction companions to your favorite Magic Tree House adventures If you're looking for Merlin Mission #37: Dragon of the Red Dawn, it was renumbered as Merlin Mission #9 w

《神奇樹屋》跟上圖像小說熱潮！跟著主角傑克與安妮打開書本穿越時空到中世紀冒險，全彩漫畫重新詮釋暢銷冒險讀本系列，給7至12歲讀者不同以往的閱讀選擇。The #1 bestselling chapter book is now a graphic novel! Magic. Mystery. Time-travel. Get whisked back to the time of medieval knights with Jack and Annie!A castle. A knight. A quest! When the magic tree house whisks Jack and Annie back to the Middle Ages, they’re looking for a knight. Instead, they find the Great Hall of a castle where a feast is under way. But Jack and Annie aren’t exactly welcome guests!For the first time in graphic novel—live the adventure again with new full-color vibrant art that brings the magic to life!

This introduction to random walks on infinite graphs gives particular emphasis to graphs with polynomial volume growth. It offers an overview of analytic methods, starting with the connection between random walks and electrical resistance, and then proceeding to study the use of isoperimetric and Poincaré inequalities. The book presents rough isometries and looks at the properties of a graph that are stable under these transformations. Applications include the 'type problem': determining whether a graph is transient or recurrent. The final chapters show how geometric properties of the graph can be used to establish heat kernel bounds, that is, bounds on the transition probabilities of the random walk, and it is proved that Gaussian bounds hold for graphs that are roughly isometric to Euclidean space. Aimed at graduate students in mathematics, the book is also useful for researchers as a reference for results that are hard to find elsewhere.

An accessible and panoramic account of the theory of random walks on groups and graphs, stressing the strong connections of the theory with other branches of mathematics, including geometric and combinatorial group theory, potential analysis, and theoretical computer science. This volume brings together original surveys and research-expository papers from renowned and leading experts, many of whom spoke at the workshop 'Groups, Graphs and Random Walks' celebrating the sixtieth birthday of Wolfgang Woess in Cortona, Italy. Topics include: growth and amenability of groups; Schrödinger operators and symbolic dynamics; ergodic theorems; Thompson's group F; Poisson boundaries; probability theory on buildings and groups of Lie type; structure trees for edge cuts in networks; and mathematical crystallography. In what is currently a fast-growing area of mathematics, this book provides an up-to-date and valuable reference for both researchers and graduate students, from which future research ac

Random matrix theory is at the intersection of linear algebra, probability theory and integrable systems, and has a wide range of applications in physics, engineering, multivariate statistics and beyond. This volume is based on a Fall 2010 MSRI program which generated the solution of long-standing questions on universalities of Wigner matrices and beta-ensembles and opened new research directions especially in relation to the KPZ universality class of interacting particle systems and low-rank perturbations. The book contains review articles and research contributions on all these topics, in addition to other core aspects of random matrix theory such as integrability and free probability theory. It will give both established and new researchers insights into the most recent advances in the field and the connections among many subfields.

A sophisticated vegetarian cookbook with all the tools you need to be at home in your kitchen, cooking in the most nourishing and delicious ways--from the foundations of stocking a pantry and under

This book deals in a basic and systematic manner with the fundamentals of random function theory and looks at some aspects related to arrival, vehicle headway and operational speed processes at the sa

Although used with increasing frequency in many branches of physics, random matrix ensembles are not always sufficiently specific to account for important features of the physical system at hand. One

Jack and Annie are ready for their next adventure in the New York Times bestselling middle-grade series—the Magic Tree House! Are you ready for a presidential adventure? Jack and Annie are! They are t

The study of quantum disorder has generated considerable research activity in mathematics and physics over past 40 years. While single-particle models have been extensively studied at a rigorous mathe

This text is aimed at professionals and students working on random processes in various areas, including physics and finance. The first author, Melvin Lax (1922-2002), was a distinguished Professor of

Bestselling sportswriter and Edgar Award winner John Feinstein is back with another sports mystery featuring Stevie Thomas and Susan Carol Anderson—this one set at the summer Olympics in London. In t

From the Modern Library’s new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by Truman Capote—also available are In Cold Blood, Portraits and Observations, and The Complete StoriesTogether in one vo

This volume provides a modern introduction to stochastic geometry, random fields and spatial statistics at a (post)graduate level. It is focused on asymptotic methods in geometric probability includi

Aimed at those needing a primer on random signals and processes, this accessible introduction assumes minimal mathematical background and provides simple, clear explanations of key terms such as densi

Rosalind這個夏天選擇與朋友共度，而Skye、Jane、Batty和Jeffrey則前往緬因州投宿姨媽家──Skye意外成了「姊姊代表」，一個讓她和其他人都不太放心的安排。面對妹妹們的小危機、作家夢與初戀煩惱，再加上新鄰居與音樂才華初現的Batty，這個假期一點也不平靜。故事延續系列風格，以細膩筆觸描寫孩子眼中的責任、成長與親情，是一趟既熱鬧又溫暖的夏日旅程。This series of modern classics about the charming Penderwick family from National Book Award winner and New York Times bestseller Jeanne Birdsall is perfect for fans of Noel Streatfeild and Edward Eager. Over one million copies sold, now with a bright new look!When summer comes around, it's off to the beach for Rosalind . . . and off to Maine with Aunt Claire for the rest of the Penderwick girls, as well as their old friend, Jeffrey.That leaves Skye as OAP (oldest available Penderwick)—a terrifying notion for all, but for Skye especially. Things look good as they settle into their cozy cottage, with a rocky shore, enthusiastic seagulls, a just-right corner store, and a charming next-door neighbor. But can Skye hold it together long enough to figure out Rosalind's directions about not letting Batty explode

Principles of Statistical Radiophysics is a four-volume series that introduces the newcomer to the theory of random functions. It aims at providing the background necessary to understand papers and mo

Bestselling writer John Feinstein is back with another exciting sports-mystery, this one set behind the scenes at the storied Army-Navy football game.Teen sportswriters Stevie Thomas and Susan Carol A

Random matrices arise from, and have important applications to, number theory, probability, combinatorics, representation theory, quantum mechanics, solid state physics, quantum field theory, quantum gravity, and many other areas of physics and mathematics. This 2001 volume of surveys and research results, based largely on lectures given at the Spring 1999 MSRI program of the same name, covers broad areas such as topologic and combinatorial aspects of random matrix theory; scaling limits, universalities and phase transitions in matrix models; universalities for random polynomials; and applications to integrable systems. Its stress on the interaction between physics and mathematics will make it a welcome addition to the shelves of graduate students and researchers in both fields, as will its expository emphasis.

A behind-the-scenes mystery at the World Series from bestseller John Feinstein. Bestselling author, journalist, and Edgar Award winner John Feinstein is back with another high-stakes sports mystery.

The theory of random matrices plays an important role in many areas of pure mathematics and employs a variety of sophisticated mathematical tools (analytical, probabilistic and combinatorial). This diverse array of tools, while attesting to the vitality of the field, presents several formidable obstacles to the newcomer, and even the expert probabilist. This rigorous introduction to the basic theory is sufficiently self-contained to be accessible to graduate students in mathematics or related sciences, who have mastered probability theory at the graduate level, but have not necessarily been exposed to advanced notions of functional analysis, algebra or geometry. Useful background material is collected in the appendices and exercises are also included throughout to test the reader's understanding. Enumerative techniques, stochastic analysis, large deviations, concentration inequalities, disintegration and Lie algebras all are introduced in the text, which will enable readers to approach

Random Vibration in Spacecraft Structures Design is based on the lecture notes "Spacecraft structures" and "Special topics concerning vibration in spacecraft structures" from courses given at Delft Un