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本書為《Cronus Chronicles》三部曲合輯盒裝，以希臘神話為靈感，適合喜愛《Percy Jackson and the Olympians》的讀者。故事從看似零散的異常展開：神祕小貓、忽然現身的表親、以及行蹤可疑的陌生人，逐漸指向一場牽動生死的冒險。Charlotte 與 Zee 為了拯救身邊的人踏入冥界，發現自己握有影響眾人命運的關鍵。隨著危機升級，他們面對海神與古老組織的追擊，只能憑藉友情與機智迎戰。"The perfect series for fans of Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson and the Olympians books." --School Library Journal All three books in the middle grade Cronus Chronicles series, inspired by Greek mythology and perfect for fans of Percy Jackson, available together in one collectible paperback boxed set--now with a new look! Something extraordinary is about to happen to Charlotte Mielswetski. Oh, it's not the cute kitten that appears out of nowhere. It's not the sudden arrival of her cousin Zee, who believes he's the cause of a mysterious sickness that struck his friends in England. And it's not the men in tuxedos who follow Charlotte everywhere. What's so extraordinary is not any one of these things. It's all of them. And when Charlotte's friends also fall sick, Charlotte and Zee set

In this follow up toCat Family ChristmasandCat Family at the Museum, find out what the Cat Family get up to in each season of the year. On every page is a detailed scene with lots of things to discover under the flaps that are waiting to be opened by inquisitive little hands.In spring, follow the cats as they help Grandma and Grandpa Cat in the garden, celebrate new beginnings, and visit the village fete. In summer, join the kittens as they build sandcastles on the beach, go camping in the wood, and take a train ride to visit their grandparents. In fall, come along on a nature walk, carve pumpkins for Halloween, and harvest fruit and vegetables. In winter, enjoy a snowy day building snowcats, celebrate Christmas, and ring in the New Year.This whimsical book celebrates the changing seasons and the simple pleasures that can be enjoyed throughout the year. Lift-the-flap on each page to discover hidden details in each season, from eggs waiting to hatch in the bird's nest to a mouse poking

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This guidebook for being alive—by the #1New York Timesbestselling authors and award-winning podcast hosts—is a moving exploration of the 20 essential human questions.“We circle around the same 20 Questions throughout our lives. Inside this book are those questions—and the answers that saved my life.”—Glennon DoyleEvery day, Glennon Doyle spirals around the same questions:Why am I like this? How do I figure out what I want? How do I know what to do? Why can’t I be happy? Am I doing this right?Each morning, she’s somehow forgotten all the answers. She wonders:I’m almost fifty years old. I’ve learned a whole lot. Why do I wake up every day having forgotten everything I know?Her sister, Amanda, and her wife, Abby, are the people Glennon calls first when she’s drowning, because they are her life preservers. Recently, in the span of a single year, Glennon was diagnosed with anorexia, Amanda was diagnosed with breast cancer, and Abby lost her beloved brother. For the first time, they were all

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The much-anticipated new fantasy series from Ransom Riggs, his first since introducing the #1 global phenomenon Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children series.In the blurry weeks after his mother’s death, Leopold found the seven puffy-boxed VHS tapes of its one, and perhaps only, season in a box of her things headed for the trash.... Sunderworld became a primary escape through some of the bleakest stretches of his childhood. In the midst of grief, he was happy only when immersed in Sunder.Leopold Berry is a teenager living in Los Angeles with his blowhard father. Leopold’s mother died when he was twelve and was the source of her son’s love both for LA and for movie magic. Since her passing, much of his life has been spent avoiding disappointing his father and obsessing over his favorite TV show—a 1990s kids’ fantasy series called Sunderworld. To call Sunderworld a cult favorite is generous. As far as Leopold knows, he and his best friend Emmet are the only people in the

Get inside the machinery of the modern world and understand the science that makes it all work. Have you ever been tempted to take the back off your TV? Have you wondered about what's going on beneath your feet on the street where you live? How Technology Works lifts the lid on the technology you use all the time but take for granted. It also takes you to places you'll never get the chance to see, such as the inside of a nuclear storage facility or the crew capsule on top of a moon rocket. The book takes you on a journey of discovery, starting with technology at work inside the human body before exploring cities and factories and then blasting off into space. Along the way, you'll lose yourself in super-detailed illustrations that reveal amazing hidden things and explain how they work. How Technology Works is an inspiring guide that makes technology fun, fascinating, and accessible for curious minds of all ages.

《INTERNET CAFE! PANDA》是台灣新銳攝影師陳智賢（Chih-Hsien Chen）的首本攝影集。他以抓拍式的影像速寫，紀錄了舊時代的網咖文化，關於那些混亂角落與奇葩之人，一幕幕幽默的走光式畫面，展現充滿在地特色的台灣奇景。 這系列作品的起源，來自攝影師在台中一間神秘網咖工作的經歷。許多常客都是中老年人，長期寄居在同一個黑色皮椅上，喜歡播色情片睡覺的禿頭阿伯、一次收費 600 元的站街小姐、永遠坐最後一排靠牆角落的撿回收爺爺⋯⋯他一邊工作收餐，一邊無法抗拒的受他們吸引，偷偷觀察他們古怪的言行舉止。 趁著工作空檔，他開始拿出相機，拍下各種生猛又滑稽的場面。一個一個衣衫不整的人，東倒西歪熟睡著，看起來像被槍斃了一樣。桌底下常常有精液，有人拉屎在樓梯上，沒有道德規則或文明禮儀，而是遵循動物性的原始直覺。在講求美觀和體面的當代社會，這間破舊的網咖，反而保存了一份真實的人性。 這些收錄於書中的照片，成為一系列台灣社會邊緣者的風俗群像，粗工、妓女、無家者、資源回收的人。閃光燈打在他們臉上，照亮他們千奇百態的睡姿、以小時計價的生活，有些脫序離奇，有些詼諧幽默，但無論如何，這就是他們未經修飾的網咖人生。

Hawaiian native Carissa Moore brought joy and pride to the islands when she won the first-ever, gold medal in surfing’s Olympic debut. Here she shares her story and her personal perspective, alongside contributions from many of her fellow Hawaiian surf legends, on what it means to be a surfer from Hawaii.This long-awaited book celebrates Hawaii’s rich surf history and culture, featuring stunning photography capturing the magnificent beauty of the islands, Hawaii’s most famous surf breaks, and legendary surf icons. It showcases Hawaiian surfing traditions such as paddle outs, surfboard shaping, the shaka symbol, and all of the things that have made the origins of surfing in Hawaii uniquely beautiful.Moore invites notable Hawaiian surfers and cultural figures to share their perspectives on growing up on the islands and the connection they have with surfing in Hawaii, the birthplace of this sport. This unique and special book pays tribute to the significance of Hawaiian surfing, shared by

Now in a gorgeous special-edition hardback: with an extra never-before-in-print mini-comic FLOWER SHOP, beautiful endpapers and an exquisite foiled cover, this is an unmissable edition. Second in the bestselling LGBTQ+ graphic novel series about life, love, and everything that happens in between. *Also an acclaimed live-action Netflix series!*'Absolutely delightful. Sweet, romantic, kind. Beautifully paced. I loved this book.' RAINBOW ROWELL, author of Carry OnBoy meets boy. Boys become friends. Boys fall in love. Nick and Charlie are best friends. Nick knows Charlie's gay, and Charlie is sure that Nick isn't.But love works in surprising ways, and Nick is discovering all kinds of things about his friends, his family ... and himself.This is the second volume of Heartstopper, which is now an acclaimed live-action Netflix series.By Alice Oseman, winner of the YA Book Prize, Heartstopper is about love, friendship, loyalty and mental illness. It encompasses all the small moments of Nick and

可愛小狗Noodles的日常故事集合，透過簡單有趣的句子，帶領孩子一起經歷日常生活的挑戰與發現：「不要剪我頭髮！」「我不怕！」「我愛我的影子！」……每一本都像貼近孩子心情的小日記。搭配圖文，輕鬆培養閱讀自信，適合6到9歲孩子自行閱讀，學習表達與生活感受。The story collection of an adorable puppy, Noodles! He experiences what young children would encounter in daily life. Very simple sentences filled with useful expressions.1. It’stoo windy!2. Don'tcut my hair!3. Ican help!4. I'm not scared!5. Ihate my bow!6. Iam lost!7. Ilove colors!8. Ilove my tooth!9. Ilove my shadow!10. Nokisses please!Pick a Series. Grow a Reader.Meet Missy – a razzle-dazzle girl who does Things the Super Duper Royal Deluxe way.Learn how Missy picked out her outfit， planned for her class pet， dealt with her school play and went for a field trip in this deluxe collection!This series is part of Scholastic''s early chapter book line called Branches， which is aimed at newly independent readers. With easy-to-read text， high-interest content， fast-paced plots， and illustrations on every page， these books will boost reading confidence and stamina.

週四謀殺俱樂部再次出擊！十年前一樁沒有屍體的謀殺懸案，讓幾位熟年偵探再度被捲入解謎遊戲中，而與此同時一位仇敵卻突然拜訪伊莉莎白，帶著殺意與一把槍！其他成員能夠及時破解懸案並拯救伊莉莎白嗎？A new mystery is afoot in the third book in the Thursday Murder Club series from record-breaking, bestselling author Richard Osman.----------It is an ordinary Thursday and things should finally be returning to normal.Except trouble is never far away where the Thursday Murder Club are concerned. A decade-old cold case leads them to a local news legend and a murder with no body and no answers.Then a new foe pays Elizabeth a visit. Her mission? Kill. . . or be killed.As the cold case turns white hot, Elizabeth wrestles with her conscience (and a gun), while Joyce, Ron and Ibrahim chase down clues with help from old friends and new. But can the gang solve the mystery and save Elizabeth before the murderer strikes again?** PRE-ORDER YOUR COPY NOW! **----------WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT THE MAN WHO DIED TWICE'A thing of joy . . . Richard has a natural sense of humour' KATE ATKINSON'I absolutely lo

精緻娃娃屋裡，故事仍在上演…。妮拉苦心操持榮景不再的布蘭特家族，然而在瑪琳女兒18歲生日這天，過往的黑暗秘密逐漸浮現，與此同時，種種跡象讓妮拉猜想，是神秘的娃娃屋模型師回來了…Set in the golden city of Amsterdam in 1705, it is a story of fate and ambition, secrets and dreams, and one young womans determination to rule her own destiny.Thea Brandt is turning eighteen, and is ready to welcome adulthood with open arms. At the theatre, Walter, the love of her life, awaits her, but at home in the house on the Herengracht, winter has set in her father Otto and Aunt Nella argue endlessly, and the Brandt family are selling their furniture in order to eat.On Theas birthday, also the day that her mother Marin died, the secrets from the past begin to overwhelm the present.Nella is desperate to save the family and maintain appearances, to find Thea a husband who will guarantee her future, and when they receive an invitation to Amsterdams most exclusive ball, she is overjoyed perhaps this will set their fortunes straight. And indeed, the ball does set things spinning: new figures enter

This book contains analysis of different domains of contemporary art in China seen through the lens of the epistemological changes described in China Pluperfect I: Epistemology of Past and Outside in Chinese Art.It first looks at the concept of “ink art,” describing how it meant different things to different people in the former colony and how these different meanings came to determine certain institutional choices made at the beginning of the 21st century. The following chapters are dedicated to issues related to the urban and rural contexts for art creation in Mainland China and Hong Kong. One chapter observes the ups and downs of the representations of cities in the history of the People’s Republic of China and how they have defined a certain idea of culture. Another looks at how Chinese cities have been exceptional centers of art creations over the last thirty to forty years through the example of Shenzhen where a vibrant art scene, albeit closely connected to Hong Kong which has b

From the New York Times bestselling author of Front Desk comes a poignant middle grade novel about courage, hope, and resilience as an Asian American boy fights to keep his family together and stand up to racism during the initial outbreak of the coronavirus. When the coronavirus hits Hong Kong, ten-year-old Knox Wei-Evans's mom makes the last-minute decision to move him and his siblings back to California, where they think they will be safe. Suddenly, Knox has two days to prepare for an international move--and for leaving his dad, who has to stay for work. At his new school in California, Knox struggles with being the new kid. His classmates think that because he's from Asia, he must have brought over the virus. At home, Mom just got fired and is panicking over the loss of health insurance, and Dad doesn't even know when he'll see them again, since the flights have been cancelled. And everyone struggles with Knox's blurting-things-out problem. As racism skyrockets during COVID-19, Kno

★★★★★【Dart】、【Google御用】★★★★★ 利用開發Web專案學會一門新的Google專屬語言 其實從html/css/javascript開發網頁的路走來，一直到支援MVC的框架，你是否覺得需要一個很完整符合Web UI的語言才使得上力？而學習到Dart之後終於感受到這個完整性。 Dart是由Google公司推出的現代化程式語言，它以簡單、高效、可擴充為開發目標，將強大的新語言特性與熟悉的語言構造組合成清晰、讀取的語法，並提供很多語法糖來保證以更少的程式量完成指定功能。 Dart不僅是一門語言，Dart 的各種開放原始碼專案和Pub 套件管理工具幫助開發人員變得更有生產力。舉例來說，開發者可以使用Pub 獲得與JavaScript 互動操作的能力、Web UI 框架、單元測試庫、用於遊戲開發的庫及使用Dart語言開發的Flutter跨平台移動UI框架等。 本書平鋪直述，沒有冗長的說明，一開始就切入了Dart的核心，並且充分說明了Angular的特性，不管是在和JavaScript的互動操作，Web UI架構，又或是開發後的單元測試以及主流網頁遊戲的函數庫等。而最大受眾的行動UI開發上，更有完整的大量函數庫支援，網頁開發已進入全新里程，學應用不如學語言，利用開發Web專案學會一門新的Google專屬語言，讓你在求職求學的路上比別人更強一個層級。 本書重點 ✪在Windows、MacOS及Linux上安裝及設定dart執行環境 ✪Dart的資料型態、函數、運算子、運算元 ✪Dart的流程控制，物件導向、類別、異常，泛型、函數庫操作 ✪Dart的非同步、Future、Stream及生成器函數 ✪Dart的多執行緒、Isolate、循環、可呼叫類別、擴充方法、中繼資料 ✪Dart的服務端開發，shelf框架、Angular框架 ✪Dart的材質化元件庫 ✪完整實作專案貫通全書所有的觀念 適合讀者 ★所有Dart初學者、Angular愛好者、Flutter開發人員

This follow-up to the smash hit Cats Galore dives deeper into the world of Susan Herbert, whose delightful re-imaginings of some of the best-known and best-loved works of art have won her a devoted international following. Herbert’s first book, The Cats Gallery of Art, was published in 1990, and since then her work has appeared in numerous books, featuring cats in iconic works of art, as well as scenes from opera, Shakespearean plays and the movies – all with her trademark blend of humour and ability to capture those essential feline characteristics so instantly recognizable to cat lovers everywhere. In this new compilation, furry felines take over yet more of the world’s most famous masterpieces.They crowd into the pages of the 15th-century Très Riches Heures, zoom through the air as cherubic blindfolded Cupids in Renaissance masterworks, and pose stiffly in royal portraits, before loosening things up in the 19th century as artists take paint and palette out into the countryside. Rang

本書收錄Julian Barnes的藝術隨筆，透過精闢觀點解析經典畫作與藝術史發展。文字優雅深刻，帶領讀者重新思考如何觀看與理解藝術。The updated edition of Julian Barnes’ best-loved writing on art, with seven new exquisite illustrated essays‘Flaubert believed that it was impossible to explain one art form in terms of another, and that great paintings required no words of explanation. Braque thought the ideal state would be reached when we said nothing at all in front of a painting. But we are very far from reaching that state. We remain incorrigibly verbal creatures who love to explain things, to form opinions, to argue... It is a rare picture which stuns, or argues, us into silence. And if one does, it is only a short time before we want to explain and understand the very silence into which we have been plunged.’Julian Barnes began writing about art with a chapter on Géricault’s The Raft of the Medusa in his 1989 novel A History of the World in 10½ Chapters. Since then he has written a series of remarkable essays, chiefly about French artists, which

The Perfect Score (The Perfect Score Series)The Perfect Secret (The Perfect Score Series)Perfect Star (The Perfect Score Series)From the beloved author of Because of Mr. Terupt and its sequels comes The Perfect Score, a new middle-grade school story with a very special cast of unforgettable characters who discover that getting the perfect score—both on the test and in life—is perhaps not so perfect after all. No one likes or wants to take the statewide assessment tests. Not the students in Mrs. Woods’s sixth-grade class. Not even Mrs. Woods. It’s not as if the kids don’t already have things to worry about. . . . Under pressure to be the top gymnast her mother expects her to be, RANDI starts to wonder what her destiny truly holds. Football-crazy GAVIN has always struggled with reading and feels as dumb as his high school–dropout father. TREVOR acts tough and mean, but as much as he hates school, he hates being home even more. SCOTT’s got a big brain and an even bigger heart, e

Monocle has always been a champion of taking it slow. It has encouraged readers to dive into a lake and go for a run. To sleep well. To eat food whose makers are proud of its provenance. In a shouty, jabbing-finger moment in history, it has done its bit to argue for a new modern etiquette to be generous with our time, hospitality and forgiveness. Now its editors and correspondents have brought all of this together in The Monocle Manifesto for a Gentler Life, a book that urges us all to slow down, reconnect, make good things and see nice places. And it also knows when to wear a cheeky smile. Chapters include:• An illustrated guide to being nice, respecting your neighbour and controlling your social media rants.• Profiles of the happiest nations – and the least lonely too.• How to build a house that’s good for you and your family.• Essays from leading thinkers and great writers on what we can gain if we shift gear.• The businesses charting a better course – from management to pride in pr

In an age when people are in search of new and more fulfilling experiences to replace screens and bring families together, this book explores 100 ways to connect with nature and discover the benefits

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A thoroughly updated edition of the 2003 classic that home and professional bartenders alike refer to as their cocktail bible. Gary Regan, the "most-read cocktail expert around" (Imbibe), has revised the original edition for the 15th anniversary with at least 30% new material: many more cocktail recipes--including smart revisions to the originals--and fascinating information on the drink making revival that has popped up in the past decade, confirming once again that this is the only cocktail reference you need.A prolific writer on all things cocktails, Gary Regan and his books have been a huge influence on mixologists and bartenders in America. This brand-new edition fills in the gaps since the book first published, incorporating Regan's special insight on the cocktail revolution from 2000 to the present and a complete overhaul of the recipe section. With Regan's renowned system for categorizing drinks helps bartenders not only to remember drink recipes but also to invent their own, T

The Evan-Moor Smart Start STEM Grade 1 Activity Book introduces scientific concepts to first graders using a mixture of hands-on activities, stories and problem solving tasks that are sure to keep kids entertained while theyre gaining invaluable skills. When working on physical science concepts, gr. 1 students will focus on the differences between solids, liquids and gases. The life science sections discuss the things animals eat and how they take care of their babies, all in language that grade one kids can comprehend. And, in the earth science lessons, well introduce concepts about the moon, bodies of water and weather.