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Build for a Vibrant Future We all face environmental issues such as oceanic warming, glacier calving, spreading pollution, and species extinctions. Because of this, national governments around the world are trying to deal with the problems in every possible way, from policy, to investment, to education, and more.

Proverbs 4:22 from Scripture says, “For they are life to those who find them and health to one’s whole body.” God's way of life is the best medicine. Pastor Daniel Tsao has compiled “42 Doses” based on Bible verses, supplemented by vivid testimonies and teachings of miraculous healing. Readers can take it three times a day, just like taking medicine. Read a scripture, chew it, meditate on it, pray, and then eat it! This is the prescription for divine healing and divine health. We pray and hope readers will be brought before God through this book, enter into His flow of life and healing waters, and get better or even be healed of their illnesses. 聖經箴言4:22提到神的話，說：「因為得著祂的，就得了生命，又得了醫全體的良藥。」 神生命之道是最好的藥方，曹力中牧師以聖經經文編寫出〈42帖藥〉，輔以生動的神醫見證與教導。讀者可以每天按三餐服用，像吃藥一樣，讀一處經文，咀嚼、默想、禱告、吃下去！這是屬天醫治與神聖健康之藥方。 期待讀者藉這本書被帶到神的面前，進入祂生命與醫治的水流中，病情好轉甚至得醫痊。

In Hong Kong Public and Squatter Housing: Geopolitics and Informality, 1963–1985, Alan Smart and Fung Chi Keung Charles trace two decades of development of squatting in Hong Kong. The authors reconstruct the government policy on squatting through both ethnographic and archival research. The book sheds new light on the consequences of various attempts to control encroachment on scarce urban space. It argues that intersecting policy agendas resulted in decisions that were often not desired, but which emerged as practical solutions from prior failures. The authors address the challenges of explaining confidential policy decisions and offer new approaches applicable in other contexts. Overall, Smart and Fung make an important contribution to the understanding of how public housing and squatting interacted in influential ways that have been poorly understood and offer new perspectives on the challenges of urban governance and housing problems.

★☆★ AI 影像辨識一本精通！ ★☆★ ★☆★ 超過 200 個完整範例程式碼 ★☆★ AI 影像辨識是近年來非常夯的議題，隨著資訊科技的蓬勃發展，越來越多好用的工具推陳出新，也越來越容易跨入 AI 影像辨識領域，不論是電子、資訊領域、醫療、百貨，各行各業中陸續都能看到 AI 影像辨識的應用。 Python 是目前入門 AI 影像辨識最快速的程式語言，透過 Python 的 OpenCV 函式庫，並搭配其他方便的函式庫，就能輕鬆入門 AI 影像辨識，OpenCV 除了能針對影像進行全面的處理，也是大多數 AI 影像辨識的敲門磚，常應用於擴增實境、臉部辨識、手勢辨識、動作辨識、運動跟蹤、物體辨識或圖像分割...等領域。 本書會從 OpenCV 出發，從 OpenCV 最基本的存取圖片影片，影像色彩、影像剪裁、影像變形、加入文字、繪圖、影像效果進階處理都有完整介紹，並會介紹 OpenCV 內建的影像辨識方法、Google MediaPipe 的影像辨識方法和 Teachable Machine 影像辨識方法進行 AI 影像辨識，作出許多有趣又實用的影像辨識相關應用。 【精彩收錄】 ▶ OpenCV 深入介紹 ▶ OpenCV 影像色彩調整和轉換 ▶ OpenCV 影像剪裁、變形、加入文字和繪圖 ▶ OpenCV 影像效果進階處理 ▶ OpenCV 偵測滑鼠和鍵盤 ▶ OpenCV 人臉、物件、顏色等影像辨識 ▶ MediaPipe 人臉、姿勢、手勢等影像辨識 ▶ Teachable Machine 人臉、戴口罩等影像辨識 ▶ 辨識手寫數字、年齡、情緒

Chen Hansheng was not only a pioneer of modern Chinese social science, remembered for the village studies he organized by teams of researchers in the 1930s. He was also a political operative whose career as an underground and aboveground Communist activist spanned the twentieth century and the globe. This book draws on unique interviews, beginning in 1979, with Chen himself, his family and associates, along with an exhaustive examination of documents, writings, and archives, to build a rounded portrait of Chen, the man, and his world. -------------- “Stephen MacKinnon’s lifetime study of eminent social scientist and Communist Chen Hansheng makes for an absorbing, thrilling, and illuminating read. This product of decades of researching Chen, and of years of discussions with him, MacKinnon shows us how one enterprising and creative scholar became dedicated to the cause, worked for it, and then ended his life sad and angry about what became of the Chinese Communist Party in power.” —Han

In this ground-breaking, posthumous study, the late Lo Jung-pang discusses the geographic, political, and commercial factors that led to the emergence of seapower and a navy under the Ming. While Zheng He and his seven expeditions have received some scholarly attention, few understand the long history of maritime engagement which provided the nautical and technical background for these voyages. The evolution of this maritime engagement and its extension into the Indian Ocean is the focus of Lo’s still-timely and highly significant work. In addition to detailing the rise of the Ming navy and its extraordinary accomplishments, Lo also examines some of the factors that led to the end of China’s first great maritime era: Why did China suddenly seem to turn away from the seas? Were the military defeats in Annam and on the northern borders significant in this? Or were financial pressures key? Empire in the Western Ocean represents the most comprehensive and insightful English-language trea

Heritage and History in the China–Australia Migration Corridor traces the material and social legacy of migration from China to Australia from the 1840s until the present day. The volume offers a multidimensional examination of the material footprint of migration as it exists in the migration corridor stretching between Zhongshan county in south China and Australia. Spanning the fields of heritage studies, migration studies, and Chinese diaspora history, Denis Byrne, Ien Ang, Phillip Mar, and other contributors foreground a transnational approach to the heritage of migration, one that takes account of the flows of people, ideas, objects, and money that circulate through migration corridors, forming intricate ongoing bonds between those who migrated to Australia and their home villages in China.

The 2010s have seen an explosion in popularity of Chinese television featuring same-sex intimacies, LGBTQ-identified celebrities, and explicitly homoerotic storylines even as state regulations on “vulgar” and “immoral” content grow more prominent. This emerging “queer TV China” culture has generated diverse, cyber, and transcultural queer fan communities. Yet these seemingly progressive televisual productions and practices are caught between multilayered sociocultural and political-economic forces and interests. Taking “queer” as a verb, an adjective, and a noun, this volume counters the Western-centric conception of homosexuality as the only way to understand nonnormative identities and same-sex desire in the Chinese and Sinophone worlds. It proposes an analytical framework of “queer/ing TV China” to explore the power of various TV genres and narratives, censorial practices, and fandoms in queer desire-voicing and subject formation within a largely heteropatriarchal society. Through

◎根據學習者自身條件、生長環境，以及學習過程有關的各種原理，所發展出來的一套兒童教育理論。 ◎本書能使孩子的智力、情感以及人際關係，隨著成長和生理狀況的變化而不斷的同時發展。 ◎作者同時兼具法學博士、MBA、律師、會計師多種專業身分，中英對照，精闢解析。 The author is an attorney and C.P.A. Throughout his life, he has been questing and exploring common grounds for people and concluded that childhood education is the foundation for people, families, society, and the future of the world. He is very appreciative of the opportunities and education offered by society. In this book, he shares his principles of education as a giving back to society. 作者是位執業律師暨會計師。他一輩子在找尋人間的共通之處，得到兒童教育正是人們、家庭、社會及未來世界之基石的結論。他非常感激社會給他的教育和機會。在此書中分享了他的教育原理來回饋社會。 ●This book shows you ways to 這本書告訴你如何去 ‧Discover how people learn 發覺人們是怎麼學習的 ‧Guide our children 引導我們的孩子們 ‧Review effectiveness of education 檢討教育的效率 ‧Explore tools for education 探尋教育之工具 ‧Grow with children 與孩子們一起成長 ‧Introduce children to a wonder world 帶孩子們進入美妙的世界 Dedicated to parents, educators, learners, and leaders of the universes 獻給所有父母、老師、學生和領袖們

This book is a useful reference that introduces the social inclusion tools and standards, as well as elaborates the applications in and outside Asia. It enables readers to see how people in different cultures interpret the concept of social inclusion and how social inclusion is experienced among different disadvantaged groups in society.

A Contemporary History of the Chinese Zheng traces the twentieth- and twenty-first-century development of an important Chinese musical instrument in greater China.The zheng was transformed over the course of the twentieth century, becoming a solo instrument with virtuosic capacity. In the past, the zheng had appeared in small instrumental ensembles and supplied improvised accompaniments to song. Zheng music became a means of nation-building and was eventually promoted as a marker of Chinese identity in Hong Kong. Ann L. Silverberg uses evidence from the greater China area to show how the narrative history of the zheng created on the mainland did not represent zheng music as it had been in the past. Silverberg ultimately argues that the zheng’s older repertory was poorly represented by efforts to collect and promote zheng music in the twentieth century. This book contends that the restored “traditional Chinese music” created and promulgated from the 1920s forward—and solo zheng music in

王者回來了！ R語言與Big Data的最強結合 重磅新增 2015年這本書的第一版上市，隨即獲得許多好評，也獲得許多大專院校選為上課教材，這本書是第2版，相較第一版基本上增訂下列資訊： 將R的軟體改為最新版測試，可以參考附錄A。 附贈全書實例檔案。 讀者附贈是非、選擇、複選題的題目與解答，這些題目是美國Silicon Stone Education的國際證照考古題，另外加贈偶數實作題解答。 教學資源說明 本書所有習題實作題均有習題解答，如果您是學校老師同時使用本書教學，歡迎與本公司聯繫，本公司將提供習題解答。 另外，本書也有教學簡報檔案供教師教學使用。 讀者資源說明 請至本公司網頁deepmind.com.tw下載本書程式實例，此外，讀者也可從所下載的資源獲得實作題偶數題的解答。 本書特色 1：完全零基礎可以輕鬆學習。 2：學習最新版R語言。 3：從無到有一步一步教導讀者R語言的使用。 4：學習本書不需要有統計基礎，但在無形中本書已灌溉了統計知識給你。 5：精彩的圖表製作，讀者可以學會資料視覺化使用R。 6：完整講解所有R語言語法與使用技巧。 7：豐富的程式實例與解說，讓你事半功倍。 8：全書涵蓋是非、選擇、複選習題解答。 9：讀者贈送全部偶數題實作題解答。

◎ In the night sky, those shining stars may be in the past tense. Those dark may no longer be nothingness, but the distance is too far, and the light is still galloping. ◎ The thermal process is a part of the space state. The order is from the hot in the past to the cold in the future, and the direction is from the inside to the outside. ◎ The time order is from tomorrow to today to yesterday, that is from future to past. Time and space are reverse loops. So the direction of time is from outside to inside.

In Daily Giving Service: A History of the Diocesan Girls’ School, Hong Kong, Moira M. W. Chan-Yeung and her fellow contributors present a comprehensive history of one of Hong Kong’s oldest girls’ schools. As an alumna of the school, Chan-Yeung traces the history of her alma mater from its establishment in 1860, to its development over the last 160 years until the recent decade. Having experienced stability and turbulences in Hong Kong in the twentieth century, the school has become one of the most prominent girls’ schools in the city. In several chapters written by other alumnae, various aspects of school life of different eras are reconstructed and remembered. The author and other contributors focused on the postwar era in which Hong Kong grew from a small city to a global metropolitan. The expansion of the Diocesan Girls’ School largely followed this trend. The history of the school has also long been connected with the socio-economic development of Hong Kong society, sharing its ha

Low-carbon tourism is an emerging issue of tourism industry and academia in recent years. Previous studies have provided us some reasons that tourists participate in low-carbon travel or not, however, these reasons are scattered in literature and not been integrated into the construct of low-carbon travel motivation or low-carbon travel constraint. Meanwhile, previous studies often designed low-carbon package tours through the perspective of operators, few studies have assisted independent tourists on how to save energy and reduce carbon in travel. Therefore, this book is focused into two parts. The purpose of one part is to draw on tourism related literature, to develop and test the Low-Carbon Travel Motivation and Constraint Scales. The purpose of the other part is to draw on tourism related literature, to develop and test the Low-Carbon Travel Behavior Scale.

In The Chinese Idea of a University: Phoenix Reborn, Rui Yang conceptualizes the cultural foundations of modern university development in Chinese societies. Instead of focusing on the uniqueness of the societies, this book aims to prove that one educational purpose could be fulfilled via many paths, and that most of the characteristics the university could be found in other institutions of higher learning. Citing the practices of four selected Chinese societies, Yang opposes the existence of an impassable chasm between Chinese and Western ideas of a university and argues that it is possible to combine Chinese and Western ideas of a university. Also, this book is one of the first in English to theorize the Chinese idea of a university. It links the historical events to the present, in a context of an enormous impact of Western academic models and institutions, from the beginning of modern universities in Chinese societies to the contemporary period.

◎This is the Part-One (Radical Index - Stroke No. 1-2) of Twelve printouts from the on-line dictionary that is currently under developing. ◎This unprecedented, intelligent, convenient and useful Tool provides “Pin Yin” (spelled in English) of Traditional Chinese characters. ◎Along with Stroke-by-Stroke writings for each character’s Radical and additional strokes, it is possible to learn Chinese ubiquitously. The stroke-sequences for writing radical-characters are also included in a separate nineteen-page section with the order of radical stroke number and sequence. All the multiple ways of “Pin Yin” will also appear under multiple English letters. However, an unique sort key for the Last Name found in 百家姓 (the Hundred Family Surnames) is highlighted and used for grouping the same Last Name in Traditional Character with different Last Name in English. For example, 鄭 can be found as Cheng, Jeng and Zheng in all 3 places with Cheng marked as sort-key. Therefore, all 鄭s will be grouped u

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封面故事 資料驅動營運　自助AI成形 Data Fabric建構抽象整合層　混合多雲孤島資料重現價值 文◎洪羿漣 隨著營運產生的結構與非結構化資料快速增長，企業一方面運用傳統資料倉儲（Data Warehouse）彙整各式業務應用系統的關聯式資料庫，同時擴展整合大數據（Big Data）平台甚至是資料湖（Data Lake），以提供資料科學家、機器學習工程師等協同第一線業務部門進行商業智慧分析，藉由科學數據輔助洞察市場變化、提高產品品質等關鍵要素來提升營運競爭力。 然而當前混合雲／多雲的應用場景讓資料架構變得更加分散，使得資料孤島（Silo）問題再次浮上檯面，驅使IT領域興起運用Data Fabric架構，亦即基於檔案之間的Metadata建立虛擬連結、知識圖譜（Knowledge Graph）、自助服務機制，甚至制定資料治理策略，讓資料無須搬移即可提供資料科學家調用發揮商業價值。 專題報導 落實數位永續　雲優勢浮現 延伸資料框架實現雙軸轉型　上雲轉嫁淨零風險與負擔 文◎余采霏 在數位潮流、新冠疫情以及氣候變遷等多重影響下，數位轉型與淨零排放已成為企業不得不面對的課題，不僅必須打造更好的競爭優勢與使用體驗，同時兼顧減碳與提升能源使用效率，才能應對全球日益激烈競爭以及環境永續要求。如何將ESG（環境、社會、治理）納入數位轉型考量，讓這兩者平衡發展，已成為企業亟需面對的一大挑戰。 在新興的數位科技應用中，雲端技術與服務運用儼然已成為企業的重要策略之一，業界專家甚至認為，雲端運算將是協助企業更進一步走向淨零的絕對路徑。根據埃森哲（Accenture）調查，將地端IT基礎架構遷移到雲運算的企業，平均可減少84%的碳足跡。針對所謂全雲(Whole Cloud)市場，包含雲端服務、支撐雲端供應鏈基礎的硬體與軟體元件以及雲端相關的專業/代管服務等，調研機構IDC也預估全球的總支出將在2025年上看1.3兆美元，年複合成長率達16.9%。 數位與淨零的雙軸轉型已漸成趨勢，本期專題將邀請業界專家探討如何善用雲端邁向低碳永續時代，同時也將討論到產業現況以及資料在雙軸轉型中扮演的核心角色。 產業趨勢 身分存取安全持續演進　無密碼零信任成顯學 IAM技術發展兵分二路　特權帳號及身分治理正當紅 文◎曾瀞瑩

Psychopathology: An Empathic Representational Approach retraces the foundations of classical phenomenological psychopathology and integrates them with modern ideas drawn from anthropology, cognitive neuroscience, computational science, and evolutionary biology to synthesize a comprehensive framework and provide fresh insights. This book explores how the scientific concepts of ‘information and representation’ can be used to understand subjective mental phenomena and integrate them in empathic clinical dialogues during interactions with patients. It explores key issues in clinical psychopathology coherently and systematically, illustrates advanced topics in an accessible manner using clinical case examples, metaphors and clarifying diagrams, and directly links advanced conceptual frameworks with pragmatic skills in the clinical dialogue process. This volume is aimed at a broad audience of mental health professionals, researchers, and students in psychiatry, psychology, and social work.

Frontiers of Memory in the Asia-Pacific explores the making and consumption of conflict-related heritage throughout the Asia-Pacific region. Contributing to a growing literature on ‘difficult heritage’, this collection advances our understanding of how places of pain, shame, oppression, and trauma have been appropriated and refashioned as ‘heritage’ in a number of societies in contemporary East and Southeast Asia and Oceania. The authors analyse how the repackaging of difficult pasts as heritage can serve either to reinforce borders, transcend them, or even achieve both simultaneously, depending on the political agendas that inform the heritage-making process. They also examine the ways in which these processes respond to colonialism, decolonization, and nationalism. The volume shows how efforts to preserve various sites of ‘difficult heritage’ can involve the construction of new borders in the mind between what is commemorated and what is often deliberately obscured or forgotten. Tak

In Chinese Cinema: Identity, Power, and Globalization, a variety of scholars explore the history, aesthetics, and politics of Chinese cinema as the Chinese film industry grapples with its place as the second largest film industry in the world. Exploring the various ways that Chinese cinema engages with global politics, market forces, and film cultures, this edited volume places Chinese cinema against an array of contexts informing the contours of Chinese cinema today. The book also demonstrates that Chinese cinema in the global context is informed by the intersections and tensions found in Chinese and world politics, national and international co-productions, the local and global in representing Chineseness, and the lived experiences of social and political movements versus screened politics in Chinese film culture. This work is a pioneer investigation of the topic and will inspire future research by other scholars of film studies.

Initially based on a comparative study of Chinese and Euro-American art theory in the 18th and 19th centuries, this book examines how both cultures looked at their own past and their outside, i.e. what was construed as not belonging to their own cultural sphere, and how they devised new ways of adapting them into evolving cultural constructs. While the 17th century was still a time when the epistemological backgrounds of both civilizations were so profoundly different that nearly no dialogue was possible, the 18th century saw the emergence in both places of profound changes that would get them close enough to create the conditions for the beginning of a conversation. First quite superficial and taking shape mostly in the decorative arts, this process of rapprochement, while remaining chaotic and unpredictable, led to wider and more profound zones of contact throughout the late 19th and 20th centuries. Through the reinterpretations of each other’s cultural creations, these zones of con

Initially based on a comparative study of Chinese and Euro-American art theory in the 18th and 19th centuries, this book examines how both cultures looked at their own past and their outside, i.e. what was construed as not belonging to their own cultural sphere, and how they devised new ways of adapting them into evolving cultural constructs. While the 17th century was still a time when the epistemological backgrounds of both civilizations were so profoundly different that nearly no dialogue was possible, the 18th century saw the emergence in both places of profound changes that would get them close enough to create the conditions for the beginning of a conversation. First quite superficial and taking shape mostly in the decorative arts, this process of rapprochement, while remaining chaotic and unpredictable, led to wider and more profound zones of contact throughout the late 19th and 20th centuries. Through the reinterpretations of each other’s cultural creations, these zones of con

In On Saving Face, Michael Keevak traces the Western reception of the Chinese concept of “face” during the past two hundred years, arguing that it has always been linked to nineteenth-century colonialism. “Lose face” and “save face” have become so normalized in modern European languages that most users do not even realize that they are of Chinese origin. “Face” is an extremely complex and varied notion in all East Asian cultures. It involves proper behavior and the avoidance of conflict, encompassing every aspect of one’s place in society as well as one’s relationships with other people. One can “give face,” “get face,” “fight for face,” “tear up face,” and a host of other expressions. But when it began to become known to the Western trading community in China beginning in the middle of the nineteenth century, it was distorted and reduced to two phrases only, “lose face” and “save face,” both of which were used to suggest distinctly Western ideas of humiliation, embarrassment, honor, a

深度學習 最佳入門邁向AI專題實戰 ★★★★★【深度學習】★★★★★ ☆☆☆☆☆【理論】+【實作】☆☆☆☆☆ 這是目前市面上講解【深度學習(Deep Learning)】從基礎到應用最完整的書籍，從基礎數學與統計開始，將演算法的原理解釋得更簡易清晰，協助讀者跨入 AI 的門檻，為避免流於空談，盡量增加應用範例，希望能達到即學即用。多位試閱本書內容的專家與學者全部皆給【五顆星】滿分評價。 整本書採用【最新版TensorFlow】+【大量圖片輔助】，+ 【完整理論解說】+【Python程式實作】以原理與實作，講解下列最熱門的AI主題。 ☆【神經網路(NN)】 ☆【卷積神經網路(CNN)】 ☆【物件偵測(YOLO)】 ☆【光學文字辨識(OCR)】 ☆【車牌辨識(ANPR)】 ☆【人臉辨識】 ☆【生成對抗網路 (GAN)】 ☆【深度偽造 (DeepFake)】 ☆【自然語言處理(NLP)】 ☆【聊天機器人(ChatBot)】 ☆【語音辨識(ASR)】 ☆【強化學習(RL)】 讀者只要遵循本書步驟學習相信必可以徹底認識人工智慧、機器學習與深度學習觀念，邁向浩瀚領域。

Studies in Colloquial Chinese and Its History: Dialect and Text presents cutting-edge research into issues regarding prestige colloquial languages in China in their spoken forms and as well as their relationship to written forms and the colloquial literary language. These include the standard regional languages and prestige dialects of the past, the influence of historical forms of spoken Chinese on written Chinese, the history of guānhuà and the history of báihuà, proto-dialects and supra-regional common languages (koines), and their relationship to spoken dialects. The various studies in this collection focus on the dialect groups with the most substantial written tradition, including Mandarin, Wu, Min, and Cantonese, in north, central and eastern coastal, and southern China respectively. The contributors explore the histories of these dialects in their written and spoken forms, presenting a variegated view of the history and development of the regional forms, including their evoluti

The present volume originates from “The Fourth Asian Translation Traditions Conference” held in Hong Kong in December 2010. The conference generated stimulating discussions relating to the richness and diversity of non-Western discourses and practices of translation, focusing on translational exchanges between non-Western languages, and the change and continuity in Asian translation traditions. Translation and Global Asia shows a rich diversification of historical and geographical interests, and covers a broad array of topics, ranging from ninth-century Buddhist translation in Tibet to twenty-first-century political translation in Malaysia. This collection is strikingly rich. Its authors deal with a wide range of topics in geographically diverse locations from India, Thailand, Japan, Korea, and the Philippines to different parts of China. They evoke different linguistic and historical contexts from ancient times right up to the contemporary period, and take a variety of approaches, st

Masculinity, fast-changing and regularly declared to be in the throes of crisis, is attracting more popular and scholarly debate in China than ever before. At the same time, Chinese literature since 1989 has been characterized as brimming with countercultural ‘attitude’. This book probes the link between literary rebellion and manhood in China, showing how male writers, as they critique the outcomes of decades of market reform, also ask the same question: how best to be a man in the new postsocialist order? In this first full-length discussion of masculinity in post-1989 Chinese literature, Pamela Hunt offers a detailed analysis of four contemporary authors in particular: Zhu Wen, Feng Tang, Xu Zechen, and Han Han. In a series of insightful readings, she explores how all four writers show the same preoccupation with the figure of the man on the edges of society. Drawing on longstanding Chinese and global models of maverick and marginal masculinity, and responding to a desire to retain

Sir Robert Ho Tung (1862–1954) is a compelling figure in Hong Kong history. He is regularly portrayed as the colony’s greatest philanthropist and wealthiest man of his day, the first Chinese to live on the Peak, and, at the end of his life, the ‘Grand Old Man of Hongkong’. The illegitimate son of a Chinese mother and European father, he was highly sensitive about his mixed heritage though he consistently made the most of his fate. He was a man perfectly in tune with his place and time, his success driven as much by his entrepreneurial talents as by his being Eurasian. This book shows him in all his immense variety—clerk with the Imperial Maritime Customs, chief compradore of Jardine Matheson, financial wizard, husband and lover, patriarch of a large family of five sons and eight daughters, loyal British subject but also, paradoxically, Chinese patriot. China’s president Yuan Shikai awarded him the Order of the Excellent Crop, and King George V knighted him. May Holdsworth’s thoughtful

Set against the backdrop of regional and international post–Second World War tensions, Grounded at Kai Tak is the most comprehensive account of the complex legal struggle for ownership of 71 airplanes belonging to the two main Chinese airlines, which were stranded at Kai Tak airfield in Hong Kong at the end of the Chinese civil war. The resulting contest for possession of them took place in the courts and among politicians and diplomats on three continents. In the process, the struggle became entangled with the anti-communist policies of the United States in the emerging ‘Cold War’, British hopes for restoration of her pre-war commercial position in China, disagreements between nations about recognition of the new government in Peking, and the delicate balance that the colonial government of Hong Kong had to keep to preserve that colony’s interests. Merry tells the tale of this legal saga by weaving together archival documents and news reports of the day, revealing the international a

This book, Chiang Yee and His Circle: Chinese Artistic and Intellectual Life in Britain, 1930–1950, celebrates the life and work of Chiang Yee (1903–1977), a Chinese writer, poet, and painter who made his home in London, England during the 1930s and 1940s. It examines Chiang’s relationship with his circle of friends and colleagues in the English capital, and assesses the work he produced during his sojourn there. This edited volume, with contributions from eleven distinguished scholars, tells a story of a Chinese intellectual community in London that up to now has been largely overlooked. It portrays a dynamic picture of the London-based émigré life during the years that led up to the war and during the conflict that was the catalyst for many of them moving on. In addition, the book broadens our understanding of cultural interactions between China and the West in Hampstead, one of the most vibrant artistic communities in London.

Essentials of Contract Drafting and Negotiation for Construction Professionals is a practical and user-friendly guide to common practical contractual matters and is intended for construction professionals involved in contract drafting and negotiating. Knowing how to draft an effective contract is crucial in construction, particularly because of the complex and technical nature of construction projects. Divided into six chapters, this guide will enhance and refresh essential knowledge for lawyers and construction professionals who need to understand the principles of drafting and interpreting construction contracts, how to clearly identify and include key elements in these contracts, as well as how to avoid legal traps and pitfalls in contract negotiations and enforcement.

matplotlib 2D到3D資料視覺化 王者歸來 | 全彩印刷 | ★★★★★ 【國內作者第１本】【全彩印刷】【資料視覺化】 ★★★★★ ☆☆☆☆☆ 【國內作者第１本】【matplotlib書籍】 ☆☆☆☆☆ 本書包含【32個主題】、【509個程式實例】，整本書內容如下： ★ 完整解說操作matplotlib需要的Numpy知識 ☆ 認識座標軸與圖表內容設計 ★ 繪製多個圖表 ☆ 圖表的註解 ★ 建立與徹底認識圖表數學符號 ☆ 折線圖與堆疊折線圖 ★ 散點圖 ☆ 色彩映射Color mapping ★ 色彩條Colorbars ☆ 建立數據圖表 ★ 長條圖與橫條圖 ☆ 直方圖 ★ 圓餅圖 ☆ 箱線圖 ★ 極座標繪圖 ☆ 階梯圖 ★ 棉棒圖 ☆ 影像金字塔 ★ 間斷長條圖 ☆ 小提琴圖 ★ 誤差條 ☆ 輪廓圖 ★ 箭袋圖 ☆ 幾何圖形 ★ 表格製作 ☆ 基礎3D繪圖 ★ 3D曲面設計 ☆ 3D長條圖 ★ 設計動畫 本書程式實例豐富，相信讀者只要遵循本書內容必定可以在最短時間精通使用Python + matplotlib完成資料視覺化。

A Sketch of Truth Theory The Truth Theory refers to a natural attribute which all things embody during cosmic movement. And which features the inherent quality of the universe, that is, the attraction between Yin and Yun, the negative cosmic gas and the positive cosmic gas. It is the natural and scientific reality of the universe. The appearance of this theory will completely shatter the barriers that have hindered human understanding of life and all things in the universe for thousands of years. It will put an end to the idealism-materialism dichotomous outlook on the world and completely terminate the theism-atheism dualistic religious concept that people have disputed for thousands of years. It will enable humankind on Earth to see the universe in the true, clear-minded and correct manner for the first time. It will enable humankind to explain mysterious cosmic phenomena with our acquired part of scientific knowledge about the universe in a deep and complete manner for the first

▎James C. Ma Mr. Chungliamg Ma or James C. Ma received his B.A. in English at the National Cheng Kung University in 1964. After his graduation, he was an English teacher at Nantou Senior High and later, teaching assistant at NCKU. He earned his Master’ degree from the University of Oregon in 1971 and taught English at the Taipei College of Business for two years. In 1978, he was conferred Doctor of Education from Southern Illiois University. Having returned to NCKU in 1979, he taught as associate professor and later as professor. Afterwards, he was appointed Head of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts, Dean of Discipline, Dean of Students, and Head of Graduate Institute of Education. After his retirement from NCKU in 1999, he was invited to start his second career at the Leader College of Management, a privately-funded institution of higher learning in Tainan. He set up the Department of Applied English and the Office of the Studen

此書乃本社的首本華人學者原著。「詩節結構」(Strophic structure) 的概念早於十九世紀初已出現，但以此作為希伯來詩歌主要特點的研究相對較少。因此這篇論文主要透過耶利米哀歌探討聖經舊約中希伯來詩歌「詩節結構」的特點與作用，瞭解詩節結構對研究希伯來詩歌的重要性。作者帶我們綜覽學者對「何謂希伯來詩歌」及詩節結構的研究，繼而在此基礎上逐一分析耶利米哀歌五首詩歌的分段結構，並探討其中的詩節結構。本書提出，「詩節結構」是識別及理解希伯來詩歌一個重要關鍵的特點。

★★★★★ 國內作者【第一本】×【全彩印刷】×【AI視覺】書籍 ★★★★★ ★★★★★ 完整解說【影像創意】×【AI視覺】的實例 ★★★★★ ★★★★★【31個主題】＋【423個Python實例】★★★★★ 筆者在撰寫這本書除了採用當下最熱門的Python程式語言，同時採用2步驟說明： ◤函數數學原理解說◢ ◤套用OpenCV函數講解影像創意與AI視覺的實例◢ 當讀者遵循這些步驟學習時，相信所設計的物件就是一個帶有靈魂與智慧的程式碼了。這本書從影像原理開始說起，逐一解說從影像到AI視覺所需的完整知識，本書的主題內容如下： ☆ 完整解說操作OpenCV需要的Numpy知識 ★ 影像讀取、輸出與儲存 ☆ 認識色彩空間、BGR、RGB、HSV ★ 建立藝術畫作 ☆ 建立靜態與動態影像，打破OpenCV限制建立中文字輸出函數 ★ 影像計算與影像的位元運算 ☆ 重複曝光技術 ★ 影像加密與解密 ☆ 閾值處理 ★ 數位情報員、深藏在影像的情報秘密 ☆ 數位浮水印、版權所有翻譯必究 ★ 影像幾何變換、翻轉、仿射、透視、重映射 ☆ 影像遮罩與影像濾波器 ★ 認識卷積 ☆ 認識與刪除影像雜質 ★ 數學形態學、腐蝕、膨脹、開運算、閉運算、禮帽運算、黑帽運算 ☆ 從影像梯度到內部圖形的邊緣偵測 ★ 影像金字塔 ☆ 影像輪廓特徵與匹配 ★ 輪廓的擬合、凸包與幾何測試 ☆ 醫學應用器官影像的徵兆 ★ 霍夫變換(Hough Transform)與直線檢測 ☆ 無人車駕駛車道檢測技術 ★ 直方圖、增強影像對比度、修復太曝或太黑影像、去霧處理 ☆ 模板匹配、找尋距離最近的機場、找尋某區域高山數量 ★ 傅立葉變換的方法與意義、空間域與頻率域的切換，進行影像處理 ☆ 分水嶺演算法執行影像分割 ★ 前景影像擷取 ☆ 影像修復—搶救蒙娜麗莎的微笑 ★ 辨識手寫數字 ☆ OpenCV的攝影功能、活用拍照與錄影 ★ 應用OpenCV內建的哈爾(Haar)特徵階層式分配器 ☆ 偵測人臉、身體、眼睛、貓臉、俄羅斯車牌 ★ 設計自己的哈爾偵測分配器，應用在偵測台灣汽車車牌 ☆ 人臉辨識原理與應用 ★ 執行車牌辨識

Mementoes of HMS Tamar abound in Hong Kong, but what is really known about this troopship and her role in the maintenance of British imperial rule? Using logbooks, newspapers, and numerous other sources, this book pieces together the multifaceted and largely unknown history of the Tamar . From her launch into service to her roles as a hospital, theatre stage, and transport for military personnel, the Tamar carried not just people, but also their mundane dreams and ambitions— for friends, families, and staying alive. Any ideas or concerns about sustaining the empire seldom featured in their minds at all, but it was this empire that the Tamar served for seventy-nine years, steaming the equivalent of thirty-two times around the Earth and transporting tens of thousands of people to what would seem to them another world. In this engaging narrative, the Tamar’s exploits and the experiences of her crew and passengers parallel those of the British Empire and its subjects, bringing to life t

Based on true stories about TCM/ Oriental Medicine and spirituality. You will be astonished at how much TCM can achieve. ◎本書初衷原於作者對她孩子們講述針灸原理，最終以說故事方式呈現中醫療癒身心的臨床經驗，作者很清楚我們都擁有與生俱來的自癒能力。如何保持整體健康是個人的責任。 The book originated from the author’s intention to introduce the principle of acupuncture to her children. In describing the true stories of clinical experiences of healing the body and mind by practicing TCM, it becomes clear to the author that we all possess innate healing power within. How to retain holistic health is a personal responsibility. ◎生老病死，面對生命常態，我們不斷學會覺察、適應與轉變，縱有片刻黑暗苦難，生命依舊自然優雅。 You will learn to adapt and transform while observing the natural cycle of life - Birth, aging, sickness, and death so that you may live in elegance even through darkness and suffering. ◎書中不僅包含中醫傳統的針灸、刮痧、拔罐等臨床療癒故事外，進而闡述宇宙氣候醫學、能量醫學與靈性療癒等多樣化的自我療癒真實故事。 This book also contains true stories about clinical cases of TCM healing methods such as acupuncture, moxibustion, scraping, cupping, and many of sel