Machine Learning Applications In Software Engineering

一、新日本語能力試験基準に基き、作成します。 It's made based on JLPT. 二、新日本語能力試験N1の単語を網羅して、制覇できます。 Collect all the JLPT N1 vocabulary, and can be easily operated with one hand, making learning more efficient, this is an indispensable exercise for those aiming for the JLPT N1 exam. 三、多く練習するのを通して難しい問題でも早く完熟できます。 Even a difficult problem can become mature early through practicing much. 四、重なることなく、それぞれ違う多くの問題をしっかり練習するのを通して、使い方はもとより、どんどん会話能力も増進できるようになります。 The questions simulate the 4 questions of the JLPT N1 word problem test, and you will be able to familiarize with various vocabularies through practicing by constantly working on problems.

《STEM Ready Go! 科技》內容廣泛，介紹了15個不同的科技領域，以多幅精美彩色繪圖，簡明有趣地提升學童對科技的認知，激發解決問題的創意，透過有趣的手工和實驗，啟發他們對科學與科技的好奇心。本書適合7-10歲，內容包括：  通訊科技：電腦、智能電話、無線電波、互聯網  生活科技：條碼、二維碼、智能卡  應用科技：電磁爐、製冷系統、物料科學  環保科技：溫室、水耕系統、電動車  最新科技：無人機、機械人、虛擬實境 「STEM Ready Go！系列」包括科學(Science)、科技(Technology)、工程(Engineering)和數學(Mathematics) 四本，全書圖文並茂，解說淺白而生動，輔以多個有趣活動或實驗，引發孩子對STEM知識的興趣，達到輕鬆快樂學STEM的目的！ 本系列是按美國國家科學委員會提出的跨學科學習概念，參考香港教育局小學常識科學與教資源套（科學與科技）的主題，每本設計出15篇適合5-10歲學童的STEM題目，讓學童能盡早學習、掌握並融會貫通相關的理論和操作，像科學家那樣思考、創作並應用在生活中，為將來打好基礎。

それは歓喜の絶叫か、絶望の悲鳴か。これまでの不義理不貞を糾す、究極の絶頂導引マシーンが長瀬百合の膣奥で蠢く。泣き詫びる姿とは反し、肉襞の擦過にこれまで以上の歓喜を上げる下半身。メスの業は、ここに極まる。MAXINGだからできる全194ページ、高画質美少女写真集を是非ご覧ください！※モデルは18歳以上です。それは歓喜の絶叫か、絶望の悲鳴か。これまでの不義理不貞を糾す、究極の絶頂導引マシーンが長瀬百合の膣奥で蠢く。泣き詫びる姿とは反し、肉襞の擦過にこれまで以上の歓喜を上げる下半身。メスの業は、ここに極まる。MAXINGだからできる全194ページ、高画質美少女写真集を是非ご覧ください！※モデルは18歳以上です。

謝まるくらいなら、始めからヤルな。ひばり乃愛に強いた、今、“この場”に居る事を凄まじく後悔させる顛末を余す事なく収録。反省と後悔を激しく促す究極の絶頂導引マシーンのこの威力、もはや犯罪。MAXINGだからできる全288ページ、高画質美少女写真集を是非ご覧ください！※モデルは18歳以上です。謝まるくらいなら、始めからヤルな。ひばり乃愛に強いた、今、“この場”に居る事を凄まじく後悔させる顛末を余す事なく収録。反省と後悔を激しく促す究極の絶頂導引マシーンのこの威力、もはや犯罪。MAXINGだからできる全288ページ、高画質美少女写真集を是非ご覧ください！※モデルは18歳以上です。

絶頂に特化したガチンコマシンが麻生希に襲いかかる！感情や体力、人間に備わる感覚全てを放棄したセクシャルマシンが、麻生の美しい肢体を無情に犯す。悦楽など意に介さない機械的な動きが、強制的な悶絶を強いる。常識を逸脱したセックスありきのメスが誕生する瞬間をご覧あれ。MAXINGだからできる全124ページ、高画質美少女写真集を是非ご覧ください！※モデルは18歳以上です。絶頂に特化したガチンコマシンが麻生希に襲いかかる！感情や体力、人間に備わる感覚全てを放棄したセクシャルマシンが、麻生の美しい肢体を無情に犯す。悦楽など意に介さない機械的な動きが、強制的な悶絶を強いる。常識を逸脱したセックスありきのメスが誕生する瞬間をご覧あれ。MAXINGだからできる全124ページ、高画質美少女写真集を是非ご覧ください！※モデルは18歳以上です。

絶頂に特化したガチンコマシンが麻生希に襲いかかる！感情や体力、人間に備わる感覚全てを放棄したセクシャルマシンが、麻生の美しい肢体を無情に犯す。悦楽など意に介さない機械的な動きが、強制的な悶絶を強いる。常識を逸脱したセックスありきのメスが誕生する瞬間をご覧あれ。MAXINGだからできる全180ページ、高画質美少女写真集を是非ご覧ください！※モデルは18歳以上です。絶頂に特化したガチンコマシンが麻生希に襲いかかる！感情や体力、人間に備わる感覚全てを放棄したセクシャルマシンが、麻生の美しい肢体を無情に犯す。悦楽など意に介さない機械的な動きが、強制的な悶絶を強いる。常識を逸脱したセックスありきのメスが誕生する瞬間をご覧あれ。MAXINGだからできる全180ページ、高画質美少女写真集を是非ご覧ください！※モデルは18歳以上です。

AV出演のためなら離婚も辞さない千葉ねねのデビュー2作目。ほんわかSEXしてれば抜ける画が撮れるってもんじゃねぇんだぞ、くっそエロい身体をどう使うか知り尽くしたプロフェッショナルに任せなさい！ってことで女性器をえぐるためだけに産み落とされた心を持たない暗黒機械で一方的な絶頂プレイ。拘束された肢体をくねらせ、カメラがびちゃびちゃになるほどの大洪水。未体験ゾーンで乱れ壊れてラストは失神アクメ！！MAXINGだからできる全238ページ、高画質美少女写真集を是非ご覧ください！※モデルは18歳以上です。AV出演のためなら離婚も辞さない千葉ねねのデビュー2作目。ほんわかSEXしてれば抜ける画が撮れるってもんじゃねぇんだぞ、くっそエロい身体をどう使うか知り尽くしたプロフェッショナルに任せなさい！ってことで女性器をえぐるためだけに産み落とされた心を持たない暗黒機械で一方的な絶頂プレイ。拘束された肢体をくねらせ、カメラがびちゃびちゃになるほどの大洪水。未体験ゾーンで乱れ壊れてラストは失神アクメ！！MAXINGだからできる全238ページ、高画質美少女写真集を是非ご覧ください！※モデルは18歳以上です。

波多野結衣に襲い掛かる性的機械＝セックスマシーンの脅威！！疲れることもなくスピードを緩めることもない冷酷な機械のピストンに強制的に悶絶させられ、失神寸前に追い込まれる…プライドも微塵と残らない終わりのない絶頂スパイラル。トップ女優・波多野結衣のおマ●コには冷たい機械と熱い肉棒が交互に挿入され、新たな快楽の世界の扉が開かれる！！MAXINGだからできる全136ページ、高画質美少女写真集を是非ご覧ください！※モデルは18歳以上です波多野結衣に襲い掛かる性的機械＝セックスマシーンの脅威！！疲れることもなくスピードを緩めることもない冷酷な機械のピストンに強制的に悶絶させられ、失神寸前に追い込まれる…プライドも微塵と残らない終わりのない絶頂スパイラル。トップ女優・波多野結衣のおマ●コには冷たい機械と熱い肉棒が交互に挿入され、新たな快楽の世界の扉が開かれる！！MAXINGだからできる全136ページ、高画質美少女写真集を是非ご覧ください！※モデルは18歳以上です

波多野結衣に襲い掛かる性的機械＝セックスマシーンの脅威！！疲れることもなくスピードを緩めることもない冷酷な機械のピストンに強制的に悶絶させられ、失神寸前に追い込まれる…プライドも微塵と残らない終わりのない絶頂スパイラル。トップ女優・波多野結衣のおマ●コには冷たい機械と熱い肉棒が交互に挿入され、新たな快楽の世界の扉が開かれる！！MAXINGだからできる全132ページ、高画質美少女写真集を是非ご覧ください！※モデルは18歳以上です波多野結衣に襲い掛かる性的機械＝セックスマシーンの脅威！！疲れることもなくスピードを緩めることもない冷酷な機械のピストンに強制的に悶絶させられ、失神寸前に追い込まれる…プライドも微塵と残らない終わりのない絶頂スパイラル。トップ女優・波多野結衣のおマ●コには冷たい機械と熱い肉棒が交互に挿入され、新たな快楽の世界の扉が開かれる！！MAXINGだからできる全132ページ、高画質美少女写真集を是非ご覧ください！※モデルは18歳以上です

Testimony to the emotional truth of their life together even in these increasingly trying times. The memoir Ordinary Days by the scholar and critic Leo Ou-fan Lee and his wife Esther Yuk-ying Lee brings to this Hong Kong series an intensely personal touch, consciously echoing the great sentimental memoir of 18th-century China, Shen Fu’s Six Chapters of a Floating Life. With disarming candour, Leo and Esther lay bare their hearts so unreservedly, to share with us their story of love and suffering, charting in a series of memorable chapters their shared spiritual quest. This is a brave book. It lays bare in a most unusual way the heart and soul of a charming and highly cultivated Chinese couple, the scholar and critic Leo Ou-fan Lee and his wife Esther Lee Yuk-ying. It charts the love story of two individuals who are no longer young, and it also boldly breaks the taboo surrounding the twin topics of depression and suicide. Set partly against the recent backdrop of some of Hong Kong’s m

Advances in Investment Analysis and Portfolio Management (New Series) is an annual publication designed to disseminate developments in the area of investment analysis and portfolio management. The publication is a forum for statistical and quantitative analyses of issues in security analysis, portfolio management, options, futures, and other related issues. The objective is to promote interaction between academic research in finance, economics, and accounting and applied research in the financial community.

In the West, love occupies center stage in the modern age, whether in art, intellectual life, or the economic life. We may observe a similar development in China, on its own impetus, which has resulted in this characteristic of modernity—this feature of modern life has been securely and unambiguously established, not the least facilitated by the thriving of literature about qing, whether in traditional or modern forms. Qiancheng Li concentrates on the nuances of a similar trend manifested in the Chinese context. The emphasis is on critical readings of the texts that have shaped this trend, including important Ming- and Qing-dynasty works of drama, Buddhist texts and other religious/philosophical works, in all their subtlety and evocative power. -------------- The power of qing or strong emotion is a major theme in late imperial Chinese literature—some writers asserting that it can transcend even life itself. Qiancheng Li surveys a number of seventeenth-century philosophical, religio

Maid to Queer is the first book about Asian female migrant workers who develop same-sex relationships in a host city. Based on participant observation and in-depth interviews with Indonesian domestic workers in Hong Kong, the book explores the meanings of same-sex relationships to these migrant women. Instead of searching for reasons to explain why they engage in a same-sex relationship, this book provides an ethnographic perspective by addressing their Sunday activities and considering how migration policies and the practices of Hong Kong people unintentionally produce alternative sexuality and desires for them. The author contrasts the migrant experiences of same-sex relationships with the Western discourse that individuals carry a strong sense of sexual identification prior to migration; same-sex desires among Indonesian domestic workers are often not realized until they leave home. Addressing the changes from maid to queer, this book documents the intersections of domestic work, la

Sino-French Trade at Canton, 1698–1842 presents a rare and lively view of the French experience at Canton, and calls for a reappraisal of France’s role in that trade. France was one of the two most important Western powers in the eighteenth century, and was home to one of the three major European East India companies. Yet the nation is woefully underrepresented in Canton trade scholarship. Susan E. Schopp rescues the French from the sidelines, showing that they exerted a presence that, though closely watched by their rivals, is today largely unrecognized. Their contributions were diverse, ranging from finding new sea routes to inspiring the renovation of hong façades. Consequently, to ignore the French, or to dismiss them as simply “also-rans,” results in a skewed perception of the Canton system. Schopp also demonstrates that while the most distinctive aspect of the French model of company trade was the dominant role of the state—indeed, the French East India Company has been memorabl

This book, written by an internationally acknowledged pioneer in endocrine surgery, is intended as advice for aspiring medical professionals, in particular for young people from around the world who are hoping to attend one of the great medical schools in the US or the UK, such as Harvard or Oxford. In clear, concise language, Dimitrios Linos explains the steps one needs to take to get into a top medical school, succeed as a resident, and become a board certified doctor. Drawing on his many years of experience, Linos discusses the career paths for practicing physicians, how to avoid burnout, and the importance of finding a work-life balance. This is an honest, engaging and thoughtful book, written in an encouraging manner from someone who knows personally the struggles and triumphs of being a doctor and who wants to help others become "the best physician in the world." --------------- Professor Linos has eloquently delivered his advice for aspiring physicians. To Dr. Linos’ exhortat

Focusing on the latest management trends, Transformational HRM Practices for Hong Kong provides HR professionals with a comprehensive and accessible guide to human resource management in Hong Kong. Written by a leading team of HR professionals, psychologists, legal experts, and academics, the book provides up-to-date coverage of current practices, laws and procedures, as well as guidance on the professional skills required to operate successfully in the region. Suitable for practitioners and students alike, the book contains authentic case studies in local context and sets out the latest strategies for talent acquisition and assessment as well as performance and rewards management. It provides essential coverage of organizational change management, recent technological advancements in the field, and outlines the development of Hong Kong’s employment laws and their likely implications for professionals. In one volume, this book provides the key information, guidance, and context HR pro

The Authorship of Place is the first monograph dedicated to the study of the politics, history, aesthetics, and practices of location shooting for Taiwanese, Mainland Chinese, and coproduced art cinemas shot in rural communities since the late 1970s. Dennis Lo argues that rural location shooting, beyond serving aesthetic and technical needs, constitutes practices of cultural survival in a region beset with disruptive and disorienting social changes, including rapid urbanization, geopolitical shifts, and ecological crises. In response to these social changes, auteurs like Hou Xiaoxian, Jia Zhangke, Chen Kaige, and Li Xing engaged in location shooting to transform sites of film production into symbolically meaningful places of collective memories and aspirations. These production practices ultimately enabled auteurs to experiment with imagining Taiwanese, Mainland Chinese, and cross-strait communities in novel and contentious ways. Deftly guiding readers on a cross-strait tour of promin

安心國小融合了社會情緒學習（Social and Emotional Learning）的概念，透過貼近生活的故事，提升社交與情緒能力，讓孩子認識自己、了解他人，學會如何與自己和他人相處，並且懂得為自己的決定負責。 安心國小，一個可以安心讀書、學習、成長的地方。 華彤轉學第一天，卻被「緊張」和「害怕」纏住，這時來了一個留著小短髮的同學，熱情的帶領她認識新環境，她說她們是「同一掛的」，這是什麼意思？小短髮要求華彤做的事愈來愈奇怪，華彤好想拒絕，但她就是說不出口，她很怕會失去這個朋友，卻也愈來愈不知道自己是誰了。

安心國小融合了社會情緒學習（Social and Emotional Learning）的概念，透過貼近生活的故事，提升社交與情緒能力，讓孩子認識自己、了解他人，學會如何與自己和他人相處，並且懂得為自己的決定負責。 安心國小，一個可以安心讀書、學習、成長的地方。 馬信身上總是飄著一股海的味道，除了爽朗的翔豪，他幾乎不和別人說話，他是他的擴音器、翻譯機，他們一起品嚐夏天的冰紅茶，一起玩官兵抓強盜，甚至一起被主任叫去學務處聽訓。翔豪漸漸發現，其實馬信很聰明，他還發現，馬信身上常常帶著大大小小的傷痕，這是怎麼回事？

Translated from the original French publication, this book provides a comprehensive analysis of twentieth-century Chinese literature and examines the relationship between Chinese literary theory and modernity. Jin Siyan surveys the work of leading writers including Zhang Ailing, Bei Dao, and Mu Dan. She seeks to answer some fundamental questions in the study of Chinese literary history, such as: How does contemporary Chinese literature go from historical narrative to the narrative of the I, where rhythm and epic merge into writing, and where the instinctive load of the rhythm substantiates the epic? What are the steps and the forms of mediation that allow such a transition? Is the subject the only agent of the transition? What is its status? What is the role of poetic language that led to the birth of the subject and which separates it from empiricism? What are the difficulties faced by Chinese writers today? Young Chinese writers set off in search of a totally new writing to rediscove

Fragmented Memories and Screening Nostalgia for the Cultural Revolution argues that films and TV dramas about the Cultural Revolution made after China’s accession to the WTO in 2001 tend to represent personal memories in a markedly sentimental, nostalgic, and fragmented manner. This new trend is a significant departure from earlier films about the subject, which are generally interpreted as national allegories, not private expressions of grief, regret or other personal feelings. With China entering a postsocialist era, the ideological conflation of socialism and global capitalism has generated enough cultural ambiguity to allow a space for the expression of personalized reminiscences of the past. By presenting these personal memories—in effect alternative narratives to official history—on screen, individuals now seem to have some agency in narrating and constructing history. At the same time such autonomy can be easily undermined since the promotion of the sentiment of nostalgia is of

From early times, Daoist writers claimed to receive scriptures via revelation from heavenly beings. In numerous cases, these writings were composed over the course of many nights and by different mediums. New revelations were often hastily appended, and the resulting unevenness gave rise to the impression that Daoist texts often appear slapdash and contain contradictions. A Library of Clouds focuses on the rewriting of Daoist scriptures in the Upper Clarity (Shangqing) lineage in fourth- and fifth-century China. Scholarship on Upper Clarity Daoism has been dominated by attempts to uncover “original” or “authentic” texts, which has resulted in the neglect of later scriptures— including the work fully translated and annotated here, the Scripture of the Immaculate Numen, one of the Three Wonders (sanqi) and among the most prized Daoist texts in medieval China. The scripture’s lack of a coherent structure and its different authorial voices have led many to see it not as a unified work but

Comfort Women Activism follows the movement championed by pioneer activists in Japan to demonstrate how their activism has kept a critical interpretation of the atrocities against women committed before and during World War II alive. The book shows how the challenges faced by the activists have evolved from the beginning of their uphill battles all the way to contemporary times. They were able to change social attitudes and get their message across. Yet the ambiguous position of post–World War II Japan’s government—which has consistently rejected any sign of guilt over its imperialist past—has kept the activists on their toes. Pivotal and serendipitous turning points have also played a crucial role. In particular, in the early 1990s, the post-Soviet world order assisted in creating the appropriate conditions for the movement to gather transnational support. These conditions have eroded over time; yet due to the activists’ fidelity to survivors, the movement has persisted to this day.

The Drunkard is one of the first full-length stream-of-consciousness novels written in Chinese. It has been called the Hong Kong Novel, and was first published in 1962 as a serial in a Hong Kong evening paper. As the unnamed Narrator, a writer at odds with a philistine world, sinks to his drunken nadir, his plight can be seen to represent that of a whole intelligentsia, a whole culture, degraded by the brutal forces of history: the Second Sino-Japanese War and the rampant capitalism of post-war Hong Kong. The often surrealistic description of the Narrator’s inexorable descent through the seedy bars and night-clubs of Hong Kong, of his numerous encounters with dance-girls and his ever more desperate bouts of drinking, is counterpointed by a series of wide-ranging literary essays, analysing the Chinese classical tradition, the popular culture of China and the West, and the modernist movement in Western and Chinese literature. The ambiance of Hong Kong in the early 1960s is graphically

Leung Ping Kwan brought as much talent and inspiration to the writing of his short stories as he did to his poems. ‘I have drawn on magical realism to explore the absurdity of Hong Kong,’ he wrote of the story ‘See Mun and the Dragon’ (1975) in which we find him using a simple, clipped style. The later story ‘Drowned Souls’ (2007) was written in a more symbolic, lyrical and more complex manner. Although the two stories are separated by over thirty years, and are in many ways so very different, dragons play a prominent part in both. The dragon has always been a fascinating creature, a complex embodiment of the timeless soul of China, symbol of the universal power of the imagination, of the creative energy and transformative possibilities of the Tao. Both of these enchanting stories are anchored in the author’s idea of freedom and liberation.

This is the first collection of essays in English, contributed by well-known experts of Chinese literature as well as scholars of a younger generation, dedicated to the poetry of Du Fu, commonly regarded as the greatest Chinese poet. These essays are engaged in historically nuanced close reading of Du Fu’s poems, both canonical and less known, from new angles and in various contexts, and discuss a series of critical issues, including the local and the imperial; the body politic and the individual body; poetry and geography; perspectives on the complicated relation of religion and literature; materiality and contemporary reception of Du Fu; poetry and visual art; and tradition and modernity. Many of the poems discussed in this book were written in the backwater town of Kuizhou, far from Du Fu’s earlier residence in the capital city Chang’an, at a time when the Tang dynasty was going through devastating social and political disturbances. The authors contend that Du Fu’s isolation from

聯名推薦 楊世瑞：新北市及人中學校長/北一女中前校長 馮 燕：台灣大學社會工作學系 專任教授 陳藹玲：富邦文教基金會 執行董事 專文推薦 公孫策：聯合報「去梯言」專欄作家 張明熙：成功大學醫學院 基礎醫學生化所教授 John Fleissner：A prominent member with 40 years experiences in environmental engineering industry. 乘了長風，也破了萬里浪／公孫策 美國人做美國夢理所當然，中國人做美國夢就沒那麼簡單。劉又華台大畢業隻身負笈美國，然後在美國成家立業，開花結果，她的經歷正是我們這一代留學生的成功典型。本書內容除了人事時地物清楚之外，對於創業經驗著墨甚多，有「禮賢能士，更上層樓」的成功原理，也有「倒戈總經理」的被突襲經驗，而「芳絲的Me Too訴訟」則是可能遇到的員工的(各種)問題的處理經驗，簡單說，創業的辛酸與顛簸都在裡頭，讀者閱讀時都能體會得到。 你所收成的 就是你所播種的／張明熙 這是一本適合所有年輕人閱讀的勵志書籍，更是給心想創業，尤其想要在美國創業的年輕人的指南和典範。美國是一個白人為主的社會，我看到了一個瘦小的又華，不畏艱難，勇往直前，憑藉著她的堅強意志，聰明智慧，高瞻遠矚，在異鄉闖出了一片亮麗天空，創造了奇蹟，她是一個巨人，我強力推薦這本書給每一個人。 A heartfelt story／John Fleissner To paraphrase from Teddy Roosevelt's famous 1910 speech in Paris on citizenship, Terry was the woman in the arena, striving valiantly, daring greatly, and doing the hard work it takes to know the triumph of high achievement. She tells her story now to you with hope that you will find inspiration and courage in her words. 不安現狀，嚮往冒險… 能在30年之後，退休前，把公司帶到有四百多名員工與上億美元的年營業額的規模：靠的

Promoting All-Round Education for Girls presents the history of Heep Yunn School, one of the oldest girls’ schools in Hong Kong. Amalgamated from two British mission schools founded in the 1880s for destitute girls and daughters of Christian parents, and renamed Heep Yunn School in 1936, the institution has witnessed and responded to the dramatic changes of Hong Kong over the years. By the time of the outbreak of the Second World War, Heep Yunn had expanded to offer a full Chinese middle school course for girls based upon Christian principles of all-round education. The school expanded rapidly after the war and became a bilingual institution to meet the demand for English language education. Eventually English would become the primary medium of instruction soon after the introduction of nine-year universal education in 1978. Heep Yunn strives to provide a full-fledged all-round education in the midst of political and education reforms. The school opted to switch its status from a gove

Everyday Masculinities in 21st-Century China: The Making of Able-Responsible Men argues that a moral dimension in Chinese masculinity is of growing significance in fast-changing China. ‘Able-responsible men’—those who can create wealth and shoulder responsibilities—have replaced the ‘moneyed elite’ of the earlier reform-and-opening-up era as the dominant male ideal. With vivid and highly readable case studies, Wong presents a compelling account of the forces that coerce men to live up to the able-responsible standard. She demonstrates the impact this pressure has on the lives of not only boys and men, but also on women, and shows how it invites both complicit and resistant reactions. The book lays bare the socio-political context that nurtures the cultural expressions of hegemonic masculinity under the rule of Xi Jinping. The president himself has emerged in public consciousness as the embodiment of the ideal able-responsible man. Based on anthropological fieldwork in Nanchong, Sichu

“Knickerbocker's History of New York” is the book by Washington Irving, an American writer who was born in New York City on April 3, 1783. It is published in December, 1809, with which Washington living, at the age of twenty-six, first won wide credit and influence. Knickerbocker's History of New York is a satire on self-important local history and contemporary politics. Prior to its publication, Irving started a hoax akin to today's viral marketing campaigns; he placed a series of missing person adverts in New York newspapers seeking information on Diedrich Knickerbocker, a crusty Dutch historian who had allegedly gone missing from his hotel in New York City. Today, author Washington Irving is best remembered for the iconic tales "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle." However, Irving also produced a number of well-regarded works of history and biography. This brilliant volume combines fact and fiction, offering a satirica

The History of Pendennis: His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest Enemy (1848—1850) is a novel by the English author William Makepeace Thackeray. The novel took two years for him to write. Set in 19th century London, England, this novel features a young English gentleman Arthur Pendennis born in the country who sets out to seek his place in life and society. The novel portrays his love affairs with the callous Blanche Amory and poor Fanny. Both of them marry other people, and Pendennis finally weds Laura Bell, his adopted sister, who had always loved him. The characters include the snobbish social hanger-on Major Pendennis and the tipsy Captain Costigan. Miss Amory and Sir Francis Clavering are somewhat reminiscent of Becky Sharp and Sir Pitt from Vanity Fair. In line with other Thackeray's works, Pendennis offers an insightful and satiric picture of human character and aristocratic society. The masterful characterizations include the snobbish Major Pendennis and the

邁向大師之路 “我生命中最最要的書之一。” —OBIE FERNANDEZ,《The Rails Way》作者 “20年前，第一版的《The Pragmatic Programmer》完全改變了我的職業軌跡。這個新版本會對您產生一樣的效用。” —MIKE COHN,《Succeeding with Agile》《Agile Estimating and Planning》《User Stories Applied》等書籍作者 “...書中充滿了實用的建議，有技術的，也有專業的，這些建議將在未來幾年提升您和您的專案。” —ANDREA GOULET, CEO, Corgibytes; Founder, LegacyCode.Rocks “...神來兩筆是有可能的，這本書就是明證。” —VM (VICKY) BRASSEUR, Director of Open Source Strategy, Juniper Networks 《The Pragmatic Programmer》是少數隨著歲月增長值得一讀再讀的經典書籍，無論您是新手還是實戰豐富的從業者，每次閱讀這本書，您都會得到新的領悟。 Dave Thomas和Andy Hunt於1999年撰寫了這本深具影響力的書，目的是為了幫他們的客戶建立更好的軟體，以及重新發現寫程式的樂趣。這些經驗幫助了一整世代的程式設計師檢視軟體開發的本質，不受限於任何特定語言、framework和方法論，其中的實用主義哲學催生了幾百本書、視訊教學、有聲讀物以及數千個職涯與成功故事。 二十年後的現今，本書再次檢視現代程式設計師的真義。主題範圍從個人責任與職涯探索，到能保持程式碼彈性與易於使用重用的架構技術。 閱讀本書，你將會學到： ‧對抗「軟體凋零」(software rot) ‧持續學習 ‧避免重複知識的陷阱 ‧寫出有彈性、動態和適應力強的程式碼 ‧善用基本工具的威力 ‧避免靠巧合寫程式 ‧學習什麼是真正的需求 ‧防範安全漏洞 ‧解決並行程式碼真正的問題 ‧建立由務實程式設計師組成的團隊 ‧你的工作成果與職涯責任 ‧進行嚴格、有效的測試，包括以屬性為基礎的測試 ‧實作實用的新手工具集 ‧取悅您的使用者 本書以一系列各自獨立的章節寫成，書中充滿了經驗和新奇的軼事、深思熟慮的例子和有趣的類比，這本書展示了軟體開發不同

Chinese Diaspora Charity and the Cantonese Pacific, 1850–1949 sheds new light on the history of charity among Chinese overseas and its place in the history of charity in China and in the wider history of global philanthropy. It finds that diaspora charity, besides serving traditional functions of helping the sick and destitute and supporting development in China, helped to build trust among dispersed hometown networks while challenging color boundaries in host societies by contributing to wider social causes. The book shows that charitable activities among the “Gold Rush” communities of the Pacific rim—a loosely integrated émigré network from Guangdong Province perhaps better known for its business acumen and hard work among English-speaking settler societies in North America and Australasia—also led the way with social innovations that helped to shape modern charity in China. Fitzgerald and Yip’s volume demonstrates that charity lay at the heart of community life among Chinese commu

"In what period did objects of worship appear in China? Could there be a possible convergence between written testimonies and archaeological remains? How was the production of icons understood, especially in light of its eventual condemnation in iconoclastic discourse? This history of cultic images designed for religious worship in China remains to be written. The statue collections over the course of 16th to 20th centuries in central Hunan of southern China will give us insight into the local artistic tradition of statue-making, and the dynamics of multifarious religious practices consisting of a hybrid of Buddhism, Daoism, Confucian, Shamanism, and so forth. The documents contained inside these effigies, as well as the inscriptions found on the statues themselves, provide first-hand information that has not been filtered down through theological or philosophical discourses. Moreover, this art of domestic statuary—which is found far from palaces, large temples, monasteries, and pain

Utopia and Utopianism in the Contemporary Chinese Context: Texts, Ideas, Spaces decisively demonstrates the extent to which utopianism has shaped political thought, cultural imaginaries, and social engagement after it was introduced into the Chinese context in the nineteenth century. In fact, pursuit of utopia has often led to action—such as the Chinese Revolution and the Umbrella Movement—and contested consequences. Covering a time span that goes from the late Qing to our days, the authors show that few ideas have been as influencing as utopia, which has compellingly shaped the imaginaries that underpin China’s historical change. Utopianism contributed to the formation of the Chinese state itself—shaping the thought of key figures of the late Qing and early Republican eras such as Kang Youwei and Sun Yat-sen—and outlived the labyrinthine debates of the second half of the twentieth century, both under Mao’s rule and during the post-socialist era. Even in the current times of dystopian

The academic setting has a significant influence on the well-being of children and teens. Effective school leadership is, therefore, essential in promoting a healthy school environment. This book, the first of its kind in Hong Kong, establishes the kind of leadership a health-promoting school needs to be successful. It explains the steps school leaders should take to promote health, beginning with an explanation of the link between health and education and then moving into a discussion of how schools can be transformed and what sort of leaders are required for such a transformation. These changes can be applied in individual classrooms and schools as well as more broadly across whole education systems. The theoretical healthy school framework outlined in the main text by Dr Robin Cheung, a seasoned scholar-practitioner in the field of school health promotion, is complemented by success stories written from interviews conducted by Dr Cheung’s co-authors, which are included in the suppl

What elevates a mere word to the status of keyword? What does it mean to translate a keyword and map its meaning against other languages? Like every major culture, Chinese has its set of “keywords”: pivotal terms of political, ethical, literary and philosophical discourse. Tracing the origins, development, polysemy, and usages of keywords is one of the best ways to chart cultural and historical changes. This volume analyzes some of these keywords from different disciplinary and temporal perspectives, offering a new integrative study of their semantic richness, development trajectory, and distinct usages in Chinese culture. The authors of the volume explore different keywords and focus on different periods and genres, ranging from philosophical and historical texts of the Warring States period (453–221 BCE) to late imperial (ca. 16th–18th centuries CE) literature and philosophy. They are guided by a similar set of questions: What elevates a mere word to the status of “keyword”? What s

Paul A. Van Dyke’s new book, Whampoa and the Canton Trade: Life and Death in a Chinese Port, 1700–1842, authoritatively corrects misconceptions about how the Qing government treated foreigners when it controlled all trade in the Guangzhou port. Van Dyke reappraises the role of Whampoa in the system—a port twenty kilometres away from Guangzhou—and reassesses the government’s attitude towards foreigners, which was much more accommodating than previous research suggested. In fact, Van Dyke shows that foreigners were not bound by local laws and were given freedom of movement around Whampoa and Canton to the extent that they were treated with leniency even when found in off-limit places. Whampoa and the Canton Trade recounts the lives of seamen who travelled half-way around the globe at great risk and lived through a historic period that would become the framework for subsequent encounters between China and the rest of the world. Were it not for the exchanges between the major powers and t

This book is a novel modelled on Plato’s Republic as a series of dialogues between a half-retired college professor and his former student, taking place in several weeks in a row on various scenic and memorable locations in Hong Kong – in Central, on the Peak, on Repulse Bay and in Stanley on Hong Kong Island, as well as in Cheung Chau, an outlying island of Hong Kong. The story starts by the professor greeting and receiving his former student Julian to tea and for a friendly chat in the professors’ favourite old teahouse in Central. Their conversation, initially centring around the current events taking place in Hong Kong, soon evolves into an in-depth discussion of the immediate and subtler causes and factors leading to such a state of affairs that has been described by the local media and the Government as ‘public activities’. Since both the professor and Julian find their discussion and exchange very interesting and fruitful, they decide to continue with it in the weeks that follo