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The Giver, the 1994 Newbery Medal winner, has become one of the most influential novels of our time. The haunting story centers on twelve-year-old Jonas, who lives in a seemingly ideal, if colorless, world of conformity and contentment. Not until he is given his life assignment as the Receiver of Memory does he begin to understand the dark, complex secrets behind his fragile community. This movie tie-in edition features cover art from the movie and exclusive Q&A with members of the cast, including Taylor Swift, Brenton Thwaites and Cameron Monaghan.

When Artemis commits his entire fortune to a project he believes will save the planet and its inhabitants, both human and fairy, it seems that goodness has taken hold of the world's greatest teenage c

Vortextells the story of Turk Findley, the protagonist introduced in Axis, who is transported ten thousand years into the future by the mysterious entities called "the Hypotheticals." In this future humanity exists on a chain of planets connected by Hypothetical gateways; but Earth itself is a dying world, effectively quarantined.Turk and his young friend Isaac Dvali are taken up by a community of fanatics who use them to enable a passage to the dying Earth, where they believe a prophecy of human/Hypothetical contact will be fulfilled. The prophecy is only partly true, however, and Turk must unravel the truth about the nature and purpose of the Hypotheticals before they carry him on a journey through warped time to the end of the universe itself.Vortexis thrilling and complex science fiction novel from Hugo Award-winning author Robert Charles Wilson.

The beautiful, spoiled and bored Olivia, married to a civil servant, outrages society in the tiny, suffocating town of Satipur by eloping with an Indian prince. Fifty years later, her step-granddaughter goes back to the heat, the dust and the squalor of the bazaars to solve the enigma of Olivia's scandal. 'A superb book.A complex story line, handled with dazzling assurance ...moving and profound. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala has not only written a love story, she has also exposed the soul and nerve ends of a fascinating and compelling country. This is a book of cool, controlled brilliance.It is a jewel to be treasured' THE TIMES

Patrick McDonnell possesses an elegance of line and narrative that both transcends and defines his medium. His artistry is in his Zen-like clarity, his simple direct address, and his unique understanding of the essential animal-human continuum. When one experiences MUTTS, one experiences genius." -Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely Bones"Dog-Eared"is exactly what this latest collection from cartoonist Patrick McDonnell is destined to become. The brilliant assortment of simple-yet-complex strips will have readers turning its pages again and again, eager to revisit the charm, truth, and humor found within.McDonnell's strip, highlights the adventures of Earl the dog and Mooch the cat, best buddies who regularly come in contact with Shtinky Puddin', Sourpuss, Guard Dog, and Crabby-as well as an assortment of whimsically rendered humans. This cast is capable of endless antics, interspersed with poignant views on both the animal and human condition. And whether they're raiding garbage cans o

An empowering guide to understanding the strategies behind successful social movements.Citizen activism has achieved many positive results. But the road to success for social movements is often complex, usually lasting many years, with few guides for evaluating the precise stage of a movement's evolution to determine the best way forward.Doing Democracy provides both a theory and working model for understanding and analyzing social movements, ensuring that they are successful in the long term. Beginning with an overview of social movement theory and the MAP (Movement Action Plan) model, Doing Democracy outlines the eight stages of social movements, the four roles of activists, and case studies from the civil rights, anti-nuclear energy, Central America, gay/lesbian, women's health, and globalization movements.Bill Moyer is the originator of the MAP Model; he and his coauthors combine several decades of movement experience.

Nature's Economy is a wide-ranging investigation of ecology's past, first published in 1994. It traces the origins of the concept, discusses the thinkers who have shaped it, and shows how it in turn has shaped the modern perception of our place in nature. Our view of the living world is a product of culture, and the development of ecology since the eighteenth century has closely reflected society's changing concerns. Donald Worster focuses on these dramatic shifts in outlook and on the individuals whose work has expressed and influenced society's point of view. The book includes portraits of Linnaeus, Gilbert White, Darwin, Thoreau, and such key twentieth-century ecologists as Rachel Carson, Frederic Clements, Aldo Leopold, James Lovelock, and Eugene Odum.

The prediction of the special theory of relativity differ significantly from those of Newtonian physics only for bodies whose speeds are comparable with the speed of light. For this reason, special relativity is often considered as irrelevant to the macroscopic physics of ordinary material systems under terrestrial conditions. The aim of this book is to show that by uniting dynamics, thermodynamics and electromagnetism into a coherent whole, special relativity illuminated each of these subjects in a manner which cannot be obtained by studying them in isolation. The speed of the systems concerned is irrelevant. This deep and careful analysis of special relativity is suitable for second- and subsequent- year university students studying physics or applied mathematics. Its distinctive approach will also appeal to research workers in general relativity, in continuum thermodynamics and in the electrodynamics of continuous media.

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After the pioneering work on complex dynamics by Fatou and Julia in the early 20th century, Noel Baker went on to lay the foundations of transcendental complex dynamics. As one of the leading exponents of transcendental dynamics, he showed how developments in complex analysis such as Nevanlinna theory could be applied. His work has inspired many others to take up this increasingly active subject, and will continue to do so. Presenting papers by researchers in transcendental dynamics and complex analysis, this book is written in honour of Noel Baker. The papers describe the state of the art in this subject, with new results on completely invariant domains, wandering domains, the exponential parameter space, and normal families. The inclusion of comprehensive survey articles on dimensions of Julia sets, buried components of Julia sets, Baker domains, Fatou components of functions of small growth, and ergodic theory of transcendental meromorphic functions means this is essential reading f

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在 BodyTalk 中，作者提出「與身體的關係」是影響自我價值、人際互動與心理健康的核心。對於長期忽視身體感受、甚至將身體視為痛苦來源的人來說，重新建立連結可能看似遙不可及。本書以一年 365 天為架構，設計了簡單的日常練習：包括輕度動作、覺察引導與書寫提示，幫助讀者一步步回到當下，感知並理解身體訊號，從而處理情緒、釋放壓力，並找回自信與安全感。這是一本結合理論與實踐的工具書，適合希望修復身心平衡的人。本書亮點：將創傷療癒落實到日常步驟動作＋書寫雙軌練習，易於持續提供重建自我價值與安全感的方法延續 The Body Keeps the Score 精神的實踐版Continuing the conversation started in The Body Keeps the Score and The Complex PTSD Workbook, BodyTalk is unique guide to reestablishing connection to your body in order to process difficult emotions, improve mental health, and feel secure in your own skin. Everything in your life comes down to how connected you are to your own body. Your relationships, your career, even your self-worth and self-respect are all a reflection of the relationship you have with your body. When things feel out of alignment, overwhelming or "too much," it's a sign that you've already lost communication with yourself and the physical sensations within your body that let you know something is not right. The challenge is that many

因為偶然間聽見的對話， 宇然以為自己在道賢心中或許並不特別。 決定放棄這段感情的同時，他心中產生了一個計劃： 利用費洛蒙讓道賢與自己共度一夜。 若這份感情終將無疾而終，至少留下對方的痕跡， 哪怕只是一場幻夢，都能成為永遠的回憶。 然而，道賢識破並拒絕了宇然的誘惑， 更令宇然震驚的是──對方早已認出了他。 那為什麼當年隱瞞自己是Alpha？又為什麼不揭穿？ 積壓的疑問終於爆發，宇然決定一一問清。 「我喜歡你，喜歡到甚至想用謊言留住你。」 道賢緊緊抱住宇然，給予他堅定的回應。 他們終於都將自己的心意坦誠相告， 不再錯過、不再逃避，勇敢地走向彼此。 ※知名作者Oneulbom老師系列作，繁體中文版精彩回歸🍿！ ※宇然被爆料是財閥後代？！ 宇然強勢的母親，宣正集團會長──池秀香登場！ ※隨書附贈：曖昧升溫電影票卡。 《Omega Complex》系列作　校園愛情火熱回歸🔥！ 即使最初是謊言，這份感情依然真實， 心動從未平息，只會更加洶湧。

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★歐巴馬2025夏季選書★普立茲獎得主Ron Chernow鉅獻，完整揭示馬克吐溫的傳奇人生與影響力★豐富史料、書信、手稿，真實還原文學大師鮮為人知的掙扎與幽默★描寫家庭、夢想、創傷、種族與社會批判，層層交織的生命旅程★理解美國文學、文化與時代精神的最關鍵讀本普立茲獎傳記大師Ron Chernow以權威筆觸，帶領讀者走進美國文學教父馬克吐溫的多采人生。《Mark Twain》追溯這位幽默天才本名Samuel Clemens的成長歷程，從密西西比河畔的少年、夢想成為輪船領航員，到橫跨報業、文壇，崛起為美國史上第一位全球知名文學名人。馬克吐溫以尖刻風趣的諷刺筆調描繪美國社會，創作《湯姆歷險記》、《哈克貝利費恩歷險記》等經典，深刻影響數代作家與讀者。這本鉅細靡遺的傳記不僅記錄了Twain的文壇輝煌，更真實揭露他為名聲與財富拚搏、商業投資失利而破產、流亡歐洲以及家庭創傷和晚年孤寂。Chernow透過大量信件與未公開手稿，細膩還原這位作家的光明與陰影——他如何反思奴隸制、批判社會不公，也如何在喪妻喪女的悲痛中，以犀利又動人的文學語言，批判世界同時療癒自己。Twain的故事，就是美國不斷變動與夢想衝突的縮影。Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Ron Chernow illuminates the full, fascinating, and complex life of the writer long celebrated as the father of American literature, Mark Twain Before he was Mark Twain, he was Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Born in 1835, the man who would become America's first, and most influential, literary celebrity spent his childhood dreaming of piloting steamboats on the Mississippi. But when the Civil War interrupted his career on the river, the young Twain went west to

榮獲財團法人宏達文教基金會品格教育教師進修培育用書分數是一時的，品格卻是一生的，良好的品格教育，就是良好的教育，與孩子的未來發展息息相關。品格教育是一種存在方式，而非行為方式，我們該引領孩子們在關鍵處尋找，而不是在亮點處尋找。財團法人宏達文教基金會 審定如何引領孩子提升品格並適才適性地成長？本書提供給所有學齡前孩童至12年級階段的學校或學區全面性指南，以塑造有意義的學習環境、健康的互動關係、核心價值及美德、榜樣、賦能與長期性發展。著名的品格教育家馬文‧W‧伯克維茲博士將數十年來從以教育現場為基礎的實例與發人深省的實地相關研究中，歸納出一套清晰易懂的原則，有助於領導階層、管理者及教職領導者們依循這些原則來協助學生成長茁壯。有效品格教育的PRIMED六大設計原則Prioritization 優先考慮 讓品格發展教育成為學校在使命、願景、政策及實踐上都真實可信且顯著的優先事項Relationship 關係 刻意和策略性地在各個關係人群體的內部和彼此之間培育健康的關係Intrinsic Motivation內在動機 培養品格的內化和對於「成為有品格的人」養成內在動機，避免外在動機Modeling示範 針對你想要學生發展的該項品格，所有成人和其他角色榜樣都能具體表現並作為學生的典範Empowerment賦能 創造一種文化和治理結構，賦能給所有關係人，藉由邀請他們發聲，聆聽這些聲音，並認真考量他們所表達的想法，每個人因而都有可能產生重大的影響Development Pedagogy發展式教學 在教育哲學及實踐上，採納一種發展性觀點，藉由有助於學生長期學習及品格發展的方式來教育他們