Native Guide

無聲的草木 綻放最好的香港 「胡秀英植物標本館」四代植物學家 翻山越嶺、精剖細描 為香港原生植物留下永恆的傳記 20個珍貴而稀有的名字，在遺憾失去它們前 認識它們越深，越能與它們共生 這些原生植物得以在香港這片土地上繁衍下去，不致滅絕 本書為《香港原生植物圖鑑》的第二冊。延續第一冊結合科學繪圖和植物藝術墨線圖的方式，詳細介紹了香港20種稀有及瀕危的原生植物。這些植物受到法例和名錄的保護，並在香港生態系統中扮演著重要角色。 標本館運用多種研究方法，包括文獻回顧、野外觀察、花果解剖結構研究和墨線圖等，去記錄每個珍貴的植物品種，豐富香港稀有及瀕危植物的基礎科學資訊，促進植物保育工作的進展。本冊更新增「掃描電子顯微鏡圖像」單元，把猶如萬花筒般的花粉和孢子的微物之美，清晰地呈現在讀者眼前。 This appealingly illustrated book is the second volume of Botanical Illustrated Guide to Hong Kong Native Plants. It presents a meticulously curated collection of 20 rare and endangered native plant species found in Hong Kong, featuring scientific, detailed pen-and-ink illustrations and morphological descriptions. This volume introduces a new section showcasing ‘Scanning Electron Microscope Images’ that reveals the intricate beauty of pollen and spores. This guide provides essential reference materials for species authentication and is of particular significance for plant preservation efforts in Hong Kong. -----------------------------------

Do Penguins Like the Cold? takes readers on a tour of the Southern Hemisphere to meet eighteen species of penguin and to witness the conservation work underway to protect these incredible birds and their native habitats.By observing penguins firsthand, readers will discover whether penguins truly like the cold, how their diving skills make up for the fact that penguins can't fly, and how to tell what a penguin had for dinner based on the color of its poo!Along with zoological facts, field guide Huw Lewis Jones has some helpful tips on how to track penguins' movements from space, on what prehistoric penguins can tell us about their descendants, and advice on what we can to do help penguins faced with a warming world.Packed with information about penguins living in Argentina, Australia, Chile, the Gal嫚agos Islands, Namibia, New Zealand, Peru, and South Africa, Do Penguins Like the Cold? also gives readers a hands-on look of what it's like to work in the wild.

本書是留學英語考試語言專家慎小嶷(Pat)老師的力作。書中緊密結合劍橋大學出版社出版的劍18和《劍橋雅思官方指南》(The Oficeial Cambridge Guide to IELTS)所體現出的近期新趨勢，富有創造性地總結出了幫助中國考生突破IELTS寫作瓶頸所需的全部應試技巧，並用地道英語對大量語言點進行了深入講解。書中全部例句均取自最近兩年中出版的英美本土出版物和劍10～劍18以及《劍橋雅思官方指南》裡的權威官方範文。本書還配有由native speakers外教朗讀的音頻文件下載，以及方便讀者隨時隨地學習的便攜式學習手冊，有助於讀者高效利用備考時間。

Plants are one of the healthiest and most helpful ways to attract and support a wide variety of birds. In this colorful easy-reference guide, birding expert Laura Erickson details the 100 best native plants for providing food and habitat to backyard and migrating birds across North America.The growing group of bird enthusiasts who enjoy feeding and watching their feathered friends will learn how they can expand their activity and help address the pressing issue of habitat loss with 100 Plants to Feed the Birds. In-depth profiles offer planting and care guidance for 100 native plant species that provide food and shelter for birds throughout the year, from winter all the way through breeding and migrating periods. Readers will learn about plants they can add to their gardens and cultivate, such as early-season pussy willow and late-season asters, as well as wild plants to refrain from weeding out, like jewelweed and goldenrod. Others, including 29 tree species, may already be present in

A fresh approach to the houseplant category, featuring fabulous, unusual specimens and tours of growers, botanical gardens, and private collections around the world―from beloved gardening brand Terrain.Secrets of the Houseplant HuntersTerrain’s plant experts travel the world in search of the most unusual and interesting houseplants. In this inspiring and practical guide, they share their favorite specimens: exotic and eclectic ferns, like the skeleton fork, a primitive (and unfussy) predecessor to the family; new aroids to feed that monstera obsession; and adventurous trailing plants like dischidia, which is found cascading from tree branches in its native Thailand; plus succulents and cacti, indoor trees, the best low-care plants, and “rule breakers” like bamboo muhly grass that can make an unexpected move indoors.Along the way, Terrain introduces their favorite independent growers―passionate plant lovers who are creating new hybrids and bringing back old-school specimens to the marke

A modern, brashly flavorful guide to cooking Taiwanese-American food, from Brooklyn's lauded Win Son, Win Son Bakery, and Cathy Erway, celebrated writer and expert on the cuisine Josh Ku, born in Queens to parents from southern Taiwan, and Trigg Brown, a native Virginian whose mentor was a Taiwanese-American chef, forged a friendship over food--specifically, excellent tsang ying tou, or "flies' head," a dish of chopped budding chives kissed with pork fat. Their obsession with Taiwanese food and culture propelled them to open Win Son together in 2016. The East Williamsburg restaurant quickly established itself as a destination and often incurs long waits for their vibrant and flavorful Taiwanese-American cuisine. Ku and Brown have teamed up with Cathy Erway, Taiwanese food expert and celebrated writer, to create this book which explores and celebrates the cuisine of Taiwan and its ever-simmering pot of creative influences. Told through the eyes, taste buds, travels, and busy lives of Ku

The latest in our bestselling field guide series, this is an extensive and practical guide to finding and identifying the wildflowers of the Midwest.Wildflowers of the Midwest is a comprehensive field guide for anyone wishing to learn about the amazingly diverse wildflowers of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri and Iowa. Organized by flower color and shape, the guide is as user-friendly as it is informative. This must-have book is perfect for hikers, naturalists, and native plant enthusiasts.Describes and illustrates 1000 commonly encountered speciesIncludes perennials, annuals, and shrubs, both native and nonnativeMore than 1,000 superb color photographsUser-friendly organization by flower color and shapeIdeal for birders, hikers, foragers, and natural history buffs, Timber Press Field Guides are the perfect tools for loving where you live.

The Instant New York Times Besteller National Bestseller [The] authors' finest work to date. --Wall Street JournalThe explosive true saga of the legendary figure Daniel Boone and the bloody struggle for America's frontier by two bestselling authors at the height of their writing power--Bob Drury and Tom Clavin. It is the mid-eighteenth century, and in the 13 colonies founded by Great Britain, anxious colonists desperate to conquer and settle North America's "First Frontier" beyond the Appalachian Mountains commence a series of bloody battles. These violent conflicts are waged against the Native American tribes whose lands they covet, the French, and finally against the mother country itself in an American Revolution destined to reverberate around the world. This is the setting of Blood and Treasure, and the guide to this epic narrative is America's first and arguably greatest pathfinder, Daniel Boone--not the coonskin cap-wearing caricature of popular culture but the flesh-and-blood fr

A stunning book on one of Europe's top win-producing countriesPortugal's rich wine culture dates back at least two millennia. Its vineyards teem with fascinating native grape varieties and its cellars harbor heritage wine styles and ancient techniques (including foot treading in stone troughs) that have died out elsewhere. Foot Trodden is a book for everyone who loves a good story, wine, Portugal or modern social history--and for anyone who wants to dig deeper into Portuguese culture and the Portuguese soul. Written in an accessible, narrative style, this book is above all else about the people behind the wines: the challenges they faced, what drives them, and how they succeeded against the odds to put Portugal on the map. With 80 specially commissioned photos, beautiful layout and design, Foot Trodden is crammed full of detail and depth about the wines and winemaking, but it's emphatically not a text book or a Master of Wine study guide. You don't need to be a wine geek or a history n

原生廣告是一種全新的營銷概念，營銷形式。沒有人可以給原生廣告一個很明確的定義，各界眾說紛紜。Buzzfeed的總裁Jon Steinberg說， “當你用內容的形式並冠以該平臺的版本，就是一種原生廣告。舉例說，在推特裡面，它會是一則推特，在Facebook裡面，它會是一則新的狀態，在Buzzfeed裡面，它會是一則報導。”Deep Focus的CEO, Ian Schafer說,”這是一種以消費者本身使用該媒體的方式，去接觸消費者的廣告方式。”美國雅虎的銷售副總裁Patrick Albano認為，原生廣告形式更多元，可能是圖片、影音、或是文字，只要是消費者體驗的一種，它都可以被稱為是原生廣告的形式之一。Solve Media給出的定義是：“原生廣告是指一種通過在信息流裡發佈具有相關性的內容產生價值，提升用戶體驗的特定商業模式。”IDEAinside給出的定義是：原生廣告通過“和諧”的內容呈現品牌信息，不破壞用戶的體驗，為用戶提供有價值的信息。讓用戶自然地接受信息。雖然眾多人士理解的原生廣告定義和形式不一，總結各方評論來說，原生廣告可以用兩種角度來看，除了形式的不同，它是一種新的消費者體驗，它是一種互動的廣告，但卻要以消費者平常的使用習慣切入，沒有隔閡地成為消費者原有的體驗。原生廣告有以下幾個特點：1．內容的價值性：原生廣告為受眾提供的是有價值有意義的內容，而不是單純的廣告信息，而是該信息能夠為用戶提供滿足其生活形態，生活方式的信息。2．內容的原生性：內容的植入和呈現不破壞頁面本身的和諧，而不是為了搶佔消費者的注意力而突兀呈現，破壞畫面的和諧性。3．用戶的主動性：用戶樂於閱讀，樂於分享，樂於參與其中。而不是單純的“到我為止”的廣告傳播，而是每個用戶都可能成為擴散點的互動分享式的傳播。《原生廣告》走出了Facebook的贊助商帖子、推文和BuzzFeed的品牌文章的討論範圍。它關注的是問題的核心：受眾、預算、內容和成功衡量。對於任何想要充分利用數字創新的營銷人員來說，它都準備了第一手的建議。本書通過現實生活中的例子和來自世界各地的市場領導者的採訪，以及包括紐約時報和獨立報在內的一系列案例研究，探討了原生廣告的概念、產生背景、具體類型、實踐運作，並解釋了為什麼它的增長是不可避免的，以及將如何影響商業的未來。

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When Cora and Alice Munro’s Native American guide Magua proves to be secretly allied with the French and slips away, the sisters turn to Natty Bumppo and the Mohicans Chingachgook and Uncas to lead th

If you want to discover the captivating history of the United States, then keep reading...When the first settlers reached the United States of America and started to chip out a living in the wilderness that seemed so fierce and unfamiliar to their European eyes, they could never have dreamed that someday the land upon which they stood would become one of the most powerful countries in the entire world.When Native Americans first witnessed those white sails bringing ships with white sailors into their world for the first time, they could never have dreamed that within a few centuries their population would be all but destroyed, that they would have to endure massacre after massacre, be stripped of their freedom and confined to comparatively tiny reservations, and walk the Trail of Tears within the next few hundred years.When the preachers of the Great Awakening stood on the backs of wagons or bits of old tree stumps and told the American people a new story of individual freedom and the

Want to brush up on your English idioms? Hoping to pass an English exam with flying colours? Ideal for anyone who wants to learn English to native-speaker standard, this fun and engaging visual guide

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This engaging guide will equip students who are non-native speakers of English with the tools and confidence to respond effectively and appropriately to written assignments at university. It supports

Florence occupies a huge space in American history, and that past left a lot of lingering spirits. A Native American "trickster" meanders the local swamps. In Mars Bluff, a ghostly guide offers tours

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Well-traveled outdoor writer and native Tennessean Johnny Molloy methodically set forth into his home state, searching for campgrounds to include in this new edition of Best Tent Camping: Tennessee.

The follow-up to Heyday’s best-selling A Is for Acorn takes young readers to a Native California Big Time, with Coyote as their guide. Counting from one clapperstick up to ten stars twinkling above th

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This is an illustrated guide to historical sites in Florida's Tampa Bay Region. They are presented in chronological order, beginning with pre-Columbian Native American cultures, through the Spanish ex

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Philadelphia Trees is a pocket-sized resource for identifying the native trees, commonly encountered exotics, and popular ornamentals of the Philadelphia metropolitan area and adjacent counties in Pen

Having analysed the most common English errors made in over 600 academic papers written by Chinese undergraduates, postgraduates, and researchers, Steve Hart has written an essential, practical guide specifically for the native Chinese speaker on how to write good academic English. English Exposed: Common Mistakes Made by Chinese Speakers is divided into three main sections. The first section examines errors made with verbs, nouns, prepositions, and other grammatical classes of words. The second section focuses on problems of word choice. In addition to helping the reader find the right word, it provides instruction for selecting the right style too. The third section covers a variety of other areas essential for the academic writer, such as using punctuation, adding appropriate references, referring to tables and figures, and selecting among various English date and time phrases. Using English Exposed will allow a writer to produce material where content and ideas—not language mist

A comprehensive, yet practical guide for both new and experienced students of the Italian language! Learn Italian with Michelangelo, a native Italian speaker and US college graduate. Clearly present

This outstanding field guide features 1,362 plants. Highlights of each account include edible plants, native uses of plants, habitat and ecology, similar species and origin of the plant's name. The bo

Native Parisians guide you through the life and soul of the City of Light. For many tourists, Paris is the Eiffel Tower, the Sacré-Coeur, the Arc de Triomphe, the obelisk in the Place de la Concorde,