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The term "Enlightenment" still carries its tie to a grand philosophical tradition that in Britain moves through Bacon, Locke, and Hume. But the literature and philosophy of the Enlightenment was full of practical knowledge associated with the body and with craft. This book is an account of the eighteenth-century thinkers from across social classes who turned to the body to formulate new ways of knowing natural and social worlds—what Ruth Mack calls handicraft philosophies. The writers discussed in this book include a formerly enslaved man, Olaudah Equiano, and a washerwoman, Mary Collier, as well as gentlemen Joseph Banks and James Boswell, and the artist William Hogarth. In their efforts to communicate embodied ways of knowing, they bring together theory and practice; they set aside objectivity and relish the practical ways of knowing that are traditionally associated with lower classes and less-than-privileged bodies. Mack focuses on how such knowledge proved especially helpful for u

⛧⛦ 一本搞定 LLM 看圖說故事與即時影像分析 ⛦⛧⛧⛦ 十款熱門模型實際解決生活中 AI Vision 問題 ⛦⛧⛧⛦ 用「自己的」資料集在本地端訓練 YOLO 模型 ⛦⛧⛧⛦ 無痛設計 Web 互動介面，輕鬆部署 AI 模型 ⛦⛧『AI Vision × LLM』劃開多模態應用的新時代從輸入文字生成圖片，到上傳照片讓 LLM 看圖說故事，AI 電腦視覺技術結合 LLM 的多模態應用正席捲全球。但這些令人驚豔的應用背後，其實倚賴多項核心技術——包含物體偵測、人臉辨識、情緒與年齡分析、或是影像文字識別，以及對於文字的理解與生成，這才賦予 AI 真正「看懂」影像內容的能力。實際解決現實生活中的 AI Vision 問題帶領讀者以多款熱門模型如 YOLO、OpenCV DNN、MediaPipe、CVZone 3D、DeepFace、Dlib、LiteRT、EasyOCR，打造刷臉門禁系統、即時口罩偵測、微笑自拍、手勢操控投影片、AI 健身教練、車牌辨識、結帳櫃台人流與高速公路車流分析等多項實用專案，讓讀者親身體驗 AI Vision 在真實場景中的應用價值。不僅會用，還能自行訓練專屬 AI 模型讓你不只會活用現成的模型，還能自己動手標註資料並訓練屬於你的 YOLO 模型。並且透過 Streamlit 設計 Web 互動介面，將訓練成果部署為具備即時偵測與辨識功能的 Web 應用程式，實現從標註資料、模型訓練到應用上線的完整流程。親手打造多模態 AI 應用，收穫滿滿成就感整合前述 AI Vision 技術與大型語言模型（LLM），或運用 Ollama 的多模態工具 Llama-Vision，再搭配 Streamlit，即可實作出讓 LLM 分析影像內容或情境的 Web 智慧應用，例如路況分析或圖片描述，讓 AI 真正具備視覺理解與語意回應的能力。零基礎也能無痛入門本書主打「從做中學」的實作導向，即使沒有深厚的理論基礎，也能快速掌握 Python 的 AI 模型與實用套件。至於不熟悉的語法、函式用法、AI 模型原理，或是特定功能的程式碼編寫與修改，則交由 ChatGPT 給予我們即時協助，讓學習更有效率。無論你是 AI 初學者還是開發者，本書都能帶你輕鬆入門、快速上手，從零開始打造專屬的 AI 專案，成為 AI Vision × LLM 的超酷玩家！🎉本書特色: ➢

TRUE STORIES OF DETERMINATION AND DISCOVERY This collection features 25 inspiring tales of women in science, technology, engineering, and math. Read about how these women solved problems, made incredible breakthroughs, and paved the way for future scientists everywhere. Create a computer with mathematician Ada Lovelace. Design a robot with engineer Cynthia Breazeal. And help others with Rebecca Lee Crumpler, the first African American woman to become a doctor of medicine. This book pairs inspiring, easy-to-read text with colorful full-page portraits created by female and nonbinary artists from all around the world. Plus, scannable codes let you listen to longer stories on the Rebel Girls app!

This book illustrates and explains the key concepts of business data analytics from scratch, tackling the day-to-day challenges of a business data analyst. It provides you with all the professional tools you need to predict online shop sales, to conduct A/B tests on marketing campaigns, to generate automated reports with PowerPoint, to extract datasets from Wikipedia, and to create interactive analytics Web apps. Alongside these practical projects, this book provides hands-on coding exercises, case studies, the essential programming tools and the CRISP-DM framework which you'll need to kickstart your career in business data analytics.The different chapters prioritize practical understanding over mathematical theory, using realistic business data and challenges of the Junglivet Whisky Company to intuitively grasp key concepts and ideas. Designed for beginners and intermediates, this book guides you from business data analytics fundamentals to advanced techniques, covering a large number

An empowering and practical guide to help children unplug from their phones, from esteemed psychologists Brad Marshall and Lindsay Hassock. Drawing on over twenty years of experience as psychologists, Brad Marshall and Lindsay Hassock share cutting-edge insights on how children can say 'no' to their phones. Kids will discover the effects that their phone has on their brain and body.They'll learn how to create a relationship with their phone on their terms. They'll even establish simple, healthy screen time habits that stick. This handbook for children ages 10+ features: -Ten practical steps to help children unplug from their phones -A toolkit at the end of each step providing accessible, practical techniques -Advice from trusted authors, psychologists who have spent two decades working with children and offer a warm and conversational voice -Calming full colour illustrations by Lauriane Bohemier -Further resources at the back of the book Practical, insightful and empowering, this is th

Push through and persevere in the most difficult circumstances.In the face of hardship, you need motivation and determination. You need grit. But how do you build it?This book explores how you can persist in even the most trying of situations. With a mix of psychological research, expert advice, and real-life examples, you'll learn how to convince yourself to do hard things, deal with overwhelming feelings and stay calm in the moment, and identify when needing too much grit means it's time to quit.How to be human at work. The HBR Emotional Intelligence Series features smart, essential reading on the human side of professional life from the pages of Harvard Business Review. Each book in the series offers proven research showing how our emotions impact our work lives, practical advice for managing difficult people and situations, and inspiring essays on what it means to tend to our emotional well-being at work. Uplifting and practical, these books describe the social skills that are crit

Learn through play with TinkerActive Early Skills Workbooks―an exciting expansion of the groundbreaking TinkerActive workbook series, with format innovations perfect for learners ages 3 and up!TinkerActive Early Skills workbooks are curriculum-based hands-on fun, perfect for your littlest learners! Each Early Skills workbook is:Created with AWARD-WINNING TEACHERSPacked with STEM ACTIVITIESFilled with TINKERING, CRAFTING, & ENGINEERING projectsLoaded with STICKERS and a FOLD-OUT REWARD POSTERComplete with a WRITE-AND-WIPE game board and activities, so kids can PRACTICE AND PLAY AGAIN AND AGAIN.And even includes EASY AND PRACTICAL TIPS on how to engage your little tinkerer in learning.For ages 3 and up, this workbook covers: Crayon Control, Coloring, Pencil Control, Mazes, Tracing, Using Stickers, Tearing Paper, Using Glue, Folding Paper

The #1 bestselling Warriors series continues with the thrilling conclusion to the epic Broken Code story arc. When fear reigns supreme, only hope can save the Clans.The impostor's reign of terror has brought the Clans to the brink of destruction, and now, every warrior--living and dead--must unite to defeat him before he delivers his final blow. To ensure their future and protect their past, StarClan, the Dark Forest, and all five Clans must band together to turn back the tide of darkness--before the impostor's fury destroys them all.Packed with action and intrigue, this sixth Warriors series unfolds after the events of A Vision of Shadows.

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Learn through play in this exciting expansion of the groundbreaking TinkerActive series, with format innovations perfect for learners ages 3 and up!TinkerActive Early Skills workbooks are curriculum-based hands-on fun, perfect for your littlest learners! Each Early Skills workbook is:Created with AWARD-WINNING TEACHERSPacked with STEM ACTIVITIESFilled with TINKERING, CRAFTING, & ENGINEERING projectsLoaded with STICKERS and a FOLD-OUT REWARD POSTERComplete with a WRITE-AND-WIPE game board and activities, so kids can PRACTICE AND PLAY AGAIN AND AGAIN.And even includes EASY AND PRACTICAL TIPS on how to engage your little tinkerer in learning.For ages 3 and up, this workbook covers: Same & Different, Sorting, Counting to 20, Quantities, Writing Numbers, Addition & Subtraction Fundamentals, Measurement, Spatial Reasoning, and Shapes.

Learn through play with TinkerActive Early Skills Workbooks―an exciting expansion of the groundbreaking TinkerActive workbook series, with format innovations perfect for learners ages 3 and up!TinkerActive Early Skills workbooks are curriculum-based hands-on fun, perfect for your littlest learners! Each Early Skills workbook is:Created with AWARD-WINNING TEACHERSPacked with STEM ACTIVITIESFilled with TINKERING, CRAFTING, & ENGINEERING projectsLoaded with STICKERS and a FOLD-OUT REWARD POSTERComplete with a WRITE-AND-WIPE game board and activities, so kids can PRACTICE AND PLAY AGAIN AND AGAIN.And even includes EASY AND PRACTICAL TIPS on how to engage your little tinkerer in learning.For ages 3 and up, this workbook covers: Pencil Control, Crayon Control, Letter Recognition, Tracing Uppercase Letters, Alphabetical Order, Letter Sounds, Early Vocabulary

High Gothic: Christian Art & Iconography of the 13th–14th Century showcases classic examples of statuary, stained glass, diptychs, textiles and caskets that were used in the expression of Christian devotion in Western Europe.‘Gothic’ was originally a derogatory term coined by scholars during the Renaissance to describe the ‘barbaric’ medieval architecture that arose with the decline of the classical forms of the Roman Empire. The word is now understood to describe a style of buildings and objects created between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries which incorporate elements such as novel advances in masonry work and the characteristic ogival arch.The Gothic period saw an increased emphasis on the power of images, where vision became an active force for activating emotion and inspiring contemplation. The great cathedrals constructed in this period―with their thin walls and high vaults filled with statuary and stained-glass windows―were designed to evoke awe among visitors. The exqui

His Dark Materials: Northern Lights 1The destiny that awaits her will take her to the frozen lands of the Arctic, where witch-clans reign and ice-bears fight. Her extraordinary journey will have immeasurable consequences far beyond her own world... Rankin's lens has exquisitely captured the bond between character and daemon; the soul of the stories The His Dark Materials trilogy is award-winning, internationally bestselling and a modern classic.His Dark Materials: The Subtle Knife 2"My hands shook, turning the pages." The Times "Only Rankin can light and photograph faces with such intensity and drama. I'm delighted with this vision of my story." Philip Pullman The second volume in the ground-breaking His Dark Materials trilogy, now with a breath-taking new cover creatively directed and photographed by the legendary Rankin. "What is he? A friend, or an enemy?" "He is a murderer." Will has just killed a man.He's on the run. His escape will take him far beyond his own world, to the eerie

"An astonishing imaginative feat - Pullman has conjured a universe of intensity and beauty that leaves one gasping" The Times "Only Rankin can light and photograph faces with such intensity and drama. I'm delighted with this vision of my story." Philip Pullman The third volume in the ground-breaking His Dark Materials trilogy, now with a breath-taking new cover creatively directed and photographed by the legendary Rankin. "We're going to the land of the dead and we're going to come back." Will and Lyra, whose fates are bound together by powers beyond their own worlds, have been violently separated.But they must find each other, for ahead of them lies the greatest war that has ever been - and a journey to a dark place from which no one has ever returned... Rankin's lens has exquisitely captured the bond between character and daemon; the soul of the stories The His Dark Materials trilogy is award-winning, internationally bestselling and a modern classic. Now a major BBC/HBO television se

"Remarkable writing: courageous and dangerous as the best art should be." The Times "Only Rankin can light and photograph faces with such intensity and drama. I'm delighted with this vision of my story." Philip Pullman The first volume in the ground-breaking His Dark Materials trilogy, now with a breath-taking new cover creatively directed and photographed by the legendary Rankin. Lyra Belacqua and her animal daemon live half-wild and carefree among scholars of Jordan College, Oxford.The destiny that awaits her will take her to the frozen lands of the Arctic, where witch-clans reign and ice-bears fight. Her extraordinary journey will have immeasurable consequences far beyond her own world... Rankin's lens has exquisitely captured the bond between character and daemon; the soul of the stories The His Dark Materials trilogy is award-winning, internationally bestselling and a modern classic.Now a major BBC/HBO television series, with an all-star cast of Ruth Wilson, James McAvoy, Anne-Mar

"My hands shook, turning the pages." The Times "Only Rankin can light and photograph faces with such intensity and drama. I'm delighted with this vision of my story." Philip Pullman The second volume in the ground-breaking His Dark Materials trilogy, now with a breath-taking new cover creatively directed and photographed by the legendary Rankin. "What is he? A friend, or an enemy?" "He is a murderer." Will has just killed a man.He's on the run. His escape will take him far beyond his own world, to the eerie disquiet of a deserted city, and to a girl, Lyra. Her fate is strangely linked to his own, and together they must find the most powerful weapon in all the worlds...Rankin's lens has exquisitely captured the bond between character and daemon; the soul of the stories The His Dark Materials trilogy is award-winning, internationally bestselling and a modern classic. Now a major BBC/HBO television series, with an all-star cast of Ruth Wilson, James McAvoy, Anne-Marie Duff and Lin-Manuel

New York Times Bestseller A habit expert from Stanford University shares his breakthrough method for building habits quickly and easily. With Tiny Habits you'll increase productivity by tapping into positive emotions to create a happier and healthier life. Dr. Fogg's new and extremely practical method picks up where Atomic Habits left off."There are many great books on the topic [of habits]: The Power of Habit, Atomic Habits, but this offers the most comprehensive, practical, simple, and compassionate method I've ever come across." --John Stepper, Goodreads userBJ FOGG is here to change your life--and revolutionize how we think about human behavior. Based on twenty years of research and Fogg's experience coaching more than 40,000 people, Tiny Habits cracks the code of habit formation. With breakthrough discoveries in every chapter, you'll learn the simplest proven ways to transform your life. Fogg shows you how to feel good about your successes instead of bad about your failures.This p

Biology: A Global Approach delivers a trusted, accurate, current, and pedagogically innovative experience that guides students to a true understanding of biology. The author team advances Neil Campbell’s vision of meeting and equipping students at their individual skill levels by developing tools, visuals, resources, and activities that encourage participation and engage students in their learning. Known for strategically integrating text and artwork, this trusted course solution works hand in hand with Mastering Biology to reinforce key concepts, build scientific skills, and promote active learning. The 12th Edition meets demonstrated student needs with new student-centered features, expanded interactivity in the eText, and fully revised assessment program.

Why does nobody talk about money? This very helpful book is designed to take the mystery out of money. Filled with practical advice on such topics as how to save money, how to be a smart shopper, and

In this thoroughly revised and updated 25th-anniversary edition of his now-classic work, John C. Maxwell reveals how to develop the vision, value, influence, and motivation required of successful lead

As a sequel to An Encyclopedia of Translation: Chinese-English English-Chinese, which was published in 1995, this volume, An Encyclopedia of Practical Translation and Interpreting, focuses on practica

Now in its fifth edition, this invaluable handbook provides a complete guide to the practical application of data protection law. It is fully updated and expanded to include coverage of significant de

From graphic novel superstar (and former computer programming teacher) and New York Timesbestselling author Gene Luen Yang, Secret Coders: Potions & Parameters is the fifth volume in a wildly ente

From the illustrator and author of the hugely successful Mr Men comes the second Molly Mischief tale. Molly is a superhero. She's super-speedy, super-strong and has laser vision. She's Super Molly! An

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This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Cross-Cultural Design, CCD 2014, held as part of the 16th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction

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In THE LOST CONTINENT BBC Europe Editor Gavin Hewitt tells the story of a flawed dream, a noble vision that turned dangerous, and which led Europe into its gravest crisis since World War Two - a crisi

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It's summer vacation, the weather's great, and all the kids are having fun outside. So where's Greg Heffley? Inside his house, playing video games. But Greg's mom has a different vision for an ideal s