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Adventure Friends Miguel and Clarke take a trip that’s OUT OF THIS WORLD, in this full-color book perfect for beginning readers!Pick a book. Grow a Reader!This series is part of Scholastic's early reader line, Acorn, aimed at children who are learning to read. With easy-to-read text, a short-story format, plenty of humor, and full-color artwork on every page, these books will boost reading confidence and fluency. Acorn books plant a love of reading and help readers grow!Miguel and Clarke are on the look-out for their next great adventure. They go to the library to find ideas. Clarke reads about spies and Miguel reads about space. Across four short stories, Miguel and Clarke use the power of their imagination to travel to outer space, explore a new planet, make a map of the stars -- and they even encounter aliens!With easy-to-read text and full-color artwork on every page, this adventure-filled early reader series is sure to be a hit with beginning readers!

Princess Truly loves to help those around her, in these rhyming stories perfect for beginning readers!Pick a book. Grow a Reader!This series is part of Scholastic's early reader line, Acorn, aimed at children who are learning to read. With easy-to-read text, a short-story format, plenty of humor, and full-color artwork on every page, these books will boost reading confidence and fluency. Acorn books plant a love of reading and help readers grow!Princess Truly knows how to help! Across three stories, Princess Truly lends a hand during her friend's moving day, she cleans up a stinky park with her magical curls, and she helps a farmer find his tractor key! These funny and empowering short stories promote believing in yourself, building confidence, and having a positive self-image. They foster imagination and curiosity, and are perfect for fans of Ada Twist, Scientist.With full-color artwork and easy-to-read rhyming text throughout, this series is just-right for new readers!

 Chapter1 資料的概念：在最開始的地方，以一系列的案例讓讀者認識到資料的價值（1.1），並且學習透過資料的型態（1.2） 和尺度（1.3） 來認識資料。  Chapter2 Python 基礎：對於沒有程式基礎的讀者，會從 Python的介紹和環境安裝（2.1 ∼ 2.2） 開始，並且介紹一些基礎的程式語法與邏輯（2.3 ∼ 2.4），讓讀者可以快速上手Python。  Chapter3 基本數值資料處理：分別介紹在資料分析中最常用到的NumPy（3.1） 和Pandas（3.2），讓讀者可以對各種基本的資料進行處理與分析。  Chapter4 各式資料處理：除了基本的數值資料以外，更進一步介紹對於影像（4.1 ∼ 4.2）、音訊（4.3 ∼ 4.4）、文字（4.5 ∼ 4.6） 類型資料的觀念與實作。  Chapter5 資料前處理：專門介紹各種拿到資料後要先做的前處理方式，包含資料清理（5.1）、資料轉換（5.2），以及如何進行合適的資料視覺化（5.3）。  Chapter6 其他專題補充：針對本書無法展開的內容，透過一個個小實作專題進行補充介紹，包含探索式分析（6.1）、網頁爬蟲（6.2）、機器學習與模型評估（6.3）、ChatGPT API（6.4）、HuggingFace（6.5）、資料管線（6.6）、常見誤區（6.7） 等。

These decodable Black and White More Storybooks for Yellow are for teachers to send home to help children practise reading stories they have been learning in school. Each book contains the same story as its corresponding colour More Storybook, but includes detailed and clear guidance for parents. The books are designed to go home with children once they have read the colour More Storybook three times in class.Reading a familiar text allows them to build confidence with reading at home. The books include parent-friendly notes to support the activities at the start and end of the books, including practise of the Speed Sounds, Green Words and Red Words before reading. There is also guidance for the questions at the end of the story to develop children's comprehension.The books are part of the Read Write Inc. Phonics programme, developed by Ruth Miskin. The programme is designed to create fluent readers, confident speakers and willing writers.It includes Handbooks, Sounds Cards, Word Cards

Meet Izzy the Inventor in a laugh-out-loud series that brings together science, magic and a very lovable unicorn. Packed full of illustrations and easy-to-read text, this series is perfect for beginner readers and fans of Isadora Moon and The Naughtiest Unicorn.Izzy the Inventor is back in Fairytale Land and this time she must rescue a prince from a wicked fairy's curse. If she fails, he'll vanish! With the help of Henry the unicorn, Izzy needs to work out how to make it snow in summer, create an exploding volcano and a contraption to help Henry fly. But can Izzy's science skills stand up to an enormous dragon?Every book contains ideas for science experiments and a QR code with links for more to try at home.

Learn all the essential facts about our solar system and beyond in this illustrated, interactive, and educational activity book for kids. How old is the universe? How was the Earth formed? What lies beyond our solar system? Active Learning: Stars & Planets covers all these questions and more! Children will have fun learning through doing, with dozens of different activity types to fully engage with and explore the stars and planets in outer space. Kids aged 8-12 will be occupied for hours as they pore over the information-packed pages in this space activity book and tackle the wide range of puzzles - including mazes and tangles, code-breakers, matching games, anagrams, word searches, logic games, classification and identification games, quizzes, sudoku, odd one out, drawing, and colouring.This exciting stars and planets activity book for children includes: - Detailed, high-quality illustrations and photography alongside informative text to engage children aged 8-12 with learning. -

A fantastic rhyming story by Smriti Halls (I'm Sticking With You and Rain Before Rainbows), with dynamic illustrations from Richard Merritt (The Dinosaur Department Store), about discovering grit and building determination. Diplodocus Dinah is BRILLIANT at everything. There's nothing she can't do and no competition she can't win! But what happens when the Surfing Contest comes to Dino Town and Dinah discovers that surfing is something she just can't dino-do! For the first time ever Dinah doesn't come first.Will she be distraught? Or will she discover that there's more to having fun than winning? An encouraging and inspiring story, packed with hidden humour, that's perfect for fans of Giles Andreae's Giraffes Can't Dance. PRAISE FOR DINOS DON'T GIVE UP!: "Halls' gentle rhyming text makes sure to celebrate Dinah for all her wonderful qualities, and remind us that all we need when the going gets tough is a hug and a bit of encouragement . .. Richard Merritt's bright, eye-catching illustra

風險建模演算法 「Abdullah Karasan成功展現了在金融風險管理領域中使用機器學習的能力，這是對任何金融機構都攸關重要的功能。」 ―Yves J. Hilpisch博士 The Python Quants與The AI Machine創辦人及總裁 「如果您需要將統計和機器學習方法應用在金融風險分析的入門指南，那麼這是一個很好的起點。」 ―Graham L. Giller 《Adventures in Financial Data Science》作者 金融風險管理在人工智慧的幫助下發展迅速。透過這本實用指南，開發人員、程式設計師、工程師、金融分析師、風險分析師及定量和演算法分析師，將可以機器學習和深度學習模型進行金融風險評估。建立基於人工智慧的財務建模實務技能後，您將學習要如何運用機器學習模型來取代傳統的金融風險模型。 作者Abdullah Karasan幫助您探索金融風險建模背後的理論，再深入研究使用Python運用機器學習模型以對金融風險進行建模的實際方法。 有了這本書，您將可以： ‧回顧經典的時間序列應用並將其與深度學習模型進行比較 ‧使用支撐向量迴歸、神經網路和深度學習來探索波動率模型以衡量風險程度 ‧使用機器學習技術來改善市場風險模型(VaR和ES)，並包括了流動性維度 ‧使用分群和貝氏方法來進行信用風險分析 ‧使用高斯混合模型和關聯結構模型來捕捉流動性風險的不同面向 ‧使用機器學習模型來進行詐欺偵測 ‧使用機器學習模型來預測股價崩盤並識別其決定因素

Tag's greatest enemy has returned to Perodia!Pick a book. Grow a Reader!This series is part of Scholastic's early chapter book line, Branches, aimed at newly independent readers. With easy-to-read text, high-interest content, fast-paced plots, and illustrations on every page, these books will boost reading confidence and stamina. Branches books help readers grow!The Shadow has come back to Perodia! Skull, his evil army of rats, and The Shadow are now hiding in secret as they plan their next move. Tag, Skyla, and Blaze need to find The Shadow quickly before it turns the creatures of Valor Wood into its army of spies. But their friend Bod is still trapped in the Underland! Can Tag and his friends rescue Bod before it’s too late? The Shadow’s dark magic is growing stronger…With nonstop action and adventure, this fully illustrated series makes a great introduction to fantasy and will have younger readers on the edge of their seats!

Star of the New York Times bestselling picture book Can I Be Your Dog?Everyone loves Arfy the rescue dog——even when he stinks! This is his first Comic Reader in the #1 early reader line, Step into Reading.Arfy used to be homeless, but now he's found his forever home with a sweet person and a squeaky bone! But what's that smell? Arfy loves to sniff things out--he's great at it, so he is on the case! He will find the source of this mysterious smell, even if he has to sniff the whole neighborhood! Tag along with Arfy on his newest adventure--illustrated with panels and speech balloons for a fun intro to comics! Comic Readers are told almost entirely in action-packed dialogue! Simple, graphic, paneled layouts introduce emergent readers to the joy of comics.Step 1 Readers feature big type and easy words. Rhymes and rhythmic text paired with picture clues help children decode the story.

This book containing lectures and review on Shakespeare’s work has met a need long felt by the Chinese college students, especially those in the department of foreign languages and literature. The life of Shakespeare are well selected and the lectures beautifully written. Thus it will serve not only as an introduction to Shakespeare, but also as a good text-book for those beginners who study Shakespeare both in the Chinese colleges and universities. Professor Lee is to be credited painstaking work in shooting the two birds with one stone. It is really an excellent brief work and a fresh approach to the Shakespearean study. 1. This book containing lectures and review on Shakespeare’s work has met a need long felt by the Chinese college students, especially those in the department of foreign languages and literature. 2. Thus it will serve not only as an introduction to Shakespeare, but also as a good text-book for those beginners who study Shakespeare both in the Chinese colleges and uni

讓你一次學會：物聯網通訊、濾波器設計、影像追蹤與馬達控制四大技術 本書帶你使用 Node-RED 與 Python 在樹莓派上實現大部分物聯網所需的觀念與技術，並搭配 Arduino 與 ESP32 實現數位濾波器設計與 MQTT 雙向控制系統等進階主題，因此讀完本書，各位不僅能學到物聯網系統的重要觀念與技術之外，還可以學會：物聯網通訊、濾波器設計、影像追蹤與馬達控制等四大關鍵技術。 本書特色 → Node-RED 與 Python 編程技術 → 雙向 MQTT 物聯網控制技術 → 步進馬達控制技術 → 數位濾波器設計技術 → OpenCV 影像模板比對技術 → 串列通訊與訊號頻譜的底層邏輯與驗證

Discover how space is part of our daily lives with Everyday STEM Science - Space, filled with facts, stories and experiments to try at home!Everyone knows there are planets and stars and space rocks, but how do these, and everything else in space, affect us on Earth? From the beginning of the universe and the origins of the planets, to the latest research and space missions, journey through space and uncover what is really out there . . .Discover how we're made of stars, find out how old you would be if you lived on Mars, and how time travel can happen in space. Plus, meet the explorers, astronomers and scientists whose discoveries have given us this fascinating space knowledge, including Mae Jemison, Stephen Hawking and Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin. Readers can also carry out cool astronomical experiments at home.With easy-to-understand text written by science communicator and podcaster Izzie Clarke, and lots of colourful artworks, photos and diagrams, readers can best explore where we en

STEM – where we see it, how we use it and why it mattersDiscover how science affects our daily lives with Everyday STEM — Chemical Engineering, filled with inventions, stories and experiments to try at home.Engineering is all around you! From raising agents in bread to life-saving medicine and eco-friendly fuel, chemical engineering has transformed our lives. Discover the animal inspiration behind running blades, watch DNA technology in action, and see how engineering can help to feed the world. Plus, meet the engineers and scientists whose discoveries are changing our lives for the better, including Tu Youyou, Markus Rehm and Jamie Garcia. Then put your engineering skills to the test with the cool at-home experiments.With easy-to-understand text written by science communicator Jenny Jacoby, and lots of colourful artworks, photos and diagrams, readers can best explore where we encounter chemical engineering and why it’s even important at all.The Everyday STEM series makes science relev

本書首先引領你開啟樹莓派的大門，進入充滿神奇、瑰麗、希望的多彩世界。同時，也敞開探索Arduino資源的視窗，指引你善用俯拾皆是的各式珍貴資源。你將一步一步從基本程式設計、簡單電路組裝到測試的紮實演練，最後建立一個實用的物聯網。 本書分成三大部分 ➤ 樹莓派：從開箱設定到GPIO應用 ➤ Arduino：從LED閃爍的控制到Wi-Fi模組的開發 ➤ 樹莓派與Arduino：運用Node-RED融合兩者，輕易開發物聯網 閱讀本書後，你將學到 ✔ 樹莓派GPIO應用 ✔ Python程式設計 ✔ Arduino程式設計 ✔ 樹莓派與Arduino整合應用 ✔ ESP8266 NodeMCU應用 ✔ Node-RED程式設計 本書適用於 ☛ 大專院校「機電整合」、「專題製作」、「網際網路程式設計」等課程 ☛ 高中、高職「微電腦應用實習」相關課程 ☛ 各級學校開辦的正規或短期「物聯網」探索課程 ☛ 創客玩家DIY物聯網

內容簡介:*作者以超過30年的豐富教學經驗，以及深知初學Python程式語言的盲點與障礙，精心規劃本書，讓你不論是教學或自修都可以得心應手。*內容涵蓋：輸入輸出、運算子、迴圈、函式、串列、類別、繼承、檔案與例外處理...等基礎且重要的主題，不僅可以增強你的邏輯思維能力，更穩固你的程式設計基本功。*範例貼近生活，如：猜猜你的生日、猜猜1～100的數字、大樂透電腦選號...等，並搭配程式重點解說。*提供練習題與習題測試，讓你做中學，並測試了解程度。附有參考解答，讓你學習沒有盲點，同時驗證你的答案。

"A beautiful, gentle, rhyming exploration of grief and mourning." - Joe Coelho, Waterstones Children's LaureateThe Hare-Shaped Hole is a beautiful, touching, and poignant picture book which gently explores themes of grief and loss. Hertle and Bertle were always a pair, though one was a turtle and one was a hare. They were utterly buddies, and best friends forever and whenever you looked, you would find them together...until quite unexpectedly... the end came. When Hertle disappears for good, Bertle can only see a Hertle-shaped hole where his friend should be.He pleads with it, get angry with it, but the hole still won't bring his Hertle back. It seems like hope is lost... until Gerda the kindly bear finds him.She explains that he must fill the hole with his memories of Hertle. And slowly... Bertle begins to feel a little bit better.Powerful and moving text from children's author and poet John Dougherty is paired perfectly with warm illustrations from the wonderfully talented Thomas Doc

Drake and Worm meet a Shadow Dragon in the latest action-packed installment of this New York Times bestselling series!Pick a book. Grow a Reader!This series is part of Scholastic's early chapter book line, Branches, aimed at newly independent readers. With easy-to-read text, high-interest content, fast-paced plots, and illustrations on every page, these books will boost reading confidence and stamina. Branches books help readers grow!A huge shadow is blanketing the sky, spreading across every kingdom. And wizards all over the world are losing their magic powers! The Dragon Masters soon discover that a Shadow Dragon named Chaya and his Dragon Master, Aruna, are responsible for the sky-shadow. Drake teams up with Jean to figure out how this Shadow Dragon has so much power. Will they stop the sky-shadow, or will the world fall into complete darkness? And is evil magic to blame for all this chaos?With engaging black-and-white artwork on every page, kids won't be able to put down this actio

現在學機器學習，正是最好的年代！在過去要處理資料，就要用C語言撰寫函數；在Python裡，別人已寫好了許多套件，只要像是在玩樂高積木一樣，就能完成你想要的結果。因此我會說，現在是學機器學習最好的時候，你等於是站在巨人的肩膀上學習。本書沒有複雜的數學，沒有複雜的程式碼，以有系統的編排，引領你進入機器學習的世界。我們會介紹sklearn的資料預處理；簡單線性迴歸、多元線性迴歸、羅吉斯迴歸、K最近鄰、支持向量機、決策樹、隨機森林等監督式的機器學習模型。而在非監督模型上會介紹Kmeans。另外，大部分的書不會強調的ColumnTransformer、管道器製作。許多書沒有解釋清楚的模型預測重要指標：正確率、精確率、召回率、混亂矩陣、綜合報告、PRC曲線、ROC曲線，我們也會一次詳細說明，讓你一手掌握。實例演練時會操作中英文的文字處理，並做情感分析和主題探索。還有知名的大數據資料庫，包括波斯頓房價預測、鳶尾花資料、鐵達尼號資料、威斯康辛大學醫院收集的乳癌腫瘤病患預測、電信公司客戶流失預測、信用卡盜刷預測、Newsgroup新聞群組分類、Amazon商品評論預測、Tripadvisor裡兩家航空公司和數字預測。最後教大家如何將深度學習的模組也包裝到sklearn。現在就讓我們一起學習Python，用機器學習掌握人工智慧。

Prince Lucas and Lady Clara team up with gnomes to give the jewels their luster back in this nineteenth fantastical adventure of The Kingdom of Wrenly series! The gnomes of the Stone Forest are in trouble when all the gems in the forest lose their shine. It's up to Prince Lucas and Lady Clara to find a way to help them! With easy-to-read text and illustrations on almost every page, The Kingdom of Wrenly chapter books are perfect for beginning readers.

【新書簡介】★☆★ 全面掌握機器學習的影像處理，豐富實例等你來挖掘！ ★☆★機器學習的影像處理，是當前最熱門的研究領域之一，而這其中OpenCV-Python整合了OpenCV C++API和Python的最佳特性，使其成為電腦視覺領域內極具影響力和實用性的工具。本書透過案例來介紹所有影像相關的技術，包含了基礎演算法、機器學習、深度學習。在基礎部分，有影像安全（影像加密、影像關鍵部位打碼、隱身術）、影像辨識（答題卡辨識、手勢辨識、車牌辨識、指紋辨識、手寫數字辨識）、物體計數、影像檢索、缺陷檢測等。在機器學習部分，則實作了KNN實現字元（手寫數字、英文字母）辨識、數獨影像求解（KNN）、SVM手寫數字辨識、行人檢測、藝術畫（K平均值聚類）等。在深度學習方面，包括了影像分類、物件辨識（YOLO演算法、SSD演算法）、語義分割、實例分割、風格遷移、姿勢辨識等。另外在最流行的人臉辨識相關方面，則提供了人臉檢測、人臉辨識、勾勒五官輪廓、人臉對齊、表情辨識、駕駛員疲勞檢測、易容術、性別和年齡辨識等。本書對電腦視覺涉及的基礎知識進行了全面且系統性的深入梳理，能夠幫助讀者快速掌握該領域的核心基礎知識，此外，透過豐富的實例介紹，也能避免將案例作為單一問題看待的窘境，並且可以從不同的角度理解及分析問題，讓讀者能夠加以組合運用，創建屬於自己獨特的影像處理法寶！※ 本書附程式碼，可至深智官網下載：https://deepmind.com.tw/

Mermaid Days #1-3: An Acorn BookThe Sunken Ship: An Acorn Book (Mermaid Days #1)The Sea Monster: An Acorn Book (Mermaid Days #2)A New Friend: An Acorn Book (Mermaid Days #3)Vera and Beaker make a new friend when they meet a mantis shrimp, in this series perfect for beginning readers!Pick a book. Grow a Reader!This series is part of Scholastic's early reader line, Acorn, aimed at children who are learning to read. With easy-to-read text, a short-story format, plenty of humor, and full-color artwork on every page, these books will boost reading confidence and fluency. Acorn books plant a love of reading and help readers grow!Swim along with mermaid Vera and octo-kid Beaker! In these three stories, Vera and Beaker make a new friend with a powerful baby mantis shrimp. Together, they explore the town of Tidal Grove. Then they play fun underwater games! Young readers will love discovering Vera and Beaker’s funny adventures and learning nonfiction information about mantis shrimp. Did you know

ＡCrabby Book: An Acorn Book (Book1-6)School is in session for the ocean's crankiest crab!Pick a book. Grow a Reader!This series is part of Scholastic's early reader line, Acorn, aimed at children who are learning to read. With easy-to-read text, a short-story format, plenty of humor, and full-color artwork on every page, these books will boost reading confidence and fluency. Acorn books plant a love of reading and help readers grow!It's just another day in the ocean for Crabby and Plankton -- until they find themselves INSIDE a school of fish! This gives Plankton a fabulous idea -- he and Crabby should play school! But Crabby does notwant to play. In four hilarious stories, Crabby uses funny wordplay to distract Plankton from teaching!With comic speech bubbles and full-color artwork throughout, Geisel Award Honoree Jonathan Fenske's early reader series is sure to be a hit with new readers!

A joyful, humorous rhyming tale about how friends lift each other up, from the creators of the internationally bestselling I'm Sticking With You and I'm Sticking With You Too. Much-loved characters Bear and Squirrel are back and it's time to party! Squirrel is the expert at throwing parties and knows exactly what to do to make this the biggest and best EVER, but Bear isn't so sure and is feeling a bit shy. Can the two friends find a way to work through their worries and wobbles and stick together? This beautifully written, gorgeously illustrated new I'm Sticking With You story is the perfect book for showing how you're never truly lost when you have a great friend by your side.Praise for I'm Sticking With You: "Gloriously illustrated, with a captivating rhyme and rhythm, this celebration of friendship is as relevant to adults as children and has future classic stamped all over it" Daily Mail "Deftly humorous images and warmly rhyming text make for a lovely book to cuddle up with" The G

STEM – where we see it, how we use it, and why it matters.Discover how engineering is part of our daily lives with Everyday STEM Engineering – Civil Engineering.Engineering is all around us, from the roads on which we travel to the latest earthquake-proof buildings. It's even in space! Discover how civil and mechanical engineering helps us interact with society, see how engineering is helping to save the environment, and meet the inspirational engineers whose designs make our lives easier, including Roma Agrawal, Reyhan Jamalova, Sarah Guppy and David Aguilar. A "try this at home" section shows readers how to create a building made out of spaghetti, plus much more.With easy-to-understand text written by STEM expert Jenny Jacoby and lots of colourful artworks, photos and diagrams, readers can best explore where we encounter engineering and why it’s even important at all.The Everyday STEM series makes science relevant to tweens. Instead of telling kids STEM is important and is the key to

☆★☆★【完整說明Qt 6的主要功能！最詳盡的Qt開發全書！】★☆★☆本書分為六大部分：第1部分為Qt 6基礎。以Qt 6.0的全新類別模組和介面，重新實現了各種基礎實例的功能。第2部分為Qt 6綜合實例。以新的Qt 6.0實現了電子商城系統、簡單文字處理軟體和微信使用者端程式。第3部分為Qt擴充應用。介紹了Qt設定OpenCV和OpenCV處理圖片，在綜合實例方面，展示了醫院遠端診斷系統，運用MySQL建置資料庫，進而有效管理患者資訊。第4部分為QML和Qt Quick及其應用。內容包含了QML及Qt Quick的相關內容。第5部分為Qt Quick 3D開發基礎。這是Qt 6.0新推出的功能模組，它大幅提昇了Qt在3D圖形影像領域的地位。第6部分是關於Qt 6的跨平台開發技術。跨平台是Qt 6.0的優勢特性，本書將Qt在Visual Studio、Android、Python及Linux（Ubuntu）等多種主流平台上的設定和開發方法進行了詳盡的介紹。透過本書循序漸進的教學，讀者不僅可以了解到Qt6的各種功能，也能對於圖形使用者介面的掌握更加熟悉。本書看點✪Qt概述：範本庫、工具類別及控制項。✪QML程式設計基礎、QML動畫特效。✪Qt Quick 3D開發基礎、Qt Quick Controls開發基礎。✪Qt跨平台開發：Visual Studio、Android、Python及Linux(Ubuntu)。

Travel to Earth’s far north and discover the mysterious, cute, fierce, and unique creatures— from polar bears to puffins, narwhals to hares— that call the chilly Arctic region home.This Level 2 reader is packed with popular and lesser-known animal species that call the icy Arctic home, including hares, ptarmigans, arctic foxes, wolverines, narwhals, puffins, seals, and of course, polar bears. Whether they live on land, in the ocean, or along the coast, these creatures have clever ways to survive.National Geographic Readers’ combination of expert-vetted text, brilliant images, and a fun approach to reading have proved to be a winning formula with kids, parents, and educators. Level 2 text provides accessible yet wide-ranging information for kids ready to read on their own, perfect to encourage the scientists and explorers of tomorrow!Engaging photos showing Arctic creatures in their habitat take readers up close and personal to some of their favorite animals and make learning fun!Key fe

Jump into these spine-chilling stories from New York Times bestselling author Max Brallier, perfect for beginning readers!Pick a book. Grow a Reader!This series is part of Scholastic's early reader line, Acorn, aimed at children who are learning to read. With easy-to-read text, a short-story format, and full-color artwork on every spread, these books will boost reading confidence and fluency. Acorn books plant a love of reading and help readers grow!Who is at the end of the dark hall? What is a monster doing on the beach? This scary story collection from New York Times bestselling author Max Brallier is perfect for beginning readers who are looking to be spooked. With simple text, creepy full-color artwork on every page, genuine scares, and a spooky "invisible" message on the cover, these five hair-raising stories are sure to send shivers down your spine!

Amazing Machines: Snow Machines follows the animal team as they wrap up warm and explore things that go in the snow! Each page is filled with details that machine-mad kids will love.From bumper cars to spinning wheels, the internationally bestselling Amazing Machines series is the perfect way for children to learn about all sorts of machines and vehicles! Each book introduces a new vehicle or machine and the many jobs it can do. Ant Parkers bright, engaging artwork and Tony Mittons simple, rhyming text combine to make these fantastic books for young children. Kids will love getting to know the friendly, animal characters who feature throughout the series and reading about their fast-paced adventures! Continue to explore all things that go with the rest of the Amazing Machines series, including Cool Cars, Patrolling Police Cars and Roaring Rockets

Rocks and minerals come alive in the next Animated Science book, an outstanding comic series illustrated by Shiho Pate!From gemstones to fossils and beyond, Animated Science: Rocks and Minerals is the definitive guide to rocks and minerals for grade school readers. In this book, readers will explore the substances that make up our Earth through comic illustrations and hilarious characters.With a narrative nonfiction text, kid-friendly information, and Shiho Pate's engaging illustrations, Animated Science: Rocks and Minerals is a perfect introduction and ready reference, appealing and laugh-out-loud funny. Easily accessible for readers just learning, with more interesting facts and details for older kids honing their knowledge.Great for all ages!

King Viking unleashes his biggest evil plan yet in the latest installment of this USA Today bestselling series!Pick a book. Grow a Reader!This series is part of Scholastic's early chapter book line, Branches, aimed at newly independent readers. With easy-to-read text, high-interest content, fast-paced plots, and illustrations on every page, these books will boost reading confidence and stamina. Branches books help readers grow!King Viking has come up with a new way to cause trouble in Super World. He has a Multi-plan Plan! Instead of one evil plan, King Viking is doing a lot of evil plans all at once. Super Rabbit Boy runs across Super World from one robot attack to another and another. But Super Rabbit Boy is getting tired. Will Super Rabbit Boy be able to keep up with all the trouble? Or will he need Moon Girl's help to save the day?Thomas Flintham's full-color art on every page brings energy and fun to this action-packed series!

Drake and the other Dragon Masters must help save a nest of baby Invisible Dragons in the latest action-packed installment of this New York Times bestselling series!Pick a book. Grow a Reader!This series is part of Scholastic's early chapter book line, Branches, aimed at newly independent readers. With easy-to-read text, high-interest content, fast-paced plots, and illustrations on every page, these books will boost reading confidence and stamina. Branches books help readers grow!A nest of baby Invisible Dragons has been discovered in Aragon and the babies' parents are nowhere to be found! The baby dragons need to eat the fruit from the magical Dragon Tree to keep their invisible powers. But the tree grows on the dangerous Dove Island... Drake, Worm, and Carlos' cousin Val must travel there to find the baby dragons' parents and the fruit before the baby dragons lose their powers forever! Also, one of the baby dragons forms a close bond with Val. Could Val be a Dragon Masters?With engag

WINNER: 2022 CBCA Picture Book of the YearNOTABLE BOOK: 2022 CBCA Book of the Year, Eve Pownall AwardIn the final freeze of an Antarctic winter, green tails wave across a star-full sky, as if to farewell endless nights. If this world looks empty, look closer ... Penguins trek across the ice to their winter homes.As the temperature warms, birds fly above on their long migrations. And with the advent of summer, beneath an iceberg, the sea is teeming with life. Ocean, sky, snow and ice - minute greens and giant blues - dance a delicate dance in this evocative portrayal of the life cycle of an iceberg.'Richly informative and brimming with detailed facts presented in lyrical, sophisticated, evocative language ... Text and image balance each other perfectly in their delicate yet powerful tone. An expert merging of knowledge with grace.' Books+Publishing

破譯武林招式，看懂程式設計！‧郭靖的小紅馬在Scratch裡能任意變色？‧韋小寶加盟天地會誓詞是高階程式語言？‧黃蓉的計算能力比Python還強？‧用費波那契數列就能進入桃花島？以武俠小說的場景為媒介，讓武林絕招和程式設計理論緊密結合。只要你摸過電腦、玩過電動遊戲，熟悉鍵盤和滑鼠的操作，就能讀懂本書的程式邏輯。讀者朋友可以一邊學習編寫程式的基礎知識，一邊跟著範例練習編寫代碼，不但能真正感受到程式設計的樂趣，還能解決生活中很多意想不到的大小問題。本書從用PowerPoint製作基本動畫講起，再進入麻省理工學院開發的入門級動畫軟體Scratch，最後敲開程式設計的利器Python，循序漸進帶領讀者朋友理解程式世界的奧祕，並享受數位科技帶來的樂趣。「如果你擁有電腦，卻沒有安裝Python，那叫暴殄天物。」～李開周

Croc and Ally are two best friends who don't always see things the same way, but there's one thing they do agree on--their friendship comes first! In this story designed to engage early readers, charming characters combine with simple text, lively illustrations, and laugh-out-loud humor to help boost kids' confidence and create lifelong readers!Croc is grumpy. Ally is happy. Croc sees a problem. Ally finds a solution. In The Best in the World, Ally asks Croc to help him remove his spots. After that, Ally gets ready for anything that could possibly happen that day with several silly protective measures. Finally, Croc helps Ally figure out what he is the best at being.With three short stories, easy-to-read vocabulary, and adorable illustrations, this book is perfect for progressing readers. Exciting, easy-to-read books are the stepping stone a young reader needs to bridge the gap between being a beginner and being fluent.

A hysterical installment of the beloved Old Lady series!There was an old lady who swallowed a truck. I don't know why she swallowed a truck but it didn't get stuck. You won't believe why the Old Lady swallowed a truck, a tire, a chain, some wood, some metal, some tools, and some screws!Filled with hilarious illustrations and fun rhyming text, this volume is sure to be a hit with young readers!

School is in session for the ocean's crankiest crab!Pick a book. Grow a Reader!This series is part of Scholastic's early reader line, Acorn, aimed at children who are learning to read. With easy-to-read text, a short-story format, plenty of humor, and full-color artwork on every page, these books will boost reading confidence and fluency. Acorn books plant a love of reading and help readers grow!It's just another day in the ocean for Crabby and Plankton -- until they find themselves INSIDE a school of fish! This gives Plankton a fabulous idea -- he and Crabby should play school! But Crabby doesnotwant to play. In four hilarious stories, Crabby uses funny wordplay to distract Plankton from teaching, until finally he gives up and declares, "School is OUT, Crabby!"With comic speech bubbles and full-color artwork throughout, Geisel Award Honoree Jonathan Fenske's early reader series is sure to be a hit with new readers!

It's time for school in this Step 1 reader featuring the family from Pumpkin Day!, Apple Picking Day!, Garden Day, Snow Day, and Beach Day!The start of the new school year means new friends and new experiences! It's big sister's first day of 3rd grade, but it will be a cinch for her to show little brother the ropes on his first day of kindergarten. She already knows where all the rooms are, who the teachers are, and where to go and when at their school! It's great to have a sibling to rely on when starting something new!A day with family is always a great day! Read all the Day books:Apple Picking DayPumpkin DayGarden DayBeach DaySnow DayGrandparents DayStep 1 Readers feature big type and easy words. Rhymes and rhythmic text paired with picture clues help children decode the story. For children who know the alphabet and are eager to begin reading.

The Positive Power series introduces self esteem and empathy to budding young readers. I Am Strong is a fun and encouraging story about confidence! Now a part of the premier early reading line, Step into Reading! It's that time of the year again: field day! The sun is out, the hurdles are set up, and classes are canceled. The young boy in I Am Strong has a fun-filled day as he learns what it means to be strong. Despite his small size, he surprises his teammates--and himself!--when he demonstrates mental, emotional, and physical strength. Will his team be field day champions?Through simple text and joyful illustrations, this installment in the Positive Power series inspires kids to help others while giving them the confidence they need to transform from little to BIG readers. Step 2 Readers use basic vocabulary and short sentences to tell simple stories, for children who recognize familiar words and can sound out new words with help. Rhyme and rhythmic text paired with picture clues hel

■ 依據商業分析之型態與階段，全書共規劃十三章，分成敘述性分析 (descriptive analytics)、預測性分析 (predictive analytics)，以及指示性分析(prescriptive analytics) 三大篇來介紹。 ● 第1 章為緒論，目的在於提供讀者一個對商業分析的初步認識。 ● 第 2 至第 5 章為敘述性分析篇：包含敘述統計分析、機率、推論統計分析及敘述性資料探勘的相關方法與應用。這些技術將收集來的多源資料進行整理與分析，並探索資料的樣貌、關聯與背後的涵義。 ● 第 6 至第9 章為預測性分析篇︰包含迴歸分析、預測性資料探勘、時序資料預測的相關方法與應用。這些技術以現有資料建立預測模式，藉以推估以往未知的資訊，或回答未來發展的趨勢。第9 章介紹文本資料的處理與分析，文本資料經過結構化與數值化處理後即可視為一般資料，使用敘述性分析及預測性分析來進行後續應用。 ● 第 10 至第 13 章為指示性分析篇：包含線性規劃、整數規劃、非線性規劃及決策分析的相關方法與應用。這些技術皆是考量決策過程中必須納入之限制情況，再依決策者心中的決策目標(方向)，透過數學模式的建構，求算出最佳決策。■ 本書適用於商管科系大學部及 MBA一年級有意學習商業分析之同學，內容包含統計學、資料處理、資料視覺化、資料分析、最佳化等科學領域，強調利用資料學習知識，亦可作為學習資料科學的入門教材。■ 對於曾經學習過上述技術的同學而言，透過本書當能更清楚知道如何整合性地使用這些技術來擷取商業資料中的意涵與見解；未曾接觸過之同學，本書亦能妥善指引同學們依循商業分析架構，逐步建立商業分析基礎能力。