本书是高等院校日语专业基础阶段教材*册．供一年级上学期使用。本书的编写原则以听说为主，读写为辅。参照教学大纲的要求，编日语语音、文字、词汇、语法、句型、功能用语等方面的内容。题材以学校、家庭、社会为主，同时兼顾日本文化、风俗习惯等。全书共二十课，除语音阶段稍有不同外，每课由前文、会话、功能用语、解说、读解文六个部分构成。每课配有练习，既可作为课堂教学的补充，又可作为课外作业。书后附有单词索引。

多年来的教学实践证明，《新编日语》的编写内容、编写原则及体例是符合日语教学的规律与要求的，在培养学生基础阶段扎实的日语知识和灵活的运用能力方面起到了良好的作用，取得了可喜的成果。本次修订在保留原书编写特点的基础上，对部分内容作了适量的修改与补充。 本书的编写原则以听说为主，读写为辅。参照教学大纲的要求，编入日语语音、文字、词汇、语法、句型、功能用语等方面的内容。题材以学校、家庭、社会为主，同时兼顾日本文化、风俗习惯等。全书共四个单元十六课，每单元配有复习课。除语音阶段稍有不同外，每课由前文、会话、功能用语、解说、读解文六个部分构成。每课配有练习，既可作为课堂教学的补充，又可作为课外作业。书后附有单词索引。 为了适应时代发展的需求，在修订版的基础上，我们对全书的版式进行了重新设计，并配备了移动学习App，使这本多年来承蒙诸方专家学者肯定和广大师生厚爱的教材更具时代气息，焕发出新的光彩。

耿超、于长胜、张鹏编*的《西班牙语专业四八级词汇》以高等学校西班牙语专业教学大纲为依据，收录了8000余条常用西班牙语词汇，是西班牙语能力考试及全国高校西班牙语专业四、八级考试备考用书，也可供平时学习西班牙语使用。 为了方便读者*好地理解和记忆西班牙语基本词汇，编者力求做到三：一是基本词汇覆盖面广泛；二是基本词性、词义和用法完整；三是选取能清晰解析词条的典型例句。

这本《从零开始学日语，这本就够》满足了初学者的所有要求。不仅封面大方美观，内容更是丰富多彩。从基础的“五十音图”入门，到日常生活、青春校园、职场风云、诗歌、歌词等，几乎涵盖了所有你能想到的，以及你若是有机会去日本旅游生活或是工作能够用到的所有方面。

If you are interested in quantitative finance, financial modeling, and trading, or simply want to learn how Python and pandas can be applied to finance, then this book is ideal for you. Some knowledge of Python and pandas is assumed. Interest in financial concepts is helpful, but no prior knowledge is expected.

In the two and a half years since the first edition appeared (April 2005), events have unfolded as predicted. Then the consensus among forecasters was that the boom in house prices would cool to an annual 2 or 3% rise over the following years. In fact, in keeping with the ‘winner’s curse’ phase of the cycle described by the author, prices rose by more than 10% per annum in Britain. Harrison’s first book, The Power in the Land, predicted the early 1990s recession. Boom Bust, warned that investing in property is not always a safe bet, because the housing market is subject to a sharp downturn at the end of a remarkably regular 18-year cycle. The crash of 2007/8 occurred exactly as predicted. His forecast was based on a careful study of the evidence from property markets in many countries over the last 200 years. Gordon Brown’s claim, last made in his 2007 Budget speech, that ‘we will never return to the old boom and bust’ has been proved false. The reason for the instability, Harrison explains, is not the housing market itself but the land market on which all buildings stand. Land is in fixed supply ‘ as Mark Twain noted: ‘They’re not making any more of it’. Therefore, as the demand for land for new homes and offices rises with population growth and economic expansion, market forces, which normally increase supply to reduce prices, have the reverse effect: prices rise. This encourages speculation, with banks lending more against escalating asset values and reinforcing the upward spiral. Under existing government policies, the only way land prices can be brought back to affordable levels is a slump, undermining the banking system and causing widespread unemployment and repossessions. This is exactly what happened in America with the collapse of the sub-prime mortgage market. The run on Northern Rock showed the UK economy is not immune. The author reveals that the government’s monetary policy only has a marginal impact on land speculation, but as the Bank of England raises interest rates to curb house price inflation, the main victim is the first-time buyer and the productive economy, especially small businesses. The only way to neutralise the boom bust cycle in the housing market is through a reform of taxation, he claims. ‘This book is an important contribution to an overdue debate.’ Martin Ricketts, Chairman of the Academic Advisory Council of the Institute of Economic Affairs and Professor of Economic Organisation, University of Buckingham. Endorsing the thrust of Harrison’s argument, Prof. Ricketts goes on to acknowledge ‘that insufficient attention has been given by policymakers to the rent of land as socially the most efficient source of public revenue’, and that that will ‘have important practical consequences … for the stability of the economic system’. Economic stability is the objective of Gordon Brown and most governments around the world. Harrison explains how this may be achieved.

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Illustrations in this ebook appear in vibrant full color on a full color ebook device, and in rich black and white on all other devices. Narnia . . . where giants wreak havoc . . . where evil weaves a spell . . . where enchantment rules. Through dangers untold and caverns deep and dark, a noble band of friends is sent to rescue a prince held captive. But their mission to Underland brings them face-to-face with an evil more beautiful and more deadly than they ever expected. The Silver Chair is the sixth book in C.S. Lewis The Chronicles of Narnia, a series that has become part of the canon of classic literature, drawing readers of all ages into a magical land with unforgettable characters for over fifty years. This is a complete stand-alone read, but if you want to discover what happens in the final days of Narnia, read The Last Battle , the seventh and concluding book in The Chronicles of Narnia.

《日语词汇新思维：词源 联想记忆法》一书从日语假名的“发音”和“形状”入手，追本溯源，将假名赋予含义，帮助读者从假名来源角度掌握单词。充分利用以心理学理论为基础的左脑的逻辑思维和右脑的想象功能进行联想，提供了一种记忆日语词汇的全新思维和有效方法。总结汉语词与汉语发音的对应规律，按照鼻音、长音、重音、促音、汉语的R音将汉语词进行分类整理，便于读者对照学习，加深记忆。逐一标注单词的假名及音调，辅以作者原声朗读的中日双语MP3录音，帮助读者彻底告别“哑巴日语”。

Learn how to build physical computing systems using BeagleBone Black and Python About This Book Get to grips with the fundamentals of BeagleBone Leverage Python *s to program BeagleBone for your requirements Build four exciting projects, from home automation to a tele-controlled robot Who This Book Is For This book is intended for hobbyists and consumers who wish to create impressive projects using BeagleBone. You must be familiar with Python programming. What You Will Learn Program on BeagleBone Black using Python Interface sensors and actuators to BeagleBone Black Build your own real-time physical computing systems Connect physical computing systems to cloud servers Build your own home automation and home security system Build your own tele-controlled robot with real-time video streaming In Detail BeagleBone is a low cost, community-supported development platform to develop a variety of electronic projects. This book will introduce you to BeagleBone and get you building fun, cool, and innovative projects with it. Start with the specifications of BeagleBone Black and its operating systems, then get to grips with the GPIOs available in BeagleBone Black. Work through four types of exciting projects: building real-time physical computing systems, home automation, image processing for a security system, and building your own tele-controlled robot and learn the fundamentals of a variety of projects in a single book. By the end of this book, you will be able to write code for BeagleBone in order to operate hardware and impart decision-making capabilities with the help of efficient coding in Python. Style and approach This book is a step by step guide that will walk you through the fundamentals of building different projects using BeagleBone Black.

Over 140 practical recipes to help you make sense of your data with ease and build production-ready data apps About This Book Analyze Big Data sets, create attractive visualizations, and manipulate and process various data types Packed with rich recipes to help you learn and explore amazing algorithms for statistics and machine learning Authored by Ivan Idris, expert in python programming and proud author of eight highly reviewed books Who This Book Is For This book teaches Python data analysis at an intermediate level with the goal of transforming you from journeyman to master. Basic Python and data analysis skills and affinity are assumed. What You Will Learn Set up reproducible data analysis Clean and transform data Apply advanced statistical analysis Create attractive data visualizations Web scrape and work with databases, Hadoop, and Spark Analyze images and time series data Mine text and analyze social networks Use machine learning and evaluate the results Take advantage of parallelism and concurrency In Detail Data analysis is a rapidly evolving field and Python is a multi-paradigm programming language suitable for object-oriented application development and functional design patterns. As Python offers a range of tools and libraries for all purposes, it has slowly evolved as the primary language for data science, including topics on: data analysis, visualization, and machine learning. Python Data Analysis Cookbook focuses on reproducibility and creating production-ready systems. You will start with recipes that set the foundation for data analysis with libraries such as matplotlib, NumPy, and pandas. You will learn to create visualizations by choosing color maps and palettes then dive into statistical data analysis using distribution algorithms and correlations. You’ll then help you find your way around different data and numerical problems, get to grips with Spark and HDFS, and then set up migration *s for web mining. In this book, you will dive deeper into recipes on spectral analysis, smoothing, and bootstrapping methods. Moving on, you will learn to rank stocks and check market efficiency, then work with metrics and clusters. You will achieve parallelism to improve system performance by using multiple threads and speeding up your code. By the end of the book, you will be capable of handling various data analysis techniques in Python and devising solutions for problem scenarios. Style and Approach The book is written in “cookbook” style striving for high realism in data analysis. Through the recipe-based format, you can read each recipe separately as required and immediately apply the knowledge gained.

Commands to kill, to commit ethnic cleansing, to institutionalize segregation, to hate and fear other races and religions all are in the Bible, and all occur with a far greater frequency than in the Qur’an. But fanaticism is no more hard-wired in Christianity than it is in Islam. In Laying Down the Sword, one of America’s best scholars of religion” (The Economist) explores how religions grow past their bloody origins, and delivers a fearless examination of the most violent verses of the Bible and an urgent call to read them anew in pursuit of a richer, more genuine faith.Christians cannot engage with neighbors and critics of other traditions nor enjoy the deepest, most mature embodiment of their own faith until they confront the texts of terror in their heritage. Philip Jenkins identifies the holy amnesia” that, while allowing *ural religions to grow and adapt, has demanded a nearly wholesale suppression of the Bible’s most aggressive passages, leaving them dangerously dormant for extremists to revive in times of conflict. Jenkins lays bare the whole Bible, without compromise or apology, and equips us with tools for reading even the most unsettling texts, from the slaughter of the Canaanites to the alarming rhetoric of the book of Revelation.Laying Down the Sword presents a vital framework for understanding both the Bible and the Qur’an, gives Westerners a credible basis for interaction and dialogue with Islam, and delivers a powerful model for how a faith can grow from terror to mercy.

The inside story of the power struggle that rocked Wall Street's most prestigious financial institution What began with a shot over the bow ended in a shocking coup d'etat. In less than four months a group of eight retired executives orchestrated a stunning revolt within Morgan Stanley, the venerable and until recently most successful financial services firm on Wall Street. Now acclaimed journalist and historian Patricia Beard brings together the entire behind-the-scenes story in Blue Blood and Mutiny, a real-life business thriller exposing the tale that shook high finance. In March 2005 the business world woke up to an unprecedented full-page ad in the Wall Street Journal calling for the removal of Morgan Stanley's CEO. It was paid for by a cohort of eight former Morgan Stanley executives, including an ex-chairman and an ex-president, who soon would be dubbed the "Eight Grumpy Old Men." Their target was CEO Philip Purcell, a midwesterner who had come to power following Morgan Stanley's 1997 merger with Dean Witter Discover, where Purcell had been chief executive. In his eight years as CEO, Purcell had presided over a 50 percent decline in stock price since its peak in 2000 and a series of high-profile government and civil lawsuits that had tarnished the company's once-sterling reputation. Just a few months after the Journal ad, Purcell would retire under pressure, and former president John Mack, who had been pushed out by Purcell, was appointed CEO. The "Eight Grumpy Old Men" won the battle.The revolt of the Eight is about more than the stock price, or any bottom-line metrics: it signals a clash of cultures and a battle for the soul of American business. Since its founding, Morgan Stanley has been an elite enterprise guided by J. P. Morgan Jr.'s motto "A First Class Business in a First Class Way." The House of Morgan stood for something larger than success with honor; its ethos was unique some would say sacred and the eight retired executives believed this ideal had been undermined during Purcell's reign.Opening the long-closed doors of a bastion of Wall Street that has maintained the strictest privacy until now, Blue Blood and Mutiny weaves the history of Morgan Stanley with the inside story of the fight for dominance between two competing business cultures one, the collegial meritocracy handed down from the days of J. P. Morgan, and the other, a cold, contemporary corporate model. Here is the season's must-read book for anyone who wants to understand the future of American business.

As he did in the Edgar-nominated and Agatha, Anthony, and Macavity Awards winning Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks, Christie expert and archivist John Curran once again examines the unpublished notebooks of the world's bestselling author to explore the techniques she used to surprise and entertain generations of readers.Drawing on Christie's personal papers and letters, he reveals how more than twenty of her novels, as well as stage *s, short stories, and some more personal items, evolved. Here are wonderful gems, including Christie's essay on her famous detective, Hercule Poirot, written for a British national newspaper in the 1930s; a previously unseen version of a "Miss Marple" short story; and a courtroom chapter from her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, which was edited out of the published version in 1920; plus an insightful, well-reasoned analysis of her final unfinished novel, based on the author's notes and Curran's own deep knowledge of Christie and her work.A must-read for every Christie aficionado, Agatha Christie: Murder in the Making is a fascinating look into the mind and craft of one of the world's most prolific and beloved authors.

ILLUSTRATED BY CHRISTIAN BIRMINGHAM.A lyrical and moving tale of a young boy growing up in Africa, and his lifelong friendship with a white lion.

A man returns from the dead, and the body of a mysterious stranger is found in his room…

在《新文科建设宣言》和区域国别研究人才紧缺的背景下，国家对外语专业提出了新的要求：培养一批“会语言、通规则、精领域”的区域国别研究人才。这就要求外语专业的学生不仅要精通外语，还要熟悉对象国的政治、经济、历史、外交、文化、社会等方方面面的知识。本书正是在这种背景下编纂而成，作为韩国国情概况类教材，本书的编写目的就是服务于区域国别研究，特别是韩国学研究人才培养的需求。因此，本书涵盖的时间维度和空间维度都较为广泛，从韩国的自然环境、历史、社会、礼仪、教育、文学、民俗、语言发展等各个方面对韩国的历史和现状行了深的考查和分析。

　　《日本语能力考试备战系列：N1读解习题集》针对*的日本语能力考试，我社推出了这套“日本语能力考试备战系列”，分别从文字词汇、语法、读解和听解的角度帮助学习者提升语言技能和应试技巧。《日本语能力考试备战系列：N1读解习题集》是针对N1读解的习题集，帮助学习者掌握N1读解的题型及难度。祝愿各位在考试中取得满意的成绩！

　　本书共包括十七课，每课主要针对不同的语义范畴对相关的语法知识行概括和复习，可分为两个部分。部分首先按照细致的分类，对N2文法必须掌握的考知识行梳理，包括句型、中文释义及例句。考生如果能够跟着本书的步骤复习一遍，就能对N2文法部分的全部知识行一次整理和复习，从而起到温故知新、查漏补缺的作用。本部分以知识的整理为主，因此在复习的过程中可以查词典、找资料，也可以在课堂上老师的指导之下行；第二部分则是按照能力考试N2文法真题题型设计的大量练习，可供学习者了解和适应考试的题型，检验自己复习的效果，为参加考试做好准备工作。这部分练习好独立完成，以检验和找出自己的薄弱环节，从而更好地行有针对性的复习。习题都附有答案。     

《新编俄语语法》根据高等学校外语教学指导委员会2003年制定的《高等学校俄语专业教学大纲》编写，是俄语专业的语法教程。全书理论阐述言简意赅，实践应用部分讲授详尽，可使学习者对语法项目有形象、生动的认识和理解，易于掌握。所选例句与日常生活、文化国情密切相关，具有时代性。

《全球化背景下的外国语言文学研究丛书：日语语言学应用研究》是广东外语外贸大学2008年211工程重项目“全球化背景下的外国语言文学研究”子项目“日语语言学应用研究”的*终成果，共收录了21篇日语语言学研究论文，分为日语词汇语义学研究、日语语法学研究、日语语用学研究、汉日对比、语言学研究4个领域。