本书作为我社“*经典英语文库”第14辑中的一种，精选法国著名作家维克多·雨果的经典作品《悲惨世界 （五卷之第五卷）》（前四卷已出）。作品讲述了主人公土伦苦刑犯冉·阿让（Jean Valjean）的个人经历，并融了法国的历史、革命、战争、道德哲学、法律、正义、宗教信仰。《悲惨世界》以冉·阿让出狱后的种种经历贯穿全书，深刻反映了时代的问题。雨果在作品中融了从拿破仑在滑铁卢的失败到反对“七月王朝”的人民起义这一阶段的历史，反映了当时的社会生活和政治状况。作品不仅描述了获释犯人冉·阿让和流浪妇女芳汀的不幸生活以及芳汀的私生女柯赛特的悲惨遭遇，而且揭示了当时社会中勤劳善良的劳动人民却受歧视和压迫的不公平命运。雨果还在作品中揭露了当时残酷不公的法典和秩序，猛烈抨了那种人们饿死可以而偷面包却要坐牢的社会制度，谴责了那些安于现状和铁石心肠的市民在面对处于困境中的他人时的那种袖手旁观的冷漠态度。

《一块牛排》（A Piece of Steak）是杰克·伦敦1909年发表的短篇小说，以现实主义笔触描绘了拳击手汤姆·金因饥饿和贫困被迫参加比赛的悲剧。?牛排?在故事中既是生存所需的食物，也隐喻主人公逐渐消逝的体力与尊严。

本书作为我社“经典英语文库”第15辑中的一种，精选由英国著名作家弗吉尼亚·伍尔芙的经典作品《雅各的房间》。作品讲述了一位年轻人短暂的一生。海边的童年、剑桥求学、独立成长、与不同女性的情感、到法国及希腊游学、及后丧生于次世界大战中。此书通常被认为是伍尔夫在文学创新方面次较大规模的探索和实验，是她创作过程中的一个转折，是她尝试用意识流手法创作的一个端。这本小说时间背景设置在英格兰，始于雅各的童年。

《The Second Shot》为英国推理作家安东尼·伯克莱代表作。 在《第二枪》中，罗杰·谢灵汉要调查他职业生涯中*不寻常的案件——广受欢迎的男子埃里克神秘死亡。 在这本讲述谋杀案而非侦破谋杀案的故事中，农场发生的致命枪击事件原来并非如人们*初所猜测的那样，是意外事故。 警方的调查揭开埃里克的新丑闻——他与当地的一位 “荡妇 ”私情。 *后，凶手承认自己的身份和动机……

《熊》是美国作家、诺贝尔文学奖得主威廉·福克纳1941年创作的中篇小说，收录于长篇《去吧，摩西》并构成其核心章节。 本书讲述三次狩猎故事，以象征手法，隐喻工业文明对自然的侵蚀。

虚荣的凯蒂为逃避压力嫁给细菌学家沃尔特，婚后出轨遭报复，被丈夫带至霍乱疫区。在异乡的生死考验中，她褪去浮华，看清人性真相，*终实现自我觉醒与救赎。

Over 100 effective recipes to help you design, implement, and manage the software-defined and massively scalable Ceph storage systemAbout This BookImplement a Ceph cluster successfully and gain deep insights into its best practicesHarness the abilities of experienced storage administrators and architects, and run your own software-defined storage systemThis comprehensive, step-by-step guide will show you how to build and manage Ceph storage in production environmentWho This Book Is ForThis book is aimed at storage and cloud system engineers, system administrators, and technical architects who are interested in building software-defined storage solutions to power their cloud and virtual infrastructure. If you have basic knowledge of GNU/Linux and storage systems, with no experience of software defined storage solutions and Ceph, but eager to learn this book is for you.What You Will LearnUnderstand, install, configure, and manage the Ceph storage systemGet to grips with performance tuning and benchmarking, and gain practical tips to run Ceph in productionIntegrate Ceph with OpenStack Cinder, Glance, and nova componentsDeep dive into Ceph object storage, including s3, swift, and keystone integrationBuild a Dropbox-like file sync and share service and Ceph federated gateway setupGain hands-on experience with Calamari and VSM for cluster monitoringFamiliarize yourself with Ceph operations such as maintenance, monitoring, and troubleshootingUnderstand advanced topics including erasure coding, CRUSH map, cache pool, and system maintenanceIn DetailCeph is a unified, distributed storage system designed for excellent performance, reliability, and scalability. This cutting-edge technology has been transforming the storage industry, and is evolving rapidly as a leader in software-defined storage space, extending full support to cloud platforms such as Openstack and Cloudstack, including virtualization platforms. It is the most popular storage backend for Openstack, public, and private clouds, so is the first choice for a storage solution. Ceph is backed by RedHat and is developed by a thriving open source community of individual developers as well as several companies across the globe.This book takes you from a basic knowledge of Ceph to an expert understanding of the most advanced features, walking you through building up a production-grade Ceph storage cluster and helping you develop all the skills you need to plan, deploy, and effectively manage your Ceph cluster. Beginning with the basics, you’ll create a Ceph cluster, followed by block, object, and file storage provisioning. Next, you’ll get a step-by-step tutorial on integrating it with OpenStack and building a Dropbox-like object storage solution. We’ll also take a look at federated architecture and CephFS, and you’ll dive into Calamari and VSM for monitoring the Ceph environment. You’ll develop expert knowledge on troubleshooting and benchmarking your Ceph storage cluster. Finally, you’ll get to grips with the best practices to operate Ceph in a production environment.Style and approach This step-by-step guide is filled with practical tutorials, making complex scenarios easy to understand.

《日语能力考试10000词高效速记》为日语能力考试备考词汇用书。本书精心选取日语能力考试N5-N1考试中常考的10000余个单词，分级别编排，并按词性分类，非常适合不同级别考生备考使用。 书中作者创造性地提出 “词源 联想记忆法”，通过科学解析单词构成规律，帮助考生提高单词记忆效率，力求在短期内攻克词汇记忆大关。

　　本书为读者提供了30 个日常生活常见的情境主题，涵盖日常生活、工作休闲、情感交流各个方面，内容全面。实用的经典句型，再加上60 个轻松的情景对话，让你轻松掌握，一学就会，看了马上就能说！不管你是想要学好口语到国外留学，还是想要到国外生活、旅行，本书都能让你现学现卖，快速变身日常生活英语王！

Using the unique methods revealed in this book, readers can cast and interpret the I Ching instantly, without countless hours of study and practice. This book deciphers the meanings of I Ching's trigams and hexagrams in easy-to-understand language, offering explanations that are relevant to contemporary society.

In this long-anticipated, groundbreaking guide to building a portfolio, acclaimed stock pickers and Internet pioneers David and Tom Gardner lay bare the simple philosophy that they have used to help millions of grateful individual investors outfox the professionals on Wall Street. The research, the stories, and the results that underpin this book stem from the revolutionary and wildly successful "Motley Fool Million Dollar Portfolio"" a one-of-a-kind Web experiment in which individual investors follow along as Motley Fool co-founder Tom Gardner invests and manages $1 million of The Motley Fool's own money. In page after page of sound, sensible investment advice, readers are offered a rare glimpse into the inner workings of The Motley Fool machine and offered a first-class education in building, growing, and defending an individual portfolio, one investment strategy at a time. From learning to think like an investor to finding a first stock, from dividend investing to blue-chip bargains to small-cap treasures, from international investing to community-based online tools that are revolutionizing stock selection and asset allocation, this book takes the reader through the essential strategies for building any portfolio no matter how small its start or how big its ambitions.

A captivating novel of love and intrigue. Everyone expected Isabella Charteris, beautiful, sheltered and aristocratic, to marry her cousin Rupert when he came back from the War. It would have been such a suitable marriage. How strange then that John Gabriel, an ambitious and ruthless war hero, should appear in her life. For Isabella, the price of love would mean abandoning her dreams of home and happiness forever. For Gabriel, it would destroy his chance of a career and all his ambitions… Famous for her ingenious crime books and plays, Agatha Christie also wrote about crimes of the heart, six bittersweet and very personal novels, as compelling and memorable as the best of her work.

When Milo finds an enormous package in his bedroom, he’s delighted to have something to relieve his boredom with school. And when he opens it to find – as the label states – One Genuine Turnpike Tollbooth, he gets right into his pedal car and sets off through the Tollbooth and away on a magical journey!

本书是一本超便携的韩语词汇书，外形小巧便于携带，让读者可以利用琐碎时间来记忆韩语单词。该书按照单词词性、使用场景这两个标准对词汇进行分类，方便读者查找。本书词汇是根据韩语基础词汇和初级口语中要掌握的词汇进行汇编，同时也对韩国语能力考试（TOPIK）初级中出现频率多的词汇进行统计。

本书由两大部分组成，共分为14 个章节。 第二部分是旅游语言补充包，共由6个单元组成，包罗了旅游时在各种情境下可能会用到的实用句，针对出发、交通、住宿、饮食、购物等情景，均标有罗马音，让您在畅游韩国的同时能轻松学习韩语。

　　怎样才能使日语学习变得简单而又轻松呢？《日语达人秀》系列图书的出版恰逢其时，它能让你梦想成真！快和“杯具”日语说拜拜吧，去书中看看，魔法日语书让你快速变身“日语达人”！

The lives of four very different women have been shaped—and battered—by one charming man. . . .Ireland's debonair politician Paddy de Courcy—the "John F. Kennedy Jr. of Dublin"—has captured tabloid headlines and the imagination of his country with his charm and charisma. But the crushed hearts he's left behind him reveal more about his character than his winning, votegetting smile. Lola, Grace, Marnie, and Alicia have all suffered from his selfishness and cruelty. But with Paddy's political star ascending, the time is finally ripe for redemption . . . and perhaps a bit of revenge.

本書是關於一件幾乎為人遺忘的事件的研究，此事件發生在1899年，當時有些新界居民試圖以武力阻止香港政府接收，在因而引發的戰鬥中有大量村民戰死。後來，鄉村和香港政府都嘗試把整件事件忘卻，以便重新開始，但是，這段令人痛心的往事還是應當為後世所知。那些亡逝者應當受世人憶記。當時的港督卜力（Henry Blake）爵士採取人道和明智的政策，在戰事結束後成為港府治理新界的標準方式，這些以官民友好合作為基礎的政策，也不應湮沒。因此，我非常感激中華書局決定出版此書中譯本，因為這樣可以令這段故事有更多讀者知悉。我希望這些讀者包括許多年輕人。愈來愈多人有興趣認識香港歷史，教授香港史的學校也愈來愈多；此事件是新界歷史中的重要一頁，希望它能令更多人對香港歷史產生興趣。

This is a practical, hands-on book, with a lot of code and images. It presents the real code that generates every image and describes almost every single line of it, so that you know exactly what's going on. Introductory, de*ive, and theoretical parts are mixed with examples, so that reading and understanding them is easy. All of the examples build gradually with code snippets, their explanations, and plot images where necessary with the complete code and output presented at the end. This book is essentially for Python developers who have a good knowledge of Python; no knowledge of Matplotlib is required. You will be creating 2D plots using Matplotlib in no time at all.

If you are a Python beginner who is looking to learn the language through interesting projects, this book is for you. A basic knowledge of programming and statistics is beneficial to get the most out of the book.

Bestselling author Marian Keyes has delighted readers with the lives, loves, and foibles of the irrepressible Walsh sisters and their eccentric mammy. In this Life in the Big Apple is perfect for Anna. She has the best job in the world, a lovely apartment, and great friends. Then one morning, she wakes up in her mammy's house in Dublin with stitches in her face, a dislocated knee, hands smashed up, and no memory at all of what happened. As soon as she's able, Anna's flying back to Manhattan, mystified but determined to find out how her life turned upside down. As her past slowly begins coming back to her, she sets out on an outrageous quest—involving lilies, psychics, mediums, and anyone who can point her in the right direction. Marrying life's darker bits with wild humor and tender wit, Anybody Out Thereis a strange and wonderfully charming look at love here and ever after.