HBO’s hit series A GAME OF THRONES is based on George R R Martin’s internationally bestselling series A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE, the greatest fantasy epic of the modern age. A DANCE WITH DRAGONS: DREAMS AND DUST is the FIRST part of the fifth volume in the series. ‘Richly satisfying and utterly engrossing’ Sunday Times

Agatha Christie’s world-famous mystery thriller, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. Ten strangers, apparently with little in common, are lured to an island mansion off the coast of Devon by the mysterious U.N.Owen. Over dinner, a record begins to play, and the voice of an unseen host accuses each person of hiding a guilty secret. That evening, former reckless driver Tony Marston is found murdered by a deadly dose of cyanide. The tension escalates as the survivors realise the killer is not only among them but is preparing to strike again… and again…

A selection of mysteries, some light-hearted, some romantic, some very deadly… Twelve tantalizing cases… the curious disappearance of Lord Listerdale; a newlywed’s fear of her ex-fiance; a strange encounter on a train; a domestic murder investigation; a wild man’s sudden personality change; a retired inspector’s hunt for a murderess; a young woman’s impersonation of a duchess; a necklace hidden in a basket of cherries; a mystery writer’s arrest for murder; an astonishing marriage proposal; a soprano’s hatred for a baritone; the case of the rajah’s emerald. All of these short stories have one thing in common: the skilful hand of Agatha Christie.

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”！

Elite athletes aren't born. They're made.' Michael Johnson From a living icon of the Olympic Games – as both an athlete and now as a BBC broadcaster – Gold Rush is a compelling analysis of the fascinating combination of psychological and personal qualities, as well as internal and external factors, that go to create an Olympic champion. This exciting new book is based on Michael Johnson's own experiences as an iconic four-time Olympic champion, and on the knowledge he has gleaned as a top-class coach and motivational speaker. It also features, uniquely, more than a dozen exclusive and insightful interviews with Olympic legends from across several different sports who between them have claimed more than 50 gold medals over the past 30 years. In essence, Johnson has assembled his very own Olympic Hall of Fame in assessing the DNA of true champions. Gold Rush is themed around chapters in which Johnson will discuss each of the key qualities/factors. He expertly feeds in fascinating first-person testimonies from the Olympic legends. In the process he builds up a definitive knowledge bank of expertise and experience from athletes who have been on this fascinating journey, encountered the highs and the lows, but ultimately reached the summit - an Olympic gold medal. Johnson's interviewees include: Usain Bolt, Carl Lewis, Sally Gunnell, Seb Coe, Daley Thompson, Cathy Freeman, Ian Thorpe, Michael Phelps, Rebecca Adlington, Chris Hoy, Steve Redgrave, Matthew Pinsent, Lennox Lewis and Michael Jordan.

Exploit design, deployment, and management of large-scale containers About This Book ? Explore the latest features available in Kubernetes 1.10 ? Ensure that your clusters are always available, scalable, and up to date ? Master the skills of designing and deploying large clusters on various cloud platforms Who This Book Is For Mastering Kubernetes is for you if you are a system administrator or a developer who has an intermediate understanding of Kubernetes and wish to master its advanced features. Basic knowledge of networking would also be helpful. In all, this advanced-level book provides a smooth pathway to mastering Kubernetes. What You Will Learn ? Architect a robust Kubernetes cluster for long-time operation ? Discover the advantages of running Kubernetes on GCE, AWS, Azure, and bare metal ? Understand the identity model of Kubernetes, along with the options for cluster federation ? Monitor and troubleshoot Kubernetes clusters and run a highly available Kubernetes ? Create and configure custom Kubernetes resources and use third-party resources in your automation workflows ? Enjoy the art of running complex stateful applications in your container environment ? Deliver applications as standard packages In Detail Kubernetes is an open source system that is used to automate the deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. If you are running more containers or want automated management of your containers, you need Kubernetes at your disposal. To put things into perspective, Mastering Kubernetes walks you through the advanced management of Kubernetes clusters. To start with, you will learn the fundamentals of both Kubernetes architecture and Kubernetes design in detail. You will discover how to run complex stateful microservices on Kubernetes including advanced features such as horizontal pod autoscaling, rolling updates, resource quotas, and persistent storage backend. Using real-world use cases, you will explore the options for network configuration, and understand how to set up, operate, and troubleshoot various Kubernetes networking plugins. In addition to this, you will get to grips with custom resource development and utilization in automation and maintenance workflows. To scale up your knowledge of Kubernetes, you will encounter some additional concepts based on the Kubernetes 1.10 release, such as Promethus, Role-based access control, API aggregation, and more. By the end of this book, you’ll know everything you need to graduate from intermediate to advanced level of understanding Kubernetes. Style and approach Delving into the design of the Kubernetes platform, the reader will be exposed to Kubernetes advanced features and best practices. This advanced-level book will provide a pathway to mastering Kubernetes.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn the tradition of Paul Tough's How Children Succeed and Wendy Mogel's The Blessing of a Skinned Knee, this groundbreaking manifesto focuses on the critical school years when parents must learn to allow their children to experience the disappointment and frustration that occur from life's inevitable problems so that they can grow up to be successful, resilient, and self-reliant adults. Modern parenting is defined by an unprecedented level of overprotectiveness: parents who rush to school at the whim of a phone call to deliver forgotten assignments, who challenge teachers on report-card disappointments, mastermind children's friendships, and interfere on the playing field. As teacher and writer Jessica Lahey explains, even though these parents see themselves as being highly responsive to their children's well-being, they aren't giving them the chance to experience failure - or the opportunity to learn to solve their own problems. Overparenting has the potential to ruin a child's confidence and undermine their education, Lahey reminds us. Teachers don't just teach reading, writing, and arithmetic. They teach responsibility, organization, manners, restraint, and foresight - important life skills children carry with them long after they leave the classroom. Providing a path toward solutions, Lahey lays out a blueprint with targeted advice for handling homework, report cards, social dynamics, and sports. Most importantly, she sets forth a plan to help parents learn to step back and embrace their children's failures. Hard-hitting yet warm and wise, The Gift of Failure is essential for parents, educators, and psychologists nationwide who want to help children succeed.

本书独创日语“词源+联想记忆法”，从日语假名的“发音”和“形状”入手，追本溯源，将以往被认为没有意义的假名赋予含义，并充分利用了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，解析日语单词的内在规律，为读者提供了一种记忆日语词汇的全新思维和有效方法，帮助读者在短期内攻克词汇记忆大关。 　　独创日语“词源+联想记忆法” 从日语假名的“发音”和“形状”入手，解析日语单词的内在规律，帮助读者在短期内攻克词汇记忆大关。 　　充分运用心理学的左脑的逻辑思维和右脑的想象功能进行联想，为读者提供有效的记忆单词的方法。 　　逐一标注单词的假名及音调，辅以作者原声朗读的MP3光盘一张，引领读者彻底告别“哑巴日语”

《日语语法新思维（修订版）》一书通过把日语语法进行归类，对相似的语法进行分析，打破了以往对日语语法的理解方式。通过对日语的追本溯源，让使用汉字的中国学生能够对疑难的日语语法有更加透彻的理解。此次改版，作者在保留原书精华内容的基础上，增加了基础语法概念和变形规律的梳理，同时精心整理“语法关系图”，从宏观的角度更清楚地解释日语语法之间的关系。本书中每个语法项目都使用了*代表性的经典例句，并且配有精准的直译和意译两种翻译，以帮助读者达到深刻记忆和脱口而出的效果。

在紛擾雜亂、訊息爆炸的時代，眾說紛紜，事件瞬息萬變，要求現代人有更高的判斷力，方能保持腦筋清醒。而要增進個人的判斷力，可通過有效的理性思考訓練。本書以簡明及實用為宗旨，附以不少出自日常生活的真實例子，扼要地解釋理性思考的基本概念及原理。每章開首的熱身練習，加上章末的練習題及摘要，讓讀者輕鬆學會基本的理性思考技藝，既可作進一步追求真知實學的準備，又可有一技旁身，提防受人愚弄或誤導。

The Tuesday Night Club is a venue where locals challenge Miss Marple to solve recent crimes… One Tuesday evening a group gathers at Miss Marple’s house and the conversation turns to unsolved crimes… The case of the disappearing bloodstains; the thief who committed his crime twice over; the message on the death-bed of a poisoned man which read ‘heap of fish’; the strange case of the invisible will; a spiritualist who warned that ‘Blue Geranium’ meant death… Now pit your wits against the powers of deduction of the ‘Tuesday Night Club’.

The Stig gets his kit off and reveals how he came to be Top Gear's iconic racing driver and so much more - including what it's like to thrash an Aston Martin DBS, train for the Army and face the terror of Jeremy Clarkson's underwear… When the Black Stig disappeared off the end of an aircraft carrier in 2003, we were introduced to The White Stig. Faster. Stranger. Harder to keep clean. And ever since, millions have wondered – who is The Man in the White Suit? They're about to find out. Ben Collins caught the car the bug young, kicking his dad's boss in the balls for not giving him a company Jag. This was the attitude that eventually led him to spend seven years sharing a cabin with Jeremy Clarkson's underwear, James May's PhD thesis and Richard Hammond's hairspray. Because he is The Stig. Now he tells all about life inside the iconic white helmet. What it's like to guide a blind ex-RAF officer around the Top Gear track; pit a drug dealer's Mitsubishi Evo against a Trojan tank; set a Vauxhall Monara against Chloe the dancing Ninja; and race double-decker Routemasters against bendy buses. Not to mention all the inside stuff on how the show's amazing driving sequences are made. He also reveals how he got to be there – setting a Dunsfold lap time faster than Michael Schumacher's. Breaking records with the best of the best at Daytona and Le Mans. It's an awesome story, told by an amazing man.

香港在廣東文化中的地位特殊。城市本身是一個全球與本土、傳統與現代，各種元素融合交匯的中心，其衍生的文化亦交雜着中西、新舊、雅俗等各種特質。由這一文化孕育出的流行音樂、電影、漫畫、廣告、藝術、建築風格等一直以來吸引著整個亞洲的關注和世界的目光。在主權轉移回歸祖國、內地經濟開放、邊境通關以及自由行等因素影響下，香港在變，而與之唇齒相連的本土文化也在變。許多熟悉的傳統正逐漸消失或轉型；曾經席捲亞洲的粵語文化持續受到來自周邊地區強勢文化的衝擊，連與市民生活息息相關的粵語本身也處於演化和新生之中。本書輯錄流行文化、生活空間及傳統、認同與資源三個部分，共十三篇文章。作為廣東文化的研究者和觀察者，在反思與批評之餘，作者們更是分述了個人對日漸變遷的廣東文化及其再現的新方式之慨歎及讚歎，闡述為之神往之處，又或提出警告，表示憂慮。如果先不去堅持說如此是進步還是退步，或許可以發現更多。

Dubliners is a collection of 15 short stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914. They form a naturalistic depiction of Irish middle class life in and around Dublin in the early years of the 20th century.The stories were written when Irish nationalism was at its peak, and a search for a national identity and purpose was raging; at a crossroads of history and culture, Ireland was jolted by various converging ideas and influences. They centre on Joyce's idea of an epiphany: a moment where a character experiences self-understanding or illumination.

龍層花，著名脊椎病專家。1959年廣州市西醫學習中醫在職班（三年制）畢業、廣州醫學大專班畢業。歷任中國廣州流花橋醫院康復理療科醫師、主治醫師，1991年退休。現任中國廣州脊椎相關疾病研究所副所長、山東省威海市頸椎病研究所研究員、香港（中國）骨傷治脊學會永遠名譽會長。主編及參編著作有︰《龍層花頸椎病防治》、《龍層花腰骶椎病防治》、《龍層花都市病家庭推拿法》（VCD）、《脊椎病因治療學》、《簡明臨床理療手冊》、《實用脊柱病學》及The Study and Treatment of Spinal Diseases，並發表醫學論文38篇。

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