《普通高等教育"十一五"*规划教材·新世纪高等学校阿拉伯语专业本科生系列教材:阿拉伯语报刊导读(下册)》系新世纪高等学校阿拉伯语专业本科生系列教材，分上下两册，由上海外国语大学阿拉伯语系陈杰老师带领的青年教师团队编写完成。《普通高等教育"十一五"*规划教材·新世纪高等学校阿拉伯语专业本科生系列教材:阿拉伯语报刊导读(下册)》为下册，主要供阿语专业本科三年级学生及同等学力的社会读者使用。 　　《普通高等教育"十一五"*规划教材·新世纪高等学校阿拉伯语专业本科生系列教材:阿拉伯语报刊导读(下册)》主要由分类阅读和专题阅读两部分组成，上册主要为分类阅读部分，下册主要为专题阅读部分。分类阅读按照新闻涉及的社会面选择素材；专题阅读则从不同的角度阐释某一特定的新闻话题。两者相辅相成，互为补充。编者所选用的素材来自阿拉伯世界的各大知名报刊及网站，还从中国各大新闻网站的阿文版取材。每篇报刊阅读还配备题型多样的习题，多角度、多层次地测试学生阅读理解程度，并教授其充分利用阅读语料来提升语言表达能力。

本书亮在于： 聚焦德福写作的三大核心内容：篇引文、图表描述和正反论证。 按照“词―句―篇章”的脉络传授基本词汇、语法、重要句型、基本句型变换规则和技巧 从局部到整体，更细致地训练考生的写作基本功，帮助考生扩大词汇量，善于扩展句式，能做到写对、写好、写长句子。 帮助考生掌握各类句式衔手段及语篇连贯手段,从而写出上下文连贯、逻辑性较强、结构清晰的文章。 “剖析型”的基础和综合练习帮助考生熟悉词汇、语法和句式之间的重要联系 本书特别适用于写作“门外汉”，同时也适合具有一定写作功底的考生参考。

在产业革命的时代背景下，股份公司这一集资本筹措与生产为一体的经营系统发挥着巨大作用，为人类文明的发展与经济的增长做出了巨大贡献。但1929年的世界经济大危机、2008年的雷曼危机等都告诉人们，支撑我们这个世界的经济系统并非坚如磐石，它既有益于改善人们的生活，同时也会让人们陷无妄之灾。 本书所论述的股份公司是指以所有权与经营权分离，以股东拥有决定权为前提，公售股的公司或其早期形态的法人。全书共分为两大部分共十二个章节，极力再现了股份公司诞生的那个时代，发掘其产生的“动因”，探讨其所内含的“病理”。人们习惯性地在公司工作，极其自然地为公司“效忠”，但大概不知道为什么。作者对此行了分析。作者也着意探寻了，股份公司在未来是否仍能作为经济发展的原动力继续发挥作用，是否会出现某种新的要素促使股份公司发生质的改变。

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本書是胡適記錄其早年經歷和心路歷程的自傳，也是中國現代傳記文學的名篇。為推動傳記文體，胡適曾勸告林長民、梁啟超、梁士詒、蔡元培、陳獨秀、張元濟、高夢旦、熊希齡、葉景葵等先生寫自傳。不幸的很，他們雖然都答應了，終不肯下筆。胡適踐行己見的這部傳記，以“青春胡適”特有的明亮、睿智、幽默與文化氣質，將自己童年、少年與青春時代的人生經歷娓娓道來，從而成為後世胡適傳記的“模本”。

This book aims to answer the question How do I become a healerIt is a comprehensive explanation of spiritual healing, the aim being to inform, encourage and enlighten the reader. In easily understandable terms, the book describes the background of healing, how to tap into the universal energy and how to protect oneself. Spiritual healing is traditional in its origins and there continues to be an urgent need for it today. The complex and seemingly strange energies which spiritual healing involves are explained and terms such as energy , spirit and protection are demystified. Pat Smith, believes that anybody who wants to help others can become a healer and within this book she shows how.

If you are a developer who wants to migrate from Selenium RC or any other automation tool to Selenium WebDriver, then this book is for you. Knowledge of automation tools is necessary to follow the examples in this book.

Over 80 step-by-step recipes to get you up to speed with building your own wxPython applications About This Book This book empowers you to create rich cross-platform graphical user interfaces using Python It helps you develop applications that can be deployed on Windows, OSX, and Linux The recipes in the book involve real-world applications, giving you a first-hand experience of the practical scenarios Who This Book Is For For those who are familiar with programming in Python and want to start building applications with graphical user interfaces, this book will get you up and running quickly. A basic understanding of the Python programming language and object-oriented concepts are all that is needed. What You Will Learn Create full featured user interfaces Design and develop custom controls Deploy and distribute wxPython applications to Windows, Macintosh OS X, Linux, and other UNIX-like environments Handle and respond to application events Manage and display data using grids Interact with web services from your GUI Use Paint events to draw custom displays Support the display of user interfaces in multiple languages In Detail wxPython is a GUI toolkit for the Python programming language built on top of the cross-platform wxWidgets GUI libraries. wxPython provides a powerful set of tools that allow you to quickly and efficiently building applications that can run on a variety of different platforms. Since wxWidgets provides a wrapper around each platform’s native GUI toolkit, the applications built with wxPython will have a native look and feel wherever they are deployed. This book will provide you with the skills to build highly functional and native looking user interfaces for Python applications on multiple operating system environments. By working through the recipes, you will gain insights into and exposure to creating applications using wxPython. With a wide range of topics covered in the book, there are recipes to get the most basic of beginners started in GUI programming as well as tips to help experienced users get more out of their applications. The recipes will take you from the most basic application constructs all the way through to the deployment of complete applications. Style and approach This book is a collection of step-by-step recipes that introduce the various components and concepts of wxPython in a conversational and easy-to-follow way. Each recipe contains coded examples along with detailed explanations about the key points of each topic. Each topic is designed to introduce and show you how to use a single feature from the wxPython library.

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Beloved author C. S. Lewis is our trusted guide in this intimate day-by-day companion offering his distinctive and celebrated wisdom. Amidst the bustle of our daily experience, A Year with C. S. Lewis provides the necessary respite and inspiration to meet the many challenges we face in our lives. Ruminating on such themes as the nature of love, the existence of miracles, overcoming a devastating loss, and discovering a profound faith, Lewis offers unflinchingly honest insight for each day of the year. These daily meditations have been culled from Lewis's celebrated Signature Classics: Mere Christianity , The Screwtape Letters , The Great Divorce , The Problem of Pain , Miracles , and A Grief Observed , as well as from the distinguished works The Weight of Glory and The Abolition of Man. Throughout this elegant daybook the reader will find poignant biographical com-mentary about C. S. Lewis's life that offers a remarkable portrait of Lewis in the context of his work. As each day unfolds, we embark on a path of discovery with a friend by your side. A Year with C. S. Lewis is the perfect com-panion for everyone who cherishes Lewis's timeless words.

David Kherdian re-creates his mother's voice in telling the true story of a childhood interrupted by one of the most devastating holocausts of our century. Vernon Dumehjian Kherdian was born into a loving and prosperous family. Then, in the year 1915, the Turkish government began the systematic destruction of its Armenian population.

This New York Times bestselling novel and National Book Award nominee from acclaimed author Walter Dean Myers tells the story of Steve Harmon, a teenage boy in juvenile detention and on trial. Presented as a screenplay of Steve's own imagination, and peppered with journal entries, the book shows how one single decision can change our whole lives. Fade In: Interior: Early Morning In Cell Block D, Manhattan Detention Center. Steve (Voice-Over) Sometimes I feel like I have walked into the middle of a movie. Maybe I can make my own movie. The film will be the story of my life. No, not my life, but of this experience. I'll call it what the lady prosecutor called me ... Monster. Supports the Common Core State Standards

Something weird is going on! Mr. Docker must be a mad scientist. He does nutty experiments and has an evil, demented, cackling laugh. Plus he invented a car that runs on potatoes! Mr. Docker is the weirdest science teacher ever! Is he trying to take over the world?

Never before has school been this mixed up or this much fun! Principal Klutz was hanging upside down from the school flagpole! He kissed a pig on the lips and painted his bald head orange! And now he wants to bungee jump off the roof of the school dressed as Santa Claus!

Something weird is going on! Music class is awesome! The teacher, Mr. Hynde, raps, break-dances, and plays bongo drums on the principal's bald head. But he goes too far when he tries to make A.J. kiss Andrea in the school play. Yuck! Will A.J. survive?

What does an admissions officer look for in a college application essayYou. It's that simple. There's no formula, no trick, no strategy, says Harry Bauld, a former Ivy League admissions officer. But with acceptance rates at all-time lows, just being yourself in an essay means understanding your readers and the unique form in which you are writing. In this fully revised and updated edition of the classic guide to writing the best essay of your life, Bauld reveals the big clich s (The Trip, The Jock, Miss America, Pet Death) and helps you discover ways to come alive on the page as a real person instead of applicant number 13,791.

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《极璐考研日语核心3500词》运用计算机程序对历年考研日语真题中的词汇进行了词频分析，精选出3500个高频词汇，并按照出现频率将其分为“高频词汇2000详解”和“重点词汇1500”两部分，均按50音顺序排序。其中“高频词汇2000详解”部分包括词汇释义、例句、真题例句以及近义词、反义词、惯用语等的拓展，“重点词汇1500”部分包括词汇释义和例句。

Getting started with data science doesn't have to be an uphill battle. This step-by-step guide is ideal for beginners who know a little Python and are looking for a quick, fast-paced introduction. About This Book ? Get up and running with the Jupyter ecosystem and some example datasets ? Learn about key machine learning concepts like SVM, KNN classifiers and Random Forests ? Discover how you can use web scraping to gather and parse your own bespoke datasets Who This Book Is For This book is ideal for professionals with a variety of job descriptions across large range of industries, given the rising popularity and accessibility of data science. You'll need some prior experience with Python, with any prior work with libraries like Pandas, Matplotlib and Pandas providing you a useful head start. What You Will Learn ? Identify potential areas of investigation and perform exploratory data analysis ? Plan a machine learning classification strategy and train classification models ? Use validation curves and dimensionality reduction to tune and enhance your models ? Scrape tabular data from web pages and transform it into Pandas DataFrames ? Create interactive, web-friendly visualizations to clearly communicate your findings In Detail Get to grips with the skills you need for entry-level data science in this hands-on Python and Jupyter course. You'll learn about some of the most commonly used libraries that are part of the Anaconda distribution, and then explore machine learning models with real datasets to give you the skills and exposure you need for the real world. We'll finish up by showing you how easy it can be to scrape and gather your own data from the open web, so that you can apply your new skills in an actionable context. Style and approach This book covers every aspect of the standard data-workflow process within a day, along with theory, practical hands-on coding, and relatable illustrations.

Create interactive cross-platform games with the Godot Engine 3.0 About This Book ? Learn the art of developing cross-platform games ? Leverage Godot’s node and scene system to design robust, reusable game objects ? Integrate Blender easily and efficiently with Godot to create powerful 3D games Who This Book Is For Godot Engine Game Development Projects is for both new users and experienced developers, who want to learn to make games using a modern game engine. Some prior programming experience is recommended. What You Will Learn ? Get started with the Godot game engine and editor ? Organize a game project ? Import graphical and audio assets ? Use Godot’s node and scene system to design robust, reusable game objects ? Write code in GDScript to capture input and build complex behaviors ? Implement user interfaces to display information ? Create visual effects to spice up your game ? Learn techniques that you can apply to your own game projects In Detail Godot Engine Game Development Projects is an introduction to the Godot game engine and its new 3.0 version. Godot 3.0 brings a large number of new features and capabilities that make it a strong alternative to expensive commercial game engines. For beginners, Godot offers a friendly way to learn game development techniques, while for experienced developers it is a powerful, customizable tool that can bring your visions to life. This book consists of five projects that will help developers achieve a sound understanding of the engine when it comes to building games. Game development is complex and involves a wide spectrum of knowledge and skills. This book can help you build on your foundation level skills by showing you how to create a number of small-scale game projects. Along the way, you will learn how Godot works and discover important game development techniques that you can apply to your projects. Using a straightforward, step-by-step approach and practical examples, the book will take you from the absolute basics through to sophisticated game physics, animations, and other techniques. Upon completing the final project, you will have a strong foundation for future success with Godot 3.0. Style and approach The book is divided into five parts; each covering a different small-game project using a straightforward, step-by-step approach and practical examples. The book will take readers from the absolute basics through sophisticated game physics, animation, and other techniques.