本书作为我社“经典英语文库”第15辑中的一种，精选英国哲学家大卫·休谟创作的哲学著作《人性论》，以三卷本出版，前两卷（《论知性》与《论情感》）于1739年出版，第三卷（《论道德》）于1740年出版。《人性论》从社会角度而非自然科学角度探讨了基于公共意见与信念而形成的人的社会本性。全书分三卷，分别为“论知性”、 “论情感”、“论道德”。卷阐述认识论，主要说明了知识的起源、分类和范围，人的认识能力和界限，以及推理的性质和作用等内容。第二卷以感觉性观说明伦理学和美学问题，认为快乐的感觉是善和美的共同基础。第三卷是在前两卷基础上对道德问题的全面阐述。

本书总结了日本近现代文学的大体情况，用日语书写而成，并分章节分别选择了日本明治、大正、昭和时代十二位著名作家如森鸥外、太宰治、夏目漱石等人的名作经典，行解说、注释，提出思考题，并设有毕业论文撰写参考等板块。供日语专业高年级学生选用。

　　这本书的主要目的是给零基础的朋友们普及法语语音。法语的发音相对来说还是非常有规律的。每个字母或是字母组合，都对应着一个特定的发音，（也就是我们要学习的音素）。只要记住了这些字母和字母组合的发音规则，那么我们便可以自己拼读所有的法语单词。想要接触一门新的语言，直观的身体感受就是用耳听，用口读。这也是为什么我认为语音很重要的原因：自己能读会说，并且读得好听、说得漂亮，自然会收获自信和愉悦，也就有了更加深入学习的动力——好的开始是成功的一半。对于希望和将要在法国学习、工作、生活的朋友来说，法语不仅仅是你们与人交流的工具，也是帮助你们了解法国文化，融入法国社会的必要条件，更是你们在异国生活的某些情况下，保护自己，捍卫自己权利的有利武器。

　　这本包含几千词汇的单词书，不仅按照日语五十音图顺序排列，且每个单词都会附上相应音调和例句，保证你学一个会一个记住一个。

针对初学者的需要，列举了韩语中常用的基础语法词汇，同时详述了用法、适用场合，并举出了会话实例、常用句子，让读者学以所用。还配有简易拼音发音表，可以帮助初学者更快地掌握韩语发音。地道的MP3文件更能让读者接触到原味的韩国语，使读者养成良好的发音习惯。 赠送听力MP3：http://e.dangdang.com/html/mp3/bb.136825452476707363.rar>>

This is a book for Business Analysts (BAs) who need to develop a process model for implementation in a business process management system. Developers looking at the JBoss jBPM toolset will also find it a useful introduction to the key concepts. This book is a full toolkit for someone who wants to implement BPM in the right way. This toolkit is particularly aimed at Business Analysts, although Project Managers, IT managers, developers, and even business people can expect to find useful tools and techniques in here. We will present the project framework, analysis techniques and templates, BPM technology and example deliverables that you need to successfully bring a BPM solution into your organization.

Filled with practical, step-by-step instructions and clear explanations for the most important and useful tasks. This is a Packt Instant guide, which provides concise and clear recipes to create PLC programs using RSLogix 5000.The purpose of this book is to capture the core elements of PLC programming with RSLogix 5000 so that electricians, instrumentation techs, automation professionals, and students who are familiar with basic PLC programming techniques can come up to speed with a minimal investment of time and energy.

随着中俄两国文化交流的日益加深，更多的人想去了解俄罗斯，想要学习俄语的人也日益增多。大家都知道，学习外语是一个漫长而艰难的过程，只有在不断的练习之后才会有所提高。对于那些亟需外语交流的人来说语言障碍更是一道无法逾越的鸿沟。

A radical new response to a widely misunderstood conditionWe are witnessing a global epidemic of attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder. Millions are suffering from attention issues, while millions more are reliant on stimulant medication to perform at school and at work. Despite decades of advancements in neuroscience, the definition of ADHD has remained essentially unchanged since its introduction in 1980, and its prevalence in the population has skyrocketed.In this controversial and landmark work, Dr. Richard Saul draws from five decades as a practicing physician and researcher in the field to contend that the definition of ADHD as we know it is completely wrong. Instead, he argues that the "disorder" is a cluster of symptoms stemming from more than twenty other conditions, each requiring separate treatment. The detailed list ranges from mild problems like poor eyesight, sleep deprivation, and even boredom in the classroom, to more severe conditions like depression and bipolar disorder.Through the lens of history and into the present day, Dr. Saul examines "ADHD," exploring the rising cultural and medical trends that have birthed the stimulant epidemic. Both comprehensive and illuminative, ADHD Does Not Exist is essential reading for doctors, practitioners, educators, and individuals who are seeking an honest approach to understanding and treating this complex condition.

Leverage benefits of machine learning techniques using Python About This Book Improve and optimise machine learning systems using effective strategies. Develop a strategy to deal with a large amount of data. Use of Python code for implementing a range of machine learning algorithms and techniques. Who This Book Is For This title is for data scientist and researchers who are already into the field of data science and want to see machine learning in action and explore its real-world application. Prior knowledge of Python programming and mathematics is must with basic knowledge of machine learning concepts. What You Will Learn Learn to write clean and elegant Python code that will optimize the strength of your algorithms Uncover hidden patterns and structures in data with clustering Improve accuracy and consistency of results using powerful feature engineering techniques Gain practical and theoretical understanding of cutting-edge deep learning algorithms Solve unique tasks by building models Get grips on the machine learning design process In Detail Machine learning and predictive analytics are becoming one of the key strategies for unlocking growth in a challenging contemporary marketplace. It is one of the fastest growing trends in modern computing, and everyone wants to get into the field of machine learning. In order to obtain sufficient recognition in this field, one must be able to understand and design a machine learning system that serves the needs of a project. The idea is to prepare a learning path that will help you to tackle the real-world complexities of modern machine learning with innovative and cutting-edge techniques. Also, it will give you a solid foundation in the machine learning design process, and enable you to build customized machine learning models to solve unique problems. The course begins with getting your Python fundamentals nailed down. It focuses on answering the right questions that cove a wide range of powerful Python libraries, including scikit-learn Theano and Keras.After getting familiar with Python core concepts, it’s time to dive into the field of data science. You will further gain a solid foundation on the machine learning design and also learn to customize models for solving problems. At a later stage, you will get a grip on more advanced techniques and acquire a broad set of powerful skills in the area of feature selection and feature engineering. Style and approach This course includes all the resources that will help you jump into the data science field with Python. The aim is to walk through the elements of Python covering powerful machine learning libraries. This course will explain important machine learning models in a step-by-step manner. Each topic is well explained with real-world applications with detailed guidance.Through this comprehensive guide, you will be able to explore machine learning techniques.

学习外语，“把好门关”十分重要。“听说读写”中将“听”放在首位，可见听力在外语学习中的重要性。《韩语听力从门到达人：TOPIK考试初级、中高级听力素材精选精练》选取多场景多层次的内容，采用由浅深的讲解方式，分为发音门、辨别发音相似的音节词汇短语、日常会话、心灵美文、名家名作选、可爱童谣、热门韩剧、人气歌谣、名人演讲等章节，涵盖与韩语听力相关的几乎全部内容。本书对话分为简单会话和复杂会话，且录音速度有常速和慢速两本版本。而且考虑到初学者的学习要求，本书还设置了大量的讲解和练习环节。本书完美附赠双速音频、新TOPIK听力词汇迷你小册。

本书是日本推理小说鼻祖江户川乱步脍炙人口的短篇小说选集。本书精选江户川乱步脍炙人口的4篇经典短篇小说，谜一般的推理、跌宕起伏的情节，带你领略光怪陆离的推理世界。推理小说研究者钱晓波献译导读。书中日文部分全文标注假名，中日对照排版，方便读者学习与朗读。超值精装有声典藏版，附赠日文全文朗读及中文广播剧。日文版由日籍专家倾情朗读，中文版由《琅琊榜》“誉王”配音献声朗读。并赠送精美书签。

A teenage murder witness is drowned in a tub of apples… At a Hallowe’en party, Joyce – a hostile thirteen-year-old – boasts that she once witnessed a murder. When no-one believes her, she storms off home. But within hours her body is found, still in the house, drowned in an apple-bobbing tub. That night, Hercule Poirot is called in to find the ‘evil presence’. But first he must establish whether he is looking for a murderer or a double-murderer…

Leverage the power of Python and its de facto GUI framework to build highly interactive interfaces About This Book ? The fundamentals of Python and GUI programming with Tkinter. ? Create multiple cross-platform projects by integrating a host of third-party libraries and tools. ? Build beautiful and highly-interactive user interfaces that target multiple devices. Who This Book Is For This book is for beginners to GUI programming who haven’t used Tkinter yet and are eager to start building great-looking and user-friendly GUIs. Prior knowledge of Python programming is expected. What You Will Learn ? Create a scrollable frame via theCanvas widget ? Use the pack geometry manager andFrame widget to control layout ? Learn to choose a data structurefor a game ? Group Tkinter widgets, such asbuttons, canvases, and labels ? Create a highly customizablePython editor ? Design and lay out a chat window In Detail Tkinter is a modular, cross-platform application development toolkit for Python. When developing GUI-rich applications, the most important choices are which programming language(s) and which GUI framework to use. Python and Tkinter prove to be a great combination. This book will get you familiar with Tkinter by having you create fun and interactive projects. These projects have varying degrees of complexity. We'll start with a simple project, where you'll learn the fundamentals of GUI programming and the basics of working with a Tkinter application. After getting the basics right, we'll move on to creating a project of slightly increased complexity, such as a highly customizable Python editor. In the next project, we'll crank up the complexity level to create an instant messaging app. Toward the end, we'll discuss various ways of packaging our applications so that they can be shared and installed on other machines without the user having to learn how to install and run Python programs. Style and approach Step by Step guide with real world examples

本書是作者的第二本短篇小說集，書中收錄了她2000年以來所發表的十四篇小說。這十四篇小說，題材多樣，技巧多變。有描述女性的細緻心理變化，如〈陸沈〉、〈迷情〉﹔有刻劃男女之間的無奈，如〈相遇〉、〈洗衣店〉﹔有寫姐妹間的怨懟和深情，如〈生日快樂〉、〈雙妹嘜〉。另外，又有異鄉的奇情故事，如〈共和廣場〉、〈一男一女〉，也有回歸本土的友情詠嘆調，如〈歸家的訊號〉。與疑幻疑真的〈畫廊咖啡店〉相對比，則有生活寫實的〈黑雨〉。高超的小說技巧，加上細膩的敘事手法，令故事讀來趣味盎然，引人入勝。

A superb novel of possessive love. Laura Franklin bitterly resented the arrival of her younger sister Shirley, an enchanting baby loved by all the family. But Laura's emotions towards her sister changed dramatically one night, when she vowed to protect her with all her strength and love. While Shirley longs for freedom and romance, Laura has to learn that loving can never be a one-sided affair, and the burden of her love for her sister has a dramatic effect on both their lives. A story of consequences when love turns to obsession… 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.

Hauntingly evocative of medieval Spain, a deeply compelling story of love, adventure, divided loyalties, and what happens when beliefs begin to remake – or destroy – a world. The ruling Asharites of Al-Rassan have come from the desert sands, but over centuries, seduced by the sensuous pleasures of their new land, their stern piety has eroded. The Asharite empire has splintered into decadent city-states led by warring petty kings. King Almalik of Cartada is on the ascendancy, aided always by his friend and advisor, the notorious Ammar ibn Khairan – poet, diplomat, soldier – until a summer afternoon of savage brutality changes their relationship forever. Meanwhile, in the north, the conquered Jaddites' most celebrated – and feared – military leader, Rodrigo Belmonte, driven into exile, leads his mercenary company south. In the dangerous lands of Al-Rassan, these two men from different worlds meet and serve – for a time – the same master. Tangled in their interwoven fate – and divided by her feelings – is Jehane, the accomplished court physician, whose skills may not be enough to heal the coming pain as Al-Rassan is swept to the brink of holy war, and beyond.

Julia Laing is a winner – beautiful, vivacious, publicity director of London’s top hotel. Robert Brand is charismatic, handsome – with his vast fortune he can work magic. Together they make a golden couple, the world at their feet. Together they can almost forget Robert’s unhappy marriage to Grace, a union bound by secrets a generation old … until, suddenly, Julia’s world is shattered by tragedy, and she begins to realise that her perfect life with Robert may have been built on a lie… Determined to uncover the facts, Julia hires private detective Guy Ravenel to track down the truth. his plan is daring and dangerous, but not even he can foresee the horrors they will uncover, or the ruthlessness of Julia’s enemies…

《口说韩语》一书提供了大量的韩语口语素材，专为零基础韩语学习者倾心造，紧扣生活主题，提供社交、旅行、休闲、物、餐饮相关百种话题的千句表达。本书分为三个部分：门篇——不可不知的韩语知识，这部分讲解了有关韩语起源及韩语的语言特。语音篇——韩语发音全掌握，这部分细致地讲解了40个韩语字母的发音和音变现象，使学习者轻松解决语音方面的难题。提高篇——信手拈来问与答，这部分集合了生活常见话题126个，并提供了2000多条口语表达，以左页“问”，右页“答”的方式，让韩语交流不再成为障碍。另外，每个话题中还包含拓展词汇及情景会话。本书附录收录了公共场所常见标识语及生活常用语极短句，特别适合出国游玩的读者应急使用。

Peter Pan (also known as Peter Pan and Wendy or Peter and Wendy) was written by J.M. Barrie (1860 - 1937) and was first published as a novel in 1911. The story follows a young boy who can fly and never grows old. He lives on an island called Neverland with a group of friends called The Lost Boys and fights with the fearsome pirate - Captain Hook. Other friends include fairies, mermaids and of course, children outside of Neverland.This digital edition is beautifully formatted with an active Table of Contents that goes directly to each chapter of the story. Mermaids Classics, an imprint of Mermaids Publishing brings the very best of old classic literature to a modern era of digital reading by producing high quality books in ebook format. All of the Mermaids Classics epublications are reproductions of classic antique books that were originally published in print format, mostly over a century ago and are now republished in digital format as ebooks. Begin to build your collection of digital books by looking for more literary gems from Mermaids Classics.

What is the meaning and purpose of life?’ ?This is, perhaps, the most important question that has ever been asked.? Throughout the ages, philosophers have considered it to be the most fundamental question.? Scientists, historians, philosophers, writers, psychologists and the common man all wrestle with the question at some point in their lives.? ‘Why do we eat?’ ?‘Why do we sleep?’ ?‘Why do we work?’ ?The answers we would get to these questions would be similar.? ‘I eat to live.’ ?‘I sleep to rest.’ ?‘I work to support myself and my family.’ ?But when it comes to what the purpose of life is, people are confused.? We see their confusion by the type of answers we receive.? Youths may say, "I live for booze and bikinis."? The middle aged professional might say, "I live to save enough for a comfortable retirement."? The old man would probably say, "I’ve been asking why I’m here most of my life.? If there’s a purpose, I don’t care anymore." ?And perhaps the most common answer will be, "I really don’t know!" How, then, do you discover the purpose of life? ?We basically have two options.? The first is to let ‘human reason’ - the celebrated achievement of the Enlightenment - guide us.? After all, the Enlightenment gave us modern science based on careful observation of the natural world.? But have post-Enlightenment philosophers figured it out? ?Camus described life as "absurd"; Sartre spoke of "anguish, abandonment and despair." ?To these Existentialists, life has no meaning. Islam is the response to humanity’s search for meaning.? The purpose of creation for all men and women for all times has been one: to know and worship God. The Quran teaches us that every human being is born conscious of God, "(Remember) when your Lord extracted from the loins of Adam’s children their descendants and made them testify [saying]: ‘Am I not your Lord?’ ?They said: ‘Yes, we testify to it.’ ?(This was) in case you say on the Day of Judgment: ‘We were unaware of this.’ ?Or you say: ‘It was our ancestors who worshipped others besides God and we are only their descendants.? Will you then destroy us for what those liars did?’"(Quran 7:172-173) The Prophet of Islam teaches us that God created this primordial need in human nature at the time Adam was made.? God took a covenant from Adam when He created him.? God extracted all of Adam’s descendants who were yet to be born, generation after generation, spread them out, and took a covenant from them.? He addressed their souls directly, making them bear witness that He was their Lord.? Since God made all human beings swear to His Lordship when He created Adam, this oath is imprinted on the human soul even before it enters the fetus, and so a child is born with a natural belief in the Oneness of God.? This natural belief is called fitra in Arabic.