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Awards winning Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks, Christie expert and archivist John Curran once again examines the unpublished notebooks of the world's bestselling author to explore the techniques she used to surprise and entertain generations of readers.Drawing on Christie's personal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.

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.

《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”。

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.

　　書中講述幼兒日常生活中的小故事，貼近孩子生活，透過生動形象的小故事，教導孩子適當的行為處事方法，從小建立良好品格。 　　書後設置「互動小遊戲」、「成長小貼士」小欄目，加強孩子對書中故事相關禮貌常識的認識，同時也給父母一些實用的指導，幫助孩子培養良好的品格。 　　書後還設有「齊來評評分」，列舉故事中可以的禮儀小常識，讓家長和孩子參考對照，增進親子間的互動。 　　《飯桌上》小明跟媽媽一起到同學美美家做客，美美的媽媽燒了好吃的小菜招待他們。吃飯時，小明知道了要細嚼慢嚥，還不能發出聲音。看到了喜歡的雞腿，小明會怎麼做呢?

Temptation is so close! To protect her son, Mark, Ciara Malloy has moved to this rural area in Washington. The new beginning is off to a rocky start, however, when Mark gets too familiar with Gabe Tennert's horses. It's obvious their next-door neighbor prefers his solitude. Even so, he shows incredible patience with Mark. And when Gabe turns that intense gaze Ciara's way…how can she resist such a good, sexy man? But crossing the line between friends and something more is riskier than Ciara expects. As Gabe pushes for a commitment, she fears revealing the secret truths that could turn him away forever.

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Mills & Boon proudly presents THE SARA CRAVEN COLLECTION. Sara’s powerful and passionate romances have captivated and thrilled readers all over the world for five decades making her an international bestseller. Laine waited for her handsome new husband, Daniel Flynn, to come to her on their wedding night…knowing that their marriage was a sham. Daniel didn't love her—he was just fulfilling a promise he'd made to take care of her…. So Laine fled—a married woman, but still an innocent! Two years later, broke and vulnerable, Laine has to face Daniel again. And this time Daniel will take the wedding night that should have been his….

本故事为世界经典童话之一。羊妈妈要出门去寻找食物，嘱咐七只小羊在家里千万不能给狼开门，但是天真的小羊还是被狡猾的狼欺骗了，不过幸好，勇敢的羊妈妈拯救了大家。故事情节为普通读者熟知。全书为日文版。难词标注假名，供日语学习者学习使用。

本故事为世界经典童话之一。安徒生童话《白雪皇后》是安徒生作品中经典的作品之一，又译冰雪女王、白雪女王、冰雪皇后、雪之女王、雪后等，曾被多个国家翻拍成不同版本的电影以及动画。童话中讲述魔鬼的一面镜子的两片碎片注入小男孩加伊（又译凯、凯伊）的内心和眼睛，从而使他变得冷酷无情，并被白雪皇后带入她的冰宫，小女孩格尔达（又译盖尔达）是加伊的好朋友，格尔达亲自寻找白雪皇后并解除加伊身上的诅咒，路上遇到重重困难终被克服。全书为日文版。难词标注假名，供日语学习者学习使用。

一、正文。正文按场景分类，每个大类中又分若干小项，如“生计?工作”中包含“生计”“产业”“职场”等小项，这样能让学习者在把握出题范围的同时，了解各个类别中的近义词表达。正文中的例句简短、精练。通过对例句的学习，学习者可以掌握单词*核心的用法。全书所有例句均标注注音假名，以便学习者学习。二、课后练习。练习不仅采用了出题形式中的题型，还根据学习需要，增加了“汉字书写”“读音书写”“词语搭配”等题型，从而帮助学习者更全面地掌握词语的应用知识。三、模拟试题。选择出题频率高的词汇作为考查对象，有助于学习者有效检验和评价自己的学习效果和实战能力。

《六只天鹅》是收录于《格林童话》中的一则童话故事，由格林兄弟搜集编撰。讲述了一场善与恶的斗争，作品女主角是个柔弱的女子，但她却战胜了比她强大得多、有权有势的王后和主教，救出了被王后的魔法变成天鹅的6位哥哥。全书为日文版。难词标注假名，供日语学习者学习使用。

《美人鱼的故事》选自安徒生童话，是安徒生先生在1837年的作品。讲述了人鱼公主和王子从相见到相爱再到无法在一起的凄美爱情故事。本故事为世界经典童话之一。故事情节为普通读者熟知。全书为日文版。难词标注假名，供日语学习者学习使用。

The life of William Shakespeare, arguably the most significant figure in the Western literary canon, is relatively unknown. Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1565, possibly on the 23rd April, St. George's Day, and baptised there on 26th April. Little is known of his education and the first firm facts to his life relate to his marriage, aged 18, to Anne Hathaway, who was 26 and from the nearby village of Shottery. Anne gave birth to their first son six months later. Shakespeare's first play, The Comedy of Errors began a procession of real heavyweights that were to emanate from his pen in a career of just over twenty years in which 37 plays were written and his reputation forever established. This early skill was recognised by many and by 1594 the Lord Chamberlain's Men were performing his works. With the advantage of Shakespeare's progressive writing they rapidly became London's leading company of players, affording him more exposure and, following the death of Queen Elizabeth in 1603, a royal patent by the new king, James I, at which point they changed their name to the King's Men. By 1598, and despite efforts to pirate his work, Shakespeare's name was well known and had become a selling point in its own right on title pages. No plays are attributed to Shakespeare after 1613, and the last few plays he wrote before this time were in collaboration with other writers, one of whom is likely to be John Fletcher who succeeded him as the house playwright for the King's Men. William Shakespeare died two months later on April 23rd, 1616, survived by his wife, two daughters and a legacy of writing that none have since yet eclipsed.

If ever a writer needed an introduction Arthur Conan Doyle would not be considered that man. After all, Sherlock Holmes is perhaps the foremost literary detective of any age. Add to this canon his stories of science fiction and his poems, his historical novels, his plays, his political campaigning, his efforts in establishing a Court of Appeal and there is little room for anything else. Except he was also an exceptional writer of short stories of the horrific and macabre. Something very different from what you might expect. Born in Arthur Conan Doyle was born on 22 May 1859 at 11 Picardy Place, Edinburgh, Scotland. From 1876 - 1881 he studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh following which he was employed as a doctor on the Greenland whaler Hope of Peterhead in 1880 and, after his graduation, as a ship's surgeon on the SS Mayumba during a voyage to the West African coast in 1881. Arriving in Portsmouth in June of that year with less than GBP10 (GBP700 today) to his name, he set up a medical practice at 1 Bush Villas in Elm Grove, Southsea. The practice was initially not very successful. While waiting for patients, Conan Doyle again began writing stories and composed his first novel The Mystery of Cloomber. Although he continued to study and practice medicine his career was now firmly set as a writer. And thereafter great works continued to pour out of him.

《日语天天学》是“外教社外语天天学”系列中的日语分册,是上海外语教育出版社策划、发的零起数字化日语自学教程 本书以日常生活、学习、工作为话题,从主题手,通过纸质书和移动互联网相结合,使学习者快速学习和掌握日语词汇和表达,达到短期内能听会说的交际目的。 本书是一本容易门的日语自学教程,具有如下特: 1.语音简单易学。通过书本中整理的字母表及相关发音,配合微信小程序行互动学习。学习者可参考小程序中真人发音练习语音,直观快速地掌握发音。 2.简单有趣的课文。每课课文以对话形式(“说说看”)出现,记录不同场景下所需使用的典型语言表达。句型简练,表达精准,配有罗马字标音和汉语译文。“拓展”部分只出现在本书配套的小程序上,是“说说看”会话的延伸。"

　　《法语语言文化基础教程》共计五个单元：第0单元为语音部分，其余四个单元各设四课。课程之间既相辅相承，又相互独立，方便教学实操，基本涵盖了法语门学习所需的语音、词汇、语法、交际、文化各方面的知识，达到《欧洲语言共同参考框架》的A1级要求的水平。 　　《法语语言文化基础教程》既可作为大学第二外语及公共外语的主干教材，亦可作为法语专业教学的补充资料，还可为广大对法语语言文化感兴趣的学习者提供参考。

《简单易学日语会话》是一本为对日语会话感兴趣的学习者造的全面、地道的日语会话图书。全书分七个部分对日常生活中常见的场景行分类，每部分细化为6个小节，每小节更一步分不同话题对日语会话中常用的句子行了归纳。正文不仅涵盖场景常用句，更有举一反三板块列出当前场景的常用句子。此外，每节还设置知识加油站板块，对当前小节经常使用的单词行了补充，便于学习者在学习会话的同时提升词汇量。