《明天》讲诉了发生在还具有一点儿古风的鲁镇上在特定的“三个晚上两白天”这个时间段的故事，故事围绕着主人公寡妇单四嫂子失去自己的儿子宝儿这个事件展开全篇的事件叙述。《明天》是鲁迅先生创作的一篇小说，这篇小说之所以叫做明天，无论站在何时说这个词，它都代表将来，非现在。无论作者或主人公，都想在摆脱现实，逃往明天。至于原因，原文斑斑可寻。全书为日文版。难词标注假名，供日语学习者学习使用。

《幸福的家庭》主要讲的是在旧社会一知识分子，为赚稿费养家糊口，于是便打算投稿写一篇符合大众口味的文章。以描写知识分子想象中的幸福家庭的模样及生活方式。知识分子虚构了一个接受了民主思想的恩爱夫妻，过着浪漫、幸福的婚姻生活。与虚构小说情节鲜明对比的是：该知识分子生活困顿，过着为三餐温饱、柴米油盐而烦恼的生活。全书为日文版。难词标注假名，供日语学习者学习使用。

《白光》是现代文学家鲁迅于1922年创作的短篇小说，作者通过讲述在科举考试中一个屡屡落第的文人陈士成，听信祖宗传言，受白光的启示在院子里挖银子未果，精神迷幻，到大山里寻宝却坠湖而死的故事，批判了封建社会病态的科考制度，揭示了十年苦读反而无用的读书人的悲惨命运。全书为日文版。难词标注假名，供日语学习者学习使用。

本故事为鲁迅创作的作品之一。村里撑船的七斤，革命时进城，被人剪去了辫子。这天他在城里的咸亨酒店听说皇帝坐了龙庭，要辫子，这消息让他烦心，更让他妻子惶恐。跟七斤有过节的赵七爷特意来恐吓七斤一家，说没了辫子就是要杀头。十多天后，七斤夫妇看出了破绽，于是七斤渐渐在村里恢复了被尊重的地位，一家的生活也回到常态。全书为日文版。难词标注假名，供日语学习者学习使用。

本故事为鲁迅创作的作品之一。这篇小说取材于女娲造人和补天的神话。小说开篇写女娲从梦中惊醒，烦闷、懊恼，自然界则是一片春回大地的绚烂景象。和风吹拂，女娲百无聊赖，心神不安，青春焕发，精力饱满而无处发泄。她走向海边，无意识捏弄软泥，于是创造了人。女娲因生命力受压抑而发挥了劳动创造精神，创造了人类，补好了崩裂的天。这是作者对封建思想意识礼教道德的勇敢挑战和彻底否定，体现了强烈的反封建精神。全书为日文版。难词标注假名，供日语学习者学习使用。

Over 30 recipes to develop custom drivers for your embedded Linux applications. Key Features * Use Kernel facilities to develop powerful drivers * Via a practical approach, learn core concepts of developing device drivers * Program a custom character device to get access to kernel internals Book Description Linux is a unified kernel that is widely used to develop embedded systems. As Linux has turned out to be one of the most popular operating systems used, the interest in developing proprietary device drivers has also increased. Device drivers play a critical role in how the system performs and ensures that the device works in the manner intended. By offering several examples on the development of character devices and how to use other kernel internals, such as interrupts, kernel timers, and wait queue, as well as how to manage a device tree, you will be able to add proper management for custom peripherals to your embedded system. You will begin by installing the Linux kernel and then configuring it. Once you have installed the system, you will learn to use the different kernel features and the character drivers. You will also cover interrupts in-depth and how you can manage them. Later, you will get into the kernel internals required for developing applications. Next, you will implement advanced character drivers and also become an expert in writing important Linux device drivers. By the end of the book, you will be able to easily write a custom character driver and kernel code as per your requirements. What you will learn * Become familiar with the latest kernel releases (4.19+/5.x) running on the ESPRESSObin devkit, an ARM 64-bit machine * Download, configure, modify, and build kernel sources * Add and remove a device driver or a module from the kernel * Master kernel programming * Understand how to implement character drivers to manage different kinds of computer peripherals * Become well versed with kernel helper functions and objects that can be used to build kernel applications * Acquire a knowledge of in-depth concepts to manage custom hardware with Linux from both the kernel and user space Who this book is for This book will help anyone who wants to develop their own Linux device drivers for embedded systems. Having basic hand-on with Linux operating system and embedded concepts is necessary.

A beginner's guide to storing, managing, and analyzing data with the updated features of Elastic 7.0 Key Features * Gain access to new features and updates introduced in Elastic Stack 7.0 * Grasp the fundamentals of Elastic Stack including Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana * Explore useful tips for using Elastic Cloud and deploying Elastic Stack in production environments Book Description The Elastic Stack is a powerful combination of tools for techniques such as distributed search, analytics, logging, and visualization of data. Elastic Stack 7.0 encompasses new features and capabilities that will enable you to find unique insights into analytics using these techniques. This book will give you a fundamental understanding of what the stack is all about, and help you use it efficiently to build powerful real-time data processing applications. The first few sections of the book will help you understand how to set up the stack by installing tools, and exploring their basic configurations. You’ll then get up to speed with using Elasticsearch for distributed searching and analytics, Logstash for logging, and Kibana for data visualization. As you work through the book, you will discover the technique of creating custom plugins using Kibana and Beats. This is followed by coverage of the Elastic X-Pack, a useful extension for effective security and monitoring. You’ll also find helpful tips on how to use Elastic Cloud and deploy Elastic Stack in production environments. By the end of this book, you’ll be well versed with the fundamental Elastic Stack functionalities and the role of each component in the stack to solve different data processing problems. What you will learn * Install and configure an Elasticsearch architecture * Solve the full-text search problem with Elasticsearch * Discover powerful analytics capabilities through aggregations using Elasticsearch * Build a data pipeline to transfer data from a variety of sources into Elasticsearch for analysis * Create interactive dashboards for effective storytelling with your data using Kibana * Learn how to secure, monitor and use Elastic Stack’s alerting and reporting capabilities * Take applications to an on-premise or cloud-based production environment with Elastic Stack Who this book is for This book is for entry-level data professionals, software engineers, e-commerce developers, and full-stack developers who want to learn about Elastic Stack and how the real-time processing and search engine works for business analytics and enterprise search applications. Previous experience with Elastic Stack is not required, however knowledge of data warehousing and database concepts will be helpful.

Discover the power of location data to build effective, intelligent data models with Geospatial ecosystems Key Features * Manipulate location-based data and create intelligent geospatial data models * Build effective location recommendation systems used by popular companies such as Uber * A hands-on guide to help you consume spatial data and parallelize GIS operations effectively Book Description Data scientists, who have access to vast data streams, are a bit myopic when it comes to intrinsic and extrinsic location-based data and are missing out on the intelligence it can provide to their models. This book demonstrates effective techniques for using the power of data science and geospatial intelligence to build effective, intelligent data models that make use of location-based data to give useful predictions and analyses. This book begins with a quick overview of the fundamentals of location-based data and how techniques such as Exploratory Data Analysis can be applied to it. We then delve into spatial operations such as computing distances, areas, extents, centroids, buffer polygons, intersecting geometries, geocoding, and more, which adds additional context to location data. Moving ahead, you will learn how to quickly build and deploy a geo-fencing system using Python. Lastly, you will learn how to leverage geospatial analysis techniques in popular recommendation systems such as collaborative filtering and location-based recommendations, and more. By the end of the book, you will be a rockstar when it comes to performing geospatial analysis with ease. What you will learn * Learn how companies now use location data * Set up your Python environment and install Python geospatial packages * Visualize spatial data as graphs * Extract geometry from spatial data * Perform spatial regression from scratch * Build web applications which dynamically references geospatial data Who this book is for Data Scientists who would like to leverage location-based data and want to use location-based intelligence in their data models will find this book useful. This book is also for GIS developers who wish to incorporate data analysis in their projects. Knowledge of Python programming and some basic understanding of data analysis are all you need to get the most out of this book.

Explore the fundamentals of systems programming starting from kernel API and filesystem to network programming and process communications Key Features * Learn how to write Unix and Linux system code in Golang v1.12 * Perform inter-process communication using pipes, message queues, shared memory, and semaphores * Explore modern Go features such as goroutines and channels that facilitate systems programming Book Description System software and applications were largely created using low-level languages such as C or C++. Go is a modern language that combines simplicity, concurrency, and performance, making it a good alternative for building system applications for Linux and macOS. This Go book introduces Unix and systems programming to help you understand the components the OS has to offer, ranging from the kernel API to the filesystem, and familiarize yourself with Go and its specifications. You'll also learn how to optimize input and output operations with files and streams of data, which are useful tools in building pseudo terminal applications. You'll gain insights into how processes communicate with each other, and learn about processes and daemon control using signals, pipes, and exit codes. This book will also enable you to understand how to use network communication using various protocols, including TCP and HTTP. As you advance, you'll focus on Go's best feature-concurrency helping you handle communication with channels and goroutines, other concurrency tools to synchronize shared resources, and the context package to write elegant applications. By the end of this book, you will have learned how to build concurrent system applications using Go What you will learn * Explore concepts of system programming using Go and concurrency * Gain insights into Golang's internals, memory models and allocation * Familiarize yourself with the filesystem and IO streams in general * Handle and control processes and daemons' lifetime via signals and pipes * Communicate with other applications effectively using a network * Use various encoding formats to serialize complex data structures * Become well-versed in concurrency with channels, goroutines, and sync * Use concurrency patterns to build robust and performant system applications Who this book is for If you are a developer who wants to learn system programming with Go, this book is for you. Although no knowledge of Unix and Linux system programming is necessary, intermediate knowledge of Go will help you understand the concepts covered in the book

Evade antiviruses and bypass firewalls with the most widely used penetration testing frameworks Key Features * Gain insights into the latest antivirus evasion techniques * Set up a complete pentesting environment using Metasploit and virtual machines * Discover a variety of tools and techniques that can be used with Kali Linux Book Description Penetration testing or ethical hacking is a legal and foolproof way to identify vulnerabilities in your system. With thorough penetration testing, you can secure your system against the majority of threats. This Learning Path starts with an in-depth explanation of what hacking and penetration testing is. You’ll gain a deep understanding of classical SQL and command injection flaws, and discover ways to exploit these flaws to secure your system. You'll also learn how to create and customize payloads to evade antivirus software and bypass an organization's defenses. Whether it’s exploiting server vulnerabilities and attacking client systems, or compromising mobile phones and installing backdoors, this Learning Path will guide you through all this and more to improve your defense against online attacks. By the end of this Learning Path, you'll have the knowledge and skills you need to invade a system and identify all its vulnerabilities. This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products: * Web Penetration Testing with Kali Linux - Third Edition by Juned Ahmed Ansari and Gilberto Najera-Gutierrez * Metasploit Penetration Testing Cookbook - Third Edition by Abhinav Singh , Monika Agarwal, et al What you will learn * Build and analyze Metasploit modules in Ruby * Integrate Metasploit with other penetration testing tools * Use server-side attacks to detect vulnerabilities in web servers and their applications * Explore automated attacks such as fuzzing web applications * Identify the difference between hacking a web application and network hacking * Deploy Metasploit with the Penetration Testing Execution Standard (PTES) * Use MSFvenom to generate payloads and backdoor files, and create shellcode Who this book is for This Learning Path is designed for security professionals, web programmers, and pentesters who want to learn vulnerability exploitation and make the most of the Metasploit framework. Some understanding of penetration testing and Metasploit is required, but basic system administration skills and the ability to read code are a must.

Understand how blockchain works and explore a variety of strategies to implement it in your organization effectively Key Features * Become familiar with business challenges faced by companies when using blockchain * Discover how companies implement blockchain to monetize and secure their data * Study real-world examples to understand blockchain and its use in organizations Book Description In addition to cryptocurrencies, blockchain-based apps are being developed in different industries such as banking, supply chain, and healthcare to achieve digital transformation and enhance user experience. Blockchain is not only about Bitcoin or cryptocurrencies, but also about different technologies such as peer-to-peer networks, consensus mechanisms, and cryptography. These technologies together help sustain trustless environments in which digital value can be transferred between individuals without intermediaries. This book will help you understand the basics of blockchain such as consensus protocols, decentralized applications, and tokenization. You'll focus on how blockchain is used today in different industries and the technological challenges faced while implementing a blockchain strategy. The book also enables you, as a decision maker, to understand blockchain from a technical perspective and evaluate its applicability in your business. Finally, you'll get to grips with blockchain frameworks such as Hyperledger and Quorum and their usability. By the end of this book, you'll have learned about the current use cases of blockchain and be able to implement a blockchain strategy on your own. What you will learn * Become well-versed with how blockchain works * Understand the difference between blockchain and Bitcoin * Learn how blockchain is being used in different industry verticals such as finance and retail * Delve into the technological and organizational challenges of implementing blockchain * Explore the possibilities that blockchain can unlock for decision makers * Choose a blockchain framework best suited for your projects from options such as Ethereum and Hyperledger Fabric Who this book is for This book is for CXOs, business professionals, organization leaders, decision makers, technology enthusiasts, and managers who wish to understand how blockchain is implemented in different organizations, its impact, and how it can be customized according to business needs. Prior experience with blockchain is not required.

Discover various techniques to develop maintainable code and keep it in shape. Key Features * Learn all about refactoring - why it is important and how to do it * Discover easy ways to refactor code with examples * Explore techniques that can be applied to most other programming languages Book Description Refactoring improves your code without changing its behavior. With refactoring, the best approach is to apply small targeted changes to a codebase. Instead of doing a huge sweeping change to your code, refactoring is better as a long-term and continuous enterprise. Refactoring TypeScript explains how to spot bugs and remove them from your code. You’ll start by seeing how wordy conditionals, methods, and null checks make code unhealthy and unstable. Whether it is identifying messy nested conditionals or removing unnecessary methods, this book will show various techniques to avoid these pitfalls and write code that is easier to understand, maintain, and test. By the end of the book, you’ll have learned some of the main causes of unhealthy code, tips to identify them and techniques to address them. What you will learn * Spot and fix common code smells to create code that is easier to read and understand * Discover ways to identify long methods and refactor them * Create objects that keep your code flexible, maintainable, and testable * Apply the Single Responsibility Principle to develop less-coupled code * Discover how to combine different refactoring techniques * Learn ways to solve the issues caused by overusing primitives Who this book is for This book is designed for programmers who are looking to explore various refactoring techniques to develop healthy and maintainable code. Some experience in JavaScript and TypeScript can help you easily grasp the concepts explained in this book.

Learn dynamic programming with Julia to build apps for data analysis, visualization, machine learning, and the web Key Features * Leverage Julia's high speed and efficiency to build fast, efficient applications * Perform supervised and unsupervised machine learning and time series analysis * Tackle problems concurrently and in a distributed environment Book Description Julia offers the high productivity and ease of use of Python and R with the lightning-fast speed of C++. There’s never been a better time to learn this language, thanks to its large-scale adoption across a wide range of domains, including fintech, biotech and artificial intelligence (AI). You will begin by learning how to set up a running Julia platform, before exploring its various built-in types. This Learning Path walks you through two important collection types: arrays and matrices. You’ll be taken through how type conversions and promotions work, and in further chapters you'll study how Julia interacts with operating systems and other languages. You’ll also learn about the use of macros, what makes Julia suitable for numerical and scientific computing, and how to run external programs. Once you have grasped the basics, this Learning Path goes on to how to analyze the Iris dataset using DataFrames. While building a web scraper and a web app, you’ll explore the use of functions, methods, and multiple dispatches. In the final chapters, you'll delve into machine learning, where you'll build a book recommender system. By the end of this Learning Path, you’ll be well versed with Julia and have the skills you need to leverage its high speed and efficiency for your applications. This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products: * Julia 1.0 Programming - Second Edition by Ivo Balbaert * Julia Programming Projects by Adrian Salceanu What you will learn * Create your own types to extend the built-in type system * Visualize your data in Julia with plotting packages * Explore the use of built-in macros for testing and debugging * Integrate Julia with other languages such as C, Python, and MATLAB * Analyze and manipulate datasets using Julia and DataFrames * Develop and run a web app using Julia and the HTTP package * Build a recommendation system using supervised machine learning Who this book is for If you are a statistician or data scientist who wants a quick course in the Julia programming language while building big data applications, this Learning Path is for you. Basic knowledge of mathematics and programming is a must.

Are you the world's biggest One Direction fan? Do you know more than any other Directioner out there? Or do you want to learn some fantastic new facts about the biggest and most successful boy band of all time?If so, then this is the book for you! Contained within are more than one hundred amazing facts about everything, from how the boys got started in the music industry to their relationships, closely-kept secrets, media controversies and much more. The book is easily organised into sections so you can find the information you want fast and is perfect for all ages!

Amy & Steven were married and had moved into their new home, 'Cairnra' a bungalow on the outskirts of Inverness. ANNA STEIGER had settled in at her smaller residence, 'Cara' when she left the ruined 'Glencara' which had been razed to the ground by the recent fire and the boys,ANTON & GIDEON had gone off to University. The memory of the dreaded child, FREYA, presumed dead, seemed to have faded in everyone's mind. (Only Amy's nephew ROBBIE, a slow learning child, remembered Freya with affection) But at Christmas in the year 1951 when the Christmas cards were being received at 'Cairnra', Amy received a memorial card. It was a long, white envelope, bordered in black and inside, she found a simple oblong card with nothing written on it and with no verse ...It bore only the initial 'F'

A helpful GCSE and A Level Guide to one of 20th Century History's most pivotal events. This guide discusses in a clear and concise manner the objectives of the British, French and Germans at the Treaty of Versailles. A follow up volume: America, Japan and the Arabs at Versailles will be published soon.

WILLIAM BRIGHT was bright by name, but many thought he wasn't toobright by nature until William proved them all to be wrong. He was alittle slower than most of the other pupils at his school because itwas later learned that he was dyslexic and he had a bad stutter. Hewasn't very popular with the girls either, although he was consideredto be rather handsome ...He was also tall and he was dark, so what wasmissing you might ask. . . and probably the answer was that William wasvery shy and found it very difficult to converse and mix with youngpeople of his own age. William adored his father, but the father diedat an early age when William was only six and he wore his father'swedding ring around his neck until he was old enough to wear it on thefourth finger of the left hand, swearing he would never remove the ringuntil he found someone that he could love as he had loved his dad.William's mother wasn't interested in the boy and considered him to betoo stupid to do anything more than the job he got when he left schoolat the age of fifteen. She had interests of her own which would not benormally classed as motherly and she states that William started tostutter when his father died and believes it was a great shock to himwhich brought this about.

My Lot is a two act comedy that is a tribute to the modern day family who, despite the issues with 21st century living, can and do still carry the strength and values family life needs. Despite how it may appear from the outside. The characters within the piece have been specifically chosen to represent different profiles of British life regardless of class or race.The intention is to show, through comedy, how that this seemingly dysfunctional family can and do pull together to help each other though some of the most trying times they may face. During this blackout the family face some huge revelations and learn more about each other than ever before, all within the setting of one joke being told to kill some time. This two act play is for eight actors and suits any acting age, range and ability from college students to adult companies.

Divergent is the book and movie from themind of Veronica Roth, published in 2011. It is a future tale set in the Divergent Universe,The story follows Beatrice Prior as she explores her identity within a society that defines its people by their social and personality based affiliation with the five factions. This book contains questions on both the novel and the movie, the characters, factions, locations and much more so be dauntless and take on the quiz and see if just maybe there is a place in the Erudite faction for you.

In the aftermath of Waterloo, even with the help of his intuitive black collie Bruce, Fergus Findlay will need all his guile and courage to rescue Fiona McRae from the drudgery of a failed farm and her father's plans to marry her off to their rich neighbour. He must do this in between droving cattle and sometimes dispossessed crofters from the Moray Firth to Glasgow Markets through flooded rivers with reivers lurking ready to steal and murder.

This beautifully illustrated children's book is from Tiberius Publishing's 'What Do You Say' range, which aims to teach children good manners in a fun and entertaining way. This book is designed to help raise a young child's awareness about saying 'thank you'.