Kristen Ciccarelli’s bestselling Iskari series comes to a captivating end with this final companion novel to The Last Namsara, which Tomi Adeyemi, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Children of Blood and Bone, calls “one of my favorite books of all time.”At the end of one world, there always lies another. Safire, a soldier, knows her role in this world is to serve the king of Firgaard—helping to maintain the peace in her oft-troubled nation.Eris, a deadly pirate, has no such conviction. Known as the Death Dancer for her ability to evade even the most determined of pursuers, she possesses a superhuman power to move between worlds.Now Safire and Eris—sworn enemies—find themselves on a common mission: to find Asha, the last Namsara. From the port city of Darmoor to the fabled faraway Star Isles, their search and their stories become woven ever more tightly together as they discover that the uncertain fate they’re hurtling toward just may be a shared one. In this world—and the next.

全书从操作系统的基础知识手，全面剖析程/线程、内存管理、Binder机制、GUI显示系统、多媒体管理、输系统、虚拟机等核心技术在Android中的实现原理。书中讲述的知识大部分来源于工程项目研发，因而具有较强的实用性，希望可以让读者“知其然，更知其所以然”。本书分为编译篇、系统原理篇、应用原理篇、系统工具篇，共4篇25章，基本涵盖了参与Android发所需具备的知识，并通过大量图片与实例来引导读者学习，以求尽量在源码分析外为读者提供更易于理解的思维方式。 本书既适合Android系统工程师，也适合于应用发工程师来阅读，从而提升Android发能力。读者可以在本书潜移默化的学习过程中更深刻地理解Android系统，并将所学知识自然地应用到实际发难题的解决中。

研究曹雪芹的家族是研究曹雪芹时代意识、曹雪芹生活环境、文化审美来由、思想形成 变化、《红楼梦》写作素材等诸多问题的前提。今将数年考曹氏家族文汇为一编，名之曰《曹 雪芹家世文化研究》，内容涉及家族渊源、家族成员关系、家族成员的文化修养等；同时，借 由曹雪芹家族的工作、生活、交游等诸问题的探讨，说明了曹雪芹生活时代的社会文化环境， 如曹寅与李煦的工作与日常交往、李煦与幕僚沈槱元的关系、曹寅李煦与僧人的关系、曹寅李 煦与江浙文人乡绅的交往等，故本书之副标题为“康熙年间文人官员的工作与生活状态侧写”。

With more than 100 new recipes for cocktails, mixed drinks, and nonalcoholic beverages, this revised edition of Anthony Dias Blue's classic guide fills us in on what we need to know: How to stock a bar, listing alcoholic and nonalcoholic beverages by probable frequency of use. Bar and cocktail definitions -- learn the difference between a julep and a smash, a toddy and a flip. Calorie charts, mixology tips, and illustrated de*ions of glasses.Organized by spirit, each chapter is introduced by an accessible and eloquent essay. Discover more than 1,000 recipes for cocktails, categorized by Classics, Creative Concoctions, Signature Drinks, and Tropical Drinks -- everything from the popular Martini and the Coco Loco to Trader Vic's West Indies Punch, a Midori Sour, and a Velvet Hammer.Whether entertaining, bartending, or simply relaxing with a favorite drink, this is the must-have bar book.

Now fully revised and updated, this popular guide and compendium of good eating captures the true character and flavor of the most intimate and affordable eating establishments Paris has to offer. Classified as either traditional or modern, these bistros and wine bars are located by arrondisement (neighborhood) and rated for their quality and reliability.The guide is organized into three parts. The first section contains individual listings that describe the unique characteristics of each bistro. It includes special dishes, wines, and places of interest in the vicinity. The second section offers a glossary of dishes and menu terms, and de*ions of ingredients and preparations frequently encountered, and a few suggestions on wine selection. The third section provides a cross-reference to locate a particular dish at the bistro that prepares it best.Bistros of Paris is an essential reference for the food-conscious traveler intent on discovering the unadorned pleasures of traditional French cuisine.

Information on the basic cuts of meats and varieties of potatoes and buying and storing them accompanies recipes for thirty-five winning dishes ranging from basic burgers and baked potatoes to heaven-and-earth pork pie.

《Java学习指南(第4版)(上、下册)》是畅销Java学习指南的*版，详细介绍了Java 6和Java 7的语言特性和API。本书全面介绍了Java的基础知识，力图通过完备地介绍Java语言、其类库、编程技术以及术语，从而成为一本名符其实的门级图书。 　　《Java学习指南(第4版)(上、下册)》加了从Java 6和Java 7发布以后的变化，包括新的语言功能、并发工具(Fork-Join框架)、新的NIO Files API、Java Servlet(3.0)等新主题，作者通过精心挑选的、富有实用性和趣味性的示例，行细致深的讲解。本书的*后一部分，将Java放到Web应用程序、Web服务和XML处理的环境中行了介绍。 　　《Java学习指南(第4版)(上、下册)》适合Java语言初学者阅读，对于有一定经验的Java程序员，也可以作为了解Java 7的编程手册参考。

浪速大学附属医院的财前副教授医术精湛，被曾经的恩师东教授排挤，两人关系决裂。为了成为*外科的教授，财前借助岳父的财力和人脉与东教授推荐的候选人展了激烈的角逐。通过各种黑幕交易，财前终于如愿以偿，自以为站上了人生的*。 但是与此同时，他却慢慢丢掉了身为医者的初心。由于他的过度自信与草率的态度，病人佐佐木因误诊而死亡。面对佐佐木的家属，他内心惶恐不安，一边故作镇定，一边动用所有的力量想要赢这场官司。虽然在初审中财前胜诉，但病人家属仍然坚持上诉。 *终，野心勃勃的财前迷失在自己露骨的欲望中……而白色巨塔却依旧高高耸立，如一把利剑般直插云端……

本教材的目的是通过Arm Cortex-A技术和相关IP块和接口的例子，让有抱负和实践的SoC设计师了解SoC设计和技术的基本原理和技术发展。详细讨论了整个SoC设计过程，从内存和互连到验证、制造和生产。本教材的特色亮点之一是专注解析低功耗SoC设计，另外还包括Zynq芯片SystemC模型在内的大量补充材料。 这本教科书的目标是在该领域寻求更新知识的本科毕业生、硕士生或工程师。假设读者对RTL、汇编语言和操作系统已有一定的了解。

本书是一本指导DBA行数据库发和运维的实用手册，本书共9章，包括漫谈数据库、如何提升数据库性能、如何运维好数据库、如何行数据库设计、如何做好数据库之间的数据同步、认识HTAP技术、认识数据库的功能原理、认识数据库中的数学（逻辑与算法），以及DBA的日常：数据库管理及发的最佳实践。另有附录DBA杂谈。 本书内容是资深DBA多年实践经验的归纳总结，涵盖DBA日常工作中的主要方面，通过剖析众多的真实案例，并解读原理、分享技巧、提供思路，内容具备较强的启发性和指导性。 本书的受众包括但不限于想要了解如何提升数据库性能的应用发人员、DBA、业务架构师、IT架构师、数据架构师、数据分析师、系统架构师、解决方案架构师和企业高级管理人员。

长篇史诗《神曲》（约1307—1313）是但丁蕞重要的代表作，也是欧洲和世界文学史上里程碑式的伟大作品。作者以d一人称“我”进行叙述，讲述了主人公在人生的中途，发现自己迷了路，来到了一座曙光笼罩的小山脚下，刚准备登山，却被三只野兽（豹、狮、狼）挡住去路。危急之中，古罗马诗人维吉尔受贝雅特丽齐嘱托，前来搭救他，并引导他去游历了地狱和炼狱，后贝雅特丽齐又亲自引导他游历天国。《地狱篇》《炼狱篇》《天国篇》三部曲是但丁游历过程和见闻的记载。

本书通过概率建模和贝叶斯决策理论的统一视角，详细且与时俱进地介绍了机器学习（包括深度学习）的理论和方法。书中涵盖了数学背景（包括线性代数和优化理论）、基础的监督学习方法（包括线性回归、逻辑回归和深度神经网络），以及更高级的主题（包括迁移学习和无监督学习）。章节末尾的练习让读者能够应用所学知识，附录部分则对书中使用的符号进行了说明。 本书源自作者2012年的著作《机器学习：概率视角》，它不仅仅是一个简单的更新版本，更是一本全新的著作，反映了自2012年以来该领域的巨大发展，尤其是深度学习方面的进展。由于篇幅限制，新版分为上下两卷：《概率机器学习：基础篇》和《概率机器学习：进阶篇》，本书是上卷基础篇，下卷进阶篇将继续采用相同的概率方法，深入探讨更高级的主题。 新版的另一个主要变化是所有的软件代码都使用Python而不是MATLAB来实现，新代码使用了标准的Python库，例如NumPy、Scikit-learn、JAX、PyTorch、TensorFlow等，这些代码不需要本地安装，它们可以在云端笔记本中运行，这为书中讨论的理论主题提供了实用的补充。

“注意”作为一切思维活动的起，一直是哲学、心理学和认知神经科学的重研究对象。随着计算机技术的发展，人类对注意力机制的模拟和应用成为计算机科学领域的热研究方向——让计算机能够具有类似人类的注意力机制，使其能够有效地应用于对数据的理解和分析。Transformer模型诞生后，注意力机制在人工智能各大重要领域的研究和应用更是如火如荼，成果丰硕。 《人工智能注意力机制：体系、模型与算法剖析》从注意力机制这一重要角度手，阐述注意力机制的产生背景和发展历程，通过详实的理论剖析，以深浅出的方式着重介绍注意力机制在计算机视觉、自然语言处理，以及多模态机器学习三大人工智能方向中的应用思路、模型与算法。 《人工智能注意力机制：体系、模型与算法剖析》以人工智能相关专业研究人员，特别是计算机视觉与自然语言处理等领域的研发人员作为主要读者对象，一方面帮其梳理技术的发展脉络、拓思路、构建完整的认知体系；另一方面为其剖析算法原理、深刻理解算法细节。本书提供配套源代码，下载方式见封底。

本书以图像的物理形成过程和相机获取数字图像的原理为支撑，介绍计算摄像学中的基本问题、模型、理论及其用传统zui优化、信号处理方法的解决方案。结合各问题近些年随着深度学习技术的发展带来的全新展，介绍深度学习和计算摄像问题的结合与应用。深度学习作为目前视觉计算领域zui热门的技术之一，在高层计算机视觉的目标检测、识别、分类等问题上带来了传统方法无法企及的性能突破。深度学习技术在计算摄像学中也正在发挥广泛而积极的作用。通过适当的方法，将传统计算摄像学在光学特性、物理过程和成像模型等方面的先验、约束与数据驱动方法强大的学习、建模能力行优势互补，可以为众多计算摄像难题的求解提供全新的思路和手段。

In The Leadership Engine Noel Tichy showed how great companies strive to create leaders at all levels of the organization and how those leaders actively develop future generations of leaders. In this new book he takes the theme further showing how great companies and their leaders develop their business knowledge into achable points of view pend a great portion of their time giving their learnings to others sharing best practices and how they in turn learn and receive business ideas/knowledge from the employees they are teaching. Calling this exchange a virtuous teaching cycle Professor Tichy shows how business builders from Jack Welch at GE to Joe Liemandt at Trilogy create organizations that foster this knowledge exchange and how their efforts result in smarter more agile companies and winning results. Some of these ideas were showcased in Tichy's recent Harvard Business Review article entitled Ordinary Boot Camp. Using examples from GE Ford Dell Southwest Airlines and many others Tichy presents and analyzes these principles in action and shows how managers can begin to transform their own businesses into teaching organizations and consequently better performing companies

On February 13, 2003, a plane carrying three American civilian contractors Marc Gonsalves, Keith Stansell, and Tom Howes crash-landed in the mountainous jungle of Colombia. Dazed and shaken, they emerged from the plane bloodied and injured as gunfire rained down around them. As of that moment they were prisoners of the FARC, a Colombian terrorist and Marxist rebel organization. In an instant they had become American captives in Colombia's volatile and ongoing conflict, which has lasted for almost fifty years.In Out of Captivity, Gonsalves, Stansell, and Howes recount for the first time their amazing tale of survival, friendship, and, ultimately, rescue, tracing their five and a half years as hostages of the FARC. Their story takes you inside one of the world's most notorious terrorist organizations, going behind enemy lines with vivid and haunting imagery. Their words conjure a reality that few people have ever encountered from sleeping on beds literally carved out of the jungle to escaping Colombian military air strikes under the cover of darkness to being bound with steel chains by their captors. Describing backbreaking starvation marches and forced isolation, the authors chronicle their confrontations and interactions with the FARC guerrilla soldiers a motley crew of brainwashed, idealistic teenagers and seasoned vet-erans who've been around long enough to realize that the only way out of the FARC is in a body bag.Though the physical punishments their bodies endured were unrelenting, the psychological battles they waged were the ultimate test of their resolve. With candid detail, Gonsalves, Stansell, and Howes relate the perilous mental struggles they each experienced, as they grappled with feelings of guilt, fear, and anxiety for the families and lives they'd left behind. Exposing the transformative power of captivity, they show how they turned these fears into strengths, using their memories and their families, their pasts and their futures, to motivate them in their quest for survival. Despite the odds and the conditions, despite the chains and the silence, and despite the often tense relationships they experienced with their fellow Colombian hostages, they had one another, forging a bond that allowed them to cope with the horrific conditions of their confinement. This brotherhood enabled them to persevere through the worst that the FARC threw at them while always reminding them of their ultimate goal: freedom.A harrowing account of one of the longest civilian hostage crises in United States history, Out of Captivity is a remarkable and compelling exploration of how far three Americans were willing to go as they fought to stay alive for themselves, their families, and one another.

Here is the bestselling guide that created a new game plan for marketing in high-tech industries. Crossing the Chasm has become the bible for bringing cutting-edge products to progressively larger markets. This edition provides new insights into the realities of high-tech marketing, with special emphasis on the Internet. It's essential reading for anyone with a stake in the world's most exciting marketplace.

In this sweeping history of vodka scion Pyotr Smirnov and his family, distinguished journalist Linda Himelstein plumbs a great riddle of Russian history through the story of a humble serf who rose to create one of the most celebrated business empires the world has ever known. At the center of this vivid narrative, Pyotr Smirnov comes to life as a hero of wonderful complexity a man of intense ambition and uncanny business sense, a patriarch of a family that would help define Russian society and suffer from the Revolution's aftermath, and a loyalist to a nation that would one day honor him as a treasure of the state.Born in a small village in 1831, Smirnov relied on vodka a commodity that in many ways defines Russia to turn a life of scarcity and anonymity into one of immense wealth and international recognition. Starting from the backrooms and side streets of 19th century Moscow, Smirnov exploited a golden age of emancipation and brilliant grassroots marketing strategies to popularize his products and ensconce his brand within the thirsts and imaginations of drinkers around the world. His vodka would be gulped in the taverns of Russia and Europe, praised with accolades at World Fairs, and become a staple on the tables of Tsars. His improbable ascent set against a sobriety crusade supported by Chekhov and Tolstoy, mounting political uprisings and labor strikes, the eventual monopolization of the vodka trade by the state would crumble amidst the chaos of the Bolshevik revolution. Only a set of bizarre coincidences including an incredible prison escape by one of Smirnov's sons in 1919 would prevent Smirnov's legacy from fading into oblivion.Set against a backdrop of political and ideological currents that would determine the course of global history from the fall of the Tsars to the rise of Communism, from vodka's popularization by none other than James Bond to Smirnoff's emergence as a multi-billion dollar brand Smirnov's story of triumph and tragedy is a captivating historical touchstone. The King of Vodka is much more than a biography of an extraordinary man. It is a work of narrative history on an epic scale.

No one knew Led Zeppelin like Richard Cole. The band's tour manager for more than a decade, Cole was there when they burst onto the music scene, achieved cult status, cut platinum records, and transformed popular music. Second only to the Beatles in sales for years, Led Zeppelin was rock's premier group. But unlike the boys from Liverpool, the excitement of this band"s music was matched by the fever pitch of their antics on and off the stage....In hotel rooms and stadiums, in a customized private Boeing 707 jet and country estates, Richard Cole saw it all -- and here he tells it all in this close-up, down-and-dirty, no-holds-barred account that records the highs, the lows, and the occasional in-betweens. This revised edition brings fans up to date on the band members' lives and careers, which may be a little quieter now, but their songs remain the same.

Does your partner want to go out on Friday nights when you prefer to curl up at home with a movieDoes your neat-freak boyfriend always want to clean up your cluttered officeDoes your wife want to plan trips six months in advance while you're a fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants kind of personThe truth is, opposites attract. People who are different from each other in fundamental ways often catch each other's attention. We are attracted to the very qualities we wish we had ourselves. A shy person looks for a mate who is outgoing and gregarious to provide a social circle, and the outgoing person may need to be with someone who won't compete with him for attention. It seems like the perfect match that is, until those very differences that originally attracted us start to drive us crazy. But these differences don't have to drive couples apart. Renee Baron, a marriage and family therapist with more than twenty-five years of experience, uses the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator to provide a practical program for learning to appreciate our differences, rather than fight over them. The MBTI is the most widely used personality indicator in the world. By discovering your innate personality preferences and those of your partner, you can stop having the same fights over and over again and start appreciating the gifts each of you offers to the relationship.

Should you give your child nutritional supplementsAre vaccinations safeWhy are more and more children becoming couch potatoesIn Healthy Child, Whole Child, doctors Stuart H. Ditchek and Russell H. Greenfield answer these questions and more, offering authoritative, cutting-edge information on all aspects of children's health and wellness. Taking the position that conventional and alternative approaches to pediatric care are not mutually exclusive, they provide the newest science and most up-to-date information on: The 6 myths (and one true statement) about vaccinations The 10 powerhouse foods for your kids The 7 questions you need to ask to find out if your child is overweight The 16 herbs that are safe and effective for children How to receive more integrative care from your current pediatricianAnd more!