Witemeyer Returns with Her Trademark Blend of Adventure, Romance, and HumorGrace Mallory is tired of running, of hiding. But when an old friend sends an after-hours telegraph transmission warning Grac

Grushin's stunning debut drew praise that placed her in the top rank of young literary voices. Now she returns with that rarity: a second novel even more dazzling than her first. The line: the universal symbol of scarcity and bureauA-cracy that exists wherever petty officials are let loose to abuse their powers. The line begins to form on the whispered rumor that a famous exi...(展开全部)

《阿衰on line》在《漫画Party》杂志经过2年的连载，阿衰的故事给大家带来了欢乐，给我也带来了巨大的自信。世界是由千千万万个阿衰这样的小人物组成的。当我们收回对优秀者艳慕的目光，揉揉因为仰视明星太久而发酸的脖子，也应该关怀一下并不出众的你我他…… 本册为第21辑。

Why is science so credible? Usual answers centre on scientists' objective methods or their powerful instruments. This text argues that a better explanation for the cultural authority of science lies downstream, when scientific claims leave laboratories and enter courtrooms, boardrooms, and living rooms. On such occasions, we use "maps" to decide who to believe - cultural maps d...(展开全部)

During the height of the Cold War in the 1950s the small island of Quemoy in the Taiwan Strait was the front line in the military standoff between Chiang Kai-shek's Republic of China and Mao Zedong's People's Republic. Local society and culture were dramatically transformed. Michael Szonyi uses oral history, official documents, and dissident writings to convey the history of th...(展开全部)

The Command Line has been in existence on UNIX-based OSes in the form of Bash shell for over 3 decades. However, very little is known to developers as to how command-line tools can be OSEMN (pronounced as awesome and standing for Obtaining, Scrubbing, Exploring, Modeling, and iNterpreting data) for carrying out simple-to-advanced data science tasks at speed.This book will start with the requisite concepts and installation steps for carrying out data science tasks using the command line. You will learn to create a data pipeline to solve the problem of working with small-to medium-sized files on a single machine. You will understand the power of the command line, learn how to edit files using a text-based and an. You will not only learn how to automate jobs and scripts, but also learn how to visualize data using the command line. By the end of this book, you will learn how to speed up the process and perform automated tasks using command-line tools.

In the summer of 1983, twenty-year-old Nick Guest moves into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the Feddens: conservative Member of Parliament Gerald, his wealthy wife Rachel, and their two children, Toby-whom Nick had idolized at Oxford-and Catherine, highly critical of her family's assumptions and ambitions. As the boom years of the eighties unfold, Nick, an innocent i...(展开全部)

Open the front door and step inside a house exploding with patterns, colors, and Laura Ljungkvistas signature line Young children can follow the line through every room, discovering hidden surprises. From the kitchen with its stocked refrigerator, to the playroom brimming with toys, to the basement with its shiny toolbox, this house is filled with visual treasures. Questions p...(展开全部)

日本讀者評論為村上龍作品中足以排名第一或第二的作品！！ 這是一條慾念線。 失意攝影師向井，在SM女郎順子身體上尋求壓抑後的出口。 這是一條惡意線。 酒家女康子，在路上揀回離家少女明美，膩了，就丟棄她。 這是一條暴戾線。 私生子俊彥，動輒揮拳將同居人良喜打得面目模糊，再哭求原諒。 這是一條依存線。 男人央求撲克臉女人將他豢養在狗屋裡，只因人必須藉由他人來確認自我的存在…… 一群擁有相同感傷頻率線的陌生人，相繼遇見彼此。 他們的相遇，是被那些危險又美麗的訊號吸引而來， 它們來自一位叫優子的神秘女子。 優子可以看見、聽見電線中流動的電子訊號， 可以解構、再重組她所看見、聽見的電子訊號。 但優子卻透過性愛，感受她與人們的連結。 因為除了訊號，她整個人彷彿是置身在一個虛構的時空中， 只有她，沒有別人； 只有她，沒有愛…… ◎日本網友書評 「由20章所構成的小說...(展开全部)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: n He Shook hands with me: "Well, there you are, on your own, appointed officially under my responsibility." He was actually walking with me to the door. What a distance off it seemed I moved like ...(展开全部)