Meet Kangaroo.He's a superpowered secret agent who's about to face his toughest mission yet:Vacation.Kangaroo isn't your typical spy. Sure, he has extensive agency training, access to bleeding-edge technology, and a ready supply of quips and retorts. But what sets him apart is the pocket: a portal that opens into an empty, seemingly infinite, parallel universe. Kangaroo is the only person in the world who can use the pocket, and he's pretty s...

靈感源自網路都市傳說「後室」（The Backrooms）與史蒂芬・金式的心理驚悚結合科幻、恐怖、人生哲思與意識空間探索如《1408》、《異次元駭客》與《心靈捕手》融合般的敘事結構適合喜愛都市怪談、潛意識探索、異世界設定與心理懸疑小說的讀者英文版於亞馬遜電子書商店全球同步上架是否逃出生天，從不是關鍵。你真正該問的，是——你有沒有曾經「真正」存在過？如果一扇「出口」的門，會將你帶到不存在的地方……你，還敢打開它嗎？詹姆斯・特納是一名來自俄亥俄州的平凡中年工程師，生活被家庭、工作與習慣填得死死的，直到某一天他獨自來到一座新開幕的大型購物中心，意外走入一扇不起眼的「安全出口」。從那一刻起，他墜入了傳說中的「後室（The Backrooms）」——一個由無限空間、蠕動光線、迷宮鏡廊與詭異實體構成的超現實世界。那裡沒有時間，也沒有出口。只有恐懼、孤獨，還有——無止盡的自我對話。在這場令人窒息的逃脫旅程中，詹姆斯將遇見善與惡、真...

江孫芸是美國最有名的中國菜食神. 她早在1963年就開了"福祿壽"，這是當年最高端的中國餐館，江孫芸一下子就把中國菜的名聲從中國城的油湯膩匙，提升成中華美食。福祿壽的聲譽久久不墜，要歸功於它可口的菜式及女主人讓客人賓至如歸的本領，到了1970年，美國人了解到江孫芸及福祿壽永遠改變了美國人的味蕾。江孫芸的名氣很大一部份要歸功於舊金山紀事報的專欄作家. Herb Caen, 他在造訪福祿壽之後，寫了一篇報導，說在 Polk Street 這個"牆上的小洞"的中國菜，是太平洋以東最好吃的中國菜。第二天一早，江孫芸來餐館準備上班時嚇了一跳，因為客人已經在門口排成一條長龍，此後. 她及福祿壽就進入了美國的中菜史，被耶魯大學教授 Paul Freedman 稱為"改變美國的十大餐館"之唯一的中國餐館。

民國知識女性的另一種樣本 劉雁提起民国知识女性，我们脑海中會涌现出一長串令我們欽佩的名字:林徽因，張愛玲，趙萝蕤，陳衡哲，丁玲，冰心......她們不僅才華出衆，在各自的領域成就傲人，個人生活方面，她們也大多抛開傳統，而選擇聽從自己的内心，成爲中華數千年歷史中追求個性解放與婚姻解放的第一、二代女性。邱彰筆下的王詳明和她的母親，則爲我們提供了民國知識女性的另一種樣本。王詳明出生于上海富裕的企業家家庭，從小就是父親的掌上明珠，受盡嬌寵。從聞名遐邇的教會學校中西女校畢業后，她進入美國哥倫比亞大學，拿到圖書舘學碩士學位，在國會圖書館做到管理三百余人的處長，也是一位學識、能力不輸他人的女子。然而，她的個人生活卻令人氣結：她的婚姻是"父母之命"。接受邱璋采訪時， 嵗的她直言不諱地說，她從來沒愛過她的丈夫，只是因爲不願讓父母不快，她接受了這門親事。不僅如此，婚姻中的她，對丈夫以"老爺"相稱，以"照顧老爺"為己任，"老爺"的話就是聖旨，心中再不樂意也要立即執行。她不僅承...

Kangaroo's back!And this time it's personal...Maybe?On the way home from his latest mission, secret agent Kangaroo's spacecraft is wrecked by a rogue mining robot. The agency tracks the bot back to the Moon, where a retired asteroid miner—code named "Clementine"—might have information about who's behind the sabotage.Clementine will only deal with Jessica Chu, Kangaroo's personal physician and a former military doctor once deployed in ...

Yangchens Unerfahrenheit könnte sich als ihr größter Vorteil erweisen … Als Yangchen in politischen Angelegenheiten nach Bin-Er im Erdkönigreich reist, führt eine zufällige Begegnung mit einem Informanten namens Kavik zu einer seltsamen Partnerschaft. Bin-Er ist eine Stadt, die von korrupten Shang-Händlern regiert wird, die sich über den Erdkönig und seine Launen ärgern. Um sich seinem Einfluss zu entziehen, haben die Shang nur eine Lösung im Sinn: eine geheimnisvolle Massenvernichtungswaf...

While traditional approaches in pattern recognition and computer vision have continued to evolve, along with the advances of artificial intelligence (AI), this unique compendium presents recent research activities in deep learning, graph-based and semantic-based approaches and applications.The book covers the most recent advances as well as traditional topics in pattern recognition and computer vision in this new AI area in the first part. The second part presents emerging applicat...

Kangaroo doesn't want to go to prison?Too bad, Kangaroo!Be seeing you.Welcome to the spacefaring future, where humanity travels between planets with ease and has abused that power to establish outposts in some questionable places.Take Venus, for example: a sister world to Mother Earth, similar in size and gravity, it's also known for having a toxic atmosphere and hellish landscape at ground level. B...

PHYSICS OF SOLAR ENERGY AND ENERGY STORAGEJoin the fight for a renewable world with this indispensable introductionSolar energy is one of the most essential tools in the fight to create a sustainable future. A wholly renewable and cost-effective energy source capable of providing domestic, business, and industrial energy, solar energy is expected to become a $223 billion a year industry by 2026. The future of global energy production demand...

En Bin-Er, no tienes ningún valor hasta que alguien decida que lo tienes.Es un periodo de tensión en las Cuatro Naciones. Una crisis internacional ha causado un ambiente hostil entre el Reino Tierra, las Tribus Agua y la Nación del Fuego. Ahora el mundo entero se encuentra bajo el régimen del opresor sistema shang, donde solo la élite tiene el poder y la información es la moneda de cambio más valiosa.Kavik, un joven maestro agua de la ciudad de Bin-Er, se g...

The Springer Handbook of Chem- and Bioinformatics provides an introduction as well as a detailed description of the application of various techniques used in chemo- and bioinformatics. It covers basic topics such as a discussion of computational techniques used in the predictions of structures, properties, and dynamics of small compounds, macromolecules, and their complexes. Diverse applications of QSAR methods are also revealed. Various chapters offer specifics of current methodo...

Comprehensive resource discussing operating principles, available architectures, and design of micropower incremental analog-to-digital converters (IADCs)Incremental Data Converters for Sensor Interfaces describes the motivation for using incremental analog-to-digital converters (IADCs), including the theoretical foundations of their operation, the trade-offs in their use, and the practical issues in the circuit analysis and design of IADCs. The text cover...