大文豪马可吐温曾经这样来形容犹太人：假如统计数字是准确的话，犹太人只代表着全人类的一个百分点，就像在银河系中无关重要的一个暗尘。照理来说，犹太人应该是寂寂无闻，无人认识的。但事实上，我们日日都听到他们的新闻，若从名声来说，他们比世上任何一个民族都如雷贯耳，而他们在经济与商界所占的位置，更与他们的人口不成比例。他们在人类各重大领域所作的贡献更是有目共睹，无论是文学，自然科学，芸术，音乐，医学，以及任何重要的学问，他们的贡献都是叫人惊讶的。我们可以说，在这个世界，他们的成绩真是骄人，特别考虑到多年来他们在种种不利的环境下争扎求存，他们真可以以自己为荣啊！埃及人，巴比伦人和波斯人，他们一一登上权力中心的位置，叫全世界侧目，但不久就灭亡了。希腊人和罗马人亦如此。他们也曾暄耀一时，但跟着就烟飞灰灭，也有其他国家忽然冒起，他们的火炬燃烧一会，但跟着就熄灭了。今天他们若非黯淡无光，就是完全的不存在了。这一切，犹太人全都看在眼内，也完全胜过他们了。但今天的犹太人就像他过去任何一个时代那样，整个民族没有老态，没有衰败，没有中落的迹象，他们的精力没有走下坡，他们民族的精神没有暗...

Since his first visit to the Holy Land in 2000, Prof. Tan has made many trips to the Holy Land in the past 20 years. As a free independent traveler, he has opportunity to make meaningful visits to most biblically related places in the Holy Land, and this book is the product of his observations, research and meditations during his visits to the Holy Land over the past 20 years.Although today there are already many Chinese books about the Holy Land, this book still has its own unique...

Can a nation really be born in a day? For almost two thousand years, Christians struggled to know how to interpret the numerous references to the restoration of Israel in the prophetic books of Isaiah, Jeremiah and Ezekiel; including this passage from Isaiah 66. For hundreds and hundreds of years since the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans, the Jewish people were scattered all over the world, and with every passing century, it seemed less and less likely that the nation of Israel woul...

In the past decade, Professor/Elder Tan had travelled to Greece and Rome many times to search for the footsteps of St. Paul there. A man with scientific mind and one on the way to the heavenly city, Elder Tan wrote this book “Ancient Footsteps – Following the footsteps of St. Paul in Greece and Rome” based on historical, geographical, cultural and archeological facts yet with literary writing style. A pious pilgrim, the author imbibed the book with reflective meditations of the Scriptures ...

Although I am an ardent traveler, for many years, I had not thought of visiting Istanbul, nor had I any intention to tour Turkey. This was largely because Istanbul or Turkey reminds me of the sad story of decline of Christianity in Asia Minor (this refers to the Anatolia, or today’s Asia portion of Turkey). The city Istanbul, formerly known as Constantinople, was for a thousand years the capital of the vast Christian Byzantine Empire (Eastern Roman Empire) that spanned three continents: Eu...

This book is the author’s travel journal to the Seven Churches of Revelation and Patmos Island. The content is as follows:Chapter 1: Ephesus, the Church that Has Forsaken Her First LoveChapter 2: Smyrna, the Afflicted Church yet with Victor’s CrownChapter 3: Pergamum, Where Satan has His ThroneChapter 4: Thyatira: A Church that Tolerate SinChapter 5: Laodicea, the Lukewarm ChurchChapter 6: Philadelphia, the Church with Open DoorChapte...

What is the secret of the immortality of the Jews? As Mark Twain wrote in 1897, the civilizations of Egypt, Babylon, Greece and Rome, which flourished at the same time as the ancient Jewish civilization, were once glorious, but they all had long ceased to exist, and today only some excavated artifacts are left in the museums to prove their existence. But the ancient Jewish people are still as vigorous today as they were in ancient time. Not only that, but in the fifty years after Mark Twai...

A complete and up-to-date overview of popular and practical erasure codes in distributed storageIn Distributed Storage in Practice, a team of distinguished researchers delivers a comprehensive discussion on distributed storage coding and distributed storage systems. Divided into two parts, the book first explores distributed storage coding technology based on Maximum Distance Separable (MDS) codes, including array codes, Reed-Solomon codes, locally repaira...

The Filipino economy has experienced overall growth over the last 20 years, but the growth of the manufacturing sector has been sluggish, and the country has lost innovation capacity. Regaining momentum will depend on many factors, but skills have a key role to play in supporting the growing service sector, improving the competitiveness of the manufacturing sector, and enhancing the long-term ability of the country to innovate and adapt and assimilate new technologies. 'Skills for the Labo...

Around the island in 80 recipes part travel experience, part food immersion.To eat in Hong Kong is endlessly fascinating and exciting. A mere dot on the map of China, and home to seven million migrants, Hong Kong boasts a food scene that is breathtakingly rich and varied. Tony Tan explores this vibrant city through 80 exquisite cult dishes, from the cutting-edge contemporary to the traditional, from both the high and low of Hong Kong cuisine with recipes from the c...

Operation Coldstore remains the most contentious event in the history of postcolonial Singapore. Despite attempts by the state to silence ex-detainees, by warning that they would not be permitted to rewrite the state’s official version of history, the authors in this volume have done just that.They have placed on record their own perspective of events. The autobiographical element in the narratives brings to life what these individuals went through as left-wing political actors who...

"Cai Gen Tan" 菜根谭, or “Cabbage Roots Talk” is a collection of quotations by Hong Yingming in Ming Dynasty. Including ideas of life skills-based aphoristic essay anthology, a blend of Confucian doctrine of the mean thought, Taoist inaction thought and Buddhist born life thinking philosophy of life. The content of "Cai Gen Tan" is a popular book of Confucianism. It is the essence of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism. It is centered on mind and Zen , and has the avenues of self-cultivation, f...