Peace, war, internal strife; You Miao has lived through it all—but not without his loyal Quanrong slave-turned-husband, Li Zhifeng. Theirs is a story of undying devotion that combats racial boundaries in a time when the ethnic tribes of the north clashed with the Han empire. Together, they ruled the world! (Behind the scenes, of course.)As friends, as foes, as friends turned foes and foes turned friends, the epic continues its song, and the most beautiful moonlight of the great des...

Peace, war, internal strife; You Miao has lived through it all—but not without his loyal Quanrong slave-turned-husband, Li Zhifeng. Theirs is a story of undying devotion that combats racial boundaries in a time when the ethnic tribes of the north clashed with the Han empire. Together, they ruled the world! (Behind the scenes, of course.)As friends, as foes, as friends turned foes and foes turned friends, the epic continues its song, and the most beautiful moonlight of the great des...

This book synthesizes the development and advanced methods in the financial investment decision making in the big data environment, and explores systematic solutions for quantitative portfolio selection problems by integrating theoretical elaboration with practical applications, while also summarizing the future development directions and trends of the field. It aims to provide a valuable reference for researchers in quantitative finance, and investment practitioners, as well as graduate s...

***INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER*From theNew York Times Notable author of The Old Woman with the Knifecomes a bracingly original story of family, marriage and the cultural expectations of motherhood, about four women whose lives intersect in dramatic and unexpected ways at a government-run apartment complex outside Seoul**When Yojin moves with her husband and daughter into the Dream Future Pilo...

Peace, war, internal strife; You Miao has lived through it all—but not without his loyal Quanrong slave-turned-husband, Li Zhifeng. Theirs is a story of undying devotion that combats racial boundaries in a time when the ethnic tribes of the north clashed with the Han empire. Together, they ruled the world! (Behind the scenes, of course.)As friends, as foes, as friends turned foes and foes turned friends, the epic continues its song, and the most beautiful moonlight of the great des...

Peace, war, internal strife; You Miao has lived through it all—but not without his loyal Quanrong slave-turned-husband, Li Zhifeng. Theirs is a story of undying devotion that combats racial boundaries in a time when the ethnic tribes of the north clashed with the Han empire. Together, they ruled the world! (Behind the scenes, of course.)As friends, as foes, as friends turned foes and foes turned friends, the epic continues its song, and the most beautiful moonlight of the great des...

A practical guide to applying LLMs across the software development and delivery lifecycle, improve development, testing, operations, and project efficiency across modern software organizations. Key FeaturesApply LLMs to modern DevOps workflows across development and operations with practical enterprise examplesBuild architectural fluency in GPT, fine-tuning, RAG, and agent-based systemsStrengthen software delivery pipelines with AI-informed aut...

Death by a truck was merely the beginning of his real struggle.He wakes up in a brutal world where human lives are worth less than a single pill, and "immortals" stab each other in the back for the slightest gain. He quickly realizes one truth: talent is not a shield it's a target.Amidst deadly territories, backstabbing allies, and suffocating conspiracies, he discovers a strange, dormant relic within his own mind an ancient furnace capable of rewriting the nature of anythi...

She had a plan. He wasn't in it.At thirty, Maple An has built exactly the life she was supposed to want: a career she's earned, an apartment with a river view, and a clear sense of what comes next. What comes next is supposed to be marriage. What comes next is not supposed to be Evan — twenty-two years old, white shirt, easy smile, appearing at her bus stop one autumn morning like a problem she didn't know she had.Eight years is a long time. Long enough for...

Future SF is a magazine focusing on international science fiction.In this oversized issue we've collected stories from the established masters as well as some exciting up-and-comers in China, Japan, and South Korea.From machine societies to ocean depths, from interstellar migrations to genetically engineered mermaids, these tales envision very different, often dark, but always fascinating futures.Includes the following stories:Rœsin by Wu Guan (translated fr...

Our natural awakening—or buddha-nature—is inherent within all of us and waiting to be realized. Buddha-nature has the qualities of both silence and illumination, and by working with silent illumination meditation you can find your own awakening. Distinguished Chan Buddhist teacher Guo Gu introduces you to the significance and methods of this practice through in-depth explanations and guided instructions. To help establish a foundation for realizing silent illumination, he has translated tw...

A new edition of the groundbreaking 1958 publication created in collaboration with the Gitanyow Hereditary Chiefs.This beautiful new edition of the histories and laws of the Gitanyow (literally "people of the small/narrow place," once called the Kitwancool in settler accounts), as recounted to museum curator Wilson Duff in 1958, includes a new foreword by Gitanyow Hereditary Chiefs while preserving the original text.Until the mid-twentieth century, the vill...