After a tumble down the rabbit hole, Alice finds herself far away from home in the absurd world of Wonderland. As mind-bending as it is delightful, Lewis Carroll’s 1865 novel is pure magic for young and old alike.

A woman's teenage son takes his own life. It is incomprehensible. The woman is a writer, and so she attempts to comprehend her grief in the space she knows best: on the page, as an imagined conversation with the child she has lost. He is as sharp and funny and serious in death as he was in life itself, and he will speak back to her, unable to offer explanation or solace, but not yet, not quite, gone.
Where Reasons End is an extraordinary portrait of parenthood, in all its painful contradictions of joy, humour and sorrow, and of what it is to lose a child.

If you’ve ever thought you should learn to use the Unix command line that underlies macOS, or felt at sea when typing commands into Terminal, Joe Kissell is here to help! With this 221-page book, you’ll become comfortable working on the Mac’s command line, starting with the fundamentals and adding more advanced topics as your knowledge increases.
Now includes complete coverage of Big Sur, Catalina, and zsh!
Joe includes 64 real-life “recipes” for tasks that are best done from the command line, as well as directions for working with permissions, carrying out grep-based searches, creating shell scripts, and installing Unix software.
I found answers to many questions in your book, and I enjoyed reading it. I am definitely more confident now in facing the Mac command line. Thank you for the time and art that you spent to create such a clarifying text.
—Mona Hosseini, grad student in Genomic Medicine and Statistics at the University of Oxford
The book begins by teaching you these core concepts:
The differences among Unix, a command line, a shell, and Terminal
Exactly how commands, arguments, and flags work
The basics of Terminal’s interface and how to customize it
Next, it’s on to the command line, where you’ll learn:
How to navigate your Mac’s directory structure
Basic file management: creating, copying, moving, renaming, opening, viewing, and deleting files
Creating symbolic links
The types of command-line programs
How to start and stop a command-line program
How to edit a text file in nano
How to customize your prompt and other shell defaults
The importance of your PATH and how to change it, if you need to
How to get help (Joe goes way beyond telling you to read the man pages)
You’ll extend your skills as you discover how to:
Create basic shell scripts to automate repetitive tasks.
Make shell scripts that have variables, user input, conditional statements, loops, and math.
See which programs are running and what system resources they’re consuming.
Quit programs that refuse to quit normally.
Enable the command line to interact with the Finder.
Control another Mac via its command line with ssh.
Understand and change an item’s permissions, owner, and group.
Run commands as the root user using sudo.
Handle output with pipe (|) or redirect (> or <).
Use grep to search for text patterns in files and filter output.
Install new command-line software from scratch or with a package manager.
Use handy shortcuts in the Terminal app itself and in zsh.
Questions answered include:
What changed on the command line in macOS 11 Big Sur? (Very little, unless you have an M-series Mac with Apple silicon!)
What changed on the command line in macOS 10.15 Catalina? (A lot!)
What are the differences between the zsh shell and the bash shell?
Which shell am I using, and how can I change my default shell?
How do I quickly figure out the path to an item on my Mac?
How can I customize my Terminal window so I can see man pages behind it?
How can I make a shortcut to avoid retyping the same long command?
Is there a trick for entering a long path quickly?
What should I say when someone asks if I know how to use vi?
How do I change my prompt to suit my mood or needs?
What is Command Line Tools for Xcode?
When it comes to package managers, which one should I use?
Very good! A pleasure to read, the right balance of coverage and clarity.
—Brian G.
Finally, to help you put it all together, the book showcases 64 real-world “recipes” that combine commands to perform useful tasks, such as listing users who’ve logged in recently, manipulating graphics, using a separate FileVault password, creating and editing user accounts, figuring out why a disk won’t eject, copying the source code of a webpage, determining which apps have open connections to the internet, flushing the DNS cache, finding out why a Mac won’t sleep, sending an SMS message, and deleting stubborn items from the Trash.

Paulo Coelho's enchanting novel has inspired a devoted following around the world. This story, dazzling in its powerful simplicity and soul-stirring wisdom, is about an Andalusian shepherd boy named Santiago, who travels from his homeland in Spain to the Egyptian desert in search of a treasure buried near the Pyramids.
Along the way he meets a Romany woman, a man who calls himself a king, and an alchemist, all of whom point Santiago in the right direction for his quest. No one knows what the treasure is, or whether Santiago will be able to surmount the obstacles in his path; but what starts out as a journey to find worldly goods turns into a discovery of treasure within.
Lush, evocative, and deeply humane, the story of Santiago is an eternal testament to the transforming power of our dreams and the importance of listening to our hearts.

Do You Always Use the Right Word?
Can You Pronounce It -- and Spell It -- Correctly?
Do You Know How to Avoid Illiterate Expressions?
Do You Speak Grammatically, Without Embarrassing Mistakes?
If the answer to any of these questions is NO, you ought to read Word Power Made Easy. Now thoroughly revised to eliminate outmoded references and to to reflect current idioms, it remains the best and quickest means to a better vocabulary in the English language.
Each chapter ends with review. Each section ends with a progressive check. Numerous tests will help you increase and retain the knowledge you acquired. Word Power Made Easy does more than just ass words to you vocabulary. It teaches ideas and a method of broadening knowledge as an integral part of the vocabulary building process.

Engaging and direct, Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace is the guidebook for anyone who wants to write well.Engaging and direct, Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace is the guidebook for anyone who wants to write well.

In this generation-defining self-help guide, a superstar blogger cuts through the crap to show us how to stop trying to be "positive" all the time so that we can truly become better, happier people.
For decades, we’ve been told that positive thinking is the key to a happy, rich life. "F**k positivity," Mark Manson says. "Let’s be honest, shit is f**ked and we have to live with it." In his wildly popular Internet blog, Manson doesn’t sugarcoat or equivocate. He tells it like it is—a dose of raw, refreshing, honest truth that is sorely lacking today. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F**k is his antidote to the coddling, let’s-all-feel-good mindset that has infected modern society and spoiled a generation, rewarding them with gold medals just for showing up.
Manson makes the argument, backed both by academic research and well-timed poop jokes, that improving our lives hinges not on our ability to turn lemons into lemonade, but on learning to stomach lemons better. Human beings are flawed and limited—"not everybody can be extraordinary, there are winners and losers in society, and some of it is not fair or your fault." Manson advises us to get to know our limitations and accept them. Once we embrace our fears, faults, and uncertainties, once we stop running and avoiding and start confronting painful truths, we can begin to find the courage, perseverance, honesty, responsibility, curiosity, and forgiveness we seek.
There are only so many things we can give a f**k about so we need to figure out which ones really matter, Manson makes clear. While money is nice, caring about what you do with your life is better, because true wealth is about experience. A much-needed grab-you-by-the-shoulders-and-look-you-in-the-eye moment of real-talk, filled with entertaining stories and profane, ruthless humor, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F**k is a refreshing slap for a generation to help them lead contented, grounded lives.

The Penguin Guide to Punctuation is indispensable for anyone who needs to get to grips with using punctuation in their written work. Whether you are puzzled by colons and semicolons, unsure of where commas should go or baffled by apostrophes, this jargon-free, succinct guide is for you.

这是一本薄薄的小书。首版于1918年由纽约一家出版社出版。作者William Strunk,康耐尔大学英语教授，E.B.怀特对此书加以了修正。此书短小精悍，容量巨大。涵盖了母语英语的人写作和用法上常出的错误，也清晰地解释了一些语法书中很难找到的语言现象。虽然是为说英语的学生所写,但对于任何需要进一步了解英文用法，进而学习书写英文的人，这本书必不可少的。

The ideal book for people who want to increase their word power. Thorough coverage of 1,200 words and 240 roots while introducing 2,300 words. The Vocabulary Builder is organized by Greek and Latin roots for effective study with nearly 250 new words and roots. Includes quizzes after each root discussion to test progress. A great study aid for students preparing to take standardized tests.

本书原称Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary of Current English（简称OALD），其英文本自问世以来历经三次修订，在本世纪下半叶40多年中一直风行全世界，受到广大读者的热烈欢迎。1988年，我馆经牛津大学出版准许，在内地出版发行《牛津现代高级英汉双解词典》（简化汉字本），其英文本即本词典的第三版。1989年，牛津大学出版推出扁英文本的第四版，由著名语言学家A·P·COWIE 主持，对第三版又作了全面的修订，使扁的篇幅比第三版增加了50%以上，在选词、注音、释义、例证、用法说明、句型符号以及习语的收录等各个方面都城作了更新，因而内容更丰富、更实用、更切合非英语国家广大英语学习者的需求，堪称当今英语词典之佼佼者。1994年，词典的英汉双解本问世，书名改称《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》。经牛津大学出版惠允，我馆可在内地出版发行上述英汉双解版的简化汉字本，也就是摆在读者面前的这一本书。//本书出版前，经牛津大学出版同意，我们对原书在文字上作了一些技术处理，使之更符合内地读者的习惯。如有不妥之处，敬请读者指正。//商务印书馆编辑部//1997年7月

A completely revised and updated edition of this best-selling language reference is now available. Covers the core vocabulary of everyday life with over 75,000 clear, concise definitions. Includes pronunciations, word origins and synonym lists. Special sections and tables.
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