《印度佛教思想史》内容简介：印顺法师（1906-2005），当代著名高僧、百科全书式的佛学泰斗。1930年出家，追随太虚法师投身中国近现代佛教复兴运动，在当时便以学问精深享誉佛教界。二十世纪四十年代末赴台湾，创建了多所著名佛学院。
印顺法师博通三藏，造诣精深，一生讲学不辍，著述宏富，撰写、编纂作品四十余种，计八百万言，陆续结集为《妙云集》（24册）、《华雨集》（5册）等，其学术水准备受海内外佛教界、学术界推崇。1973年，日本大正大学因印顺法师《中国禅宗史》一书的创见而特别授予他文学博士学位。由于他在介绍和弘扬印度佛学方面的杰出成就，被誉为“玄奘以来第一人”。

《經濟學人》譽為「薩依德的繼承者」
《外交政策》評為「全球百大思想家」
2012年獲選《經濟學人》年度最佳圖書
諾貝爾文學獎得主帕慕克大力推薦
何謂亞洲的價值？
亞洲各國如何從西方帝國的廢墟中重生？
亞洲各地富有獨立思考能力的思想家、知識份子，試圖擺脫傳統的框架，尋求抑制西方國家對亞洲大陸日漸增長的支配欲望、尋找亞洲重生的道路，進而重塑亞洲。
潘卡吉‧米什拉的《從帝國廢墟中崛起：從梁啟超到泰戈爾，喚醒亞洲與改變世界》從世紀初的日俄戰爭開始談起，述及日本將霸權一舉伸向韓國及太平洋部份地區，因其打敗強大的俄羅斯帝國，由此次的空前勝利對亞洲國家各地的知識份子產生深遠的影響。例如中國的梁啟超、孫中山，印度諾貝爾文學獎得主泰戈爾，伊斯蘭之父賈邁勒丁‧阿富汗尼，他們都想像當時的日本一樣，開始東方國家政治與經濟的改革。然而本書作者潘卡吉‧米什拉卻以不同的角度，呈現給讀者亞洲歷史文化的另一面向：這些思想家的見聞，建構了亞洲現代哲學的思想理論，並向大眾展現他們共同嚮往亞洲擁有更為宏遠的目標，但其實現在的亞洲國家卻是盲目採用西方的模式，盲目跟隨西方政治、經濟思想，導致亞洲喪失本身的文化，同時更承襲西方國家的惡習。
《從帝國廢墟中崛起》結合了東方的政治思想，集結印度、中國及阿拉伯的精神，是一本不容忽視的預言式作品。
在西方人眼中，昂揚大步向外擴張的維多利亞時期，在亞洲人眼中卻是場浩劫。外國軍人和商人瓦解原是文明核心的大帝國。隨著英國人以船堅炮利拉下蒙兀兒帝國的末代皇帝、燒掉北京圓明園、羞辱奧圖曼土耳其帝國的破產統治者，因此，探索救亡圖存之道是亞洲國家的當務之急。
潘卡吉‧米什拉以引人入勝、趣味橫生的筆觸，講述亞洲大陸上一群有智之士如何迎接西方挑戰。他們不斷地質問、掙扎、深感痛苦，既痛恨西方，又體認到得與敵人正面交鋒及向敵人學習，亞洲才有復興可言。經過許多挫敗和誤入歧途，一連串強有力、彼此矛盾且最終勢不可擋的觀念誕生，成為如今從中國共產黨到凱達組織，從印度民族主義到穆斯林兄弟會的種種勢力背後之動力根源。
米什拉透過遊歷歐亞各地的記者、詩人、激進份子、克里斯瑪型領袖的眼睛，引領讀者重新審視過去兩百年的歷史。這些思想家坐在當時似乎注定會被列強永久瓜分的舊帝國的廢墟之中，構思出反過來將使新帝國注定走向滅亡的觀念，且這些觀念還成為支撐二十一世紀亞洲大國的支柱。
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米什拉以敏銳、博學又有趣的態度呈現亞洲思想家如何回應西方逐漸衰頹的霸權，這位著名的當代印度知識份子是「薩伊德的繼承者」。
──《經濟學人》
米什拉反轉了長期由西方角度看東方的視角，呈現了世界上大多數民眾──從土耳其到中國──所感受認同的現代歷史。
──罕・帕慕克（Orhan Pamuk，諾貝爾文學獎得主，土耳其文學大師）
一本非常棒且突破創新的著作。這不只是一部卓越的亞洲史，更是一部為亞洲人所寫的生動歷史。
──莫欣・哈密（Mohsin Hamid，美國小說家，貝蒂特拉斯克獎得主）
《從帝國廢墟中崛起》以極具說服力的言辭，描繪一群亞洲最有教養、最有洞見的知識份子令人好奇且複雜之思想歷程。
──茱莉亞・洛弗爾（Julia Lovell，英國歷史學家，《鴉片戰爭》作者）
富有深入的研究及令人印象深刻的原創性……任何想了解今日我們處在怎麼樣的環境的人，都應該將這本具洞察力又令人不安的書放在必讀書單上。
──約翰・格雷（John Gray，《獨立報》專欄作家）
繼薩依德的經典著作《東方主義》後，《從帝國廢墟中崛起》提供另一種令人振奮的現代歷史觀點。米什拉相當博學……是善於抓住讀者目光的敘事者。
──汪暉（北京清華大學思想史教授）
米什拉機敏且幽默地結合被忽略的歷史材料，傳達出「二十世紀最重要的發展乃是亞洲的知識覺醒和政治覺醒」的重要主張。
──哈里‧昆茲魯（Hari Kunzru，《紐約時報》專欄作家）

To identify the economic stars of the future we should abandon the habit of extrapolating from the recent past and lumping wildly diverse countries together. We need to remember that sustained economic success is a rare phenomenon. As an era of easy money and easy growth comes to a close, China in particular will cool down. Other major players including Brazil, Russia, and India face their own daunting challenges and inflated expectations. The new "breakout nations" will probably spring from the margins, even from the shadows. Ruchir Sharma, one of the world s largest investors in emerging markets for Morgan Stanley, here identifies which are most likely to leap ahead and why. After two decades spent traveling the globe tracking the progress of developing countries, Sharma has produced a book full of surprises: why the overpriced cocktails in Rio are a sign of revival in Detroit; how the threat of the "population bomb" came to be seen as a competitive advantage; how an industrial revolution in Asia is redefining what manufacturing can do for a modern economy; and how the coming shakeout in the big emerging markets could shift the spotlight back to the West, especially American technology and German manufacturing. What emerges is a clear picture of the shifting balance of global economic power and how it plays out for emerging nations and for the West. In a captivating exploration studded with vignettes, Sharma reveals his rules on how to spot economic success stories. Breakout Nations is a rollicking education for anyone looking to understand where the future will happen.

Since humans migrated from Africa and dispersed throughout the world, they have found countless ways and reasons to reconnect with each other. In this entertaining book, Nayan Chanda follows the exploits of traders, preachers, adventurers, and warriors throughout history as they have shaped and reshaped the world. For Chanda, globalization is a process of ever-growing interconnectedness and interdependence that began thousands of years ago and continues to this day with increasing speed and ease.
In the end, globalization—from the lone adventurer carving out a new trade route to the expanding ambitions of great empires—is the product of myriad aspirations and apprehensions that define just about every aspect of our lives: what we eat, wear, ride, or possess is the product of thousands of years of human endeavor and suffering across the globe. Chanda reviews and illustrates the economic and technological forces at play in globalization today and concludes with a thought-provoking discussion of how we can and should embrace an inevitably global world.

In a penetrating account of the evolution of British intelligence gathering in India, C. A. Bayly shows how networks of Indian spies were recruited by the British to secure military, political and social information about their subjects. He also examines the social and intellectual origins of these 'native informants', and considers how the colonial authorities interpreted and often misinterpreted the information they supplied. It was such misunderstandings which ultimately contributed to the failure of the British to anticipate the rebellions of 1857. The author argues, however, that even before this, complex systems of debate and communication were challenging the political and intellectual dominance of the European rulers.

Claude Markovits' book charts the development of two merchant communities in the province of Sind from the precolonial period, through colonial conquest and up to indepedence. Based on previously neglected archival sources, it describes how the communities came to control trading networks throughout the world, throwing light on the nature of these diasporas from South Asia in their interaction with the global economy. This is a sophisticated and accessible book that will appeal to students of South Asia, as well as to colonial historians and economic historians.

This book deals with the philosophical and methodological aspects of information technology and the collection and analysis of data to provide insight into a problem, whether it is scientific research, policy making by government or decision making in our daily lives. The author seeks to dispels the doubts that chance is an expression of our ignorance which makes accurate prediction impossible and illustrates how our thinking has changed with quantification of uncertainty by showing that chance is no longer the obstructor but a way of expressing our knowledge. Indeed, chance can create and help in the investigation of truth. This theory is eloquently demonstrated with numerous examples of applications that statistics is the science, technology and art of extracting information from data and is based on a study of the laws of chance. It shows how statistical ideas played a vital role in scientific and other investigations even before statistics was recognized as a separate discipline, and how statistics is now evolving as a versatile, powerful and inevitable tool in diverse fields of human endeavour such as literature, legal matters, industry, archaeology and medicine. The use of statistics to the layman in improving the quality of life through wise decision-making is emphasized.

Class-tested and coherent, this groundbreaking new textbook teaches classic web information retrieval, including web search and the related areas of text classification and text clustering from basic concepts. Written from a computer science perspective by three leading experts in the field, it gives an up-to-date treatment of all aspects of the design and implementation of systems for gathering, indexing, and searching documents; methods for evaluating systems; and an introduction to the use of machine learning methods on text collections. All the important ideas are explained using examples and figures, making it perfect for introductory courses in information retrieval for advanced undergraduates and graduate students in computer science. Based on feedback from extensive classroom experience, the book has been carefully structured in order to make teaching more natural and effective. Although originally designed as the primary text for a graduate or advanced undergraduate course in information retrieval, the book will also create a buzz for researchers and professionals alike.
Contents
1. Information retrieval using the Boolean model; 2. The dictionary and postings lists; 3. Tolerant retrieval; 4. Index construction; 5. Index compression; 6. Scoring and term weighting; 7. Vector space retrieval; 8. Evaluation in information retrieval; 9. Relevance feedback and query expansion; 10. XML retrieval; 11. Probabilistic information retrieval; 12. Language models for information retrieval; 13. Text classification and Naive Bayes; 14. Vector space classification; 15. Support vector machines and kernel functions; 16. Flat clustering; 17. Hierarchical clustering; 18. Dimensionality reduction and latent semantic indexing; 19. Web search basics; 20. Web crawling and indexes; 21. Link analysis.
Reviews
“This is the first book that gives you a complete picture of the complications that arise in building a modern web-scale search engine. You'll learn about ranking SVMs, XML, DNS, and LSI. You'll discover the seedy underworld of spam, cloaking, and doorway pages. You'll see how MapReduce and other approaches to parallelism allow us to go beyond megabytes and to efficiently manage petabytes." -Peter Norvig, Director of Research, Google Inc.
"Introduction to Information Retrieval is a comprehensive, up-to-date, and well-written introduction to an increasingly important and rapidly growing area of computer science. Finally, there is a high-quality textbook for an area that was desperately in need of one." -Raymond J. Mooney, Professor of Computer Sciences, University of Texas at Austin
“Through compelling exposition and choice of topics, the authors vividly convey both the fundamental ideas and the rapidly expanding reach of information retrieval as a field.” -Jon Kleinberg, Professor of Computer Science, Cornell University

New edition of book that demystifies quant and algo trading In this updated edition of his bestselling book, Rishi K Narang offers in a straightforward, nontechnical style-supplemented by real-world examples and informative anecdotes-a reliable resource takes you on a detailed tour through the black box. He skillfully sheds light upon the work that quants do, lifting the veil of mystery around quantitative trading and allowing anyone interested in doing so to understand quants and their strategies. This new edition includes information on High Frequency Trading. Offers an update on the bestselling book for explaining in non-mathematical terms what quant and algo trading are and how they work Provides key information for investors to evaluate the best hedge fund investments Explains how quant strategies fit into a portfolio, why they are valuable, and how to evaluate a quant manager This new edition of Inside the Black Box explains quant investing without the jargon and goes a long way toward educating investment professionals.

This book describes the rise--and fall--of an elite group which flourished within English society from the 1880s until the First World War: The Souls. Its members included intellectuals and politicians. What made the Souls unique, however, was that some of their most influential members were women. "The Unquiet Souls" is no bland eulogy of a 'Golden Age' but a portrayal of England during four decades of dazzling and often cruel contradictions. Angela Lambert examines the rigid hierarchy of servants and class, the manipulation that kept power in the hands of the landed aristocracy and the very rich, and the unwritten rules and private language that defined membership of this charmed, doomed circle, the like of which could never form again.

About This Book
Design, simulate, build and program an interactive autonomous mobile robotProgram Robot Operating System using PythonGet a grip on the hands-on guide to robotics for learning various robotics concepts and build an advanced robot from scratch
Who This Book Is For
If you are an engineer, a researcher, or a hobbyist, and you are interested in robotics and want to build your own robot, this book is for you. Readers are assumed to be new to robotics but should have experience with Python.
What You Will Learn
Understand the core concepts and terminologies of robotics Create 2D and 3D drawings of robots using freeware such as LibreCAD and Blender Simulate your robot using ROS and Gazebo Build robot hardware from the requirements Explore a diverse range of actuators and its interfacing Interface various robotic sensors to robots Set up and program OpenCV, OpenNI, and PCL to process 2D/3D visual data Learn speech processing and synthesis using Python Apply artificial intelligence to robots using Python Build a robot control GUI using Qt and Python Calibration and testing of robot
In Detail
Learning about robotics will become an increasingly essential skill as it becomes a ubiquitous part of life. Even though robotics is a complex subject, several other tools along with Python can help you design a project to create an easy-to-use interface.
Learning Robotics Using Python is an essential guide for creating an autonomous mobile robot using popular robotic software frameworks such as ROS using Python. It also discusses various robot software frameworks and how to go about coding the robot using Python and its framework. It concludes with creating a GUI-based application to control the robot using buttons and slides.
By the end of this tutorial, you'll have a clear idea of how to integrate and assemble all things into a robot and how to bundle the software package.