《雲心所往》首五輯為作者遊歷世界不同地方的所思所感，而最後一輯則是回過頭來關顧本土——從舊區保育到城市生活的體味。正正是這樣的對照，才會懂得欣賞他方和家園的一磚一石、一樹一木，甚至連空蕩的空間彷彿也迴盪著精彩的故事，只要肯停下腳步來觀摩、細聽，它們便會娓娓道說。這本集子正是作者收藏的不同城市的記憶，當中更因配上作者和同行友伴拍攝的全彩相片，令它更添收藏價值。

小思是香港文學口述歷史計劃的發起人，給她訪問過的人多不勝數，但以小思為主要的受訪對象，與她詳談和香港一起的成長故事倒是第一次。本書以「文化人眼中的香港」為主題，輯錄各代文化人，包括楊鍾基、陳永明、鄧仕樑、樊善標及黃念欣教授與小思（盧瑋鑾）於2014-2016年間進行的多次訪談精華，內容涉及香港的文學、文化、歷史等話題，可說是小思與香港一起成長的回憶紀錄。全書兩冊，上冊談小思成長過程中香港文化、歷史和教育狀況；下冊論及小思寫作、治學、文化觀察以至對「香港」的凝眸細看。
本書名為「曲水回眸」，乃取王羲之〈蘭亭集序〉中「曲水流觴」的意境──縱然香港沒有曲水，可是幾十年社會變遷、人情世俗更替、舊友新知相與、各人受授欣喜，種種人生之流，雖屬涓涓，也夠彎彎曲曲了。曲水回眸，除了是追慕那文人圍坐暢談的雅逸，也是在「俛仰之間，已為陳跡」的通達中追認看透世相的心路，更是在「趣舍萬殊，靜躁不同」的友儕間追求反省的矢志。
小思（盧瑋鑾），1939年生於香港，1964年畢業於香港中文大學新亞書院中文系，曾任中學教師，1973年赴日本京都大學人文科學研究所研究中國文學。1978年任教香港大學中文系，1979年起任教香港中文大學中文系，現為香港中文大學香港文學研究中心顧問。2015年獲香港藝術發展局頒發「終身成就獎」。

本書為“澳門知識叢書”系列之一，由作家何永康撰寫，此書以供人們懷念與回憶六七十年代的澳門生活。

A spirited new history of Chinese food told through an account of the remarkable life of Fu Pei-mei, the woman who brought Chinese cooking to the world.
In 1949, a young Chinese housewife arrived in Taiwan and transformed herself from a novice to a natural in the kitchen. She launched a career as a cookbook author and television cooking instructor that would last four decades. Years later, in America, flipping through her mother’s copies of Fu Pei-mei’s Chinese cookbooks, historian Michelle T. King discovered more than the recipes to meals of her childhood. She found, in Fu’s story and in her food, a vivid portal to another time, when a generation of middle-class, female home cooks navigated the tremendous postwar transformations taking place across the world.
In Chop Fry Watch Learn, King weaves together stories from her own family and contemporary oral history to present a remarkable argument for how understanding the story of Fu’s life enables us to see Chinese food as both an inheritance of tradition and a truly modern creation, influenced by the historical phenomena of the postwar era. These include a dramatic increase in the number of women working outside the home, a new proliferation of mass media, the arrival of innovative kitchen tools, and the shifting diplomatic fortunes of China and Taiwan. King reveals how and why, for audiences in Taiwan and around the world, Fu became the ultimate culinary touchstone: the figure against whom all other cooking authorities were measured.
And Fu’s legacy continues. Her cookbooks have become beloved emblems of cultural memory, passed from parent to child, wherever diasporic Chinese have landed. Informed by the voices of fans across generations, King illuminates the story of Chinese food from the inside: at home, around the family dinner table. The result is a revelatory work, a rich banquet of past and present tastes that will resonate deeply for all of us looking for our histories in the kitchen.

趙越勝是牛津的重要作者，他的《燃燈者》《精神漫遊》有口皆碑。趙越勝以文修身，以心觀世，下筆謹嚴，思力深切，這種無聲者的聲音、自覺者的覺悟，多為個人思想的珍藏，時代主音之外的雅歌。這是他最新的寫作，分成兩卷：
本書是以景觀、人物、思想為題的散文集，成三輯，第一輯是十三篇法國名勝古蹟引發的感懷。第二輯題目「讀與思」，每一篇都跟我們目前的處境切切相關，其中有拉波哀西的《自願奴役論》，奧古斯丁的《懺悔錄》，馬爾庫塞的《愛欲與文明》，Saint-Exupery的《小王子》，討論有新意，能見出人所不見。第三輯「游俄散記」四篇，當時年少春衫薄，既感性又令人沉思不已。
書名蒼雲，是歷史；遠道，是思想。
「最近，每當我感覺自己喪失了道德感的時候，都想拿起現居法國的人文學者趙越勝的《燃燈者》來翻翻。」 —— 香港評論家曾瑞明

1968年，24歲的孫康宜毅然赴美。曾目睹二二八事件現場、經歷白色恐怖的她，從備受心靈創傷的失語症患者，到獲選為學術殿堂的中研院院士，生命中充滿了跌宕起伏的故事。縱然總有遭逢困厄的時候，孫康宜仍勇敢前行，「即使當前看不見將來的前景，但因為所到之處皆可取，讓我們更加相信我們心中的願望也還是可以企及的」。歷經各種劫難與貴人，加上自我的積極振奮，終由深淵走向光明，自普林斯頓大學到耶魯大學，化育春風，桃李天下。
《奔赴：半個多世紀在美國》是孫康宜的回憶錄，記錄了其半生歷程，除如何面對人生困境，奮發前進，也留下學術研究、人際社交、家世考掘、日常生活等完整面向，以及與諸多學界、文壇的人物交往，諸如費正清、高友工、傅漢思、余英時、施蟄存、葉嘉瑩、張充和、白先勇、蘇珊．桑塔格、露伊絲．葛綠珂……等，皆為雪泥一痕時代鴻爪。雖題為「半個多世紀」，然而書中所聯繫的上下時間可達五代以上，允為一窺近現代的中西環境、政治演進、歴史脈絡的重要史料，並為中西學術及文化的交流，提供一個不一樣的視角。

人工智能时代一种全新的技术Agent正在崛起。这是一种能够理解自然语言并生成对应回复以及执行具体行动的人工智能体。它不仅是内容生成工具，而且是连接复杂任务的关键纽带。本书将探索Agent的奥秘，内容包括从技术框架到开发工具，从实操项目到前沿进展，通过带着读者动手做7个 功能强大的Agent，全方位解析Agent的设计与实现。本书最后展望了Agent的发展前景和未来趋势。
本书适合对Agent技术感兴趣或致力于投身该领域的研究人员、开发人员、企业负责人，以及高等院校相关专业师生等阅读。读者将跟随咖哥和小雪的脚步，踏上饶有趣味的Agent开发之旅，零距离接触GPT-4模型、OpenAI API和Assistants、LangChain、LlamaIndex和MetaGPT等尖端技术，见证Agent在办公自动化、智能调度、知识整合以及检索增强生成（RAG）等领域的非凡表现，携手开启人工智能时代的无限可能，在人机协作的星空中共同探寻那颗最闪亮的Agent之星！

As China looks back on 40 years of reform and opening up it’s time to look back and see how far the country has changed. The youth whose energy and optimism seized the moment with experimentation and invention back in the first decade of the new era built the foundations of an outward looking, successful and confident China today. Consumer goods, food, clothes, hair and much more were beginning to get a lot more interesting in both the cities and the countryside.
British photojournalist Adrian Bradshaw came to Beijing in 1984 to study Mandarin just as everyday life was in flux. He would go on to spend three decades living in, experiencing and recording this transformation. Bradshaw settled and married a Chinese and would stay longer than any other overseas photojournalist, bringing an empathy and understanding to his subjects that is rare.
In his twenties in the 1980s, Bradshaw was in the company of the young people who drove the reform era and built many of the features of 21st Century China: the artists, farmers, entrepreneurs and industrialists whose enthusiasm and positivity made things happen. This energy that made history is still bursting forth.

Principles of Life returns in a thoroughly updated new edition that exemplifies the reform that is remaking the modern biology classroom.With the recommendations proposed in the NSF/AAAS mandate "Vision and Change in Undergraduate Biology Education" clearly in mind, the authors focus on just those concepts that give students both the big picture of biology and the important basics – in only 45 chapters and 940 pages. Throughout, active learning exercises challenge students to analyze data and apply concepts, while new QR codes and direct Web addresses integrated into the text link students immediately to dynamic resources via their smartphones, tablets, or any Web browser. Replacing BioPortal, a "next generation" online learning space called LaunchPad connects teachers and students with powerful course tools, carefully curated content, and an intuitive interface.

An explosion of Web-based language techniques, merging of distinct fields, availability of phone-based dialogue systems, and much more make this an exciting time in speech and language processing. The first of its kind to thoroughly cover language technology — at all levels and with all modern technologies — this text takes an empirical approach to the subject, based on applying statistical and other machine-learning algorithms to large corporations. The authors cover areas that traditionally are taught in different courses, to describe a unified vision of speech and language processing. Emphasis is on practical applications and scientific evaluation. An accompanying Website contains teaching materials for instructors, with pointers to language processing resources on the Web. The Second Edition offers a significant amount of new and extended material.

ChatGPT and the GPT models by OpenAI have brought about a revolution not only in how we write and research but also in how we can process information. This book discusses the functioning, capabilities, and limitations of LLMs underlying chat systems, including ChatGPT and Bard. It also demonstrates, in a series of practical examples, how to use the LangChain framework to build production-ready and responsive LLM applications for tasks ranging from customer support to software development assistance and data analysis – illustrating the expansive utility of LLMs in real-world applications.
Unlock the full potential of LLMs within your projects as you navigate through guidance on fine-tuning, prompt engineering, and best practices for deployment and monitoring in production environments. Whether you're building creative writing tools, developing sophisticated chatbots, or crafting cutting-edge software development aids, this book will be your roadmap to mastering the transformative power of generative AI with confidence and creativity.

An interpretative history of global urbanity in the 1920s and 1930s, from the vantage point of Bombay, London, and Shanghai, that follows the life of business tycoon Victor Sassoon.
In this book, historian Rosemary Wakeman brings to life the frenzied, crowded streets, markets, ports, and banks of Bombay, London, and Shanghai. In the early twentieth century, these cities were at the forefront of the sweeping changes taking the world by storm as it entered an era of globalized commerce and the unprecedented circulation of goods, people, and ideas. Wakeman explores these cities and the world they helped transform through the life of Victor Sassoon, who in 1924 gained control of his powerful family’s trading and banking empire. She tracks his movements between these three cities as he grows his family’s fortune and transforms its holdings into a global juggernaut. Using his life as its point of entry, The Worlds of Victor Sassoon paints a broad portrait not just of wealth, cosmopolitanism, and leisure but also of the discrimination, exploitation, and violence wreaked by a world increasingly driven by the demands of capital.

这里记忆的是一个经历了从四十年代抗日战争到九十年代“后文革”的文化人。他“既无旧恩可报，也无新功可求”，大半生都在小心翼翼地躲避思想罗网和政治漩涡。他以自己的为人处事实行了孔子所说的“用之则行，舍之则藏”：在政治清明的时候，用心做事、谨言慎行；在政治黑暗的时候，守拙安愚、有所不为。他痛苦于内，宁静于外，养成一种可称为“犬儒”的淡泊和怀疑。这种清醒自明帮助他度过苦闷迷茫、坎壈困顿的岁月，而终于没有变成一个忧郁者和厌世者。惟如此，才有了这里的文字见证。
在我居住的这个冷酷险恶的社会里，我必须绝口不表露自己的灵魂，也绝不诉说自己的愿望。一旦让人们瞥见我天性中较高尚的一面，他们就会把我撕裂成纷纷的碎片。
——罗庚•史密斯《白日梦》

No book had more influence on twentieth-century attitudes to the English language in Britain than Henry Fowler's Dictionary of Modern English Usage. It rapidly became the standard work of reference for the correct use of English in terms of choice of words, grammar, and style. Much loved for his firm opinions, passion, and dry humour, Fowler has stood the test of time and is still considered the best arbiter of good practice. Now one of today's leading experts on the language, David Crystal, has reassessed Fowler's contribution in this fascinating new edition. Crystal goes beyond the popular mythology surrounding Fowler's reputation to retrace his method and practice and arrive at a fresh evaluation of his place in the history of linguistic thought. With a wealth of entertaining examples he looks at Fowler's stated principles and the tensions between his prescriptive and descriptive temperaments. He reaches some surprising conclusions and shows that the Dictionary does a great deal more than make normative recommendations and express private opinions. In addition he offers a modern perspective in notes on some 300 entries, in which he shows how English has changed since the 1920s, including the pronunciation of certain words.

The most comprehensive, up-to-date introduction to the theory and practice of artificial intelligence
The long-anticipated revision of Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach explores the full breadth and depth of the field of artificial intelligence (AI). The 4th Edition brings readers up to date on the latest technologies, presents concepts in a more unified manner, and offers new or expanded coverage of machine learning, deep learning, transfer learning, multiagent systems, robotics, natural language processing, causality, probabilistic programming, privacy, fairness, and safe AI.

《发现李庄：一个地图上找不到的地方》为四川人民出版社“发现李庄”系列之第一卷，按迁到李庄的各个机构分类，基于对大量一手史料的收集与梳理，以及对于相关学人后人、亲友的第一手访谈资料叙写而成。作者岱峻重视田野调查，注重口述史的采集。作品资料全面、考证准确，又注重细节，叙述生 动，保有惯常的优雅文笔，颇具历史感与人文温情，具有很强的文学可读性。
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李庄，位于宜宾下游、长江南岸的一座小小古镇，很多人已经不知道，在抗日战争期间，这座古镇是与成都、重庆、昆明齐名的“四大文化中心”。无论是国内还是海外，信件和电报只要写上“中国李庄”即可使命必达。中央研究院史语所和社会所、营造学社、同济大学、中博院等文化机构将李庄作为安身之地，李庄的乡绅乡民以博大的胸怀和质朴的情感接纳了自己的同胞，中华民族文化的根脉和知识的火种终得以保存。文化不灭，中国不亡，那时的李庄可以说是“中国文化的折射点，民族精神的涵养地”。
几十年过去，李庄的故事已渐渐掩埋于历史的烟尘下。2004年，一部《发现李庄》让李庄重回大众视野。一时间，李庄成为旅游热点。如今，李庄被命名为国家级历史文化名镇、国家级海峡两岸文化交流基地、全国乡村旅游重点乡镇、四川省爱国主义教育基地，2022年4月26日，李庄文化抗战博物馆、中国营造学社陈列馆同时开馆……
《发现李庄》的成功并没有让作者岱峻停下手中的研究。近二十年来，岱峻坚持田野调查，采访先生们的后人及当地人，采集了大量口述史资料，同时，他博览文献，持续追踪最新研究成果，注重多方引证。最新完成的三卷本《发现李庄》比2004版《发现李庄》增加了三分之二的内容。在结构编排上，也与老版完全不同，更具完整性和科学性。总之，新版三卷本《发现李庄》与其说是修订，不如说是“历经数年的重新写作”。

The modern university was born in Germany. In the twentieth century, the United States leapfrogged Germany to become the global leader in higher education. Will China challenge its position in the twenty-first?
Today American institutions dominate nearly every major ranking of global universities. Yet in historical terms, America’s preeminence is relatively new, and there is no reason to assume that U.S. schools will continue to lead the world a century from now. Indeed, America’s supremacy in higher education is under great stress, particularly at its public universities. At the same time Chinese universities are on the ascent. Thirty years ago, Chinese institutions were reopening after the catastrophe of the Cultural Revolution; today they are some of the most innovative educational centers in the world. Will China threaten American primacy?
Empires of Ideas looks to the past two hundred years for answers, chronicling two revolutions in higher education: the birth of the research university and its integration with the liberal education model. William C. Kirby examines the successes of leading universities—The University of Berlin and the Free University of Berlin in Germany; Harvard, Duke, and the University of California, Berkeley, in the United States—to determine how they rose to prominence and what threats they currently face. Kirby draws illuminating comparisons to the trajectories of three Chinese contenders: Tsinghua University, Nanjing University, and the University of Hong Kong, which aim to be world-class institutions that can compete with the best the United States and Europe have to offer.
But Chinese institutions also face obstacles. Kirby analyzes the challenges that Chinese academic leaders must confront: reinvesting in undergraduate teaching, developing new models of funding, and navigating a political system that may undermine a true commitment to free inquiry and academic excellence.