Based on extensive oral history interviews, Dreaming the New Woman uncovers the experiences of girls who attended missionary middle schools in Republican China in the first half of the twentieth century. Chinese missionary schoolgirls were often labelled "foreign puppets" or seen as passive recipients of a western-style education. By focusing on the pupils' own perspectives and drawing on seventy-five oral history interviews conducted with missionary school alumnae, alongside student writings, missionary reports, and newspaper sources, this fascinating book provides fresh insights into what it meant to be Chinese, female, and Christian during the first half of China's turbulent twentieth century.
The oral history interviews show how missionary schoolgirls weathered periods of anti-Christian hostility, experimented with new gender roles at school, experienced the Second Sino-Japanese War in Shanghai, and applied Christianity to the Communist cause after 1949. Jennifer Bond reveals how pupils used their schools as a laboratory, blending different ideas from Christianity, nationalism, Communism, and feminism to forge new notions of Chinese womanhood. Girls skillfully combined Christian aspects of missionary education such as the rhetoric of "service" with discussion of women's roles in nation building to widen their sphere of operation in society. The daily practices and lifestyles within the hybrid cultural environment of missionary schools fostered new identities that influenced the girls' aspirations and later careers. A fluency in English, western social graces, and membership in Christian churches admitted them as members of a new western-educated Chinese elite that emerged in the Republican era.

North Korea may be known as the world's most secluded society, but it too has witnessed the rapid rise of new media technologies in the new millennium, including the introduction of a 3G cell phone network in 2008. In 2009, there were only 70,000 cell phones in North Korea. That number has grown tremendously in just over a decade, with over 7 million registered as of 2022. This expansion took place amid extreme economic hardship, and the ensuing possibilities of destabilization. Against this social and political backdrop, Millennial North Korea traces how the rapidly expanding media networks in North Korea impact their millennial generation, especially their perspective on the outside world.
Suk-Young Kim argues that millennials in North Korea play a crucial role in exposing the increasing tension between the state and its people, between risktakers who dare to transgress strict social rules and compliant citizens accustomed to the state's centralized governance, and between thriving entrepreneurs and those left out of the growing market economy. Combining a close reading of North Korean state media with original interviews with defectors, Kim explores how the tensions between millennial North Korea and North Korean millennials leads to a more nuanced understanding of a fractured and fragmented society that has been frequently perceived as an unchanging, monolithic entity.

一個曾被父母遺棄、當過小和尚、逃學、偷竊、逃家等樣樣來，在大家眼中是壞孩子的馬國光，最後卻成了個「手不釋卷」的孩子，到底是什麼樣的環境和成長背景造就出我們現在所看到的馬老師或作家亮軒？
看亮軒在《壞孩子》中娓娓道來，不禁隨著文章的起伏，跟著他在心中吶喊、流淚，他的苦、他的悲，在在都讓我們感同身受。除了他周邊的人事物外，當時的生活型態，也在他的筆下流瀉而出，這不只是一本自傳，也是所有五○年代人的傳記。

Beginning Shell Scripting Shell scripts give you the power to automate tedious daily tasks, improve your work capabilities, and get more out of your computers. Whether you are working on Mac OSX, Linux, Unix, or Windows, this book presents complete shell scripting instructions, robust code examples, and full scripts for customizing your operating system. You'll first learn the basics of shell scripts, including what they are, how they run, and how you can design executable commands from them. You'll then progress to more advanced scripting topics, such as using awk and sed commands, building command pipelines, and creating functions. This book covers everything you'll need to know about shells and scripting in order to begin writing your own. What you will learn from this book How shells work and how to find them on your system Steps for passing data to a shell script and modifying your environment Techniques for creating, reading, enhancing, and removing files How to query about processes and gather information about what is running on your system Tips for editing and debugging scripts Ways to monitor and administer your system using scripts How to call on your desktop applications from scripts Who this book is for This book is for anyone who wants to get more out of their computer systems, including Mac OS X, Linux, Unix, and Windows users. Wrox Beginning guides are crafted to make learning programming languages and technologies easier than you think, providing a structured tutorial format that will guide you through all the techniques involved.

As an aspiring data scientist, you appreciate why organizations rely on data for important decisions--whether it's for companies designing websites, cities deciding how to improve services, or scientists discovering how to stop the spread of disease. And you want the skills required to distill a messy pile of data into actionable insights. We call this the data science lifecycle: the process of collecting, wrangling, analyzing, and drawing conclusions from data.
Learning Data Science is the first book to cover foundational skills in both programming and statistics that encompass this entire lifecycle. It's aimed at those who wish to become data scientists or who already work with data scientists, and at data analysts who wish to cross the "technical/nontechnical" divide. If you have a basic knowledge of Python programming, you'll learn how to work with data using industry-standard tools like pandas.
Refine a question of interest to one that can be studied with data
Pursue data collection that may involve text processing, web scraping, etc.
Glean valuable insights about data through data cleaning, exploration, and visualization
Learn how to use modeling to describe the data
Generalize findings beyond the data

費正清東亞研究獎得主代表作
二十世紀上半葉，以日本帝國為中心的殖民地區，其住宅、傢俱、食物、衣服、鞋子、行為舉止、城市空間等方面都深受日本文化的影響。本書由六篇互相關聯的歷史論文組成，這些文章都是關於日本在殖民帝國時期的日常生活文化之研究。
本書從一些與日常生活密切相關、通常不被國家「大歷史」敘述的物品和事件出發，進行細緻的考證和生動的解說，包括：明治晚期日本上流階級如何處理歐洲規範的影響、味精的全球擴散歷程、坐在地板上或椅子上的衝突與籐椅的傳播、「文化生活」言論和「文化住宅」的興衰、從海外殖民地至東京的「觀光旅行」、沖繩人的豬肉與美軍的關係等。
《日本帝國的生活空間》不是一部關於日本帝國主義的歷史；相反地，本書透過房屋、家具、食品以及服裝等日常物件，並藉由人們的行為，試圖將日本理解為帝國世界中的一個帝國。每篇文章都以不同的方式來提出問題：「這些東西以什麼方式成為『帝國式』的？」物質文化能夠揭示文獻資料中語焉不詳的政治及社會行為的各個方面。日常生活中充斥著被人們視作理所當然的意識形態，即使人們沒有完全意識到它們。
本書試圖從日常物件和人們的行為等面相來探索帝國主義的文化影響，並提供新的材料和新的想法，幫助讀者理解日本帝國對一些日本人、韓國人、中國人、台灣人和其他人的日常生活所形成的影響。長期以來，人們傾向於只從帝國國家（統治者）的角度或殖民地臣民（被統治者）的角度來看待帝國的結構。結果是，同樣有限的一組問題被重複提出：統治者的壓迫性如何？被壓迫者有多麼同謀或進行反抗？基礎設施現代化在多大程度上應歸功於殖民統治，而在多大程度上應被視為減輕殖民主義的不公正？今天，在東亞不同地區及屬於其國家政治光譜中不同地方的人，對於這些問題都有如此紛歧的答案，以至於他們有時似乎根本無法逾越這些問題。

In 1908 the United States and Japan agreed to limit the migration of Japanese laborers to the US. The Gentlemen’s Agreement of 1908 ushered in an era of exclusion for the Japanese, but an exception was made for Japanese women who migrated as wives of Japanese men. In 1924 that exception would end with the passage of the National Origins Act. Immediately after World War II, Japanese women were once again permitted to enter the US as brides— this time, however, as the wives of American servicemen stationed throughout Japan. The ban on Japanese immigration would not be lifted until 1952.
Picture Bride, War Bride examines how the institution of marriage created pockets of legal and social inclusion for Japanese women during the period of Japanese exclusion. Sonia C. Gomez begins with the first wave of Japanese women's migration in the early twentieth century (picture brides), and ends with the second mass migration of Japanese women after World War II (war brides), to illustrate how popular and political discourse drew on overlapping and conflicting logics to either racially exclude the Japanese or facilitate their inclusion via immigration legislation privileging wives and mothers. Picture Bride, War Bride retells the history of Japanese migration and exclusion by centering women, gender, and sexuality, and in so doing, troubles the inclusion versus exclusion binary. While the Japanese were racially excluded between 1908 and 1952, Japanese wives and mothers were permitted entry because their inclusion served American interests in the Pacific. However, the very rationale enabling their inclusion simultaneously restricted and defined the parameters of their lives within the US.
Picture Bride, War Bride serves as a compelling analysis of how the intricate interplay between societal norms and political interests can both harness and contradict the interconnected frameworks of race, gender, and sexuality.

Translingual Catholics explores the life experiences and theological writings of twentieth-century Chinese Catholic intellectuals and their impact on global Catholic theology.
Weaving together archival resources in Chinese, French, and English, Translingual Catholics examines the preconciliar theological contribution of Republican-Era Chinese Catholics to global Catholicism and to the dialogue between Christianity and Chinese spiritual traditions. Author Jin Lu sheds light on generations of multilingual Chinese Catholic intellectuals who participated in the elaboration of Catholic theology leading up to the Second Vatican Council. This book situates the lives and works of these theologians in the intersecting global Catholic networks of the time, especially the Jesuit enclave of Xujiahui in Shanghai, the Benedictine Abbey of Saint-André in Bruges, Belgium, the Jesuit Theologate in Lyon-Fourvière, and the ecumenical Cercle Saint-Jean-Baptiste in Paris. By studying the interconnectedness of Chinese Catholic theologians working in multiple languages, Lu demonstrates that inculturation is necessarily a translingual process.
Through its groundbreaking archival research, Translingual Catholics tells the story of these underappreciated intellectuals and uncovers significant contributions to Chinese and global Catholic theology.

Help transform your business and innovate like the world's top tech companies!
In INSPIRED, product thought leader Marty Cagan revealed the best practices and techniques used by the top product teams operating in the product model. Next, EMPOWERED shared the best practices and techniques used by the top product leaders to provide their teams with the kind of environment they need to thrive in the product model.
Yet, the most common question after reading INSPIRED and EMPOWERED has been: "Yes, we want to work this way, but the way we work today is so different, and so deeply ingrained, is it even possible for a company like ours to transform to the product model?"
TRANSFORMED was written to bridge the gap between where most companies are right now and where they need to be. The leaders of these companies know they must transform to compete in an era of rapidly changing enabling technology, but most of them have never operated this way before. TRANSFORMED has three big goals:
First, the book will educate you with a deep understanding of the product operating model, and what it means to work that way.
Second, the book will convince you with detailed case studies of successful transformations, that while difficult, it is absolutely possible for you to transform your company to the product operating model.
Third, the book will inspire you with truly impressive case studies of product innovation, showing what you too will be capable of doing once you successfully transform.
TRANSFORMED is written for those driving change, including the senior company leaders―starting with the CEO―as well as the senior executives and stakeholders who need to collaborate with the product teams, the product leaders, the members of the product teams, and all those who either support or depend on these product teams.
Written by best-selling author Marty Cagan and his partners at the Silicon Valley Product Group, TRANSFORMED is filled with real-world examples and proven, practical advice from their decades of experience helping companies move to the product operating model.

遠在東北亞的朝鮮王朝與臺灣的鄭氏政權雖無政治經濟上的官方互動，然而1667年，鄭經的貿易船隻漂至朝鮮，引發朝鮮王朝對鄭氏政權的關注。朝鮮官方對鄭氏政權的情報來自燕行使、漂流人和日本，相關情報在朝鮮內部引起轟動，特別是在三藩之亂期間和丁未漂流人事件，朝廷內部對鄭氏政權的威脅性展開了激烈的爭論，諸如：是否「築城設防」？金佑明等人鑑於當時災荒不斷，民生艱苦，持反對態度；但肅宗及多數朝臣為了確保邊防和海防安全，支持築城。又如：是否「渡海通鄭」？支持者以秉持尊周大義的激進派的尹鑴為代表；考量當時朝鮮現實局勢而反對的，則為保守派的許積、權大運與閔黯。
本書透過豐富的朝鮮文獻，深入探究朝鮮王朝對於鄭氏政權的認知與想像。我們從中得以窺見朝鮮王朝如何蒐集國際情報，及其對情報如何作出反應，並藉此呈現出朝鮮王朝中後期從「崇明」轉向「實學」的思想變化。

An affectionate and engaging history of the American bookstore and its central place in American cultural life, from department stores to indies, from highbrow dealers trading in first editions to sidewalk vendors, and from chains to special-interest community destinations

Bookstores have always been unlike any other kind of store, shaping readers and writers, and influencing our tastes, thoughts, and politics. They nurture local communities while creating new ones of their own. Bookshops are powerful spaces, but they are also endangered ones. In The Bookshop, we see those stakes: what has been, and what might be lost.

Evan Friss’s history of the bookshop draws on oral histories, archival collections, municipal records, diaries, letters, and interviews with leading booksellers to offer a fascinating look at this institution beloved by so many. The story begins with Benjamin Franklin’s first bookstore in Philadelphia and takes us to a range of booksellers including The Strand, Chicago’s Marshall Field & Company, Gotham Book Mart, specialty stores like Oscar Wilde and Drum and Spear, sidewalk sellers of used books, Barnes & Noble, Amazon Books, and Parnassus. The Bookshop is also a history of the leading figures in American bookselling, often impassioned eccentrics, and a history of how books have been marketed and sold over more than two centuries—including, for example, a 3,000-pound elephant who appeared to sign books at Marshall Field’s in 1944.

The Bookshop is a love letter to bookstores, a charming chronicle for anyone who cherishes these sanctuaries of literature, and essential reading to understand how these vital institutions have shaped American life—and why we still need them.

Linear algebra now rivals or surpasses calculus in importance for people working in quantitative fields of all kinds: engineers, scientists, economists and business people. Gilbert Strang has taught linear algebra at MIT for more than 50 years and the course he developed has become a model for teaching around the world. His video lectures on MIT OpenCourseWare have been viewed over ten million times and his twelve textbooks are popular with readers worldwide. This sixth edition of Professor Strang's most popular book, Introduction to Linear Algebra, introduces the ideas of independent columns and the rank and column space of a matrix early on for a more active start. Then the book moves directly to the classical topics of linear equations, fundamental subspaces, least squares, eigenvalues and singular values – in each case expressing the key idea as a matrix factorization. The final chapters of this edition treat optimization and learning from data: the most active application of linear algebra today. Everything is explained thoroughly in Professor Strang's characteristic clear style. It is sure to delight and inspire the delight and inspire the next generation of learners.

This succinct, interdisciplinary introduction to critical thinking successfully dares students to question their own assumptions and to enlarge their thinking through the analysis of the most common problems associated with everyday reasoning. The text offers a unique and effective organization: Part I explains the fundamental concepts; Part II describes the most common barriers to critical thinking; Part III offers strategies for overcoming those barriers.

In this new edition the authors have expanded on how to improve information acquisitions skills and recognize dubious claims, gravely important in this current climate of “fake news.” In addition, they have revised and expanded the distinction between subjective judgments and objective claims and revamped their explanation of inductive reasoning into four different types, introducing them in chapter 2 and further explaining them in chapter 11. This book is not about critical thinking as much as it is a book in critical thinking. The authors work to provide guided practice in what they and instructors think are the most important critical thinking skill sets for students.

《英汉数学全书：代数、几何与微积分初步（双色印刷）》是一本为中国留学生和相关的教学工作者精心打造的英汉双语数学专业工具书。
《英汉数学全书：代数、几何与微积分初步（双色印刷）》分为三部分：第1部分代数初步、代数1、代数2（第1-11章）；第2部分几何（第12-21章）；第3部分微积分初步（第22-34章）。
《英汉数学全书：代数、几何与微积分初步（双色印刷）》是一本综合的数学知识宝库，按照美国知识体系和教科书章节顺序出词，围绕知识体系展开知识点的介绍，每个数学词条都配有相应的英汉词义、音标、定义、性质、证明、数学符号、例题与答案、造句与写作、竞赛真题与标准化真题，每章都有小结，让读者在查阅词条时能够各取所需。（极其简单的英语部分汉语翻译略去）
《英汉数学全书：代数、几何与微积分初步（双色印刷）》旨在帮助读者掌握地道的英文数学词汇和标准的惯用表达方式，提升数学英文的综合使用能力，希望借由《英汉数学全书：代数、几何与微积分初步（双色印刷）》为读者打开体验美国数学教育精髓的窗口，培养读者的数学探索精神和多元的数学理念，即不厌其烦地追求一题多解以拓展思维，而不是仅仅为了解题速度和答案而枯燥地刷题；希望《英汉数学全书：代数、几何与微积分初步（双色印刷）》的编写匠心能够让中国学子在国际数学舞台上更具竞争力，引领他们在数学领域进行深度的探索和研究并走得更远。
《英汉数学全书：代数、几何与微积分初步（双色印刷）》作为一本英汉双语数学工具书，不仅系统地介绍了代数、几何、微积分基础的知识点——在结构、内容及风格上汲取了美国探究式数学课堂的精华，还致力于解决学习国际数学所面临的数学专业术语和标准的表达方式等问题。
《英汉数学全书：代数、几何与微积分初步（双色印刷）》中对每个数学概念，都给出了双语注释，同时配有音标、数学符号、性质、证明和例题，便于读者充分理解和掌握。为了启发学生的创造思维，我们在讲述数学词汇的同时，会提及相关的定理及证明，并论述一些重要的数学结论及其相关证明，甚至是多种解题思路。我们坚信，流利且专业的语言表达、强烈的好奇心和批判性思维是学好数学的关键。

In the late nineteenth century, Chinese reformers and revolutionaries believed that there was something fundamentally wrong with the Chinese writing system. The Chinese characters, they argued, were too cumbersome to learn, blocking the channels of communication, obstructing mass literacy, and impeding scientific progress. What had sustained a civilization for more than two millennia was suddenly recast as the root cause of an ongoing cultural suicide. China needed a new script to survive in the modern world.
Codes of Modernity explores the global history of Chinese script reforms—efforts to alphabetize or simplify the writing system—from the 1890s to the 1980s. Examining the material conditions and political economy underlying attempts to modernize scripts, Uluğ Kuzuoğlu argues that these reforms were at the forefront of an emergent information age. Faced with new communications technologies and infrastructures as well as industrial, educational, and bureaucratic pressures for information management, reformers engineered scripts as tools to increase labor efficiency and create alternate political futures.
Kuzuoğlu considers dozens of proposed scripts, including phonetic alphabets, syllabaries, character simplification schemes, latinization, and pinyin. Situating them in a transnational framework, he stretches the geographical boundaries of Chinese script reforms to include American behavioral psychologists, Soviet revolutionaries, and Central Asian typographers, who were all devising new scripts in pursuit of informational efficiency. Codes of Modernity brings these experiments together to offer new ways to understand scripts and rethink the shared experiences of a global information age.

本书是一关于作者眼中澳洲的方方面面的生活图景。作为一个优秀的记录者，蔡成四处走访，采访了数十位来自不同国家的移民，其中有大陆偷渡客，越南新娘，苏丹达尔富难民，斯里兰卡的“国宝级”作家等。这些内容不再局限于澳洲大陆，而是涵盖了许多国家的历史和小人物的浮沉。