Emergent readers will learn to recognize vowel blends through short sentences and full-color photographs that illustrate the vowel blended word used in the sentence.
Photographer Liam Wong’s debut monograph, a cyberpunk-inspired exploration of nocturnal Tokyo. Featuring evocative and stunning color photographs of contemporary Tokyo, this book brings together the images of an exciting new photographic talent, Liam Wong. Born and raised in Edinburgh, Scotland, Wong studied computer arts in college and, by the time he was twenty-five, was living in Canada and working as a director at one of the world’s leading video game companies. His job took him to Tokyo for the first time, where he discovered the ethereality of floating worlds and the lurid allure of Tokyo’s nocturnal scenes. “I got lost in the beauty of Tokyo at night,” he explains. A testament to the deep art of color composition, this publication brings together a refined body of images that are evocative, timeless, and completely transporting. This volume also features Wong’s creative and technical processes, including identifying the right scene, capturing the essence of a moment, and methods to enhance color values—insights that are invaluable to admirers and photography students alike.
4 Live關鍵時事新聞 9 焦點話題 10 大師名作選 The Lady, or the Tiger? 〈美女或猛虎?〉 14 科技生活 An End to Passwords? 無密碼時代即將來臨? 16 節慶習俗 How Moon Festivals Are Celebrated 亞洲各國如何慶中秋 20 英語聽力測驗1 21 主題式會話 Starting University 開學:認識新同學 24 飲食與文化 Turkish Coffee: A Taste of Culture 土耳其咖啡:文化體驗 28 在地臺灣 Journey to Taitung 來趟臺東輕旅行 32 生活科學素養 The Science of Melting Ice 家中的融冰利器 35 唱歌學英語 Studying English with Songs: Lauv:〈 All 4 Nothing (I’m So in Love)〉 36 旅遊好去處 The Top Four Things to Do in Dublin 在都柏林一定要做的四件事 40 生活情境對話 At the Stationery Store 在文具店 43 英語聽力測驗2 44 心理健康 Social Media Envy: What It Is and How to Stop It 如何避免社交媒體妒忌 48 閱讀素養專欄 Skimming and Scanning 讀門祕笈:略讀與尋讀 Finn Wolfhard: Not Your Typical Teenage Actor 芬恩.沃夫哈德:非典型的少年演員 54 天南地北說英語 55 翻譯練習 Translation Practice 翻譯練習 58 歷史揭密 Popular History Myths Debunked 終結歷史流言! 62 全民英檢中級模擬閱讀試題 64 看預告片學英文 65 中文翻譯與解答 72 全民英檢中級模擬試題解答
The financial collapse of 2007–8 has questioned our assumptions about the underlying basis for stability in the financial system, and Anthony Hotson here offers an important reassessment of the development of London's money and credit markets since the great currency crisis of 1695. He shows how this period has seen a series of intermittent financial crises interspersed with successive attempts to find ways and means of stabilizing the system. He emphasises, in particular, the importance of various principles of sound banking practice, developed in the late nineteenth century, that helped to stabilize London's money and credit markets. He shows how these principles informed a range of market practices that limited aggressive forms of funding, and discouraged speculative lending. A tendency to downplay the importance of these regulatory practices encouraged a degree of complacency about their removal, with consequences right through to the present day.