This volume compiles books 1 to 3 of One Story a Day for Early Readers, a series of 12 books designed to develop a love of reading in children ages 8 to 10, now divided into 4 volumes. Written by a team of professional writers, these books comprise high-interest topics and motivational content that makes children excited about reading. The stories are based on everyday life, funny tales of friendship and family, fables from around the world, and stories about nature, science, and history. ...

This volume compiles the first 3 books of One Story a Day for Intermediate Readers, a series of 12 books designed to develop a love of reading in children ages 10 to 15, now divided into 4 volumes. Written by a team of professional writers, these books comprise high-interest topics and motivational content that makes children excited about reading. The stories are based on everyday life, funny tales of friendship and family, fables from around the world, and stories about nature, science, ...

This book focus on the research results in macro and micro scratch mechanical tests and numerical simulations of shale, in order to provide a reference for understanding and recognizing the macroscopic mechanical properties of shale. Shale is widely distributed in the earth's strata and has received extensive attention in the fields of mineral resource extraction (e.g., shale oil and gas extraction) and underground space resource utilization (e.g., soft-rock tunnel support, CO2 geologic se...

This volume compiles 3 books (April to June) of One Story a Day for Intermediate Readers, a series of 12 books designed to develop a love of reading in children ages 10 to 11, now divided into 4 volumes. Written by a team of professional writers, these books comprise high-interest topics and motivational content that makes children excited about reading. The stories are based on everyday life, funny tales of friendship and family, fables from around the world, and stories about nature, sci...

This volume compiles 3 books (July to September) of One Story a Day for Intermediate Readers, a series of 12 books designed to develop a love of reading in children ages 10 to 15, now divided into 4 volumes. Written by a team of professional writers, these books comprise high-interest topics and motivational content that makes children excited about reading. The stories are based on everyday life, funny tales of friendship and family, fables from around the world, and stories about nature,...

This volume compiles the last 3 books (October to December) of One Story a Day for Intermediate Readers, a series of 12 books designed to develop a love of reading in children ages 10 to 15, now divided into 4 volumes. Written by a team of professional writers, these books comprise high-interest topics and motivational content that makes children excited about reading. The stories are based on everyday life, funny tales of friendship and family, fables from around the world, and stories ab...

This book focuses on the new paradigm of artificial intelligence and systematically introduces the key technologies, foundational models, and typical applications of multimodal large models. To make the technical content more accessible for lower-year undergraduate students and newcomers to the AI field, the book presents each key technical point in an easy-to-understand manner and provides numerous intuitive examples. It deeply analyses the structure and technology of several classic mult...

From the creators of Vegan Chinese Food, Yang and Kathi of littlericenoodle present a vibrant exploration of vegan Asian street food that goes beyond the familiar bowl of steaming noodles. This enticing cookbook offers recipes from various regions across China, as well as other Southeast and East Asian countries that have captivated the authors during their travels. With dishes ranging from Thai iced tea and Vietnamese bánh mì to Indonesian nasi goreng and Japanese okonomi...

Nonlinear Dynamics Approach to Robotic Capsule Endoscopy is an innovative resource that explores the development and progress of self-propelled capsule robots for medical use. This book guides readers from the initial conceptual stages to the final proof-of-concept demonstrations, with a special focus on applied dynamics principles. It introduces various mathematical modeling techniques that allow these robots to navigate and propel themselves within the human intestine. Researchers, profe...

Integrated circuits were developed following Moore’s law. Moore’s law predicts that the degree of microprocessor integration would double every 18 months in DRAM. However, as the size of circuit elements approaches its physical limit, the optical method used in manufacturing 16 nm-node chips is also approaching a limit. Although the scaling of microelectronic circuit elements still follows Moore’s law, the unit density of power consumption will become unacceptable. Therefore, on the one ha...

This book collects papers presented at the 21st Chinese Intelligent Systems Conference, CISC 2025, held in Beijing, China, from October 25–26, 2025. It focuses on new theoretical results and techniques in the field of intelligent systems and control. This is achieved by providing in-depth studies of a number of important topics such as multi-agent systems, complex networks, intelligent robots, complex systems theory and swarm behaviour, event-driven and data-driven control, robust and adap...

This book provides a systematic and in-depth introduction to machine unlearning (MU) for foundation models, framed through an optimization–model–data tri-design perspective and complemented by assessments and applications. As foundation models are continuously adapted and reused, the ability to selectively remove unwanted data, knowledge, or model behavior, without full retraining, poses new theoretical and practical challenges. Thus, MU has become a critical capability for trustworthy, de...