ABC Interactive English No. 268 October, 2024 Contents 每日一句 Small Talk 用英語閒話家常 文法補給站 A Tall Problem 高樓的問題 A Long Time to Wait 漫長的等待 品格英語 The Power of Patience 耐心就是力量 世界好望角 Manhole Covers with Special Designs 地面藝術：日本人孔蓋集錦 活用ABC Asking for Something 用英語提出請求 短篇故事集 The Boy Who Cried Wolf 〈狼來了〉 流行最前線 What Is Your Personal Color? 個人色彩鑑定——找出你的專屬顏色 本月焦點 Kitchen Tools 廚房用具 In the Kitchen 廚房擺設的創新思維 安妮信箱 My School Life 我的校園生活 克漏字測驗 OutHorse Your Email 「馬」上搞定你的郵件 玩味生活 The Book Clubs of Today 當代讀書會的閱讀新風尚 科技漫遊 Granfluencers Are on the Rise 超人氣爺奶網紅 小地方大玩意 Let’s Hike the Pacific Crest Trail 太平洋屋脊步道健行趣 ABC長知識 Tiny Pockets on Jeans 牛仔褲小口袋的由來 聽說圖寫 Dietary Fiber 膳食纖維 本月之星 Juice Boy

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A drama of three lives brought together - Jack McKenzie is a small- time professional fisherman from a tiny island in Bass Strait. Nicole Lenoir-Jourdan is a strong-willed woman hiding from an ambiguous past in Shanghai. Private Jimmy Oldcorn was once a gang leader. Together, they reap a vast and not always legitimate fortune from the sea.

This work accompanies an exhibition organised, in partnership, by Tate Modern, the Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, and the Museum of Modern Art. It examines the crucial relationship between Matisse and Picasso.

Australia's Poisonous Plants, Fungi and Cyanobacteria is the first full-colour, comprehensive guide to the major natural threats to health in Australia affecting domestic and native animals and humans. The overriding aim of the book is to prevent poisoning, as there are few effective treatments available, particularly in domestic animals. The species have been chosen because of their capacity to threaten life or damage important organs, their relative abundance or wide distribution in native and naturalised Australian flora, or because of their extensive cultivation as crops, pastures or in gardens. These include flowering plants, ferns and cone-bearing plants, macrofungi, ergot fungi and cyanobacteria. The plant species are grouped by life form such as herbs, grasses and sedges, shrubs, trees, and for flowering plants by flower type and colour for ease of identification. Species described have colour photographs, distribution maps and notes on confusing species, habitats, toxins, animals affected, conditions of poisoning, clinical signs and symptoms, post mortem changes, therapy, prevention and control. Symbols are used for quick reference to poisoning duration and available ways of managing poisoning. As further aids to understanding, poisoning hot-spots are highlighted and the book lists plants under the headings of animals affected and organs affected. A Digest gives brief details for all poisonous species in Australia. This book is written in a straightforward style making it accessible to a wide audience including farmers, veterinarians, agricultural advisors, gardeners, horticulturists, botanists and park rangers, medical practitioners and paramedics, teachers, parents and pet owners. First published in 2012 as a hardback and made available in eBook format in 2020.

The big stories -- The skills of the new machines : technology races ahead -- Moore's law and the second half of the chessboard -- The digitization of just about everything -- Innovation : declining or recombining? -- Artificial and human intelligence in the second machine age -- Computing bounty -- Beyond GDP -- The spread -- The biggest winners : stars and superstars -- Implications of the bounty and the spread -- Learning to race with machines : recommendations for individuals -- Policy recommendations -- Long-term recommendations -- Technology and the future (which is very different from "technology is the future").

Reveals how commodity failure, as much as success, can shed light on aspirations, environment, and economic life in colonial societies.