The scandalous love story from "Good Ending" author Kei Sasuga! Natsuo just found out he's got two new family members... Rui, the girl who took his virginity, and Hina, the high school teacher he can't get off his mind! A pure yet tempestuous love triangle, all under one roof! After Natsuo's writing thrusts him into the limelight, Tanabe resurfaces with the intention of ruining him. Hina resolves to go it alone to save the person she loves and the future of her family. However, reality is often cruel. The pure love triangle that began so long ago reaches its conclusion!
Kwan Chun-dok mendapat julukan Sang Mata Surga karena caranya mengingat detail lokasi dan kemampuannya mengindentifikasi tersangka hanya dari cara berjalannya. Kwan mampu mengartikan petunjuk dan menggali sisi psikologis pelaku kejahatan hingga tingkat keberhasilannya dalam memecahkan kasus nyaris seratus persen. Bersama timnya, termasuk anak didiknya, Sonny Lok, Kwan berhasil menemukan petunjuk tak kentara yang menjadi pemicu tindak kejahatan. Buku ini terbagi atas enam bagian yang diceritakan dalam kronologi terbalik—masing-masing berisi kasus penting dalam karier Kwan dan terjadi di tengah momen penting sejarah Hong Kong: Pemberontakan Kelompok Kiri tahun 1967 ketika teror bom mengancam penduduk Hong Kong; konflik antara Polisi Hong Kong dan Komisi Independen Anti Korupsi Hong Kong tahun 1977; Pembantaian Tiananmen tahun 1989; Serah-Terima Kekuasaan tahun 1997; dan Hong Kong pada tahun 2013 saat Kwan diminta menyelesaikan kasus terakhirnya ketika dia sedang terbaring koma di rumah sakit. The Borrowed (13.67) mengungkap betapa segala hal sangat berkaitan erat dan bagaimana sejarah selalu berulang.
Rudo lives in the slums of a floating town, where the poor scrape by under the shadow of the rich who live a sumptuous life, simply casting their garbage off the side, into the abyss. Then one day, he's falsely accused of murder, and his wrongful conviction leads to an unimaginable punishment-exile off the edge, with the rest of the trash. Down on the surface, the cast-off waste of humanity has bred vicious monsters, and if Rudo wants to have any hope of discovering the truth and seeking vengeance against those who cast him into Hell, he will have to master a new power and join a group known as the Cleaners who battle the hulking trash beasts of the Pit!
In the middle of the battle with the Raiders, Rudo finally awakened his abilities. He has the power to find the worth in objects and draw it out to its full potential! After driving back the Raiders, one of them revealed Rudo's Instrument is actually part of a series, as well as the existence of a “border” connecting the Sphere and the ground. Now that Rudo has a clue to returning home, he sets out to solve this brand new mystery. But many dangers lie ahead…
Senri Nakajou's twin brother was his everything, the one who protected him from their abusive father, the one whose pain he felt as his own. That is, until the day thirteen years ago when Senri's entire family was murdered before his eyes. He couldn't have cared less about his parents, but without his brother, his world ended. Ever since, finding the killer and making him pay has been Senri's only goal...and now-finally-he's caught a glimpse of a clue...!
After being falsely accused of murdering the man who raised him, Rudo was dropped into the Pit, where horrible monsters called trash beasts roam and the very air is toxic. But there are people known as Givers who have the power to defeat these beasts and Rudo is one of them. If Rudo wants to have any hope of discovering a way back to his home and finding the true killer, he must first navigate this new world. The first step is joining an organization of trash beast exterminators called the “Cleaners,” whose boss may have the information Rudo needs…
What do you think of girls like me, Fujii-kun...?" Miu's sudden question blindsides Natsuo. Meanwhile, Hina is shaken to the core when she finds out her ex, Shuu, finally got a divorce. What's more, there's a new development in Natsuo and Rui's relationship?!
Kei a grandi en France, partagée entre deux cultures : les dim sum et le camembert, la fête de la Lune et l’Épiphanie, le baume du tigre et l’eau bénite... La vie n’est pas toujours simple pour une petite Chinoise à Paris, mais peu à peu elle se forge une identité faite de ces références multiples. Aujourd’hui, Kei revendique son métissage culturel et assume joyeusement l’étiquette de banane, jaune à l’extérieur et blanche à l’intérieur...
Lunsford found that today's students write more than ever before-- and make rhetorically appropriate choices in texts they create outside the classroom. This is the first handbook to help students build on the smart decisions they make as recreational writers in order to succeed in their academic and professional work. It is an all-in-one teaching tool and reference that shows students how to write effectively for any purpose.
PEN OPEN BOOK AWARD FINALIST ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Slate • Publishers Weekly • Kirkus Reviews • Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel Ma Taffy may be blind but she sees everything. So when her great-nephew Kaia comes home from school in tears, what she senses sends a deep fear running through her. A teacher has cut off Kaia’s dreadlocks—a violation of the family’s Rastafari beliefs—and this single impulsive action will have ramifications that stretch throughout the entire community. Kaia’s story brings back memories from Ma Taffy’s youth, including the legend of the flying preacherman and his ties to the history of Jamaican oppression and resistance—all of which will reverberate forward to the present and change Augustown forever. Vividly bringing to life Jamaica in the 1980s, Augustown follows one family’s struggle to rise above the brutal vicissitudes of history, race, class, collective memory, violence, and myth.
Kimihara Himeno, called Hime by her friends and family, is just a normal high-school girl... who also happens to be a centaur! With best friends like dragon-winged Nozomi, goat-horned Kyoko, a class president with angel wings, not to mention schoolmates of various different species, things are bound to get interesting... Love is in the air, as Hime's younger cousin, Shino-chan, receives a lesson in kissing etiquette. Meanwhile, during a class trip to a merfolk high school, it's Kyoko and Nozomi who get some unexpected romantic attention!
After arriving at The Cleaners' HQ, hoping to find a way back to the Sphere, Rudo discovered that the person who may have the answers, their boss, is out of town. Hoping to be useful, he decided to help out on a job. But it turns out that using his newfound powers is harder than it looks! To make matters worse, there's a dangerous group called “Raiders” who have their sights set on Rudo, and they'll do anything to get their hands on him…
Humans have always made music and this authoritative and lavishly illustrated guide is your companion to its fascinating history across the globe. Music - that mysterious alchemy of harmonies, lyrics, and rhythm - is a constant in our lives. Discover how music has evolved with human society, accompanying our leisure, religious rituals, and popular festivities. Watch its development during prehistory and before musical notation, when melodies were memorized or improvised. Enjoy galleries of historical instruments such as dulcimers, shawms, psalteries, and tabor pipes. The universal language of music is expressed in an astonishing number of styles today, and Music presents its evolution around the globe, including the classical European tradition of JS Bach, the passionate sounds of Spain's flamenco, and the sonic power of electronica and heavy rock. With spectacular timelines of key events and profiles of musicians from Amadeus Mozart to David Bowie, Music is an unrivaled and comprehensive reference. Whether you are into the Blues, Brahms, or Bhangra, it is essential reading and guaranteed to hit the right note.
As children, Koharu and Mafuyu were best buds until Mafuyu moved away to Tokyo. But now, several years have passed and Mafuyu is back, attending the same high school as Koharu. As the two girls explore their sleepy hometown, Koharu can't help but develop a crush on her childhood best friend...
Fate has guided Iska and Alice together once more as they cross paths at an Imperial painter's art exhibit. There, they agree to meet again-only this time, to settle the score! But when an ancient power awakens to threaten their very lives, Alice is forced to choose between her country and her ideals! Up against an all-powerful foe, will the two heroes form an unlikely alliance-or find themselves unable to overcome their allegiances?
BURNING BRIDGES The Nebulis Sovereignty is in flames. For the first time since its founding, the Paradise of Witches is raided by Imperial forces. It’s Imperial solider versus Sovereign witch. Saint Disciples against Purebreds. Unit 907 toe-to-toe with the House of Hydra. While war indiscriminately obliterates all, Iska squares off against Alice. Finding each other on the battlefield, the two discover their circumstances have changed for the worse. As paradise falls, they face a choice that might alter the course of their relationship forever…
Jintetsu is lost in the mountains when a man offers him shelter. But the quaint house is actually a house of horrors, haunted by lost love and madness.
For the first time, the full story of the conflict between two of the twentieth century’s most important thinkers—and the lessons their disagreements continue to offer Two of the most iconic thinkers of the twentieth century, Hannah Arendt (1906–1975) and Isaiah Berlin (1909–1997) fundamentally disagreed on central issues in politics, history and philosophy. In spite of their overlapping lives and experiences as Jewish émigré intellectuals, Berlin disliked Arendt intensely, saying that she represented “everything that I detest most,” while Arendt met Berlin’s hostility with indifference and suspicion. Written in a lively style, and filled with drama, tragedy and passion, Hannah Arendt and Isaiah Berlin tells, for the first time, the full story of the fraught relationship between these towering figures, and shows how their profoundly different views continue to offer important lessons for political thought today. Drawing on a wealth of new archival material, Kei Hiruta traces the Arendt–Berlin conflict, from their first meeting in wartime New York through their widening intellectual chasm during the 1950s, the controversy over Arendt’s 1963 book Eichmann in Jerusalem, their final missed opportunity to engage with each other at a 1967 conference and Berlin’s continuing animosity toward Arendt after her death. Hiruta blends political philosophy and intellectual history to examine key issues that simultaneously connected and divided Arendt and Berlin, including the nature of totalitarianism, evil and the Holocaust, human agency and moral responsibility, Zionism, American democracy, British imperialism and the Hungarian Revolution. But, most of all, Arendt and Berlin disagreed over a question that goes to the heart of the human condition: what does it mean to be free?
THE TRUTH LIES BENEATH THE SURFACE As the night of the witch hunt ends, the Nebulis Sovereignty finds it’s sustained nearly insurmountable damage. Its citizens are pointing fingers at the royal family, demanding they take responsibility for the chaos and accelerate the conclave to select a new queen. Meanwhile, Alice entrusts Iska with the task of rescuing Sisbell, the only one capable of revealing who is responsible for the Imperial raid. Iska’s next destination? The research facility run by the House of Hydra! Just who is the blue-haired princess who awaits them there?
Restaurant owner Winona blushes at the burning stare from her handsome customer. It may be an old-fashioned idea, but Winona has decided she won’t cross the line with any man unless he intends marriage. Her customer’s name is Connor and he’s a detective in the middle of an undercover investigation. He’s learned that there’s a prostitution ring being run out of the restaurant and that Winona is the head of the organization. In his eyes, Winona is a devil in an old-fashioned dress, and he’s decided to seduce her to get the information he needs!
This volume affords a fascinating and rare look at the sensitive issue of nuclear diplomacy between two critical Cold War allies, the United States and Japan, during the 1960s. Challenging the silence of the official bureaucracies in Washington and Tokyo, Wakaizumi Kei reveals the truth behind the secret 1969 agreement that ensured the eventual reversion of Okinawa to Japanese jurisdiction in 1972. Revelation of this secret accord created considerable controversy in Japan when Wakaizumi's memoir was first published in 1994. With the publication of this translation, his description of the events leading up to the closed-door agreement is available to an English-language audience for the first time. At a time when security matters are once again predominant in the U.S.-Japan alliance, Professor Wakaizumi's account is a timely reminder of the gap between official, media-filtered descriptions of diplomatic relations and the private discussions of national leaders. The long-standing reluctance of the Japanese government to declassify its postwar diplomatic records has meant that Japan's side of its relationship with the U.S. has been only partially revealed. The Best Course Available attempts to correct this shortcoming and at the same time provides insight into the complicated and arcane process of foreign policymaking, national leadership, and domestic politics in Japan after 1945.
For thirteen years, Senri has made it his mission to take revenge on the man with the "fire" scar who took his twin brother from him. Recognizing his pursuit will require a certain amount of funding, Senri has saved and schemed for years, but his latest get-rich-quick con has just been cracked wide open! With his associates in danger, Senri stands to lost everything he's built. It may be a costly setback, or it may be fate has given him a new avenue for tracking down his brother's killer!
The Nebulis Sovereignty and the Empire are embroiled in a war without end. The Ice Calamity Witch, a Nebulis mage of incredible power, and Iska, the youngest swordsman of the Empire ever to become a Saint Disciple, find themselves face-to-face on the battlefield. Each seeks to bring a close to this ceaseless conflict. Little do they know, however, that their meeting will be the catalyst that shapes the fate of the world!
Break free...if you can Getting assigned to a special mission to infiltrate the Sovereignty was already more than Iska could handle, but with Captain Mismis becoming a witch, his list of problems just keeps getting longer. To make matters even worse, Iska finds himself dragged to the Sovereignty's prison block after an accident nobody bargained for. There, he's chained to Alice, giving him no chance of escape-and intimate insight into her true nature. But reality comes crashing down on them hard when the "transcendental" sorcerer manages to break out of his cell...
A legendary detective uncovers Hong Kong’s darkest crimes: “An ambitious narrative brilliantly executed . . . What an achievement!” (John Burdett, author of Bangkok 8). From award-winning author Chan Ho-kei, The Borrowed tells the story of Kwan Chun-dok, a detective who’s worked in Hong Kong fifty years. Across six decades of Hong Kong’s volatile history, the narrative follows Kwan through the Leftist Riot of 1967, when a bombing plot threatens many lives; the conflict between the HK Police and ICAC (Independent Commission Against Corruption) in 1977; the Tiananmen Square Massacre in 1989; the Handover in 1997; and the present day of 2013, when Kwan is called on to solve his final case, the murder of a local billionaire, in a modern Hong Kong that increasingly resembles a police state. Along the way we meet Communist rioters, ultra-violent gangsters, pop singers enmeshed in the high-stakes machinery of star-making, and a people always caught in the shifting balance of political power, whether in London or Beijing. Tracing a broad historical arc, The Borrowed reveals just how closely everything is connected, how history repeats itself, and how we have come full circle to repeat the political upheaval and societal unrest of the past. It is a gripping, brilliantly constructed novel from a talented new voice.
After his mother's death triggers his Revival ability, Satoru finds himself 18 years in the past! While he's relieved to see his mother and his old friends again, his thoughts are focused on future kidnapping and murder victim Hinazuki Kayo. Putting his plan to save her in motion, he starts a conversation with her. However, he finds himself at a loss for words when Kayo asks him a shocking question... "Would you kill for me?
Shosuke ist immer für seinen Freund Tomoki da - vor allem wenn der sich wieder über beide Ohren verliebt hat und fallen gelassen wurde. Als die beiden eines Tages etwas trinken gehen und Tomoki wie so oft am Boden zerstört ist, macht er Shousuke unerwartet im Scherz ein Liebesgeständnis. Shosuke, der seine Gefühle für ihn jahrelang unterdrückt hat, kann keinen klaren Gedanken mehr fassen und ... küsst Tomoki! Dieser Titel wird im sog. Fixed-Layout-Format angeboten und ist daher nur auf Geräten und Leseprogrammen nutzbar, die die Darstellung von Fixed-Layout-eBooks im epub- oder mobi/KF8-Format unterstützen. Wir empfehlen in jedem Fall die Darstellung auf Tablets und anderen Geräten mit Farbbildschirm.
Battling a past that refuses to be forgotten, Rosalie James devotes her life to helping orphans around the world. This was her self-declared, personal mission and she’d be distracted by no man. But when her meddlesome ways cause her to butt heads with wealthy playboy Adam Cazell, Rosalie finds herself struggling desperately against the desire to give in to his lustful gaze and leave everything else behind.
Simulation of Power Electronics Converters Using PLECS® is a guide to simulating a power electronics circuit using the latest powerful software for power electronics circuit simulation purposes. This book assists engineers gain an increased understanding of circuit operation so they can, for a given set of specifications, choose a topology, select appropriate circuit component types and values, estimate circuit performance, and complete the design by ensuring that the circuit performance will meet specifications even with the anticipated variations in operating conditions and circuit component values. This book covers the fundamentals of power electronics converter simulation, along with an analysis of power electronics converters using PLECS. It concludes with real-world simulation examples for applied content, making this book useful for all those in the electrical and electronic engineering field. Contains unique examples on the simulation of power electronics converters using PLECS® Includes explanations and guidance on all included simulations for re-doing the simulations Incorporates analysis and design for rapidly creating power electronics circuits with high accuracy
Senri's hunt for his twin heats up as a rival criminal group sets Kazuto and the "fire" man's hideout ablaze mere minutes after he and Enan finish their search. As he draws closer and closer to his brother, the danger only seems to increase, and so too does Senri's recklessness. He feels sure Kazuto is reaching out to him, yearning to meet as much as he is, but Kazuto has a long history with the "fire" man-and a terrible burden to bear...
The power to rewrite history...and all it costs is a deal with the devil For a hundred years, the East and West have waged a ferocious war using everything from tanks to witchcraft, but the technological advancements of the West have begun to shift the balance. That all changes one day when Rain Lantz, a young soldier from the East, finds a few mysterious silver bullets--and discovers that anyone shot with them is erased not only from the battlefield, but from history itself. Soon after, he meets the bullets' creator, a Ghost who calls herself Air, and learns that if he wishes to continue using this power to end the war for good, he will have to give her his freedom...
With Yashiro and Sachiko's cooperation, Hinazuki was taken in by her grandmother. Even though Hinazuki is out of danger, Satoru has no time to rest--the serial abduction slayings are not over. But if he prevents the crimes from happening, will he be able to return to the present?
After leaving Natsuo, Hina starts over in a new town. Then one day, the man she once had an affair with, Shuu, appears before her eyes. Meanwhile, unable to cope with his growing affection for Rui, Natsuo finds himself on a rollercoaster of emotion.
Uniquely designed for the Core Exam, Ultrasound: A Core Review covers all key aspects of ultrasound, mimicking the image-rich, multiple-choice format of the actual test. Ideal for residents getting ready for the Core Examination, as well as practitioners taking recertification exams, this one-of-a-kind review follows the structure and content of what you’ll encounter on the test, effectively preparing you for Core Exam success!
Certain his twin is alive, Senri shifts his goal from avenging his brother to finding him. Enan is happy to join the search, relieved to see her friend's face light up with hope after living in darkness for so long. Following the threads of distant memories, Senri uncovers new clues that suggest his parents' involvement in a tangled plot, one that may well have led to their deaths. And now, as events continue to unfold, Senri fears Kazuto may be wrapped up in the sinister dealings of the city's underworld as well. Has the homicidal "fire" man twisted his kind brother into something unimaginable...?!
Evie is one of the best psychics in New Orleans. One day, an unexpected visitor comes to see her?Jack Murphy, a detective and a former lover of Evie’s. Their relationship fell apart due to a terrible misunderstanding, and now they despise each other. Despite all that, Jack asks Evie for help. He wants her to get close to the wife of casino owner MacDougal and find evidence of his illegal activities. Evie has no choice but to cooperate, although she knows it’s a risky job. No one can resist the alluring Jack Murphy.
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