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The love potion may be complete, but Sir Harij still seems to have
business with Rose! And to top it off, a mysterious Lady Lau shows
up at Rose’s hermitage out of the blue. Though not a customer,
Rose is more than willing to lend an ear for her woes...
"I want you to make me a love potion." With that single sentence
from the object of her affections, the Good Witch of the Lake's
crush ended in heartbreak. In a desperate bid to spend more time
with him, she sends him on a wild goose chase for ingredients...but
when he starts visiting every day to take care of her, she might
have gotten much more than she's bargained for!
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10 Years (DVD)
Channing Tatum, Jenna Dewan-Tatum, Justin Long, Max Minghella, Oscar Isaac, …
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Channing Tatum and Rosario Dawson star in this romantic comedy
drama following a group of friends who reconnect while attending
their high school reunion. Jake (Tatum) takes his girlfriend Jess
(Jenna Dewan-Tatum) along to the reunion but while there encounters
old flame Mary (Dawson). Meanwhile, successful music artist Reeves
(Oscar Isaac) becomes reacquainted with former crush Elise (Kate
Mara) and reveals a truth about his career. Their other friends
include Marty (Justin Long), AJ (Max Minghella), Scott (Scott
Porter) and married couple Cully (Chris Pratt) and Sam (Ari
Graynor). Over the course of the night, the members of the group
try to face up to their high school regrets.
The Chinese Hsinhai Revolution explores and explains for the first
time the important role of G. E. Morrison in great power diplomacy
in China from the end of the Russo-Japanese War to the overthrow of
the Qing Dynasty. The work is based on a wide range of
multinational scholarly sources and in order to develop the context
in which Morrison carried out his personal diplomacy and to
delineate the many-sided story into which Morrison has to be
placed, Woodhouse has in addition to mining the very rich Morrison
collection, drawn upon British, Japanese and American personal and
official materials.
Author Biography: Eiko Woodhouse was formerly secretary to the consul-general in the Consulate-General of Japan, Sydney and gained a PhD at the University of Sydney.
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Kiki's Delivery Service (Paperback)
Eiko Kadono; Illustrated by Joe Todd-Stanton; Translated by Emily Balistrieri
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Nostalgic fans of the Hiyao Miyazaki film and newcomers alike--soar
into the modern classic about a young witch and her clever cat that
started it all!
Half-witch Kiki never runs from a challenge. So when her thirteenth
birthday arrives, she's eager to follow a witch's tradition: choose a
new town to call home for one year.
Brimming with confidence, Kiki flies to the seaside village of Koriko
and expects that her powers will easily bring happiness to the
townspeople. But gaining the trust of the locals is trickier than she
expected. With her faithful, wise-cracking black cat, Jiji, by her
side, Kiki forges new friendships and builds her inner strength,
ultimately realizing that magic can be found in even the most ordinary
places.
Blending fantasy with the charm of everyday life, this enchanting new
translation will inspire both new readers and dedicated fans.
On March 11, 2011 one of the most powerful earthquakes in recorded
history devastated Japan, triggering a massive tsunami and nuclear
meltdowns at three reactors in the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power
Plant complex in a triple disaster known as 3.11. On five separate
journeys, Japanese-born performer and dancer Eiko Otake and
historian and photographer William Johnston visited multiple
locations across Fukushima, creating 200 transformative color
photographs that document the irradiated landscape, accentuated by
Eiko's poses depicting both the sorrow and dignity of the land. The
book also includes essays and commentary reflecting on art,
disaster, and grief. "By placing my body in these places, I thought
of the generations of people who used to live there. Now desolate,
only time and wind continue to move." - Eiko Otake "This book is of
people who had lived in Fukushima and had to leave, and of people
who had died there before the disaster. This book is of Fukushima,
of a dancer, of a performance, of a gaze. A gaze of a dancer, of
time, and of a photographer. And this book is of you, your gaze.
When you take time to look at and look into each photograph, we
hope it becomes a performance for you and with you, of Fukushima.
By witnessing events and places, we actually change them and
ourselves in ways that may not always be apparent but are
important. Through photographing Eiko in these places in Fukushima,
we are witnessing not only her and the places themselves, but the
people whose lives crossed with those places." - William Johnston
This publication details how technical and vocational education and
training (TVET) has evolved in Tajikistan and other countries in
Central Asia. It offers recommendations to enhance regional
cooperation in labor market and TVET development. Tajikistan and
other countries in Central Asia, such as Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz
Republic, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan, are striving to align TVET
with their economic realities. Job shortage and the gap between
TVET and the needs of employers must be addressed by these
countries. The publication recommends improvements across different
areas, including management and governance as well as regional
collaboration and experience sharing.
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SOUND (Paperback)
Petra Eiko
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In the series Seeds of Truth Petra Eiko has written an inspiring
story about the connection between the body and the mind. Petra
Eiko's books are available individually in eight parts: Is, Wisdom,
Vision, Sound, Power, Sex, Fear, and Heart. These books help
promote both self-understanding and the acquisition of wisdom. Each
book in the series marks important stages of growth in every
person's life.
This book offers a new, complex understanding of Indian writing in
English by focusing its analysis on both Indo-Pakistani Partition
fiction and novels written by women. The author gives a
comprehensive outline of Partition novels in India, Pakistan, and
Bangladesh written in English as well as an overview of the
challenges of studying Partition literature, particularly English
translations of Partition novels in regional languages. Featured
works include Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children, Bapsi Sidhwa's
Ice-Candy-Man, Amitav Ghosh's Shadow Lines, Meena Arora Nayak's
About Daddy, and Sujata Sabnis's A Twist in Destiny. The book then
moves on to a study of novels by women writers such as Githa
Hariharan, Kiran Desai, Anita Desai, and Arundhati Roy, exploring
their perspectives on sexuality, the body, and the diaspora.
Marissa Ohara and Charles Lyons are freelance musicians working in
the casino orchestras in Las Vegas in the 1970s. They are among a
handful of classically trained string players in the bands that
backed the popular singers of the day: Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin,
Sammy Davis Jr., Bob Goulet, Shirley MacLaine, etc. The bands were
basically Big Band, and the added strings produced rich symphonic
sounds to enhance these idols' spectacular shows. Marissa and
Charlie form a close friendship that eventually leads to marriage.
The reader is taken behind the scenes of the workplace-backstage
and the band rooms-to see the interaction between the players and
the stars who were idols in the then-flourishing music business. In
1970 Las Vegas was just a budding desert town. It had a small
branch of the University of Nevada where Charlie enrolled as
candidate for a doctorate in Nevada history. He supported himself
while in college by continuing to play in the Strip orchestras.
Marissa lived with him and worked full time in the casino bands for
the big stars who appeared nonstop for two decades. Marissa Ohara
is not Irish, as her last name might suggest. Rather she is
full-blooded Japanese, but thoroughly American by birth and
upbringing. Marissa's father, George Shigeo Ohara, a
second-generation American, was in his senior year at the
University of California at Berkeley when Pearl Harbor was
attacked. Through Charlie's knowledge of history Marissa becomes
aware of her parent's wartime subjugation. She also learns about
the life of the Japanese immigrant in California in the early
1900s: how people of her parents' and grandparents' generations
came to America, and how they were denied social and economic
advancement available to their white fellow citizens. This book
also tells of the 120,000 innocent Japanese-American men, women,
and children uprooted from their homes during the war, with details
about the evacuation and the three years they were forced to live
in barbed wire camps. These stories are drawn from the writer's own
experience as one of those internees.
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Bio-Inspired Computing and Communication - First Workshop on Bio-Inspired Design of Networks, BIOWIRE 2007 Cambridge, UK, April 2-5, 2007, Revised Papers (Paperback, 2008 ed.)
Pietro Lio, Eiko Yoneki, Jon Crowcroft, Dinesh Chandra Verma
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This volume contains the papers from BIOWIRE 2007, the first in a
series of wo- shops on the bio-inspired design of networks, and
additional papers contributed from the research area of
bio-inspired computing and communication. The workshop took place
at the University of Cambridge during April 2-5, 2007 with
sponsorship from the US/UK International Technology Alliance in
Network and Information Sciences. Its objective was to present,
discuss and explore the recent developments in the field of
bio-inspired design of networks, with particular regard to wireless
networks and the self-organizing properties of biological networks.
The workshop was organized by Jon Crowcroft (University of
Cambridge), Don Towsley (University of Massachusetts), Dinesh Verma
(IBM T. J. Watson Research Center), Vasilis Pappas (IBM T. J.
Watson Research Center), Ananthram Swami (ARL), Tom McCutcheon
(DSTL) and Pietro Lio (University of Cambridge). The program for
BIOWIRE 2007 included 54 speakers covering a diverse range of
topics, categorized as follows: 1. Self-organized communication
networks in insects 2. Neuronal communications 3. Bio-computing 4.
Epidemiology 5. Network theory 6. Wireless and sensorial networks
7. Brain: models of sensorial integration The BIOWIRE workshop
focuses on achieving a common ground for knowledge sharing among
scientists with expertise in investigating the application domain
(e. g. , biological, wireless, data communication and
transportation networks) and scientists with relevant expertise in
the methodology domain (e. g. , mathematics and statistical physics
of networks).
"Taketori Monogatari," literally translated "The Tale of the Bamboo
Cutter" is familiar to the Japanese people by the title " Kaguya
Hime." It is considered the oldest story in Japanese literature
born around the 10th century. It was passed down by the word of
mouth so the exact author is unknown. However the story is
extremely well known and is part of the core curriculum of the
junior-high level of Japanese literature. The students learn to
read and understand the ancient Japanese literature and seek depth
in their poetic language that was used in the aristocratic society.
The story reflects the "romance" aspect of the aristocrats in those
times, and how they express their love with beautiful "songs" they
wrote to each other. It is even referred as being the "ancestor of
all romances" in a classic Japanese literature, "The Tale of
Genji."
This book describes data centric networking in distributed systems,
which relies on content addressing instead of host addressing, thus
providing network independence for applications. Recent progress in
wireless sensor networks requires such a data-centric approach,
where sensors are used to gather high volumes of different data
types to feed as contexts to a wide range of applications.
Publish/subscribe asynchronous group communication realises the
vision of data-centric networking that is particularly important
for networks supporting mobile clients over heterogeneous wireless
networks. In such networks, client applications prefer to receive
specific data, which requires selective data dissemination.
Underlying mechanisms such as asynchronous message passing,
distributed message filtering and query/subscription management are
essential. The book demonstrates solutions for challenging topics
ranging from event and query modelling using hypercube,
publish/subscribe by context adaptive controlled flooding, to event
correlation semantics, providing the design aid for distributed
ubiquitous computing systems over heterogeneous networks.
A practical guide to discovering the lost art of intuition. Tune
into your senses, find your inner wisdom and develop your physical,
mental, emotional and spiritual awareness. This self-help book will
help you open yourself up to the power of intuition. Intuition is
seen by many as the highest form of intelligence. It's the ability
to know something instinctively without having to discover it - a
deep sense of knowing, that gut feeling. Your intuition can guide
you to make wise decisions that bring more joy, love and meaning
into your life. From journaling and meditation to mindful movement
and moon rituals, this developmental guide taps into the myriad
ways you can unlock intuitive living. It teaches you how to use a
broad range of practices and techniques designed to reveal your
path to innate wisdom. An Essential On Any Intuitive's Bookshelf
This motivational book by Amisha Ghadiali, an intuitive therapist,
yoga and meditation teacher, is filled with inspirational quotes,
helpful exercises, and information on how to live a life you love.
It encourages intuitive development in everyday life - health,
family, relationships, work, creativity and more. This
inspirational book from DK Books will give you the practical tools
you need to get in touch with your intuition and create the
happier, more successful life you were meant to live: - DISCOVER
the life-changing potential of intuition and learn techniques on
how to use it - CONNECT with your subconscious mind through helpful
exercises - APPLY INTUITION to unlock wellness and fulfilment in
every area of your life
Violence and democracy may seem fundamentally incompatible, but the
two have often been intimately and inextricably linked. In
Ruffians, Yakuza, Nationalists, Eiko Maruko Siniawer argues that
violence has been embedded in the practice of modern Japanese
politics from the very inception of the country's experiment with
democracy. As soon as the parliament opened its doors in 1890,
brawls, fistfights, vandalism, threats, and intimidation quickly
became a fixture in Japanese politics, from campaigns and elections
to legislative debates. Most of this physical force was wielded by
what Siniawer calls "violence specialists": ruffians and yakuza.
Their systemic and enduring political violence-in the streets, in
the halls of parliament, during popular protests, and amid labor
strife-ultimately compromised party politics in Japan and
contributed to the rise of militarism in the 1930s. For the
post-World War II years, Siniawer illustrates how the Japanese
developed a preference for money over violence as a political tool
of choice. This change in tactics signaled a political shift, but
not necessarily an evolution, as corruption and bribery were in
some ways more insidious, exclusionary, and undemocratic than
violence. Siniawer demonstrates that the practice of politics in
Japan has been dangerous, chaotic, and far more violent than
previously thought. Additionally, crime has been more political.
Throughout the book, Siniawer makes clear that certain yakuza
groups were ideological in nature, contrary to the common
understanding of organized crime as nonideological. Ruffians,
Yakuza, Nationalists is essential reading for anyone wanting to
comprehend the role of violence in the formation of modern
nation-states and its place in both democratic and fascist
movements.
The science of the arrangement of atoms in solids is known as
crystallography. In single crystals, the effects of the crystalline
arrangement of atoms is often easy to see macroscopically, because
the natural shapes of crystals reflect the atomic structure. In
addition, physical properties are often controlled by crystalline
defects. The understanding of crystal structures is an important
prerequisite for understanding crystallographic defects. Topics
discussed in this new book include in situ protein crystal
diffraction screening; structures and properties of 3D-4F and 3D
chiral Schiff base complexes; crystal dehydration techniques; case
studies on crystal structure determination involving H atoms; and
cleavage fracture crystallography.
Matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) are a large group of
zinc-dependent extracellular endopeptidase proteinases involved in
the cleavage of extracellular matrix macromolecules. MMPs play an
important role in normal physiology, migration of inflammatory
cells and the repair process after tissue damage. In this book, the
authors present current research in the study of the biology,
functions and clinical implications of matrix metalloproteinases.
Topics discussed include TGF-B and MMPs as a complex regulatory
loop in tumor progression; MMPs role in the pathogenesis of
osteoarthritis; gelatinases in the skin; detecting MMP activity in
vivo; MMPs in renal fibrosis; macrophage migration inhibitory
factor as a mediator of MMP production; MMP regulation by
macrolides in cardiac disorders and MMPs in neural plasticity and
disease.
Six early films by Japanese auteur Akira Kurosawa. The films
included comprise: 'Sanshuro Sugata' (1943), 'Sanshuro Sugata No 2'
(1945), 'The Most Beautiful' (1944), 'The Men Who Tread On the
Tiger's Tail' (1952), 'No Regrets For Our Youth' (1946) and 'One
Wonderful Sunday' (1947).
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