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The Hunting Gun
Yasushi Inoue; Translated by Michael Emmerich
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A lover, her daughter and the abandoned wife: three letters by
three women reveal the tragic aftermath of a forbidden love affair.
Shoko discovers her mother's infidelity through her diary, while
Midori silently suffers as the abandoned wife. And then there is
Saiko, the beautiful betrayer of her closest friend. Told from
three different perspectives, The Hunting Gun explores the profound
impact of an illicit passion. With a delicate touch, Inoue weaves
together love, death, truth and loneliness in this timeless
masterpiece.
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Mysterious Setting
Kazushige Abe; Translated by Michael Emmerich
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Shiori knows at heart that she's a troubadour. She may be
completely tone-deaf, but she won't let that stop her living a life
dedicated to music. Even when her dominant older sister, Nozomi,
forces Shiori to accept that her wild singing provokes only
revulsion, she decides to forge a career as a lyricist instead. At
eighteen, she moves to Tokyo to pursue her dream. Isolated and
struggling in this unfamiliar city, Shiori seeks connection online,
where her trusting outlook leaves her vulnerable to exploitation -
with potentially explosive results.
100 Things Michigan State Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die
is the ultimate resource guide for true fans of Michigan State
football and men’s basketball. Whether a die-hard booster from
the days of Jumpin’ Johnny Green or a new supporter of football
coach Mark Dantonio, fans will value these essential pieces of
Michigan State football and basketball knowledge and trivia, as
well as all the must-do activities, that have been ranked from 1 to
100, providing an entertaining and easy-to-follow checklist for
Spartan supporters to progress on their way to fan superstardom. It
is now updated to include the Michigan State's recent successes.
Banana Youshimoto's depiction of the lives of Japanese youth has
changed her country's literature and earned international acclaim.
In "Hardboiled & Hard Luck, she delivers two tales of resonant
grace, of young women coming to terms with change and heartbreak.
In "Hardboiled." the narrator is hiking in the mountains on an
anniversary she has forgotten about, the anniversary of the
ex-lover's death. As she nears her hotel, a sense of haunting falls
over her. That night she dreams of her ex-lover, and is visited by
a woman who may not exist--perhaps these eerie events will help her
make peace with her loss. "Hard Luck" is about a young woman whose
sister is dying and lies in a coma. Her fiance left her after the
accident, but his brother continues to visit, and as the two of
them make peace with the impending loss of their loved one, they
seem to find new hope for the future in their own new bond.
"Hardboiled & Hard Luck is small jewel of a book, a work of
resilient sweetness that will move readers deeply. "Book Page has
compared Yoshimoto to "Haruki Murakami and]. . . Anne Tyler for
her] spare and ethereal manner of wiriting and eye for the way to
which terrible experiences shape one's life, "but Yoshimoto's
voice, and deserved international stature, are most certainly her
own.
This book presents the state-of-the-art, current challenges, and
future perspectives for the field of many-criteria optimization and
decision analysis. The field recognizes that real-life problems
often involve trying to balance a multiplicity of considerations
simultaneously – such as performance, cost, risk, sustainability,
and quality. The field develops theory, methods and tools that can
support decision makers in finding appropriate solutions when faced
with many (typically more than three) such criteria at the same
time. The book consists of two parts: key research topics,
and emerging topics. Part I begins with a general introduction to
many-criteria optimization, perspectives from research leaders in
real-world problems, and a contemporary survey of the attributes of
problems of this kind. This part continues with chapters on
fundamental aspects of many-criteria optimization, namely on order
relations, quality measures, benchmarking, visualization, and
theoretical considerations. Part II offers more specialized
chapters on correlated objectives, heterogeneous objectives,
Bayesian optimization, and game theory. Written by leading experts
across the field of many-criteria optimization, this book will be
an essential resource for researchers in the fields of evolutionary
computing, operations research, multiobjective optimization, and
decision science.
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Parallel Problem Solving from Nature - PPSN XVI - 16th International Conference, PPSN 2020, Leiden, The Netherlands, September 5-9, 2020, Proceedings, Part II (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020)
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This two-volume set LNCS 12269 and LNCS 12270 constitutes the
refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on
Parallel Problem Solving from Nature, PPSN 2020, held in Leiden,
The Netherlands, in September 2020. The 99 revised full papers were
carefully reviewed and selected from 268 submissions. The topics
cover classical subjects such as automated algorithm selection and
configuration; Bayesian- and surrogate-assisted optimization;
benchmarking and performance measures; combinatorial optimization;
connection between nature-inspired optimization and artificial
intelligence; genetic and evolutionary algorithms; genetic
programming; landscape analysis; multiobjective optimization;
real-world applications; reinforcement learning; and theoretical
aspects of nature-inspired optimization.
This book comprises nine selected works on numerical and
computational methods for solving multiobjective optimization, game
theory, and machine learning problems. It provides extended
versions of selected papers from various fields of science such as
computer science, mathematics and engineering that were presented
at EVOLVE 2013 held in July 2013 at Leiden University in the
Netherlands. The internationally peer-reviewed papers include
original work on important topics in both theory and applications,
such as the role of diversity in optimization, statistical
approaches to combinatorial optimization, computational game
theory, and cell mapping techniques for numerical landscape
exploration. Applications focus on aspects including robustness,
handling multiple objectives, and complex search spaces in
engineering design and computational biology.
This book comprises selected research papers from the 2015 edition
of the EVOLVE conference, which was held on June 18-June 24, 2015
in Iasi, Romania. It presents the latest research on Probability,
Set Oriented Numerics, and Evolutionary Computation. The aim of the
EVOLVE conference was to provide a bridge between probability, set
oriented numerics and evolutionary computation and to bring
together experts from these disciplines. The broad focus of the
EVOLVE conference made it possible to discuss the connection
between these related fields of study computational science. The
selected papers published in the proceedings book were peer
reviewed by an international committee of reviewers (at least three
reviews per paper) and were revised and enhanced by the authors
after the conference. The contributions are categorized into five
major parts, which are: Multicriteria and Set-Oriented
Optimization; Evolution in ICT Security; Computational Game Theory;
Theory on Evolutionary Computation; Applications of Evolutionary
Algorithms. The 2015 edition shows a major progress in the aim to
bring disciplines together and the research on a number of topics
that have been discussed in previous editions of the conference
matured over time and methods have found their ways in
applications. In this sense the book can be considered an important
milestone in bridging and thereby advancing state-of-the-art
computational methods.
This book comprises nine selected works on numerical and
computational methods for solving multiobjective optimization, game
theory, and machine learning problems. It provides extended
versions of selected papers from various fields of science such as
computer science, mathematics and engineering that were presented
at EVOLVE 2013 held in July 2013 at Leiden University in the
Netherlands. The internationally peer-reviewed papers include
original work on important topics in both theory and applications,
such as the role of diversity in optimization, statistical
approaches to combinatorial optimization, computational game
theory, and cell mapping techniques for numerical landscape
exploration. Applications focus on aspects including robustness,
handling multiple objectives, and complex search spaces in
engineering design and computational biology.
This volume encloses research articles that were presented at
the EVOLVE 2014 International Conference in Beijing, China, July 1
4, 2014. The book gathers contributions that emerged from the
conference tracks, ranging from probability to set oriented
numerics and evolutionary computation; all complemented by the
bridging purpose of the conference, e.g. Complex Networks and
Landscape Analysis, or by the more application oriented
perspective. The novelty of the volume, when considering the EVOLVE
series, comes from targeting also the practitioner s view. This is
supported by the Machine Learning Applied to Networks and Practical
Aspects of Evolutionary Algorithms tracks, providing surveys on new
application areas, as in the networking area and useful insights in
the development of evolutionary techniques, from a practitioner s
perspective. Complementary to these directions, the conference
tracks supporting the volume, follow on the individual advancements
of the subareas constituting the scope of the conference, through
the Computational Game Theory, Local Search and Optimization,
Genetic Programming, Evolutionary Multi-objective optimization
tracks."
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EVOLVE - A Bridge between Probability, Set Oriented Numerics, and Evolutionary Computation IV - International Conference Held at Leiden University, July 10-13, 2013 (Paperback, 2013 ed.)
Michael Emmerich, Andre Deutz, Oliver Schuetze, Thomas Back, Emilia Tantar, …
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Numerical and computational methods are nowadays used in a wide
range of contexts in complex systems research, biology, physics,
and engineering. Over the last decades different methodological
schools have emerged with emphasis on different aspects of
computation, such as nature-inspired algorithms, set oriented
numerics, probabilistic systems and Monte Carlo methods. Due to the
use of different terminologies and emphasis on different aspects of
algorithmic performance there is a strong need for a more
integrated view and opportunities for cross-fertilization across
particular disciplines. These proceedings feature 20 original
publications from distinguished authors in the cross-section of
computational sciences, such as machine learning algorithms and
probabilistic models, complex networks and fitness landscape
analysis, set oriented numerics and cell mapping, evolutionary
multiobjective optimization, diversity-oriented search, and the
foundations of genetic programming algorithms. By presenting
cutting edge results with a strong focus on foundations and
integration aspects this work presents a stepping stone towards
efficient, reliable, and well-analyzed methods for complex systems
management and analysis.
A woman is trying to contact Kasama Tsuneo at a crisis point in his
life. But she won't reveal her identity. Kasama is an immigration
officer in Tokyo, struggling to live a 'normal' life after an event
that happened eight years previously, when he lived in the USA. His
arranged marriage is looming, and he's seized by a strange
emotional fit. And then the disembodied voice begins. All Tsuneo
can do is desperately chase this woman, and the mystery behind what
happened eight years earlier over the sea.
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Manazuru - A Novel (Paperback)
Hiromi Kawakami; Translated by Michael Emmerich
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Startlingly restless and immaculately compact, Manazuru paints the
portrait of a woman on the brink of her own memories and future.
Twelve years have passed since Kei's husband, Rei, disappeared and
she was left alone with her three-year-old daughter. Her new
relationship with a married man-the antithesis of Rei-has brought
her life to a numbing stasis, and her relationships with her mother
and daughter have spilled into routine, day after day. Kei begins
making repeated trips to the seaside town of Manazuru, a place that
jogs her memory to a moment in time she can never quite locate. Her
time there by the water encompasses years of unsteady footing and a
developing urgency to find something. Through a poetic style
embracing the surreal and grotesque, a quiet tenderness emerges
from these dark moments. Manazuru is a meditation on memory-a
profound, precisely delineated exploration of the relationships
between lovers and family members.
Announcing the first expansion in more than 40 years of the
venerable New Penguin Parallel Text series.
Here is the perfect introduction to contemporary Japanese fiction.
Featuring many stories appearing in English for the first time,
this collection, with parallel translations, offers students at all
levels the opportunity to enjoy a wide range of contemporary
literature without having to constantly consult a dictionary.
Richly diverse in themes and styles, the stories are by well-known
writers-like Haruki Murakami and Banana Yoshimoto-as well as by
emerging voices. Complete with notes, these selections make
excellent reading in either language.
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Parallel Problem Solving from Nature - PPSN XVI - 16th International Conference, PPSN 2020, Leiden, The Netherlands, September 5-9, 2020, Proceedings, Part I (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020)
Thomas Back, Mike Preuss, Andre Deutz, Hao Wang, Carola Doerr, …
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This two-volume set LNCS 12269 and LNCS 12270 constitutes the
refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on
Parallel Problem Solving from Nature, PPSN 2020, held in Leiden,
The Netherlands, in September 2020. The 99 revised full papers were
carefully reviewed and selected from 268 submissions. The topics
cover classical subjects such as automated algorithm selection and
configuration; Bayesian- and surrogate-assisted optimization;
benchmarking and performance measures; combinatorial optimization;
connection between nature-inspired optimization and artificial
intelligence; genetic and evolutionary algorithms; genetic
programming; landscape analysis; multiobjective optimization;
real-world applications; reinforcement learning; and theoretical
aspects of nature-inspired optimization.
Michael Emmerich thoroughly revises the conventional narrative of
the early modern and modern history of The Tale of Genji. Exploring
iterations of the work from the 1830s to the 1950s, he demonstrates
how translations and the global circulation of discourse they
inspired turned The Tale of Genji into a widely read classic,
reframing our understanding of its significance and influence and
of the processes that have canonized the text. Emmerich begins with
an analysis of the lavishly produced best seller Nise Murasaki
inaka Genji (A Fraudulent Murasaki's Bumpkin Genji, 1829-1842), an
adaptation of Genji written and designed by Ryutei Tanehiko, with
pictures by the great print artist Utagawa Kunisada. He argues that
this work introduced Genji to a popular Japanese audience and
created a new mode of reading. He then considers movable-type
editions of Inaka Genji from 1888 to 1928, connecting trends in
print technology and publishing to larger developments in national
literature and showing how the one-time best seller became
obsolete. The study subsequently traces Genji's reemergence as a
classic on a global scale, following its acceptance into the canon
of world literature before the text gained popularity in Japan. It
concludes with Genji's becoming a "national classic" during World
War II and reviews an important postwar challenge to reading the
work after it attained this status. Through his sustained critique,
Emmerich upends scholarship on Japan's preeminent classic while
remaking theories of world literature, continuity, and community.
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Dandelions (Paperback)
Yasunari Kawabata; Translated by Michael Emmerich
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The exquisite last novel from Nobel Prize-winning author Yasunari
Kawabata Ineko has lost the ability to see things. At first it was
a ping-pong ball, then it was her fiance. The doctors call it 'body
blindness', and she is placed in a psychiatric clinic to recover.
As Ineko's mother and fiance walk along the riverbank after
visiting time, they wonder: is her condition a form of madness - or
an expression of love? Exploring the distance between us, and what
we say without words, Kawabata's transcendent final novel is the
last word from a master of Japanese literature. 'Lusciously
peculiar' Paris Review
Ambitious and engrossing, this volume thoroughly revises the
conventional narrative of The Tale of Genji's early modern and
modern history, arguing that until the 1930s readers were less
familiar with the eleventh-century work than scholars have assumed.
Exploring iterations of the work from the 1830s to the 1950s,
Michael Emmerich demonstrates how translations and the global
circulation of discourse they inspired turned The Tale of Genji
into a widely read classic, reframing not only our understanding of
its significance and influence but also the processes that have
canonized the text. In doing so, he supplants the passive concept
of reception with the active notion of replacement, revitalizing
the work of literary criticism. Part I begins with a close reading
of the lavishly produced bestseller A Fraudulent Murasaki's Bumpkin
Genji (1829--1842), an adaptation of Genji written and designed by
Ryutei Tanehiko, with pictures by the great print artist Utagawa
Kunisada.Emmerich argues that this work, with its sophisticated
image-text-book relations, first introduced Genji to a popular
Japanese audience, creating a new mode of reading in which people
interested in Genji read a more approachable version instead. He
then considers moveable type editions of Bumpkin Genji from 1888 to
1928 as bibliographic translations, connecting trends in print and
publishing to larger developments in national literature and
showing how the one-time bestseller became obsolete. Part II traces
Genji's recanonization as a classic on a global scale, revealing
that it entered the canons of world literature before the text
gained popularity in Japan -- and that it was Suematsu Kencho's
now-forgotten partial translation of Genji into English in 1882
that accomplished this, four decades before Arthur Waley's
still-famous translation. Emmerich concludes by analyzing Genji's
emergence as a national classic during World War II and reviews an
important postwar challenge to reading the work in this mode.
Through his sustained critique, Emmerich upends scholarship on
Japan's preeminent classic, while remaking theories of world
literature, continuity, and community.
Rei Hayakawa, a lonely, bulimic freelance writer with a drinking
problem, wanders into a convenience store. She's swaddled in her
coat and scarf, while her thoughts - of alienation, of hunger, of
the need for gin and white wine - drift in via
stream-of-consciousness. A trucker named Okabe walks in,
deliberately grazes her behind, and at the same time, Rei's cell
phone, set on vibrate, goes off over her heart. Rei impulsively
gets into Okabe's truck with him - and stays. Suddenly she finds
herself embarking on a road journey across the wintry landscape of
Japan with a complete, and possibly dangerous, stranger. Can the
physical relationship that develops between them give Rei what she
needs, and can she ever free herself from her self-destructive
tendencies? Both parties are wounded, guarded and distant -- can
they learn to trust each other? Author Mari Akasaka brings her
trademark wordplay and vivid imagery to this compelling story of an
unlikely pairing set against the bleak backdrop of Japan's
highways. Adapted for the screen in 2003, "Vibrator" has also been
made into a film.
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Asleep (Paperback)
Banana Yoshimoto; Translated by Michael Emmerich
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Demonstrating again the artful simplicity and depth of her vision,
Banana Yoshimoto reestablishes her place as a writer of
international stature in a book that may be her most delightful
since Kitchen. In Asleep, Yoshimoto spins the stories of three
young women bewitched into a spiritual sleep. One, mourning for a
lost lover, finds herself sleepwalking at night. Another, who has
embarked on a relationship with a man whose wife is in a coma,
finds herself suddenly unable to stay awake. A third finds her
sleep haunted by a woman against whom she was once pitted in a love
triangle. Sly and mystical as a ghost story, with a touch of
Kafkaesque surrealism, Asleep is an enchanting new book from one of
the best writers in contemporary international fiction.
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