OPEN FOR BUSINESS After claiming victory against Haku in the dungeon battle, Keima invests his winnings in some home improvements. His plan? Build an inn! Naturally, an inn requires capable staff. But before he can make his selection, an especially eager candidate pushes their way to the front! She claims she's a safe bet, but will she be able to put her money where her mouth is? Or has Keima got another headache on his hands? And when will his dream of becoming a dungeon master who never has to work come true?!

Masuda Keima just wants to sleep. Too bad for him, he's been pulled from comfy sheets into a fantasy dungeon that he's charged to protect. Failing to do so will cost him his life. His only guide on what to do is the personification of the Dungeon Core, Rokuko. But she's a moron who can't even figure out how to get rid of a group of bandits. If Keima ever wants to get some sweet dreams again, he'll have to do all the planning himself!

WHERE THERE'S SMOKE THERE'S FIRE! With the inn open and business ramping up, things are starting to turn around for the Ordinary Cave's nap-deprived dungeon master. Though once the guild catches wind of this new establishment, Keima's humble abode earns itself a new name, the Cave of Greed. Later, when Haku herself stops by for a visit, she offers up some chilling information - there's another dungeon on the mountain, the Flame Cave! Can Keima avoid clashing with his neighbors or will he and his dungeon go up in smoke?!

"Imperial Geographies in Byzantine and Ottoman Space" opens new and insightful vistas on the nexus between empire and geography. The volume redirects attention from the Atlantic to the space of the eastern Mediterranean shaped by two empires of remarkable duration and territorial extent, the Byzantine and the Ottoman. The essays offer a diachronic and comparative account that spans the medieval and early modern periods and reaches into the nineteenth century. Methodologically rich, the essays combine historical, literary, and theoretical perspectives. Through texts as diverse as court records and chancery manuals, imperial treatises and fictional works, travel literature and theatrical adaptations, the essays explore ways in which the production of geographical knowledge supported imperial authority or revealed its precarious mastery of geography.

Masuda Keima just wants to sleep. Too bad for him, he's been pulled from sweet dreams and comfy sheets into a fantasy dungeon in another world! Not only is he charged with protecting it, but failure to do so will cost him his life. His only guide is the personification of the Dungeon Core, Rokuko--but she's a moron who can't even figure out how to drive away a group of bandits. If Keima ever wants to get some quality shut-eye again, he'll have to take over running this dungeon himself!

This book gives a new insight into the concept of creativity and innovation as it offers a new perspective on these concepts. It connects creativity and innovation with education. It connects creativity with sustainability and the education for sustainable development. It describes the complex and multifaceted concept of creativity and the universe of innovation connected with education, sustainability, design, humor, play, toys, tool toys and artifacts. This book emphasizes that today's educational model generally supports the development of one kind of analytical thinking, and that creativity in schools, in organizations, and in business has been buried by rules and regulations. Furthermore, it points out that creativity skills can be learned not by sitting passively in lectures, but by learning and applying the creative thinking process by experimenting, exploring, questioning assumptions, using imagination and synthesizing information. It is important for education systems to become more flexible, more adaptive, and more innovative. Creativity is not fostered by extrinsic incentives, but by intrinsic interest. This book also dissects gently the multiple aspects of the creative process and its stages, from preparation to incubation, and from illumination to verification. It inspires students, teachers, managers, and policymakers, and promotes and ignites in them the flame of innovation and creativity.

Single-Parenting in the 21st Century: Perceptions, Issues and Implications explores and illuminates the landscape of single-parenting in the twenty-first century, during which a great number of individuals have begun parenting on their own. Nationally and internationally recognized experts apply their multiple years of experience as researchers and offer the most complete handbook available to exploring the uncharted waters of single-parenting in the twenty-firstt century. The volume provides in-depth answers to important questions, such as: Does being a single parent effect physical and mental health? What is the economic status of single-mother and single-father families? Is the psychosocial adjustment, school performance and behavior of single-parent students related to nuclear family children? With these questions in mind, the chapters are classified into three categories: a) Single-Parenting and Health; b) Single-Parenting and Economic Disadvantage; and c) Single-Parenting and Education. Globalization, demographic shifts, economic, cultural, social and moral crisis, and changing trends in the labor sector all signify the distinctiveness of the current moment with regards to family patterns. This one-of-a-kind book promotes a world-view, a perspective of the multiple effects of single-parenting both on parents as well as children and presents the most recent research data on the complex issues surrounding single-parenthood. Written with clarity and candor by worldwide researchers and experts, Single-Parenting in the 21st Century: Perceptions, Issues and Implications is an essential read for teachers, parents, administrators and policymakers at all levels.

At the beginning of the third millennium, the social "exchange" value of creativity is becoming greater and greater. In a worldwide landscape which has been altering at an uncontrollable speed, the individual is called upon to manage not only his or her private chronotope but also its almost daily changes in a child-like, fresh, versatile, original manner. At the same time, however, the individual is also called upon to find solutions to older problems by traveling new roads; problems such as the issue of coexistence on this planet, on which the future of the survival of the species now seems to be at stake. In the present volume, Creative Problem Solving, the bibliography of theoretical and research issues which are, by their very nature, intertwined and multileveled have been revised and enhanced.

Carbohydrates play an important role in many biological and biochemical processes, including the fertilisation, cell differentiation and maturation, protein folding and degradation. Carbohydrate polymers covers the study and exploitation of carbohydrate polymers which have current or potential industrial application in areas such as food, textiles, paper, wood, adhesives, biodegradables, biorefining, pharmaceuticals, and oil recovery. This book focuses on recent developments on carbohydrate-binding module (CBM) applications in the biomedical, biological and biotechnological fields. Furthermore, polysaccharides are complex carbohydrates that are made up chains of monosaccharide units linked by glycosidic bonds. This book reviews the literature on fibres spun from several polysaccharides and fibre spinning techniques, including both conventional fibre spinning methods and electrospinning. Resulting fibre properties and prospective applications are discussed. This book also reviews research on polysaccharide film-formation and characteristics, analysed mechanical and barrier properties of polysaccharide-based films, summarises applications of polysaccharide films in food products and makes conclusions as to the status of polysaccharide films and their future developmental direction. Other chapters in this book examine the pathways leading to the production of bioactive oligosaccharides that have biotechnological applications. The current progress in the development of marine carbohydrates into nutraceuticals and their applications are explored as well.

This work is based on papers presented at a conference entitled "The Sex of Labour Law in Europe/Le Sexe du droit du travail en Europe", which was held at the European University Institute in Florence. The contributors argue that law in general, and especially social and labour law, is not asexual, and that law has been written from a male point of view. As a consequence, many rules and regulations do not take into account a typical female point of view and therefore appear to disregard the position of women, which leads in many cases to sexual inequality. The contributors give a detailed account of the position of women in labour law in their own jurisdiction. The text should be of interest to academics and practitioners involved in labour law, human rights, gender studies and women's studies.