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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Devil's Candy, the popular webcomic by Rem and Bikkuri, is a
hilarious action-adventure that follows Kazu Decker and his science
experiment, Pandora, as they navigate high school with a ghoulish
supernatural twist. At Hemlock Heart Academy, science wiz Kazu
Decker shows off his skills by creating a humanoid girl named
Pandora. But in a world of monsters and mayhem, surviving high
school is harder than getting good grades and lessons often turn
violent at Hemlock. Fortunately for them, Pandora's stoic nature
and seemingly limitless strength, paired with Kazu's luck,
knowledge and friends, get them out of trouble almost as often as
it gets them mixed up in it! Pandora's run-in with Scarlet Crown
agents Strazio and Pia exposes Kazu and their new friends to the
dangerous daemon crime world that runs the town. Just when Kazu's
scientific prowess helps Milo escape the grip of criminal life, mob
leader Tremolo rears his horned head toward Yahgie and challenges
him to a rock-off! Pandora, Kazu, and the usual Hemlock Academy
crew band together with Yahgie and his devil guitar, Mark
Stevenson, for a heavy metal performance of epic proportions!
Christian Democracy, which may briefly be defined as organised
political action by Catholic democrats, has been a major political
force in Western Europe since the Second World War, not least in
France. The aim of this book, first published in 1973, is to trace
the Development of Christian Democracy in France from its origins
in the 1830s to the present day, discussing its theories and its
importance in French history and politics, with particular (but by
no means exclusive) reference to the Fourth Republic (1946-58) when
the MRP was one of the key centre parties. Dr Irving provides a
thorough analysis of MRP, its economic, foreign and colonial
policies, and gives reasons for the relative decline of French
Christian Democracy in the 1960s. This French movement has been
little understood in Britain and a throrough history has been badly
needed. This study will be valuable to all those who, in the
context of a United Europe, wish to understand the political forces
at work at its conception. It will be valuable especially to
students of modern history and politics.
An inspirational memoir-meets-manifesto by Danica Roem, the
nation's first openly trans person elected to US state legislature
Danica Roem made national headlines when--as a transgender former
frontwoman for a metal band and a political newcomer--she unseated
Virginia's most notoriously anti-LGBTQ 26-year incumbent Bob
Marshall as state delegate. But before Danica made history, she had
to change her vision of what was possible in her own life. Doing so
was a matter of storytelling: during her campaign, Danica hired an
opposition researcher to dredge up every story from her past that
her opponent might seize on to paint her negatively. In wildly
entertaining prose, Danica dismantles all the stories her opponents
tried to hedge against her, showing how through brutal honesty and
loving authenticity, it's possible to embrace the low points, and
even transform them into her greatest strengths. Burn the Page
takes readers from Danica's lonely, closeted, and at times
operatically tragic childhood to her position as a rising star in a
party she's helped forever change. Burn the Page is so much more
than a stump speech: it's an extremely inspiring manifesto about
how it's possible to set fire to the stories you don't want to be
in anymore, whether written by you or about you by someone
else--and rewrite your own future, whether that's running for
politics, in your work, or your personal life. This book will not
just encourage people who think they have to be spotless to run for
office, but inspire all of us to own our personal narratives as
Danica does.
The rural, remote, and wild territories we call "countryside", or
the 98% of the earth's surface not occupied by cities, make up the
front line where today's most powerful forces-climate and
ecological devastation, migration, tech, demographic lurches-are
playing out. Increasingly under a 'Cartesian' regime-gridded,
mechanized, and optimized for maximal production-these sites are
changing beyond recognition. In his latest publication, Rem
Koolhaas explores the rapid and often hidden transformations
underway across the Earth's vast non-urban areas. Countryside, A
Report gathers travelogue essays exploring territories marked by
global forces and experimentation at the edge of our consciousness:
a test site near Fukushima, where the robots that will maintain
Japan's infrastructure and agriculture are tested; a greenhouse
city in the Netherlands that may be the origin for the cosmology of
today's countryside; the rapidly thawing permafrost of Central
Siberia, a region wrestling with the possibility of relocation;
refugees populating dying villages in the German countryside and
intersecting with climate change activists; habituated mountain
gorillas confronting humans on 'their' territory in Uganda; the
American Midwest, where industrial-scale farming operations are
coming to grips with regenerative agriculture; and Chinese villages
transformed into all-in-one factory, e-commerce stores, and
fulfillment centers. This book is the official companion to the
Guggenheim Museum exhibition Countryside, The Future. The
exhibition and book mark a new area of investigation for architect
and urbanist Rem Koolhaas, who launched his career with two
city-centric entities: The Office for Metropolitan Architecture
(1975) and Delirious New York (1978). It's designed by Irma Boom,
who drew inspiration for the book's pocket-sized concept, as well
as its innovative typography and layout, from her research in the
Vatican library. The book brings together collaborative research by
AMO, Koolhaas, and students at the Harvard Graduate School of
Design; the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing; Wageningen
University in the Netherlands; and the University of Nairobi.
Contributors also include Samir Bantal, Janna Bystrykh, Troy Conrad
Therrien, Lenora Ditzler, Clemens Driessen, Alexandra Kharitonova,
Keigo Kobayashi, Niklas Maak, Etta Madete, Federico Martelli, Ingo
Niermann, Dr. Linda Nkatha Gichuyia, Kayoko Ota, Stephan Petermann,
and Anne M. Schneider.
Compilation of music videos made by the Hammer and Tongs production
company, aka film director Garth Jennings and producer Nick
Goldsmith. The collection features tracks by, among others, Blur,
Radiohead, Vampire Weekend and Eels.
Summer vacation! The?usual is happening at Fuji High: second- and
third-year study training camps. That is to say, a great
opportunity for second-years to enjoy summer with their friends.
Blue sky and ocean as far as the eye can see, girls in their
swimsuits,?intimate conversations, and...men's-only hot springs
trips? ?? You can enjoy the sunlight or squint to keep it out
of your eyes—either way, hold on to those memories before they
get away.??
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Hunger (Paperback)
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'It was at the time when I was wandering around hungry in
Kristiania, that strange city no one leaves before it has set its
mark on them...' Hunger is the first-person story of a young man
desperately trying to establish himself in the city as a writer,
living in shabby lodgings where he can seldom afford to pay the
rent, eating almost nothing, and engaging spasmodically and
manically with landladies, eccentric elderly men, policemen,
shopkeepers, pawnbrokers, and others on the way. He wanders around
the streets, sits on benches trying to write, spends a night locked
in a pitch-dark police cell, thinks, slides into remarkably
inventive reveries, speculates on his mental health, his ethical
comportment, his relation to the divinity, the topics he might
write about. The traces of a consistent narrative logic are
uncertain and blurred; the voice of the narrator keeps shifting
between pragmatic appraisal of his situation, wild fantasies, manic
outbursts, anger, and despair. This is a story that lies on the
threshold of modernism, anticipating many of the dislocations that
narrative will be subject to in the decades to come. This new
translation seeks to restore the startling freshness and epidermal
unease of Hamsun's breakthrough story of 1890. It remains faithful
to the style and voice of the text, the shifts of tense, the
indirect free style, and the constant changes of register as the
inner monologue moves between poetic sensitivity, wild fantasies,
manic outbursts, and hyperbolic emotion. Tore Rem's introduction
provides an updated and fresh account of the genesis of Hunger, its
book history and its reception. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100
years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range
of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume
reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most
accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including
expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to
clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and
much more.
As far as normies go, it's hard to beat Saku Chitose. The most
popular kid in his high school? Check. An ironclad reputation that
can weather even vicious online attacks? Check. A friend group
that's as attractive on the outside as they are on the inside?
Check. But when a teacher asks Saku to help reacclimate a student
who been shut away in his room for months to school life, his
perfect world will never be the same. What is this, some kinda
normie harem story?
The war in the South Pacific in its entirety has remained
remarkably neglected by historians. This is the first comprehensive
narrative history covering all land, sea and air operations in the
theater to the end of World War II. While Guadalcanal is familiar
to most Americans and the Kokoda Trail is well known to
Australians, the war in the South Pacific includes many now
forgotten operations that deserve to be well remembered. Also,
significantly, the official Australian history of World War II
correctly observed that Australia's part in the Pacific war is
barely mentioned in American histories. This volume finally brings
the major Australian contribution to the fore, recognizing too the
valuable part played by New Zealand forces in the Solomons
campaign. The dramatis personae could hardly be improved upon,
including brilliant and imperious General Douglas MacArthur,
audacious and profane Admiral William Bull Halsey, and bibulous and
indelicate Australian General Thomas Blamey. No less interesting
are many others that will be mostly new to readers, many from the
Japanese side, including indomitable generals Noboru Sasaki and
Hatazo Adachi. As for the fighting men, many of their stories are
captured in accounts of the actions for which they were awarded the
Congressional Medal of Honor, Victoria Cross, and other decorations
for valor. Three chapters are of special interest. Based on the
author's archival research, Chapter 10 tells through confidential
correspondence the remarkable story of the death of the top Marine
general in the Pacific and its cover-up sanctioned by Halsey.
Chapter 23 concerns the first African-American ground troops in
combat and tells how the performance of one company on Bougainville
resulted in a reversal of that policy. Chapter 26 involves Blamey's
questionable decision to eradicate the isolated Japanese forces,
forcing his Australian militia to risk their lives knowing their
sacrifices could make no difference in the outcome of the war. The
26 maps included were carefully chosen from official American and
Australian sources and the 70 photographs, many rarely seen, were
selected to best illuminate the text.
This book explains and advances formal axiology as originally
developed by Robert S. Hartman. Formal axiology identifies the
general patterns involved in (1) the meaning of "good" and other
value concepts, in (2) what we value (value-objects), and in (3)
how we value (valuations or evaluations). It explains the rational,
practical, and affective aspects of evaluation and shows how to
make value judgments more rationally and effectively. It
distinguishes between intrinsic, extrinsic, and systemic values and
evaluations, and discusses how and why they fall into a rational
hierarchy of value. It demonstrates the intrinsic worth of unique
conscious beings and develops an axiological ethics in the three
value dimensions. It explores the search for a logical calculus of
value and introduces applications of axiology in psychology,
religion, aesthetics, and business. It is critical of Hartman's
shortcomings but builds upon his strengths and extends his theory
of values where incomplete.
Devil's Candy, the popular webcomic by Rem and Bikkuri, is a
hilarious action-adventure that follows Kazu Decker and his science
experiment, Pandora, as they navigate high school with a ghoulish
supernatural twist. At Hemlock Heart Academy, science wiz Kazu
Decker shows off his skills by creating a humanoid girl named
Pandora. But in a world of monsters and mayhem, surviving high
school is harder than getting good grades, and lessons often turn
violent. Fortunately for them, Pandora's stoic nature and seemingly
limitless strength, paired with Kazu's luck, knowledge and friends,
get them out of trouble almost as often as they get mixed up in it!
Science projects at Hemlock require more than a fizzy volcano to
impress the class, so naturally Kazu introduces them to Pandora,
whose violent streak and impressive strength cause more destruction
in his already chaotic school life. Braving runaway science
experiments, howling apparitions and a deadly fashion show, Pandora
learns that life at a devil high school is a day-to-day struggle
for survival.
Devil's Candy, the popular webcomic by Rem and Bikkuri, is a
hilarious action-adventure that follows Kazu Decker and his science
experiment, Pandora, as they navigate high school with a ghoulish
supernatural twist. At Hemlock Heart Academy, science wiz Kazu
Decker shows off his skills by creating a humanoid girl named
Pandora. But in a world of monsters and mayhem, surviving high
school is harder than getting good grades and lessons often turn
violent at Hemlock. Fortunately for them, Pandora's stoic nature
and seemingly limitless strength, paired with Kazu's luck,
knowledge and friends, get them out of trouble almost as often as
it gets them mixed up in it! Kazu is having a hard time getting
used to Pandora's growing independence, but then an elite rival
academy, Sacred Crown, challenges the ill-matched students of
Hemlock Heart to a violent game of Eggscram. Pandora's unlimited
strength soon gets recognized by a society of sinister daemons
beyond the schoolyard, and now it's not just Kazu who wants
Pandora's attention! Is Pandora prepared to take the step from
schoolyard skirmishes into the wrath of the daemon world?
The year 2013 welcomes a major anniversary: 450 years of the
Heidelberg Catechism. This Protestant confessional was written in
Heidelberg in 1563 on behalf of Frederick III, Elector Palatine,
and spread over the world when it was approved on the Synod of Dort
in 1619. Since then, the Heidelberg Catechism has shaped the
spiritual and political life and became a symbol of change and
departure from the old in Europe, America, and Asia. To this day,
the Heidelberg Catechism is one of the most influential catechisms
of the Reformed Church and is in everyday use by more than 20
million people worldwide. The Palatinate Museum Heidelberg (KMH),
State Palaces and Gardens Baden-Wurttemberg (SSG), the foundation
Refo500, and the Johannes A Lasco Library (JALB) will celebrate the
anniversary of the Heidelberg Catechism together with several
events. The heart of the activities is a joint exhibition presented
by KMH and SSG in two locations in Heidelberg, an exhibition at
Palace Het Loo in Apeldoorn, as well as this companion to the
exhibition that is realized by Refo500. In addition, the Johannes A
Lasco Library supported this project with a conference in March
2011; the conference papers are also included. In this volume,
well-known specialists in the field present how the Heidelberg
Catechism spread and influenced culture, education, and
ecclesiastical life. Together with over 700 photographs depicting
objects in the exhibition, as well as illustrating the
contributions, Power of Faith: 450 Years of the Heidelberg
Catechism is an incomparable testament to the history of the
Heidelberg Catechism, as well as its continued use today - a
fitting tribute to this important anniversary.
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Koolhaas. Countryside, A Report (Paperback)
Amo, Rem Koolhaas, Harvard Graduate School of Design, The Beijing Central Academy of Fine Arts, Wageningen University, …
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The rural, remote, and wild territories we call "countryside", or
the 98% of the earth's surface not occupied by cities, make up the
front line where today's most powerful forces-climate and
ecological devastation, migration, tech, demographic lurches-are
playing out. Increasingly under a 'Cartesian' regime-gridded,
mechanized, and optimized for maximal production-these sites are
changing beyond recognition. In his latest publication, Rem
Koolhaas explores the rapid and often hidden transformations
underway across the Earth's vast non-urban areas.Countryside, A
Report gathers travelogue essays exploring territories marked by
global forces and experimentation at the edge of our consciousness:
a test site near Fukushima, where the robots that will maintain
Japan's infrastructure and agriculture are tested; a greenhouse
city in the Netherlands that may be the origin for the cosmology of
today's countryside; the rapidly thawing permafrost of Central
Siberia, a region wrestling with the possibility of relocation;
refugees populating dying villages in the German countryside and
intersecting with climate change activists; habituated mountain
gorillas confronting humans on 'their' territory in Uganda; the
American Midwest, where industrial-scale farming operations are
coming to grips with regenerative agriculture; and Chinese villages
transformed into all-in-one factory, e-commerce stores, and
fulfillment centers. This book is the official companion to the
Guggenheim Museum exhibition Countryside, The Future. The
exhibition and book mark a new area of investigation for architect
and urbanist Rem Koolhaas, who launched his career with two
city-centric entities: The Office for Metropolitan Architecture
(1975) and Delirious New York (1978). It's designed by Irma Boom,
who drew inspiration for the book's pocket-sized concept, as well
as its innovative typography and layout, from her research in the
Vatican library. The book brings together collaborative research by
AMO, Koolhaas, and students at the Harvard Graduate School of
Design; the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing; Wageningen
University in the Netherlands; and the University of Nairobi.
Contributors also include Samir Bantal, Janna Bystrykh, Troy Conrad
Therrien, Lenora Ditzler, Clemens Driessen, Alexandra Kharitonova,
Keigo Kobayashi, Niklas Maak, Etta Madete, Federico Martelli, Ingo
Niermann, Dr. Linda Nkatha Gichuyia, Kayoko Ota, Stephan Petermann,
and Anne M. Schneider.
Christian Democracy, which may briefly be defined as organised
political action by Catholic democrats, has been a major political
force in Western Europe since the Second World War, not least in
France. The aim of this book, first published in 1973, is to trace
the Development of Christian Democracy in France from its origins
in the 1830s to the present day, discussing its theories and its
importance in French history and politics, with particular (but by
no means exclusive) reference to the Fourth Republic (1946-58) when
the MRP was one of the key centre parties. Dr Irving provides a
thorough analysis of MRP, its economic, foreign and colonial
policies, and gives reasons for the relative decline of French
Christian Democracy in the 1960s. This French movement has been
little understood in Britain and a throrough history has been badly
needed. This study will be valuable to all those who, in the
context of a United Europe, wish to understand the political forces
at work at its conception. It will be valuable especially to
students of modern history and politics.
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Pan (Paperback)
Knut Hamsun; Edited by Tore Rem
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'When the snow water had broken crevices open in the mountain a
shot or even just a sharp cry was enough to tear loose a huge slab
and send it toppling.' Lieutenant Thomas Glahn spends a summer in
northern Norway, where the midnight sun triggers a short but
intense release of energies. Living out of a rudimentary hut on the
edge of the forest, he pursues a solitary existence, hunting,
fishing, and engaging intermittently with the inhabitants of the
nearby coastal village. Among these is Edvarda, daughter of the
wealthy local trader Herr Mack. Their mutual attraction rapidly
develops into an erotic fascination shot through with suspicions
and jealousies; a series of fraught encounters culminates in
violent actions with unforeseen consequences. First published in
1894, Pan was an immediate success and remains a classic of
Norwegian literature. It embodies many of the distinctive features
of Hamsun's early works, in particular a rejection of psychological
stereotypes and a style infused by what Hamsun called a 'poetry of
the nerves'. Terence Cave's new translation restores the power and
virtuosity of Hamsun's original and includes an illuminating
introduction and explanatory notes. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100
years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range
of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume
reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most
accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including
expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to
clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and
much more.
SNAPSHOTS OF SUN AND SWEAT First there were summers full of smiles,
followed by summers full of stress. And then there were summers
full of Adachi... For Shimamura, this year's vacation is a reminder
of all the pivotal summer moments from her past!
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Virgil Abloh: Figures of Speech (Hardcover)
Virgil Abloh; Edited by Michael Darling; Foreword by Madeleine Grynsztejn; Text written by Samir Bantal, Anja Aronowsky Cronberg, …
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Since the 1970s, we have witnessed astonishing scientific and
technical progress in the field of organ transplantation. Patients
who suffer organ failure can now often have their lives greatly
improved both in terms of quality and quantity of years. The
success of transplantation techniques has created an enormous
demand for donor organs. Unfortunately, donor organs are in short
supply, relative to the number of patients who could greatly
benefit from them. Therefore, donor organs are a scarce and
valuable resource that must be thoughtfully and fairly allocated
among waiting patients. Not surprisingly, this situation raises
many pressing ethical questions, each requiring careful
consideration. This volume presents a systematic and balanced
treatment of some of the most pressing ethical questions including:
what is our ethical obligation to become organ donors and who
should be allowed to donate?; to what extent can markets facilitate
the fair allocation of organs and how should we most fairly
determine who should be recipients?; how do we determine death when
the donor is not brain dead?; should non-human donor organs be used
to save human lives and should we use organs from anencephalic
infants and tissue from embryos? ; and what is the role of the news
media in covering stories about organ transplantation? Many of the
leading authorities in medical ethics come together in this volume
to develop extensive analyses and arguments. The reader is provided
with a sound understanding of the ethical, as well as many of the
broader issues in organ donation and transplantation.
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Ambient Intelligence - 4th International Joint Conference, AmI 2013, Dublin, Ireland, December 3-5, 2013. Proceedings (Paperback, 2013 ed.)
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th
International Joint Conference an Ambient Intelligence, AmI 2013,
held in Dublin, Ireland, in December 2013. The 15 revised full
papers, 4 papers from the landscape track, 3 papers from the
doctoral colloquium and 6 demo and poster papers were carefully
reviewed and selected from numerous submissions and are presented
with 6 workshop descriptions. The papers cover a variety of
multi-disciplinary topics in computer science, human computer
interaction, electrical engineering, industrial design, behavioral
sciences, distributed devices, ubiquitous and communication
technologies, pervasive computing, intelligent user interfaces and
artificial intelligence.
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