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Jaroslav Hasek is a Czech writer most famous for his wickedly funny, widely read, yet incomplete novel The Good Soldier Schweik, a series of absurdist vignettes about a recalcitrant WWI soldier. Hasek--in spite of a life of buffoonery and debauchery--was remarkably prolific. He wrote...

A favorite work of Czech humor, We Were a Handful depicts the adventures of five boys from a small Czech town through the diary of Petr Bajza, the grocer's son. Written by Karel Poláček at the height of World War II before his deportation...

This collection of photographs--many taken from his personal family album--and other historical documents chronicle the life of one of the most influential political figures in modern Chinese history. From his birth and early life in Shanghai to his years on the world stage to...

Just walk away, before I hold you back.Just leave, before I run towards you.Just forget me, before I learn to love you even more.Just stop.This unforgettable collection juxtaposes poetry with real-life letters, all salvaged from the deepest and darkest corners of the author's heart.The...

I want to go homeTo the days when you were thereWhen I had your voiceYour lightYour heartbeatWe all had that one love.The kind that came into our lives like an unexpected super typhoon.A love that, no matter how short-lived, left a devastation so profound...

Hanif religion refers to the pure monotheistic beliefs practiced by certain people before the rise of Islam, particularly in the Arabian Peninsula. These individuals, known as Hanifs, rejected polytheism and idol worship, instead following the teachings of Prophet Ibrahim AS (Abraham) and believing in...

When a trusting young rabbit called Startup sets out to help his wildlife friends, he little expects to find himself being enticed by a slinky looking rabbit called Lola.They end up in a life or death struggle to stop King Freddie, and a horde...

After the death of her parents, Claudia Belle is sent to live with her grandfather. The principal of the local high school, he also shares Claudia's unique, unnatural gift. But after tragedy hits once again, Claudia finds herself in a difficult position. When a...

Edinburgh, 1804.Dorothea Flockhart is hiding her past. A woman alone, she avoids men; even the personable Captain Rogers fails to stir her heart despite all his efforts.While Napoleon's armies threaten invasion, Scotland's capital still hosts balls, although the atmosphere is hectic and men don...

Defence attorney Celeste Maher has seen her share of gruesome cases, but nothing as disturbing as the crime her client, Velimir Radojka, is accused of.After Celeste is unexpectedly arrested for her client's murder, his boyfriend, Detective Shea Tyrone, gets on the case. Soon, Shea...

When the veil is thinnest, an ancient book of fairy lore acts as a bridge between two worlds.After young Emily finds an old book of fairy lore at an antiques fair, she discovers that it has instructions on how to enter the Other World....

All four books in 'The School of Dreams', a series of romance novels by Julia Sutton, now available in one volume!The School of Dreams: Five individuals find themselves at a crossroads. Sophie, Juliette, Evelyn, Ann, and Will each face their own unique challenges, battling...

Late night drinking leads to an old ghost story told among four friends, whose lives are in a rut. It's time for a change.To spice things up, they decide to go ghost hunting out in the deep nowhere of Colorado. Even the locals don't...

Within the shadows of the US Government, a decision has been made to declare war on the drug trade. Only a few know about this no holds-barred-war.Colonel Ethan Wade, USMC, has been assigned to place a mole within the Mexican Cartel. Colonel Wade calls...

Born in the dawn of man's history, Amara is neither human nor vampire and yet fully both; a killer, a child, a lover, a monster.Wandering the world, she seeks redemption and vengeance in equal measure. Discovering love in its many forms and loss in...

The 163rd first half of 2020 Naoki Prize nomation works. A collection of 8 short historical stories by Sawada Toko. The author, who loves Japanese traditional mask play, wrote these stories inspired by some famous ones.Author: Sawada TokoISBN-10: 4473043592ISBN-13: 9784473043597Publisher: Tankosha Publishing Co.,Language: EnglishPublished:...

Emissions of CO2 have come to be regarded as the main factor in climate change in recent years, and how to control them has become a pressing issue. The problem cannot simply be labeled a technological one, however, because it is deeply involved with...

Biological signaling pathways dynamically interact with one another to form complex information networks intracellularly, intercellularly, and eventually at the level of the organism. Biology and medicine have conventionally focused on identification and characterization of functional elements in biological signaling pathways. Recently, research in this...

Biomechanics studies of animals in swimming and flying can serve an increasing role in understanding the mechanisms that enable animals to move effectively and efficiently in fluid, as well as analyzing the characteristics of their various forms of behavior in fluid. This book covers...

A lot of economic problems can formulated as constrained optimizations and equilibration of their solutions. Various mathematical theories have been supplying economists with indispensable machineries for these problems arising in economic theory. Conversely, mathematicians have been stimulated by various mathematical difficulties raised by economic...

Intravascular ultrasound imaging (IVUS) plays very important roles in clinical cardiology. This book describes the newest advances in vascular ultrasound imaging and the surrounding technologies for high frequency vascular ultrasound imaging. Most important topics of the book are technical applications of IVUS (elasticity imaging,...

This book, containing the proceedings of the 2000 Kyoto Symposium on Esophageal Cancer, is an important contribution for all types of physicians interested in both squamous and adenocarcinoma of the esophagus. The volume has great legitimacy and relevance. The symposia hosted by Professor Masayuki...

A remarkable spectrum of novel immunoreceptors sharing related immunoglobulin-like domains and signaling potential has been identified in recent years. These receptors have attracted widespread interest because they resemble the TCR, BCR, and FcR complexes in their ability to serve as activating or inhibitory receptors...

In developing countries, access to the adequate sanitation systems is still limited, and a new business model is required. This book demonstrates the benefits of resource-oriented agro-sanitation systems, including the concepts and technologies, and using selected case studies, e.g. from Burkina Faso and Indonesia,...

Author: Iliya Boguslawsky,Nikolay Korovkin,Masashi HayakawaISBN-10: 443156473XISBN-13: 9784431564737Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/15/2016Pages: 550Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.17lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.25d

Is the first book to focus on the new roles VLSI is taking for the safe, secure, and dependable design and operation of electronic systemsContributes to a better understanding of threats against safe and secure systems and how to mitigate them by advanced design...

This book focuses on tritium as a fuel for fusion reactors and a next-generation energy source. Following an introduction of tritium as a hydrogen radioisotope, important issues involved in establishing safe and economical tritium fuel cycles including breeding for a fusion reactor are summarized;...

This book provides an overview of the induction mechanism of imposex caused by organotin compounds in gastropods, as well as fundamental information on the physiology and biochemistry of reproduction in mollusks. Are the sex hormones of gastropod mollusks vertebrate-type steroids, or neuropeptides? What about...

Author: Tatsuo MiyamuraISBN-10: 4431560998ISBN-13: 9784431560999Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/08/2016Pages: 372Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.57lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.88d

With motivated human resources and a rich natural bounty, Myanmar is expected to take off with sustained growth and eventually attain a unique welfare state. On the basis of the authors' field surveys and innumerable dialogues with public officials, private professionals, scholars, and others,...

Author: Nao SuzukiISBN-10: 4431559612ISBN-13: 9784431559610Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/29/2016Pages: 192Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.15lbsSize: 9.20h x 6.20w x 0.50d

Author: Takako Fujiwara-GreveISBN-10: 4431556443ISBN-13: 9784431556442Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/27/2015Pages: 260Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.23lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.63d

This book presents a theoretical investigation of the formation of regional free trade agreements (FTAs), the behavior of global enterprises, and government trade policies in various game forms including multi-stage games, repeated games, and timing games. In the last few decades, the number of...

Author: Toshiharu IshikawaISBN-10: 4431553657ISBN-13: 9784431553656Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/12/2015Pages: 288Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.32lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.69d

This is the first book to provide readers with a theoretical and empirical analysis of sustainable economic growth in Asian countries. Recently, most Asian countries have achieved rapid economic growth and their existence cannot be ignored in the world economy. However, these countries now...

Author: Tamotsu OnozakiISBN-10: 4431549706ISBN-13: 9784431549703Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/07/2018Pages: 220Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.13lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56d

Integrating basic to applied science and technology in medicine, pharmaceutics, molecular biology, biomedical engineering, biophysics and irreversible thermodynamics, this book covers cutting-edge research of the structure and function of biomaterials at a molecular level. In addition, it examines for the first time studies performed...

Japan is a tiny country that occupies only 0.25% of the world's total land area. However, this small country is the world's third largest in economy: the Japanese GDP is roughly equivalent to the sum of any two major countries in Europe as of...

Since 2008, the Global Center of Excellence (COE) at Kyoto University, Japan, has been engaged in a program called "Energy Science in the Age of Global Warming--Toward a CO2 Zero-Emission Energy System." Its aim is to establish an international education and research platform to...

This book details efficient synthetic approaches for biologically active compounds. It describes novel methodologies for highly efficient construction of functionalized heterocycles by palladium-catalyzed domino cyclization of allenes and related compounds.Author: Shinsuke InukiISBN-10: 4431540423ISBN-13: 9784431540427Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/24/2011Pages: 106Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 9.20h x 6.10w x...

At the forefront of life sciences today is the emerging discipline of chembiomolecular science. This new term describes the integration of the frontier fields of chemical biology, chemistry, and pharmacology. Chembiomolecular science aims to elucidate new biological mechanisms as potential drug targets and enhance...

Today, researchers in primatology and anthropology have access to a wealth of genome information, opening new insights into primate studies. This book recounts the current state of knowledge, and offers directions for the future of primate genome studies.Author: Hirohisa HiraiISBN-10: 4431540105ISBN-13: 9784431540106Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

The Arctic, the Antarctic, and the Hindu Kush-Himalayas form a trio of terrains sometimes called "the three poles". Mainly composed of rock, snow, and ice, these precious regions, which are home to many unique species such as the polar bear, the emperor penguin, and...

Plants utilize light not only for photosynthesis but also as environmental signals. They are capable of perceiving wavelength, intensity, direction, duration, and other attributes of light to perform appropriate physiological and developmental changes. This volume presents overviews of and the latest findings in many...

The nuclear structure is not always stable but varies from hour to hour. Thus, it is important to capture dynamic changes of the structure and function from the viewpoint of molecular dynamics. Using the latest visualizing techniques in combination with biochemical and molecular biological...

This book presents a geometric theory of complex analytic integrals representing hypergeometric functions of several variables. Starting from an integrand which is a product of powers of polynomials, integrals are explained, in an open affine space, as a pair of twisted de Rham cohomology...

The 15th International Symposium of the Japan Human Cell Society on Cell and Molecular Biology of Endometrial Carcinoma brought together leading researchers from Japan and around the world. The papers collected here are the work of twenty-two leaders in their field and are organized...

No longer a very young man, Philipp Wilhelm Sack, is discharged from Frederick the Great's army after battling and getting wounded fighting Napoleon. Before starting a new career in the government, he decides to take a journey in the part of Germany he loves,...

Texas is well known to everyone as the setting for Indian tales and Wild West romances and most have also heard of the oil wells and sulfur pits, cattle herds, and cotton fields that secure it a place in the world economy. But who...

The incarnation of God does not only refer to his Light Side, which for us Christians is represented in Jesus. Also the dark side of God, for many manifested in the devil, chooses man as his home, and it is crucially important for man...