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      • The Deer King 1

        by Nahoko Uehashi

        Winner of the 2015 "Honya Taisho" Award! The grand adventure of a father and daughter begins now--! In order to protect their homeland from the powerful empire of Tsuolu, the warrior group Dokaku takes on the role of dead soldiers. Van, who has lost his wife and child to illness and is in the depths of despair, fights as the head of the group, but is reduced to a slave and trapped in a salt mine. One night, a pack of creepy dogs attacks the salt mine and a mysterious disease breaks out. Van survives, and he found an infant girl who also escaped the disease, he decides to raise the child named Yuna, . A mysterious disease, Mitzal, has suddenly spread throughout the powerful empire. Hossal, a genius doctor, struggles to unravel the mystery of the disease. For whom will they live? What is the purpose of life? When they learn the meaning of life, the fate of the world will change. An epic adventure begins now!

      • PURPLE MEETS ANGEL CAT SUGAR

        by Gail Skroback Hennessey

        Angel Cat Sugar™ was introduced in 2002 by the original creator of Hello Kitty,Purple who is learning to play the guitar is encouraged and appreciated by Angel Cat Sugar.Yuko Shimizu, who hopes all children can fulfill their dreams and be happy,just like Sugar!

      • Diplomacy

        Creating People of Plenty

        The United States and Japan’s Economic Alternatives, 1950–1960

        by Sayuri Shimizu (author)

        “There is no doubt that the Eisenhower administration accomplished one of its paramount Cold War strategic objectives: to rebuild Japan's economy and reinstate the nation as a stabilizing, pro-capitalist member in the new world order that had come out of the morass of the Great Depression and the rubble of World War II.”—from the IntroductionThis innovative study investigates how Japan grew from an economically limited country to the threshold of industrial power.The author describes Japanese economic development in the 1950s as one of the major achievements of the Eisenhower administration. In her admirably-clear account of this chapter in U.S.-Japanese relations, Sayuri Shimizu incorporates Japanese as well as American sources. In the process she explains how and why the United States became so intractably involved in Southeast Asia. Not least, she tells an ironic and instructive story of how the United States helped build an economy that later it so bitterly resented.

      • Confessions

        by KANAE Minato

        Her pupils murdered her daughter. Now she will have her revenge. After calling off her engagement in the wake of a tragic revelation, Yuko Moriguchi had nothing to live for except her only child, four-year-old, Manami. Now, following an accident on the grounds of the middle school where she teaches, Yuko has given up and handed in her resignation.But first she has one last lecture to deliver. She tells a story that upends everything her students ever thought they knew about two of their peers, and sets in motion a diabolical plot for revenge.Narrated in alternating voices, with twists you'll never seecoming, Confessions probes the limits of punishment, despair, and tragic love, culminating in a harrowing confrontation between teacher and student that will place the occupants of an entire school in danger. You'll never look at a classroom the same way again.

      • Education

        Mathematical Tasks in Classrooms Around the World

        by Shimizu, Y.

        Mathematical tasks have long been recognized as crucial mediators ?between mathematical content and the mathematics learner. For many people, the mathematics classroom is defined by the type of tasks one finds there - and this is appropriate. Mathematical tasks are the embodiment of the curricular pretext that brings each particular set of individuals together in every mathematics classroom. In other contexts, individuals come together to engage in musical performances or dramatic performances. The performances of the mathematics classroom are largely the performance of mathematical tasks and if we are to understand and facilitate the learning that is the purpose of such settings then we must understand the nature of the performances that we find there. The classroom performance of a task is ultimately a unique synthesis of task, teacher, students and situation. Of particular interest are differences in the function of mathematically similar tasks when employed by different teachers, in different classrooms, for different instructional purposes, with different students. By making comparison possible between the classroom use of mathematical tasks in different classrooms around the world, the analyses reported in this book reveal the profound differences in how each teacher utilises mathematical tasks, in partnership with their students, to create a distinctive form of mathematical activity. The Learner’s Perspective Study aims to juxtapose the observable practices of the classroom and the meanings attributed to those practices by classroom participants. The LPS research design documents sequences of at least ten lessons, using three video cameras, supplemented by the reconstructive accounts of classroom participants obtained in post-lesson video-stimulated interviews, and by test and questionnaire data, and copies of student written material. In each participating country, data generation focuses on the classrooms of three teachers, identified by the local mathematics education community as competent, and situated in demographically different school communities within the one major city. The large body of complex data supports both the characterisation of practice in the classrooms of competent teachers and the development of theory.

      • Self-help & personal development
        April 2017

        SMALL TALK CAN CHANGE YOUR LIFE!

        The most powerful skills for success

        by Yuko Mori

        Skills of small talk is the key for success! Those who are good at small talk achieve their goals and make their dreams come true. Why? Because they talk with their hearts, understand with their hearts, and move other's heart and get loved. Successful people get inspired through small talks, learn lessons, develop themselves and turn their dreams into reality. Most of them says, "Without small talks the road to success would not have opened."

      • PENANCE

        by KANAE Minato

        When they were girls, Sae, Maki, Akiko and Yuko were tricked into leaving their friend Emily with a mysterious stranger. Then the unthinkable occurred: Emily was found murdered hours later.The four friends were never able to describe the stranger to the police; the killer's trail went cold. Asako, the bereaved mother, curses the surviving girls, vowing that they will be the ones to pay for her daughter's murder... Like Confessions, Kanae Minato's award-winning, internationally bestselling debut, PENANCE is a dark tale of revenge and psychological drama that will leave readers breathless.

      • Agriculture & related industries
        January 2015

        Functional Foods and Nutraceuticals

        Sources and Their Developmental Techniques

        by C.S.Rair, D.C.Saxena, Sukhcharan Singh, Vikas Nada & Navdeep Jindal

        The papers included in this book have a broad coverage of the topics related to new technologies in functional foods and nutraceuticals, fruits and vegetables and their by-products as valuable ingredients for functional foods and nutraceuticals, potential bioactive components from various food sources, trends and development of nutraceuticals and functional foods as well as functional food and nutraceuticals as ingredients in the value addition for health promotion, standardization and quality control. This workhelps to overcome the problems faced in exploring the potential of nutraceuticals in naturopathy and device strategies to encounter such problems.

      • Business, Economics & Law
        September 2020

        The Business of Choice: How Human Instinct Influences Everyone's Decisions

        by Matthew Willcox

        In this 2nd edition of the award winning The Business of Choice, expert author and consultant Matthew Willcox explores the science of influencing choice, bringing together the work of thousands of behavioral scientists and practitioners. Cutting to the heart of the science, Willcox helps you apply this to your own marketing and brand strategies, allowing you to use an understanding of how humans naturally decide to make your brand or business a natural choice.    The Business of Choice takes you through the story of how instinct affects our decisions, from its roots in our evolutionary history, to technology and artificial intelligence today. You'll discover how human nature affects how people decide, whether they are making choices for grocery shopping, or their retirement investments.     The first edition of The Business of Choice was awarded the 2016 Berry – American Marketing Association Book Prize for Best Book in Marketing.

      • Agriculture & farming
        March 2016

        Functional Foods

        by Hari Niwas Mishra, Rajesh Kapur, Naveent Singh Deora & Aastha Deswa

        This book comprises of six sections giving the state of the art information in the following topics: Functional foods: Scope, Market Opportunities and Recent trends, Functional food products: Ingredients and Functionality, Functional food products: Formulation and Processing Technology, Functional food products: Packaging and Storage Stability, Functional food products: Prevention, Disease Control and bioavailability, Future prospects of functional food. The book is exclusively targeted for food scientists and technologists, and scientists working in related fields. The book also presents practical information for use in functional food product development. It is also intended for use by practitioners in functional food companies and food technology centres and will also be of interest to researchers and students of food science and technology. With recent scientific studies, this book provides readers with a comprehensive and up-to-date scientific knowledge about the functional food science and technology. The book presents a most updated knowledge on the regulatory status of functional food in different countries. This information, which is seldom available, is essential for the commercial aspect of functional food. Also, core discussion on the reliable and economical scale up of laboratory-based extraction and purification techniques for different functional ingredients is also presented in the detailed manner in the book. A critical issue in the development of functional foods is health aspects and its role in disease control. In section V, Functional food products: Prevention, Disease Control and bioavailability, a variety of examples are discussed indicating the role and action of functional ingredients in preventing disease. The present book also addresses the key issue of processing and its effects on the bioavailability of bioactives. With the advent of the latest scientific technique in the latter half of the 20th century, area of functional food has evolved to the current state of the art.

      • Agriculture & farming
        January 2015

        Biological Sciences

        Innovations and Dynamics

        by Rajeshwar P. Sinha, Richa & Rajesh Prasad Rastogi

        The objective of this book is to provide state-of-the-art knowledge, and highlight the current developments taking place in biological sciences. The book encompasses topics on prokaryotic cyanobacteria to higher plants, distributed in fourteen chapters for the benefit of graduate and post-graduate students as well as young researchers and scientists. Subjects covered include molecular and biochemical diversity of microbes, stress biology, cyanotoxins, antimicrobial activity of drugs originated from plants, natural bioactive compounds of microbial origin, detection approaches for genetically modified crops, genomics and proteomics. The book provides an insight for future perspectives in particular field with extensive bibliographies at the end of each . With all these, this book becomes highly useful and must-read for students, researchers and professionals in botany, biotechnology, bioinformatics, environmental sciences, agriculture, molecular biology and other streams of biological sciences.

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