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Just as Ruri was starting to get used to life in the forest, Chelsea sends her to the capital of Dracodom on an errand to give her a chance to experience city life and think about her future. Will a magic bracelet with the power to transform her into a white cat be enough to keep this girl with more magical ability than she knows what to do with out of trouble...?

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Haruki has teamed up with a party of intermediate adventurers! Their mission? Defeat the monster swarm’s boss! That’s easier said than done, however, and the adventurers soon find themselves facing a far more difficult fight than expected! Can Haruki turn the tide by putting his life on the line and activating a new skill?

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A FIGHT TO THE DEATHHaruki and Karen have almost completed their request! With Ooiso safely in their care, all they have left to do is leave the dungeon–but that’s easier said than done. Just as they reach the gate, they run into Shikama and his unsavory crew, and a monster swarm. Haruki is left with only one logical choice: fight like his life depends on it…because it does!

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Aki Kamozawa and Alexander Talbot devise solutions for the culinary world’s toughest problems. They understood the need for alternatives to the present forms of gluten-free food and their answers are expressed here in over 90 recipes. Readers will learn the authors’ easy tricks for boosting flavour at every turn.

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Aki Kamozawa and Alexander Talbot devise solutions for the culinary world’s toughest problems. They understood the need for alternatives to the present forms of gluten-free food and their answers are expressed here in over 90 recipes. Readers will learn the authors’ easy tricks for boosting flavour at every turn.

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Multiple Regression: A Practical Introduction is a text for an advanced undergraduate or beginning graduate course in statistics for social science and related fields. Also, students preparing for more advanced courses can self-study the text to refresh and solidify their statistical background. Drawing on decades of teaching this material, the authors present the ideas in an approachable and nontechnical manner, with no expectation that readers have more than a standard introductory statistics course as background. Multiple regression asks how a dependent variable is related to, or predicted by, a set of independent variables. The book includes many interesting example analyses and interpretations, along with exercises. Each dataset used for the examples and exercises is small enough for readers to easily grasp the entire dataset and its analysis with respect to the specific statistical techniques covered. A website for the book includes SPSS, Stata, SAS, and R code and commands for each type of analysis or recoding of variables in the book. Solutions to two of the end-of-chapter exercise types are also available for students to practice. The instructor side of the site contains editable PowerPoint slides, other solutions, and a test bank.

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All-new horror anthology featuring cover art by international bestseller, Junji Ito! Manga creators from Japan and the US present an international showcase of horror. Collected for the first time in Betwixt: A Horror Manga Anthology, six short stories reveal the universal fear of the space between the known and unknown. Will anyone cross that border? Featuring stories from a range of award-winning and popular creators, as well as a foreword and exclusive cover art by global phenomon, Junji Ito. Ryo Hanada (creator of Devil’s Line), Aki Shimizu (creator of the Suikoden III manga), and Shima Shinya (creator of Lost Lad London and co-writer of Star Wars: The High Republic, The Edge of Balance) each tell uniquely Japanese tales of ghosts and creatures who exist alongside us. American creative duo, Becky Cloonan and Michael Conrad (co-writers of Wonder Woman and Batgirls) along with duo Leslie Hung (co-creator of Snotgirl) and Sloane Leong (creator of A Map to the Sun) and up and coming creator Hua Hua Zhu round out the anthology with tales that would make anyone paranoid about who they may encounter.

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Ruri, racked with guilt over deceiving the kind people of the Dracodom about her true form, sinks into despondency and lies around doing nothing all day—until she hears Nadasha is finally sending its armies to attack...and that Asahi will be taking part in the battle. She convinces Jade to let her go to the battlefield to see for herself, but the person she finds there is nothing like the childhood friend she remembers...

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Most textbooks on regression focus on theory and the simplest of examples. Real statistical problems, however, are complex and subtle. This is not a book about the theory of regression. It is about using regression to solve real problems of comparison, estimation, prediction, and causal inference. Unlike other books, it focuses on practical issues such as sample size and missing data and a wide range of goals and techniques. It jumps right in to methods and computer code you can use immediately. Real examples, real stories from the authors' experience demonstrate what regression can do and its limitations, with practical advice for understanding assumptions and implementing methods for experiments and observational studies. They make a smooth transition to logistic regression and GLM. The emphasis is on computation in R and Stan rather than derivations, with code available online. Graphics and presentation aid understanding of the models and model fitting.

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LEVELING UPHaruki might be invisible, but he makes up for it with courage and his secret skill board, which has proven its worth with countless dungeon spoils. While his skills are growing by the day, Karen’s have a long way to go. Can Haruki and his skill board help her level up, too?

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Based on the prize-winning web novels in Japan! In a time when dungeons and monsters have appeared in our world, a struggling modern adventurer finds a fantasy dungeon–and a special treasure–under his Hokkaido home.Since the discovery of fantastical dungeons all across Earth, slaying monsters and clearing out dungeons has become a popular pastime. Twenty-seven-year-old Karaboshi Haruki dreams of gaining recognition as an adventurer, but he's got two monstrous problems: he's socially invisible and has literally no skills at adventuring. When a dungeon suddenly appears in his garage, however, he finds a skill board that allows him to level up faster. The dungeon-diving adventures Haruki has always dreamed of are just getting started!

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BOSS FIGHTHaruki is in the thick of battle with the monster swarm boss—a werewolf! It’s pretty clear he’s in way over his head; a single blow could knock him out…forever. Does he have what it takes to avoid defeat and take down the boss?

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Discover Japanese art like no other. Originally created by the artists of the ukiyo-e ‘school of the floating world’ to advertise brothels in 17th-century Yoshiwara, these popular ‘spring pictures’ (shunga) transcended class and gender in Japan for almost 300 years. These tender, humorous and brightly coloured pieces celebrate sexual pleasure in all its forms, culminating in the beautiful, yet graphic, work of iconic artists Utamaro, Hokusai and Kunisada. This catalogue of a major international exhibition aims to answer some key questions about what shunga is and why was it produced. Erotic Japanese art was heavily suppressed in Japan from the 1870s onwards as part of a process of cultural ‘modernisation’ that imported many contemporary western moral values. Only in the last twenty years or so has it been possible to publish unexpurgated examples in Japan and this ground-breaking publication presents this fascinating art in its historical and cultural context for the first time. Within Japan, shunga has continued to influence modern forms of art, including manga, anime and Japanese tattoo art. Drawing on the latest scholarship and featuring over 400 images of works from major public and private collections, this landmark book sheds new light on this unique art form within Japanese social and cultural history. Shunga: sex and pleasure in Japanese art is published to accompany an exhibition at the British Museum from October 2013 to January 2014.

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