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Viz Media, Subs. of Shogakukan Inc Everyone's Getting Married, Vol. 9
Opposites attract—but should they get married?! Successful career woman Asuka Takanashi has an old-fashioned dream of getting married and becoming a housewife. After her long-term boyfriend breaks up with her to pursue his own career goals, she encounters popular newscaster Ryu Nanami. Asuka and Ryu get along well, but the last thing he wants is to ever get married. This levelheaded pair who want the opposite things in life should never get involved, except…
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Viz Media, Subs. of Shogakukan Inc Everyone's Getting Married, Vol. 6
Successful career woman Asuka Takanashi has an old-fashioned dream of getting married and becoming a housewife. After her long-term boyfriend breaks up with her to pursue his own career goals, she encounters popular newscaster Ryu Nanami. Asuka and Ryu get along well, but the last thing he wants is to ever get married. This levelheaded pair who want the opposite things in life should never get involved, except…
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Little, Brown & Company Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun, Vol. 6
Hit shoujo manga-ka and high school boy Umetarou Nozaki will do just about anything to find ideas for his manga! He'll test his courage with horror games. He'll even become the girl manager for a sports team! But will he get that romantic payoff at the end? Better yet, will Chiyo?! When Nozaki's not around, Chiyo's Nozaki love meter goes out of control! What awaits Nozaki upon his return?!
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Little, Brown & Company Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun, Vol. 12
Yuzuki Seo will never give up! Although her past attempts at confessing to Wakamatsu were met with...well, not a positive response...she will keep trying until they get across! But before her next attempt, Mashima and Hori-senpai agree to teach her about love. Might they come to some new realizations themselves? Meanwhile, on the Nozaki front, Sakura is the model for a new shoujo manga...which might reveal Nozaki's true feelings for her...
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Little, Brown & Company Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun, Vol. 7
Is there love in the air, or has everyone just gone plain loony?!Has Chiyo's affection for her brusque shoujo manga-ka beloved finally soured?! She's suddenly extorting Nozaki...and plotting his destruction in the tournament ball game...! The absurdity doesn't end there, as Wakamatsu confesses his love to Seo, the person he dislikes most...! Even Yukari starts an 'adult' relationship with hilarious consequences...! Is no one safe from the crazy going around?!
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Viz Media, Subs. of Shogakukan Inc Oresama Teacher, Vol. 27
Can high school delinquent Mafuyu clean up her act and still kick some butt?!Mafuyu is the no-nonsense, take-charge and hard-hitting leader of her high school gang. But when she gets expelled for being a delinquent, her mother, fed up with her daughter’s wayward ways, sends Mafuyu to an isolated school far off in the country.It’s time for the Midorigaoka school festival, and rumors abound that Mr. Maki has some trouble planned. Mafuyu escapes from the Hanabusa mansion and heads to campus in her Natsuo disguise, while Takaomi welcomes a posse of Midorigaoka alumni and some of Mafuyu’s delinquents from Saitama. With the troops all assembled, the only thing left to do is wait for Mr. Maki to make his move…
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Viz Media, Subs. of Shogakukan Inc Everyone's Getting Married, Vol. 8
Opposites attract—but should they get married?! Successful career woman Asuka Takanashi has an old-fashioned dream of getting married and becoming a housewife. After her long-term boyfriend breaks up with her to pursue his own career goals, she encounters popular newscaster Ryu Nanami. Asuka and Ryu get along well, but the last thing he wants is to ever get married. This levelheaded pair who want the opposite things in life should never get involved, except... A contemporary adult romance about a couple who can’t agree on what their happy ending should be.
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Little, Brown & Company Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun, Vol. 2
It's Nozaki-kun's job to create characters, but he doesn't have to look very far for inspiration!Umetarou Nozaki, a high school student leading a double life as a popular shoujo manga-ka, is an extraordinary guy. This is hardly news to Chiyo, of course! But not to be outdone by Nozaki, the people around him are pretty unique too... There's a maiden-hearted playboy, a flighty former editor, a serious editor, an insomniac, an angel-voiced troublemaker, a hard-working drama club president, and the school prince who's actually a princess. With this colorful cast of characters vying for Nozaki's attention, Chiyo's got some tough competition ahead!
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Little, Brown & Company Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun, Vol. 5
The Umetarou Nozaki party heads for the sun and surf! When the group tags along for the drama club's training camp, summer fun runs amok, and seasonal gags abound, whether at the beach, at an inn, or even in the bath!! And if that's not enough drama, the story of the spring day Chiyo fell in love with a certain rather dense young man is finally told!
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Little, Brown & Company Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun, Vol. 3
Drawing comics is hard work, as high school boy and shoujo manga-ka Umetarou Nozaki and his motley crew of friends-turned-assistants know well. But being a manga pro doesn't necessarily make Nozaki great at everything. In fact, Chiyo is about to discover that his talent just might be full of holes?! As it turns out, everyone's got some weaknesses, and nobody's perfect-not even school 'prince' Kashima! And Chiyo doesn't get a pass either...because her greatest weakness is Nozaki himself!
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Little, Brown & Company Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun, Vol. 1
The boy of her dreams...is a girl's manga artist?!To the eyes of high school student Chiyo Sakura, classmate Umetarou Nozaki--brawny of build and brusque of tongue--is a dreamboat! When Chiyo finally works up the courage to tell Nozaki how she feels about him, she knows rejection is on the table...but getting recruited as a manga-ka's assistant?! Never in a million years! But for someone who makes a living drawing sweet girly romances, Nozaki-kun is a little slow on the uptake when it comes to matters of the heart in reality. And so Chiyo's daily life of manga making and heartache begins!
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Viz Media, Subs. of Shogakukan Inc Everyone's Getting Married, Vol. 7
Opposites attract—but should they get married?! Successful career woman Asuka Takanashi has an old-fashioned dream of getting married and becoming a housewife, but popular TV newscaster Ryu Nanami would rather die than ever get married. Asuka and Ryu just moved in together, but at work Ryu is being considered for a transfer to Washington, D.C. Will Ryu accept the offer?
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Viz Media, Subs. of Shogakukan Inc Everyone's Getting Married, Vol. 5
Successful career woman Asuka Takanashi has an old-fashioned dream of getting married and becoming a housewife, but popular TV newscaster Ryu Nanami would rather die than ever get married. Akito Kamiya has found out Ryu has been dating Asuka away from the public eye, but he hasn’t given up his pursuit of her. Ryu means to keep Kamiya in check, but instead a direct confrontation erupts between the two of them!
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Viz Media, Subs. of Shogakukan Inc Everyone's Getting Married, Vol. 4
Successful career woman Asuka Takanashi has an old-fashioned dream of getting married and becoming a housewife. After her long-term boyfriend breaks up with her to pursue his own career goals, she encounters Ryu Nanami, a popular TV newscaster. Asuka and Ryu get along well, but the last thing he wants is to ever get married. This levelheaded pair who want the opposite things in life should never get involved, except...
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Viz Media, Subs. of Shogakukan Inc Everyone's Getting Married, Vol. 1
Successful career woman Asuka Takanashi has an old-fashioned dream of getting married and becoming a housewife. After her long-term boyfriend breaks up with her to pursue his own career goals, she encounters Ryu Nanami, the popular newscaster at PTV. Asuka and Ryu get along well, but the last thing he wants is to ever get married. This levelheaded pair who want the opposite things in life should never get involved, except...
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University of Texas Press The Inka Empire: A Multidisciplinary Approach
Massive yet elegantly executed masonry architecture and andenes (agricultural terraces) set against majestic and seemingly boundless Andean landscapes, roads built in defiance of rugged terrains, and fine textiles with orderly geometric designs—all were created within the largest political system in the ancient New World, a system headed, paradoxically, by a single, small minority group without wheeled vehicles, markets, or a writing system, the Inka. For some 130 years (ca. A.D. 1400 to 1533), the Inka ruled over at least eighty-six ethnic groups in an empire that encompassed about 2 million square kilometers, from the northernmost region of the Ecuador–Colombia border to northwest Argentina.The Inka Empire brings together leading international scholars from many complementary disciplines, including human genetics, linguistics, textile and architectural studies, ethnohistory, and archaeology, to present a state-of-the-art, holistic, and in-depth vision of the Inkas. The contributors provide the latest data and understandings of the political, demographic, and linguistic evolution of the Inkas, from the formative era prior to their political ascendancy to their post-conquest transformation. The scholars also offer an updated vision of the unity, diversity, and essence of the material, organizational, and symbolic-ideological features of the Inka Empire. As a whole, The Inka Empire demonstrates the necessity and value of a multidisciplinary approach that incorporates the insights of fields beyond archaeology and ethnohistory. And with essays by scholars from seven countries, it reflects the cosmopolitanism that has characterized Inka studies ever since its beginnings in the nineteenth century.
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Kodansha Europe Head Office The Vegetable Sushi Cookbook
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Little, Brown & Company Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun, Vol. 4
Nozaki-kun is a pro, but he doesn't always act like one...Nozaki's daily life as a professional manga-ka may revolve around drawing and deadlines, but random weirdness is never far behind! When Chiyo tells Nozaki she wants to see more drama in his manga, he rises to the task...by trying to pull bizarre pranks on her for inspiration?! Then, Nozaki gets his hands on a girls' dating sim after an attempt to cozy up to his editor, and the boys have a sleepover to play it through, only to be shocked silly by the absurd plot twists! And wait, what's this?! Nozaki has a little brother who's as much of a weirdo as he is?! Just as the all-important, romance-boosting summer festival is rolling around, Chiyo has two Nozakis to contend with...?!
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Little, Brown & Company Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun, Vol. 10
Chiyo, Nozaki, and company are about to embark on the greatest event of their high school lives--the class trip! Lovelorn Chiyo diligently studies up on Nozaki's trip plans, but before she knows it, the day of departure has arrived! When Chiyo later finds herself alone with Nozaki, will her efforts finally bear fruit?! The moment Chiyo has been waiting for is here, as certain feelings take root in Nozaki's heart...Is this Chiyo's happy ending?!
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Little, Brown & Company Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun, Vol. 13
In the world of Nozaki and friends, pandemonium reigns supreme. While searching forthe owner of a rather-unique-book, Hori stumbles across a shocking secret! At thesame time, the life and times of Sakiko Yumeno are revealed online...And what’s this?Might Wakamatsu actually be able to stay awake the next time Seo sings?! But all ofthat pales in comparison when the true agent of chaos, Kashima, introduces a newpartner-in-crime who wreaks havoc wherever they go...
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Little, Brown & Company Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun, Vol. 11
Yuzuki Seo finally reveals the true identity of "Lorelai" to Wakamatsu!!Yuzuki's brother Ryousuke goes on a date with Yukari to confess his feelings!?And Chiyo is confessed to by a handsome guy who's not Nozaki (in a dating sim).
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Viz Media, Subs. of Shogakukan Inc Everyone's Getting Married, Vol. 2
Successful career woman Asuka Takanashi has an old-fashioned dream of getting married and becoming a housewife. After her long-term boyfriend breaks up with her to pursue his own career goals, she encounters Ryu Nanami, the popular newscaster at PTV. Asuka and Ryu get along well, but the last thing he wants is to ever get married. This levelheaded pair who want the opposite things in life should never get involved, except...
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Little, Brown & Company Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun, Vol. 14
Today...is not the day. Although Nozaki maybe sort of noticed he might have certain feelings, the actual shape of them is still pretty fuzzy. So in the meantime, Sakura’s and Nozaki’s grand plan to help out Kashima and Hori spectacularly backfires...And something is going down with Yukari and Ryousuke, while the Seo-surprise-streak continues as usual!
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Little, Brown & Company Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun, Vol. 8
The air around shoujo manga-ka high school boy Nozaki rings loud with greetings between acquaintances old and new!Mikoto Mikoshiba hides the fact that he works as a manga assistant, but Hirotaka Wakamatsu finally discovers his secret, and the two meet anew...?! Meanwhile, Wakamatsu meets Yuzuki Seo's older brother, Ryousuke, for the first time!! What will come of the psychological warfare that ensues?! Later, Masayuki Hori's true feelings for Yuu Kashima come bursting out!! And everyone at last gets to meet the youngest Nozaki sibling, Yumeko!!
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Books of Africa Ltd The Prince Muntu
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Tuttle Publishing Draw Amazing Manga Characters: A Drawing Exercise Book for Beginners - Learn the Secrets of Japanese Illustrators (Learn 81 Poses; Over 850 illustrations)
Set your manga characters in motion! Draw Amazing Manga Characters combines the strengths, talents, and perspectives of five different manga artists over 81 lessons that increase in detail and complexity. Key building blocks allow you to progress as you move through the book and "Take a Closer Look" sidebars offer tips so developing artists can avoid frustrating obstacles and roadblocks.This essential handbook shows you how to: Draw action characters from every possible angle, perspective, and viewpoint Progress logically from concept to character and from sketch to finished drawing Create well-balanced and proportioned characters to tell your story Create scenes with real depth and three-dimensional appeal The illustrators guide you through an easy four-step figure drawing process:1. Block-in the basic shapes, using the techniques of figure drawing to set down the rough outline of your character2. Sketch in the formal details, as your creation starts to take on form and shape3. Now it's time to lay down the next layers of features and tweaks that will make your character come to life4. Finally the finishing touches, the shading and nuances that add depth, complexity and three-dimensional appeal…Now look what's sprung to life on the page—your very own manga character!
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Books of Africa Ltd Amana: The Child Who Was a God
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Verso Books Hit Parade of Tears
A new collection of stories from the cult author of Terminal Boredom.Izumi Suzuki had ideas about doing things differently, ideas that paid little attention to the laws of physics, or the laws of the land. In this new collection, her skewed imagination distorts and enhances some of the classic concepts of science fiction and fantasy.A philandering husband receives a bestial punishment from a wife with her own secrets to keep; a music lover finds herself in a timeline both familiar and as wrong as can be; a misfit band of space pirates discover a mysterious baby among the stars; Emma, the Bovary-like character from one of Suzuki's stories in Terminal Boredom, lands herself in a bizarre romantic pickle.Wryly anarchic and deeply imaginative, Suzuki was a writer like no other. These eleven stories offer readers the opportunity to delve deeper in this singular writer's work.
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Verso Books Terminal Boredom: Stories
On a planet where men are contained in ghettoised isolation, women enjoy the fruits of a queer matriarchal utopia -- until a boy escapes and a young woman's perception of the world is violently interupted. Two old friends enjoy cocktails on a holiday resort planet where all is not as it seems. A bickering couple emigrate to a world that has worked out an innovative way to side-step the need for war, only to bring their quarrels (and something far more destructive) with them.And in the title story, Suzuki offers readers a tragic and warped mirroring of her own final days as the tyranny of enforced screen-time and the mechanistion of labour bring about a shattering psychic collapse. At turns nonchalantly hip and charmingly deranged, Suzuki's singular slant on speculative fiction would be echoed in countless later works, from Margaret Atwood and Harumi Murakami, to Black Mirror and Ex Machina. In these darkly playful and punky stories, the fantastical elements are always earthed by the universal pettiness of strife between the sexes, and the gritty reality of life on the lower rungs, whatever planet that ladder might be on.
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Vintage Publishing The Ink Dark Moon
Here is a collection of sexy, brief, fleeting poems about love, lust and longing. They originate from a time in Japanese history where aristocratic women of the Heian court were free to marry and conduct love affairs according to their desires. Education and refinement were so highly valued that the courtly manner of expressing oneself, whether to give condolences for a death, to send back a forgotten fan, or to heighten the anticipation of a lover's visit, was with a poem of just five lines. A convention of secrecy surrounding love affairs fills these verses with palpable emotion.These vivid and erotic poems express love in all its forms, and do so with amazing economy of words, unforgettable imagery and breath-taking modernity.INTRODUCED BY NIKITA GILL'They are full of dreams, of autumns, of lovers known or not yet met, of desire, wonderment, loneliness' Irish Times Translated by Jane Hirshfield with Mariko Aratani, this is an edition that brings the story of the poems to life with a detailed introduction and notes on the translation.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Transcatheter Coil Embolization of Visceral Arterial Aneurysms
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Stone Bridge Press Kanazawa
In Kanazawa, the first literary novel in English to be set in this storied Japanese city, Emmitt’s future plans collapse when his wife, Mirai, suddenly backs out of negotiations to purchase their dream home. Disappointed, he’s surprised to discover Mirai’s subtle pursuit of a life and career in Tokyo, a city he dislikes. Harmony is further disrupted when Emmitt’s search for a more meaningful life in Japan leads him to quit an unsatisfying job at a local university. In the fallout, he finds himself helping his mother-in-law translate Kanazawa’s most famous author, Izumi Kyoka, into English. While continually resisting Mirai’s efforts to move to Tokyo, Emmitt becomes drawn into the mysterious death thirty years prior of a mutual friend of Mirai’s parents. It is only when he and his father-in-law climb the mountain where the man died that he learns the somber truth, and in turn discovers what the future holds for him and his wife.Packed with subtle literary allusion and closely observed nuance, with an intimacy of emotion inexorably tied both to the cityscape and Japan’s mountainous terrain, Kanazawa reflects the mood of Japanese fiction in a fresh, modern incarnation.
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