What should have been a simple school trip to Tataratus veers off path when Kazu meets an ambitious shape-shifting tanuki, Kaiko, whose dream is to become a revered artisan. With her sights set on being an apprentice at Hitomi’s grandpa’ forge, Kaiko sticks close to Kazu and his friends to prove her worthiness, but she accidentally entangles them in another melee with the Scarlet Crown! This time a rematch with Pandora may not be enough. Can the Hemlock crew level up their skills and come ...

Breaking through the boundaries of realms, Vail & Muan find themselves in an alien existence unable to reverse the hands of time. Out of options and only able to push onwards unsure of their next steps in a world beyond words, the true fight for survival begins.

This book provides a snapshot of the current state of the art related to the development of tools, frameworks and techniques for designing and implementing multi-agent systems. The single contributions are diverse in nature, with some providing overviews of toolkits, while others focus on specific features or application domains.To reflect this diversity, the book has been organized into two parts. The first part covers Languages, Frameworks and Platforms and contains six ...

A Doll's House/Ghosts/Pillars of the Community/An Enemy of the People'Our home has never been anything other than a play-house. I've been your doll-wife here, just as at home I was Daddy's doll-child'These four plays established Ibsen as the leading figure in the theatre of his day, sending shockwaves throughout Europe and beyond. A Doll's House scandalized audiences with its free-thinking heroine Nora. Ibsen's even more radical follow-up, Ghos...

R.E.M.'s hit song is brought to life in this joyful picture book celebrating friendship and togetherness."In this picture-book adaptation of R.E.M.'s song, a young fox and rabbit show the adults that everyone can be friends . . . A pop song finds new life as a simple yet heartfelt story of acceptance." — Kirkus Reviews"Shiny happy people laughingEveryone around, love them, love themPut it in your hands, take ...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st European Conference on Multi-Agent Systems, EUMAS 2024, which took place in Dublin, Ireland, on August 26, 2024.The 24 full papers and 1 short paper included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 36 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Multi-Agent Based Simulation; Multi-Agent Learning; Knowledge Representation, Reasoning and Planning; Human-Agent Interaction; Coordination, Organ...

The first decade of the 21st century has been a period of rapid eco¬nomic growth in many large emerging economies, especially China. While Western economies are weighed down by debt and austerity measures, many emerging economies are in much better fiscal shape. The growing economic and financial momentum of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, as well as indonesia, Turkey and South Korea (or ‘BRICS+’), raises serious questions for Western decision makers. Of central strategic co...

Enter into this epic telling of Twin Aces which follows the lives and adventure of Vail & Muan two childhood friends who face the ultimate test of friendship.Immune to the outside world living simple lives all changes as they are introduced to Silla, a jinni from the parallel realm of the world long forgotten by mankind.Shifting the lines between the seen and unseen realms Vail & Muan must walk a path unknown as they try to right the wrongs in this mind-altering tale of fri...

THE PAST IS OVER. THE PRESENT IS LIFE. THE FUTURE IS YOURS. SOMETIMES YOU DONT CHOOSE THE BOOK; THE BOOK WILL CHOOSE YOU. Do You Feel Me? is the heartfelt journey of a young blind man (Jonathan) bullied throughout his childhood for being different. The only person that doesnt judge and sees the kindness in Jonathans heart is Andreahis only friend. She helps him through. As Jonathan gets older, he begins to overcome his past traumas, refusing to let them interfere with his future and blosso...

In a lush solarpunk future, plants have stripped the poison from the air and trained warriors keep resource hoarders in check.Orfeus only wants to be a travelling singer, famed and adored. She has her share of secrets, but she’s no energy criminal, so why does an assassin come for her head? Not just any assassin but the Wolf, deadliest killer in all the Order of the Vengeful Wild.Orfeus will call in every favour she has to find out, seeking answers while clinging to her pri...

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!

Henrik Ibsen, the 'Father of Modern Drama', came from a seemingly inauspicious background. What are the key contexts for understanding his appearance on the world stage? This collection provides thirty contributions from leading scholars in theatre studies, literary studies, book history, philosophy, music, and history, offering a rich interdisciplinary understanding of Ibsen's work, with chapters ranging across cultural and aesthetic contexts including feminism, scientific discovery, genr...