Sometimes, true love is not the answer.A decade after the Second War, Aixauhan Alchemist Ying Cai-Li seeks to rekindle her relationship with her ex-lover, the Inabrian Oracle Anne Barberry.However, the war changed them both. Estranged by their losses, Cai-Li has gained a notorious reputation as the dark magic-wielding Blood Hawk and Anne barricades herself in a castle on a hill where her family's dark secrets lie. Rumors in the village say Anne is a monster...

"Dawn's Cozy Horror Corner: a queer Chinese diaspora horror short stories anthology" is a horror anthology which contains five stories featuring supernatural elements and young Chinese diaspora protagonists whose identities clash with the environment around them.In "Bottle of Shame", a girl who can pull out people's shame must grapple with the gruesome consequences of the truth she reveals. In "The Girl with No Face", a girl slowly loses her facial features one at a time until she ...

Fear the hunter, never the witch.A spirit wanders the Scottish moors, desperate for answers. An Empress and her mistress seek revenge in the Chinese Imperial Court. A Black freewoman scavenges for truth in the bodies of Confederate soldiers. A damsel flees to a convent to escape a knight-in-obsessive-armor.Across every manner of time and place, women have been labelled crazy. Hysterical. Witches.To be labelled a witch was once a death sentence. Pers...

八世紀時，蓮花生大士封藏了無數的大圓滿伏藏，這些珍貴伏藏，只有透過伏藏師才能被發掘出來。本書總集了歷代伏藏師和重要大圓滿成就者跨越時空的口授教導，為你展露了悟心性的傳承，帶你進入覺醒之路的核心。●這是一本向大圓滿成就者請求實修祕訣的書，透過簡單而有效的口訣教導，任何人不論從何處起步，都能從中掌握修持的關鍵。●這更是一本重要的進階禪修手冊，內容全都來自祕密的伏藏教法和原始經典，提供給進階禪修者更深的修行層次和方法。●本書總共集結了20位重要大圓滿成就者的證悟心得，他們是：龍欽．冉江（Longchen Rabjam）祖古．烏金（Tulku Urgyen）仁波切釋迦．師利．嘉那（Shakya Shri Jñana）無垢友（Vimalamitra）耶喜．措嘉（Yeshe Tsogyal）

Quick Hits for Creativity in the Classroom introduces faculty, administrators, and staff to creative techniques that can be incorporated into the classroom at undergraduate and graduate levels. These techniques from the arts, humanities, social sciences, and sciences can enhance learning and support professional development experiences for students and faculty alike.While faculty are experts in their disciplines, many are not formally trained in effective or evidence-based...

De-Whitening Intersectionality: Race, Intercultural Communication, and Politics re-evaluates how the logic of color-blindness as whiteness is at play in the current scope of intersectional research on race, intercultural communication, and politics. Calling for a re-centering of difference by exploring the emergence and inception of intersectionality concepts, the coeditors and contributors distinguish between the uses of intersectionality that seem inclusive versus those that actually ena...