"Have you heard of a tradition called birthday spankings?" Jaehee asks.Lynx feels his mouth go dry. So dry, drier than the Sahara. His tongue sticks to his lip as he asks, "What?"Adia sucks in a breath. Jaehee shoots him a dirty look, and whatever loudmouth thing Adia had been about to say gets truncated into a soft but fervent, "ooh."Lazily, Jaehee explains, "It's your birthday, right? So you get one spanking for every year.""And one to grow on," A...

Fox hybrid Minseo just got back from his rut, which means he is worn out and sensitive.So why is his sweet little bunny of a roommate suddenly in his bed, half-naked and begging for cuddles?!Minseo's roommate Jiyu is barely wearing any clothes, smelling like sweet, tempting heaven, and demanding that Minseo come snuggle him… Minseo's always had a hard time saying no to affectionate, innocent Jiyu.But this just seems like a bad idea!!There's a Bunny in My...

Your two boyfriends love you in such different ways.Mars, the panther shifter, is strong and possessive. Lys, the snake shifter, is cool and composed.You get devoured by both, separately, and love every second of it.Send for Warmth is a polyamorous MM erotic short story about you (a transmasc bird shifter) spending some quality time with the men you love. Featuring possessiveness, jealousy play, and a slight predato...

It's mating season for latebloomers~At 23, Lydia's chances of presenting are long behind him. He may be a flower—a rare omega—but he's clearly one with recessive genes.Or so he thought.Overwhelming, all-consuming need makes Lydia weak in the knees from the first time he smells that otherworldly, masculine scent... but why did he have to have his first heat in the bar bathroom of the world's seediest sex magic club?And who'd have expected his mate to...

Deer hybrid Jaemin is a gentle giant, forever tripping over his own feet and knocking his antlers into doorframes. But the thing is… he's big everywhere.Bunny hybrid Jiyu might just be too small to take him! But that doesn't mean he's not going to try.Where there's a will, there's a way, and this little bunny is very determined.It Probably Won't Fit is exactly what it sounds like—a trans MM short story about two best friends, a very large size diff...

A remarkable facet of the human brain is its ability to manage multiple tasks with apparent simultaneity. Knowledge learned from one task can then be used to enhance problem-solving in other related tasks. In machine learning, the idea of leveraging relevant information across related tasks as inductive biases to enhance learning performance has attracted significant interest. In contrast, attempts to emulate the human brain’s ability to generalize in optimization – particularly in populat...

This book introduces the linkage between evolutionary computation and complex networks and the advantages of cross-fertilising ideas from both fields. Instead of introducing each field individually, the authors focus on the research that sits at the interface of both fields. The book is structured to address two questions: (1) how complex networks are used to analyze and improve the performance of evolutionary computation methods? (2) how evolutionary computation methods are used to solve ...

Christianity Today Book Award—Biblical StudiesForeword INDIES Book of the Year Award Honorable MentionSOLA Network's Asian American Book Awards Honorable MentionIn a first-of-its-kind volume, The New Testament in Color offers biblical commentary that is:MultiethnicDiverseContextual

Sensational books like Freakonomics have shown how human behaviour follows predictable patterns. But how do you take these radical ideas and apply them to your business? How do you make money from them?Secrets of the Moneylab sets out what business can learn from the findings of the new economics and social psychology. It shows how you can shape desires, use incentives and reduce risks to consistently improve the bottom line.In his experimental lab at Hewl...

The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Kay-Yut Chen and Marina Krakovsky's practical guide, Secrets of the Moneylab: How Understanding People Will Increase Your Profits, read by the actor Matt Addis.Sensational books like Freakonomics have shown how human behaviour follows predictable patterns. But how do you take these radical ideas and apply them to your business? How do you make money from them?Secrets of the Moneylab sets out what b...

A dance to the death. A girl who’s just as monstrous as H.H. Holmes. A hallway that’s constantly changing—and hungry. All of these stories exist in the same place—within the frame of a particular house that isn’t bound by the laws of time and space.Following in the footsteps of dark/horror-filled YA anthologies like His Hideous Heart and Slasher Girls and Monster Boys, and Netflix’s ground-breaking adaptation of The Haunting of Hill House, this YA specula...

The rich witch life of your dreams is within reach with this accessible guide to manifesting abundance.Wealth Witchery teaches you how to tap into your inner magic to influence the flow of money, regardless of your current circumstances or past experiences. Through success stories and her five-step Richcraft Manifestation System, Pamela Chen encourages you to transform money energy.Pamela offers thirteen spells and thirteen "richuals" to welcome th...