This is an accessible, engaging, and timely overview of the key debates surrounding the ongoing role of VR in society, exploring extended reality (XR), immersive VR, augmented reality (AR), and mixed reality (MR).Research on VR is quickly evolving, having started with experiments on basic perceptual effects of deep immersion in virtual worlds, but has now expanded to questions of adequate content for the medium, behavioral changes, therapy and learning uses, identification issues, ...

Heart Eater traces the author's childhood and how she went from being a nameless, abandoned nine-month-old baby in Seoul, South Korea to, as an adult, becoming an award-winning Asian American author who writes in multiple genres. The book is made of short essays, or "field notes," that explore moments and experiences in the author's life that made her pay extra attention to the words being used.Each titled "field note" memorializes and reflects on encounters with language r...

Sun Tzu's The Art of War is a timeless military treatise from ancient China that transcends the battlefield, offering profound strategies on conflict, leadership, and human psychology that remain highly relevant in modern business, sports, and daily life. Strategy: Over Strength: Values planning and intelligence above brute military force. Emphasizes winning without ever engaging in direct combat. Focuses on flexibility, adaptation, and exploiting enemy weakness. The Psychological Dimensio...

The Art of War is an ancient Chinese military treatise dating from the Late Spring and Autumn Period (roughly 5th century BC). The work, which is attributed to the ancient Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu ("Master Sun", also spelled Sunzi), is composed of 13 chapters. Each one is devoted to an aspect of warfare and how it applies to military strategy and tactics. For almost 1,500 years it was the lead text in an anthology that would be formalised as the Seven Military Classics by Empero...

Natsuki plunges into his second summer vacation with fresh aspirations for the future. The Rainbow-Colored Youth Plan is proceeding without a hitch—his band is unified once more, his relationship with Hikari is strong, and each day is fulfilling. Everything should be great, but Natsuki’s been having enigmatic dreams of a life with a girl who isn’t Hikari. Unbeknownst to him, those blissful dreams just might spell trouble for his current reality. Life is a constant series of choices. Can Na...

Kim Myeong-sun is Korea's first published woman writer. Fruit of Life: Poems (생명의 과실: 김명순 시선) is the first book-length, Korean-to-English translation of her poetry. Kim’s poems offer a raw portrait of 1920s–30s Korea, driven by her personal experiences of sexual assault, misogynistic journalism and criticism, displacement, and poverty during the Japanese colonial occupation (1910–1945). Alongside feminist critique, Kim also writes about sapphic desire, familial affection, and natu...

Social Work Practice and Artificial Intelligence for the Common Good is the first university-level textbook to address how artifical intelligence (AI) can be leveraged for the common good without reproducing systemic inequities, whilst also addressing how social workers can develop the digital literacy necessary to evaluate, design, and ethically use AI tools.Drawing on global case studies, practice-based examples, and a range of pedagogical tools, this book:...

This book combines process tracing with original quantitative and qualitative analysis of U.S. and Chinese official discourse, legislation, and elite perspectives in order to trace the key turning points in Sino–U.S. relations since the 1970s.Challenging the Thucydides Trap and Power Transition Theory, the book argues that war between China and the United States is not structurally inevitable. Instead, their relationship has been shaped—and often stabilized—by shifting mechanisms a...

CAUTION**: Hazards Ahead for Minifigs**Most LEGO books show a peaceful and perfect world for minifigures, but in this book, their doomsday is finally here! SunPro Bricks, known online for “forbidden” LEGO builds, shares 30 genius inventions so you can send your minifigures on deadly adventures with dangerous traps at every turn.Every build in this book is a contraption, which means it can MOVE! Once you snap the last pieces together, these ...

Ancient strategy meets modern design: Sun Tzu's The Art of War in a striking dark-mode edition with white text on black paper—timeless wisdom on leadership, conflict, and self-mastery, reimagined for focus.A timeless guide to leadership, strategy, and self-mastery, The Art of War has influenced generations of thinkers—from generals and political leaders to entrepreneurs and athletes. Its lessons on preparation, pe...

The greatest victories are often achieved before the battle even begins. In The Art of War, ancient Chinese strategist Sun Tzu presents a concise and influential treatise on strategy, leadership, preparation, and conflict. Written more than two thousand years ago, the work examines how careful planning, intelligence, adaptability, and disciplined decision-making can determine the outcome of a conflict. Sun Tzu explores essential principles including strategy, preparation, leadership, decep...

As a dog owner, you know that training the dog's brain is the secret sauce to a happy and fulfilled dog.But which exercises are best for your dog? How much should you train? And how can you make time for mental stimulation or find outlets for enrichment in an already busy everyday life?This book provides clear answers to all those questions, and much more. After listening, you will have:Better understanding of your dog's breed and which exerci...