Get to know the Oscar-nominated star of Wonka, Dune, and A Complete Unknown! This is the perfect read for young movie fans, aspiring actors, and theater kids.Timothée Chalamet grew up in a family of artists and performers in New York City. From a young age, he knew that he wanted to be a great actor. He made his television debut at just fourteen years old on the popular show Law & Order. While attending a prestigious performing a...

The analysis of newly or recently emerged grammatical and lexical forms in Colloquial Singapore English is the main objective of this Element. Using corpus, survey, and interview data from different age groups, we shed light on the spread of language change across generations and ethnicities. Existing descriptions of CSE as a high-contact L1 variety of English in the late stages of endonormative stabilisation do not fully capture Singapore's continued multilingual ecology: source languages...

This book explores the resolution of Mandarin Chinese reflexive pronouns — ziji (‘self’) and ta-ziji (‘he/she-self’) — in language processing, focusing on how the human mind integrates multiple linguistic cues during comprehension through both theoretical and experimental approaches.It investigates the structural, semantic, and discourse-level properties of these reflexives, examining how syntactic and non-syntactic constraints shape real-time resolution. By intro...

Welcome to Kowloon Walled City: a dystopian townscape where the people are brimming with nostalgia, and where the past, present, and future converge. Amid the hidden emotions and extraordinary daily lives of the men and women working in its confines, a tale of romance begins to unfold for real estate agent Reiko Kujirai—one that feels as familiar as Kowloon itself…

Go behind the runway as style icon Nami stars in a life-changing fashion show, observe wise Robin as she helps to decipher an ancient tablet with Koala and Sabo, watch as solemn Princess Vivi receives a love letter from an unexpected admirer, and check out Ghost Princess Perona’s battle over the last bottle of wine with Zolo and Mihawk!

Joshi High is an elite school that most girls in Japan only dream of attending. Then one day everything changesthe allgirl school goes coed. There's just one catch: The girls outnumber the boys. So begins a wild, noholdsbarred competition for the boys of the school. Which smart and independentminded girl will rise above the fray?

Feminist Subversion of Linguistic Sexism in Contemporary China: Discursive Warfare provides an in-depth investigation of gender discourse with a focus on social labeling in post-reform China.The book delves into society’s tendency to perceive women in categories, explores the social and historical context of mainstream media’s role in perpetuating sexism, demonstrates feminist discursive empowerment in cyberspace, and sheds light on the complexities of a feminist awakening...

**"Tanizaki writes with an unabashed sensuality. Even his lighter-hearted fictions…make us hold our breath, and the endings don't let us quite exhale." —John Updike in The New Yorker"Tanizaki's literature is, above all, delicious, like French or Chinese cuisine." —Yukio Mishima"For the sheer entertainment value of a good story well told, none can match Tanizaki." —The Globe and Mail**This dazzling collection of short fiction by literary master Juni...

In Sephiroad, every person receives a blessing, a sacred power that determines status, talent, and future.Io Renalt receives none.Instead, he awakens as a cursed sigilist, a hated class believed to bring corruption and ruin. Branded dangerous by the Church and rejected by society, Io expects his life to end in disgrace.But when a blessing meant to save his sister begins to destroy her from within, Io discovers the truth: curses are not evil. They are the forgotten p...

This is a heart filled and a little sexy story revolving around a high school girl Medaka Ogawa, and her friends Satomi and Rie. Join the trio on their high school experiences as they unfold. This is a story for the ages!!

"This mesmerizes." — Publishers Weekly starred review"I've always felt unfit as a Korean but somehow too Korean everywhere else."Tasha Jun has always been caught between worlds: American and Korean, faith and doubt, family devotion and fierce independence. As a Korean American, she wandered between seemingly opposing worlds, struggling to find a voice to speak and a firm place for her feet to land...

A volume of all-new, character-driven stories expanding on the world of the hit video game Final Fantasy XV. This deluxe, hardcover edition includes full-color inserts featuring concept art and exclusive content.To oppose the gods or yield to fate?That is the question confronting each of the characters in The Dawn of the Future. Ardyn, having saved countless lives from the Starscourge, means to become the Founder King of Lucis and instead ...