2020 became the year that no one will forget as the coronavirus roared into East Hollywood lives. City College artists, reporters and editors capture life in quarantine and the consuming story of our time from Madrid to Salvador, from Guangzhou to L.A.

This collection of seventeen essays situates modern Shin Buddhist thinker Kiyozawa Manshi (1863–1903) and his new form of spirituality, Seishinshugi, in the broader context of Buddhism and religious thought in modern Japan. The work highlights several factors that led to the development of Kiyozawa’s ideas and demonstrates the broad influence that he and his disciples had, putting in relief both the events that led Kiyozawa to set forth his unique formulation of a modern Shin Buddhist reli...

This book provides a unified understanding of metals and their alloys from the standpoint of chemical bonding theory. This book comprises two parts, Fundamentals and Applications. In the Fundamentals part, four theoretical quantities (cohesive energy, energy fluctuation, atomic population, and atomic bonding population) obtained from molecular orbital calculations are utilized to develop a unified logic for various problems about the relationship between bonding, structure, properties, and...