Hasegawa is a bit of a high school nobody. He’s plain, quiet, and unassuming…so it’s a huge shock when Hiyama, the sunny social butterfly of the class, suddenly confesses to him! And how exactly does Hiyama intend to date a classmate he’s never even spoken to before? By starting a good old-fashioned exchange diary, of course! That level of innocence from his popular peer comes as a surprise to Hasegawa, but he’s game to give it a shot. Entry by entry, the mismatched couple manages to bridg...

The pages of their exchange diary record the heartbeat of first love…Hasegawa thought he’d always be a wallflower, but now he’s going out with heartthrob Hiyama. They’ve had their first date and even their first kiss, and it feels like the two are starting to truly close the distance between them, but…is Hiyama’s affection so intense that he made Hasegawa cry?! Not to mention, they are both approaching crossroads in their lives that threaten to drive a wedge into their relationship…What ki...

Belle is a kitty who loves playing with catnip and paper balls. She and her younger brothers, Skip and Tumbles, adore both their parents. Every morning when their dad leaves for his important job, he places a crown on his head. But one day when he wakes up with a bad cough, everything changes for Belle.After Belle learns that her father is King Whiskers, the leader of their kingdom of cats, her mother, Queen Fluffy, tells her that she must help rule the kingdom until he recovers. M...

Little Zippy Duffelbag and all his friends from the closet are going on a trip to France! Theyve never been to France, and everyone is very excited. As they pack for the trip, Zippy thinks about how much he wishes he were bigger. He is sort of a little guy, not big and roomy like his friend from the attic, Stanley Steamer-Trunk, who could carry all of their belongings with ease. And, as if not being able to carry much wasnt bad enough, he was so small he had to ride in the overhead compart...

Wendell Webster is a little duck in a big family that lives next to Waddle Creek. Even though he loves his parents and brothers and sisters, they are very noisy and take up a lot of room in the nest. Wendells next-door neighbors, the Perquackys, are even louder! More than anything in the world, Wendy wishes he could go off on his and be his own duck. One day after Wendells mother says he is big enough to explore by himself, he waddles past Pink Ladys house and down the road. At first, it i...

Historians have long assumed that immigration to the United States was free from regulation until anti-Asian racism on the West Coast triggered the introduction of federal laws to restrict Chinese immigration in the 1880s. Studies of European immigration and government control on the East Coast have, meanwhile, focused on Ellis Island, which opened in 1892. In this groundbreaking work, Hidetaka Hirota reinterprets the origins of immigration restriction in the United States, especially depo...

Belle is a kitty who loves playing with catnip and paper balls. She and her younger brothers, Skip and Tumbles, adore both their parents. Every morning when their dad leaves for his important job, he places a crown on his head. But one day when he wakes up with a bad cough, everything changes for Belle.After Belle learns that her father is King Whiskers, the leader of their kingdom of cats, her mother, Queen Fluffy, tells her that she must help rule the kingdom until he recovers. More than...

Appliqué Your Way to Stunning Art Glass Quilts! Julie Hirota is known for her colorful, contemporary art-glass-style quilts. Now she shares the secrets of her Subtractive Appliqué™ technique so you can create your own beautiful version of Art Glass quilts! • Learn Julie's innovative Subtractive Appliqué™ technique for adding colorful fabric patches as you "subtract" from the outline of your design • 4 original Art Glass projects allow you to practice the technique...

Wendell Webster is a little duck in a big family that lives next to Waddle Creek. Even though he loves his parents and brothers and sisters, they are very noisy and take up a lot of room in the nest. Wendells next-door neighbors, the Perquackys, are even louder! More than anything in the world, Wendy wishes he could go off on his and be his own duck.One day after Wendells mother says he is big enough to explore by himself, he waddles past Pink Ladys house and down the road. At firs...

This book develops a new framework - the stakeholder model - that helps to understand corporate finance and governance in modern society, where the sources of people’s happiness have shifted from monetary to non-monetary factors. The book takes a more comprehensive approach than is typically found in the standard economics and finance literature, by explicitly incorporating both the monetary and non-monetary interests of stakeholders and by examining the value creation of corporations from...

Little Zippy Duffelbag and all his friends from the closet are going on a trip to France! Theyve never been to France, and everyone is very excited. As they pack for the trip, Zippy thinks about how much he wishes he were bigger. He is sort of a little guy, not big and roomy like his friend from the attic, Stanley Steamer-Trunk, who could carry all of their belongings with ease. And, as if not being able to carry much wasnt bad enough, he was so small he had to ride in the overhead compart...

Circadian rhythms have been shown to be ubiquitous and critically important in the experimental laboratory, accounting for the difference between life and death in response to identical stimulus. The partly endogenous nature of circadian rhythms has been well documented and methods for their characterisation have been developed enabling the cellular and molecular mechanisms to be understood. Chronobiology and Chronomedicine aims to provide a review of these mechanisms unde...