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A spicy fantasy BL manga about an arrogant demon and the meek, gloomy boy who summoned him!Socially anxious witch & bonafide bookworm Rheine struggles with a problem no spell can fix—he's never had a single friend!Desperate, Rheine performs a summoning ritual to create a cute, loyal demon companion! Instead, he summons Luchatra, a powerful and domineering demon who immediately begins invading Rhein...

The second novel in one of the most beloved crime series of all time - more than 25 million copies of the Mikeneko Holmes books sold in JapanDetective Katayama is leaving the force . . .. . . eventually. But with his resignation letter gathering dust on his boss's desk, he is faced with a case that draws him back in. Two sisters murdered in the same room in the same apartment two years apart. One died almost peacefully, a smile on her face ...

Mori and Takemura have finally made it to K2, but their partnership is an uneasy one and the killer mountain leaves no room for error. Suffering from the altitude and at the mercy of bad weather, Mori comes face-to-face with the reality that in order to ascend the peaks, you must be prepared to die on them…

Introducing an iconic investigative duo—a hapless detective and his capable cat—in this must-read by one of Japan's most beloved novelists of crime fiction.Detective Yoshitaro Katayama is afraid of many things: heights, dark spaces, blood and ... women. When a young female student is found murdered, he's given two choices—review the harrowing crime-scene photographs or head to Hagoromo Women's College to investigate—and reluctantly opts for the latter.But t...

Mechanobiology-the study of the effects of mechanical environments on the biological processes of cells-has evolved from traditional biomechanics via the incorporation of strong elements of molecular and cell biology. Currently, a broad range of organ systems are being studied by surgeons, physicians, basic scientists, and engineers. These mechanob

Transfer student Buntaro Mori starts his first day at his new school already on the administration’s radar. He’s withdrawn and sullen, and the teachers are just waiting for him to explode. When his annoying classmate Miyamoto promises to leave him alone forever if he climbs to the top of the school, Mori eagerly takes up the challenge and shocks everyone when he makes it all the way to the roof. Flushed with the victory of his first successful climb, Mori can’t resist the lure of the local...

Paracelsus has been dragged into the mirror world by the dark knight who harvests the power of the Gifted! A clever strategy with the “Universal Recipe Book” almost seemed to secure his escape, but now it looks like getting home to Nora safe and sound isn’t going to be quite so easy...!

The second novel in one of the most beloved crime series of all time - more than 25 million copies of the Mikeneko Holmes books sold in JapanDetective Katayama is leaving the force . . .. . . eventually. But with his resignation letter gathering dust on his boss's desk, he is faced with a case that draws him back in. Two sisters murdered in the same room in the same apartment two years apart. One died almost peacefully, a smile on her face ...

Buntaro Mori is a loner, but being alone in a crowd is almost as bad as being forced to fit in. When a dangerous bid for solitude introduces Mori to the rush of solo climbing, he becomes addicted to the brilliant sense of freedom he finds as he pits his body and soul against the heights. But how high does he have to climb to leave humanity behind?

Mori’s reunion with Miyamoto, his high school climbing partner, brings up a lot of memories. It also proves that people can always find new ways to be disappointing. Unwilling to make himself vulnerable like that again, Mori holes up alone in the Mount Fuji weather research station, ready to turn his back on the world. But after months of isolation, a chance encounter with a lost hiker changes the course of his life forever.

Over the past decade, Lesotho and Swaziland have faced significant volatility in their fiscal revenues, owing to highly unstable Southern African Customs Union (SACU) receipts. Based on model analysis, this paper explores the advantages of implementing fiscal rules to deal with such volatility. It finds that the use of a structural balance target could smooth the growth impact from revenue shocks while helping preserve sufficient international reserves during bad times. From a long-term pe...

“There are people in this world who hail from other realms of existence entirely...I call them ‘the Gifted.’”Arlembic, the owner of the magic shop partnering with Paracelsus, has suspicions that her exceptionally skilled alchemical supplier might be even more exceptional than he first seems…Nora has been let in on the truth, so a routine delivery to the shop means she’ll have to resist a serious grilling session if she intends to keep the confidence of her kind—and maybe too unwary—master!...