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Tsubasa thinks that her pretty and popular twin sister, Arisa, has the perfect life. Everyone at school loves Arisa-unlike the hot-tempered Tsubasa, whose nickname is “The Demon Princess.” But
"I'd rather be dead." Rune Balot was a lost girl with nothing to live for, when a man named Shell took her in and cared for her... until he tried to murder her. Standing at the precipice of death, Run
STORMY SEAS!On the advice of Mizuchi, Raizo and his kunoichi take to the seas in search of the princess of Shima. Unfortunately, a terrible storm separates Raizo from his kunoichi and lands him on a
Tsubasa thinks that her pretty and popular twin sister, Arisa, has the perfect life. Everyone at school loves Arisa-unlike the hot-tempered Tsubasa, whose nickname is “The Demon Princess.” But
LOVE SAFARI ? Chino wants what every teen girl wants: to fall in love! But when it finally happens, it’s not exactly what she expected. Her father, a great explorer, brings home his latest find: Hyo,
Tsubasa thinks that her pretty and popular twin sister, Arisa, has the perfect life. Everyone at school loves Arisa—unlike the hot-tempered Tsubasa, whose nickname is “the Demon Princess.” But when Ar
?FIGHT TO LIVE!?Raizo and his beautiful ninja entourage stumble into the fateful contest to rule the Yagyo family. The winner leads the clan and marries the princess—but the princess has her own ideas
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Stand Alone Complex takes place in the year 2030, in the fictional Japanese city of New Port. The story follows the members of Public Security Section 9, a special-operations task-force made up of for
After millennia in hiding, Mina Tepes, the princess of the ancient covenant and ruler of all vampires, wants change. Using the vast wealth of the Tepes line, she has paid off the entire gross national
BREAKING A HEART IN ONE STUPID STEPAfter Kagari reveals her love to Raizo, in a typical moment of thoughtless candor he tells her that they had in fact never kissed. This sets off a firestorm of event
Tsubasa thinks that her pretty and popular twin sister, Arisa, has the perfect life. Everyone at school loves Arisa-unlike the hot-tempered Tsubasa, whose nickname is “The Demon Princess.” But
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This timely handbook brings academic excellence to international advertising research in the form of 28 contributions from over 40 leading scholars. The handbook's comprehensive treatment highlights e
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RNA interference (RNAi) is a process in living cells whereby small, modified versions of RNA can interfere with the normal expression of DNA, altering which genes are active and by how much. Researche
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The human urinary bladder is subject to a unique and extraordinarily diverse array of congenital, inflammatory, metaplastic, and neoplastic abnormalities. This book provides contemporary, compre
"In Chinese tradition Confucianism has been always both a philosophy of moral self-cultivation for the human individual and an ideological guide for political institutional policy and governmental act
Chinese and US specialists in Chinese philosophy explore what texts written as far back as 350 BCE and discovered over the past three decades reveal about Confucianism and Daoism, the place of these r
If there is an X PRIZE for collaborative thought leadership of the social ecosystem, this book would get it. Dr. Peter H. Diamandis Chairman and CEO, X PRIZE Foundation The World that Changes
This volume, an assemblage of essays previously published in the Journal of Chinese Philosophy, conveniently and strategically brings together some of the trenchant interpretations and analyses of the
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