Abel is a cosplayer. His parents don't get it. His brother's a big, dumb jock. Still, the geek heaven of Comic-Kon is just around the corner, and this year, Abel plans to win the cosplay contest as his hero, Batman. But the convention has other surprises in store. When an intelligence team invades the floor in hot pursuit of a rogue agent, Abel and his friends have a chance to be the heroes they only dress up as. A series of chases and double-crosses ensues that will teach these eager kids...

The new collection from RBC/PEN Canada New Voices Award winner Mikko Harvey.Mikko Harvey’s new collection invites readers into a world that is and is not the world we know. In poems at once surreal, satiric, and tender, we encounter a cast of surprising non-human characters — the bear who sells herbal remedies, the politically influential lizard, the mean butterfly — yet at the core of this book is Harvey’s impulse to confront the challenges of human intimacy. ...

English poems from my archives. From year 2013-2018

Exploring the connections between music, media, history, economics and human emotions.Waves of Change: A Study of Social Mood by Mikko Ketovuori reveals a hidden force behind history, politics, culture, and markets known as collective mood.We are not only Homo sapiens—rational thinkers—but Homo sentiens—feeling humans. Our shared emotions rise and fall in powerful cycles, shaping events long before they unfold. Revolutions, booms and busts, cultural shifts, ...

How To Tell You?
by Mikko RanskalainenAfter his mother’s death, Mikko leaves his native Finland to join his father in France. A young foreigner, somewhat awkward, he faces difficult first years in Normandy. He grows attached to François, who becomes his only friend.As the years go by, his friendship for the boy—now a handsome teenager—slowly turns into something deeper. Although Mikko suspects that François might share the same feeli...

The first book-length study of Bersani's work, tracing the unfolding of his onto-ethics/aesthetics amidst numerous literary, artistic, and philosophical influences.Since his first publications in the late 1950s, Leo Bersani's work has influenced numerous scholarly fields, from studies of French modernism and realist fiction to psychoanalytic criticism and film theory. It has occasionally helped precipitate the emergence of new disciplinary fields, such as queer the...

This book addresses the interplay between stochastic processes and partial differential equations. More specifically, it focuses on the connection between the nonlinear p-Laplace equation and the stochastic game called tug-of-war with noise. The connection in this context was discovered approximately 15 years ago and has since provided new insights and approaches. These lecture notes provide a brief but detailed and accessible introduction to the subject and to the more research-oriented l...

More and more people are considering entrepreneurship as a career option. Dare vividly tells the story of one small entrepreneur. The book portrays the everyday life of an entrepreneur, the search for one's own path, growth, successes, and mistakes. For the reader, the true-to-life narrative and the questions connected to each chapter provide practical insights and perspectives for reflecting on future or already launched business activities.

The Finnish labor legislation book provides readers with fundamental insights into the intricacies of Finnish labor law. The book offers a systematic presentation of its subject matter, starting with employment commencement and culminating in the termination of employment contracts. The key issues covered include employment terms and conditions, rights and obligations, privacy considerations, principles of equality, cooperation in enterprises, regulation of working hours, workplace safety,...

Socionomics: How Social Mood Shapes Society explores the main principles and applications of socionomic theory as elaborated by Robert Prechter. Socionomic theory posits that an omnipresent social mood, shifting constantly in a wave form through all aspects of society, is responsible for the aggregate tenor and character of all social, economic and cultural trends, from fluctuations in the stock market to the popularity of particular genres of music at a given time.The soc...

Mix yourself a Hurricane and see New Orleans through a glass of rum.Like a drunken Mardi Gras parade, the history of New Orleans lurches from electrifying highs to heart-rending lows. Through it all, good drink was a constant - especially rum. The victory at the Battle of New Orleans was sealed with a barrel of rum, and a half-hearted implementation of Prohibition a century later certainly didn't dampen the city's spirits. From priests making tafia to modern deligh...

In a world built on a lie, can one woman make the lie true enough to stop a war?One day, Sasha hopes to become one of the most powerful mages of her generation. The world is not as it ought to be—the Heroes of old are long gone, nobody dares approach the elven forests, and most of the remaining mages are pushed into military service.Sasha has no time for any of that, however. The curse on her bloodline brings ever increasing danger to her doorstep. Her only hope of a cure l...