Kyoto - founded in the year 794 and capital of Japan for fully half that nation's recorded history - sits firmly in the center of Lucas Peyton Thomas's compelling, vivid history of Japan. Here, in vibrant detail, are the stories of the rise and fall of Japan's aristocracy, of the days of the shoguns and samurai, of life in its palaces and moated castles, of a country that once sought to rule China but chose to isolate itself for more than 200 years. Mysterious Japan - a nation known to the...

This volume provides a wide-ranging survey of, and many new results on, various important types of ideal factorization actively investigated by several authors in recent years. Examples of domains studied include (1) those with weak factorization, in which each nonzero, nondivisorial ideal can be factored as the product of its divisorial closure and a product of maximal ideals and (2) those with pseudo-Dedekind factorization, in which each nonzero, noninvertible ideal can be factored as th...

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Socio-Technical Aspects in Security and Trust, STAST 2020, held as a virtual event, in September 2020.The 8 full papers and 3 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 42 submissions and are organized in the following topical sections: personality and behavior; behavior in face of adversaries; smart environments; decentralized systems and digita...

John is feeling the full weight of his mistakes as the people closest to him suffer the consequences. The war between the Woods and the Albanians is about the flip from cold to hot. And the shocking truth of what really happened to Grace is soon to be revealed. In the action-packed conclusion to Mugshots, no one is safe as the streets of Brighton fill with blood!

Adnan is gathering his soldiers. John is reeling from the revelation about why Grace may have been kidnapped. Harry is facing dissension in his ranks. As time ticks by, the pressure is building, and John may just have a plan to end the whole thing now…or else put a target on all of their backs.

In "The Life and Times of Ulric Zwingli," Johann Jakob Hottinger meticulously chronicles the life of one of the foremost figures of the Protestant Reformation in Switzerland. Combining a narrative style that is both scholarly and accessible, Hottinger weaves a comprehensive account of Zwingli's theological developments, the socio-political landscape of 16th-century Zurich, and the profound impact of Zwingli's beliefs on the Reformation movement. The text is enriched with primary sources, g...

Produced by a team of world-leading economists, this is the benchmark account of recent and historical trends in inequality.World Inequality Report 2022 is the most authoritative and comprehensive account available of global trends in inequality. Researched, compiled, and written by a team of world-leading economists, the report builds on the pioneering edition of 2018 to provide policy makers and scholars everywhere up-to-date information about an ever br...

Taking up the study of legal education in distinctly biopolitical terms, this book provides a critical and political analysis of structure in the law school.Legal education concerns the complex pathways by which an individual becomes a lawyer, making the journey from lay-person to expert, from student to practitioner. To pose the idea of a biopolitics of legal education is not only to recognise the tensions surrounding this journey, but also to recognise that legal education is a k...

What does it mean to be Baptist?The Baptist Vision: Faith and Practice for a Believers’ Church answers this question by introducing readers to the distinctive theology and practice of Baptists and by putting forward a biblical, charitable, and winsome presentation of the Baptist vision.Authors Matthew Y. Emerson and R. Lucas Stamps begin by examining the theological foundations of the Baptist movement: catholic, reformational, evangelical, and covenantal. They then...

The first in an all-new series from USA Today bestselling author and queen of “why choose” heat and juicy cliffhangers, Tate James.I’m Noah Fearly,a former child star with a serious adrenaline addiction and a thorough disregard for my own mortality.But you might know me by my ClikByte name. Maybe you even follow me? You and ninety-seven million others.NoFear.It’s not just my name; it’s my wh...

Demonic sheriffs, ghostly travellers, and vampires abound in the untamed, wyrd west. Just when you thought it was safe to take to the rails and cross the plains, the monsters come out to play.Moonlight might turn the desert sands to silver, but these ten wyrd stories are pure gold.

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