To be a sorceress means to seize your desires and take possession, to invoke powers most ancient to triumph—to leave no challengers alive, and take back all that is yours by right.Olesya Hua could have been the sorceress of her age, if not for the curse that struck her down. Now risen from its ashes, she's determined to carve her mark into the world.Recadat Kongmanee is the survivor of a heinous affliction that has left her with unnatural hunger… and a potent power...

Marvel break-out Shang-Chi sets off to unlock the keys to immortality and save his father in this all-new, original graphic novel adventure!Twelve-year-old Shang-Chi and and his younger sister, Shi-Hua, are the only children in the grand palace of the Five Weapons Society. Their father, Zheng-Zu, is a harsh master, and all Shang-Chi wants is to prove himself in his father’s eyes.So when he overhears that his father’s powers may be waning and discovers an an...

To be a warlock in this age is to trade in powers and promises and poisons, to bind demons and men to your will, to break them as you see fit...Viveca Hua is the warlock of her era, and she has finally obtained her enemy's greatest weapon—the demon Yves, an entity powerful beyond imagining... and far more alluring than any mortal woman.But each ritual has a price. Yves has her own past, one brutally intertwined with the nemesis that killed Viveca's mother. Her secr...

Empowering Indigenous Students in the Classroom and Beyond brings together scholarly essays from faculty at the University College of the North (UCN), where the majority of students identify as Indigenous. Written from a wide range of disciplines, the chapters highlight how the faculty at UCN integrates Indigenous and Northern values into teaching and learning, with the goal of creating educational experiences that are culturally meaningful, inclusive, and supportive.The contributo...

The book examines the Merchant Movement, a significant yet understudied dimension of the Chinese National Revolution. Initiated largely by the Kuomintang (KMT), the movement sought to mobilize small and medium-sized merchants through newly established Merchant Associations, thereby bolstering revolutionary efforts while marginalizing compradors and major merchants. Despite its contemporary relevance, the Merchant Movement has received limited scholarly attention compared to other mass move...

China surpassed North America to become the world 's largest movie market in 2020. Formerly the focus of exotic fascination in the golden age of Hollywood, today the Chinese are a make-or-break audience for Hollywood's biggest blockbusters. And movies are now an essential part of China's global "soft power" strategy: a Chinese real estate tycoon, who until recently was the major shareholder of the AMC theater chain, built the world's largest film production facility. Behind the curtains, a...

In order to save her father, she wanted to send herself to Young Master Gu's bed, but was told afterwards that Young Master Gu did not come to the hotel at all.Then … Who was the man she had sex with?Her father had committed suicide in prison, causing her, who had fallen, to almost be sold to a rich Old Man by her uncle's family. When she was at a loss, a strange man appeared, hugging her tightly and claiming to be her fiancé.She had a new turning point in her life after getting a marriage...

Super Martial Master System

This book is not Oracle theory or database management system theory book. It is not Oracle programming book either. It is an Oracle DBA (Database Administrator) practice process and scripts and documentations based on author’s working experiences. The readers can be people who are interested in learning knowledge on Oracle database administrations like developers working on Oracle database, Oracle DBA beginners who wants to know how to manage their Oracle database, IT managers who wants to...

At once a work of narrative lyricism and an act of personal courage, this memoir in verse documents the human cost of a period of political turmoil in China’s recent past. Luo Ying—the pen name of Huang Nubo, a celebrated poet, Forbes billionaire, and mountain climber—draws readers into the depths of the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976) by rendering its defining moments in his life with devastating precision and clarity. The narrative poems that make up Memories of the Cultural Revoluti...

This book aims to develop professional and practical microcontroller applications in the ARM-MDK environment with Texas Instruments MSP432P401R LaunchPad kits. It introduces ARM Cortex-M4 MCU by highlighting the most important elements, including: registers, pipelines, memory, and I/O ports. With the updated MSP432P401R Evaluation Board (EVB), MSP-EXP432P401R, this MCU provides various control functions with multiple peripherals to enable users to develop and build various modern control p...

This textbook provides fundamentals and practical skills on AI foundations and applications with two MATLAB programming modes. It includes twelve chapters with detailed introductions for the foundation knowledge of AI, structures, key components, and hands-on AI projects implemented in various applications in our world.Unlike other AI related textbooks, in which the Python is used, the MATLAB is adopted in this textbook. The Python programming mode builds AI projects with functions...