Hasegawa thought he’d always be a wallflower, but now he’s going out with heartthrob Hiyama. They’ve had their first date and even their first kiss, and it feels like they’re starting to truly close the distance between them, but… Is Hiyama’s affection so intense that he made Hasegawa cry!? Not to mention, both of them are approaching crossroads in their lives that threaten to drive a wedge between them… What kind of futures do they see for themselves—and do those futures have room for one...

Wendell Webster is a little duck in a big family that lives next to Waddle Creek. Even though he loves his parents and brothers and sisters, they are very noisy and take up a lot of room in the nest. Wendells next-door neighbors, the Perquackys, are even louder! More than anything in the world, Wendy wishes he could go off on his and be his own duck. One day after Wendells mother says he is big enough to explore by himself, he waddles past Pink Ladys house and down the road. At first, it i...

Belle is a kitty who loves playing with catnip and paper balls. She and her younger brothers, Skip and Tumbles, adore both their parents. Every morning when their dad leaves for his important job, he places a crown on his head. But one day when he wakes up with a bad cough, everything changes for Belle.After Belle learns that her father is King Whiskers, the leader of their kingdom of cats, her mother, Queen Fluffy, tells her that she must help rule the kingdom until he recovers. M...

Little Zippy Duffelbag and all his friends from the closet are going on a trip to France! Theyve never been to France, and everyone is very excited. As they pack for the trip, Zippy thinks about how much he wishes he were bigger. He is sort of a little guy, not big and roomy like his friend from the attic, Stanley Steamer-Trunk, who could carry all of their belongings with ease. And, as if not being able to carry much wasnt bad enough, he was so small he had to ride in the overhead compart...

Little Zippy Duffelbag and all his friends from the closet are going on a trip to France! Theyve never been to France, and everyone is very excited. As they pack for the trip, Zippy thinks about how much he wishes he were bigger. He is sort of a little guy, not big and roomy like his friend from the attic, Stanley Steamer-Trunk, who could carry all of their belongings with ease. And, as if not being able to carry much wasnt bad enough, he was so small he had to ride in the overhead compart...

Historians have long assumed that immigration to the United States was free from regulation until anti-Asian racism on the West Coast triggered the introduction of federal laws to restrict Chinese immigration in the 1880s. Studies of European immigration and government control on the East Coast have, meanwhile, focused on Ellis Island, which opened in 1892. In this groundbreaking work, Hidetaka Hirota reinterprets the origins of immigration restriction in the United States, especially depo...

Wendell Webster is a little duck in a big family that lives next to Waddle Creek. Even though he loves his parents and brothers and sisters, they are very noisy and take up a lot of room in the nest. Wendells next-door neighbors, the Perquackys, are even louder! More than anything in the world, Wendy wishes he could go off on his and be his own duck.One day after Wendells mother says he is big enough to explore by himself, he waddles past Pink Ladys house and down the road. At firs...

Circadian rhythms have been shown to be ubiquitous and critically important in the experimental laboratory, accounting for the difference between life and death in response to identical stimulus. The partly endogenous nature of circadian rhythms has been well documented and methods for their characterisation have been developed enabling the cellular and molecular mechanisms to be understood. Chronobiology and Chronomedicine aims to provide a review of these mechanisms unde...

This volume provides backgrounds, methods, and troubleshooting for the analysis of circadian rhythms at the molecular, cellular, and organismal levels in vertebrates and invertebrates, and also covers light input, sleep, circalunar rhythms, and seasonal rhythms. The chapters in this book discuss behavioral and biological testing, histochemistry, single-cell imaging, electrophysiology, photochemistry, genetics, genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, systems biology, chemical b...

Fusing developments in optics, electronics, and mechanics, this reference systematically explores and describes an abundance of micro-optomechatronic devices and applications. The authors outline the power and position control of a laser beam, as well as fundamental principles in optical technology. Micro-Optomechatronics systematically explains the devices based upon the fusion of optics, electronics, and mechanics via MEMS technology. The book first demonstrates how devices are classifie...

This book provides quantitative evidence on the issues in fiscal and monetary policies in Mongolia and presents necessary policy recommendations for policymakers and academic circles. Mongolia belongs to a natural resource-based, transition economy and thus has faced the risk of the so-called resource curse—including the “Dutch Disease” and immaturity in market-based systems, particularly in financial markets. Consequently, reformations of resource allocation and policy governance in fisca...

This book discusses toxic Microcystis and the toxins from various viewpoints such as classification, cultivation, occurrences in lakes, and relations to zooplankton. The text presents new information on the chemistry, analytical chemistry, toxicology, molecular modeling, and liver tumor promotion of the toxins. Microcystis species are described in relation to morphological features, allozyme genotype, and toxin content. Seasonal changes of Microcystis population are described with special ...