Art university student Nagi Kitagawa is hopelessly in love with Yu Yamasaki, his senpai in the folk song club who also happens to be his next door neighbor. Yu seems to have it all-good looks, a great personality, and he's also super popular-so Nagi can't help but think he'd never fall for a shy, innocent country bumpkin like him. One night, after drinking too much at one of their club get-togethers, Nagi helps a drunk Yu get home safe-but before he can go back to his own apartment, Yu wra...

This book presents three projects that demonstrate the fundamental problems of architectural design and urban composition – the layout design, evaluation and optimization. Part I describes the functional layout design of a residential building, and an evaluation of the quality of a town square (plaza).The algorithm for the functional layout design is based on backtracking using a constraint satisfaction approach combined with coarse grid discretization. The algorithm for the town s...

Profane, provocative and pissed-off! From colonoscopies to school choice, In Case of Laughter, Break Glass: The Recession Essays is more than a collection of funny, emotional essays. They will, of all things, make you think - if you are so inclined. Preface Like most people motivated by fear, I am afraid of everything. My most dreaded fear is that if I stop being creative...I'll die. So when the Great Recession of 2007 hit, I started writing essays, and before long, I found a voice. A voic...

Akiha Konno has a secret—he’s a fox boy. Well, it’s more of a fox spirit that shares his body, so sometimes he sprouts canine ears and a tail when he gets worked up. Whiiiich is exactly what happened the day he first met Yukuri Takahashi, the cute guy who saved him from the perv groping his butt on the train. Turns out, he’s the solution to Akiha’s problems. The fox wants to cuddle Yukuri, and Yukuri thinks Akiha’s body is cute, so…everything is A-okay, right? Wrong. Because Akiha is jealo...

Zen and Ryo have been rivals since high school. By chance, they get jobs in the same company and start competing against each other. Both are sore losers. And one day, when they are having drinks after work, the topic turns to love and romance and the argument gets heated as usual, only to find out that they have a silly competition to see who will cum first is the loser. That naturally leads to the intercourse but still disputing on the bed, they come up with the next new competition...wh...

This book explores the extremely modular systems that meet two criteria: they allow the creation of structurally sound free-form structures, and they are comprised of as few types of modules as possible. Divided into two parts, it presents Pipe-Z (PZ) and Truss-Z (TZ) systems. PZ is more fundamental and forms spatial mathematical knots by assembling one type of unit (PZM). The shape of PZ is controlled by relative twists of a sequence of congruent PZMs. TZ is a skeletal system for creating...

Groups are a means of classification, via the group action on a set, but also the object of a classification. How many groups of a given type are there, and how can they be described? Hölder’s program for attacking this problem in the case of finite groups is a sort of leitmotiv throughout the text. Infinite groups are also considered, with particular attention to logical and decision problems. Abelian, nilpotent and solvable groups are studied both in the finite and infinite case. Permuta...

Expert guidance and cutting-edge tools for every researcher.Complex, time-consuming, and steeped in methodologies, conducting a literature review can often feel overwhelming. A go-to resource for researchers for nearly 20 years, The Literature Review simplifies the process with a structured six-step model to narrow your research topic, focus your literature search, negotiate the myriad of books, periodicals, and reports about your topic—and, of co...

«Hey... Let's do it.» ... A man and a woman. One single bed. Miss Unhuggable VS Mr. Huggable, thebattle has begun...!

From daunting to doable in six stepsThe process of literature search and composing a formal literature review can be intimidating. But masters and doctoral candidates in Education and related fields have found academic argumentation to be seamlessly intuitive with the six-step process pioneered by this book. This updated third edition features a wealth of all-new content including:A flowchart that graphically illustrates Machi and McEvoy’s pr...

'If humanity disappears, will anyone remember us?'The world has sunk into oblivion. Buildings have collapsed under the weight of time, civilisation has disappeared in the dust of history. People's voices no longer resonate. But a consciousness still exists.As the last human drifts through time and emptiness, trapped between memory, existence and nothingness, he questions the past. What is reality? Can existence exist without an observer? If humanity is but ...

The Cat’s Out Of The Bag!With the High Mage exam just around the corner, Seren decides to break the news of her decision to become a High Mage to Crown Prince Helios and her family. She also learns a startling secret about Archmage Viol’s black cat familiar that will change her relationship with Viol. Will her plans to have a satisfying break-up finally come to fruition?