A modern-day manga author fell through time into Heian-era Kyoto...!? All I have left is my will to draw! I'll survive in this world of conflict with a single pen...!

I'm Patti. Sometimes, a catfight is so intense, so personal, so vicious and savage, that it requires each girl to tell her own side of the story to get to the whole truth of what actually went down. That's what Donna and I do in this story. What started as an innocent (well, not really *that* innocent) weekend winter camping trip turned into one of the most vicious catfights I've ever participated in! It all went down a couple of months ago. My new boyfriend and I had planned the outing fo...

When two hot department-store buyers learn they are being considered for the same promotion, chaos ensues. One girl suggests a simple solution - they will engage each other in a vicious, savage, anything-goes catfight, and the loser will bow out of the competition. This tale illustrates that tooth and nail arguments are at least as persuasive as staid business conferences!

The players: A smoldering, dark-haired Filipina hellcat named Cindy and a tawny British redhead named Tricia. The setting: A rainy, foggy night at a sumptuous and remote vacation home perched high over the rocky northern California coast. The attire: Thigh-high, patent-leather, stiletto-heeled boots, matching gauntlets, studded collars, and long nails. The contest: Win Michael in a winner-take-all, no rules cat-scratch to the finish!

When the beautiful Irish blonde Kelley, young and still innocent, meets Gina, her new, fiery Italian neighbor, a friendly conversation on the stoop turns eventually to catfighting. Gina is determined to draw Kelley into an experience that will awaken her inner fighter, and give her a taste of what all-out war between women can be like. The action starts slowly, as it must - then proceeds relentlessly into a contest which can only be decided with unsheathed teeth and nails. Kelley's baptism...

Antimatter is one of the most fascinating aspects of Particle Physics, and matter-antimatter annihilation the most energetic process in the universe. If they existed, everyday objects made of antimatter would look exactly like those made of ordinary matter, as would antimatter stars. We live surrounded by antimatter, since showers of matter and antimatter particles fall incessantly on the Earth's surface, some of them penetrating our buildings. Furthermore, many things around us - bananas,...

Self-organization plays an essential yet often overlooked role in the everyday lives of refugees in exile. By self-organizing, they challenge restrictions, claim political representation, foster social relations and belonging, and create ongoing economic opportunities.While government authorities and aid organizations are supposed to provide protection and assistance, refugees often continue to face adversities, restrictions, and risks, prompting them to establish and maintain thei...

Global sports events are rarely far from the public eye. Such mega-events are about much more than the sporting competitions themselves. They entail global exposure and intense struggles by different stakeholders.This is the first book to examine sports mega-events from a mobilities perspective. It analyses the ‘mobile construction’ of global sports mega-events and the role this plays in managing labour, imaginaries, policies and legacies. In particular, the book focuses on the ten...

This volume of LNNS contains accepted papers presented at DCAI conference in the Special Session on Intelligent Systems Applications (ISA), Salamanca (Spain), June 2024. ISA is a major forum for presentation of development and applications of innovative techniques in the fields of building management, assistive technologies, the applied engineering, and industry. The scientific committee of the ISA has selected 9 full papers for its publication. This year ISA Special Session has teamed up ...

American Studies Over_Seas I: Narrating Multiple America(s) is a contribution to the ongoing debate in the field of American Studies in its most recent turn—Transnational American Studies—a paradigm shift in the discipline which runs counter to a consensus version of U.S. history and culture. The essays highlight the dissenting narratives in the study of "America" as a mindscape, multivocal and varied in its discourses of race, class, gender, ethnicity, and nationality. They also ...

This collection explores how anthologizers and editors of Edgar Allan Poe play an integral role in shaping our conceptions of Poe as the author we have come to recognize, revere, and critique today. In the spheres of literature and popular culture, Poe wields more global influence than any other U.S. author. This influence, however, cannot be attributed solely to the quality of Poe’s texts or to his compellingly tragic biography. Rather, his continued prominence as a writer owes much to th...

Few, if any, U.S. writers are as important to the history of world literature as Edgar Allan Poe, and few, if any, U.S. authors owe so much of their current reputations to the process of translation. Translated Poe brings together 31 essays from 19 different national/literary traditions to demonstrate Poe’s extensive influence on world literature and thought while revealing the importance of the vehicle that delivers Poe to the world—translation.Translated Poe is not preoccupied wi...