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If Rika's life seems like the beginning of a familiar fairy tale--being an orphan with two bossy cousins and working away in her aunts' business--she would be the first to reject that foolish notion. After all, she loves her family (even if her cousins were named after Disney characters), and with h... More

Transforming Learning Through Tangible Instruction offers a transformative, student-centered approach to higher education pedagogy that integrates embodied cognition into classroom practice. Evidence across disciplines makes clear that people learn with their bodies as well as their brains, but no p... More

Dr. Aphra teams up with Darth Vader himself in the original script to the audiobook production—an expanded adaptation of the critically acclaimed Marvel comics series.Dr. Chelli Lona Aphra, rogue archaeologist, is in trouble again.      A pioneer in the field of criminal xenoarchaeology, Aphra recog... More

This standalone novella in the smart, snarky, and action-packed Heroine Complex series follows personal superhero trainer Lucy Valdez and friends Aveda Jupiter and Bea and Evie Tanaka as they combat a new supernatural threat.Lucy Valdez is many things: fight trainer/bodyguard to superheroines, fabul... More

Being a superheroine is hard. Working for one is even harder.Evie Tanaka is the put-upon personal assistant to Aveda Jupiter, her childhood best friend and San Francisco's most beloved superheroine. She's great at her job--blending into the background, handling her boss's epic diva tantrums, and get... More

The sixth book in the smart, snarky, and action-packed Heroine series continues the adventures of Asian-American superheroine Bea Tanaka as she takes on demons in Hawaii.Nobody loves Christmas like Bea Tanaka—so when her family visits her for a special holiday celebration, she&’s beside herself with... More

The third book in the smart, snarky, and action-packed Heroine series completes the "Heroic Trio" as Bea Tanaka joins her sister, Evie, and diva Aveda Jupiter in their quest to free San Francisco from its demon portal problemIf there's one thing Beatrice Tanaka never wanted to be, it's normal. But s... More

Asian-American superheroines Evie Tanaka and Aveda Jupiter protect San Francisco from perilous threats in the second book in Sarah Kuhn's snarky and smart fantasy trilogy • "The superheroine we’ve been waiting for." —Seanan McGuireOnce upon a time, Aveda Jupiter (aka Annie Chang) was demon-infested ... More

The fifth book in the smart, snarky, and action-packed Heroine series continues the adventures of Asian-American superheroines Evie Tanaka, Aveda Jupiter, and Bea Tanaka in a demon-infested San Francisco.Over the years, the adventures of superheroines Aveda Jupiter and Evie Tanaka have become the st... More

The fourth book in the smart, snarky, and action-packed Heroine series follows Evie Tanaka, Aveda Jupiter, and Bea Tanaka as they combat a new supernatural threat. Everything in Evie Tanaka's life is finally perfect. As a badass superheroine, she defends San Francisco from demon invasion on the regu... More

Kimi Nakamura loves a good fashion statement. <p><p> She's obsessed with transforming everyday ephemera into Kimi Originals: bold outfits that make her and her friends feel like the Ultimate versions of themselves. But her mother disapproves, and when they get into an explosive fight, Kimi's entir... More

Your favorite girls from Beverly Hills are back in an all-new adventure! It's senior year and Cher, Dionne, and Tai find themselves in a bit of a crisis of self - Where are they meant to go, and what are they meant to DO after high school? Luckily they have all year - ”and each other's help - ”to fi... More

The Routledge Handbook of Methodologies in Human Geography is the defining reference for academics and postgraduate students seeking an advanced understanding of the debates, methodological developments and methods transforming research in human geography. Divided into three sections, Part I revie... More

This two-volume set LNICST 335 and 336 constitutes the post-conference proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks, SecureComm 2020, held in Washington, DC, USA, in October 2020. The conference was held virtually due to COVID-19 pandemic. The 60... More

This two-volume set LNICST 335 and 336 constitutes the post-conference proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks, SecureComm 2020, held in Washington, DC, USA, in October 2020. The conference was held virtually due to COVID-19 pandemic. The 60... More

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Symposium on Applied Reconfigurable Computing, ARC 2017, held in Delft, The Netherlands, in April 2017. The 17 full papers and 11 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 49 submissions.... More

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Uncertainty for Safe Utilization of Machine Learning in Medical Imaging, UNSURE 2020, and the Third International Workshop on Graphs in Biomedical Image Analysis, GRAIL 2020, held in conjunction with MICCAI 2020, ... More

Examining globally invasive alien birds, the first part of this book provides an account of 32 global avian invasive species (as listed by the Invasive Species Specialist Group, ISSG). It acts as a one stop reference volume; it assesses current invasive status for each bird species, including detail... More