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The cleric Chih finds themself and their companions at the mercy of a band of fierce tigers who ache with hunger. To stay alive until the mammoths can save them, Chih must unwind the intricate, layered story of the tiger and her scholar lover--a woman of courage, intelligence, and beauty--and discov... More

Jordan Baker grows up in the most rarefied circles of 1920s American society—she has money, education, a killer golf handicap, and invitations to some of the most exclusive parties of the Jazz Age. She’s also queer and Asian, a Vietnamese adoptee treated as an exotic attraction by her peers, while t... More

From award-winning author Nghi Vo comes a dazzling new novel where immortality is just a casting call awayAn Indie Next Pick!A LibraryReads Top Ten Pick!A Best of May Pick by Amazon | Apple Books | B&N Booksellers | LibraryReads | TIME Magazine | The Philadelphia Inquirer | Publishers Weekly | Buzzf... More

Nghi Vo's Hugo and Crawford Award-winning series, The Singing Hills Cycle, continues..."A remarkable accomplishment of storytelling."—NPR on The Empress of Salt and FortuneWandering cleric Chih of the Singing Hills travels to the riverlands to record tales of the notorious near-immortal martial arti... More

Tor.com Publishing is proud to present a sneak peak of its 2020 debut authors.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.... More

The time has come to move into a more humanistic approach of technology and to understand where our world is moving to in the early twenty-first century. The design and development of our future products needs to be orchestrated, whether they be conceptual, technical or organizational. Orchestrating... More

Fantasy from Asia and the Asian Diaspora is a Tordotcom Novella Sampler featuring stories by Zen Cho, Saad Z. Hossain, S. L. Huang, Nghi Vo, and JY Neon Yang…At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.... More

She, the current star of the fashion world, had a successful career and sweet love. However, because of him, a dangerous man who was like an enigma to Mandala, unexpectedly intervened and underwent a tremendous change. Facing the betrayal of her boyfriend, she lost her reputation overnight and her b... More

She, the current star of the fashion world, had a successful career and sweet love. However, because of him, a dangerous man who was like an enigma to Mandala, unexpectedly intervened and underwent a tremendous change. Facing the betrayal of her boyfriend, she lost her reputation overnight and her b... More

She, the current star of the fashion world, had a successful career and sweet love. However, because of him, a dangerous man who was like an enigma to Mandala, unexpectedly intervened and underwent a tremendous change. Facing the betrayal of her boyfriend, she lost her reputation overnight and her b... More

Imagine how frightened poor Dinkin is when he unwittingly brings Danger Dings, his bespectacled double to life. And when The Actually Frightened Things go after both boys, only one of them is able to take those terrifying creatures down. Betcha can't guess who! .... More

Dinkin Dings is afraid of everything. Only the Frightening Things-the three monsters who live under his bed-don't scare him. So when Dinkin suspects the people next door are evil zombies in disguise, he enlists his three friends to help take them down. But can a ghost, a skeleton, and a monster h... More

Global Feminist Politics examines the changing global context for feminist political action, its meaning and forms. It acknowledges the existence of dissent and debate among feminists, asserting that such debate leads to innovation in theory and practice. This book reaches the conclusion that the fu... More

Distinguishingbetween tangible user interfaces (TUI) and tangible interactive systems (TISs),this book takes into account not only the user interfaces but also looks at howinteraction can be enabled by using digital information through the physicalenvironment. TISs go far beyond the concept of tang... More

Human–Systems Integration: From Virtual to Tangible Subject Guide: Ergonomics and Human Factors This book is an attempt to better formalize a systemic approach to human–systems integration (HSI). Good HSI is a matter of maturity… it takes time to mature. It takes time for a human being to become... More

The Handbook of Human-Machine Interaction features 20 original chapters and a conclusion focusing on human-machine interaction (HMI) from analysis, design and evaluation perspectives. It offers a comprehensive range of principles, methods, techniques and tools to provide the reader with a clear know... More

She was the ninety-fourth generation descendant of the Long family. Once she opened her eyes, she would become the main princess of Cang Yao Country in the World of the Nine Continents.He was the number one Divine General of Canghai Kingdom. Everyone feared him, but there was only one person who was... More

Female model crossed into a blockhead? Accept your destiny? Hum! Look down on her!... More

Female model crossed into a blockhead? Accept your destiny? Hum! Look down on her!... More

Female model crossed into a blockhead? Accept your destiny? Hum! Look down on her!... More

The Britain of the Roman Occupation is, in a way, an age that is dark to us. While the main events from 55 BC to AD 410 are little disputed, and the archaeological remains of villas, forts, walls, and cities explain a great deal, we lack a clear sense of individual lives. This book is the first to i... More

The plethora of literature produced over the past decade in response to the perceived failure of the human rights project to deliver results for billions of people living in ‘adverse’ environments has usually focused on international legal standards and mechanisms, with little regard for the root st... More

This book contains all refereed papers accepted during the tenth edition of the conference that took place at the Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris on December 12-13, 2019. Mastering complex systems requires an integrated understanding of industrial practices as well as sophisticated the... More

Ulf the werewolf is on his most dangerous mission yet - to Capitol City, where wicked Baron Marackai is plotting the return of the beast trade and the end of the RSPCB. With the public calling for beasts to be banished or, worse, destroyed, the future of ALL beasts depends on Ulf. . .... More

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 11th EAI International Conference on Research in Computer science and its Applications, CNRIA 2021, held in June 2021. Due to COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held virtually. The 11 full papers presented were selected from 24 ... More