Bonji Yagkanatu is the son of Lay'ming and Ming Song Yagkanatu. His parent and sister Le'ha were killed at the hands of Yakishu, who in turn was killed by Yoshi. after Yakishu's death Bonji was lead to the ONI temple to become a Black Dragon. He befriended a boy named Najib. They were best friends until he discovered that the Guardians of Yumemi has other plans for Bonji. Which could jeopardize his friendship with Najib.

Yoshi is an exciting young adult fantasy novel about a young woman who has spent her life training to become a Sakura Ninja. On the day of her transition from tribal member to full-fledged ninja, Yoshi is forced to part ways with her best friend from training, Yakishu, who is leaving on a secret mission. Their parting is a bitter one, as Yoshi is hurt that Yakishu has kept a secret from her. Yoshi is soon sent out on her own mission to find a ninja known as the Black Dragon, and this journey leads her down a dark path that will reunite her with Yakishu in a way she could have never foreseen.

Fractography in Failure Analysis of Polymers provides a practical guide to the science of fractography and its application in the failure analysis of plastic components. In addition to a brief background on the theory of fractography, the authors discuss the various fractographic tools and techniques used to identify key fracture characteristics. Case studies are included for a wide range of polymer types, applications, and failure modes, as well as best practice guidelines enabling engineers to apply these lessons to their own work. Detailed images and their appropriate context are presented for reference in failure investigations. This text is vital for engineers who must determine the root causes of failure when it occurs, helping them further study the ramifications of product liability claims, environmental concerns, and brand image. - Presents a comprehensive guide to applied fractography, enabling improved reliability and longevity of plastic parts and products - Includes case studies that demonstrate material selection decisions and how to reduce failure rates - Provides best practices on how to analyze the cause of material failures, along with guidelines on improving design and manufacturing decisions

Michael Hayes makes a wide ranging journey through religious experience, astrophysics, spiritualism, molecular biology, quantum physics and history.

Eight Cardinals each give papers on the key themes for the modern world: mission and evangelization. They are better placed than most to give good reasons for missionary enterprise to find a new validity and purpose. Traditionally, mission was about Western people bringing the truth to "less fortunate" people. But now white people in the Roman Catholic Church constitute a minority and the fastest-growing areas of population for the Catholic Church are South America and most particularly the African continent. The whole theory and theology of mission has to be rethought and this is one of the greatest challenges that the Roman Catholic Church has to face.

PLEASE NOTE THIS TITLE IS NOW OUT OF PRINT AND NO FURTHER PRINTING IS ANTICIPATED AT THIS POINT. This volume is, in part, an attempt to give a voice or a platform to communities who have frequently found themselves on the margins of the so-called mainstream community - the hidden Irish, the hidden European, the nomad and the migrant who reflects the changing face of the new and immigrant Europe. The essays in this collection explore the image of the nomad, migrant and the outsider/Other Traveller/Gypsy, within the frame of articulation that is European representational and visual culture. One of the remarkable coherences which exists between the figure of the traditional nomadic Traveller or Gypsy in the public imaginary whether this be in the form of imagistic or literary production is its strangely symbiotic relationship with current ongoing developments in visual culture and the global flows of cultural diaspora that are the norm in the modern world. These essays display the representational function of the Traveller/Gypsy or migrant as an exemplar of that which overcomes spatial/temporal distance and separation, thereby creating innovative opportunities for the exploration of issues relating to cross-cultural and identity representation. The artists and academics writing in this volume are exploring a new energy in modern culture, one which seeks an innovative and exciting re-positioning of the panorama that is dominance and resistance within the postcolonial cultural discourse of the present-day.