Danger looms when the gods of the world send their kids to high school in this manga series debut that “entertains with intelligence and humor” (Publishers Weekly). Welcome to a modern-day world where the deities of all religions coexist. Norse Gods roam Asgard, Greek Gods rule Mount Olympus, Egyptian Gods orbit around Ra, Japanese Gods bestow luck and wisdom . . . and their demigod children all attend the same private high school in Los Angeles! The students of Pantheon High aren’t your typical bunch. Grace wonders is she’ll ever understand her father Tyr, the Norse god of war. Griffin, child of Hades, is having a hell of a time adjusting. Yukio, son of Benten, gets by on his endless luck, while Aziza, daughter of Ra, has the heat of the sun at her fingertips. But when evil gods from across the globe band together, these mythical teens are the only ones who can stop them from plunging the world into darkness!

With Pantheon High out of commission, Aziza and Yukio must attend Gilgamesh High, home to their greatest rival demigods. But when Yukio is getting beaten up, Ketan - the demigod of bad luck - comes along and offers his help and protection. Will being friends with the bad luck demigod bring Yukio good luck? Meanwhile, Griffin manages to tag along when the Valkyries escort Grace to Valhalla...

Gimme a T-R-O-U-B-L-E! What's that spell? Trouble, with a capital T. And that's what Pantheon High's got going for it as we head into midterm season. Fortunately our students have been hitting the books extra hard to earn their marks in heroism, and when you throw in an extra-curricular excursion to fine tune their fighting skills, there's no doubt that Griffin, Grace, Aziza and Yukio are going to get an A+ in saving the world!

Two teen musicians deal with mystery, romance, adventure, and drama as they take their act south in this continuing manga series. Simon and Monty head to the South, thinking they can make a fortune playing country music in Nashville. They find plenty to write about, of course, in the sordid world they encounter. First, a love triangle with the singer of an all-girl band sets the boys at each other’s throats. Next, their seductive band manager seems to do whatever it takes to rekindle her career. And as Monty’s father heads for jail, the boys’ problems are just beginning . . .

Along rivers in Bali, small groups of farmers meet regularly in water temples to manage their irrigation systems. They have done so for a thousand years. Over the centuries, water temple networks have expanded to manage the ecology of rice terraces at the scale of whole watersheds. Although each group focuses on its own problems, a global solution nonetheless emerges that optimizes irrigation flows for everyone. Did someone have to design Bali's water temple networks, or could they have emerged from a self-organizing process? Perfect Order--a groundbreaking work at the nexus of conservation, complexity theory, and anthropology--describes a series of fieldwork projects triggered by this question, ranging from the archaeology of the water temples to their ecological functions and their place in Balinese cosmology. Stephen Lansing shows that the temple networks are fragile, vulnerable to the cross-currents produced by competition among male descent groups. But the feminine rites of water temples mirror the farmers' awareness that when they act in unison, small miracles of order occur regularly, as the jewel-like perfection of the rice terraces produces general prosperity. Much of this is barely visible from within the horizons of Western social theory. The fruit of a decade of multidisciplinary research, this absorbing book shows that even as researchers probe the foundations of cooperation in the water temple networks, the very existence of the traditional farming techniques they represent is threatened by large-scale development projects.