Halintulad ng kuwento ng buhay ng naging kaibigang masahista sa baywalk, nakipagsapalarang mamuhay mag-isa ni Jaret sa pag-aasam na matakasan ang lagim ng mga bangungot at hilera ng mga trahedyang gumugupo sa kanyang pagkasino. Sa daigdig na ito ng mga gising na malayo sa mahiwagang babaeng wagas niyang sinisinta, maliligaw sa landas niya o siya sa kanila silang mga nilalang na makatutulong sa kanyang makabuo ng kuwento - isang contortionist sex freak, mga birhen at lagalag, filmmaker na mahilig sa mga pahiwatig, at silang bigla na lamang nililindol, namamatay at tumatagos sa pader.Samantalang sa mundo ng mga nananaginip, isang binatang makata ang sumusulat ng isang journal ng mga bangungot habang nasa bingit ng bangin. At kasabay ng sandaling maisilang ang isang butas na kuwentong magpapalutang-lutang sa kawalan na magbubunga ng paghahalo ng kung ano ang totoo sa guniguni at ang gising sa himbing ay ang pagkaunawang silang pinangyaring magbuklod kailanma'y hindi na mapaghihiwalay.

Over the past several years, the Thai popular culture landscape has radically transformed due to the emergence of “Boys Love” (BL) soap operas which celebrate the love between handsome young men. Boys Love Media in Thailand: Celebrity, Fans, and Transnational Asian Queer Popular Culture is the first book length study of this increasingly significant transnational pop culture phenomenon. Drawing upon six years of ethnographic research, the book reveals BL's impacts on depictions of same-sex desire in Thai media culture and the resultant mainstreaming of queer romance through new forms of celebrity and participatory fandom. The author explores how the rise of BL has transformed contemporary Thai consumer culture, leading to heterosexual female fans of male celebrities who perform homoeroticism becoming the main audience to whom Thai pop culture is geared. Through the case study of BL, this book thus also investigates how Thai media is responding to broader regional trends across Asia where the economic potentials of female and queer fans are becoming increasingly important. Baudinette ultimately argues that the center of queer cultural production in Asia has shifted from Japan to Thailand, investigating both the growing international fandom of Thailand's BL series as well as the influence of international investment into the development of these media. The book particularly focuses on specific case studies of the fandom for Thai BL celebrity couples in Thailand, China, the Philippines, and Japan to explore how BL series have transformed each of these national contexts' queer consumer cultures.

Research on nominalization, a process that gives rise to referring expressions, has always played a central role in linguistic investigations. Over the years there has also been growing evidence that nominalization constructions often extend to non-referential domains. They participate in noun-modifying expressions (e.g. genitive and relative clauses), subordinate clauses and topic constructions, finite structures with the nominalizers reanalyzed as TAM markers, and stance constructions with evaluative, attitudinal, evidential and epistemic overtones. This volume brings together historical and crosslinguistic evidence from more than 20 different languages representing six different language families spanning the Asian continent and the Pacific and Indian oceans to elucidate the strategies and grammaticalization pathways that give rise to both referential and non-referential uses of nominalization constructions. This collection highlights the diversity of strategies and at the same time the robust cyclical nature of change within and across languages. The combined diachronic and typological analyses in this volume are particularly valuable for linguistic research on diachronic morphosyntax and linguistic ‘universals’, and are also an important supplementary cross-referencing tool for linguistic investigations of versatile and ubiquitous morphemes in under-documented languages.

Ang mga Lihim ng Walang-Hanggang Aklat ay nagde-decode ng ilan sa mga pinaka-mahiwaga, ngunit madalas na binabanggit na mga panahon ng Bibliya. Ang masigla at maluwag na istilo ng may-akda ay nagbibigay ng isang maayos na pagpasok sa kailaliman ng pang-unawa, kung saan binabago ng isang tao ang kanyang mundo sa pamamagitan lamang ng pagmumuni-muni at pagnanais. Habang nagbabasa, malumanay kang aangat sa antas ng pisikal na mga pangyayari gaya ng inilarawan sa Bibliya, at makikita mo sina Paraon, Moises, Adan at Eba na nasa loob mo.