Sosuke Aoyama is a college student adrift on his own...until a chance meeting with suibokuga artist Kozan Shinoda brings him into the world of India-ink painting. But though he finds connection with the art and Shinoda himself, there's more to both the art world and Shinoda's family than Sosuke realizes...

Encountering ink-painting master Kozan Shinoda has changed solitary college student Sosuke Aoyama's life. Through the hidden thoughts of Kozan, Sosuke recalls fonder memories of his parents...and the gratitude he feels for the people he's met. And now he's ready to pour it all into a single flower... Every young man's path is lined with miracles. And as this story closes, his will be brimming with shining life like never before.

Earthscape–based on the latest ICSE syllabus–is a revised and comprehensive series of Geography coursebooks designed for classes 6, 7 and 8. Now with additional activities and exercises, the series aims to quench the curiosity in young minds about the intricacies of our diverse and fascinating world. The ebook version does not contain CD.

This book includes most details of the foundation of special relativity (SR). The author put the related information in three groups. The first group is the outline of SR, from Michelson-Morley experiment (MMX), Lorentz Transformation (LT), the problem of combining equations to SR itself. The second group explains the related mathematics. The third group is a conclusion of SR that explains even if the time equation of LT is not a combination of spatial equations of LT and inverse LT, LT is still a very tiny portion of Galilean Transformation (GT). At the end of the book, the author pointed out a correction to LT, and that correction changes the time equation of SR from t'=t/γ to t'=γt. To make this book more attractive, the author talked about a jingle starting from roses and some philosophy of happiness. Hope you like it.

A biography of Thomas Sowell, one of America's most influential conservative thinkers. Thomas Sowell is one of the great social theorists of our age. In a career spanning more than a half century, he has written over thirty books, covering topics from economic history and social inequality to political theory, race, and culture. His bold and unsentimental assaults on liberal orthodoxy have endeared him to many readers but have also enraged fellow intellectuals, the civil-rights establishment, and much of the mainstream media. The result has been a lack of acknowledgment of his scholarship among critics who prioritize political correctness. In the first-ever biography of Sowell, Jason L. Riley gives this iconic thinker his due and responds to the detractors. Maverick showcases Sowell's most significant writings and traces the life events that shaped his ideas and resulted in a Black orphan from the Jim Crow South becoming one of our foremost public intellectuals.

This volume contains a state-of-the-art discussion of recent progress in a range of related topics in symplectic geometry and mathematical physics, including symplectic groupoids, geometric quantization, noncommutative differential geometry, equivariant cohomology, deformation quantization, topological quantum field theory, and knot invariants.

Recent developments in computer science clearly show the need for a better theoretical foundation for some central issues. Methods and results from mathematical logic, in particular proof theory and model theory, are of great help here and will be used much more in future than previously. This book provides an excellent introduction to the interplay of mathematical logic and computer science. It contains extensively reworked versions of the lectures given at the 1997 Marktoberdorf Summer School by leading researchers in the field. Topics covered include: proof theory and specification of computation (J.-Y. Girard, D. Miller), complexity of proofs and programs (S. R. Buss, S. S. Wainer), computational content of proofs (H. Schwichtenberg), constructive type theory (P. Aczel, H. Barendregt, R. L. Constable), computational mathematics, (U. Martin), rewriting logic (J. Meseguer), and game semantics (S. Abramski).