After braving the Fire Elementals’ trial, Yuto and his companions welcome their newest member, Himka, into the fold. As a change of pace from their dungeon crawling, the group heads to Zone Three to search for new materials and to get to know the four local towns. During their quest, Yuto unsurprisingly strikes gold again, stumbling upon a previously undiscovered secret location. With the addition of yokai to the game, new creatures lie in store for Yuto and his monsters to encounter: the adorable Obake, the playful and fun-loving Zashiki-Warashi, and many, many more.

Despite the newfound infamy his titles have brought him, Yuto has been enjoying his MMO life, unconcerned with his reputation. With the birth of Bear-Bear, a new tamed monster hatched from an egg acquired at the Magical Beasts Guild, Yuto finds himself surrounded by a growing herd of adorable critters. Unbeknownst to Yuto, however, a group of players who have had their eyes on him, hoping to learn what secrets Yuto knows about the monsters, have begun laying plans of their own...

LJO–aka Law of Justice Online–is the newest full-dive VRMMORPG to hit the market, and office worker Yuta—or Yuto, as he goes by in the game—is ready to spend his whole vacation immersing himself in the experience. His dream is to become the strongest Tamer, commanding the most powerful monsters, and he’s even willing to shell out the cash to do so! But when he arrives in the world of LJO for the first time, Yuto is shocked to find that the special monster he planned to leave all the fighting to is...a monster dedicated to farming—without a shred of combat ability? Despite it all, Yuto quickly decides that his adventures in this world will involve way less fighting epic battles and way more harvesting plants, as he prepares to take the game at his own pace and with his adorable, trusty companion by his side!

A stunning, multigenerational story about two teenagers: Victoria, who joins the circus in 1965, and her granddaughter, Callie, who leaves the circus fifty years later. Perfect for fans of This is Us. In 1965 seventeen-year-old Victoria, having just escaped an unstable home, flees to the ultimate place for dreamers and runaways--the circus. Specifically, the VanDrexel Family Circus where, among the lion tamers, roustabouts, and trapeze artists, Victoria hopes to start a better life. Fifty years later, Victoria's sixteen-year-old granddaughter Callie is thriving. A gifted and focused tightrope walker with dreams of being a VanDrexel high wire legend just like her grandmother, Callie can't imagine herself anywhere but the circus. But when Callie's mother accepts her dream job at an animal sanctuary in Florida just months after Victoria's death, Callie is forced to leave her lifelong home behind. Feeling unmoored and out of her element, Callie pores over memorabilia from her family's days on the road, including a box that belonged to Victoria when she was Callie's age. In the box, Callie finds notes that Victoria wrote to herself with tips and tricks for navigating her new world. Inspired by this piece of her grandmother's life, Callie decides to use Victoria's circus prowess to navigate the uncharted waters of public high school. Across generations, Victoria and Callie embrace the challenges of starting over, letting go, and finding new families in unexpected places.

With preparations for the first ever Martial Arts Tournament already underway, the devs of LJO are gearing up to launch a secondary event for Yuto and other crafter-types like him. Thrilled that he can participate without having to pick up a weapon, Yuto begins accepting various quests from the NPC villagers of Alf. During his stay in the village, he encounters Siegfried, the Purple-Haired Adventurer, and decides to team up with him. However, things are not as straightforward as they seem, and more chaos looms on the horizon for Yuto and his companions...

The untold story of Albert Einstein's role as the father of quantum theory Einstein and the Quantum reveals for the first time the full significance of Albert Einstein's contributions to quantum theory. Einstein famously rejected quantum mechanics, observing that God does not play dice. But, in fact, he thought more about the nature of atoms, molecules, and the emission and absorption of light—the core of what we now know as quantum theory—than he did about relativity. A compelling blend of physics, biography, and the history of science, Einstein and the Quantum shares the untold story of how Einstein—not Max Planck or Niels Bohr—was the driving force behind early quantum theory. It paints a vivid portrait of the iconic physicist as he grappled with the apparently contradictory nature of the atomic world, in which its invisible constituents defy the categories of classical physics, behaving simultaneously as both particle and wave. And it demonstrates how Einstein's later work on the emission and absorption of light, and on atomic gases, led directly to Erwin Schrödinger's breakthrough to the modern form of quantum mechanics. The book sheds light on why Einstein ultimately renounced his own brilliant work on quantum theory, due to his deep belief in science as something objective and eternal.

According to Roger Caillois, play is an occasion of pure waste. In spite of this - or because of it - play constitutes an essential element of human social and spiritual development. In this study, the author defines play as a free and voluntary activity that occurs in a pure space, isolated and protected from the rest of life.