Rika likes to drink. She goes to this bar to find a "man with a wrist watch" who once comforted her when she got drunk. But the only man who talks to her at the bar is Masa, who's an unshaven older man…One night, Rika finds herself in a strange place after she passed out, and sees the man she was looking for kissing her and caressing her body...But when she wakes up, the man next to her was not whom she expected!

“You'll always be by my side and I by yours.” Those are the words said by the can-do-nothing-for-himself university professor Yukinari Nishina. His childhood friend Miyu enjoys nothing more than spending time with the man she has secretly always been I love with. But something has always bothered her. And that is the way he always tells her not to come see him after 9pm. She follows that until one day she simply has to go see him after 9 and as she enters his room she sees... a Yukinari like she has never seen before. He roughly grabs her and covers her ears, his hot breath falling on her ears. This isn't the man she fell in love with! She suddenly starts to both fear and want him and their relationships barriers quickly begin to crumble once she learns his secret.

“You'll always be by my side and I by yours.” Those are the words said by the can-do-nothing-for-himself university professor Yukinari Nishina. His childhood friend Miyu enjoys nothing more than spending time with the man she has secretly always been I love with. But something has always bothered her. And that is the way he always tells her not to come see him after 9pm. She follows that until one day she simply has to go see him after 9 and as she enters his room she sees... a Yukinari like she has never seen before. He roughly grabs her and covers her ears, his hot breath falling on her ears. This isn't the man she fell in love with! She suddenly starts to both fear and want him and their relationships barriers quickly begin to crumble once she learns his secret.

Yoko, who works at an university as a staff, is a masochist. Her boyfriend dumps her, so she gets drunk and has sex with an older gentleman. Next day, he tells her, “I want to make you cry myself.” He turns out to be a true sadist! She realizes there's no love between them, but she cannot reject him...

Capitola, Moo, and Shar are the halfling ladies of Triptych: supernatural private investigators who get paid to clean up paranormal messes. Normally Cappie doesn't take human cases, but who can resist a priest, missing Catholic school girls, and a creature that may or may not be the Prince of Darkness? Enjoy Cassandra Jean's manga adaptation of Nicole Peeler's hilarious short story originally published by Orbit!

In this book, the first collection of its kind, you will hear insights directly from the mouths and minds of the anime and manga creators themselves, in interviews with are often the only ones on record in English. some of these creators are larger-than-life legends in their native Japan, some are up-and-coming young talents, but all have a lot to say on the subject of their work.

Volcanoes are essential elements in the delicate global balance of elemental forces that govern both the dynamic evolution of the Earth and the nature of Life itself. Without volcanic activity, life as we know it would not exist on our planet. Although beautiful to behold, volcanoes are also potentially destructive, and understanding their nature is critical to prevent major loss of life in the future. Richly illustrated with over 300 original color photographs and diagrams the book is written in an informal manner, with minimum use of jargon, and relies heavily on first-person, eye-witness accounts of eruptive activity at both "red" (effusive) and "grey" (explosive) volcanoes to illustrate the full spectrum of volcanic processes and their products. Decades of teaching in university classrooms and fieldwork on active volcanoes throughout the world have provided the authors with unique experiences that they have distilled into a highly readable textbook of lasting value. Questions for Thought, Study, and Discussion, Suggestions for Further Reading, and a comprehensive list of source references make this work a major resource for further study of volcanology. Volcanoes maintains three core foci: Global perspectives explain volcanoes in terms of their tectonic positions on Earth and their roles in earth history Environmental perspectives describe the essential role of volcanism in the moderation of terrestrial climate and atmosphere Humanitarian perspectives discuss the major influences of volcanoes on human societies. This latter is especially important as resource scarcities and environmental issues loom over our world, and as increasing numbers of people are threatened by volcanic hazards Readership Volcanologists, advanced undergraduate, and graduate students in earth science and related degree courses, and volcano enthusiasts worldwide. A companion website is also available for this title at www.wiley.com/go/lockwood/volcanoes