Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranean island, and from a game of chess on the ocean to a love story on the moon. Beautifully ...
A typical undergraduate electrical engineering curriculum incorporates a signals and systems course. The widely used approach for the laboratory component of such courses involves the utilization of MATLAB to implement signals and systems concepts. This book presents a newly developed laboratory paradigm where MATLAB codes are made to run on smartphones which are possessed by nearly all students. As a result, this laboratory paradigm provides ...
After falling into the trap laid out by B.B., the leader of the black gang, Yuto is forcibly subjected to the harsh realities of being brutally beat and raped. Exhausted and wounded, the former narcotics investigator is rescued by none other than his cellmate, Dick, who attentively cares for his battered body and tenderly reassures him, "I would never, ever hurt you. You know that, right?" One day, wracked and shaken by the flashbacks of the a...
Beasts and Super-Beasts ist eine Sammlung von Kurzgeschichten , die von Saki (dem literarischen Pseudonym von Hector Hugh Munro) geschrieben und erstmals 1914 veröffentlicht wurde. Der Titel parodiert den von George Bernard Shaws Man and Superman .Zusammen mit The Chronicles of Clovis ist Beasts and Super-Beasts eines von Sakis bekanntesten Werken. Es war seine letzte Sammlung von Geschichten vor seinem Tod im Ersten Weltkrieg , und einige sei...
Claire Martino once had everything: a loving family, a crown prince fiancé, and a hopeful future using her family's inherited magic. Then, in an instant, she lost it all -- and the culprit was her own beloved half-sister. As the daughter of the now-disgraced duke and scorned as a villainess, Claire leaves everything she knows and sets out on a journey to find her true self. But wait, isn't that the plot of the otome game NEW START ♡ ETERNAL LO...
Claire Martino once had everything: a loving family, a crown prince fiancé, and a hopeful future using her family's inherited magic. Then, in an instant, she lost it all -- and the culprit was her own beloved half-sister. As the daughter of the now-disgraced duke and scorned as a villainess, Claire left everything she knew and set out on a journey to find her true self. Now, Claire has officially started her new life in Paffuto, attending the ...
London has fallen to an army of well-trained Germans. While the fortunate few manage to escape, those who remain in the city are forced to adapt to life under foreign occupation. Soon, even the simplest tasks—a walk in the park, a trip to the store—are a matter of life and death. When William Came is a novel by Saki.
When peace comes, " wrote an officer of the 22nd Royal Fusiliers, the regiment in which Munro was a private and in which he rose to the rank of lance-sergeant, "Saki will give us the most wonderful of all the books about the war." But that book of the war will not be written, for Munro has died for King and country. In this volume are his last tales. And it is because these tales, brilliant and elusive as butterflies, hide, rather than reveal,...