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Shortcake Cake (#8) by Suu Morishita
Category: Eastern | Series: Shortcake Cake Ser.
An unflappable girl and a cast of lovable male roommates at a boardinghouse create bonds of friendship and romance. When Ten moves out of her parents' home in the mountains to live in a boardinghouse, she finds herself becoming fast friends with her male roommates. But can love and romance be far be ...Show more
Shortcake Cake (#9) by Suu Morishita
Category: Manga | Series: Shortcake Cake Ser.
An unflappable girl and a cast of lovable male roommates at a boardinghouse create bonds of friendship and romance. When Ten moves out of her parents' home in the mountains to live in a boardinghouse, she finds herself becoming fast friends with her male roommates. But can love and romance be far be ...Show more
Shortcake Cake, Vol. 1 by suu Morishita
Category: Manga | Series: Shortcake Cake
An unflappable girl and a cast of lovable male roommates at a boardinghouse create bonds of friendship and romance. When Ten moves out of her parents' home in the mountains to live in a boardinghouse, she finds herself becoming fast friends with her male roommates. But can love and romance be far be ...Show more
Sikhism: A Very Short Introduction by Eleanor Nesbitt
Category: History | Series: Very Short Introductions
The Sikh religion has a following of over 20 million people worldwide. However,events such as the verbal and physical attacks on Sikhs just after September 11, where Sikhs were being mistaken for Muslims, suggest that the Sikh faith still remains mysterious to many. This Very Short Introduction introduc ...Show more
Sleep: A Very Short Introduction by Steven W. Lockley
Category: Health | Series: Very Short Introductions
Why do we need sleep? How much sleep is enough? What is sleep? What happens when we don't get enough? We spend about a third of our lives asleep - it plays a crucial role in our health and wellbeing. References to sleep abound in literature and art, and sleep has been recognized as fundamental to the hu ...Show more
Social and Cultural Anthropology: a Very Short Introduction by John Monaghan
Category: Culture | Series: Very Short Introductions
This introduction to social and cultural anthropology combines an account of some of the disciplines guiding principles and methodology with examples of anthropologists at work. The book ends with an assessment of anthropology's current position and a look forward to its future.
Socialism : A Very Short Introduction by Michael Newman
Category: Politics | Series: Very Short Introductions
Many people now think of socialism as an outdated ideology. In this Very Short Introduction, Michael Newman seeks to contextualise it, explaining the evolution of socialist ideas from the French Revolution to the present day, and examining why past attempts to implement socialism might have failed. This ...Show more
Socialism: a Very Short Introduction by Michael Newman
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
What is socialism? Does it have a future, or has it become an outdated ideology in the 21st century?This Very Short Introduction considers the major theories in socialism, and explores its historical evolution from the French Revolution to the present day. Michael Newman argues that socialism has always ...Show more
Southeast Asia: a Very Short Introduction by James R. Rush
Category: History | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
The eleven countries of Southeast Asia are diverse in every way, from the ethnicities and religions of their residents to their political systems and levels of prosperity. These nations--Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Singapore, the Philippines, Laos, Cambodia, Brunei, and East Timor-- ...Show more
Spanish Literature : A Very Short Introduction by Jo Labayni
Category: Culture | Series: Very Short Introductions
Spanish literature has given the world the figures of Don Quixote and Don Juan, and is responsible for the 'invention' of the novel in the 16th century. The medieval period produced literature in Castilian, Catalan, Galician, Latin, Arabic, and Hebrew, and today there is a flourishing literature in Cata ...Show more
Special Operations in WWII: The SOE & OSS i by James Stejskal
Category: Military | Series: Casemate Short History Ser.
Winston Churchill famously instructed the head of the Special Operations Executive to "Set Europe ablaze ." Agents of both the British Special Operations Executive and the American Office of Strategic Services underwent rigorous training before making their way, undetected, into occupied Europe to do ju ...Show more