We are a Japanese publisher of Light Novels, Comics, Literary Fiction, and Picture Books for children. Our titles are translated and distributed by our licensee in 8 countries in Asia, China, Europe and the US.Our publication consist of two companies: 1) MICRO MAGAZINE(MM), and 2) Kill Time Communication (KTC).
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The strongest IP in history has appeared. From Taiwan Future World Center. The ultimate answer to human life that human beings around the world are waiting for.
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The practical book on micro-trainingdescribesthe most important features,elements and fields of application ofmicro-training. The author lists the necessarycompetences of trainees anddescribes how to apply and evaluatemicro-training. He explains the basicsof micro-training, shows how to assess,create and use training material andpresents examples of micro-training.
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Adequate nutrition and a healthy lifestyle – before and during pregnancy - are of great importance for a trouble-free pregnancy, birth, and the subsequent development of the child. Since the nutritional status before the onset of pregnancy influences both fertility and the course of pregnancy, including complications, the birth and breastfeeding, close attention should be paid to a healthy diet and adequate supply of essential (micro)nutrients well in advance and not only at the family planning stage. Poor micronutrient status prior to conception is often carried over into pregnancy, and can significantly increase the risk of pregnancy complications and, for example, lead to the dreaded spina bifida in the child. This patient guide tells you what you need to know! Various micronutrients are described in detail. Special emphasis is placed on the latest study results concerning pregnancy and nutrition.
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This book probes the causes of and conditions for the preference of the members of the British-Bangladeshi community for a religion-based identity vis-à-vis ethnicity-based identity, and the influence of Islamists in shaping the discourse. The first book-length study to examine identity politics among the Bangladeshi diaspora delves into the micro-level dynamics, the internal and external factors and the role of the state and locates these within the broad framework of Muslim identity and Islamism, citizenship and the future of multiculturalism in Europe. Empirically grounded but enriched with in-depth analysis, and written in an accessible language this study is an invaluable reference for academics, policy makers and community activists. Students and researchers of British politics, ethnic/migration/diaspora studies, cultural studies, and political Islam will find the book extremely useful. ;
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Through the lens of performance and politics, this collection zooms in on the context-specific dimensions, analogies, and micro-histories of the Left to better understand the larger picture. It proposes a search for the Left not from totalising Leftist ideological positions and partisan politics but from ethical dimensions through smaller-scale Left-leaning struggles; not from the political to the aesthetic, but from the potentiality of art to offer new political imagination and critique; not from the individual subordinated to the collective, but from the dialectics of subjectivity and collectivity. This is not an attempt at a sweeping global overview of Leftist cultures either, but a collection that brings together culture-specific and comparative perspectives. This book searches for fragments of and on the Left, past and present, through which to rethink and patch a fragmented world.
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The structure/agency debate has been among the central issues in recent discussions of social theory. It has been widely assumed that the key theoretical task is to find a link between social structures and acting human beings - to reconcile the macro with the micro, society and the individual. The contributors to this book reject this solution to the problem. For them, both the concept of 'society' as an entity and the freely-acting 'individual' are theoretical fiction. Rather, the immediate task of the social sciences is to take the social world seriously, to understand the ways in which that world emerges dynamically from, and exerts influence on, the interactions of real people in real situations. This timely collection is not intended as an even-handed review of the debate, but as a deliberately polemical intervention which aims to highlight some of the ways in which its central terms have been misconceived. ;
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This book offers a micro-global history of humanitarianism and medical care during the 'long' Second World War, which challenges the traditional and Eurocentric chronological boundaries of 1939/1945. It takes as its starting point the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1931, which led to the progressive dislocation of the League of Nations, with the Japanese, German and Soviet departures in the 1930s. It ends with the termination of the Korean War in 1953, and the subsequent dismantlement of the first United Coalition and UN Peace enforcement operation. It considers the slow, messy and ambivalent transformation of humanitarian actors' relations to the suffering of distant others through a study of humanitarian encounters, practices, spaces and affects. Paying close attention to a variety of actors, such as French colonial doctors, Swiss ICRC delegates, Egyptian relief workers, Chinese-style physicians, Peruvian and Ecuadorian nurses or American member of the Unitarian Service Committee, the book provides a more holistic story of humanitarianism.
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This book examines the birth of punk in the UK and its transformation, within a short period of time, into post-punk. Deploying innovative concepts of 'critical mass', 'social networks' and 'music worlds', and using sophisticated techniques of 'social network analysis', it teases out the events and mechanisms involved in punk's 'micro-mobilisation', its diffusion across the UK and its transformation in certain city-based strongholds into a variety of interlocking post-punk forms. Nick Crossley offers a detailed review of prior work in this area, a rich exploration of new empirical data and a highly innovative and robust approach to the study of 'music worlds'. Written in an accessible style, this book is essential reading for anybody with an interest in either UK punk and post-punk or the impact of social networks on cultural life and the potential of social network analysis to explore this impact. ;
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Es ist ein Konflikt, der die Welt in Atem hält: Die kommunistische Führung in Peking betrachtet Taiwan als »abtrünnige Provinz«, die mit dem Mutterland vereinigt werden muss. Taipeh wiederum will seine faktische Unabhängigkeit und die hart erkämpfte Demokratie bewahren. Als führender Chip-Hersteller und aufgrund seiner Lage im westlichen Pazifik besitzt der Inselstaat zudem eine enorme Bedeutung für die Rivalität zwischen der Volksrepublik China und den USA. Nirgendwo ist eine direkte Konfrontation der beiden Supermächte wahrscheinlicher als in der Taiwanstraße. Stephan Thome, einer der besten deutschen Taiwan-Kenner, beleuchtet in seinem hochaktuellen Buch die Hintergründe dieses Konflikts, die in der medialen Berichterstattung meist zu kurz kommen. Er zeigt, warum Taiwans Geografie so wichtig ist und was aus ihr für eine mögliche militärische Auseinandersetzung folgt. In großen historischen Bögen erläutert er, wie Chinas Selbstverständnis als alte und neue Weltmacht, aber auch die amerikanische Bündnispolitik im Pazifik zur heutigen Situation beigetragen haben. Der Kampf um Taiwan hat längst begonnen und betrifft uns in Europa viel stärker, als wir glauben. »Ich will Leserinnen und Lesern helfen, den Konflikt in der Taiwanstraße besser zu verstehen ... Die aktuellen Spannungen resultieren aus historischen Entwicklungen, politischen Interessen und nationalen Pathologien, die in Deutschland nur zum Teil als bekannt gelten dürfen. Sie offenzulegen, ist das Hauptanliegen meines Buches.«
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The author reveals structural problems and offers solutions – an urgently necessary book, not least with a view to the acute shortage of skilled workers 450,000 migrant workers toll on German construction sites, work in sometimes inhumane conditions in meat factories or as truck drivers, and let’s not forget the hordes of cleaners in German hotels and companies. They are systematically exploited and cheated out of their wages. Sascha Lübbe exposes the octopus-like network of partly criminal companies in a shadowy world where the boundary between the legal and the illegal is blurred. In his evocative book with interviews with those aff ected, he reveals how a parallel system has established itself in the German working world, but also how those affected resist.
