Download or read book Kokoro Connect Volume 4 Michi Random written by Sadanatsu Anda and published by J-Novel Club. This book was released on 2019-03-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Valentine's Day has come, and the members of the Cultural Research Club have been embroiled in yet another supernatural phenomenon. But they’re old hands at this by now. How hard could it be to enjoy some normal high school romance for once? Never mind that they can hear each other's strongest sentiments at the most inconvenient times, while their inhuman tormentor is taking on a more direct role than ever. The stress of endless abnormal living may be too much for some, while others start to wonder whether their club is even worth continuing – which may be out of their hands as end-of-year club presentations and school politics threaten its very existence! When the place they carved out together is threatened both from without and within, how will they be able to overcome this latest challenge? Everything is on the line in the 4th volume of Sadanatsu Anda’s dramedy series.

Download or read book Kokoro Connect Volume 1 Hito Random written by Sadanatsu Anda and published by J-Novel Club. This book was released on 2018-08-22 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cultural Research Club is an eclectic bunch: a pro wrestling fanboy, a goofy ditz, a master of snark, a laid-back jokester, and a total girly-girl. Their peaceful teenage lives are turned upside-down, however, when they suddenly and inexplicably start swapping bodies with each other. At first it's all wacky hijinks... but then things get a little too personal. Boundaries are crossed, and dark secrets come to light--secrets that threaten to destroy the very foundations of their friendship. Who--or what--is causing the body-swap phenomenon? Will it ever stop? But most of all... can their club survive it? Find out in the hit ensemble dramedy light novel from award-winning author Sadanatsu Anda!

Download or read book Kokoro Connect Volume 7 Yume Random written by Sadanatsu Anda and published by J-Novel Club. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If someone was in trouble, would you help them—no matter the cost? «Heartseed»'s "final" phenomenon has begun, and the five second-years now get random visions of other people's hopes and dreams. But when Inaba tells the others NOT to take action, Taichi and Yui take matters into their own hands! The club is divided, and worse still, one of Taichi's classmates is starting to suspect that something supernatural is at play... It's time to take sides in volume 7 of the hit ensemble dramedy light novel from award-winning author Sadanatsu Anda!

Download or read book Kokoro Connect Volume 8 Step Time written by Sadanatsu Anda and published by J-Novel Club. This book was released on 2020-01-28 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dating is hard, especially when it's your first time. The solution? A TRIPLE DATE with four of your friends! Meanwhile, Fujishima and the first-years investigate the true meaning of "cool"... Plus, discover how the five original members of the Cultural Research Club first met—and the thrilling ordeal that brought Iori and Inaba closer together! You won't want to miss this "Kokoro Collection" of side stories, including TWO prequel stories for the next volume!

Download or read book Kokoro Connect Volume 10 Asu Random Part 2 written by Sadanatsu Anda and published by J-Novel Club. This book was released on 2020-09-02 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cultural Research Club has entered the Isolation Zone, where «The Third»’s group has inflicted dozens of phenomena on more than a hundred innocent Yamaboshi students. Now the CRC is tasked with helping all of them cross the finish line—but can they really manage ALL these people on their own? As tensions rise, the threat of an emergency shutdown looms just overhead... Experience the thrilling conclusion to the final arc of the hit ensemble dramedy light novel from award-winning author Sadanatsu Anda!

Download or read book Kokoro Connect Volume 6 Nise Random written by Sadanatsu Anda and published by J-Novel Club. This book was released on 2019-07-06 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's a brand new school year at Yamaboshi High School, and the Cultural Research Club has gained two new members: the shy, soft-spoken Shino and the decidedly disinterested Chihiro. Everyone's busy gearing up for the Sports Festival—but there's an impostor on the loose. «Heartseed»'s at it again, and this time, it's sink or swim for the new kids! Will they bite off more than they can chew, or can they find their place in this reality of their own making? Pick up where the anime left off in volume 6 of the hit ensemble dramedy light novel from award-winning author Sadanatsu Anda!

Download or read book Kokoro Connect Manga Vol 3 written by Sadanatsu Anda and published by Seven Seas Entertainment. This book was released on 2015-03-17 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the past month, five students at Yamaboshi Academy have been swapping bodies, learning each other's secrets, and becoming even closer because of it. But when one of the group, Iori, has a serious accident, it threatens to tear them apart. As Iori lies in a hospital bed, the others are faced with a horrible choice: let Iori die in her own body, or swap her out and have one of them die in her place!

Download or read book Kokoro Connect Volume 5 Clip Time written by Sadanatsu Anda and published by J-Novel Club. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When not enduring the supernatural phenomena that turned their first year in high school upside-down, the members of the Cultural Research Club were just average kids... give or take a standard deviation or three. Whether it's just trying to get their paper out there (despite the headline being a gossipy scandal piece), or navigating a relationship chart that looks like an anarchy symbol, they're out to live life as only they can. Perhaps this is why they attracted the attention of a bored omnipotent trickster. And who is that on the front cover? Sadanatsu Anda's saga of minor hiccups and critical junctures on the road of life continues.

Download or read book Kokoro Connect Vol 5 written by Anda Sadanatsu and published by Seven Seas. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DESIRES REVEALED The five members of the Student Cultural Society (Taichi, Inaba, Iori, Aoki, and Yui) have been put through the wringer ever since a mysterious alien called Heartseed started messing with their lives. Now Heartseed’s final experiment will put the club’s very existence at risk! Under the alien’s influence, the teens start acting on deeply buried desires, misbehaving in class and getting into fights. Even cool, calm Inaba becomes a nervous wreck, terrified that everyone will find out about her crush on Taichi. Will Taichi and his friends get through this last challenge? Or will their desires destroy the bonds they’ve built? The mind-swapping, high school rom-com comes to a thrilling conclusion!

Download or read book How the Body Shapes the Way We Think written by Rolf Pfeifer and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2006-10-27 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of embodied intelligence and its implications points toward a theory of intelligence in general; with case studies of intelligent systems in ubiquitous computing, business and management, human memory, and robotics. How could the body influence our thinking when it seems obvious that the brain controls the body? In How the Body Shapes the Way We Think, Rolf Pfeifer and Josh Bongard demonstrate that thought is not independent of the body but is tightly constrained, and at the same time enabled, by it. They argue that the kinds of thoughts we are capable of have their foundation in our embodiment—in our morphology and the material properties of our bodies. This crucial notion of embodiment underlies fundamental changes in the field of artificial intelligence over the past two decades, and Pfeifer and Bongard use the basic methodology of artificial intelligence—"understanding by building"—to describe their insights. If we understand how to design and build intelligent systems, they reason, we will better understand intelligence in general. In accessible, nontechnical language, and using many examples, they introduce the basic concepts by building on recent developments in robotics, biology, neuroscience, and psychology to outline a possible theory of intelligence. They illustrate applications of such a theory in ubiquitous computing, business and management, and the psychology of human memory. Embodied intelligence, as described by Pfeifer and Bongard, has important implications for our understanding of both natural and artificial intelligence.

Download or read book The Disaster of the Third Princess written by Royall Tyler and published by ANU E Press. This book was released on 2009-06-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These seven essays by the most recent English translator of The Tale of Genji emphasize three major interpretive issues. What is the place of the hero (Hikaru Genji) in the work? What story gives the narrative underlying continuity and form? And how does the closing section of the tale (especially the ten 'Uji chapters') relate to what precedes it? Written over a period of nine years, the essays suggest fresh, thought-provoking perspectives on Japan¿s greatest literary classic.

Download or read book Healing with Poisons written by Yan Liu and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2021-06-22 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Open access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295749013 At first glance, medicine and poison might seem to be opposites. But in China’s formative era of pharmacy (200–800 CE), poisons were strategically employed as healing agents to cure everything from abdominal pain to epidemic disease. Healing with Poisons explores the ways physicians, religious figures, court officials, and laypersons used toxic substances to both relieve acute illnesses and enhance life. It illustrates how the Chinese concept of du—a word carrying a core meaning of “potency”—led practitioners to devise a variety of methods to transform dangerous poisons into effective medicines. Recounting scandals and controversies involving poisons from the Era of Division to the Tang, historian Yan Liu considers how the concept of du was central to how the people of medieval China perceived both their bodies and the body politic. He also examines the wide range of toxic minerals, plants, and animal products used in classical Chinese pharmacy, including everything from the herb aconite to the popular recreational drug Five-Stone Powder. By recovering alternative modes of understanding wellness and the body’s interaction with foreign substances, this study cautions against arbitrary classifications and exemplifies the importance of paying attention to the technical, political, and cultural conditions in which substances become truly meaningful. Healing with Poisons is freely available in an open access edition thanks to TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem) and the generous support of the University of Buffalo.

Download or read book Behavioral Decision Theory written by Kazuhisa Takemura and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-09-29 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the second edition of Behavioral Decision Theory, published in 2014. The main approach and structure of this book have been retained in the new edition. However, this second edition provides a fresh overview of the idea of behavioral decision theory and related research findings such as theoretical and empirical discoveries of preference formation, time discounting, social interaction, and social decision making. The book covers a wide range from classical to relatively recent major studies concerning behavioral decision theory, which, in brief, is a general term for descriptive theories to explain the psychological knowledge related to people’s decision-making behavior. It is called a theory but is actually a combination of various psychological theories, for which no axiomatic systems—such as those associated with the utility theory widely used in economics—have been established. The utility theory is often limited to qualitative knowledge; however, as the studies of Nobel laureates H. A. Simon, D. Kahneman, and R. Thaler have suggested, the psychological methodology and knowledge of behavioral decision theory have been applied widely in such fields as economics, business administration, and engineering and are expected to become even more useful in the future. Research into people’s decision making represents an important part in those fields, various aspects of which overlap with the scope of behavioral decision theory. This theory is closely related to behavioral economics and behavioral finance, which have come into greater use in recent years. This book will appeal especially to graduate students, advanced undergraduate students, and researchers who are interested in decision-making phenomena.

Download or read book Transformations of Sensibility written by Hideo Kamei and published by U of M Center For Japanese Studies. This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in Japan in 1983, this book is now a classic in modern Japanese literary studies. Covering an astonishing range of texts from the Meiji period (1868–1912), it presents sophisticated analyses of the ways that experiments in literary language produced multiple new—and sometimes revolutionary—forms of sensibility and subjectivity. Along the way, Kamei Hideo carries on an extended debate with Western theorists such as Saussure, Bakhtin, and Lotman, as well as with such contemporary Japanese critics as Karatani Kojin and Noguchi Takehiko. Transformations of Sensibility deliberately challenges conventional wisdom about the rise of modern literature in Japan and offers highly original close readings of works by such writers as Futabatei Shimei, Tsubouchi Shoyo, Higuchi Ichiyo, and Izumi Kyoka, as well as writers previously ignored by most scholars. It also provides a new critical theorization of the relationship between language and sensibility, one that links the specificity of Meiji literature to broader concerns that transcend the field of Japanese literary studies. Available in English translation for the first time, it includes a new preface by the author and an introduction by the translation editor that explain the theoretical and historical contexts in which the work first appeared.

Download or read book Idols and Celebrity in Japanese Media Culture written by P. W. Galbraith and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-08-30 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the most complete and compelling account of idols and celebrity in Japanese media culture to date. Engaging with the study of media, gender and celebrity, and sensitive to history and the contemporary scene, these interdisciplinary essays cover male and female idols, production and consumption, industrial structures and fan movements.

Download or read book Kokoro Connect Volume 3 Kako Random written by Sadanatsu Anda and published by J-Novel Club. This book was released on 2018-12-26 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultural Research Club, more like Babysitter's Club! Winter break is here, and it's nearly time for New Year's festivities... but there's a new troublemaker in town, and its name is «The Second». This time, the members of the Cultural Research Club—minus Taichi—are chosen at random to physically regress into younger versions of themselves from 12 PM to 5 PM every day! Tensions build as old, painful memories come to light. Meanwhile, Taichi is forced to keep quiet about «The Second» or else it threatens to make things even worse... Can they last until the clock runs out? Find out in volume 3 of the hit ensemble dramedy light novel from award-winning author Sadanatsu Anda!

Download or read book Kokoro Connect Volume 2 Kizu Random written by Sadanatsu Anda and published by J-Novel Club. This book was released on 2018-10-24 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The five members of the Cultural Research Club are finally free from the body-swap! At last, everything is back to normal... or so they thought. Now «Heartseed» is back, and it's got a new trick up its sleeve. This time, their bodies are moving on autopilot, acting on the innermost desires of their hearts. For some, this is harmless—but for others, it could mean the end of their friendships, their club, or even their entire high school careers. They know they can trust each other... but can they trust themselves? Find out in volume 2 of the hit ensemble dramedy light novel from award-winning author Sadanatsu Anda!