"In August 2018, a teenager named Greta Thunberg missed school to sit outside the Swedish parliament with a sign that read School Strike for Climate. She was demanding that government leaders take stronger action against climate change due to global warming. At first, Greta sat alone. But her message spread. Other students joined her in the movement that became known as Fridays for Future. By September 2019, millions of activists from around the world...

"Step into a story of life and love in Kyoto's 10th century royal court. Tale of Genji tells the story of Prince Genji, the passionate heir to the Chrysanthemum Throne. Handsome, romantic, and talented in the art of seduction, Prince Genji skillfully navigates the court and all its intrigues-always in search of love and often finding it. His story is the oldest and most famous tale of romance in the annals of Japanese literature and, as a representation...

Essay on John Dos Passos, and his collection of three novels into one work, U.S.A. The purpose of this volume is to make U.S.A. more accessible to readers of all kinds by offering documentary material bearing on various areas of importance and interest in the trilogy. Includes information on the relationship of the author's life and the intent, meaning and form of this trilogy, experimental forms used and principal sources and background on the aspects...

In a dismal city called the Hole, a clan of Sorcerers is using people they grab off the street as the subjects of experiments in the black arts. Nikaido meets Caiman, a man with a reptile head and amnesia, and the pair begins killing every Sorcerer they find in the Hole, hoping to kill the right one and end the spell on Caiman, which brings a crew of "cleaners" who work for the Head Sorcerer, En, after them and ignites a war between two world.