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Bento Books
Bento Books is an independent American book publisher based in Austin, Texas. History Bento Books was founded in 2011 by three experienced translators, Tony Gonzalez, Joseph Reeder, and Alexander O. Smith. Bento Books publishes English translations of Japanese titles, with an emphasis on works overlooked by traditional publishers. Publications In 2011, the company released ''Math Girls'', the first in a series of math-themed young adult novels by Hiroshi Yuki that can also be used as textbooks. March 2014 saw the release of ''Cage on the Sea'' by Kaoru Ohno, a novel based on a true story about a group of Japanese holdouts on the island of Anatahan after the end of the Second World War. ''Kirkus Reviews'', 01/21/14. Later that same year the company announced plans to release '' [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander O
Alexander is a male given name. The most prominent bearer of the name is Alexander the Great, the king of the Ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia who created one of the largest empires in ancient history. Variants listed here are Aleksandar, Aleksander and Aleksandr. Related names and diminutives include Iskandar, Alec, Alek, Alex, Alexandre, Aleks, Aleksa and Sander; feminine forms include Alexandra, Alexandria, and Sasha. Etymology The name ''Alexander'' originates from the (; 'defending men' or 'protector of men'). It is a compound of the verb (; 'to ward off, avert, defend') and the noun (, genitive: , ; meaning 'man'). It is an example of the widespread motif of Greek names expressing "battle-prowess", in this case the ability to withstand or push back an enemy battle line. The earliest attested form of the name, is the Mycenaean Greek feminine anthroponym , , (/Alexandra/), written in the Linear B syllabic script. Alaksandu, alternatively called ''Alakasandu'' or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Second World War
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers. World War II was a total war that directly involved more than 100 million personnel from more than 30 countries. The major participants in the war threw their entire economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities behind the war effort, blurring the distinction between civilian and military resources. Aircraft played a major role in the conflict, enabling the strategic bombing of population centres and deploying the only two nuclear weapons ever used in war. World War II was by far the deadliest conflict in human history; it resulted in 70 to 85 million fatalities, mostly among civilians. Tens of millions died due to genocides (including the Holocaust), starvation, ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Science Fiction Publishers
Science is a systematic endeavor that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe. Science may be as old as the human species, and some of the earliest archeological evidence for scientific reasoning is tens of thousands of years old. The earliest written records in the history of science come from Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia in around 3000 to 1200 BCE. Their contributions to mathematics, astronomy, and medicine entered and shaped Greek natural philosophy of classical antiquity, whereby formal attempts were made to provide explanations of events in the physical world based on natural causes. After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, knowledge of Greek conceptions of the world deteriorated in Western Europe during the early centuries (400 to 1000 CE) of the Middle Ages, but was preserved in the Muslim world during the Islamic Golden Age and later by the efforts of Byzantine Greek scholars who brought Greek ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manga Distributors
This article lists distributors of manga in various markets worldwide. Chinese Traditional Chinese *Daran Comics (defunct) (Taiwan) * Kadokawa Comics Taiwan (Taiwan) *Tong Li Comics (Taiwan) *Ever Glory Publishing (Taiwan) * Sharp Point Publishing (Taiwan) * King Comics Hong Kong (Hong Kong) * Culturecom Comics (Hong Kong) * Jade Dynasty (Hong Kong) *Jonesky (Hong Kong) * Kwong's Creations Co Ltd * Rightman Publishing Ltd Simplified Chinese * ChuangYi Publishing (Singapore) * WitiComics (Hong Kong) Czech *CREW Dutch * Glenat * Kana * Xtra English *ADV Manga (defunct) * Aurora Publishing (online series delisted) * Blast Books * Broccoli Books (defunct) *Chuang Yi (defunct) * CMX (defunct) *ComicsOne (defunct) *CPM Manga (defunct) *Cross Infinite World *Dark Horse Comics *Del Rey Manga (defunct) * Denpa *DH Publishing *Digital Manga *DramaQueen *Drawn & Quarterly *DrMaster *eigoMANGA *Go! Comi *J-Novel Club *Kaiten Books *Kodansha Comics *Madman Entertainment *Netcomics ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fantasy Book Publishers
Fantasy is a genre of speculative fiction involving magical elements, typically set in a fictional universe and sometimes inspired by mythology and folklore. Its roots are in oral traditions, which then became fantasy literature and drama. From the twentieth century, it has expanded further into various media, including film, television, graphic novels, manga, animations and video games. Fantasy is distinguished from the genres of science fiction and horror by the respective absence of scientific or macabre themes, although these genres overlap. In popular culture, the fantasy genre predominantly features settings that emulate Earth, but with a sense of otherness. In its broadest sense, however, fantasy consists of works by many writers, artists, filmmakers, and musicians from ancient myths and legends to many recent and popular works. Traits Most fantasy uses magic or other supernatural elements as a main plot element, theme, or setting. Magic, magic practitioners ( so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Companies Based In Austin, Texas
This is a list of notable companies based in the Austin metropolitan area. Fortune 500 (rankings as of 2021) *Dell Technologies (28) *Oracle (80) * Tesla Inc. (100) Advertising * Door Number 3 * GSD&M * LatinWorks * LIN Media (Media General)-Shutdown * McGarrah Jessee * R/GA * RetailMeNot * Rock Candy Media * T3 (The Think Tank) Aerospace and air travel * Astrotech Corporation * Austin Express- Shutdown * Emerald Air-Closed Architecture * Dick Clark Architecture * Lundgren and Maurer-Closed in the 80s no successor Automotive * Tesla Beauty * Beardbrand * Birds Barbershop Biotechnology * Asuragen-Relocation to Minneapolis, Minnesota * Luminex Corporation * Sonic Healthcare- Bought and moved to Australia Booksellers and publishing * BookPeople * Clockwork Storybook-Shutdown * Greenleaf Book Group * Holt McDougal * Landes Bioscience * Monofonus Press * Steve Jackson Games Construction Data * Forcepoint * Global Language Monitor * Hoover's * MyEdu * NetSol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Speculative Fiction Publishers
American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, people who self-identify their ancestry as "American" ** American English, the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States ** Native Americans in the United States, indigenous peoples of the United States * American, something of, from, or related to the Americas, also known as "America" ** Indigenous peoples of the Americas * American (word), for analysis and history of the meanings in various contexts Organizations * American Airlines, U.S.-based airline headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas * American Athletic Conference, an American college athletic conference * American Recordings (record label), a record label previously known as Def American * American University, in Washington, D.C. Sports teams Soccer * Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Megami Tensei
''Megami Tensei'', marketed internationally as ''Shin Megami Tensei'' (formerly ''Revelations''), is a Japanese media franchise created by Aya Nishitani, Kouji Okada, Kouji "Cozy" Okada, Ginichiro Suzuki, and Kazunari Suzuki. Primarily developed and published by Atlus, and currently owned by Atlus (and Sega, after acquisition), the franchise consists of multiple subseries and covers multiple Role-playing video game, role-playing genres including tactical role-playing game, tactical role-playing, action role-playing game, action role-playing, and Massively multiplayer online role-playing game, massively multiplayer online role-playing. The first two titles in the series were published by Namco (now Bandai Namco), but have been almost always published by Atlus in Japan and North America since the release of ''Shin Megami Tensei (video game), Shin Megami Tensei''. For Europe, Atlus publishes the games through third-party companies. The series was originally based on ''Digital Devil S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yu Godai
Yu Godai (五代 ゆう ''Godai Yū'', born August 7, 1970) is a Japanese writer from Nara Prefecture. Her father was a Japanese language teacher at Todaiji Gakunen middle school and high school. While Godai was still a university student her ''The Story of the Beginning of Bone'' was selected for the fourth annual Fantasy Novel Prize, which was sponsored by the Japanese publisher Fujimi Shobo. Godai was the first person to receive the grand prize. Before this novel was published, Godai made her debut with the story "Capital of Kyoshin", which appeared in the monthly Dragon Magazine. Godai was contracted by Atlus for drafting the story of '' Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga'' video game series. She left the project partway due to health issues but held the contract right to publish her own version of the novel based on the setting of the game, which later became the ''Quantum Devil Saga'' series. Major works *''Hajimari no Hone no Monogatari'' (Fujimi Fantashi Bunko 1993/ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avatar Tuner, Vol
Avatar (, ; ), is a concept within Hinduism that in Sanskrit literally means "descent". It signifies the material appearance or incarnation of a powerful deity, goddess or spirit on Earth. The relative verb to "alight, to make one's appearance" is sometimes used to refer to any guru or revered human being. The word ''avatar'' does not appear in the Vedic literature; however, it appears in developed forms in post-Vedic literature, and as a noun particularly in the Puranic literature after the 6th century CE. Despite that, the concept of an avatar is compatible with the content of the Vedic literature like the Upanishads as it is symbolic imagery of the Saguna Brahman concept in the philosophy of Hinduism. The ''Rigveda'' describes Indra as endowed with a mysterious power of assuming any form at will. The ''Bhagavad Gita'' expounds the doctrine of Avatara but with terms other than ''avatar''. Theologically, the term is most often associated with the Hindu god Vishnu, though the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anatahan
Anatahan is an island in the Northern Mariana Islands in the Pacific Ocean, and has one of the most active volcanoes of the archipelago. Although formerly inhabited, the island is currently uninhabited due to the constant danger of volcanic eruptions. Anatahan is located northwest of Farallon de Medinilla and north of Saipan. History The island was first charted by Europeans in late October 1543 by Spanish explorer Bernardo de la Torre on board of the carrack ''San Juan de Letrán'' when trying to return from Sarangani to New Spain. At the time, the island was settled by the Chamorros. In 1695, the natives were forcibly removed to Saipan and, three years later, to Guam. Under Spanish rule, coconut plantations were developed for the production of copra. In 1884, an estimated 125 tons were exported. Following the sale of the Northern Marianas by Spain to the German Empire in 1899, Anatahan was administered as part of German New Guinea. However, by May 1901 the island was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States
The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territories, nine Minor Outlying Islands, and 326 Indian reservations. The United States is also in free association with three Pacific Island sovereign states: the Federated States of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau. It is the world's third-largest country by both land and total area. It shares land borders with Canada to its north and with Mexico to its south and has maritime borders with the Bahamas, Cuba, Russia, and other nations. With a population of over 333 million, it is the most populous country in the Americas and the third most populous in the world. The national capital of the United States is Washington, D.C. and its most populous city and principal financial center is New York City. Paleo-Americ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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