Some people are just unlucky... right? Well, no one's as unlucky as Bando Biino, a high school girl who just got hired at Amagi Brilliant Park. Accidents and bloodshed just seem to follow Biino around, so if Acting Manager Kanie Seiya wants to stand a chance of reaching their attendance quota by the end of the year, he may have no choice but to fire her. By putting their fate in the hands of a distractible doctor from another world, can they save both the park and Biino's career?Â
 Working at your favorite amusement park is awesome... right? Well, it's not so easy for Chujo Shiina, a painfully shy girl who takes a job at AmaBri to escape a miserable first year of high school. Her favorite mascots are cranky old men, the star of the live show keeps catching fire, and her boss barely acknowledges her existence! What she doesn't know is that the park is in a new scramble to quintuple its yearly attendance or close... and she's about to become an integral part of that effort!
Kanie Seiya has saved the park... right? Well, you can hardly call it âsavedâ when theyâre majorly understaffed and their budget is running on fumes! Which means that if Seiya wants to give his newfound friends more than a brief stay of execution, heâll have to navigate a new set of trials. Touch-and-go employee interviews and razorâs edge investor negotiations may be par for the course... but when things escalate to literal trials in a literal dungeon, it won't just be the park whose survival is in question!
Amusement parks are places of wonder and fun for all ages... right? Well, that's not quite the case for Amagi Brilliant Park, a "crummy" amusement park on the outskirts of Tokyo where the snacks are inedible, the attractions are falling apart, and the mascots regularly get into fistfights with the guests. It's the kind of place that cool, handsome, brilliant Kanie Seiya wouldn't be caught dead in... until a mysterious girl drags him there--at literal gunpoint--and demands that he help them save the park! From the author of Full Metal Panic!
Co-workers need to get along... right? Well, things aren't that easy for the stars of AmaBri's fourth most popular attraction, Elementario. Salama is forced to slum for crash space after losing her apartment in a fire; Kobory wrestles with social anxiety amidst well-meaning rumors of a helpful park "fairy;" Muse takes a grilling from her castmates about her romantic prospects; and Sylphie... starts a dance riot?! But none of these troubles compare to the terrible secret they're about to learn about their costumes!
When things get overwhelming, the best move is to run away... right? Well, Seiya's certainly starting to feel that way, as summer draws to a close and the reality of the park's attendance seems locked in. Buckling beneath the pressure, Seiya tours the territory of Sanami Amusement Park, a desiccated ruin that seems to taunt him with visions of AmaBri's own future. But will the trip change his destiny â and Isuzu's â forever?
The Present Age challenges readers to re-examine the role of the United States in the world since World War I. Nisbet criticises Americans for isolationism at home, discusses the gutting of educational standards, the decay of education, the presence of government in all facets of life, the diminished connection to community, and the prominence of economic arrangements driving everyday life in America. This work is deeply indebted to the analyses of Tocqueville and Bryce regarding the threats that bureaucracy, centralisation, and creeping conformity pose to liberty and individual independence in the western world. The Present Age relates a tragedy -- the unprecedented militarisation of American life in the decades after 1914, as the result of the necessary resistance to National Socialist and Communist totalitarianism that fed into and reinforced the profound tendencies toward centralisation within modern society.
This book sheds light on a little-known aspect of the Imperial family of Japan: For three generations, members of the family have devoted themselves to biological research. Emperor Showa (Hirohito) was an expert on hydrozoans and slime molds. His son, Emperor Akihito, is an ichthyologist specializing in gobioid fishes, and his research is highly respected in the field. Prince Akishino, Emperor Akihito’s son, is known for his research on giant catfish and the domestication of fowl, while Prince Hitachi, Emperor Akihito’s brother, has conducted research on cancer in animals. The book shows how they became interested in biology, how seriously they were committed to their research, what their main scientific contributions are, and how their achievements are valued by experts at home and abroad. To commemorate the 60-year reign of Emperor Showa and his longtime devotion to biology, the International Prize for Biology was founded in 1985. The prize seeks to recognize and encourage researches in basic biology. A list of winners and a summary of their research are presented in the last part of the book. The author, an eminent biologist who has given lectures to the Imperial Family, explains their research and tells the fascinating story of biology and the Imperial Family of Japan. The book is a valuable resource, not only for biology students and researchers, but also for historians and anyone interested in science and the Royal and Imperial families.
