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Tanya's War Chronicles (original title: Youjo senki) is the debut light novel by author Carlo Zen, illustrated by Shinotsuki Shinobu, set in a modern war-themed fantasy on an alternate world, coexisting with infantry, armored tanks, and fighter planes along with sorcerers using computational magic to intervene in the physics-defying world of aerial combat.

The Tanya's War Chronicles begins with the scene of a crying newborn girl at an orphanage, but it seems that the girl harbors a different consciousness, a consciousness never thought that she would be reborn as a girl in such a cruel world. That consciousness belongs to a meticulous human resources manager in remote Japan. Being a model employee, diligent but lacking empathy, from school to work, he always adheres strictly to what society and superiors expect, obeying all regulations and fulfilling every order from above. As the person in charge of human resources, in an era of economic hardship and technological innovation, he has excellently carried out the ineffective workforce reduction for the company, whether it is a long-time employee or even if the person kneels down crying. This indifference has made him the target of resentment from the terminated employees, and in a moment before losing consciousness, he still remembers standing waiting for a train on the side of the railroad tracks and being pushed from behind by someone.

At this moment, the sense of space and time around him suddenly stops. A mysterious entity X, self-proclaimed as a deity, appears, condemning the lack of faith and moral compass of humanity today like him. After some deliberation, entity X concludes that if living in a world full of war and physical limitations, surely those insensitive and atheistic creatures will also generate faith and send prayers to the divine. This moment also marks the birth of a girl named Tanya at an orphanage belonging to the Empire, a military powerhouse in another world.

With talent and calculation, Tanya is recognized as a sorcerer, quickly completes military training at the officer school, and is assigned to the western army group of the Empire for internship before being drawn into the border conflict between the Empire and the United Allied Forces.

The image of an adorable blonde girl with blue eyes flying amidst the chaotic battlefield of pain and loss becomes a legend, opening the story of a journey to prove one's worth to rise to a favorable position with many privileges of the former human resources manager now in the form of a girl in another world named Tanya Degurechaff!

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Just a few days into her new school year, Totto-chan got expelled!!!

With no other choice, her mother took Totto-chan to a new school, Tomoe. It was a peculiar school, where classes were held in old tram cars, students could change seats every day, study whichever subject they wanted first, and, once they finished their lessons, the teacher would take them for walks. What's more, there was a principal who could listen to Totto-chan's stories for four hours straight! Thanks to that school, a lively, unique Totto-chan received invaluable lessons to grow into a complete, resilient person.

Totto-chan by the Window has been a bedside book for many generations of children worldwide for thirty years. Since its first publication in 1981, the book has made waves not only in Japan but also globally. By 2001, the total number of copies sold in Japan had reached 9.3 million, making it one of the best-selling books in the country's publishing history. The book has been translated into 33 different languages, including English, French, German, Korean, Chinese, and more. When the English version of Totto-chan was published in the US, the New York Times ran two full-page articles about it, an 'honor' hardly accorded to any other work.

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With profound research and excellent argumentation, the book spans fifty thousand years of history and offers fresh insights on nearly every page. It gathers the latest discoveries in fields ranging from ancient history to neuroscience not only to explain why the West leads the world but also to predict what the future holds for the next hundred years. Orville Schell, Director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at the Asia Society, shared his thoughts on the book in an article titled 'The Final Conflict' published in the New York Times, calling it a 'big book,' very big, with ambitious goals of thoroughly understanding the human development process in the past and forecasting the future of the ongoing duel between the two axes, East and West. Ian Morris starts with a timeline of about 15 thousand years ago. That's a vast amount of history. In this new book, he begins by exploring overarching models, 'the overall shape of history,' by selectively examining the long-term development process of the world. Following the constantly changing driving forces from prehistoric times to the present, he shows how both the East and the West, at different times and in many different ways, have transformed into new developmental stages. But his ultimate challenge is to explain the meaning of all those ups and downs, and furthermore, to assess whether either side inherently possesses superiority.

He explains: 'One reason people care about why the West dominates is because they want to know if that will continue, for how long, and in what way - that is, what will happen next, how long will the West dominate is a key question.' But does Morris ultimately answer this 'key question'? And who will win in the next part of the East-West race, the US or China? But what he really cares about is not whether the West will be defeated by the East but whether the creative and transformative capabilities of human beings will ultimately become our collective failure or not. Whether they want it or not, the East and the West are now in a mess together, and the 'next 40 years will be the most important time in history.' The work was awarded A New York Times Notable Book in 2011.

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People choose to use slides to make their message more understandable, easily digestible, and engaging. That's the first key takeaway you can draw from this book. Every time you design a slide, ask yourself: Am I creating this slide to help the audience or myself? Instead of clinging to slides as a crutch and using them like oversized note cards to remember what needs to be said, the skilled TED speakers on stage use slides to help the audience, not themselves. Do you want to know the secrets behind designing slides for these globally renowned TED talks?

The principles of designing TED standard slides are not a comprehensive heart-and-soul book about designing presentations. However, it encompasses all the necessary elements. The principles of designing TED standard slides are written very succinctly suitable for those who do not want to waste time on frivolous things. In this book, you will find examples of compelling slides from impressive TED talks, along with practical principles that you can apply to make your presentations lively. Although it is not a comprehensive heart-and-soul book about designing slides, if you fully implement the principles in the book, you will also make your presentation better than 90% of speakers – in other words – your presentation will be among the top 10% of quality presentations. That's enough to create impressive presentations instead of boring bullet points.

This book is divided into three parts: The first part briefly discusses the message in the presentation because even if you design visually stunning presentation slides, if the message is terrible, your presentation will suffer the same fate. The second part is the main content of this book. You will explore common principles of designing presentations, which you can apply to create effective and engaging slides that help you convey your message rather than making it messy. Finally, part three focuses on the key principles to deliver slides vividly and attractively. In this book, the author provides instructions for PowerPoint software. However, even if you use Keynote or Prezi software, the principles presented in this book can still be fully applied.

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Small stories happen in a small village: stories of people, frogs, ghosts, princesses and princes, and stories of hunger, fire, floods, etc. The backdrop is the school, houses in the neighborhood, and the haunted field. The story is led by a 15-year-old boy named Thieu. Thieu has an older cousin named Dan, and his best friend is a girl named Man.

But the most adorable character is Tuong, Thieu's younger brother, a not-so-good student. Thieu, Tuong, and the children live in the same village, attend the same school, and share many common experiences. They play together, argue, then love each other, growing up together over the years, experiencing the ups and downs of life. The author maintains the storytelling style with the innocent and pure voice of children. 81 short chapters are 81 fascinating stories with many interesting and touching details, surprising twists, thereby revealing the personalities of people. The book, therefore, is captivating.

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Famous linguist D.A. Wilkins once said, “Without grammar, very little can be conveyed; without vocabulary, nothing can be conveyed.” Therefore, in learning a foreign language, vocabulary can be seen as the building blocks of the learner's language proficiency. Are you wondering how to learn vocabulary to remember as many words as possible and for the longest time? Below are some learning methods that you can apply to learn vocabulary most effectively.

Learn vocabulary by topic: Instead of learning individual words separately, if you group them into the same topic, ensuring memorization will become much simpler. Having vocabulary by topic, when speaking or writing on a specific topic, you will maximize your vocabulary. It makes your speaking and writing smooth and full of ideas. Therefore, learning vocabulary by topic is like hitting two targets with one arrow, helping us know more new words and have more vocabulary and ideas to develop for better exam performance.

Use images, sounds, or stories to remember vocabulary quickly: In fact, the way many people often learn vocabulary is to write down the words and meanings on paper many times to remember. However, this method may be effective immediately, but in the long run, if not reused, we will definitely forget the words. Conversely, using vivid images, sounds, or impressive stories can make our brains remember for a long time. This learning method is also extremely simple. When learning a new word, try to think of ideas and illustrate it with funny images. When learning a group of vocabulary by topic, try to organize them into a paragraph, telling an interesting story.

Learn vocabulary through songs, movies: Sometimes, the mentality that learning is a burden, a compulsory task makes us lose the joy of receiving knowledge. If you can relieve that mentality by listening to music or watching movies, it will make new words 'get into your head' easier without making us discouraged when learning. You should learn vocabulary from movies from low to high levels. There are many great movies to learn English such as: Extra English, Friends, How I met your mother?...

Always have a notebook to record new words: This notebook will be extremely useful for you to study anytime, anywhere. Every day, write down in that notebook the new words you learn, including meanings, pronunciations, and every day open it to read and review, that way those vocabulary will never be forgotten.

Practice using new words and review regularly: After learning new words, you should practice using them regularly.

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IELTS is a test of four skills: Listening, Reading, Writing, and Speaking with a total test time of under three hours. You will take each skill on the same day in order and there is no break time between the tests.

The IELTS test does not directly test vocabulary or have any specific questions in the IELTS test that ask for the meaning of a word. However, one of the scoring criteria of the IELTS test is how well you understand words. The more words you know, the more you understand. The more words you know, the more fluent you can speak and write.

Barron's Essential Words for IELTS - 3rd Edition (600 essential words for the IELTS test) will help you become familiar with the vocabulary you will find in the reading and listening sections of the IELTS test (International English Language Testing System). As the number of words you understand in reading and listening increases, the vocabulary used to speak and write will also improve. Therefore, it becomes an essential tool to help you practice and achieve high scores in the IELTS tests.

In Barron’s Essential Words for the IELTS, you will also practice a highly effective vocabulary learning strategy to improve your understanding. This effective strategy is to use a word in four ways: Read the word, write the word, listen to the word, and speak the word. Each activity in each chapter will help you develop this strategy. Especially in this new edition, the contents in sections such as:

• Introduction section, instructions on how to use the book and how to do exercises, making it easy for learners to access and follow the lessons.
• Vocabulary list includes: nature, entertainment, transportation, art, health, culture, travel, business, technology, social issues, and education. Vocabulary is conveyed through a series of reading, listening, and writing exercises.
• The highlight of this book compared to some other vocabulary books such as Cambridge Vocabulary for IELTS, Achieve IELTS Grammar And Vocabulary … is that with the same amount of vocabulary, the book is designed with many listening - reading and writing exercises so that readers can apply vocabulary rather than just learn vocabulary. Vocabulary is also provided in 'word families' and synonyms.
• Additional word index table and listening exercise lookup section, QR code links to listening exercises for learners to listen on easy-to-use devices.
• Includes sections designed to maximize effectiveness and practice.

The book is divided into ten lessons, each focusing on a main topic. Each main topic in each lesson is developed into three topics, each topic introduces twenty new words in the context of the lesson topic. You will practice these new words by doing exercises similar to the questions in the IELTS test.

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The Old Man and the Sea (original title: The Old Man and the Sea) is a short novel written by Ernest Hemingway in Cuba in 1951 and published in 1952. It is the last speculative short story written by Hemingway. It is also a famous work and one of the peaks in the author's career. This work won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1953. It also contributed significantly to the author's Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954.

In this work, he extensively used the principle he called the 'iceberg', describing only one-eighth above water, when describing the strength of the fish, the imbalance of power, the unequal struggle between the ferocious fish and the old man. The work celebrates human faith, labor, and aspirations.

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Interviews in the asylum with cannibals who enjoy intellectual games, half-reveals reserved only for the clever ones, penetrating glances into her identity and thoughts that sometimes she wants to avoid... Clarice Starling plunged into the investigation of serial skinning murders, struggling to end the nightmare of her recurring dream: the bleating of lambs about to be slaughtered.

The Silence of the Lambs fully embodies the elements of the most outstanding horror detective novels: no clue is clumsy in the professional details, with thrilling plots, death always looming, with the clash of great minds leaving no room for fools to make the intellectual game easy. Packed into that captivating storyline is the opportunity to experience in the minds of both the perpetrators and the enforcers of justice, as each side struggles in the prison of pain to seek, urgently and continuously, solace for the soul.

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The book The Chronicles of Empire Alexis - Heroic Tremors of the Heavens and Earth (Volume 6) is written by authors Akamitsu Awamura, Tamago no Kimi, and published by Tsuki LightNovel. The Chronicles of Empire Alexis - Heroic Tremors of the Heavens and Earth - Volume 6 recounts the victory and recapture of Rint, Alexis army continues to advance on Amadof with the cooperation of Raven and the army of the 'Supreme Princess Marshal'.

What strategies will Leonart and his comrades devise to defeat the mighty imperial military of this continent? Will this unequal battle make the Alexis army falter?

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