Illustrator Elodie Ginsburg and her spendthrift best friend, Boris, are inseparable. Taking care of an audacious yellow-haired clown in a red-and-white-striped onesie and oversized black shoes can be a challenge. However, Boris means the world to Elodie. He is a handful, but he’s her handful. Their symbiosis is disrupted when Ivan Lennard, a former professional cyclist with a closely guarded secret, moves into the house next door and becomes a regular occurrence in their lives. Each encounter is a catalyst for Boris to spiral more out of control and increase his outrageous demands, until Elodie finds herself at a crossroads and has to make the most difficult decision she’s ever made.
When famous new media artist Eli Schmidt inherits a mysterious chest from his emotionally detached grandmother, which he is instructed not to open, he can’t curb his curiosity. Inside, he finds a lost and lonely doll named Devorah, who begins to heartbreakingly scream for the love of her life, Yonah. Wishing he had obeyed orders; Eli has no choice but to go on a journey to reunite the pair. To his great distress, this means he must give up his treasured peace and quiet and do what he loathes the most: interact with other people. While Eli desperately tries to break free from this burden, Devorah amplifies her control, embroiling him in a battle that will forever change the course of his life.
"A high-flying comedic story that’s delightfully strange, refreshingly unpredictable, and surprisingly thoughtful amid all the oddity on display. A playful brew of madcap humor and inventive intelligence."-Kirkus Reviews
Albert is Jonas’s favorite stuffed animal, and they’re inseparable. One day, Jonas’s puppy, Luna, wants to play with Albert too. Luna doesn’t know her strength, and with a rip, Albert is torn apart.
Jonas thinks Albert is just a little broken, but Uncle David disagrees and throws him away. Albert ends up in the compost bin, surrounded by unexpected new friends like Maud the maggot, Sofia the snail, and Timo the mouse. Though he has fun with them, Albert misses Jonas and knows his friend must be heartbroken.
Determined to return, Albert embarks on a brave journey with Maud, Sofia, Timo, and other helpers. They travel through the compost, across the garden, and into the house, finally heading for Jonas’s bedroom. Will Albert reunite with Jonas?
This book introduces the legal community to key concepts from Information Theory, such as conditional entropy, mutual information, joint entropy, and information gain, and demonstrates how these concepts can be applied to understand and model legal interventions. We examine how current legal interventions in Civil Property Law, aimed at realizing good faith, authority, determinability, and the ability to deliver, effectively serve to resolve information uncertainty. Furthermore, we introduce a conceptual jurimetrics model of property law, modeling the societal drivers of information uncertainty in property transfers and discussing the subsequent predicted impact of contemporary societal developments on property law.
David Adams is looking forward to the Easter holidays, when he will be free of the school bullies for two whole weeks. However, a close encounter in the woods changes everything. When he stumbles on the remains of a crashed spaceship, David is gifted with strange and dangerous telekinetic powers.
When people start to disappear all over town, David and his new friends Carrie and William are the only ones who realise that an alien invasion is about to happen right under their noses, and the adults of Graveldene no longer be trusted. If David can’t learn to control the power within him, it may spell the end of everything they hold dear…