In each life, the wheel of karma turns. Asian scholar and martial artist Connor Burke, who continues to labor under the stern tutelage of the master warrior Yamashita Sensei, is drawn once again into a murder investigation when the police discover a link between the victim and a mysterious martial arts sensei named Kita Takanobu who has created a powerful New Age synthesis of Tibetan mysticism and the lethal heritage of the samurai. Along the way, Burke also finds himself pulled into the strange orbit of the Tibetan Lama Changpa, a mystic and claivoyant who sees the dark clouds drawing in around Kita but is helpless to prevent a tragedy, as he follows a trail that ultimately leads to Kita's elite mountain temple where he will face his most deadly challenge ever.

Ishi, Deshi, and Hank first meet at a campground in Michigan. Ishi is the fifteen-year-old son and only child of a husband and wife from Boston. Deshi is the ten-year-old adopted son of two men from New York City. Hank (Henrietta) is the fourteen-year-old biracial daughter of a single mother from Chicago. Being the only children at the campground, they soon find themselves in the pursuit of a mysterious bigfoot creature as they experience strange sightings, time loops, and dimensional shifts. They get lost in a cave that becomes a passage to France, where they meet two new friends. The three finally discover the bigfoot and eventually learn everything about the shape-shifting creature.

Transformation of socio-economic condition of people depends on basic requirements of life. Although the sources of improved standard of living of people are enumerable, broadly they can be categorized as social and economic requirements. Among the most influential requirements, discussion mostly revolves around the educational attainment and health of social sector, and that of sources of income of economic sector. Socio-economic transformation of people of any region has become one of the goals of economic policy over time. Therefore, understanding the pros and cons of socio-economic status of any section of people or any region has emerged for future policy perspectives. The present study proposes to analyze and understand the social and economic status of Deshi Muslims, a specific section of Assamese community inhabiting in Goalpara district, Assam in particular.

Uchimura Kanz� was one of Japan's foremost thinkers. His ideas influenced contemporary novelists, statesmen, reformers, and religious leaders. The originator and proponent of a particularly "Japanese" form of Christianity known as muky�kai, Uchimura struggled with the tensions between his love for the homeland and his love for God. Articulate, prolific, passionate, and profound, he earned a reputation as the most consistent critic of his society and knowledgeable Japanese interpreter of Christianity and its Bible. Through this exceptional man's life, John Howes charts what it meant to live during the introduction of Christianity to Japan.