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1368: China and the Making of the Modern World
by Ali Humayun AkhtarA new picture of China's rise since the Age of Exploration and its historical impact on the modern world. The establishment of the Great Ming dynasty in 1368 was a monumental event in world history. A century before Columbus, Beijing sent a series of diplomatic missions across the South China Sea and Indian Ocean that paved the way for China's first modern global era. 1368 maps China's ascendance from the embassies of Admiral Zheng He to the arrival of European mariners and the shock of the Opium Wars. In Ali Humayun Akhtar's new picture of world history, China's current rise evokes an earlier epoch, one that sheds light on where Beijing is heading today. Spectacular accounts in Persian and Ottoman Turkish describe palaces of silk and jade in Beijing's Forbidden City. Malay legends recount stories of Chinese princesses arriving in Melaka with gifts of porcelain and gold. During Europe's Age of Exploration, Iberian mariners charted new passages to China, which the Dutch and British East India Companies transformed into lucrative tea routes. But during the British Industrial Revolution, the rise of steam engines and factories allowed the export of the very commodities once imported from China. By the end of the Opium Wars and the arrival of Commodore Perry in Japan, Chinese and Japanese reformers called for their own industrial revolutions to propel them into the twentieth century. What has the world learned from China since the Ming, and how did China reemerge in the 1970s as a manufacturing superpower? Akhtar's book provides much-needed context for understanding China's rise today and the future of its connections with both the West and a resurgent Asia.
137: Jung, Pauli, and the Pursuit of a Scientific Obsession
by Arthur I. Miller"The history is fascinating, as are the insights into the personalities of these great thinkers."--New Scientist Is there a number at the root of the universe? A primal number that everything in the world hinges on? This question exercised many great minds of the twentieth century, among them the groundbreaking physicist Wolfgang Pauli and the famous psychoanalyst Carl Jung. Their obsession with the power of certain numbers--including 137, which describes the atom's fine-structure constant and has great Kabbalistic significance--led them to develop an unlikely friendship and to embark on a joint mystical quest reaching deep into medieval alchemy, dream interpretation, and the Chinese Book of Changes. 137 explores the profound intersection of modern science with the occult, but above all it is the tale of an extraordinary, fruitful friendship between two of the greatest thinkers of our times. Originally published in hardcover as Deciphering the Cosmic Number.
1381: The Year of the Peasants' Revolt
by Juliet BarkerJuliet Barker provides an account of the first great popular uprising in England and a fascinating study of medieval life in English towns and countryside. She tells how and why an unlikely group of ordinary men and women from every corner of England united in armed rebellion against church and state to demand a radical political agenda.
13th Annual Writer's Digest Short Short Story Competition Collection
by Writer's Digest EditorsWriter's DigestShort Short Story CompetitionThis exclusive collection contains the top twenty-five winning entries of the 13th Annual Writer's Digest Short Short Story Competition, including the First-Place winner, "EXCAVATION" by MARIE BACIGALUPO.
The 13th Apostle: A Novel
by Dermot McevoyThe story-both romantic and terrifying-of how a handful of men, armed with nothing more than handguns and guts, forced the greatest nation in the world from their shores.On Easter Monday, April 24, 1916, the first great revolution of the twentieth century began as working-class men and women occupied buildings throughout Dublin, Ireland, including the general post office on O'Connell Street. Among the commoners in the GPO was a young staff captain of the Irish Volunteers named Michael Collins. He was joined a day later by a fourteen-year-old messenger boy, Eoin Kavanagh. Four days later they would all surrender, but they had struck the match that would burn Great Britain out of Ireland for the first time in seven hundred years.The 13th Apostle is the reimagined story of how Michael Collins, along with his young acolyte Eoin, transformed Ireland from a colony into a nation. Collins's secret weapon was his intelligence system and his assassination squad, nicknamed "The Twelve Apostles." On November 21, 1920, the squad-with its thirteenth member, young Eoin-assassinated the entire British Secret Service in Dublin. Twelve months and sixteen days later, Collins signed the Treaty at 10 Downing Street, which brought into being what is, today, the Republic of Ireland.An epic novel in the tradition of Thomas Flanagan's The Year of the French and Leon Uris's Trinity, The 13th Apostle is a story that will capture the imagination and hearts of freedom-loving readers everywhere.
The 13th Conference on Information Technology and Its Applications: Proceedings of the International Conference CITA 2024 (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems #882)
by Ngoc Thanh Nguyen Cong-Phap Huynh Thanh Thuy Nguyen Nhien-An Le-Khac Quang-Vu NguyenThis book presents selected papers from the 13th International Conference on Information Technology and its Applications (CITA 2024) which took place on July 19–20, 2024. The 13th CITA will be hosted by the Vietnam-Korea University of Information and Communication Technology (VKU), a member of University of Danang, with the supports of the researching and training institutions belonging to ASEAN Consortium for Innovation and Research (ACIR) as well as Vietnam ICT Association of Faculties-Institutes-School-Universities (FISU Vietnam). The conference will take place in Da Nang City and Hoi An City which are beautiful and livable cities in Vietnam. All papers submitted to CITA 2024 are reviewed seriously, closely, and thoroughly by 02-04 reviewers with appropriate expertise, with professional advice from reputable scientists in the fields of information and communication technology. Over the past 13 years of establishment and development, CITA has become an international scientific conference with a prestigious brand in the scientific community not only in Vietnam but also around the world in the field of ICT and digital economy. For this edition of the conference, we have received in total 173 papers whose authors come from over 25 countries around the world. Only 43 papers of the highest quality were selected for oral presentation and publication in this LNNS volume. The average rate of papers accepted by this volume is about 25%. Papers included in these proceedings cover the following topics: data science and artificial intelligence, image and natural language processing, software engineering and information system, network and communications, and digital economy. The accepted and presented papers focus on new trends and challenges facing information technology and its applications. The presenters show how research works can stimulate novel and innovative applications. We hope that you find these results useful and inspiring for your future research work.
The 13th Disciple
by Deepak ChopraFrom Deepak Chopra comes a spiritual adventure story about Christ's forgotten disciple, an ancient mystery school, and the timeless power of faith.Before suddenly disappearing from her cloister, Sister Margaret Thomas McGeary leaves behind a solid gold reliquary, which her niece Mare dis-covers tucked away among Sister Margaret's belongings. "This is from the thirteenth disciple," a handwritten note says, "follow it where it leads," setting into motion a millennia-old mystery about the final--and truest--disciple of Christ. As Mare searches for her lost aunt, she begins to realize that the reliquary contains a secret that could very well change the history of Christianity and forever redefine what it means to be a person of faith.Joining Mare in her quest is a ragtag and reluctant group of sinners and skeptics--Frank, a journalist eager to break the story; Lilith, an eccentric mother of two who knows more than she's letting on; Galen, a misanthrope with a hidden past; and Jimmy, a hospital orderly whose faith sustains him even in the darkest hours. Together, they try to make sense of the reliquary and its mysterious contents. But are they ready for what they learn about the reliquary--or themselves?Weaving together masterful storytelling, page-turning intrigue, and biblical and religious scholarship, Deepak Chopra reveals illuminating truths about Jesus, his followers, and, ultimately, belief itself. Like his previous New York Times bestselling novels Buddha and Jesus, The 13th Disciple invites readers to know and experience religion in a new and breathtaking way.
13th EAI International Conference on Body Area Networks (EAI/Springer Innovations in Communication and Computing)
by Matti Hämäläinen Chika Sugimoto Hamed FarhadiThe papers in this proceeding discuss current and future trends in wearable communications and personal health management through the use of wireless body area networks (WBAN). The authors posit new technologies that can provide trustworthy communications mechanisms from the user to medical health databases. The authors discuss not only on-body devices, but also technologies providing information in-body. Also discussed are dependable communications combined with accurate localization and behavior analysis, which will benefit WBAN technology and make the healthcare processes more effective. The papers were presented at the 13th EAI International Conference on Body Area Networks (BODYNETS 2018), Oulu, Finland, 02-03 October 2018.
The 13th Floor: A Ghost Story
by Sid FleischmanWhen his older sister disappears, twelve-year-old Buddy Stebbins follows her back in time and finds himself aboard a seventeenth-century pirate ship captained by a distant relative.
The 13th Gift
by Joanne Huist SmithFor readers of Richard Paul Evans and Greg Kincaid comes The 13th Gift, a heartwarming Christmas story about how a random act of kindness transformed one of the bleakest moments in a family's history into a time of strength and love.After the unexpected death of her husband, Joanne Huist Smith had no idea how she would keep herself together and be strong for her three children--especially with the holiday season approaching. But 12 days before Christmas, presents begin appearing on her doorstep with notes from their "True Friends." As the Smiths came together to solve the mystery of who the gifts were from, they began to thaw out from their grief and come together again as a family. This true story about the power of random acts of kindness will warm the heart, a beautiful reminder of the miracles of Christmas and the gift of family during the holiday season.
The 13th Hour: A Thriller (The Nick Quinn Thriller Series #1)
by Richard DoetschA mesmerizing thriller -- told in reverse! The 13th Hour is the story of a man given the chance to go back in time in one-hour increments to prevent a vicious crime from destroying his life. Nick Quinn is being held in jail, accused of the murder of his beloved wife, Julia. He knows she's dead; he saw her bloody corpse, shot in the head at point-blank range. The police tell him they found the murder weapon with his fingerprints on it in the trunk of his car. Nick is confused, grief-stricken -- and completely innocent. At 9 p.m. on July 28, a gray-haired gentleman visits Nick in the police interrogation room and asks him a simple question: "If you could get out of here, if you could save her, would you?" He hands Nick a golden talisman that allows Nick to go back in time, one hour at a time, for a total of twelve hours. With each hour that Nick travels back, he finds more clues to the identity of Julia's real killer, but he also discovers that his actions in the past may have unexpected repercussions in the future. In his race against time to save the woman he loves most in the world, Nick will find that friends become enemies, old loyalties are tested, and Julia's murder is part of a larger scheme that has its roots in greed and vengeance. Nick has the ability to save Julia, the chance to put his own world in balance, but he is venturing down a precarious route. If he hasn't set things right by the thirteenth hour, his desperate attempts to save Julia's life may lead to a far greater catastrophe than he could have ever imagined. A surprising and utterly original thriller, The 13th Hour is pure page-turning suspense -- full of double crosses, cliffhangers, and shocking revelations.
13th International Conference on Compressors and Their Systems: Conference Proceedings (Springer Proceedings in Energy)
by Matthew Read Sham Rane Ivona Ivkovic-Kihic Ahmed KovacevicThis new proceedings discusses developments in air, gas and refrigeration compressors, vacuum pumps, and expanders. It is the 13th edition of the International Conference on Compressors and their Systems, a three-day conference organised by the Centre for Compressors Technology at City, University of London in collaboration with, among other, the MEchE, IIR, and IOR.The conference offers a platform to identify current challenges in the field and provide the essential content and direction to shape future research. The International Conference on Compressors and their Systems series began in 1999 as a result of industrial consultation and a need for academic collaboration. Initially, the conference was organised by the Fluid Machinery Group of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) with the support of Holroyd. From 2009, the Centre for Compressor Technology at City, University of London took over its management and the conference is now one of the main conventions, taking place biennially in the UK, becoming world-renowned for its place in industry and academia to gather and discuss a broad range of topical issues related to compressors and compression systems.This year's conference has the theme "Compressors and Expanders in Future Energy Systems” and will be of interest to researchers and engineers in industry.
13th International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Security for Information Systems (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing #1267)
by Álvaro Herrero Carlos Cambra Daniel Urda Javier Sedano Héctor Quintián Emilio CorchadoThis book contains accepted papers presented at CISIS 2020 held in the beautiful and historic city of Burgos (Spain), in September 2020.The aim of the CISIS 2020 conference is to offer a meeting opportunity for academic and industry-related researchers belonging to the various, vast communities of computational intelligence, information security, and data mining. The need for intelligent, flexible behaviour by large, complex systems, especially in mission-critical domains, is intended to be the catalyst and the aggregation stimulus for the overall event.After a thorough peer-review process, the CISIS 2020 International Program Committee selected 43 papers which are published in these conference proceedings achieving an acceptance rate of 28%. Due to the COVID-19 outbreak, the CISIS 2020 edition was blended, combining on-site and on-line participation. In this relevant edition, a special emphasis was put on the organization of five special sessions related to relevant topics as Fake News Detection and Prevention, Mathematical Methods and Models in Cybersecurity, Measurements for a Dynamic Cyber-Risk Assessment, Cybersecurity in a Hybrid Quantum World, Anomaly/Intrusion Detection, and From the least to the least: cryptographic and data analytics solutions to fulfil least minimum privilege and endorse least minimum effort in information systems.The selection of papers was extremely rigorous in order to maintain the high quality of the conference and we would like to thank the members of the Program Committees for their hard work in the reviewing process. This is a crucial process to the creation of a high standard conference, and the CISIS conference would not exist without their help.
13th International Conference on Information Systems and Advanced Technologies “ICISAT 2023”: New Trends in Artificial Intelligence, Computing and Decision Making. Volume 1 (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems #981)
by Vincenzo Piuri Valentina Emilia Balas Mohamed Ridda Laouar Dana Rad Zineb Touati Hamad Abbas CheddadThis book covers the Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Information Systems and Advanced Technologies “ICISAT’2023.” One of the evocative and valuable dimensions of this conference is the way it brings together researchers, scientists, academics, and engineers in the field from different countries and enables discussions and debate of relevant issues, challenges, opportunities, and research findings. The ICISAT’2023 conference provided a forum for research and developments in the field of information systems and advanced technologies and new trends in developing information systems organizational aspects of their development and intelligent aspects of the final product. The aim of the ICISAT’2023 is to report progress and development of methodologies, technologies, planning and implementation, tools, and standards in information systems, technologies, and sciences. ICISAT’2023 aims at addressing issues related to the intelligent information, data science, and decision support system, from multidisciplinary perspectives and to discuss the research, teaching, and professional practice in the field. The book of ICISAT’2023 includes selected papers from the 13th International Conference on Information Systems and Advanced Technologies “ICISAT’2023,” organized during December 29–30, 2023. In this book, researchers, professional software, and systems engineers from around the world addressed intelligent information, data science, and decision support system for the conference. The ideas and practical solutions described in the book are the outcome of dedicated research by academics and practitioners aiming to advance theory and practice in this research domain. The list of topics is in all the areas of modern intelligent information systems and technologies such as neural networks, evolutionary computing, adaptive systems, pervasive system, ubiquitous system, E-learning and teaching, knowledge-based paradigms, learning paradigms, intelligent data analysis, intelligent decision making and support system, intelligent network security, web intelligence, deep learning, natural language processing, image processing, general machine learning, and unsupervised learning.
13th International Conference on Information Systems and Advanced Technologies “ICISAT 2023”: New Trends in Artificial Intelligence, Computing and Decision Making. Volume 2 (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems #982)
by Vincenzo Piuri Valentina Emilia Balas Mohamed Ridda Laouar Dana Rad Zineb Touati Hamad Abbas CheddadThis book covers the Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Information Systems and Advanced Technologies “ICISAT’2023.” One of the evocative and valuable dimensions of this conference is the way it brings together researchers, scientists, academics, and engineers in the field from different countries and enables discussions and debate of relevant issues, challenges, opportunities, and research findings. The ICISAT’2023 conference provided a forum for research and developments in the field of information systems and advanced technologies and new trends in developing information systems organizational aspects of their development and intelligent aspects of the final product. The aim of the ICISAT’2023 is to report progress and development of methodologies, technologies, planning and implementation, tools, and standards in information systems, technologies, and sciences. ICISAT’2023 aims at addressing issues related to the intelligent information, data science, and decision support system, from multidisciplinary perspectives and to discuss the research, teaching, and professional practice in the field. The book of ICISAT’2023 includes selected papers from the 13th International Conference on Information Systems and Advanced Technologies “ICISAT’2023,” organized during December 29–30, 2023. In this book, researchers, professional software, and systems engineers from around the world addressed intelligent information, data science, and decision support system for the conference. The ideas and practical solutions described in the book are the outcome of dedicated research by academics and practitioners aiming to advance theory and practice in this research domain. The list of topics is in all the areas of modern intelligent information systems and technologies such as neural networks, evolutionary computing, adaptive systems, pervasive system, ubiquitous system, E-learning and teaching, knowledge-based paradigms, learning paradigms, intelligent data analysis, intelligent decision making and support system, intelligent network security, web intelligence, deep learning, natural language processing, image processing, general machine learning, and unsupervised learning.
13th International Conference on Theory and Application of Fuzzy Systems and Soft Computing — ICAFS-2018 (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing #896)
by Rafik A. Aliev Janusz Kacprzyk Witold Pedrycz Mo. Jamshidi Fahreddin M. SadikogluThis book presents the proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Application of Fuzzy Systems and Soft Computing (ICAFS 2018), held in Warsaw, Poland on August 27–28, 2018. It includes contributions from diverse areas of soft computing such as uncertain computation, Z-information processing, neuro-fuzzy approaches, evolutionary computing and others. The topics of the papers include theory of uncertainty computation; theory and application of soft computing; decision theory with imperfect information; neuro-fuzzy technology; image processing with soft computing; intelligent control; machine learning; fuzzy logic in data analytics and data mining; evolutionary computing; chaotic systems; soft computing in business, economics and finance; fuzzy logic and soft computing in the earth sciences; fuzzy logic and soft computing in engineering; soft computing in medicine, biomedical engineering and the pharmaceutical sciences; and probabilistic and statistical reasoning in the social and educational sciences. <p><p> The book covers new ideas from theoretical and practical perspectives in economics, business, industry, education, medicine, the earth sciences and other fields. In addition to promoting the development and application of soft computing methods in various real-life fields, it offers a useful guide for academics, practitioners, and graduates in fuzzy logic and soft computing fields.
13th International Munich Chassis Symposium 2022: Volume 2: chassis.tech plus (Proceedings)
by Peter PfefferThe increasing automation of driving functions and the electrification of powertrains present new challenges for the chassis with regard to complexity, redundancy, data security, and installation space. At the same time, the mobility of the future will also require entirely new vehicle concepts, particularly in urban areas. The intelligent chassis must be connected, electrified, and automated in order to be best prepared for this future.ContentsRedundant Systems and Testing.- New Systems and Concepts.- New Chassis and Systems.- Simulators.- Automated Driving: Development Methods.- Automated Driving: Driver and Security.- Steer-by-Wire.- Environmental Aspects.- New Brake Concepts and Methods.- Environmental Aspects.- Tires and the Environment.- Innovations in Tires and Wheels.- Vehicle Dynamics.- Digital Development.- Future Brake Systems.- Tires and Virtual Development.-Target audiencesAutomotive engineers and chassis specialists as well as students looking for state-of-the-art information regarding their field of activity - Lecturers and instructors at universities and universities of applied sciences with the main subject of automotive engineering - Experts, researchers and development engineers of the automotive and the supplying industry.PublisherATZ live stands for top quality and a high level of specialist information and is part of Springer Nature, one of the leading publishing groups worldwide for scientific, educational and specialist literature.PartnerTÜV SÜD is an international leading technical service organisation catering to the industry, mobility and certification segment.
13th International Munich Chassis Symposium 2022: Volume 1: chassis.tech plus (Proceedings)
by Peter PfefferThe increasing automation of driving functions and the electrification of powertrains present new challenges for the chassis with regard to complexity, redundancy, data security, and installation space. At the same time, the mobility of the future will also require entirely new vehicle concepts, particularly in urban areas. The intelligent chassis must be connected, electrified, and automated in order to be best prepared for this future.ContentsRedundant Systems and Testing.- New Systems and Concepts.- New Chassis and Systems.- Simulators.- Automated Driving: Development Methods.- Automated Driving: Driver and Security.- Steer-by-Wire.- Environmental Aspects.- New Brake Concepts and Methods.- Environmental Aspects.- Tires and the Environment.- Innovations in Tires and Wheels.- Vehicle Dynamics.- Digital Development.- Future Brake Systems.- Tires and Virtual Development.-Target audiencesAutomotive engineers and chassis specialists as well as students looking for state-of-the-art information regarding their field of activity - Lecturers and instructors at universities and universities of applied sciences with the main subject of automotive engineering - Experts, researchers and development engineers of the automotive and the supplying industry.PublisherATZ live stands for top quality and a high level of specialist information and is part of Springer Nature, one of the leading publishing groups worldwide for scientific, educational and specialist literature.PartnerTÜV SÜD is an international leading technical service organisation catering to the industry, mobility and certification segment.
The 13th Juror
by John LescroartHe is obsessed with her innocence. He will be destroyed by her guilt.The walls were champagne. The house was immaculate. A prosperous doctor lived there with his son and his beautiful wife. But the elegant walls hid a family's secret, a wife's shame. And one day shots rang out in the doctor's house. Suddenly Jennifer Witt was in jail, facing the death penalty.Jennifer insisted that she had not killed her abusive husband -- and she could never have killed her own son. Dismas Hardy believed her. But Hardy was only part of the defense team, and the only lawyer who continued to believe her...even as her story was torn to pieces, even as her lies came out, even as she was found guilty of murder.Now there's only one thing Jennifer can do to save her life...and she refuses to do it. So Hardy must do it for her. And in a shocking case of violence, betrayal, and lies, his only weapon is the truth...The 13th Juror...When innocence is not enough.
The 13th Resolution
by Charles Sheldon"Good resolutions are like babies crying in church. They should be carried out immediately."--Charles SheldonCharles M. Sheldon, best known for his classic In His Steps, wrote the 13th Resolution in 1928. It was to spur readers on to making commitments stick, and one in particular--being involved with one's local church. His supposition? If you are a person of faith then surely you would get fully engaged in community.Sheldon's classic story is now available again in this digital-first edition, retelling the story of James Blaisdell and his family, as they live out their faith and life in Kansas.
The 13th Special Nurse: Volume 1 (Volume 1 #1)
by Qi QiThe wedding scene is very lively this is the department store family jiang family for the only heir jiang bowen wedding jiang bowen s wedding is being held however but the groom jiang bowen appeared p p jiang bowen s sister jiang wan wan left to find the right not to find jiang bowen she took a mobile phone call her brother jiang bowen but jiang bowen did not listen to the phone she looked at her anxious grandmother and mother helpless jiang bowen the groom and his unmarried wife deng xiaoli were having a heated argument while they were anxiously searching for the bride and groom p p jiang bowen begged deng xiaoli not to leave her deng xiaoli said to jiang bowen that she loved the person is not him resolutely leave him
The 13th Step: A Global Journey In Search Of Our Cosmic Destiny
by Jude CurrivanIn 1998, scientist, healer, and mystic Jude Currivan heard an inner message-a call to undertake a global quest that would transform her life and take her and her fellow travelers on an inner and outer odyssey that would ultimately reveal our hidden heritage and cosmic destiny. The initial intention of these journeys was to activate the healing energies of 12 ancient Lemurian artifacts around the earth to support the collective shift of awareness prophesied for 2012. But an even deeper purpose began to unfold. . . The native elders of indigenous traditions around the world say that in these momentous times, "We are the ones we have been waiting for." As did the heroes of mythology, we are now about to embark on a spiritual quest to remember the wholeness of who we really are. The 12 activations and the opening of a galactic portal were completed during the December solstice of 2003, but in 2006 a further call heralded a 13th healing journey. As we approach 2012 and experience the birth pangs of a new age, this book shares an inspirational message of hope and reconciliation. It offers an empowering call for every one of us to embody our own divinity and fulfill our highest purpose as the heroes of this transformation.
13th Street #1: Battle of the Bad-Breath Bats (HarperChapters #1)
by David BowlesA new silly and spooky highly illustrated series that’s perfect for fans of Eerie Elementary and Notebooks of Doom, featuring art on every page and fun activities at the end of each book!Cousins Malia, Ivan, and Dante are visiting their aunt Lucy for the summer. But on their way to Gulf City’s water park, they get lost on 13th Street. Only it’s not a street at all. It’s a strange world filled with dangerous beasts! Will the cousins find their way back to Aunt Lucy’s? Each story in this hilarious and scary new series from award-winning author David Bowles is designed to set independent readers up for success—with short, fast-paced chapters, art on every page, and progress bars at the end of each chapter!
13th Street #2: The Fire-Breathing Ferret Fiasco (HarperChapters #2)
by David BowlesA silly and spooky new highly illustrated series that’s perfect for fans of Eerie Elementary and Notebooks of Doom, featuring art on every page and fun activities at the end of each book! Cousins Dante, Malia, and Ivan are happy to be back in their home town. But then their school bus takes a wrong turn and they end up on 13th Street! There are new monsters to fight, but at least they have their friend Susana and their bus driver to help them. Will the gang ever make it to their first day of class? Each story in this hilarious and scary new series from award-winning author David Bowles is designed to set independent readers up for success—with short, fast-paced chapters, art on every page, and progress bars at the end of each chapter!