This new line of Edu-Manga* features Astro Boy, one of Japan's most popular icons among children, who journeys alongside the reader. He provides for kids not only a history lesson but also a richer understanding of the life lessons these historical figures share with us. Florence Nightingale is most remembered as a pioneer of nursing and a reformer of hospital sanitation methods. For most of her ninety years, Nightingale pushed for reform of the British military health-care system, and with that, the profession of nursing started to gain the respect it deserved. Unknown to many, however, was her use of new techniques of statistical analysis, such as when, during the Crimean War, she plotted the incidence of preventable deaths in the military. She developed the "polar-area diagram" to dramatize the needless deaths caused by unsanitary conditions and the need for reform. With her analysis, Florence Nightingale revolutionized the idea that social phenomena could be objectively measured and subjected to mathematical analysis. She was an innovator in the collection, tabulation, interpretation, and graphical display of descriptive statistics. *Note: Edu-Manga is a term coined in Japan which means Educational Manga.

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Spanning 25 years "Kimagure Concept" is the longest running 4koma Manga in Japan. Taken from the book's jacket: "A Capricious Concept" is a 4koma manga that has been appearing serially in Big Comic Spirits since October 1981. Every Japanese had turned their eyes towards "Industry", which stood for the Mass Media such as broadcasting, advertising, and publishing. And many college graduates aspired to join those firms. "A Capricious Concept" began as an unusual manga that revealed the hidden secrets of Industry. Early works were compiled into a book in early summer 1984, but there has been no such opportunity for the next 23 years. In this book 23 years' worth of work has been reduced to 1/3 and arranged in cronological order, as a result the book became a time machine. People's everyday lives in pre-bubble, bubble, and post-bubble days, the recession in the 90's, the spread of cellular phones and the Internet, and the economic recovery of 2006 are all in this book. Get on the time machine everyone, and enjoy your trip to the past. Go on to the days of the bubble!

This is Asamiya's first manga. It tells 4 different stories in utterly unrelated settings.

This new line of Edu-Manga* features Astro Boy, one of Japan's most popular icons among children who journeys alongside the reader. He provides for kids not only a history lesson but also a richer understanding of the life lessons these historical figures share with us. The Japanese warrior Nobunaga Oda overthrew the Ashikaga shogunate and ended a long period of internal strife by uniting half of Japan's provinces under his rule. In so doing he paved the way for the reunification of the country under the Tokugawa shogunate in the following century. *Note: Edu-Manga is a term coined in Japan which means Educational Manga.

This new line of Edu-Manga* features Astro Boy, one of Japan's most popular icons among children who journeys alongside the reader. He provides for kids not only a history lesson but also a richer understanding of the life lessons these historical figures share with us. John Lennon was a 20th-century Academy Award and Grammy Award-winning English songwriter, singer, instrumentalist, graphic artist, author and political activist who gained worldwide fame as one of the founders of The Beatles. *Note: Edu-Manga is a term coined in Japan which means Educational Manga.

This new line of Edu-Manga* features Astro Boy, one of Japan's most popular icons among children who journeys alongside the reader. He provides for kids not only a history lesson but also a richer understanding of the life lessons these historical figures share with us. No other artist is more associated with the term Modern Art than Pablo Picasso. He created thousands of paintings, prints, sculptures and ceramics during a time span of about 75 years. For many Picasso is the greatest art genius of the twentieth century. For others he is a gifted charlatan. Undisputed is the fact that he influenced and dominated the art of the twentieth century like no other modern artist. *Note: Edu-Manga is a term coined in Japan which means Educational Manga.

This new line of Edu-Manga* features Astro Boy, one of Japan's most popular icons among children who journeys alongside the reader. He provides for kids not only a history lesson but also a richer understanding of the life lessons these historical figures share with us. Diagnosed with cerebral palsy at birth, Rikiya "Riki" Asai showed an innate passion for painting when he was between four and five years of age. The Honolulu resident's award-winning abstract and floral works have been exhibited throughout Japan and California and featured in a series of books. *Note: Edu-Manga is a term coined in Japan which means Educational Manga.

This new line of Edu-Manga* features Astro Boy, one of Japan's most popular icons among children who journeys alongside the reader. He provides for kids not only a history lesson but also a richer understanding of the life lessons these historical figures share with us. Hideyo Noguchi was a prominent Japanese bacteriologist who first discovered Treponema pallidum, the causative agent of syphilis, in the brains of persons suffering from paresis. He traveled extensively in Central America and South America to do research for a vaccine for yellow fever, and to research Oroya fever, poliomyelitis and trachoma. While in Ecuador, he received a commission as a colonel in the Ecuador Army. *Note: Edu-Manga is a term coined in Japan which means Educational Manga.

This new line of Edu-Manga* features Astro Boy, one of Japan's most popular icons among children who journeys alongside the reader. He provides for kids not only a history lesson but also a richer understanding of the life lessons these historical figures share with us. Jean Henri Fabre was a popular teacher, physicist, and botanist. However, he is probably best known for his findings in the field of entomology, and is considered by many to be the father of modern entomology. *Note: Edu-Manga is a term coined in Japan which means Educational Manga.