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The Art of War
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The 13 chapters of The Art of War, each devoted to one aspect of warfare, were compiled by the high-ranking Chinese military general, strategist, and philosopher Sun-Tzu. In spite of its battlefield specificity, The Art of War has found new life in the modern age, with leaders in fields as wide and far-reaching as world politics, human psychology, and corporate strategy finding valuable insight in its timeworn words.
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Classic and interesting book
- 投稿者: 匿名 日付: 2022/02/10
著者: Sun Tzu
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Congo
- 著者: Michael Crichton
- ナレーター: Julia Whelan
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Deep in the African rain forest, near the legendary ruins of the Lost City of Zinj, an expedition of eight American geologists are mysteriously and brutally killed in a matter of minutes. Ten thousand miles away, Karen Ross, the Congo Project Supervisor, watches a gruesome video transmission of the aftermath: a camp destroyed, tents crushed and torn, equipment scattered in the mud alongside dead bodies - all motionless except for one moving image - a grainy, dark, man-shaped blur.
著者: Michael Crichton
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Sherlock: The Essential Arthur Conan Doyle Adventures
- 著者: Mark Gatiss, Steven Moffat, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- ナレーター: Simon Vance, Mark Gatiss
- 再生時間: 25 時間 17 分
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The hit BBC series Sherlock has introduced a whole new generation of fans to Arthur Conan Doyle's legendary detective. In this unique collection, Sherlock co-creators Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss have selected their all-time favorite Sherlock Holmes adventures, providing listeners a curated masterclass in crime fiction. Each of these 19 tales, from Sherlock's first appearance in A Study in Scarlet to the late classic The Dying Detective, is a potent mix of murder, suspense, cryptic clues, red herrings, and revenge.
著者: Mark Gatiss, 、その他
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Heidi
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- 著者: Johanna Spyri
- ナレーター: Peter Batchelor
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Heidi is one of the best-selling books ever written and is among the best-known works of Swiss literature. This version is a delightful abridgment of the classic tale.
著者: Johanna Spyri
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Sphere
- 著者: Michael Crichton
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A classic thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Crichton, Sphere is a bravura demonstration of what he does better than anyone: riveting storytelling that combines frighteningly plausible, cutting-edge science and technology with pulse-pounding action and serious chills.
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良かった
- 投稿者: コヨーテ 日付: 2022/11/26
著者: Michael Crichton
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Alethea
- 著者: Katrina Day, Philomena Polefrone
- ナレーター: Julia Rehwald, Chace Crawford, Beau Bridges, 、その他
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In 2048, Sam Bixler is a brilliant scientist working for Telos, the world's most powerful corporation. Little does she know that a shocking secret about a deadly virus lurks within Telos, setting her on a thrilling and dangerous journey.
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臨場感ドップリドラマ
- 投稿者: いびつ 日付: 2023/08/15
著者: Katrina Day, 、その他
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The Art of War
- 著者: Sun Tzu
- ナレーター: Aidan Gillen
- 再生時間: 1 時間 7 分
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The 13 chapters of The Art of War, each devoted to one aspect of warfare, were compiled by the high-ranking Chinese military general, strategist, and philosopher Sun-Tzu. In spite of its battlefield specificity, The Art of War has found new life in the modern age, with leaders in fields as wide and far-reaching as world politics, human psychology, and corporate strategy finding valuable insight in its timeworn words.
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Classic and interesting book
- 投稿者: 匿名 日付: 2022/02/10
著者: Sun Tzu
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Congo
- 著者: Michael Crichton
- ナレーター: Julia Whelan
- 再生時間: 10 時間 16 分
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Deep in the African rain forest, near the legendary ruins of the Lost City of Zinj, an expedition of eight American geologists are mysteriously and brutally killed in a matter of minutes. Ten thousand miles away, Karen Ross, the Congo Project Supervisor, watches a gruesome video transmission of the aftermath: a camp destroyed, tents crushed and torn, equipment scattered in the mud alongside dead bodies - all motionless except for one moving image - a grainy, dark, man-shaped blur.
著者: Michael Crichton
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Sherlock: The Essential Arthur Conan Doyle Adventures
- 著者: Mark Gatiss, Steven Moffat, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- ナレーター: Simon Vance, Mark Gatiss
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The hit BBC series Sherlock has introduced a whole new generation of fans to Arthur Conan Doyle's legendary detective. In this unique collection, Sherlock co-creators Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss have selected their all-time favorite Sherlock Holmes adventures, providing listeners a curated masterclass in crime fiction. Each of these 19 tales, from Sherlock's first appearance in A Study in Scarlet to the late classic The Dying Detective, is a potent mix of murder, suspense, cryptic clues, red herrings, and revenge.
著者: Mark Gatiss, 、その他
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Heidi
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- 著者: Johanna Spyri
- ナレーター: Peter Batchelor
- 再生時間: 40 分
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Heidi is one of the best-selling books ever written and is among the best-known works of Swiss literature. This version is a delightful abridgment of the classic tale.
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Sphere
- 著者: Michael Crichton
- ナレーター: Scott Brick
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A classic thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Crichton, Sphere is a bravura demonstration of what he does better than anyone: riveting storytelling that combines frighteningly plausible, cutting-edge science and technology with pulse-pounding action and serious chills.
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良かった
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著者: Michael Crichton
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Alethea
- 著者: Katrina Day, Philomena Polefrone
- ナレーター: Julia Rehwald, Chace Crawford, Beau Bridges, 、その他
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In 2048, Sam Bixler is a brilliant scientist working for Telos, the world's most powerful corporation. Little does she know that a shocking secret about a deadly virus lurks within Telos, setting her on a thrilling and dangerous journey.
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臨場感ドップリドラマ
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著者: Katrina Day, 、その他
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Nudge: The Final Edition
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- 著者: Richard H. Thaler, Cass R. Sunstein
- ナレーター: Sean Pratt
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Since the original publication of Nudge more than a decade ago, the title has entered the vocabulary of businesspeople, policy makers, engaged citizens, and consumers everywhere. The book has given rise to more than 200 "nudge units" in governments around the world and countless groups of behavioral scientists in every part of the economy. It has taught us how to use thoughtful "choice architecture" - a concept the authors invented - to help us make better decisions for ourselves, our families, and our society.
著者: Richard H. Thaler, 、その他
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The Rising Sun
- The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945
- 著者: John Toland
- ナレーター: Tom Weiner
- 再生時間: 41 時間 9 分
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This Pulitzer Prize-winning history of World War II chronicles the dramatic rise and fall of the Japanese empire, from the invasion of Manchuria and China to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Told from the Japanese perspective, The Rising Sun is, in the author’s words, "a factual saga of people caught up in the flood of the most overwhelming war of mankind, told as it happened - muddled, ennobling, disgraceful, frustrating, full of paradox."
著者: John Toland
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The Rise of Modern Japan
- 著者: Mark J. Ravina, The Great Courses
- ナレーター: Mark J. Ravina
- 再生時間: 5 時間 51 分
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Noted Japan expert Professor Mark J. Ravina of the University of Texas at Austin covers the politics, economics, and culture of the island nation since World War II - a conflict that saw the end of Japan’s dream of regional conquest, which Professor Ravina calls Empire 1.0. The country’s postwar leaders radically changed course, renouncing a strong military to pursue Empire 2.0 - Japan as an economic colossus.
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A good material
- 投稿者: 堀井碩史 日付: 2023/10/04
著者: Mark J. Ravina, 、その他
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Kevin Goes to Japan, Bilingual novels, -Story Only-
- ケビン日本へ行く 日英バイリンガル小説 物語のみ
- 著者: 桐谷 美和子
- ナレーター: 桐谷 美和子, 山本 史朗
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This book is the story only of the Japanese language material, called "Kevin Goes to Japan."
著者: 桐谷 美和子
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Upheaval
- Turning Points for Nations in Crisis
- 著者: Jared Diamond
- ナレーター: Henry Strozier
- 再生時間: 18 時間 44 分
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In his earlier best sellers Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse, Jared Diamond transformed our understanding of what makes civilizations rise and fall. Now, in the final audiobook in this monumental trilogy, he reveals how successful nations recover from crisis through selective change - a coping mechanism more commonly associated with personal trauma.
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歴史のジェネラリスト
- 投稿者: 出張勝也 日付: 2019/12/10
著者: Jared Diamond
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Japanese Fairy Tales
- 著者: Yei Theodora Ozaki - translator
- ナレーター: Leslie Bellair
- 再生時間: 6 時間 32 分
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Here are 22 charming Japanese Fairy Tales, translated by Yei Theodora Ozaki, including "My Lord Bag of Rice", "The Tongue-Cut Sparrow", "The Story of Urashima Taro, the Fisher Lad", "The Farmer and the Badger", "The Shinansha, or the South Pointing Carriage", "The Adventures of Kintaro, the Golden Boy", "The Story of Princess Hase", "The Story of the Man Who Did Not Wish to Die", "The Bamboo-Cutter and the Moonchild", "The Mirror of Matsuyama", and more.
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Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life
- Living the Wisdom of the Tao
- 著者: Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
- ナレーター: Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
- 再生時間: 9 時間 9 分
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Five hundred years before the birth of Jesus, a God-realized being named Lao-tzu in ancient China dictated 81 verses, which are regarded by many as the ultimate commentary on the nature of our existence. The classic text of these 81 verses, called the Tao Te Ching or the Great Way, offers advice and guidance that is balanced, moral, spiritual, and always concerned with working for the good.
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wisdom explained
- 投稿者: Brack 日付: 2024/01/21
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Inherit the Stars
- 著者: James P. Hogan
- ナレーター: John Pruden
- 再生時間: 8 時間 3 分
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The man on the moon was dead. They called him Charlie. He had big eyes, abundant body hair, and fairly long nostrils. His skeletal body was found clad in a bright red spacesuit, hidden in a rocky grave. They didn’t know who he was, how he got there, or what had killed him. All they knew was that his corpse was 50 thousand years old - and that meant this man had somehow lived long before he ever could have existed.
著者: James P. Hogan
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The Power of Your Subconscious Mind
- 著者: Joseph Murphy
- ナレーター: Jason McCoy
- 再生時間: 6 時間 4 分
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In The Power of Your Subconscious Mind, Dr. Joseph Murphy gives you the tools you will need to unlock the awesome powers of your subconscious mind. You can improve your relationships, your finances, your physical well-being. Once you learn how to use this unbelievably powerful force there is nothing you will not be able to accomplish. Join the millions of people who have already unlocked the power of their subconscious minds.
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This narrator…
- 投稿者: りんご 日付: 2022/08/24
著者: Joseph Murphy
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Evidence of the Affair
- 著者: Taylor Jenkins Reid
- ナレーター: Julia Whelan, George Newbern, James Daniels, 、その他
- 再生時間: 1 時間 19 分
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The correspondence between Carrie Allsop and David Mayer reveals, piece by piece, the painful details of a devastating affair between their spouses. With each commiserating scratch of the pen, they confess their fears and bare their souls. They share the bewilderment over how things went so wrong and come to wonder where to go from here. Told entirely through the letters of two comforting strangers and those of two illicit lovers, Evidence of the Affair explores the complex nature of the heart. And ultimately, for one woman, how liberating it can be when it’s broken.
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Short and easy to understand
- 投稿者: Amazon Customer 日付: 2023/01/20
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A Brief History of Japan
- Samurai, Shogun and Zen: The Extraordinary Story of the Land of the Rising Sun
- 著者: Jonathan Clements
- ナレーター: Julian Elfer
- 再生時間: 8 時間 41 分
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With intelligence and wit, author Jonathan Clements blends documentary and storytelling styles to connect the past, present, and future of Japan, and in broad yet detailed strokes reveals a country of paradoxes: a modern nation steeped in ancient traditions; a democracy with an emperor as head of state; a famously safe society built on 108 volcanoes resting on the world's most active earthquake zone; a fast-paced urban and technologically advanced country whose land consists predominantly of mountains and forests.
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A History of Japan
- Revised Edition
- 著者: R. H. P. Mason, J. G. Caiger
- ナレーター: Derek Perkins
- 再生時間: 13 時間 7 分
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A classic of Japanese history, this audiobook is the preeminent work on the history of Japan. Newly revised and updated, A History of Japan is a single-volume complete history of the nation of Japan. Starting in ancient Japan during its early pre-history period, A History of Japan covers every important aspect of history and culture through feudal Japan to the post-Cold War period and collapse of the bubble economy in the early 1990s. Recent findings shed additional light on the origins of Japanese civilization and the birth of Japanese culture.
著者: R. H. P. Mason, 、その他
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Alice in Wonderland and Alice Through the Looking-Glass (Dramatized)
- 著者: Lewis Carroll
- ナレーター: Barbara Rosenblat, Georgia Lee Schultz, John Jarvis, 、その他
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The fantasy worlds of Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass come to life in these audio theatre presentations with music and sound effects.
著者: Lewis Carroll
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Artemis
- 著者: Andy Weir
- ナレーター: Rosario Dawson
- 再生時間: 8 時間 57 分
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Jazz Bashara is a criminal. Well, sort of. Life on Artemis, the first and only city on the moon, is tough if you're not a rich tourist or an eccentric billionaire. So smuggling in the occasional harmless bit of contraband barely counts, right? Not when you've got debts to pay and your job as a porter barely covers the rent. Everything changes when Jazz sees the chance to commit the perfect crime, with a reward too lucrative to turn down.
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Rosario Dawson voice range is incredible.
- 投稿者: Amazon カスタマー 日付: 2022/04/10
著者: Andy Weir
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A Little History of the World
- 著者: E. H. Gombrich
- ナレーター: Ralph Cosham
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E. H. Gombrich's world history, an international best seller now available in English for the first time, is a text dominated not by dates and facts but by the sweep of experience across the centuries, a guide to humanity's achievements, and an acute witness to its frailties.
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Essential world history
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著者: E. H. Gombrich
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The Life and Writings of C. S. Lewis
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- ナレーター: Louis Markos
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What can we still learn from C.S. Lewis? Find out in these 12 insightful lectures that cover the author's spiritual autobiography, novels, and his scholarly writings that reflect on pain and grief, love and friendship, prophecy and miracles, and education and mythology.
著者: Louis Markos, 、その他
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Embracing Defeat
- 著者: John W. Dower
- ナレーター: Edward Lewis
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This illuminating study explores the ways in which the shattering defeat of the Japanese in World War II, followed by over six years of American military occupation, affected every level of Japanese society. The author describes the countless ways in which the Japanese met the challenge of "starting over", from top-level manipulations concerning the fate of Emperor Hirohito to the hopes, fears, and activities of ordinary men and women in every walk of life.
著者: John W. Dower
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Save the Cat!
- The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need
- 著者: Blake Snyder
- ナレーター: George Newbern
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Here's what started the phenomenon: This book has been a best seller for over 15 years and has been used by screenwriters around the world! Blake Snyder tells all in this fast, funny, and candid look inside the movie business. Save the Cat is just one of many ironclad rules for making your ideas more marketable and your script more satisfying.
著者: Blake Snyder
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My Evil Mother
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- 著者: Margaret Atwood
- ナレーター: Hillary Huber
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Life is hard enough for a teenage girl in 1950s suburbia without having a mother who may—or may not—be a witch. A single mother at that. Sure, she fits in with her starched dresses, string of pearls, and floral aprons. Then there are the hushed and mystical consultations with neighborhood women in distress. The unsavory, mysterious plants in the flower beds. The divined warning to steer clear of a boyfriend whose fate is certainly doomed.
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mother-daughter moments
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著者: Margaret Atwood
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The Queen's Gambit
- 著者: Walter Tevis
- ナレーター: Amy Landon
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Eight-year-old orphan Beth Harmon is quiet, sullen, and by all appearances unremarkable. That is, until she plays her first game of chess. Her senses grow sharper, her thinking clearer, and for the first time in her life she feels herself fully in control. By the age of 16, she's competing for the US Open championship. But as Beth hones her skills on the professional circuit, the stakes get higher, her isolation grows more frightening, and the thought of escape becomes all the more tempting.
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おススメします。
- 投稿者: Amazon カスタマー 日付: 2020/12/19
著者: Walter Tevis
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How to Say It: Words That Make a Difference
- 著者: Allison Friederichs Atkison, The Great Courses
- ナレーター: Allison Friederichs Atkison
- 再生時間: 4 時間 44 分
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Words. We use them all the time, every day, mostly without giving them much thought at all. We take for granted that they’re here at our disposal whenever we need them. But if you’ve ever wished you could communicate more effectively, words are the place to start. It’s incumbent upon you to choose the best words to accomplish your goals, because how you choose to communicate influences—well, everything! The power of communication shapes our professional goals, our relationships, and our lives—so the words we choose to use carry a great deal of power.
著者: Allison Friederichs Atkison, 、その他
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宮本武蔵 01
- 著者: 吉川 英治
- ナレーター: 根本 泰彦
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吉川英治の代表作。日本人なら一度は読みたい、超骨太なエンタテイメント作品。屍ひしめく関ケ原で命からがら落ち延びた武蔵と又八。お甲・朱実母娘の世話になり一年後、武蔵はひとり故郷に戻るが、その身を追われ…。憎しみに任せ、次から次へと敵を打ち殺す野獣武蔵に対峙する、沢庵。殺めるためではなく護るための剣とは?一介の武弁が二天一流の開祖宮本武蔵に至るまで志を磨く道、ここに始まる。(全1/8巻)
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面白い。飽きない。おすすめ。
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著者: 吉川 英治
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般若心経講義
- 著者: 高神 覚昇
- ナレーター: 根本 泰彦
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般若心経はわずか300文字足らずの仏教経典で、大乗仏教のコアとなる思想「空(くう)」について記されています。
「般若心経講義」は、仏教の教えをわかりやすく説明し、日々の生活やビジネスでの悩みを解決のヒントになる叡智がつまった作品です。
だれもがぶつかる「真理」や「迷い」について、仏教の教えを朗読で聴いてみませんか。
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漢字で読んだほうがお勧め(ストーリー、ナレーションは良いです)
- 投稿者: TPR 日付: 2023/06/03
著者: 高神 覚昇
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The Bookstore Sisters
- A Short Story
- 著者: Alice Hoffman
- ナレーター: Jennifer Jill Araya
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Isabel Gibson has all but perfected the art of forgetting. She’s a New Yorker now, with nothing left to tie her to Brinkley’s Island, Maine. Her parents are gone, the family bookstore is all but bankrupt, and her sister, Sophie, will probably never speak to her again. But when a mysterious letter arrives in her mailbox, Isabel feels herself drawn to the past. After years of fighting for her independence, she dreads the thought of going back to the island.
著者: Alice Hoffman
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The classic samurai novel about the real exploits of the most famous swordsman.
Miyamoto Musashi was the child of an era when Japan was emerging from decades of civil strife. Lured to the great Battle of Sekigahara in 1600 by the hope of becoming a samurai - without really knowing what it meant - he regains consciousness after the battle to find himself lying defeated, dazed, and wounded among thousands of the dead and dying. On his way home, he commits a rash act, becomes a fugitive, and brings life in his own village to a standstill - until he is captured by a weaponless Zen monk.
The lovely Otsu, seeing in Musashi her ideal of manliness, frees him from his tortuous punishment, but he is recaptured and imprisoned. During three years of solitary confinement, he delves into the classics of Japan and China. When he is set free again, he rejects the position of samurai and for the next several years pursues his goal relentlessly, looking neither to the left nor to the right.
Ever so slowly it dawns on him that following the way of the sword is not simply a matter of finding a target for his brute strength. Continually striving to perfect his technique, which leads him to a unique style of fighting with two swords simultaneously, he travels far and wide, challenging fighters of many disciplines, taking nature to be his ultimate and severest teacher and undergoing the rigorous training of those who follow the way. He is supremely successful in his encounters, but in The Art of War, he perceives the way of peaceful and prosperous governance and disciplines himself to be a real human being.
He becomes a reluctant hero to a host of people whose lives he has touched and by whom he has been touched. Inevitably, he has to pit his skill against the naked blade of his greatest rival.
Musashi is a novel in the best tradition of Japanese storytelling. It is a living story, subtle and imaginative, teeming with memorable characters, many of them historical. Interweaving themes of unrequited love, misguided revenge, filial piety, and absolute dedication to the way of the samurai, it depicts vividly a world Westerners know only vaguely. Full of gusto and humor, it has an epic quality and universal appeal.