Breakfast of Champions (1973) provides frantic, scattershot satire and a collage of Vonnegut's obsessions. His recurring cast of characters and American landscape was perhaps the most controversial of his canon; it was felt by many at the time to be a disappointing successor to Slaughterhouse-Five, which had made Vonnegut's literary reputation.

A young woman walks into an employment agency and requests a job that has the following traits: It’s close to her home, and it requires no reading, no writing, and, ideally, very little thinking. Her first gig - watching the hidden-camera feed of an author suspected of storing contraband goods - turns out to be inconvenient. Her next gives way to the supernatural: announcing advertisements for shops that mysteriously disappear. As she moves from job to job, it becomes increasingly apparent that she's not searching for the easiest job at all but something altogether more meaningful.

America is a barren landscape of smoldering ashes, devoid of life except for those people still struggling to scratch out some type of existence. Amidst this destruction, a father and his young son walk, always toward the coast, but with no real understanding that circumstances will improve once they arrive. Still, they persevere, and their relationship comes to represent goodness in a world of utter devastation.

1日5分、週5日。通勤などのちょっとした時間を使った1ヶ月の集中レッスンで1つのスキルのマスターを目指すシリーズ、『シリコンバレー的ビジネス英会話・朝の5分レッスン、The “5/20” series』。 シリーズ第1弾、「アメリカ人と同じ土俵に立つ交渉術」の全4週の中から、4週目を抜粋しました。 第4週目は、合意達成の為の環境作りを、アメリカ人ビジネスマンがどのように感じているかを学びましょう。成功のカギは公平な立場で交渉にあたるということです。人の上には人ではなく法律が来る。こう考えるアメリカ人ならではの発想です。 交渉合意後にはどんなプロセスが待っているのでしょうか?契約書を確認する際はどうでしょうか?信頼関係を築くにはどのようなことが大切なのでしょうか?交渉テーブルでお互いの意見や気持ちが一致していなければ良い交渉は出来ません。このような心の現れをネイティブがどう表現しているか学んでいきましょう。...

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In a scrap heap within an abandoned factory, the greatest invention in history lies dormant and unused. By what fatal error of judgment has its value gone unrecognized, its brilliant inventor punished rather than rewarded for his efforts? In defense of those greatest of human qualities that have made civilization possible, one man sets out to show what would happen to the world if all the heroes of innovation and industry went on strike.

大人の英語は、中学レベルの必須文法で差をつける！『究極の英会話（上）』に引き続き、「中学2年後半～3年に習う文法32項目×日常使いの単語だけ」で416表現をマスター。簡単な構文を賢く使い回す応用力とともに、素早く正確に話すための瞬発力が身に付きます。 本コンテンツは『究極の英会話（上）　中学1～2年レベル英文法100パーセント攻略』に引き続き、「もっと話せるようになりたい」方はもちろん、「今度こそ英会話を確実に身に付けたい」と再挑戦に燃える方にも最適！簡単な構文（中学2年後半～3年の文法32項目×日常で使える単語だけ）で、416表現をマスターします。 英語が話せない要因は2つ！文の作りと意味、すなわち文法がわかっていないこと。話すための練習量が圧倒的に足りないことです。本コンテンツでは、「頭で理解した文法知識」を「話せる力」に活性化すべく、トレーニングを徹底的に積み重ねます。 「クイック・レスポンス」（※）を軸に据え、英語の表現が口をついて出てくるようになるまで、シャッフル（順不同での出題）やロールプレイ（会話のせりふを言ってみる）で定着を図ります。 （※）クイック・レスポンス……日本語の音声を聞き、素早く口頭で英語に直して言う練習。 頭と口を休ませる暇を与えないトレーニングは、効果抜群。素早く正確に話す力が習得できるほか、シンプルな文をうまく使い回せるよ

In Praise of Shadows is an eloquent tribute to the austere beauty of traditional Japanese aesthetics. Through architecture, ceramics, theatre, food, women, and even toilets, Tanizaki explains the essence of shadows and darkness, and how they are able to augment beauty. He laments the heavy electric lighting of the West and its introduction to Japan, and shows how the artificial, bright, and polished aesthetic of the West contrasts unfavorably with the moody and natural light of the East.

Follow author Robert Whiting (The Chrysanthemum and the Bat, You Gotta Have Wa, Tokyo Underworld) as he watches Tokyo transform during the 1964 Olympics, rubs shoulders with the Yakuza and comes face to face with the city’s dark underbelly, interviews Japan’s baseball elite after publishing his first best-selling book on the subject, and learns how politics and sports collide to produce a cultural landscape unlike any other, even as a new Olympics is postponed and the COVID virus ravages the nation. 

In this groundbreaking biography of the Japanese emperor Hirohito, Herbert P. Bix offers the first complete, unvarnished look at the enigmatic leader whose 63-year reign ushered Japan into the modern world. Never before has the full life of this controversial figure been revealed with such clarity and vividness. Bix describes what it was like to be trained from birth for a lone position at the apex of the nation's political hierarchy and as a revered symbol of divine status. 

Sarah Morgan is a successful and powerful defense attorney in Washington D.C. At 33 years old, she is a named partner at her firm and life is going exactly how she planned. The same cannot be said for her husband, Adam. He is a struggling writer who has had little success in his career. He begins to tire of his and Sarah’s relationship as she is constantly working. Out in the secluded woods, at Adam and Sarah’s second home, Adam engages in a passionate affair with Kelly Summers. Then, one morning everything changes. Adam is arrested for Kelly’s murder.

This book grew out of a series of letters to my daughter concerning various things - mostly about money and investing - she was not yet quite ready to hear. Since money is the single most powerful tool we have for navigating this complex world we've created, understanding it is critical.

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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