What is our species' greatest invention? Medicine, computers, space travel? Not even close. The innovation that underlies each of our past achievements and those we still aspire to is language. Language is the ultimate invention of Homo sapiens - one that has allowed us to change the physical and social world around us in every conceivable way, and an invention that has fundamentally changed us, as well.

A high school boy finds the diary of his classmate--only to discover that she's dying. Yamauchi Sakura has been silently suffering from a pancreatic disease, and now exactly one person outside her family knows. He swears to her that he won't tell anyone what he learned, and the shared secret brings them closer together in this deeply moving, first-person story that traces their developing relationship in Sakura's final months of life.

ドラマ仕立てのストーリーで、白熱するビジネスの現場をリアルに体験

日本文学の名作10編を、アメリカ生まれの日本文学研究者が英語に翻訳。

Before he passed away in December 2009, Jim Rohn had influenced more than 5 million people in all corners of the world. He was counted as a mentor by thousands including the likes of Tony Robbins, Les Brown, Harvey Mackay, Mark Victor Hansen and others.

After the loss of her mother and her own battle with breast cancer, Joanna Teale returns to her graduate research on nesting birds in rural Illinois, determined to prove that her recent hardships have not broken her. She throws herself into her work from dusk to dawn, until her solitary routine is disrupted by the appearance of a mysterious child who shows up at her cabin barefoot and covered in bruises. The girl calls herself Ursa, and she claims to have been sent from the stars to witness five miracles.

Could workaholic office lady Sei be a legendary Saint? Not according to the crown prince of another world, who summoned her and quickly declared a different girl was the real Saint!

【聞き流すだけで英語をマスター】

シリーズ510万部突破の大ベストセラー書籍「旅の指さし会話帳」（情報センター出版局刊）から、とにかく使える基本用語を徹底収録。

シリーズ450万部突破！　ロングセラーには理由がある