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Ed is the grandson of footballing legend Gordon Banks. He was a national icon, the only goalkeeper ever to win the soccer World Cup for England. But Ed’s heard a rumour: that in 1970, while defending the title, his granddad, his hero, was poisoned… by the CIA. All part of a Cold War plot to bolster a military dictatorship in Latin America, supposedly. Could this possibly be true? Banks did get ill in Mexico in 1970 with food poisoning. And England crashed out, marking the start of decades of hurt. Ed enlists the help of investigative journalist Gabriel Gatehouse.

The son of a Black African father and a white American mother, Obama was only two years old when his father walked out on the family. Many years later, he receives a phone call from Nairobi: his father is dead. This sudden news inspires an emotional odyssey for Obama, determined to learn the truth of his father's life and reconcile his divided inheritance.

Written in his early 60s, Tesla looks back on the events that shaped his life as the inventor of our modern world. Like many exceptional artists, scientists, and engineers, Tesla's senses and intellect worked on a higher level, which often afflicted him physically. Yet, he overcame, and used his special abilities and strong educational background to make electricity the servant of man.

脚本、演技、編集をすべて一人でこなし、男女問わず何役ものキャラクターを演じ分け、「笑い」を作ることに人生を捧げているハネハネ。チャンネル登録者数は135万人を越え、男女問わず幅広い年齢層に支持されている。

小さな頃から「分相応」的なものに自分らしさを感じ、「他人に害を与えない」ことを一番大事に考えてきた。友達だって少ないかもしれないけれど、別に悪いことでもないと思う。蛭子流・内向的な人間のための幸福論。

大城立裕はブラジルへ赴き、あるひとり女性の、日系移民一世のはなしに耳を傾けた。そして、大城立裕が愛情を込めて書き綴った真実の物語。演劇界の重鎮 久米明が、その「声」を読む。はたして久米明は、どんな「老女の声」を紡ぎ出すのか。

Craig was the last person anyone would have expected to open an American diner in Paris. He came from humble beginnings in a working-class town in Connecticut, had never worked in a restaurant, and didn't know anything about starting a brand-new business. But from his first visit to Paris, Craig knew he had found the city of his dreams. Pancakes in Paris is the story of Craig tackling the impossible - from raising the money to fund his dream to tracking down international suppliers for "exotic" American ingredients, and even finding love along the way.

Includes a new introduction written and read by Irvine Welsh When Chef Anthony Bourdain wrote "Don't Eat Before You Read This" in The New Yorker, he spared no one's appetite, revealing what goes on behind the kitchen door. In Kitchen Confidential, he expanded the appetizer into a deliciously...

【解説】　 数学者にしてユーモラスなエッセイイストでもある藤原正彦の2編。 1....

「対馬丸」という事件に関連する詳細な史実を云々する資格を私たちは持っていません。ただ私たちにできることは、理不尽にも幼い命を奪われた子供たちへの、深い悲しみをたたえた大城立裕氏の眼差し、つまり沖縄の心を、声にして伝えることによって、これまで「対馬丸」を語り継ごうとされてこられた方々のご努力に対して、少しでもお手伝いができたならと願っています。(菅家ゆかり)

ラブストーリーの古典『源氏物語』。15人の女の生き様を、今を生きる女の心に通わせて語ります。


「源氏物語」の語り部として、多くの人々の心を掴んだ村山リウさん。現代の意識と感覚をもってわかりやすい語り口で「源氏物語」を解説し、現代に通ずる女の生き方を考えてこられました。聞くだけで、長大な「源氏物語」への理解を深められます。第11巻では「関屋・絵合の巻(前編)」と題して、空蝉との再会などについて語られています。※この講演は、1978年から1987年にかけて、よみうり文化センター千里中央における「千里文芸サロン」で行われたものです。※講演中に今日からすると不適切と思われる表現がありますが、時代背景を考慮し、そのままにしております。ご了承のほどお願い申し上げます。

昨今は戦国武将ブームですが、女性が必死に生きた時代でもあります。戦国一の美女といわれる信長の妹、お市のお話をお届けします。お市は、信長の妹に生まれてきた運命と、自分の生きていく上での役割を自覚し、状況に巻き込まれていく人生を受け止めていたように思います。戦国の世に生まれたからには、いつ死が迎えに来るか分からない、お市にも決断すべき時がきます。戦国の世に生きたお市、彼女の選択する生きるとは、愛するとは、死ぬこととは何だったのか。現代を生きる私たちの胸に響いた事柄と思いを、オーディオブックという形にしてみました。経済の戦国時代と言っても良いような、昨今の状況も、私たち週末起業アドベンチャーの仲間たちの背中を押したのかもしれません。このオーディオブックには本編の他に、メイキングや私たち週末起業アドベンチャーの活動等についても収録されています。このオーディオブックのジャケット制作にあたり、工筆画家の李岩(李振彦)さんに多大なご協力をいただきました。この場をお借りして感謝の意を表します。ありがとうございました。(C)2009週末起業アドベンチャー

The Nobel Lecture in Literature, delivered by Kazuo Ishiguro (The Remains of the Day and When We Were Orphans) at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm, Sweden, on December 7, 2017. In their announcement of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Swedish Academy recognized the emotional force of...

Brought to you by Penguin. A revelatory portrait of the visionary behind Google DeepMind, the race to control the future – and what it means to win Even in a tech world crowded with visionary leaders, Demis Hassabis is recognized as a special case. Born to working class, immigrant parents in...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER OVER THREE MILLION COPIES SOLD! “Packed with incredible insight about what it means to be a woman today.”—Reese Witherspoon (Reese’s Book Club Pick) In her most revealing and powerful memoir yet, the activist, speaker, bestselling author, and “patron...

New York Times Bestselling Author Colin Powell, one of America’s most admired public figures, reveals the unique lessons that shaped his life and career It Worked for Me is a collection of lessons and personal anecdotes that shaped four star-general and former Secretary of State Colin...

A thoughtful guide to navigating change and transience rooted in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition of bardo. In a world where nothing lasts forever, how do we live? Life is perpetually, endlessly filled with change: new jobs and new loves, unfamiliar places and faces. And entwined in that change is...

Winner of the British Book Awards, Biography of the Year, 2005.

President Bill Clinton's My Life is the strikingly candid portrait of a global leader who decided in early life to devote his intellectual and political gifts, and his extraordinary capacity for hard work, to serving the public. It is the fullest, most concretely detailed, most nuanced account of a presidency ever written, and a testament to the positive impact on America and on the world of his work and his ideals.

The number one global bestseller and Book of the Year 2025 for Audible, The Times, Cosmopolitan, The Economist and more. ‘How else to put this? Bloody hell’ – The Guardian ‘Jaw-dropping . . . A tell-all tome’ – Financial Times ‘A Bridget Jones’s Diary-style tale of a young woman...

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