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Tony Blair is a politician who defines our times. His emergence as Labour Party leader in 1994 marked a seismic shift in British politics. Within a few short years, he had transformed his party and rallied the country behind him, becoming prime minister in 1997 with the biggest victory in...

Here, in his own words, is the true story of America's wildest flying hero, of his extraordinary heroism, and of his greatest battle of all-the fight to survive. The World War II air war in the Pacific needed tough men like Colonel Pappy Boyington and his Black Sheep Squadron. The legendary Marine Corps officer and his bunch of misfits, outcasts, and daredevils gave a new definition to "hell-raising" - on the ground and in the skies.

Kafka is one of 161 inspired-and inspiring-minds, among them, novelists, poets, playwrights, painters, philosophers, scientists, and mathematicians, who describe how they subtly maneuver the many (self-inflicted) obstacles and (self-imposed) daily rituals to get done the work they love to do, whether by waking early or staying up late; whether by self-medicating with doughnuts or bathing, drinking vast quantities of coffee, or taking long daily walks.

“I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.” Jane Austen at her witty, observant, intelligent, and sympathetic best, in this collection of her letters written to family and friends. Compiled by her niece Fanny Knight’s son Edward Hugessen Knatchbull-Hugessen (the first Baron Brabourne), and edited by Sarah Chauncey Woolsey, this collection includes a preface written by the editor and notes from Lord Brabourne. It was originally published in 1892.

Michael Faraday was born in Newington Butts, Surrey, on September 22, 1791 (which is now part of the London District of Southwark). He grew up in a bad home. His dad, James, was a Christian who came from the Glasite sect.

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4巻で「葵の巻(後編)」と題して、葵の上の死から紫の上との出会い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。

A political journalist and activist, Cousins was also a professor of medical humanities at UCLA, where he studied the biochemistry of human emotions and their relationship to healing. When Cousins was hospitalized with a debilitating collagen illness, he decided to take his health into his own hands. Cousins and his doctor combated the disease together by creating a regimen of laughter and vitamin C specifically calibrated to his needs. Against all odds, the treatment worked, proving to Cousins that a positive attitude was key to his improvement.

1957年、わが国初の盲導犬チャンピイが誕生した。文献も資料も何もない盲導犬育成に、文字どおり体当たりで取り組んだ著者と使用者・河相列氏の共同作業である。以来、数多くの盲人たちが、他人の手を借りることなく、安全に自由に歩ける喜びを手にした。 「自立を助けるのが本当の福祉だ」との信念のもと、数々の苦難にもめげず、880余頭の盲導犬を育成し、日本盲導犬史に金字塔のごとく輝く塩屋賢一の真摯で一途な80年の歩み。 犬とは何と素晴らしい動物だろう! 日本の盲導犬育成を切り拓き、数々の苦難を乗り越え860余頭の盲導犬を世に送り出した塩屋と、使用者河相の共同作品。81年東洋経済新報社刊「歩けアイメイト」に加筆訂正したもの。 目次 1 人が失明した時 2 愛犬アスターとの生活 3 国産第一号チャンピイの誕生 4 アメリカの施設を訪ねて 5 犬のしつけ、訓練のコツ 6 盲人の"自立"を助ける 7 挫折の危機の中から 8 新しい訓練センターの完成 9 犬とはなんと素晴らしい動物だろう 10 アイメイトに深い理解を ☆略年譜 〈アイメイト協会と盲導犬育成事業の歩み〉 塩屋...

福島県南相馬市に暮らす上野敬幸氏は、家族４人を津波で失う。福島第一原発事故後も避難を拒み、自力で行方不明者の捜索を続ける上野氏と出会った著者が、７年にわたる取材をもとに遺族の深い胸の内の変化を綴る。

Though unappreciated in his own time, Johann Sebastian Bach has ascended to Olympian heights, the verdict of contemporary audiences long since overruled by succeeding generations of music lovers. But what makes his music great? In this series of 32 lectures, a working composer and musicologist brings his exceptional teaching skills to the task of helping you hear the extraordinary sweep of Bach's music. You'll understand the compositional language that enabled him to compose such extravagant, unbridled music while still maintaining precise control of every aspect - beat, melody, melodic repetition, interaction, and harmony.

Dedicated to the memory of two wrestling coaches and two writer friends, The Imaginary Girlfriend is John Irving's candid memoir of his twin careers in writing and wrestling. The award-winning author of best-selling novels from The World According to Garp to In One Person, Irving began writing when he was 14, the same age at which he began to wrestle at Exeter. He competed as a wrestler for 20 years, was certified as a referee at 24, and coached the sport until he was 47.

John Carlton slyly refers to himself as “the most ripped-off writer on the Web”, and no one on the inside of the online business world disagrees. Other marketers also call John “the most respected writing teacher alive", and the list of well-known marketers who freely reference John as their primary mentor for writing sales messages is just staggering.

One of the greatest physicists of the twentieth century, Richard Feynman possessed an unquenchable thirst for adventure and an unparalleled ability to tell the stories of his life. "What Do You Care What Other People Think?" is Feynman's last literary legacy, prepared with his friend and fellow drummer, Ralph Leighton.

A haunting meditation on love, loss, companionship, and finding one’s way through the dark, Raymond Carver’s What We Talk About When We Talk About Love is one of the most important and influential short story collections in contemporary literature. In his entry in the esteemed Bookmarked series, acclaimed author Brian Evenson offers his personal and literary take on this classic Carver collection.

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

An unforgettable spiritual journey through the Himalayas... IN 1973, Peter Matthiessen and field biologist George Schaller traveled high into the remote mountains of Nepal to study the Himalayan blue sheep and possibly glimpse the rare and beautiful snow leopard. Matthiessen, a student of Zen...

Alone on the Wall recounts the most astonishing achievements of Honnold's extraordinary life and career, brimming with lessons on living fearlessly, taking risks, and maintaining focus even in the face of extreme danger. Now Honnold tells, for the first time and in his own words, the story of his three hours and 56 minutes on the sheer face of El Cap, which Outside called "the moon landing of free soloing.... A generation-defining climb. Bad ass and beyond words.... One of the pinnacle sporting moments of all time."

He is not beautiful. His mother does not want him, children run away from him. People laugh at him, and call him "The Elephant Man". Then someone speaks to him – and listens to him! At the age of 27, Joseph Merrick finds a friend for the first time in his life. This is a true and tragic story. It is also a famous film.

The Italians have a word for the sense of dazzling beauty produced by effortless mastery: sprezzatura. And perhaps no cultural form associated with Italy is as steeped in the love of sprezzatura as opera, a genre the Italians invented. No composer has embodied the ideal of sprezzatura as magnificently as Giuseppe Verdi, the gruff, self-described "farmer" from the Po Valley who gave us 28 operas and remains to this day the most popular composer in the genre's 400-year-old history.

From Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen, a memoir about home, belonging, inequality, and identity, recounting a singular life devoted to bettering humanity. A towering figure in the field of economics, Amartya Sen is perhaps best known for his work on poverty and famine, as inspired by events in his boyhood home of West Bengal, India.