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C.W.ニコル氏（1940年7月生）は、ウェールズ出身の作家、ナチュラリスト。C.W.ニコル氏の生い立ちからこれまでの足跡を、本人へのインタビューで綴る自伝的トークブックのvol.4です。今回と次回は北極編として、2016年久しぶりに訪れた北極のお話です。C.W.ニコル氏が青春時代を過ごし、氏のルーツの一つとなった北極圏。C.W.ニコル氏が接してきた北極圏と人々について、縦横に語って頂きます。

南九州市知覧には太平洋戦争末期、本土最南端の陸軍特攻基地が置かれ、この地から多くの若者が沖縄へ向けて飛び立ちました。21世紀を担う若者を中心に、命の尊さ・平和の大切さについて考えていただきたいという願いから平成2年から「平和へのメッセージfrom知覧」スピーチコンテストを開催。第25回スピーチコンテンストで当時中学生だった山口真希穂さんの最優秀賞作品「1036の命」をご本人がご朗読。

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1歳半でドラムをはじめ、8歳で世界にその才能が発見された。 その可能性を最大限に伸ばし夢を掴むため、父は公務員という安定した職業を手放し、家族4人でアメリカへ移住―― しかし、「天才少女」と世界に称えられる裏側で彼女を待っていたのは、言葉やビザの壁、お金の問題、そして想定外のトラブルが連続するアメリカでの過酷な日々だった。

Power is changing. Private corner offices and management by decree are out, as is unquestioned trust in the government and media. These former pillars of traditional power have been replaced by networks of informed citizens who collectively wield more power over their personal lives, employers, and worlds than ever before. So how do you navigate this new landscape and come out on top? Adam Grant, Wharton organizational psychologist, went to the World Economic Forum in Davos, the epicenter of power, and sat down with thought leaders from around the world, to find out.

八代目橘家圓蔵 昭和27年四代目・月の家円鏡に弟子入り、八代目・桂文楽(黒門町)宅へ、住み込み弟子となった大山青年、大師匠のお宅での修行は?黒門町のお宅で過ごす日々を通じて教わった教えとは?飛ぶ鳥を落とす勢いの文楽師匠、師匠のお供で全国各地を巡ります、そこで出会った大師匠の興味深いエピソードとは。売れっ子は二つの顔を持つと言う圓蔵師匠、昭和40年五代目・月の家圓鏡として真打ち昇進、その際には文楽師匠からいろいろなお祝いを頂いたそうです。現在も守っている文楽師匠の教えとは、内弟子にしか語り得ない名人桂文楽の人となりを生き生きと語ります。聞き手は元ニッポン放送演芸担当プロデューサー塙宏氏、 昭和37年入社以来志ん生、圓生を始めとして談志、円楽、志ん朝師らと数々の仕事を行う、また圓蔵師とは同局ラジオ番組「談志円鏡歌謡合戦」他多々の番組を制作、気心の知れた間柄である。住み込み弟子でしか語り得ない名人八代目・桂文楽の逸話をどうぞお楽しみください。(C)2008サウンドマン

More than one million copies have been sold of this seminal book on investing in which legendary mutual-fund manager Peter Lynch explains the advantages that average investors have over professionals and how they can use these advantages to achieve financial success. America’s most successful...

In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. He had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his...

恋愛というものは常に一時の幻影で、必ず亡び、さめるものだ、ということを知っている大人の心は不幸なものだ。恋愛は、人生の花。いかに退屈であろうとも、この他に花はない。無頼派の坂口安吾でもやはり

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the celebrated author of Operation Mincement and The Siege comes the thrilling Americans-era tale of Oleg Gordievsky, the Russian whose secret work helped hasten the end of the Cold War. “The best true spy story I have ever read.”—JOHN LE CARRÉ Named a...

In 1893, Liliuokalani, the Queen of Hawaii, was deposed and five years later her nation became an incorporated territory of the United States. Published shortly after these momentous events, her book Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen is an incredibly personal history of the islands that she was born to rule. Liliuokalani covers from her birth in 1838 through the reigns of her forebears to her own turbulent time as Queen of the Hawaiian Islands.  

As he was composing what was to become his most enduring and popular book, E. B. White was obeying that oft-repeated maxim: "Write what you know." Helpless pigs, silly geese, clever spiders, greedy rats - White knew all of these characters in the barns and stables where he spent his favorite hours. In The Story of Charlotte's Web, Michael Sims shows how White solved what critic Clifton Fadiman once called "the standing problem of the juvenile-fantasy writer: how to find, not another Alice, but another rabbit hole."

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The world-famous cosmologist and author of A Brief History of Time leaves us with his final thoughts on the biggest questions facing humankind. “Hawking’s parting gift to humanity . . . a book every thinking person worried about humanity’s future should...

Read by the author, Adam Kay. The multi-million copy bestseller Book of the Year at The National Book Awards ‘Painfully funny. The pain and the funniness somehow add up to something entirely good, entirely noble and entirely loveable.' - Stephen Fry Welcome to the life of a junior doctor...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Heartfelt and hilarious essays from the Emmy and Golden Globe Award–winning actress, star of the Netflix original series Beef, and two-time member of Time’s 100 Most Influential People of the Year list “A collection of letters to her baby girls that are...

Mary Jane Oliver (September 10, 1935-January 17, 2019), from Maple Heights, OH, was an American poet who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1984 and the National Book Award in 1992. She found inspiration for her work in nature and had a lifelong habit of solitary walks in the wild. Her poetry is characterized by wonderment at the natural environment, vivid imagery, and unadorned language. In 2007, she was declared the best-selling poet in the United States.

Masters of Doom is the amazing true story of the Lennon and McCartney of video games: John Carmack and John Romero. Together, they ruled big business. They transformed popular culture. And they provoked a national controversy. More than anything, they lived a unique and rollicking American Dream, escaping the broken homes of their youth to produce the most notoriously successful game franchises in history - Doom and Quake - until the games they made tore them apart. This is a story of friendship and betrayal, commerce and artistry.

This lively and accessible introduction to Plato focuses on the philosophy and argument of his writings, drawing the listener into Plato's way of doing philosophy, and the general themes of his thinking. It looks at Plato as a thinker grappling with philosophical problems in a variety of ways, rather than a philosopher with a fully worked-out system. It includes a brief account of Plato's life and the various interpretations that have been drawn from the sparse remains of information.

Read by the author, Michelle Zauner, lead vocalist of Japanese Breakfast. 'A story that is both beautiful and heartbreaking; it is as raw as it is precious. I bawled my eyes out, but I also loved it and I hope you do too.' – Dua Lipa From the indie rockstar Japanese Breakfast, an unflinching...

When James Bowen found an injured, ginger street cat curled up in the hallway of his sheltered accommodation, he had no idea just how much his life was about to change. James was living hand to mouth on the streets of London and the last thing he needed was a pet. Yet James couldn't resist helping the strikingly intelligent tom cat, whom he quickly christened Bob. He slowly nursed Bob back to health and then sent the cat on his way, imagining he would never see him again. But Bob had other ideas.

Henry V is regarded as the great English hero, lionised in his own day for his victory at Agincourt, his piety and his rigorous application of justice. But what was he really like? In this ground-breaking book, Ian Mortimer portrays Henry in the pivotal year of his reign. Recording the dramatic...